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Black Lives Matter. 15 Things You Can do Right Now as an Ally and Advocate
Black Lives Matter. 15 Things You Can do Right Now as an Ally and Advocate
By Brett Greene, MA
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WFH Tips for Your Mental Health in a Pandemic: Q&A with James Pratt Part 2
WFH Tips for Your Mental Health in a Pandemic: Q&A with James Pratt Part 2
By Brett Greene, MA
Contributions
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You're guiding a client through a career transition. How can you help them conquer their fear of failure?
Though it's counter-intuitive, the best way to set goals is to set them low. For example, if you haven't exercised in years and decide to start again with a goal of exercising for 30 minutes 3 times in a week you'll feel like a failure if you end up just exercising twice for 20 minutes in a week. If your goal was to instead exercise at least one time in a week for 5 minutes you would feel like a success. Our brain chemistry sends us dopamine, endorphines, and oxytocin making us feel good about ourselves when we hit a goal. These chemicals give us more motivation to keep going.
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You're guiding a client through a career transition. How can you help them conquer their fear of failure?
Getting them in touch with their Leader Within and doing exercises to understand the power of perception give them tools and confidence to overcome the fear of failure and deeper anxieties. The power of consciously shifting their focus creates strength, new possibilities. This results in developing extraordinary, meaningful, and lasting impacts on how they see themselves and how they present themselves to both others and new opportunities.
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As a #seattle #community builder I see this and agree. It’s sad, but facing reality is the first step to change for the better. Connection is vital.…
As a #seattle #community builder I see this and agree. It’s sad, but facing reality is the first step to change for the better. Connection is vital.…
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Have your children screened for #type1diabetes and #celiac disease for free through the ASK screening program: ASKhealth.org 💙
Have your children screened for #type1diabetes and #celiac disease for free through the ASK screening program: ASKhealth.org 💙
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Experience
Volunteer Experience
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Community Leader Advisor, Google Developers Communities Team for North America
Google
- 3 years 8 months
Science and Technology
The program is dedicated to assisting individual organizers of active mobile, web, cloud, and AI developer communities on their journey leading successful and engaged groups via online training, meetup materials, networking opportunities, and more.
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Pitch Accelerator Advisory Board Member
SXSW
- Present 7 years 2 months
Science and Technology
Recommending judges and companies to participate in the SXSW Accelerator Live Pitch Event. Reviewing companies applying to present in the Accelerator Live Pitch Event in the categories of Augmented & Virtual Reality, Enterprise & Smart Data, Entertainment & Content, Health & Wearable, Hyper-Connected Communities, Payment & FinTech, Security & Privacy, Social & Culture, Sports & Performance Data and Transportation.
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Entrepreneur Coach and Mentor
The Founder institute
- Present 11 years 10 months
Science and Technology
Mentoring participating Founders by collaborating and sharing relevant experiences to support their success, and to build the Seattle startup ecosystem. The Founder Institute is the World's Largest Startup Accelerator, with a mission to "Globalize Silicon Valley" and help founders build enduring technology companies. Through our part-time entrepreneur training program, you can launch a company with guidance and feedback from experienced startup CEOs - while not being required to quit your job.
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Chief Evangelist / Advisor
CityBldr
- 8 years 3 months
Science and Technology
CityBldr determines the best use of every property to help home owners, developers and cities benefit from how real estate is developed.
Our first of its kind real estate technology uses AI (machine learning and data science) to analyze every property, making finding the best development sites simple. -
UW Business Plan Competition Judge
University of Washington, Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
- 8 years 1 month
Education
Serving student entrepreneurs and entre-curious since 1991! The Buerk Center promotes entrepreneurship to students across the University of Washington campus and beyond. Our students become leaders who challenge the status quo and change the way business is done.
The UW Business Plan Competition is a premier Foster School event involving more than 400 alumni and entrepreneurs as judges, mentors, supporters. -
Ecosystem Advisor
Founders Network
- 4 years 4 months
Science and Technology
Founded in 2011, Founders Network offers lifelong peer mentorship to over 600 tech startup founders globally. Our platform, programs and high-touch service facilitate authentic experience sharing, warm introductions and long-term professional relationships. Additional benefits include over $500k in startup discounts and promotion to 2,000 newsletter readers. Members are located in San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, London and other tech hubs. Each month our…
Founded in 2011, Founders Network offers lifelong peer mentorship to over 600 tech startup founders globally. Our platform, programs and high-touch service facilitate authentic experience sharing, warm introductions and long-term professional relationships. Additional benefits include over $500k in startup discounts and promotion to 2,000 newsletter readers. Members are located in San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, London and other tech hubs. Each month our Membership Committee admits a new cohort of full-time tech founders who are nominated by an existing member.
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Entrepreneur Coach and Mentor
Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER)
- Present 3 years 2 months
Science and Technology
Congregate is a business accelerator program powered by the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) and Moonbeam Exchange. The virtual 12-week program will deliver mentorship, curriculum, connections and funding opportunities designed to accelerate solutions that will enable the reopening of the Tourism, Performing Arts, Travel and Hospitality sectors in the Pacific Northwest. Startups will have an opportunity to work with a variety of stakeholders from business and government leaders to…
Congregate is a business accelerator program powered by the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) and Moonbeam Exchange. The virtual 12-week program will deliver mentorship, curriculum, connections and funding opportunities designed to accelerate solutions that will enable the reopening of the Tourism, Performing Arts, Travel and Hospitality sectors in the Pacific Northwest. Startups will have an opportunity to work with a variety of stakeholders from business and government leaders to regulators to design relevant and scalable solutions.
Honors & Awards
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Speaker, Tech Meetup at The White House
Meetup
As the founder of the fastest growing Meetup group, Brett was one of 20 Meetup organizers (chosen from over 300,000 international meetups) who were invited to speak at The White House. Attendees included 50 Meetup organizers and 70 civic leaders including governors, members of congress and White House staff. He was representing Seattle and sharing the experiences and impact New Tech Seattle has had on creating jobs while growing the second largest startup community in America.
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2015 Top 35 Social Media Power Influencers
Forbes Magazine / Stat Social
Brett was listed at #34 on StatSocial's list of the 2015 Top 100 Social Media Power Influencers. The list is published each year at Forbes.com to highlight the Twitter users most influential in the realm of social media—that is, social media experts with a great following among people also interested in social media. http://www.statsocial.com/#!/social-influencers/
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New Tech Northwest
Founder
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Another episode of the Shift AI podcast is out and featured in GeekWire today. I interview Doug Seven the GM of Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI…
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