Through the Noise

Join Ernesto as he sits down with Gareth Evans, the CEO and Founder of VECKTA, a groundbreaking software platform and marketplace designed to optimize onsite energy solutions. Listen as Gareth shares his vision for the future of energy, the challenges and opportunities in the industry, and how VECKTA empowers companies to achieve energy independence and sustainability. Gareth's time in Iraq following the Gulf War set his mission in motion; it opened his eyes to a world without access to reliable energy and other essentials needed to survive. He saw the impact that can have on the stability of a region and the health and success of businesses and communities. Driven by this experience, he committed himself to finding solutions that create profitable and sustainable energy outcomes so we can all thrive. VECKTA modernizes and streamlines how companies buy onsite energy systems. 

Join Ernesto as he talks with Shaun Frankson, co-founder of Plastic Bank, who shares what it's like running a business that impacts billions of people on this planet by turning plastic waste into currency. Plastic Bank empowers the Social Recycling movement that stops ocean plastic and helps alleviate poverty.  

Join Ernesto as he goes behind the scenes with Off_JaWaggon, a YouTuber quickly rising in popularity with his raw opinions surrounding politics and life on the farm in rural Minnesota. You will hear about the challenges and what actually goes into creating digital content that gets large numbers of views on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.   Off_JaWaggon is a Youtuber and Content Creator who discusses life on the farm in rural Minnesota, politics, and his own raw opinions gaining him popularity on platforms such as TikTok and Youtube  

Mark Fastoso from Mark's Game Room takes you behind the scenes sharing everything from researching his ideas, to the preparation, and even the best practices for making his videos that have gained him a large number of views in a very short period of time.  Mark Fastoso, is a multiple Emmy® and Edward R. Murrow award-winning producer with more than twenty years experience working for PBS, Curiosity Stream, History Hit and other digital platforms. Mark has extensive experience in creating highly interactive programming using the most current technologies in broadcast and on the web. Currently, Mark's current PBS project, Yellowhammer History Hunt, is proving to be very successful on PBS Learning Media with many videos achieving a 90+% completion rate.  

Have you ever considered the concept of an electric plane? Join Ernesto in this exciting episode as he sits down with Gregory Davis, President & CEO of Eviation Aircraft, as they dive into the groundbreaking achievement of creating the world's first all-electric commuter aircraft. Eviation Aircraft builds electric airplanes using advanced technology and design. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Arlington, Washington. Their mission is to build beautiful electric airplanes using advanced technology and impeccable design, imagined and built by a committed and expert workforce. 

Farzad Mesbahi is a YouTube content creator primarily focused on technology and its impact on our future. He's an entrepreneur, worked at Tesla for 4 years as a Program Manager, and was a Director of Business Intelligence and Pricing at the largest Pet Food Distributor in the United States, Phillips Pet Food and Supplies.

Josiah Hunt, CEO of Pacific Biochar Benefit Corporation, has had a career focus on biochar since 2009, helping pioneer methods of biochar production, processing, use in agriculture, and associated carbon accounting during these years. Pacific Biochar Benefit Corporation is a biochar producer and distributor with a focus on climate change mitigation and long-term soil fertility improvements.

Jeremy Lang is the Founder and Vice President of Sustainability at Pela - best known for creating the world's first biodegradable phone cases and more recently Lomi Smart Waste Appliance, a countertop composter that claims it can help solve the climate crisis. Pela is working to eliminate 10 Billion pounds of waste from the global waste stream while continuing to research and develop the most innovative products to create a waste-free future.

Climate change is accelerating, and Brennan Spellacy has built a platform that could exponentially scale our efforts to reverse its effects. He's the CEO and co-founder of Patch, the platform for climate action. Backed by some of the world's most visionary investors, he's figured out how businesses can make bold, impactful climate action a reality with every transaction — with just four simple lines of code. Patch is the platform for negative emissions. Businesses can leverage their API to programmatically calculate their emissions and make any transaction climate positive.

As the President and CEO of Sentient Jet, Andrew Collins is responsible for a $450 million consumer travel and aviation business that has rapidly flourished over the last six years. Under his leadership, the company has benefited from both a digital and business model transformation, in addition to an organizational restructuring.  Founded in 1999 and now an integral part of Directional Aviation, Sentient Jet, inventor of the jet card, is one of the leading private aviation companies in the country.