Alisha Olandesca was a stay at home mom for seven years before abruptly finding herself as a small business owner and fractional CFO. Hear how her attitude of "I don't know that yet" and curiosity has lead her to become a successful entrepreneur in the tech sector showing leadership in augmented reality technology.

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Host: Margo Purcell helps organizations and teams to uncover hidden talent; and generate ideas that lead to transformational change. Margo is a creative, driven and engaging learning and development professional with over 18 years of progressive achievement in training and development, consulting, public engagement, advocacy, customer service and coaching. 

Margo is a skilled leader with an established reputation for creating environments for executive teams to shift perspectives. She is a trusted advisor for major corporations to facilitate discussions that lead to achieving desired results in complex and distributed corporate environments. 

Guest: Alisha Olandesca started SOS Charging Solutions 8 years ago and operated as an event rental company until the pandemic shut them down in March of 2020. She quickly changed course and began offering Web Augmented reality as a digital marketing tool. Her partner, Joel, and herself saw some great traction in 2021 and they are looking to scale their business quickly. Alisha is proud that they kept their team intact and were brave enough to do something complete new!

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Links:

• SOS Web AR

 

Show Quotes:

"So the hydrothermal liquefaction process that we have, it was originally developed to liquefy coal."

"these products when put into landfills create problems of methane. So the landfills produce methane and it is estimated that by 2030 landfills in the world will produce 50% of human caused methane emissions."

"we can take that plastic and make a toy dinosaur for a child that child can play with the toy dinosaur. And when he's done, it gets thrown away. When we take the plastic from that dinosaur and we can turn it back into new plastics to create that circular economy."

Credits...

This Episode Sponsored By: New Idea Machine

Episode Music: Tony Del Degan

Creator & Producer: Al Del Degan