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About Julie Bowen

From Atlanta. Go Falcons!! Writer, painter, mother, wife. (not necessarily in that order)

Radio Recap: Tech of the Future

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In the past century, life expectancy was less than 35 years, 94% of the global population lived in extreme poverty, and less than 20% of the population was literate. Fast forward to the present day where human life expectancy is over 70 years, [Read More]

November 2nd, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Playing the Long Game

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Inc. Magazine’s Alyssa Satara recently shared the forward-thinking ideas of the Millennial, Forbes’ 30 to Watch Under 30, med-tech founder of NeoLight—a company that aims to bring new technology to neonatal care. Because med-tech is such a highly regulated space it cannot implement innovative solutions quite the [Read More]

October 24th, 2018|Help, Job, Radio|

Radio Recap: Live Entertainment in VR

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 From Johnny English to Weird Al Yankovic, virtual reality is set to take over cinemas this fall with Oculus VR’s new platform, Venues. Created to deliver all sorts of entertainment experiences like live events, sports, concerts, and comedy shows Venues is like [Read More]

October 17th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Tech + Society

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According to Wikipedia, a ‘technology society’ refers to the cyclical co-dependence, co-influence, and co-production tech and society have upon one other. While it’s no surprise that technology influences society’s values, technology is influenced by our values, too. Our daily needs, comfort and ease depend on tech so the demands for [Read More]

October 10th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: AI + Venture Capital + Diversity

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A recent report from global boutique investment bank, Drake Star Partners, revealed that, in 2017, venture capital investments toward the American artificial intelligence and machine-learning industry reached $6 billion while global investments in AI companies grew to over $12 billion. The report also estimates a compound annual [Read More]

October 3rd, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Gender Pay Gap in Sports

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Working women earn 80% as much as their male counterparts, which is almost .81cents for every dollar men earn. But when it comes to professional athletes that number falls a lot lower.

Take the U.S. women’s national soccer team, which generates more revenue than the men’s squad and [Read More]

September 26th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Women Helping Women

womenhelpingwomen@2x-1024x436According to a recent University of Phoenix study, more than half of Americans have not worked for a company with a female CEO, but there is statistical data that shows more women succeed when there are higher up female execs.

Take the 2015 Columbia and University of Maryland’s [Read More]

September 19th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Democratizing Blockchain

When people think of blockchain some think of digital currency Bitcoin because they both seem to go hand in hand in the news. But there’s actually a lot more use cases for blockchain technology that aren’t centered around the currency space. Blockchain is a public ledger that automatically records and verifies transaction. Actually almost any [Read More]

September 5th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: The Comedy Biz

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Tina Fey once said, “If you want to make an audience laugh, dress a man like an old lady and push him down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push a real old lady down the stairs.” Strangely, evolutionary psychiatrist Dr. Gil [Read More]

August 29th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Event Marketing 2.0

Over a century ago people promoted fairs, balls, and marriages with a good, old fashioned paper invite. Yet, once again, analog has been replaced with digital—which means if you don’t have an email address or a Facebook account you could miss out on your own family reunion. [Read More]

August 22nd, 2018|Radio|