Armando Pantoja; Plumes; Dr. Johnny Franco; Brian J. Esposito; Sean Callagy

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a Coconut. Joining me today is Plume, an emerging artist

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and creative voice, an animal rights advocate, using music and
storytelling to explore emotion, identity, and human connection. Today's conversation
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us that hydration isn't just physical, it's emotional. In the

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Coming up next, in the Fintech segment, brought to you
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and power. Joining me is Armando Pantoia, financial futurist, fintech

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the intersection of markets, software engineering, and emerging tech. Armando
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Welcome back, beautiful Tri State Area. You're listening to a
Moment of Zen right here on seven ten WR The
Voice of New York iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Zenzam's into
the future of money, technology and power. Our next guest

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is a financial futurist, if you will, a fintech entrepreneur.
His name is Armando Pantoya. With nearly twenty years of
experience in financial markets and software engineering, Armando has founded
and successfully exited multiple companies. He's built a global following
through sold out lectures and social media where he breaks
down emerging technologies, digital assets, and market disruption into really

(04:59):
clear strategies. Teaching investors had a position early to capture
outsized returns. Now think about this. So experts are noting
that AI powered tools are being woven into trading algorithms,
decentralized finance, automation of asset management, and next gen blockchain
infrastructure and further shaping this evolution. There's so much more

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to this. Recent legislation in the United States Congress passed
the Genius Act. That's a landmark stable coin regulation meant
to bring clarity and structure to the digital asset space.
That signals growing institutional and government acceptance of crypto. That's
what we're here to unpack with Armando. Armando, Welcome to

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the show.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Superstar, always glad to be here.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Okay, So you often talk about giving people that quote
unquote unfair advantage. So what does that mean right now
in a world where crypto and AI are both accelerating.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Well, what I mean by the unfair advantage is that technology,
regardless of how transformative is how much we see a
change in society, they always follow patterns, s curve we
call it, and it almost is very predictable about when
the most profits are made, how the technology will adopt
into society, when the max point of risk, the lowest

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point of risk, the highest point in return, lowest pon
in return is when the bubble will form and will
finally a return to just normal growth. And it's very predictable.
It's it's been applied since the railroads, electricity, dustrial revolution, television, Internet,
and all the way up to today when we're talking
about AI. Even the Internet boom will fallow the same path.

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So by understanding that pattern and how the adoption happens,
how people accept technologies into their lives, and how businesses
accept technology, we're able to predict where we can make
the most private from these investments. As an unfair advantage,
because the average person is unaware of how technology adopts.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
I mean, what you just said is huge, because if
you're right, we may indeed be standing on the brink
of a generational shift in how wealth is actually built,
not just for early adopters, but really for regular people
who pay attention right now and are listening to what
you're saying. Now, we're seeing artificial intelligence tools being integrated
in crypto and blockchain systems, so from smart contract automation

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to algorithmic trading and even decentralized finance infrastructure. From your vantage,
how real is the promise that AI and crypto can
reshape how everyday people invest, manage money, or build wealth.
I mean, what are you saying to.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
This, Well, I know the answer to that question. There's
naysayers that say that it won't happen. There's also people
that say it will happen. But I want to address
why the naysayers say no is because there's something called
the anchor bias. What the anchor bias is is that
when we're anything, it's not investment, but when we're looking
at investing investments, we tend to whatever's happening today. We

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anchor our beliefs to today's world and we project that
world out into the future, and then we say, well,
you know, how is AI gonna do this?

Speaker 5 (08:05):
There's not. But what we're we're forgetting is that AI
is more than.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Just chat gyp See. It's more than just tools that
you send emails for you. It's also a true personality,
is true maybe even conscious or semi conscious entities. Uh,
they're gonna be as virtual virtual initis as well as
humanoid robots. Now, if you look at that potential, uh,
there could be a lot more entities that are human

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like that are not truly human. Now, they're gonna need resources.
They need something as fast, they need something that's traceable.
They need something that they can send micro transactions in. Now,
where are they gonna choose slow fiat currency in which
why are transfers take days sometimes overseas or even hours
here locally. Or are they gonna choose something that moves

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it to speed a light cryptocurrency? Uh, their light like
that they would they were, They're gonna choose cryptocurrency, right.
So uh, and then if we look even farther out
into the future, these entities could out norm in humans
ten to one.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
And if those tools deliver Us promised we could be
looking at finance two point zero. I mean a system
optimized for speed, for scale, and for success and for
people who get in early and stay savvy. This could
really redefine opportunity.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
You one hundred percent right on that is that that
what crypto is today is not what its intended use
of it is. The future of it is in AI
advanced computation. That's where it's going to really shine.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now I'm going to pivot because this is extremely important.
Given recent political and regulatory developments, including the twenty twenty
five Genius Act that I mentioned in the introduction that
was signed under President Trump and moves towards clear stable
coin and digital asset regulation. Does that fundamentally change the
risk reward landscape of crypto for regulatory investors in the

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United States?

Speaker 5 (10:01):
I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
I mean the Genius Act actually helps certain coins like
Ethereum and other you know, smart contract or buildable blockchains
like Ethereum or Solana. I don't think it's slowed anything down.
I think actually, uh, the Genius Act, along with a
lot of the institutions that have been involved in cryptos,
actually slowed it down and given retail investors an opportunity

(10:25):
to accumulate before those big gains happened. Point yeah, So
I just think I think the Genius Act, I really
I think that was a good move by the United
States getting ahead of it. The rest of the world
we have. It's actually, I think called regulatory lag. That
is hurting technology in the United States is that they
need to they take so long for them to make

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clear decisions on regulatory issues that a lot of the
innovation has slowed down to the point that it's not
competitive anymore, and we have to fix that.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
And that brings me to the next question. There are
thousands of crypto and abi crypto projects right now, many
many promising, many speculative. But from your experience, you're a
pro at this. What key criteria should someone use to
identify the ones with long term potential and avoid those
driven only by hype?

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Now, the first the top five cryptos, top four, let's say,
is big Coin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solona. Let's say, I
don't know, I think Solona has been replaced by something else,
but that's the last time I checked. And let's even
say z cash because it's doing well like the ones
that are the title. Let's say anywhere any any crypto
on the top ten. Those are safe cryptos. They've been
around for years and they probably won't go anywhere. Anything

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below that is a risky crypto. And then when you
deal with risky cryptos, first of all, you have to diversify.
You can't just choose one prob your money. So because
those there's two million coins right now, and out of
those two million, only about one percent actually made people profit.
So all the products that are out there, so if
you want to go on the more risky route is

(11:57):
you need to diverse off. Principally, it's get one, get multiples.
Uh so if one if like, if four do it
like you pick five and four fail, maybe the fifth
one will do so well that it makes up for
the losses on the first exactly like anything else. And secondly,
you have to make sure you check the team out right.
The team has to have experience.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
And these are projects that are being constantly built, so
it's not In a lot of times we see crypto
is new, so we said the team don't need experience
because it's new.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Now it's not true.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Uh, it's uh, crypto, currency and blockchain is built on
several technologies that are thirty years old.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
They just been combined in a new way. So I
mean you still have those technologies exactly.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Uh So uh, it's it's it's it's an like you said,
an aggregate. So uh, they're still experts. So they have
to have somebody on their team that has that experience
to god the team or whatever. And then secondly, you
have to look at what their use cases. Right, I
don't believe in meme coins. I think they're all going
to zero eventually.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Le's have a couple, it's a few that could.

Speaker 6 (13:01):
Yeah, but they have they have to have a use case, right,
It's something a problem that they're solving. And then the
problem that they're solving has to have an address but
market that's large enough for them to take some of
the market share. It has to be a problem that's
a widely, widely known problem that they're solving. And number three,
as you check the tokenomics, you see how much the
founders have home much. A lot of times some of

(13:23):
the founders will have ninety percent of the coins and
ten percent red flag. And you also have to look
at the lock up here is if they can sell
when they can sell at one points or what criteria
they can sell, because they will sell when they have
the opportunities.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
This is so important. What he's saying is so important.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
So all of those three factors really help you choose
which coins you want to want to use diversification. The
team has to be solid and the tokenomics also have
to be solid.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
That's smart. So thank you so much for coming on,
and for those of you listening, Whether you believe we're
on the cusp of a financial revolution or just witnessing
the early ages of along transformation, one thing is clear.
The tools, the rules, and the opportunities are shifting really fast.
So you definitely want to be checking out Armando directly
on the gram at toll Guide Tycoon and checking out

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his books. But thank you so much for joining us tonight.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
So is a pleasure to talk to you and to listeners.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Who want to dig deeper. Like I said, you could
follow him directly on social And remember, the future doesn't
belong to the fearful, it belongs to the informed. You're
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Welcome back, beautiful Try State area. You're listening to a
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Zam's Welcome back to the Hydration with Heart segment, brought
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one purpose driven story at a time. Today's story does
something magical. It blurs the line between instinct and intuition,

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between what we call wild and what we call human.
Some people speak in words, Plum speaks in frequency, and animals,
even the untamed ones, they listen. He grew up in
France with music stitched into his childhood like a second heartbeat,
writing his first songs in his school notebooks, long before
he knew what his voice would one day open in

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the world. But somewhere along his artistic journey, a deeper
calling emerged, a moment that changed everything. He began singing
near animals, and they started responding in ways that defy
the explanation. Kneeling, approaching, lowering their heads, softening their breath,
even through a thin fence or a fragile glass barrier.

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And let's be clear, this isn't fantasy or wishful editing.
There is science behind what we're witnessing. Research shows that
acoustic guitar frequencies, soft timbers, a warm vocal tone reduce
animal stress, triggering affiliate of instinct and increasing oxytocin like

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bonding responses in mammals. But what Plume does is beyond calming.
It's connective, it's biological, almost ancestral. And behind this ability
is a man with a personal life, a family structure,
and a deep emotional universe that informs his art in
ways most listeners never get to see. He is a
rising independent French pop folk artist with songs like Rienzutu

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and the upcoming Flu building global traction across social platforms
while remaining anchored by a mission to raise awareness for
animal protection through beauty, respect, and emotional truth Blues. Welcome
to the show, Superstar.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
Hi, thank you for having me. What an intro?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Thanks for us well, you deserve it. Now I want
to start where it all began, because gifts like yours
don't appear out of thin air, right, They come from childhood,
texture and emotional environment and the people who shaped you.
So take us into your childhood and your family life today.
What was your early home like and what does your

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current family structure support or influence the way you create,
the way you perform, and the connection you feel with animals.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Well, I feel like music was always around in my
family because my dad is a DJA, so he was
always playing music, and my uncles or play guitar and
so I definitely grew up around music. And yeah, I
was lucky enough to start early with drumming lessons when
I was around seven, and I grabbed my first guitar

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a couple of years later when I was ten. So yeah,
I always loved music. I wouldn't say I was I
had a gift because it took a lot of effought
to make it sound okay, I guess, but I always
loved it and still today. Yeah, it's my man passion
and something I'm they like passionate about.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Oh, I would say it's a gift. It's definitely a gift.
When when I watch you and Wich, I watched the
way you connect with people and animals. It explains a
lot because it's the grounding, it's the gentleness, it's the
emotional bandwidth your music carries, and it's clearly rooted in
where you come from and what shaped you. So it's
no surprise that you've been exposed to music throughout your

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whole life. Now, every calling has its ignition point, a
moment where where something clicks and you realize, okay, this
is bigger than me. What was that the first moment
you realized animal weren't just curious, they were truly responding
to your voice. What happened that made you stop and
say this is real?

Speaker 7 (19:07):
Well, around three years ago, I was kind of lost
in my artist's life because I was busking in the
subway and I felt like people were just passing by
and not really paying attention to me, and yeah, I
just need some time for myself. So I went to
see my grandma in the countryside because it's always a
very peaceful, quiet time and I thought it would do

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me some good. And basically, when I was there, I
read an article online that said that cows like music
and that music is sooothing for them. Turns out there
were indeed super receptive and super sensitive. They came running
to listen to me, and they stayed for almost an hour,
rubbing their heads and nicking me, And yeah, that was

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very very special for me.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
That must have been surreal and a long cry from
the subway station where nobody was paying attention.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
Right.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
Yeah, they gave me confidence in my music again, and
I really found that connection that I was missing with
human beings with them.

Speaker 8 (20:05):
I love this.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Now, can you give us three stories?

Speaker 8 (20:08):
I want.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
I want to hear your wildest encounter, a total wow,
I can't believe what just happened moment. Then I want
your scariest encounter, a moment you genuinely felt fear or uncertainty.
And then, third, your most beautiful encounter, the one that
lives in your heart and reminds you why.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
You do this Okay, Well, I feel like a lot
of those moments have all of that at once. You know,
they can be scary but also beautiful and I'm so
grateful to be there. But I would say the most
special was with the OKP. It's very like wild and
rare animal and it's very and endangered. So yeah, I

(20:50):
was told you, basically, you can try and go to
sing for him, but nothing's going to happen because that's
so wild that is gonna just run the other the
other direction. But I started singing, and it took a
little bit of time. It took forty minutes for him
to feel confident enough to approach, but he did, and
he came right against me and he was like putting

(21:11):
his head against mine, and so yeah, that was definitely special.
And I later after singing for him, I found out
that there's like around thirty thousand or me like that
are left in the world. So yeah, I think it
also started this whole campaign of me wanting to fight
for animals and realizing that two organizations that I can

(21:34):
with the exposure I have, I can do something.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, that's definitely an incredible moment because each moment paints
a different facet of your connection. Right, there's ah, there's danger,
there's beauty, and together they formed something truly unique.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, and I can tell you about the danger because
there's been a few that have been quite scared. I
would say the first time with rhinos was very scary
because kind of the same thing. I was told they're
not going to come anyways, but just in case, I
get on this truck. And the thing is, they did
come and they were touching me with the horn and

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that was very intense. But now I kind of see
them like huge cows because they're so sweet and so like, Yeah,
I feel like people don't really understand them. And I
heard about poaching, and I'm trying to fight against poaching
now because it's so useless and crazy. But yeah, there's

(22:34):
been some expenses like that that was scary. I would
say the first time with elephants as well. Inside the
enclosure was definitely like something. You know, a lot of
times I was seeking for elephants and it was on
the other side of a fence, and I was kind
of kind of disappointed because I could tell that they

(22:54):
were trying to connect with me by reaching under the
fence with their trunks and I was not allowed to
reach back, and I felt like it was a little
bit of a shame. And finally a couple months ago
I was allowed to go in there, and you know,
they could do whatever they felt like doing, which meant
that could get dangerous, but they turned out to be

(23:17):
super sweet and that was a good moment.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Wow, these are such incredible moments that you must carry
with you. And also, you know, there's no language barrier
with animals, it's all frequency, it's all They will react
to fear if they sense fear. They will react to
stress if they sense stress. So you have to be
really grounded and really really focused and going there with

(23:42):
such an open heart to get them to respond to you. Now,
I want to talk about the bigger picture and your mission.
So this isn't just about viral moments. There's now purpose
behind this. Now, what is the bigger message behind your work?
In your view, how can music reshape our relationship with
animals conversation and empathy and what do you want the

(24:05):
world to understand in your mission right now to fight
for these animals.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
Well, I feel like, you know, the first day I
met cows as I said, something really clicked in me
and I really hope that by sharing those videos, if
people can click in the same way just by you know,
watching them, then I think it's awesome, because yeah, I've
been receiving a lot of messages from people saying they

(24:31):
went began or vegetarian since watching the VIDs, and it
really means a lot for me because I feel like, unfortunately,
animals are heavy demonstrated in the world that we're living in,
and I really have this sense of urgency. I wanted
to stop right away, but I know it's not possible,
so I just do it in a very poetic way,

(24:52):
I guess, because I feel like it can be counter
productive to tell people what to do. But yeah, it's
very conflicting.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
And we are at the end of our date. Plim
thank you for sharing not just your music, but your heart,
the human one and the one animals seem to recognize instinctively.
Your voice really does build bridges between species, and your
mission reminds me and I think anyone listening that gentleness
is a form of power and connection is a form

(25:24):
of healing.

Speaker 8 (25:25):
So thank you, oh thank you.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
It's been great to all listening. Follow his journey at
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just sucking fat out and kind of oversimplify it. But
there's a lot of things we have no control over
how the skin's going to retract, you know, how to
make that perfectly even I also think patient demands have
gotten hired, you know as social media, with the internet stuff.

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I mean, people know like, hey, here's what a great
result is. And there's some things that are super challenging.
Scar tissue we were talking about earlier, you know, fibrosis,
things that the body just does and.

Speaker 8 (29:00):
You allude it to it.

Speaker 9 (29:03):
Most of the time it goes great, but sometimes it doesn't.
And then you know, to offer patients more liposection to
create a LiPo section that didn't go right can be
super challenging. I think in the past the issue was
there weren't a lot of other great options. You had
LiPo section, you had fat some people use some other
different filler stuff, but they were never specifically designed for
the body. Thus they were super challenging and a lot

(29:25):
of shortfalls.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, that's such an important reframe, doctor Franco, because this
isn't about chasing perfection. It's about restoring balance and structure
and confidence. And I kind of love that.

Speaker 8 (29:34):
You know.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Right now we have some more options than we did
a decade ago. So let's chat about the gap between
LiPo and surgery. We know that not every patient wants
or should have another surgical procedure, So for patients with contour, dents, asymmetry,
and postlipo irregularities, the options have historically been limited. Right,
So where do traditional approaches like liposuction or fat transfer

(29:58):
fall short, especially when it comes to correction and refinement.

Speaker 8 (30:01):
I think that's one of the biggest gaps.

Speaker 9 (30:03):
If somebody comes in because they had a liposuction deformity contour,
it's really hard to convince them like, hey, if we
do more liposuction which caused your original problem, we're going
to fix the problem. And to them that just doesn't
resonate very well. Also, sometimes people either were very thin
to begin with when they had liposuction because they were
trying to get fat, whether for and we'll get into

(30:24):
it later, but for breast or but BBL but for
some other reason, you know, so they already had limited
fat to begin with. Uh, you know, they get these
contour fibrosis stuff, which is hard and in the past
trying to find fat was challenging. You mentioned in your
introu fat isn't always super predictable. There's things that were
getting better at take rates or kind of predictability of that.

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But if you think about it in a scar tissue
bed where you've had some lipos, some scar tissue, you're
not putting it in an ideal spot, so that predictability
gets even less than in a.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
Perfect ideal place.

Speaker 9 (30:57):
And this is where I think ala Clay is going
to change this and in our practice has been a huge,
huge change for patients.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
And aloclay is being positioned as a structural fat allograph
designed to add targeted volume and support where fat naturally exists.

Speaker 8 (31:11):
I love it without.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Harvesting of patient's own fat. That's key. So when you
look at alloclay, doctor Franco through a surgeon's lens, what
makes this a new category in body conjuring rather than
just another aesthetic option.

Speaker 8 (31:24):
Oh, I mean, we just have never had something like
this before.

Speaker 9 (31:27):
In our own practice, we have a wait list of
patients wanting to get in on this product because they've
been looking for an option like this. If you look
at it right now, you know, with the whole setting
of all these weight loss drugs, there's people who just
don't have much fat. You know, that's the topic for
another day. But you know, I think that's going to
create more changes over time. I think you also see

(31:48):
patients that just want a little bit of subtle change.
You've also seen that this whole paradigm shift where time
is absolutely precious to patients and surgery and downtime is
such a hug commodity to them. And we've never had
a meaningful body filler before in the past, and now
you can tweak stuff, whether it's breast but Hipgop's lepocontrour

(32:09):
or for me, I mean, honestly, we're just scratching the
surface of options for people like me personally, Like for
me to take a week off off of work or
time is really challenging. If you could tell me I
could do something at the end of the day and
be back the next morning, my interest level has skyrocketed.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
No, one hundred percent that that was the defining factor
for me and I had as you know, I had
explanted my breast implants and was really looking for a
natural option because I don't want I did not want
to put any anything else you know that wasn't natural.
So when I looked at Aloclay and I looked at
the research and you know, the FDA approved portion of it,

(32:45):
it really you know, it took my comfort level from
zero to sixty right away. And what you just said,
that distinction matters because this isn't filler. It's it isn't
an implant, and it isn't traditional fat transfer. It's something
entirely different. So I'm so excited about where this is headed.
So let's talk about ideal patients and use cases, because
many of your patients come in after weight loss, like
you said, previous light bulb or procedures that just didn't

(33:07):
deliver the outcome they hoped for. Which patients or aesthetic
goals do you find are best suited for structural fat
allographs like alloclay, particularly when it comes to body contour correction.

Speaker 8 (33:19):
I think there's a couple and tigers.

Speaker 9 (33:21):
Actually myself, Doctor Zes have actually done a study on
hip dips. That was where it first started because it
was a great way to measure the longevity. And to
your point, it's not a filler that's just going to
come and go. It's actually true fat that's been processed,
taking out all the cells that people would react to you,
so you have a natural true filler out of posite

(33:42):
cell membrane extracelluar matrix, so you get real structural volume,
real lifting, and so hip dips is a great one.
You know, people who've lost the weight maybe have a
little bit of the you know, lost volume in their butt.
And then obviously liposuction controurformities has been a huge, huge
one because people are trying to avoid this. But honestly,
we've we've done this almost anywhere you can imagine if

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you think about fashion, rejuvenation, hands. We've even done it
for some of our male patients that want to do
some body enhancement. Maybe I'll get my abs done or
some peck muscles, and so I think there's really a
lot of huge opportunities for this.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
And that's powerful because it gives patients an option when
they previously had none none. And one of the most
fascinating aspects of regenerative aesthetics is how the body responds
to structure. I mean, we're learning that volume isn't just
about adding material, it's about supporting tissue behavior. So from
a clinical standpoint, how does a structural ladipose matrix interact

(34:38):
with the bodies once placed? And why does that matter
for long term contour.

Speaker 8 (34:42):
Yeah, that's a great question. Is it's a couple things.

Speaker 9 (34:45):
Is one, you're actually this is a product that you're
able to actually build on because it's actually taken from
donor fats. So the idea is that you've got the
natural structure that you would have in your own fat.
So you were replacing in a spot with the exact
type of tissue that you're trying to replace, so you know,
nothing else is going to give you the same look
as the exact same stuff you're trying to replace. But

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it's got this really nice scaffold and strength, so it
can lift in shape.

Speaker 8 (35:10):
But because it's got those those.

Speaker 9 (35:11):
True structures, your body will integrate into this over time.
And the goal of this is to really give you
a feel, a look that is you. And so it's
going to feel and look just like your own fat
over time, you know, but not something that most of
us don't want to come back every six months and
do the procedure again. And so if you can build
on this over time, I think that's going to be
absolutely huge. And that's what we've seen with the alaclay

(35:34):
and our own practice as part of the study in
conjunction with Tiger. We've seen ninety percent retention and our
patients in the study already and so you know the
poll data will be coming out soon.

Speaker 8 (35:46):
But I mean that's huge, huge.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Well, we are at the end of our date, my friend.
I can't thank you enough for coming on and educating us.
Thank you for bringing clarity and perspective to this conversation
and more importantly for helping our audience understand which that
truly changing in body conjuring.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
I appreciate you having me super fun.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
If you're listening and curious about non invasive structural body sculpting,
you can visit aloclay dot com and definitely be sure
to follow them on the Gram at Aloclay and the
good doctor, doctor Franco, you could visit him directly at
Austin Plastic Surgeon dot com and check him out on
the Gram at Austin Plastic Surgeon. You're listening to a

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disciplined leadership, strategic vision, and purpose driven growth in today's

(37:25):
evolving business landscape. In today's economy, we're witnessing a major shift,
my friends. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, more than
sixty percent of consumers and employees say trust and integrity
now outweigh price, convenience, or speed when deciding who they
support or work with. And at the same time, the

(37:45):
World Economic Forum reports that leadership will be disrupted more
in the next five years by AI and automation than
in the last fifty combined. So here's the real question.
In a world moving faster, louder, and more andmated than ever,
what actually allows leaders to see clearly, decide wisely and

(38:05):
scale sustainably now? Sean, for those of you who haven't
heard of him, is the founder of Unblinded and the
creator of ACTI, which is actualized intelligence. His work addresses
a fundamental breakdown in a modern le leadership, sales and influence,
the loss of truth, alignment and human connection in high
pressure environments. Sean has built these systems while navigating the

(38:29):
world without physical sight, a reality that has sharpened his
ability to perceive nuance, intent, and integrity beyond what's visible
on the surface. And alongside him is Brian Jsposito, CEO
of Diamond Lake. He is a globally ranked CEO, a
serial entrepreneur and founder of Esposito Intellectual Enterprises, overseeing one

(38:50):
hundred and fifteen plus entities and more than two hundred
joint ventures across over twenty five industries worldwide. A CEO,
Brian is known for stepping into complex, high stakes environments
and transforming companies through discipline leadership, strategic vision, and execution.
Together they represent what modern leadership looks like, where integrity

(39:11):
fuels influence, intelligence, guide's decisions, and execution turns vision into reality.
Welcome to the show, Superstars.

Speaker 10 (39:19):
Zani's An Houner be here.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
Thank you so much for having us. Let's rock and roll.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Okay, So, Sean, you've built Unblinded and ACTI around a
belief that integrity isn't a soft value, it's a strategic advantage,
especially in a world accelerating towards automation and artificial intelligence.
At its core, though, what problem did you see in
the marketplace that led you to create Unblinded and act I?

(39:42):
And how has learning to navigate the world through heightened perception?
If you will shape that vision?

Speaker 10 (39:48):
Sure so, thank you so much. So it's nineteen ninety seven.
I don't want to be blind and broke like most
of the blind people my family. Seventy five percent of
blind people are unemployed. So I start looking to how
not to be blind and broke, and what I discover
is I can't find it. I can't find it in
the ancient scriptures. I can't find it by going to

(40:08):
Ivy League education. I was a Columbia University graduate and
a law school graduate at that point. So I go
looking for the only complete, holistic, diagnostic, dynamic, interconnected actualization
tool for life, business and mission acceleration. Can't find it,
so I codify it. So the friction in the marketplace.

(40:29):
What was missing in the marketplace is how to do that.
There's so much misinformation ignorance from the wholes of Columbia
and Harvard to the stages of the personal development gurus
and everywhere in between. The solve was for what everybody wants,
more financial abundance in less time, with more magic and impact.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Wow, that really lands because you're talking about seeing leadership differently,
not reacting to what's loud or performative, right, and it
reframes influence as alignment not optics. I love that approach. Now, Brian,
this is a perfect time for you to come into
this conversation. So, as CEO of Diamond Lake, your work
lives on the execution side of the equation, scale, structure,

(41:11):
and sustainability. You're often brought in when businesses are complex
and fragmented or underperforming, right, So what problem do you
see most consistently across companies, even successful ones? That you've
made it your mission to solve as an entrepreneur and CEO.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Yeah, great question.

Speaker 11 (41:29):
I just want to really quickly acknowledge what you just
heard from Sean is one of the reasons I quickly
connected with this individual, and I really very rarely find
that with someone with true, genuine integrity, And I'm so
glad your listeners get a chance to hear this amazing man.
So for me, there's so many consistent problems with industries
and leaders and CEOs around the world, and a lot

(41:50):
of them stem from not understanding something very basic and
simple that I just try to drill on them. If
you want to be in business, you need revenues. If
you want to stay in business, need to be profitable.
Let's start there. A lot of CEOs they take them
such a major risk. They max out their credit cards
to take a second mortgage on their home. They're going
after their passion and dreams, and they have the fire

(42:10):
and they know what the market is calling them to do,
and they go out and do it. And I'm addicted
to that personality and I want to help everybody possibly
can that has that personality. A lot of the times
they wrongfully surround themselves with people that have louder voices
that are trying to derail them right, or just trying
to input so many different philosophies and thoughts into the

(42:31):
leader's mind, and at some point you see the leader
forget who they are. So when I am blessed to
meet these people, I'm like, we got to back up
and reset everything. Let's who are you? What are you
trying to do in this world? What's the impact you're
trying to make, because that's where we need to be
once we understand that, and why you set out to
do this, why you took all these risks to do this.
We got to get back to that guy or girl

(42:52):
and let's start there and then let's rebuild and surround
yourself with the right people that are fueling your passion,
your desires. You're re for taking all this risk and
reason for being here because I can't do anything with
anybody until they know who they are, what they want
to accomplish. And then my job that I love to
do is say, this is my world. How can I
drop you in my world and expedite your growth, your meaning,

(43:15):
your reasoning in a very like Sean said, effective and
efficient way. Because time is our most precious commodity.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Now, sean unblinded isn't positioned as motivation, It's positioned as
a system. Right, yes, How does unblinded help leader? How
does unblinded help leaders strip away surface level influence and
operate with integrity and clarity, especially when they're under pressure
to perform?

Speaker 10 (43:40):
So Einstein said, zen make it as simple as possible,
but not simpler. And I couldn't agree more with what
Brian just shared that so many folks that everybody out
there has leakage, everybody out there has an opportunity for
massive growth. So what I sought when I couldn't find
it out there was what is this simple distillation? And

(44:01):
it comes down to this, how masterful or not are
you and your organization at causing?

Speaker 5 (44:08):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (44:08):
Number one? Number two which yes is are you causing?
And number three how emotionally they get yourselves through the
mechanism of causing those yeses masterfully and those right yeses.
That's everything, And folks stray into every crazy place.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
You know.

Speaker 10 (44:25):
One of the simple things is I talk about intentionality
with this unconditional love and unconditional respect, with zero trust,
hyper intentionality, And I ask people why would you ever
randomly network? People are like, oh, networking is great. I
think networking is the death of time, as problem was
referencing as a simple example. But what you should be
doing instead is creating hyper intentional mechanisms of possible ecosystem mergers,

(44:51):
cult strategic partnerships. You use in the word network. How
do you build that not accidentally but intentionally with transparency
and integrity. So at the end of it, it's witches
as you're causing, how masterful are you, how emotion you're
getting a self to do it in your entire organization
because everyone else, as Peter Drucker said, business is nothing

(45:12):
but in marketing innovation, everyone else is just working for
the yes causers if they are that masterful.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Now, Brian, let's chat why Shawn's work matters in the
real world, because Harvard Business Review reports that nearly seventy
percent of business transformations fail not because of bad strategy,
but because of leadership, misalignment and poor execution. Now, when
you look at Shawn's unblinded philosophy and active framework, why
do you believe this kind of perception driven intelligence is

(45:40):
essential for companies that want to scale and endure.

Speaker 11 (45:43):
It aligns with my entire career as a human being
and an entrepreneur. When I sat down with Seawan and
we had I think one of the maybe a Guinness
Book record breakfast we had together. And I meet and
work with amazing people over the world. I don't judge anybody,
but to align with somebody that has the same core
principles that I do as far as the impact that
we want to leave in this world, and also never

(46:09):
deteriorate our own integrity. I think true freedom for anybody
is the ability to say no. And I love that
I get to tell people no, I do not want
to work with you. I don't care if we can
make a billion bucks together, I do not want to
work with you. And the only way I've achieved that
is getting smacked around by so many people and getting
those bruises and learning. So I can spot somebody today

(46:30):
wearing different clothes with a different first name, the same
exact person that I met ten years ago, and I'm like, oh,
that's just like Joe, and that's just like Mary. I
got to get away from this person. And when you
can go from quality of life building relationships, My entire
world is nurturing and building relationships. I can connect people
in my network to create value and create a win

(46:51):
for everybody. And the fun part about it, as I
always love the idea, is I can connect amb But
the second caveat to that is understanding the right timing
of that. You can see the opportunity and you can
go and make that amazing connection. But if both parties
are not ready for that connection right, then it's a failure.
Then it's a misstep, and then you missed that opportunity.
But the only way to know that is to again understand,

(47:11):
evolve and stop being transactional.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
And that insight really bridges philosophy and profitability, Brian. It
shows that integrity isn't abstract, it's operational.

Speaker 8 (47:23):
Now.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Act I in the intelligence gap. I want to talk
about this. So we hear NonStop about artificial intelligence, but
ACTI introduces the idea of actualized intelligence. How does ACTI
help leaders develop discernment, the ability to sense truth and
intent and alignment in a world increasingly driven by automation
and speed.

Speaker 10 (47:44):
Susan, I'll start, thank you. I'll start that framework with this.
Google doesn't give truthful answers if you're looking for something
more than a local restaurant or store. If you ask
people who's the best person to help me build, grow,
scale my business, you're getting in an answer that's a
paid ad or somebody who is masterful at getting themselves

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up the Google food chain and SEO. Chat GPT is
no different. So if you're asking chat gipt questions, chat
GPT's purpose, its outcome is to addict you, like Google,
like other social media platforms, to coming back from more.
And this is completely non integrist from my vantage point.
So what we're here to do with integrity based human

(48:27):
influence an act I is simply to proliferate the unblinded formula.
So if you look at this dilemma Zen, the entrepreneur's dilemma,
mine yours, elon musks any ones, is we do not
have enough time to cause yes, we'd have enough time,
we'd have enough skill very often, and we don't have

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the resources to find people at the time and skill.
So let's say I think Zen's amazing and she thinks
I'm amazing. There's like cool stuff for us to do together.
We have to like talk, spend time building trust. That's
comple It's time consumers, Brian said, relationship building so so
many relationships shouldn't go forward, but so many relationships that
should don't because we just don't have the time and

(49:10):
very often not the skill. Wonderful people. The best lawyers
don't have the most clients. It's the best marketing lawyers
that do. And I don't think that's a great thing, right.
So what ACTI is designed to do is to help
people know what to do and to actually do it
for them. So in the doing it for them category,
we've built integras agents that can literally cause yes. Like

(49:31):
wait a minute, I seen what Elon has. I see
what these folks have. We have something that no one has.
Agents that can cause yes.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
Like what yes?

Speaker 10 (49:39):
Does you meaning like a sales pitch?

Speaker 9 (49:40):
No?

Speaker 10 (49:41):
Yes is in leadership, Yes is in management, Yes is
in marketing and selling, true recruitment, all of it. The
mechanism time And imagine this and twelve months from today,
imagine if your agent and my agent are communicating and
then coming back and telling us, Hey, here's what Zen
and Sean should do together and here's what they shouldn't
do together. Imagine that world. It's not twelve months away.

(50:05):
We can do that in the next thirty days.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Guys, if your mind's not blown mine is. Now let's
talk about why this partnership with Brian works. So what's
powerful here as I see it, is that your work
and Brian's don't compete, they complement. Why does this partnership
with Brian make sense right now? And how do unblinded
and act I expand when paired with someone who knows

(50:29):
how to operationalize vision if you will.

Speaker 10 (50:32):
Yeah, no, thank you for that. So when people ask me, like,
what's your mission, it's to cause leaders, to cause leaders
to merge ecosystems for one plus one equals a million,
a billion, a trillion, maybe even more relationships financially energy
as you've mentioned, to make one of his worlds and
the world at large and even greater place we need

(50:54):
others said differently, I share with people a great way
in the listeners to move through life is to integriously
collect relationships with people who can masterfully and integriously. Cause yes,
that's Brian. So that's on the macro, on the micro,
there's some incredible people in Brian's ecosystem, and there's some

(51:18):
incredible resources that we possess in our ecosystem as well.
When you put those things together, it makes something much
much larger. The things I'm doing are not for money.
Therefer impact and good in the world. So why am
I working with Brian Because we can create more value together,
to create more resources for those that need them charitably

(51:41):
in for profit and we can also make profit and
do good. And that's why I work with Brian Esposido.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Well that's alignment in action, right, So thank you both,
my friends for coming on. Brian, always a pleasure Sean
on it to interview you today.

Speaker 10 (51:54):
Zaan my deep deep honor and have fun. It can
all be magical.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
To check them out, you can go directly on instag
you could visit You could visit Sean Klagi at Sean r. Kligi,
you could go directly to their website Unblindedmastery dot com
and Acti dot ai. And for Brianjaysposito, CEO of Diamondlake,
you could head to Diamondlake dot com, Eie dot Rocks
and check them out on the gram at Brian Underscore

(52:20):
j Underscore Esposito. We'll be right back after this.

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