Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Entrepreneur & creator of AlwaysHired - a company who inspires people to get the best job of their lives. In this episode learn how Gabe and his team at AlwaysHired helps people jumpstart into a sales career or helps people build solid sales skills to improve their commission checks. We also cover Gabe’s experiences doing one of the toughest sales deals, selling steak knives. Learn more about sales and how to become better in your career as a sales pro.

Ben takes control of the mic to share what the plans are for the foreseeable future with Secret Tech Sauce. He shares why the delay in recording, plans with future guests and reviews three books - Seneca, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Sapiens. The purpose of sharing the books is neither to promote them OR come across like an ignorant philosopher with a microphone. His purpose is to share what has been influencing his thoughts lately. You can decide if you want to continue listening to Secret Tech Sauce.  

Bortolussi is a social recruiting hustler. She shares how she recruits through nontraditional platforms, like Instagram and Snapchat, and the value that recruiters can gain from learning how to recruit there. She also knows a thing or two more about coding than your average recruiter. Learn how she hustles between Vancouver and LA and finds top tech talent.

Entrepreneur & creator of the 100 Days of Rejection blog. In this episode learn how to experience rejection in a different way and apply them to your work in recruiting, marketing or selling. Learn Jia’s story from China to the U.S. and the rejections he overcame to hack into success.

In this episode, Stephanie and Ben share the tips and tricks from this past year’s podcast guests and reflect on last years THREE anti-resolutions words. These tips and tricks are something anyone can incorporate into their own life as Ben, Gabe and Stephanie do. We wish everyone a Happy Holidays and wonderful 2016. Chat soon...

Interview with Cole Fox, Founder of ProtoHack: The Code-Free Hackathon

Gabriel Weinberg, Founder of search engine site DuckDuckGo and author of the book, "Traction" - How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Growth.

Reflections on 10 Podcast Episodes - In this episode we reflect on our experiences to record and publish 10 episodes. We share great advice for someone wanting to know the behind the scenes of our podcast or what it takes to start and publish a podcast. In our edgy style we also push each other to get the most out of the conversation by covering our Snapchat usage to our confusions of our race.

Employee advocacy & branding will transform your employees into experts, contributors and influencers. Check out what Influitive, LinkedIn Elevate, Dynamic Signal & EveryoneSocial are doing in that space.

Cara Parrish talks personal branding, social media & entrepreneurship.

Meerkat - All things Meerkat and live video stream technology through social media.

Crowdfunding including Kickstarter, GoFundMe, and more. 

Special guest and Director of Marketing, DJ Waldow, covers podcasting, digital marketing and the future of content marketing. Cool fact: DJ Waldow started the Marketo Marketing Nation Podcast. 

The sharing economy covering Uber, Sidecar, Hotels by Day and Airbnb.

Gabe Villamizar, Ben Martinez & Stephanie Krieg discuss viral videos on YouTube, social media trends, and the power of opportunity.

We cover wearable technology as seen by Stephanie at CES 2015, employment branding (i.e., the good, the fakes and the bad), experiences going back to your college as an alum, and Stephanie’s time in the Bahamas.

We cover the CES 2015 show with Stephanie on the ground being sponsored by BMW. Other topics include anti-New Year’s resolution methods, tips on how to make your content go viral, along with an appearance of Stephanie’s dog.

We found our 3rd co-host, Stephanie Krieg, and introduce her to everybody. We make an attempt at showing you transparency in our first show together and highlight upcoming trends in technology, culture and recruiting mixed in with cow’s milk, rice milk and mother’s milk.

Gabe Villamizar & Ben Martinez begin their podcasting journey by talking about the who, the what, and the why they are doing this podcast, Secret Tech Sauce, which will cover topics including social media, recruiting, marketing, technology and culture.