Podcast Category: The American Innovator

On this week’s show, Paul Akers travels to Walters & Wolf in Fremont, CA to talk with Nick Kocelj, their CEO, about their lean journey over this past year. For more information on Walters & Wolf, visit their website.

On this week’s show, Paul Akers joins J at the Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, WA for the Cantrell Motorsports open track day. He drove his Porsche Boxster S RS Spyder on the track and used FastCap’s Stealth iPole & FastCam System (Astak Action Cam) and DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision+ to get the footage.

For more information on Cantrell Motorsports, visit their website.

For more information on Ridge Motorsports Park, visit their website.

For more information on FastCap’s iPole, visit our website.

For more information on FastCap’s FastCam, visit our website.

For more information on DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision+, visit their website.

On this week’s show, Paul Akers hits the road yet again with J, driving his Porsche Boxster S RS Spyder. They head out from Washington State and head to Yellowstone National Park, hitting sights along the way. He used FastCap’s Stealth iPole & FastCam System (Astak Action Cam) and DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision+ to get the footage.

For more information on FastCap’s iPole, visit our website.

For more information on FastCap’s FastCam, visit our website.

For more information on DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision+, visit their website.

On this week’s show, Paul Akers takes his friends and his daughter to Nooksack Falls, WA where he took over 100 photos but reduced it down to 16 of his very best shots. He learned this concept from Dylan Davies, a professional photographer, and shares some of Dylan’s beautiful photos.

For more information on Dylan Davis Photography, visit his website.

On this week’s show, Paul Akers shares his observations and thoughts about China versus the United States after a recent visit.

On this week’s show, Paul Akers shares with us a 3D map of his eye taken by Dr. Mark Aginsky, his Optometrist. He also shares part of Andrew Bastawrous’ TEDx talk about how to test and treat the eyes of people who live in remote areas with a smartphone.

For more information on the TEDxTalk called Andrew Bastawrous: Get your next eye exam on a smartphone, go to this link.

On this week’s show, Paul Akers shares the talk he gave at the DRP Construction meeting on March 13, 2014 called “Lean Is Simple…With a Dash of Passion”.

For more information on DPR Construction, visit their website.

On this week’s show, we honor Louis Zamperini, who passed away on July 2, 2014, at the age of 97.  Back in February, 2011, Paul Akers and Jon Lussier’s had the opportunity to interview Mr. Zamperini on The American Innovator radio show.   This week we replay that interview.
Listen to Part One (starts at 7:27):

Listen to Part Two (starts at 6:42):

 Louis Zamperini is one of America’s greatest heroes. An Olympic runner and WWII POW, his life story was written by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Laura Hillenbrand (author of “Seabiscuit”) in the book “Unbroken”.

Louis was blessed with not only an extraordinary personal will to succeed and an amazing gift of athleticism and talent, but with the power to find it within himself to forgive. The story of how Louis Zamperini was able to ultimately triumph over those who subjected him to his darkest hours is a tale you will never forget.

On this week’s show, Paul Akers visits Greg Glebe of Xylem Design, a Lean Manufacturer, and takes a tour of his display/pedestal facility. They are doing amazing things! You gotta see this!

For more information on Xylem Design, visit their website.

On this week’s show, Paul Akers takes us along on his lean tour of Bombardier Aerospace in Montréal Canada. They even let him try his hand in the flight simulator!

For more information on Bombardier Aerospace, visit their website.