Our Featured Guest for Sunday, April 20, 2025 is Ian Utile
In this episode, we dive into a bold vision of the future with Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and founder of ÂTTN.LIVE Ian Utile — exploring how Web3, AI, and audio-first platforms are reshaping content creation, ownership, and distribution. From the rise of Kiki the cat as the next big IP to reimagining attention economies and universal max income, Ian shares how tech can empower creators, decentralize power, and bring billions online.
Ian is also a Producer for Web3ÂI, a Roundtable Summit for Executives, Entrepreneurs, Evangelists, and Educators. Ian is also a 10 x co-founder, 4x entrepreneur in residence, he guest lectures at five difference universities, and co-produces tech events. He is also the co-host of the ÂMPLIFY podcast, showcasing interviews with key thought leaders in Web3 and AI.
Ian’s ambition is to help create products that could be used by billions of people. He supports brilliant teams that are bringing innovative tech to life, inspiring them with his enthusiasm regarding the potential of technology and automation. He has built a global network by delivering more than one hundred keynotes and producing over one thousand interviews with key leaders in the AI and Web3 industries. As a guest lecturer at universities, he combines practical strategy with passionate vision. The Global AI Council recently honored Ian with the U.S. President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his thousands of hours of international non-profit volunteer service. He is an 8x Co-Founder and 4x Entrepreneur in Residence for the last two decades, Ian has collaborated with the same core team of technologists to co-create innovative companies together.
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Monetize Content: NFTs give creators several benefits including creation of additional revenue streams, unique and valuable experiences for your audience as well as allowing you to retain the rights to your content, while allowing your audience to participate in the financial success by creating derivative content or selling pieces when the value has increased. Read more at: https://www.attn.live
Our Entrepreneur Presenters:
As the President of Manufacturing Chats and Interchanges and a two-decade veteran in the world of B2B marketing, Nelson Bruton has dedicated his career to helping industrial manufacturers break free from outdated growth tactics and embrace modern digital strategies. Nelson’s passion lies in empowering manufacturers—whether small specialty shops or leading global brands—to unlock untapped growth potential. Through his approach, organizations that were once resistant to digital marketing discover how the right strategies, platforms, and messaging can double their online quote requests in as little as one month.
Manufacturing Chats has been helping industrial manufacturing companies turn conversations into sales for two decades. Clients capture up to 150% more sales leads from the people visiting their website while simultaneously improving customer experience. Manufacturing chats provided a managed Live Chat staffed 24/7 by their highly trained, professional operators to run it on companies’ behalf. Read more at: https://manufacturingchats.com/
Interchanges helps B2B manufactures turn website visitors into customers, with a standard of helping clients double their online quote requests in the first month. Interchanges provides a 24/7 dedicated, human live chat team which immediately converts more website visitors into more quote requests. Under Nelson’s leadership, Interchanges has generated over $1.9 billion in revenue for their clients, consistently driving measurable results in an industry that often struggles to keep pace with the evolving digital landscape. Read more at: https://www.interchanges.com/
Courtney Peebles, co-founder of Solobo Toys returns to Passage to Profit to give an update about her Montessori-inspired educational children’s toy company. Recently, Solobo Toys went head-to-head with toy industry giants and won the Toy Foundation’s TOTY Award for Best Plush 2025. Their indie, neurodivergent-owned brand beat out the biggest names in toys, proving that innovation, inclusivity, and expert-backed design resonate more than ever! Solobo Toys naturally support diverse developmental needs and are designed for real-world recognition and are adaptable for all children so everyone can be included regardless of their developmental stage. Solobo Toys are unique and carefully crafted with inclusivity and purpose in mind. Courtney, our dedicated designer, pours her heart into every product, ensuring each educational resource fosters creativity and love for learning.
Both Courtney and her co-founder husband Daniel are neurodivergent, and their products are designed to emphasize simplicity while encouraging exceptional learning. Daniel is an ADHDer & Courtney is Autistic, ADHD, and OCD. They utilize sensory play, AAC, Montessori, and gentle parenting in their own family. They both feel it’s important to encourage a child’s individuality and meet them where they are. Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Family Therapists, and Teachers have found that using Solobo toys help target various developmental goals. Both parents and pediatric specialists see young children gravitate toward the toys and show excitement about learning through play. Children can easily spot the toys on a toy shelf because of their simplistic design and solid-colored tops. For example, there are many individual benefits to the Learn & Drop and Emotions Coin Drop. However, they have shared benefits, including developing motor skills, language building, vocabulary enhancement, and more. Each toy encourages an interactive, fun, and stress-free approach to learning.
Courtney and Daniel’s oldest son was always ahead of “typical” developmental milestones, leaving him with limited educational toy options that were safe for children under 3. Meanwhile, their youngest son faced complex medical needs that delayed his development and limited his toy options, too. Realizing the lack of suitable toys for both of our children, they knew we had to do something. What started as a side business to help cover medical bills rapidly grew into our full-time passion. Read more at: https://solobotoys.com/