Melissa Hartwig Urban, co-founder and CEO of Whole30, was the first guinea pig for her diet. “I was eating pretty healthy whole foods, I was exercising a ton: but what the Whole30 showed me in that first self-experiment were all the ways that I was using food to comfort, reward and punish myself, and to…
Planning a road trip used to mean digging out the crumpled Rand McNally atlas from your trunk, or printing out turn-by-turn directions from MapQuest. If you were right on the cutting edge in the middle aughts, you might have had a sat nav that occasionally guided you into large bodies of water. Google Maps debuted…
As the number of birthday candles and wrinkles increase every year, we tell ourselves that with age comes experience and with experience comes wisdom. But sometimes all that age and wisdom can be accompanied by a reluctance to adapt to changes. One industry that is often accused of failing to keep up with the times:…
Not every startup is about reinventing the wheel — or creating a car that doesn’t even have wheels. To take the car part analogy further, some startups are looking at reinventing the oil — the stuff that makes those existing parts run together more smoothly. Sean Chou not only came up with such a company,…
Joe Hernandez aka Disruption Joe joins the podcast in-studio at WGN to talk about the latest trends in Chicago tech and diving into all things blockchain. His belief in Chicago’s ability to become a center for blockchain innovation led him to create the Voice of Blockchain in 2018. 1,000 people came to Navy Pier to…
Take a look at a property that is for sale and of course, you’ll see its best attributes on display. It’s pristine and uncluttered, shiny and inviting. Glimpse behind-the-scenes of most real estate offices, and you’ll see the total opposite. Think Wild West rather than West Elm. This is no secret to anyone in the…
A groundbreaking Chicago initiative, referred to as P33, aims to change Chicago’s technology landscape by 2033. By uniting established business and technology leaders, P33 hopes to strengthen Chicago’s position as an inclusive, top-performing tech city. “P33 is an effort to take Chicago’s capabilities, which are really first class, and transform the city into a leading…
If there’s one industry that’s both very old and highly innovative, it’s food. We’ve been eating since before we could talk in more than grunts — but what we want to eat, and how and where we acquire food, continues to change rapidly. One company trying to balance that long history with the need to…
When you’ve already worked at Google for over a decade, co-founded a successful startup, used your talents to help a non-profit, and earned degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Business School — what’s next? For Minnie Ingersoll, the answer was venture capital and a move away from Silicon Valley. After graduating from Stanford with a…
If you’ve lived through a Chicago winter, the idea of paying someone to let you stand in a machine that gets cold enough to give you frostbite seems dubious at best. But CryoBar owner Sara Latham is convinced that that’s exactly what many of us dealing with injuries, stress and even chronic illnesses need to…