Meet the team!
Josh Redd
Founder, Head of Product, Certified Notion Consultant
Bryan Takayama
Co-Founder, Head of Business Development
About Me
I’m an adventurer/creative turned entrepreneur. Playing drums, I toured over 30 countries in my 20’s spending over 2 years collectively outside the US. I’ve been a competition-winning barista, an Unsplash featured photographer, a freelance videographer, a podcaster, and now a Certified Notion Consultant. Most importantly, I’ve been married to my wife Ashley since 2020 and we currently live in Kansas City, home of the Super Bowl Champions! And we have a cat named Bo.
On Notion
Something about Notion clicked. Once I discovered its capabilities, It was like my thoughts could be made real. But not just my thoughts, for the first time the structure of the way I think was able to be manifested outside my head - that’s a powerful experience!
I’m obsessed with mapping thought using Notion. Even more so when I think about how a collective group can create something special together when they share the same medium of thought. Notion is the common denominator of thought.
About Me
Farm boy turned city boy turned digital nomad. I spent the first 10 years of my professional career working for a management consulting firm running project management, business development, and product management teams. After meeting my wife, Caleigh, and her having numerous brushes with mortality due to health issues, I said goodbye to the corporate world and focused on building businesses that could sustain us while we make the most of our time. We are full-timing it in our 80-square-foot home on wheels traveling the world while working on building Notion State, Fight2Breathe, and the Adventures of Bryan and Caleigh.
On Notion
While I was hesitant when first presented with the blank canvas of Notion, once I got the hang of how the legos worked, the world opened up to me. Having experienced countless project management systems failures and the effects of SaaS product proliferation across companies I worked for and their clients, I started to see Notion as a key to it all. Just about every company stands to benefit from a well-designed Notion operating system.
I now use Notion for nearly everything I do - life planning, content creation, project management, travel planning, and work!
"When our team gets together with the right tools, we’re in the Notion State."