The Founder's Mind: Recent Episodes
Adam Mutschler: Leadership Coach & COO at The Kedar Group
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
Dawn Dickson-Akpoghene is a serial entrepreneur and coach who is tired of the negative narrative in the media that does not acknowledge the successes of Black women entrepreneurs. She is our guest this week on The Founder’s Mind and had a wide-ranging conversation with Adam touching on race and gender in the tech industry, the future of crowdfunding, and the importance of perseverance and legacy.
After not achieving the funding she wanted in the realm of VC funding, Dawn set her sights on the brave new world of crowdfunding to great success. One of the key takeaways from Dawn’s story is how important it is to educate yourself thoroughly on any new industry you want to participate in. Listen for more of Dawn’s thoughts.
- (00:57) – Dawn’s tweet about Black women’s success
- (05:39) – Dawn’s family of entrepreneurs
- (12:22) – How Dawn came to launch her first business
- (19:22) – The challenge of team building
- (22:07) – What keeps Dawn driven
- (29:47) – How Dawn got into crowdfunding
- (32:46) – Dawn’s #1 advice to entrepreneurs
- (35:40) – Dawn’s perspective on failure
- (42:23) – Why you can’t compare your journey to others
Dawn W. Dickson is CEO of PopCom, an automated retail company that uses facial recognition, AI, and blockchain technology to help retailers collect valuable customer insights. The first CRM, data, and analytics software provider for unattended retail, PopCom has developed technology to make kiosks and vending machines intelligent through data and analytics at the point of purchase. As a serial entrepreneur with over 16 years of experience in marketing and business development, Dawn launched four successful cash flow positive companies since 2002. Her most recent ventures include Flat Out of Heels and PopCom, after identifying a need to make vending machines more intelligent.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
Podcast episode production by Dante32.
Rodney Williams is a serial entrepreneur because he’s an explorer. It wasn’t enough to change the game with his first company, LISNR. He is now disrupting the lending industry with his latest company, SoLo Funds. Rodney is our guest this week on The Founder’s Mind and shares his thoughts on the evolution of his leadership style and interests.
Listen to the episode as Rodney discusses his definition of winning, what it’s like being a Black founder, why he approaches problems with an explorer’s attitude, and why the words “I remember,” are the most powerful words an investor can say to an entrepreneur.
- (01:45) – What is Rodney Williams cooking up right now?
- (04:00) – Having vision for market opportunities
- (07:14) – How SoLo Funds is helping communities
- (19:46) – How Rodney takes risks to create new businesses
- (29:39) – Rodney’s leadership evolution
- (32:34) – How Rodney defines winning
- (41:00) – First impressions and cultivating networks
- (46:49) – Rodney’s advice for new founders
- (51:07) - Connect with Rodney on Twitter or Instagram @rodneybwilliams
Rodney B. Williams is the Founder and CCO of LISNR and the Co-Founder and Chairman of SoLo Funds. He worked in brand management at Procter & Gamble and saw firsthand the constant struggle brands have connecting with consumers. By lowering the barrier for proximity-based marketing on mobile devices, LISNR is expanding the opportunity for marketers and brands to target messaging to consumers through relevant mobile connections. SoLo Funds is disrupting the lending industry by allowing for peer-to-peer lending.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group, and sponsored by Upside.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
Podcast episode production by Dante32.
Our culture has internalized the idea that art is a career choice in which poverty is the standard. Reggie Black is an artist pushing back against this narrative using his art to call out companies that devalue artists and their work.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Reggie and Adam engage in a dialog of understanding regarding the intersection of trauma and mental health for Black people in America. Reggie also breaks down the business of art and discusses how institutions and lack of resources are the real gatekeepers preventing more artists of color from breaking through.
This interview was recorded live. To watch the interview, click here.
- [01:27] – Introducing Reggie Black
- [06:45] – The intersection of mental health and trauma for Black people
- [11:04] – The Mass Manipulation Series
- [16:39] – Time stamping human emotion
- [20:13] – Understanding the trauma of the Black experience
- [31:07] – Uncomfortable conversations and the dialog of understanding
- [33:56] – All Things Progressive, Reggie’s design firm
- [34:19] – Challenges faced by artists
- [40:25] – Dismantling the idea of the starving artist
- [44:20] – Unique challenges for Black artists
- [49:56] – Find Reggie on Instagram @iamreggieblack
Reggie Black is an international multimedia artist, designer, speaker, and Principal of All Things Progressive, a multidisciplinary design studio specializing in creative direction, identity, and branding.
A native of Washington D.C., Black has spent the last four years living and working throughout Asia. Intersecting hand type artistry, graphic design, typography, abstract paintings, travel and cultural juxtapositions; his work has been exhibited in several international exhibitions in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and domestically in D.C.
His art has evolved into graphic design commissions, environmental graphic design, identity creation, book cover design, branding, exhibition design, naming and nomenclature, creative direction, curation, product design, and documentary photography.
Black has presented talks at Apple, Advertising Week, TED, Pecha Kucha, Marble Print + Clay, and Resource Library addressing the importance of art, design, technology, mental health, transparency, vulnerability, and the human connection.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.
COVID-19 has pushed businesses to go digital fast. This has opened up new opportunities for Vanja Bannan, Founder of BannComm, as she’s overseeing an entirely new arm of the company she never thought possible. Despite those gains, Vanja still believes in old fashioned networking and referrals.
This week on The Founder’s Mind, Adam talks to Vanja about the importance of loving your job, why educating clients and employees is key, and why you must always remember to prioritize work and family. Vanja also shares why she hates the word, “just,” and why she wants everyone to stop saying it.
This interview was recorded live. To watch the interview, click here.
- [00:36] – Introducing Vanja Bannan
- [02:11] – Vanja Bannan on her company, BannComm
- [05:00] – Surrounding yourself with smart people
- [12:00] – How the digital arm of BannComm has increased
- [13:49] – Why education is key
- [17:58] – The toll of making things easy for everyone else
- [23:21] – Personal strife during BannComm’s founding
- [28:14] – Why Vanja wants you to stop saying “just”
- [34:08] – The importance of building relationships
- [46:23] – Helping clients survive the transition to digital
- [50:36] – Loving your work
After working in energy, finance, and luxury sectors across Europe and North America, Vanja Bannan founded BannComm in 2014. She was fascinated with the constant evolution and innovation of the communications sector, and decided to establish a firm that pushed the digital envelope.
Today, Vanja and her award-winning team have worked with some of the leading companies in culture, architecture, corporate, and technology. She focuses on building solid working relationships and aligning the agency with progressive ideas and services.
Vanja is a passionate champion of women and female entrepreneurs, earning recognition in 2020 by Women of Influence for the Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.
Black women have to work harder to earn less, and as if that wasn’t enough, have to spend anywhere from 5-8 hours to get their hair done in ways society deems “professional.” Dawn Myers is the founder of The Most, a tool to make hair care easier for Black women. She is our guest this week on The Founder’s Mind and talks about her experience as a founder from an underrepresented, marginalized group.
Dawn shares how advocacy is at the core of her passions through her work with The Vinetta Project, and how she translates that work into a successful beauty company. Listen in for her insights on equity, inclusion, and justice.
This interview was recorded live. To watch the interview, click here.
- [00:41] – Introducing Dawn Myers
- [01:55] – Dawn’s working on her company The Most and the DC Chapter of The Vinetta Project
- [03:38] – Passion for the work
- [06:57] – The unique challenge of Black women’s hair
- [12:00] – The prototype process
- [21:46] – Why lawyers make better founders
- [28:16] – The Vinetta Project
- [30:59] – Marrying advocacy and beauty
- [36:21] – Following your gut to forge your path
- [42:10] – Systemic racism and founders
- [47:03] – Dawn shares her pride at the work being done by young people
Dawn Myers is a startup eco-system architect, having launched and managed educational programming for entrepreneurs throughout the Washington metropolitan area. As Ambassador to Black Girl Ventures and Director at The Vinetta Project, a national 501(c)(3), Dawn develops seminars, bootcamps, and accelerator programming for up and coming founders of color.
Dawn teaches founders how to lay a sound foundation for their business, build the relationships they need to thrive, and access capital using non-traditional strategies.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.
1871 is a hub of technology and entrepreneurship in Chicago. This is a place where founders from all industries gather to support each other. This week on The Founder’s Mind, we’re trying something a little different. Before the COVID craziness started, Adam found himself with an extra day in Chicago. He put out a call to any founders at 1871 to come to the recording studio and chat. Aaron Filous, David Pawlan, and Dana Todd answered the call.
Today, we’re sharing three conversations with three founders from very different industries. Adam asks each founder what they wish they had known when they started and how their previous job experiences prepared them for their newest challenges. Their answers will surprise you.
- [01:09] - Aaron Filous, Founder and CEO of Promotable
- [01:34] - What is Promotable
- [04:40] - Why feedback is important and how to bridge the gap between the tech and non-tech sides of a business
- [11:15] - What it’s like contributing to someone else’s success
- [13:18] - David Pawlan, Co-Founder at Aloa
- [13:56] - David Pawlan explains the concept of Aloa
- [15:25] - Why Aloa is a relationship focused company
- [18:40] - Aloa’s mission
- [20:25] - What David wished he knew before founding Aloa
- [24:45] - Dana Todd, CEO of Balodana
- [25:02] - Dana Todd on what it’s like to be on her third business, Balodana
- [28:53] - Challenges of slow fashion
- [35:11] - The difficulty of getting people to try new things
- [36:05] - Educating the customer
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.
Charles Ashley III has given up dream jobs because he has a fire in his belly to help as many people as he can. His company, Cultivating Coders, seeks to bring coding camps to people who don’t usually have easy access to digital tools we take for granted – those living in poverty, as well as people of color. But what do you do when you have an in-person business model and a pandemic hits?
This week on The Founder’s Mind, we’re talking to Charles about how he successfully migrated his business to the virtual realm and even added compelling new offers such as his Code Crush Crew. Charles also speaks passionately on how we can overcome the digital divide and how the implementation of small business loans has put inequality in the spotlight.
Listen to the episode and remember to shop local!
- [04:48] – Charles explains his background and road to Cultivating Coders
- [13:48] – Community equity
- [18:37] – A hard lesson in business
- [24:33] – What drives Charles
- [32:24] – Issues with the disbursement of SBA money
- [37:09] – Entrepreneurs know that you eat what you kill
Charles Ashley III is President & Founder of Cultivating Coders, a New Mexico based company that provides technical training and curriculum in web and mobile application development to K-12 schools in tribal, rural and overlooked urban areas that lack resources in coding and computer science education.
Prior to his current role, Charles was a Marketing & Strategy Consultant for several clients including Harmonix Technologies, VARA Wines and DeVry University. He previously served as Film Liaison & Marketing Manager for Bernalillo County’s Economic Development Department in New Mexico and was Manager of Marketing for CNM’s STEMulus Center.
Charles currently sits on the US Eagle Federal Credit Union Advisory Board, Learning Alliance and has served on variety of boards such as New Mexico AIDS Services, Albuquerque Youth Basketball League Board, Mayor Berry’s Albuquerque Deep Dive Council for Arts & Culture and Mayor Keller’s Education Transition Team.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.
Whether your business has been around for years or you just got in the game, no one could have anticipated the COVID-19 pandemic to effectively wipe out business revenues by 50% or more overnight. But that’s the situation we’re in right now - our new normal - and it’s time for you to take a step back to figure out what routines to put in place and what decisions need to be made to keep your company afloat.
This week on The Founder’s Mind, Adam talked to Scott Case, Founder of Upside Travel and a sponsor of this show. Scott is a serial entrepreneur and also has experience with public health thanks to years serving as CEO and as a board member of Malaria No More. Scott shares his deep knowledge and offers concrete strategies that every business should take right now to ensure they weather this storm. Listen in to learn about the similarities to the fight against malaria and how the CARES Act can help businesses.
- [02:17] – Why companies need to plan for the worst right now
- [06:18] – Don’t wait for new information, start making decisions
- [09:08] – Establishing new routines for work and social connections
- [17:51] – Playing offense against the disease: CARES Act
- [18:31] – How fighting malaria is similar to fighting COVID-19
- [24:08] – Identify how your unique business can contribute
- [31:02] – A breakdown of steps to be taken to secure your business
Scott Case is a technologist, entrepreneur and inventor and was founding CTO of priceline.com, the "Name Your Own Price" Internet service. At the Walker Digital Invention Laboratory, he helped build a portfolio of intellectual property. In November 2015, he rejoined Jay Walker to transform the way we buy business travel at Upside (www.upside.com).
In 2006, Scott joined the Malaria No More team (www.MalariaNoMore.org) to inspire individuals and institutions to end deaths caused by malaria. He also serves as the Chairman of Network for Good (www.NetworkForGood.org), a national nonprofit that has distributed more than $1.4 billion to 100,000 nonprofits.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.
People always think that startups do just that: start right up. But in reality, it can take years of planning and prep work before a business is truly up and running. Such was the case for Civic Eagle, an app that helps policymakers easily track legislation. Civic Eagle co-founder Yemi Adewunmi joined Adam to discuss what it’s like as a founder of color, how to foster a business culture with a remote team, and how much planning it took before they raised millions in funding.
Yemi is an avid traveler, but as a remote worker, she sometimes finds it difficult to turn off the digital nomad lifestyle. Listen for her tips on how she, and Civic Eagle, are trying to get more intentional with their time away from work.
- [02:00] – What Civic Eagle does
- [03:34] – How the Civic Eagle co-founders met
- [05:27] – Learning new skills and building Civic Eagle while pursuing other jobs
- [13:52] – Launching Civic Eagle
- [18:04] – Raising millions in funding
- [22:35] – Hedging bets and intentional decision-making
- [29:55] – Managing a distributed team
- [33:48] – Memorable travel
- [35:29] – Your Time Off
- [40:11] – Lifelong learning
Yemi Adewunmi is the co-founder and product designer for Civic Eagle, an app that streamlines the legislative process for policymakers. She is an avid photographer. Connect with her on Instagram @yemi.adewunmi.
Civic Eagle is on a mission to use technology to promote better democratic outcomes for people and their communities. Their product Enview brings state and federal bills together with team communications so that organizations can unlock efficiency in their policy workflow. Are you working from home on state or federal policy? Try Enview for remote teams for free.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
This season of The Founder’s Mind is sponsored by Upside Business Travel - free travel management for companies like yours. Find out more about Upside Business Travel at www.upside.com/tfm.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.
Cubii is an exercise machine for beginners and those with limited mobility. But when they first launched, the team thought their target demographic was busy professionals. Arnav Dalmia, co-founder and CEO of Cubii, joined Adam this week for a discussion on the importance of not only listening to customer feedback, but also making it a central part of your marketing strategy.
Arnav talks about the lessons and challenges he’s faced developing a brand-new market. He also recounts a fateful trip to China that taught him a profound business lesson.
- [00:58] – Startups vs medium sized business
- [04:25] – What is Cubii?
- [07:53] – Listening to customers
- [13:04] – Cubii’s structure and values
- [15:13] – Customer feedback is built into the very layout of Cubii’s offices
- [18:33] – How Arnav and Shavani came up with Cubii
- [25:55] – The future of Cubii
- [30:44] – Lessons the team has learned from Cubii’s launch
- [33:30] – Build a business you never want to sell
- [36:24] – Fateful business advice on a trip to China
Arnav Dalmia is the co-founder and CEO of Cubii, an exercise machine for beginners and people with limited mobility. Cubii is the winner of various awards including a Chicago Innovation Award.
The Founder's Mind is a podcast for entrepreneurs wanting to gain insights and tactics from founders of all kinds to learn, grow, and be better equipped to navigate the inherent challenges of entrepreneurship. The podcast is hosted by Adam Mutschler, a Leadership Coach and COO at The Kedar Group.
If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to The Founder’s Mind in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.
This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.
This episode features Paige McPheely Founder and CEO of Base a platform that is modernizing the way executive assistants work. Listen in as Paige sheds light on her journey in founding and growing Base, the work that goes into intentionally hiring a diverse team, and beyond.
Links
https://basehq.com/
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In this episode Amira Valliani Co-Founder and CEO of Glow.fm a platform enabling creators to monetize their work joins us and discusses her journey from idea to product through the iterations, finding and building a co-founder relationship, and raising a 2.3 million dollar seed round of capital.
Links
http://glow.fm/
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- To learn more about Season 2 and our sponsor Upside Business Travel check out: https://upside.com/tfm
- To become a funder of The Founder's Mind you can go here [we're using glow.fm a platform created by Amira!]
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A bit about what Greg shares episode: From brutally honest answers in job interviews early on his career to creating read.me and growing a SaaS business. Greg covered a lot of ground.
Timeline
[00:39] Intro - Making startup culture cool again
[02:11] About Read.me and API
[04:39] from Idea to action - took greg 5 years to start his venture. Great ideas come back
[09:30] Greg’s experience with being an employee with a bigger vision
[15:59] From upstate New York to San Francisco - leaning into opportunities
[21:02] Greg asks Adam about his podcasting journey
[23:50] starting the company - Learning from the best managers, and learning from the worst managers
[30:38] The Launch, funding & first paying customers, Y combinator
[35:06] A few big lesson greg has learned along his journey
[45:24] Piece of advice - Follow your own way of doing things and learn the lessons first hand
Links
https://readme.com/
Book
The Inner Game Of Tennis
More from The Founder's Mind
- To learn more about Season 2 and our sponsor Upside Business Travel check out: https://upside.com/tfm
- To become a funder of The Founder's Mind you can go here [we're using glow.fm a platform created by one of our guests, Amira!]
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Alex McCrery (Chef turned designer) and Jenny Goodman (FOH turned COO) founded Tilit with two chef aprons designs, one pair of pants and a chef-shirt. The line started small, but the plans were big.
On the episode, They share their thoughts about scaling a business, about DIY funding and ways to really value your time and your product, and talk about the amazing lessons that led them from closing one business to having a new company with more than 5,000 clients
In this interview, They Talk about:
[01:35] what is tilt? What are Alex and Jenny working on
[04:52] From Thought to action - the tipping point, the process from thought to rational action
[09:32] Challenges faced in Tilit - being intentional and self-funded and putting every dollar to work
[15:25] Being partners in crime and partners in life - the importance of having roles, sustaining a relationship and having a work-life balance
[19:25] Tilit’s vision of conquering the world
[22:58] Eat local, make local - Challenges in keeping all the manufacturing close
[28:59] Learning new skills for the bigger purpose- what propelled Alex to start sewing Jenny to start studying as she was starting a company
[35:04] Something Tilit know now that they wish they knew in the beginning - Valuing your time and pricing accordingly
[38:29] Free time and how Alex and Jenny Consume content
[40:10] why other people are the greatest resources, and why these want to share their stories and experience with you.
[45:11] Founders Jenny & Alex look up to
Links
https://www.tilitnyc.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tilitnyc/
https://www.instagram.com/jennymcgoody/
https://www.instagram.com/al.a.mode/
More from The Founder's Mind
- To learn more about Season 2 and our sponsor Upside Business Travel check out: https://upside.com/tfm
- To become a funder of The Founder's Mind you can go here [we're using glow.fm a platform created by one of our guests, Amira!]
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Listen in as Spike & Jonah talk all things plant-based eating, the history of Spikes Chef and Entrepreneurial journey, and a little bit of food policy and advocacy.
Timeline:
[01:10] About Spike
[08:09] Getting a good apprenticeship - The power of persistence
[15:46] From working as a chef to owning a lot of places
[21:17] Having a bigger mission
[26:25] PLNT Burger From idea to action
[34:50] The process of making it happen
Links:
https://twitter.com/chefspike
https://www.instagram.com/spikethechef/
https://twitter.com/goldmanstein22
https://www.plntburger.com/
http://www.chefspike.com/
More from The Founder's Mind
- To learn more about Season 2 and our sponsor Upside Business Travel check out: https://upside.com/tfm
- To become a funder of The Founder's Mind you can go here [we're using glow.fm a platform created by one of our guests, Amira!]
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Listen in as Tessa & Tony talk all things starting a family business, growing from one to three DIFFERENT businesses, and why it's so important to create real community.
Links:
https://bakedandwired.com/
https://abakedjoint.com/
https://la-betty.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tessita/
More from The Founder's Mind
- To learn more about Season 2 and our sponsor Upside Business Travel check out: https://upside.com/tfm
- To become a funder of The Founder's Mind you can go here [we're using glow.fm a platform created by one of our guests, Amira!]
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Peter Trevisani
A graduate of Boston College, and Columbia University, Peter Trevisani is the first Club President, CEO and majority owner of New Mexico United. He is motivated by a commitment to community, a love of competition, and a concrete belief that soccer can pave the path to meaningful growth in the state of New Mexico.
“if it doesn't feel right, it's probably not right for you”
In this episode, Peter and Adam talk about:
[01:41] Peter’s story
[07:26] The leap- leaving a very safe and luxurious job in the finance space to being a founder
[12:30] What got peter into soccer and not any other sport
[19:20] Challenges Peter has faced and the lessons he has learned
[27:34] A piece of advice from Peter
[30:56] Going against the odds
Mentions
Meow WolfNew Mexico United
Links
Peter’s Instagram
Peter’s Twitter
New Mexico United Instagram
New Mexico United Twitter
More from The Founder's Mind
- To learn more about Season 2 and our sponsor Upside Business Travel check out: https://upside.com/tfm
- To become a funder of The Founder's Mind you can go here [we're using glow.fm a platform created by one of our guests, Amira!]
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Helen is passionate about caregiving and the impact that the right caregiver can have on families. As an educator and workplace trainer, she has had a career in driving outcomes for adult learners and finding meaningful ways for them to engage in learning.
In this episode of The Founder's Mind Helen & Adam dig into building a company, the unexpected turns that come with time, and the power of real hustle.
They also briefly discuss the late Bernard Tyson and his impact on their perspectives and the broader community.
Mentions
Bernard Tyson
Rise of The Rest
Links
Helen's Twitter
Helen's TEDx Talk
CareAcademy
More from The Founder's Mind
- To learn more about Season 2 and our sponsor Upside Business Travel check out: https://upside.com/tfm
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Barbara Bickham
Managing Director, CTO, and Technical Advisor - Barbara has extensive experience in Technology, Monetization, and Entrepreneurship for companies in industries: FinTech, Fashion, Wearables, Wireless, Security, Media & Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain.
Barbara is leveraging her background to propel rising entrepreneurs and companies forward through her Women’s Innovation Fund Accelerator [WIF AX]
Barbara incorporates values of equality and equity in her work and she has an amazing outlook on the workplace and the future of investing. She talks about the importance of being ready to pivot and try new things as an entrepreneur.
In the episode she dives into the following:
[00:50] Introduction to barbara
[02:50] What is blockchain?
[05:12] The evolution of technology - where is investing and tech going and how it started
[07:21] Barbara’s path as a CTO- learning from closing a company and leveraging it for her following endeavors
[11:46] Opportunity Zones and equal executive teams in underserved communities
[17:21] What works for investing and getting invested in
[21:50] A pitching lesson from Barbara, what questions you can ask yourself before pitching
[28:48] Obsession over perfectionism
Links
Women’s Innovation Fund [WIF AX]
Barbara’s Website
Barbara’s Twitter
Barbara’s Instagram
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Zvi Band
Zvi Band is the co-founder & CEO of Contactually [acquired by Compass Realty in 2019], the top CRM which empowers professionals in real estate, consulting, and other professional industries to build authentic relationships. Having founded Contactually in 2011, Zvi has led Contactually to $12M in venture backing, 75 employees, and tens of thousands of customers, including 8 of the top 20 real estate brokerages in the country. In the episode, Adam and Zvi discuss building a team, building relationships, and being an introverted salesperson.
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Timeline
[00:40] about Zvi
[02:27] From nothing to something - why relationships are insanely important
[09:07] Going full time
[10:55] What has stayed the same after getting big
[13:31] Piece of advice - just have fun
[18:57] Growing a team
[24:00] Being an introvert salesperson
[27:59] Founder Zvi admires
[32:47] Something that blew Zvi's mind
Book
Success is in Your Sphere
Links
Zvi's Website
Zvi's Twitter
Zvi's Instagram
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Kate Goodall
Kate Goodall is the Co-Founder and CEO of Halcyon, a non-profit dedicated to solving 21st-century problems by providing space and access to emerging leaders in social entrepreneurship and the arts.
Listen in as Kate and Adam talk about lessons from the most influential up and coming leaders, and the most influential leaders of today.
Kate dives into mindfulness and shares practical tips that made her business come to life. She sharpens the fine line (that is often ignored) between what actually works for one's self vs what’s good for the business.
Timeline
[00:30] About Kate & what is Halcyon
[05:27] from thought to action
[07:00] time for startups to launch
[09:37] Preparing yourself to be successful
[11:54] Kate’s Piece of advice
[20:34] Founder Kate Admires
[23:45] Kate’s lesson from the Dalai Lama
[27:44] Something the world can use
Links
Kate’s Linkedin
Halcyon
Halcyon Instagram
Halcyon Facebook
Halcyon Twitter
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David Schnurman
David & Adam go in-depth about the entrepreneurial Journey, about learning, the importance of books and gives us a special glimpse into his passion, personal stories, losses and the wins that brought him to the place he is in.
David Schnurman is the CEO of Lawline, the leading provider of online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) in the country. The company recently celebrated serving over 130,000 attorneys with over 3,000,000 courses completed. David is also the current president of the Entrepreneurs Organization New York.David is the author of the book “The Fast Forward Mindset: How to Be More Fearless & Focused to Accelerate Your Success."
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Timeline
[00:38] introduction
[03:13] Lawline - the hardships, the leap, and the name.
[15:30] The tipping point.
[18:25] The Leadership Wall - what walls David had to face, the obstacles and the trials he had to learn from as a CEO.
[21:30] Importance of books.
[25:23] Something that blew David’s mind.
Books
Rocket Fuel
The Fast Forward Mindset [Written by DAVID!]
Links
David's Website
David's Instagram
David's Twitter
Lawline
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Ruben Harris
Ruben and Adam go on a conversational journey into topics such as creativity, transferable skills, going to the top, social media connections and more.
Ruben Harris is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia
Prior to working in tech, Ruben worked as an Investment Banker focused on Food, Consumer, and Retail companies in Chicago and Atlanta. As a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he recruited others to focus on issues related to food security, climate change, and agriculture.
Ruben has been playing the cello for ~25 years, taught music, performed in venues all over the world - including Carnegie Hall, and landed placements from Def Jam.
Quote
"The creative adult is a child who survived."
Timeline
[01:00] What is Career Karma?
[05:00] What do learning cello and being a founder have in common?
[08:30] Creative thinking
[12:37] Leaning in to what makes us human
[15:40] Getting to the top together
[20:55] Social media & manifesting connections
[28:10] Wealth and being connected
[33:30] Privilege and connections
[39:18] How to break through bias
[41:09] Transferable skills
Links
Career Karma Website
Career Karma Instagram
Ruben's Instagram
Ruben's Twitter
Founding Funders
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Sarah
Sarah Gibson Tuttle is the founder of Olive & June. She named the salon after her great-grandmother and grandmother, the Gibson women who taught her the importance of having high standards and a big heart.
Before opening the Beverly Hills flagship nail salon in August 2013, Sarah worked for ten years as an equity sales trader at JP Morgan & Morgan Stanley in New York City. But the quality of life wooed her out west. When she arrived, she realized Los Angeles had everything she wanted except for the perfect nail salon. Seeing the opportunity to create a pretty space where women could expect and enjoy expert nail care on a regular basis and spend time with their friends, Sarah opened Olive & June.
Timeline:
[02:10] - About Olive & June
[04:00] - Sarah’s transition from finance to nails
[06:25] - Transferable skills + from passion to profession
[10:07] - Other lightning bolt moments
[12:40] - Why you should be 150% sure
[14:30] - The Gut Decision
[20:40] - Building a team
[28:25] - Surprising things Sarah has discovered
[30:00] - A challenge Sarah is facing
[35:15] - The power of empowering
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Links:
Olive & June Website
Olive & June Instagram
Sarah Gibson Tuttle Instagram
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Brett Podolsky, the co-founder of The Farmer's Dog, shares his experience of how caring for his sick dog, Jada, evolved into a business that has now raised $49+ million in venture funding. That's over simplified but you're starting to get the idea.
Brett share's how he went form being a comedian, to recipe testing healthy meals for his dog, and onto co-founding a high growth e-commerce business. All while focusing on the importance of building a strong team and following the work that energizes you.
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Lindsey Caplan, a talent development professional, is focused on understanding what brings people together in gatherings.
Lindsey Caplan has been gathering people for over 15 years - first to entertain, as a comedy writer in Hollywood on shows such as “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, and “Malcolm in the Middle”, then to educate for companies like DreamWorks Animation and McKinsey, and now to transform as an organizational psychologist as the Head of Talent Development for successful Silicon Valley companies like Zendesk and currently, Credit Karma. She earned a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor's Degree in Film and Creative Writing for the Media from Northwestern University. She believes work can be a place where you become your best self. Please don’t dissuade her.
In this episode Lindsey shares what she's learning as she writes a book on gatherings. As she puts it: "context is king". We often find ourselves in meetings or groups with very little understanding of why we're there. By adding a layer of intentionality and focusing on the context Lindsey believes the value and impact of gatherings dramatically increases.
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From building a vocational school in India that serves 10,000 students a year to running an MVP of her app DaVinci Club AR with 12,000 students in US Arjita, co-founder of equally, is hell bent on making education more accessible and effective.
The entrepreneurial runs in Arjita's family. Inspired by here mother and encouraged from a young age to be courageous Arjita continues to push the envelope on creating more accessible education for the masses.
She built and ran a vocational school in India teaching educated Indians how to speak english so they could take their work overseas. After building a school that taught 10,000 students a year Arjita decided 10,000 students/year was not big enough. She set out for San Francisco with the focus of building software that could scale well beyond the confines of four walls.
In this episode Arjita shares how she started Equally, her experience with X Prize, and how saying yes has opened door after door for her. You'll hear from Arjita as she is wrapping up her 3rd accelerator in 2018, this one in Finland, as she prepares to return to the US and put all that she has bene learning to good use.
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Links:
Arjita Instagram
Arjita Twitter
Equally Website
DaVinci Club AR Download
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Episode 30 features Kedar Reddy, Co-founder and CEO of Playloops. Playloops is a gif maker with a goal of creating gifs that are more inclusive in their representation. Listen in as Kedar shares how he built his team, the lessons his learned along his journey, and what’s next for Playloops.
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Links
Playloops
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Tonio comes on The Founder's Mind and discusses his experience as the founder of Vemo, an income base repayment platform for educational institutions, and what it's been like to connect his past experience to his work in growing Vemo.
Check out Tonio's work at Vemo.
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Angelic Williams, Founder & CEO of MyUmbrella, comes on The Founder's Mind and shares her experience as a founder. She discusses making the decision to leave her "comfortable" job to pursue her entrepreneurial pull, the experience she's had building a brand and an app for the LGBTQIA+ community, and advice she's received a long the way.
Angelic's App, MyUmbrella, is a safe platform for marginalized members of the LGBTQIA+ community to connect and share stories about navigating the journey of living openly and authentically in their relationships, families and friendships.
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Links:
My Umbrella Website
My Umbrella Instagram
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Andrew Dana, Founder & Chief Dough Boy of Timber Pizza, Call Your Mother, and Turus Pizza talks about going all in on restaurants. From a mobile wood fired pizza oven to two DC neighborhood hotspots with national and international recognition Andrew talks about putting in the work, lighting a fire under his own ass to get things rolling, and how prioritizing the customer experience over everything will get your business to where it needs to be.
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Links:
Call Your Mother Instagram
Timber Pizza Instagram
Turus Pizza Instagram
Andrew Dana Instagram
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Dale Pfeifer the Founder & CEO of Goodworld a donations platform talks about leveraging social media, hashtags, and network affects to enable organizations to raise money more effectively. Dale founded Goodworld and has lead the company as the CEO raising over 4 million dollars including it's most recent round of $750,000 from MasterCard [congrats Dale!]
In this episode Dale shares her experience bringing Goodworld from an idea into reality, books that have had an impact on her role as a founder, and advice she's received a long the way. We even talk about Travis, the former CEO Uber, and his impact on her perspective as a founder.
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Links:
Goodworld
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Remy is on a mission to help individuals, teams, and organizations navigate emotional stressors in their lives. From witnessing this first hand to experiencing it personally Remy understands the individual costs of mental fatigue. Listen in to this episode to learn about Remy's entrepreneurial journey and how she's looking to leverage Me Tyme to mitigate 16 trillion dollars in lost productivity in the world.
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Links:
Me Tyme Website
Me Tyme Instagram
Remy Meraz Instagram
Remy MerazTwitter
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Named after Nelson Mandela, Mandela SH Dixon is the Founder & CEO of Founder Gym, an online training platform for underrepresented founders, and has helped Founder Gym participants raise over 20 million dollars in Venture capital. Since her childhood, she has been deeply connected to social justice issues due to her parent’s occupation as civil rights attorneys, and started Founder Gym way before she physically put it together and launched the company.
In this episode Mandela talks about why entrepreneurs have to be a little crazy to do what they do, JFL mentality, starting small, and being motivated to go hard.
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Links:
Mandela’s Twitter
Mandela’s Instagram
Founder Gym’s Twitter
Founder Gym’s Instagram
Links (books):The AlchemistThe One Thing
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Merav, the Founder & CEO of Data Society, shares her experience building a company from the ground up. Her transition from k-12 teacher into building programs and educating professionals on the constantly evolving world of Data Science.
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Check out Merav's work at Data Society!
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John Zeratsky, New York Times Best selling author of Sprint, discusses his newest book: Make Time. The conversation dives into the importance of creating time for what matters by rethinking the defaults of constant busyness and distraction. In an age where we’re constantly being pulled in a many directions John dives into how we can make time and find ourselves in more control of our days, weeks, months, and with practice years. Listen and learn all about what John has discovered through practice and research and how you can make time in your daily life.
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Links
Make Time Blog
John's Twitter
John's Website
Books
Make Time
Sprint
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Haley Hoffman Smith is the Founder of Her Big Idea Fund, in partnership with Brown University, they award grants to women of all ages and backgrounds. In parallel to the fund Haley published a book, available on Amazon, called “Her Big Idea” diving into the gap in funding for women and how to get more women following their entrepreneurial aspirations.
Listen in and learn what Haley has learned along the way and where she’s hoping to nudge the future of entrepreneurship through her work.
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Links
Haley's Website
Haley's Twitter
Haley's Instagram
Books
Her Big Idea
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Jes Christian is the Founder & CEO of Hypsole a specialty sports footwear company. Jes' company and their signature product is protective guards for athletic cleats. They call them cleat guards.
As a Division I athlete at Notre Dame Jes saw a need for a product that was not yet on the market. In ideating, branding, producing, and launching Hypsole Jes takes us on a journey in starting from scratch on breaking into the highly competitive athletic wear market. For all you athletes keep an eye out for Hypsole's cleat guards - coming soon.
Jes shares advice she's received a long the way, the ins and outs of manufacturing a product, and where she sees Hypsole in the future.
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Jes' Links
Jes' Instagram
Jes' Twitter
Hypsole's Links
Hypsole's Website
Hypsole's Instagram
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Kara shares her story about starting Hint over 13 years ago, how she’s grown it, and what’s driving her towards other products, beyond water, like sun screen. I’ll give you a hint, it’s personal.
Kara discusses what it's been like to build a team and brand that has evolved from her first hand delivery to Whole Foods into a Nationally distributed and recognized brand.
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Kara's Links
Kara's Website
Kara's Twitter
Kara's Instagram
Hint Links
Hint's Website
Hint's Instagram
Hint's Twitter
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Cullen discusses his background in the food business, how Union Kitchen came to be, how they're growing, and the importance of leadership in the food space.
Based in DC Union Kitchen is focused on creating the space and helping launch food businesses that will scale to $100 Million+ in revenue.
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Links
Website
Instagram
Twitter
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Diego has done a little bit of everything. In this episode he talks about all the hustles he's strung together to create a career and business that work best for him. From running tutoring, running an AirBnB business to continuing his life long pursuit of advocating for more rights and access for those with disabilities.
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Links
Website
Twitter
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Amelia Friedman has become a staple of the DC tech scene. From Brazilian Literature to founding a tech company Amelia has done a little bit of everything. We explore some of the lessons she's learned a long the way and Amelia shares about the viral card game that they created to raise money [$50,000+], some of the challenges they encountered along the way and more.
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Hatch Links
Hatch Website
Amelia Links
Amelia's Website
Amelia's Twitter
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Chip Conley founded JDV Hotels, Worked with Brian Chesky and the team at AirBnb, has written books, and founded The Modern Elder Academy. These are all just a couple of his accomplishments... Listen in to learn more!
Chip discusses some of what he learned in growing his own businesses and brands to learning to work in a high growth tech company as one of the older employees. Most notable Chip digs into The Modern Elder concept and work he's been doing around this idea of leveraging cross generational employees to power your organization.
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Links
Modern Elder Academy
Books Written by Chip
Wisdom @ Work
Peak
Social
Chip's Twitter
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Daniel Pink opens up about his approach to picking the subject of his books and how he schedules his work day based on research used for his most recent book, When.
Daniel is a New York Times best selling author and has a TedTalk that is in the top ten most viewed TedTalk of all time. Daniel talks about how he got started as an author back in 1997 and explore what has changed in the years since. Throughout the episode there are pieces of actionable advice applicable for individuals, teams, and companies.
Daniel shares his process for putting words to paper, developing his book ideas, and what it takes to bring a new book into reality.
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Books
When
Drive
To Sell Is Human
A Whole New Mind
Links
Daniel's Twitter
Daniel's Website
Talks [Video]
The Puzzle of Motivation
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Ruth Chandler Cook the Founder and CEO of HireHer. Ruth is focused on creating a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable hiring process. Motivated by her sister and the need for change she's all in on growing HireHer.
Ruth shares her motivation and reason behind HireHer, some of the success, and some of the challenges she's had a long the way.
Also, they have an app!
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Links
HireHer Website
HireHer Twitter
Ruth's Twitter
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Rachel Koretsky shares all things starting your company, building community, and what it's like to be a non-technical founder of a tech company.
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Links
Upace Website
DC Startup Week
Rachel’s Twitter
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Cortni Grange discusses his work in the non-profit space. The power in manifesting and being a multi-potentialite.
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Links:
Cortni's Website
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Aubrey Blanche covers the gambit including but not limited Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and the importance of Balance in work and specifically tech.
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Links
Aubrey's Twitter
Aubrey's Writing
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Emily Best is the Founder of Seed & Spark a crowd funding and media subscription platform for independent filmmakers. Emily has asserted herself as change-maker in a space in need of a transformation. Listen and learn how Emily saw a gap in fundraising and diversity in media and is all in, on fixing it.
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Links
Seed & Spark
Emily's Twitter
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Jinny Oh sheds light on what it takes to run a business and how sometimes taking a step back can be one of the most effective moves in leadership.
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Links
Jinny's Website
Jinny's Instagram
Wandr's Website
Wandr's Twitter
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Caitie McCabe started with photography at age 11. What started as a childhood obsession grew into her business. From war photography, to teaching, to apple retail Caitie has tried a bit of everything.
After dabbling she understood that she should take her passion to photography to the next level.Becoming a founder took hard work and an understanding that she is the business which is completely separate from just being an artist. Caitie is an amazing example that when you want to turn your passion into a career you find a way, you make mistakes, but Caitie's big take away: being an entrepreneur takes an extreme amount of effort.
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Gira talks about going for broke, plugging into the right communities, and the value in starting early.
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Links
AIeberry Creative
Gira's Twitter
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Roman had major success in the past (he did the sales marketing for bands like backstreet boys in the 90’s, and worked on other major projects) He did not stop and always kept his hustle and hard work going.Roman has a unique perspective on being able rest and recharge even with insane work ethic (i.e. 12 hours of work a day).
The juxtaposition of Roman's no phone hours, his no e-mail strategy, and his discovery in the simplicity of how a simple phone call can put you in front of people so easily at times are just some of the many nuanced lessons Roman has developed over the years. Roman has had significant success over his life but still is working harder than ever, he is insanely in love with what he does and is currently working to disrupt AI and striving to make tech more accessible and healthy for the coming generation.
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Sian Morson is the Founder & CEO Of Kollective Mobile a software development company. She talks about inner conflicts, her way of pushing through discomfort, and navigating self doubt.
In the interview Sian talks about being “on the field”, about her leap, and about being a part of the minority while making a change.As if running a company isn’t enough Sian is also an LP at Backstage Capital and an Entrepreneur in Residence at Cross Culture Ventures.
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Links
Sian's Twitter
Books
Design for iOS with Sketch
Learn Design of iOS Development
Learn Design for Android
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Mac is an amazing example of sheer knowledge, experience, and amazing communication.
His egoless approach to life has gotten him an amazing set of skills and tools that he uses to help other startups.
After selling a company and having worked with many startups, he has learned a lot, and does not fear talking about the weaknesses he discovered in himself that almost every founder can relate to.
His biggest weakness was creating connections, and Mac tells us how he got his skin in the game, got passed the weakness, and met with important executives.
This episode is definitely a good manual for creating connections, sticking out, and doing the things that others won't.
More than that, Mac shares why you shouldn’t pay to pitch your ideas, he breaks down his personal story and outlook on failure, and what you should do to get your ideas out there.
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Links
Mac's Twitter
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Janice digs into her inspiration for starting The Mentor Method and how she's built a business around her passion for solving systemic problems in the business world.
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Links
The Mentor Method
Janice's Twitter
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Allen Gannett Founder & Author shares about his first entrepreneurial endeavor, being a CEO, and his new book: The Creative Book.
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Links
Allen's Website
Allen's Twitter
Allen's Instagram
Books
The Creative Curve
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