Episodes

Alex Frommeyer - Co-Founder and CEO of Beam Benefits: Founder vs. CEO, Creating a Feedback Culture, and Building a Midwest Startup
Feb. 29, 2024

Alex Frommeyer - Co-Founder and CEO of Beam Benefits: Founder vs. CEO…

Alex Frommeyer is the co-founder and CEO of Beam Benefits, a digitally-led employee benefits company that offers dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health coverage. The company simplifies and modernizes the $1...

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Sam Rose - Founder & CEO of Mvnifest: Storytelling, Working with Friends & Family, Living a Boundaryless Life
Feb. 21, 2024

Sam Rose - Founder & CEO of Mvnifest: Storytelling, Working with Frie…

Sam Rose is the Founder and CEO of Mvnifest, a full-stack product agency and 3PL. Before Mvnifest, Sam founded the award-winning kitchenware brand GIR, which she led as CEO until its acquisition by Pattern Brands in 2021. In ...

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Joe Emison - Co-Founder and CTO of Branch Insurance: Maintaining Culture, Recruit Bootcamps, and Maximizing Junior Employees
Feb. 15, 2024

Joe Emison - Co-Founder and CTO of Branch Insurance: Maintaining Cult…

Joe Emison is the Co-Founder and CTO of Branch Insurance. Branch is an insurance carrier that makes it simple to bundle home and auto insurance. Branch was listed on GlassDoor’s Best Places to Work in 2022 and 2023. Before Br...

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Omid Bakhshandeh - Co-Founder of Verneek: Evaluating AI Companies, Challenges in the AI Market, and Building a Network
Feb. 8, 2024

Omid Bakhshandeh - Co-Founder of Verneek: Evaluating AI Companies, Ch…

Omid Bakhshandeh is the Co-Founder of Verneek. Verneek’s mission is to build the most helpful AI, enabling anyone to interact with any environment using intelligent conversational interfaces with deep domain expertise. Omid h...

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Sam Jacobs - Founder & CEO of Pavilion: Taking Control of Your Life, Managing Hypergrowth, and Mindset
Feb. 1, 2024

Sam Jacobs - Founder & CEO of Pavilion: Taking Control of Your Life, …

Sam Jacobs is the Founder and CEO of Pavilion, the essential community-powered learning platform for CEOs, GTM leaders, and their teams. Today, over 10,000 people are paid subscribers to the Pavilion community. Before Pavilio...

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Jason Molnar - Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Infinity Labs: Internal Motivation, Sales by Saturation, and Fostering Innovation
Jan. 25, 2024

Jason Molnar - Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Infinity Labs…

Jason Molnar is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Infinity Labs. Infinity Labs is a technology company that delivers innovative solutions in various domains. Jason is a decorated U.S. Army combat veteran. He serves...

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Robin Dimond - Founder and CEO of Fifth & Cor: Building Partnerships, Hosting Events, and Creating Experiences
Jan. 18, 2024

Robin Dimond - Founder and CEO of Fifth & Cor: Building Partnerships,…

Robin Dimond is the Founder and CEO of Fifth & Cor. Fifth & Cor is at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and creativity. They’re an Innovation and Immersive Marketing company harnessing the best tools to support brands...

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Dan Manges - Co-Founder of RWX: Finding Your Co-Founder, Engineering Challenges, and Decision Making
Jan. 11, 2024

Dan Manges - Co-Founder of RWX: Finding Your Co-Founder, Engineering …

Dan Manges is the Co-Founder of RWX. RWX develops software engineering tools that optimize build and test performance, reliability, and developer experience. Its flagship product, Mint, is a generation newer Continuous Integr...

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Rachel Olney - Founder & CEO of Geosite: Selling to Large Organizations, Obsessing Over the Problem, and Finding Your Strengths
Jan. 4, 2024

Rachel Olney - Founder & CEO of Geosite: Selling to Large Organizatio…

Rachel is the Founder & CEO of Geosite. Geosite is a Y Combinator-backed start-up working to build the geospatial marketplace. Their platform sources, visualizes, and analyzes the relevant geospatial data so their customers c...

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Amy Volas, Founder & CEO of Avenue Talent - Finding your Next Role, Hiring the Best Candidate, and Believing in Yourself (Repost)
Dec. 28, 2023

Amy Volas, Founder & CEO of Avenue Talent - Finding your Next Role, H…

Amy Volas is the Founder and CEO of Avenue Talent Partners, where they help grow early-stage startups through some of their most valuable assets, executive revenue leaders. Amy is a titan in the sales community. She's sold mo...

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Travis Hedge - Co-founder and CRO of Vouch: Responding to Adversity, Finding Product-Market Fit, and Community-Led Growth
Dec. 21, 2023

Travis Hedge - Co-founder and CRO of Vouch: Responding to Adversity, …

Travis is the Co-founder and CRO of Vouch. Vouch is the insurance company for the technology industry. Since 2019, Vouch has underwritten billions in risk on behalf of over 4,000 clients, backed by A-rated reinsurers and $165...

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Devin Bostick - Founder of LuckyTruck: Validating an Idea, Raising Capital, and Replacing Yourself as CEO
Dec. 14, 2023

Devin Bostick - Founder of LuckyTruck: Validating an Idea, Raising Ca…

Devin Bostick is the founder and former CEO of LuckyTruck. LuckyTruck makes commercial insurance easy for trucking companies to buy and manage commercial trucking insurance through an all-in-one digital platform. Devin is als...

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Lissy Alden - Founder of MYNDY: Mental Wellness, Building a Category, and Balancing Gut Instinct and Objective Data
Dec. 7, 2023

Lissy Alden - Founder of MYNDY: Mental Wellness, Building a Category,…

Lissy Alden is the Founder of MYNDY, a research-based mental fitness platform that offers a practical approach to mental fitness which is simple, self-directed, and focused on helping professionals get unstuck, make progress,...

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Matt Farrell - COO at Niobium Microsystems: Succeeding in the Earliest Stages, Evaluating Potential Employees, and Creating Work/Life Alignment
Nov. 30, 2023

Matt Farrell - COO at Niobium Microsystems: Succeeding in the Earlies…

Matt Farrell is the COO at Niobium Microsystems, a trusted hardware design company developing high-performance microelectronic components to enable the secure collection, processing, and distribution of critical data. Matt is...

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Suresh Rachuri - Founder of Maven: Understanding Your Buyer, Being Relational vs. Transactional, and Removing Your Safety Net (Repost)
Nov. 23, 2023

Suresh Rachuri - Founder of Maven: Understanding Your Buyer, Being Re…

Suresh Rachuri is the Founder of Maven. Maven is an IT Solutions and Consulting business based in Columbus, Ohio. Maven has been solving business challenges through technology and people since 2010. Suresh immigrated from Ind...

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Joe Apgar - President of PELOTONIA: Surviving Cancer, Sharing Your Story, and the Power of Family and Friends
Nov. 16, 2023

Joe Apgar - President of PELOTONIA: Surviving Cancer, Sharing Your St…

Joe Apgar is the President of PELOTONIA, which was established in 2008 to fund lifesaving cancer research and is a rapidly growing non-profit today. Before PELOTONIA, Joe worked eight years at Rockbridge Capital. He was named...

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Mary Wiegand - Founder and CEO of Boon LLC: Flexible Employment, Work/Life Blending, and Freeing Yourself from Working “In” the Business
Nov. 9, 2023

Mary Wiegand - Founder and CEO of Boon LLC: Flexible Employment, Work…

Mary Wiegand is the CEO and Founder of Boon LLC. Founded in 2017 and run by women, Boon LLC is a hands-on demand planning consultancy. They believe all product-based businesses, regardless of size, deserve access to exception...

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Nick Sadler - CEO of DOmedia: Making an Impression, Staying Focused, and Getting out of the Weeds
Nov. 2, 2023

Nick Sadler - CEO of DOmedia: Making an Impression, Staying Focused, …

Nick Sadler is the CEO of DOmedia. DOmedia is the out-of-home advertising industry’s largest marketplace platform for planning, buying, and selling media. The world’s leading ad agencies and media companies rely on DOmedia’s ...

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Jill Koziol - Co-founder and CEO of Motherly: Growing to 40 Million Visitors a Month, Creating the Largest Study on Mothers, and Building a Brand
Oct. 26, 2023

Jill Koziol - Co-founder and CEO of Motherly: Growing to 40 Million V…

Jill Koziol is the co-founder and CEO of Motherly. Motherly is a wellbeing destination empowering mothers to thrive. An Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Company and a Parity.org Best Company for Women to Advance, Motherly is...

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Ryan McManus - Founder and CEO of SHARE Mobility: Rebounding from Losing 96% of Revenue, Getting Your Customers to Think Differently, and Upskilling as CEO
Oct. 19, 2023

Ryan McManus - Founder and CEO of SHARE Mobility: Rebounding from Los…

Ryan is the Founder and CEO of SHARE Mobility. SHARE Mobility empowers businesses, municipalities, and mobility organizations with software and solutions that equip workforces and communities with reliable transportation opti...

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Julia Regan - Co-Founder and CEO of RxLightning: Female Founder Advice, Leveraging Your Network, and Growing as a CEO
Oct. 12, 2023

Julia Regan - Co-Founder and CEO of RxLightning: Female Founder Advic…

Julia Regan is the Co-Founder and CEO of RxLightning. RxLightning digitizes, automates, and streamlines the historically manual specialty medication onboarding process. Julia has over 15 years of experience delivering innovat...

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Jeff Graley - Co-Founder and President of Mile 2: Working “On” the Business, Managing Cash Flow, and Building a Startup Ecosystem
Oct. 5, 2023

Jeff Graley - Co-Founder and President of Mile 2: Working “On” the Bu…

Jeff Graley is the Co-Founder and President of Mile 2. Mile 2 builds custom software for a range of diverse clients, including startups, Fortune 500 companies, and the US government. Jeff is a veteran and serial entrepreneur....

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Sarah Sylvester - EVP of Marketing at Victoria's Secret: Brand Transformation, Putting the Customer First, and Empowering People
Sept. 28, 2023

Sarah Sylvester - EVP of Marketing at Victoria's Secret: Brand Transf…

Sarah Sylvester is the EVP of Marketing at Victoria’s Secret and PINK. She is responsible for telling the product and brand story to customers through all marketing channels, including social, app, email, campus events, direc...

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Luis Estevez - Founder & CEO of AIMM: Following Your Interests, Career Changes, and Going Back to School in Your 30’s
Sept. 21, 2023

Luis Estevez - Founder & CEO of AIMM: Following Your Interests, Caree…

Luis Estevez is the founder and CEO of Advanced & Innovative Multifunctional Materials (AIMM). AIMM enables porous materials to be scientifically tailored to target big problems. More specifically, AIMM focuses on a water fil...

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