This week's guest is the CEO and Founder of Malida Advisors, Natasha Kehimkar. Malida Advisors is a strategic advisory firm, focusing on areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, organizational change, and scaling your HR function. We talk about her career journey in the Pharma world, to tech start-ups, to building her own thing. She also shares how during the pandemic she recorded her family's life story, interviewing her mom and dad daily for posterity.
Dec 20, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 13
This week's guest is co-founder and CEO of Curacubby, Steven Khuong. Curacubby is a next-generation, fin-tech, SAS platform that helps education, recreation, and family service programs save time and money by optimizing finance and business workflow functions. We discussed how a very personal family hurdle led to the creation of Curacubby, how his family moved from Hong Kong to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and his incredible stories about being a Bay Area hip-hop DJ and producer in the 1990s....
Dec 12, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 12
This week's guest is the founder of Farmer Nick, Nick Cutsumpas. I met Nick when he was a sales executive at Thrive Global, where we hit it off due to his empathy and creativity and his love of baseball didn't hurt either. Nick bet on himself and has grown a small empire focused on urban farming. His Farmer Nick Instagram account has over 169,000 followers, his plant coaching business is booming in both LA and New York and his new book "Plant Coach: The Beginners Guide to Caring for Plants and t...
Dec 05, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 11
This week's guest is Career Strategist, Executive Coach, and Consigliere, Jill Griffin. Before going out on her own, Jill was a senior executive at massive media agencies like Publicis, overseeing Fortune 500 branding, strategy, and media partnerships. We talk about how what was initially going to be a few months of consulting turned into a 6+ year career, her ongoing mission to help workforces build inclusive teams and embrace those with disabilities, and how she built her podcast "The Career R...
Nov 28, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 10
This week's guest is the Founder of Press 2 for Espanol, Carmen Diaz. We talk about her journey from teaching in schools in Texas to teaching Spanish online. We discuss how she took her love of language and passion for helping others and turned it into a business, and her plans for growth to help her home country of Guatemala.
Nov 21, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 9
This week's guest is Co-Founder of Bumper, Dan Misener. Bumper is a podcast growth agency that helps organizations reach their business goals through the power of audio. Dan is one of the sharpest minds in audio. We talk about the Faustian bargain some audio companies took to garner scale, what it means to focus on engagement versus download numbers, where he thinks the industry is headed, and how critical podcast strategy will be to it.
Nov 14, 2022•50 min•Season 3Ep. 8
This week's guest is the author and executive performance strategist, Laura Garnett. At Laura's firm, Garnett Consulting, Laura and her team work with highly driven, industry-leading executives and teams to achieve the impact and fulfillment they desire. We talk about her decision to leave one of the biggest companies in the world, executive burnout, and our psychology at work, as well as some key insights from her book "Find Your Zone of Genius".
Nov 07, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 7
This week's guest is the founder of Schlaf & Co, Steve Schlafman. Steve was a venture capitalist who made the decision a few years back to leave the industry to focus on building his boutique leadership company that focuses on helping early-stage founders and VCs. He is also an avid reader and writer and something we explore during our conversation together is how he made it an intentional part of his life. We talk about leadership, forging your own path, and most importantly, creating a spa...
Oct 24, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This week's guest is the Founder and CEO of Sparkfly, Catherine Tabor. Sparkfly is a retail technology solutions company that helps innovative retailers and merchants like Chipotle, Texas Roadhouse, and Great Clips leverage technology to create a meaningful connection to their customers We talk about how she was able to win her first big client and turn that into her business, how vital consumer privacy is in the age of digital, and her awesome business perspective of if you can't get in the doo...
Oct 17, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 5
This week's guest is the creator of Shameless Acquisition Target, Laura Mayer. Laura and I worked together at the Slate group, where she was a producer at Panoply, also known as Megaphone, prior to its sale to Spotify. She has had a front-row seat to the podcast acquisition boom and helped launch dozens of award-winning shows. It has not punched her ticket to podcast millions, like some lucky people we know have. That's where Shameless Acquisition Target comes in. It's a smart, funny and incisiv...
Oct 11, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 4
This week's guest is the Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Ruth Gotian. Dr. Gotian is also the author of The Success Factor – Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance , where she researched CEOs, Nobel laureates, and Olympic and NBA champions to find out how we can all optimize our success. Last year, she was among the 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar list, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking. Get ready to get motivated as we discus...
Oct 03, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 3
This week's episode is with the Founder and CEO of SalientMG, Mack McKelvey. SalientMG is a strategic marketing firm, focused on accelerating market position for growth stage tech companies. We talk about leveraging digital tools to better share your skill set, why being a Chief of Staff is the ultimate pipeline to becoming a CEO, and the discrepancy she sees in how founders are able to raise money.
Sep 27, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Season 3 Premiere! So excited to welcome the CEO and Co-Founder of Mojo, Vinit Bharara. Mojo is a sports stock market, where fans can literally invest in their favorite players' careers. Along with Vinit, there are some pretty big names as co-founders, Bart Stein, Mark Lore, and a baseball player turned businessman, you might have heard of Alex Rodriguez. Vinit has founded and sold multiple companies prior to this. Quidsi to Amazon, Some Spider Studios to Bustle Digital Group, and CAFE Media to ...
Sep 19, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 1
We took the month off of interviewing and while on break, we put together two special episodes with some of our incredible past guests to highlight some themes that were recurring. This week we focus on diversity and race. T hese entrepreneurs have firsthand experience with the disparities within the corporate and business world and offer insight into their own stories and possible solutions.
Aug 29, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 37
During our short break from interviewing, we decided to reflect back on some of our great past guests. This week we’re highlighting some of our female entrepreneurs from seasons 1 and 2 to reflect back on their experiences in the male-dominated business world.
Aug 15, 2022•13 min•Season 2Ep. 36
This week we welcome the CEO and Co-Founder of Quantified, Noah Zandan. Quantified is the leading firm in combining behavioral science, AI, and experiential learning technology to help people enhance their impact, improve their interactions and establish a greater human connection. We talk about how a former Wall Street guy got into behavioral science, what it’s like to prepare for and give a Ted Talk and we learn some of the small ways we all can be better communicators....
Aug 07, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 35
This week we welcome my friend and my mentor, Andy Wiedlin. Andy is the founder of the VERY creatively titled Andy Wiedlin Consulting, an advisor to many startups and publishers, and the host of the marketing podcast, Backstage with the Brand. We talk about what it takes to be a great sales leader, the differences in the advertising world now versus when he started and I try to get him to be the commissioner of Major League Baseball for a day.
Aug 01, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Phluid launched initially as a physical and online store that makes gender-free, non-binary apparel and accessories. It has grown into a movement committed to challenging the dated practices that inhibit freedom and self-expression. We talk about building a community by being a listener and always learning, creating a place where people can freely express themselves and how he bucked the “don’t quit your job after your first burning man” advice and created Phluid.
Jul 27, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This week we welcome the CEO and Founder of SquadLocker, Gary Goldberg. SquadLocker is innovating the athletic apparel market by making it easier for coaches and league administrators to manage purchasing for sports teams. We talked about the thousands of hours he had in the textile business, how he applied that to build his own company and the real-time moment when he saw how his customers were actually using the platform.
Jul 18, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 32
This week we welcome Winnie Sabbat, Managing Partner of Sabacica Capital. Sabacica Capital is a women-led venture fund that focuses on exceptional women and people of color-led startups. We talked about how they are changing the game with funding, their unique approach to partnering with startups, and her passion for global travel.
Jul 11, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week's guest is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of ExecOnline, Julia Alexander. ExecOnline is a premier provider of online leadership development experiences that are democratizing access to high-quality leadership training and creating a diverse pipeline of future-ready leaders. We talk about the value of finding mentors outside your field of work, building a mission-driven company, and the importance of providing leadership opportunities for diverse leaders....
Jun 27, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week's guest is Co-Founder at Imagen Insights, Cat Agostinho. Imagen Insights is a company that helps agencies and brands get direct crowd-sourced ideas and insights from the Gen Z community. We talk about the differences between this upcoming generation and the ones before, the spark that got the company going, and how to be prepared to hire people who think wildly different than you.
Jun 21, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week’s guest is Founder and CEO of Playmaker, Brandon Harris Playmaker is a next-generation sports media and athlete management brand. We talk about the early lessons learned building his own media company, his refreshing take on the power of sports gambling, and why we both agree that having a chip on your shoulder leads to success.
Jun 17, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This week’s guest is the founder and CEO of Hype Dance Community, Liza Brody. Hype Dance Community is a virtual and outdoor dance lesson company for all kids of all abilities. We talk about her decision to leave the advertising events world to start her own business during the pandemic, why movement is so important for everyone, and why the focus of her company is on having fun, not technique.
Jun 14, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This week’s guest is CoFounder and CEO of Squared Away, Michelle Penczak. Squared Away is a team of trusted assistants who span across the nation. They help businesses and people scale by offering virtual assistance to get busy executives organized. They also have a really compelling hook: they are all military spouses. We talk about the origination of the concept, her journey from executive assistant to CEO and how she scales the team.
Jun 10, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 26
This week’s guest is Co-Founder and CEO of Tumble Media, Lindsay Patterson. Tumble Media is an educational children’s audio company that has been a pioneer in the kids’ podcast space since 2015. Their mission is to inspire curiosity and discovery through accessible storytelling. We talk about how Lindsay’s part-time project turned into a full-time business, the educational benefits for children in listening to podcasts, and how becoming a science journalist and interviewing kids about science wa...
Jun 06, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 25
This week’s guest is Founder and CEO of Wave Sports and Entertainment, Brian Verne. We talk about the expansion and evolution of WSE and their move into sports personality driven content, how Brian’s leadership style allows others to thrive and how he has grown the team from a handful of people in a San Francisco loft to a global sports + media phenomena.
Jun 03, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 24
This week’s guest is CoFounder of Mondo Brewing Company, Todd Matteson. Mondo Brewing Company is one of the most celebrated craft breweries in London. We talk about his decision to leave advertising sales and pursue a life in brewing, the cultural differences in the craft scene between the UK and the United States and what style of beer every brewer tastes to judge a new brewery. One additional note: Todd recorded this session at Mondo’s London brewery so the audio is slightly different than oth...
May 31, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 23
This week’s guest is Co-Founder of Think Now, Mario X Carrasco. ThinkNow is the research company for the America we live in today - a multicultural, nuanced landscape. Through their diverse research panel set, ThinkNow helps brands better understand and communicate with their audiences. We talk about growing up aware of the two cultures in his life - Mexican and American, being a mentor to the next generation and hiring with intentionality.
May 27, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This week we sit down with the Founder of PositiveHire, Michele Heyward. PositiveHire is a tech company which helps to recruit and retain experienced Latina, Black and indigenous women STEM professionals into management positions. Our software assists these women in finding the best fit employer for them to advance their careers. This in turn helps employers retain diverse STEM talent longer. We talk about her career as a Civil Engineer, growing up in a family where her curiosity was encouraged ...
May 24, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 21
