Ben Goldhaber is the Founder and CEO of Juked.gg, a platform for esports and gaming fans to discover and engage with the best events and content from across the global esports community. Before Juked, Ben pursued his childhood passion for online gaming by accepting an offer to work at Twitch where he was a founding team member. Twitch is the global leader in video game live streaming with over 100 million peak visitors that was acquired by Amazon in 2014 for nearly $1 billion. After spending nea...
Nov 10, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Justin True is a hybrid-athlete who’s bounced back from a turbulent upbringing where he questioned the value of his own life to creating the True Triathlon to raise $15,000,000 to support mental health awareness and help others. Justin and his team want to the bridge the gap and help good people connect with the ones that need it the most around the world. By exploring and adventuring across the globe they have found people are fundamentally similar. Their hope is to bring awareness to the unsee...
Oct 07, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Craig J. Lews is on a path to leave a legacy and build generational wealth. His vision and motivation is transparent from the start! Craig’s passion and energy is contagious. Craig started off his career in payroll and realized to leave his impact, he needed to build his own company. Gig Wage is on a path to revolutionize the future engagement of the workforce. Gig Wage builds modern payroll, payments and banking tools for the future of work. Gig Wage is designed payroll that meets the demand of...
Sep 08, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Tommy Sobel is a World Class digital habits coach and the Founder and CEO of Brick, the leading digital wellness movement. He’s helped thousands of business leaders and top-performers develop better technology habits. He started Brick with a mission to create a world where healthy phone habits make us more present and connected. Before Brick, Tommy worked as Steven Spielberg’s right hand man at DreamWorks Animation where he had various leadership roles focused on digital media and innovation. Wh...
Jul 21, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Brandon Gil is a former Division 1 baseball player and scholarship recipient and a positive, hard-charging entrepreneur who is proactively building his dream life. After leaving the corporate world where he worked at Fortune 500 companies, Brandon launched took control of his destiny and launched the eponymous Gil Ventures to help businesses with digital strategies and create his ideal life on his terms. He has taken Gil Ventures from a concept to a profitable business venture with a large and g...
Jun 30, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Matt Benson is an entrepreneur to the core. From a young age, Matt was building companies. First, it was a film company in high school, then in college he created SnappyCast, a software solutions company, to now eFuse, there is nothing stopping Matt in his pursuit for growth. As a Forbes 30 under 30, Matt truly believes that his work ethic, win the day mindset, and finding others to better than himself to help scale the company are what have allowed him to achieve success. Now at eFuse, one of t...
Jun 09, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Nikki DeMeré is a community-focused leader, CMO, and entrepreneur dedicated to elevating the groups of people around them. Nikki currently is the CMO of Reeview.app which is an automated platform that finds, collects, and displays authentic user-generated video reviews for e-commerce businesses. With years of experience as a SaaS growth marketer, Nikki has sought to build relationships with the digital and physical communities around them to enable better customer success and relations. Nikki he...
May 27, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Priscilla Addison and Kimberly Addison are two dynamic and visionary sisters with a passion for honoring their heritage, elevating people, and building a global artisan chocolate business in Ghana, Africa. The dynamic Pan-African sisters named their business “57 Chocolate” as a tribute to Ghana’s 1957 independence and “can-do spirit.” Both wear many different hats at all times and utilize each other's strengths and have trust that they can both execute their sides of the business. 57 Chocolate i...
May 12, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Sahil Mansuri is an elite software sales executive, startup founder and CEO, investor, and evangelist for sales as a professional career choice. His passion for sales, intelligence, and work ethic allowed him to achieve extraordinary levels of professional sales success. In his entire sales career, he has never missed an annual sales quota. He was the #1 sales rep for six years at multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies; spent five years as a VP of sales at multiple SaaS companies, and h...
Apr 22, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Brandon Clauser is a young, ultra-high-performing Sales Account Executive at Salesforce, the $200 billion global software giant. He is extremely hard-working, determined, and has achieved an extraordinary level of success before age 30 — all without a college degree. He credits his success to his intense work ethic, perseverance, doing the right thing, and finding ways to understand and help people as some catalysts for his success. Early in his career, he found deep internal motivation from “th...
Apr 07, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Ryan Davis is a highly successful young entrepreneur and a Co-Founder of BacklotCars which sold for $425 million in late 2020. Before his remarkable entrepreneurial journey, he began his career on Wall Street as an investment analyst moving from boutique investment banks to the bulge bracket investment bank, Credit Suisse. On Wall Street, he developed valuable quantitative analysis skills, the ability to synthesize complex concepts and communicate them in a concise and compelling manner, and an ...
Mar 17, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Aaron Witt loves dirt! He’s a remarkable young entrepreneur elevating the multi-billion-dollar world of dirt. The world of dirt is an industry most people take for granted that literally makes civilization possible – it’s anything related to moving dirt for construction, reshaping our landscape, mining, and more. Aaron is modernizing the way the dirt-moving industry communicates outside the industry, recruits new talent to amazing opportunities, and building and creating content to highlight the...
Mar 03, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Ryan Loh is a leader in the Silicon Valley startup legal community. He’s been the head of legal at leading billion-dollar startup unicorns including Houzz and Bolt. His journey from the law school to the board room has been extraordinary. You’ll be taken on the journey to hear how he turned an interview-gone-bad in law school into a remarkable opportunity that paved the way for him to join Silicon Valley’s top ranks. Today, Ryan’s the VP of Legal at Bolt where he’s responsible for all things leg...
Feb 17, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Brandon Proctor is a friend and global eCommerce executive who’s the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of MadeiraMadeira, one of the largest and leading eCommerce retailers in Brazil (“the Wayfair of Brazil”). Before having a life-changing epiphany and embarking on a year-long sabbatical to regroup and reconnect with himself and his family, he was living the life of a hard-charging, succeed-at-any-expense executive. And it showed with his professional performance. Professionally, he had achieved a l...
Feb 03, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Scott Bedford is a highly successful hedge fund investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and helicopter snow ski guide. He has achieved extraordinary levels of professional success as a Wall Street investor and now as a helicopter ski company owner and operator where he is pursuing one of his greatest passions—snow skiing. On this episode of The Summit Podcast, we explore what success means to a person who’s achieved extraordinary levels of success, both professionally and personally. In doing so...
Jan 21, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Steve Scheer is the President of Brondell, which is a health and wellness company that specializes in manufacturing the infamous bidet. In this episode, Andrew and Jeremy pick Steve’s mind about his career journey, how he manages people and company culture, and how Steve focuses on delivering a product that makes a difference. Steve graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in Finance in the year 1995. Immediately after graduation, Steve decided to go into business with his brother, a...
Jan 06, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Liz Lee is an outstanding business woman and is an ultra-high performer in the field of software sales. Liz graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) where she achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting. Upon graduation, Liz used her accounting degree to launch a career in Tax Consulting with Deloitte, one of the “Big 4” accounting firms. Throughout her time working with Deloitte, Liz was able to experience working abroad in Amsterdam as well as spending time working in their Lo...
Dec 23, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Alistair Kwenin is a successful management consultant with a leading global consulting firm where he specializes in international business. In this episode, Andrew and Jeremy dive into Alastair’s background and motivations for moving from his home country of Ghana, West Africa to America to create an excellent life for himself. Alastair shares his love for soccer which took him to Truman State University. After realizing his dreams of playing professional soccer were unlikely, he shifted his foc...
Dec 10, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Jon Schram is the Founder and CEO of Purple Guys, a rapidly-growing 7-figure IT support firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Purple Guys has become the Midwest’s premier provider of IT support services which Jon started with his wife and partner. Together, they have successfully grown and operated multiple 7-figure businesses. They’re committed to helping their hundreds of customers succeed by solving their IT problems in a dynamic and ever-changing technology industry. Jon shares his motiva...
Nov 26, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Romeen is an accomplished young executive who’s achieved substantial success in a short period of time. Today, he is the President of Metasys Technologies, a leading talent firm that works with leading global brands to help them attract, engage, and retain top talent. In addition to his executive responsibilities, he’s an active early-stage investor having invested in nearly a dozen companies with a goal to invest in many more. Previously, he was a top-ranked management consultant at McKinsey &a...
Nov 11, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Jenica Blechschmidt is an accomplished business woman and the Founder/CEO of Lovebug. Lovebug helps parents and newborns get better sleep, and more of it. Before starting her entrepreneurial journey, she had an impressive career as an investment banker and leader at a high technology company, Box. As an investment banker, she was involved in over $100 billion in transaction volume and advised companies on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), initial public offerings (IPOs), and raising capital fr...
Oct 28, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Maha Abouelenein is a passionate, successful, and energetic executive. She has experienced significant successes and has transformed how companies communicate with the world throughout her career as an entrepreneur and global communications executive. Today, she is one of Gary Vaynerchuk’s top executives where she has a leading role as the Chief Value Officer and EVP of Business Development at VaynerX. She is responsible for working with some of the largest corporations on their global communica...
Oct 14, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Kris Rudeegraap is a young, successful serial entrepreneur who left a $200,000/year job to start a company and pursue his dreams of starting a company that would afford him financial freedom and the ability to do work that made him happy. He is the Founder and CEO of Sendoso (https://sendoso.com/), a leading technology company that makes it ultra-easy for companies to send gifts and tokens of appreciation to their customers and sales prospects. Kris has raised over $50 million in investor capita...
Sep 30, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Marcus Brown is a World Class Professional Waterskier, accomplished filmmaker, and amazing person. He has positively impacted the lives of thousands of people over the course of his professional skiing career, as an ambassador for the sport of water skiing, through his short films and documentaries, and connecting with communities across America. As a professional waterskier, Marcus was ranked #3 in the world for the Men’s Slalom event and competed at the highest levels on the world stage. The s...
Sep 16, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Andrew Gazdecki is a wildly successful serial entrepreneur who has the distinction of being an Inc. Magazine 30 under 30 winner and has sold two successful companies before he turned 30 years old. His first company, BiznessApps, was started in college on a shoestring budget that was ultimately responsible for creating 5% of all apps in the Apple App Store (read that again - 5%!!). Following BiznessApps, Andrew started and later sold Altcoin, a decentralized exchange (DEX) and peer-to-peer tradin...
Sep 02, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Susan Liu is a successful venture capital investor with a leading, top-tier VC firm, Scale Venture Partners. She has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 for Venture Capital recipient and has invested in leading technology companies, including Lever, Namely, Textio, TalkIQ, WalkMe, Wrike, and others. Started her career in technology investment banking in San Francisco before moving into a career in venture capital. She is a thoughtful, genuine, and ambitious woman doing impressive things and ...
Aug 19, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 8
We recap Episode 5 & 6 about Crystal Landsem, CFO at Lulus.com and Mark Josey, CEO at Social Apex Media and Kansas City Pioneers. Both Crystal and Mark have scaled roles quickly in their industries through building a strong network of mentors, having a head down, work hard approach, and being energized to work with passionate co-workers. We discuss the how and why behind finding mentors and ways to be authentic and genuine when reaching out.
Aug 06, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Mark Josey shares with us on how he went from the corporate world at Verizon and Sprint to building and creating multiple startups from a marketing agency, Social Apex Media, to founding Kansas City’s Professional Esports team, The Kansas City Pioneers. In addition to his Instagram-famous beard, Mark’s enthusiasm, passion for winning as a team, and connecting with like-minded individuals has been a driving force for his success. He notes that having a desire to help others around him succeed and...
Jul 22, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Crystal Landsem is a genuine, passionate, and hard-working executive atop one of the leading eCommerce companies in the USA, Lulus.com. She's helped the company raise hundreds of millions of investor capital from leading investors. She shares why her success has stemmed from doing work she enjoys and is passionate about and working with people she likes - in her words, it's like "tumbling up the mountain." If there is one theme that stands out among the rest, it's PASSION. Finding your passion c...
Jul 09, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Andrew and Jeremy review and reflect on the conversation with Robert Strazzarino (Founder and former CEO of College Scheduler) and dive into the most impactful nuggets of wisdom he shared, from how big ideas start from grassroots efforts, to how conventional jobs will always be a safety net for entrepreneurs who courageously create their own path.
Jun 24, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 4
