With Julia Bialetska, CEO of S.Lab Tiny Little Victory: Creating sustainable innovation in the shadow of war When war broke out in Ukraine, Julia Bialetska didn’t pause—she pivoted. As co-founder and CEO of S.Lab , a startup turning hemp and mycelium into biodegradable packaging, Julia faced the unthinkable: relocating her company, her team, and her life from Kyiv to Spain. In this conversation, she shares how she kept her vision alive through crisis. From messy early experiments to major media ...
Jun 11, 2025•44 min
with Mike Mantione, Five Eight and the Bad Ends. Tiny Little Victory: Staying loud, honest, and human—decades in. Indie rock is timeless and relevant. So get ready to pull out your best fan girl and fan guy personas for the one and only Mike Mantione of the 80s and 90s Athens, GA punk rock band Five Eight ! Mike and Five Eight are on a roll, coming off a successful SXSW event with the debut of their new documentary film, Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight, and their first single in six years, T...
Apr 07, 2025•37 min•Season 4Ep. 3
With Kim Smith, CEO of HealthEvolve Tiny Little Victory: Centering women in healthcare—and in global equity This special episode celebrates International Women’s Day. Listen to a compilation of male and female voices from Ireland, France, Finland, and the UK, as well as the great states of Georgia, California, Texas, Idaho, and Illinois. Every voice shares why this day matters to everyone. As a bonus for International Women's Day, this episode also features the insight of Kim Smith , CEO and fou...
Mar 08, 2025•44 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Tiny Little Victory: Turning old denim into conscious style Patrece Morrison is the founder of Chicks and Caboodles , a sustainable denim handbag brand that merges style with environmental consciousness. Through upcycling denim, she creates one-of-a-kind, eco-friendly accessories that prioritize both fashion and sustainability. Her dedication to ethical production and reducing textile waste has earned the brand a loyal following among conscious consumers. In 2024, Patrece won the popular vote fo...
Feb 04, 2025•30 min
Buckle up for an unforgettable conversation with Matt Eastland , the effervescent host of the Food Fight Podcast . Matt is a food fanatic, innovation aficionado, and lover of food trends and tech. As the creator and host of the popular podcast, Matt has interviewed hundreds of the world's leading agrifood entrepreneurs, innovators, and influencers to bring the world a better perspective on how we grow our food and the challenges facing our global food systems. Matt is also the Director of Brand ...
Dec 23, 2024•36 min
On this episode of Tiny Little Victories, we sat down with Dallas culinary artist and entrepreneur Traci Moore. Traci is one of those women who has creativity flowing out of her mind, body and soul in her four businesses. From Moore's Twisted Berries - bedazzled and decorated chocolate strawberries fit for Beyonce; The Dinner Clique, private dinner pop-ups; Enchanting and meticulously crafted Lapin masks at Lapin Couture ; and Co-Owner of Southern Pleasures Expo . Lapin Couture, like Traci, is a...
Dec 09, 2024•31 min
On this rocking episode, I had the chance to talk with one of my favorite humans from my time working with startups in Estonia -- Blazej Wojtyla . Blazej is the kind of human who uses every facet of his brain. He always thinks quietly and thoughtfully, and the outcome is always something spectacular. Blazej is the the CEO and founder of Jazzy Innovations and Stream Sage is also the writer and creator of the one-man interactive stage show in Poland, How It Has to Be . But let’s back up a little. ...
Nov 27, 2024•46 min
Here's a fact you need to staple to your head: 70% of crops worldwide rely on bees. Yup, so that tomato is in your BLT, and it needs bees. That avocado that's about to be inedible needs bees. But with their increased mortality rates, your neighbour spraying toxins in the form of mosquitos being gone, and pesticides flooding the planet, these poor bees - who only make a teaspoon of honey in their entire short lifespan, are experiencing whole colony collapse. Without pollinators, we have no crops....
Nov 05, 2024•40 min
Soil isn't sexy. Even Martha Stewart, in her new commercial for organic soil from Miracle Grow, is out stumping for soil, calling herself a 'dirt nerd.' Good for you, Martha. But while Martha is making our backyard soil healthier, we need to think about making the food that grows our food healthier. Soil has a microbiome . And here's one for trivia night: there are more soil microorganisms in a teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people on the Earth . Sadly, our soil is dying; it's a non-ren...
Oct 17, 2024•37 min
On this show, we dive into a topic that people either love or hate: Needles. Needles aren't new to the world—50,000 years ago, they found evidence of bird bone needles. Needles went from bones to metal to plastic over decades. In the 1960s, the US military gave vaccine needle-free injections with high-powered compression. But it wasn't simple. You had to stand still while the compression gun was applied as the technician pulled the trigger. Now, consider this: imagine all the waste that plastic ...
Oct 08, 2024•36 min
Here's a shocking fact: 11% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from materials in the construction industry. What if you could shift that number? Imagine you could do that with fungi and a mycelial network. In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, meet concerned citizen and entrepreneur Joanne Rodriguez , CEO and founder of MycoCycle . She is tackling the construction waste problem with fungi. Joanne shares her journey on her discovery and idea of using fungi to break down construction waste t...
Sep 23, 2024•21 min
On this episode of Tiny Little Victories, Briar Prestidge, CEO of the Prestidge Group , drops by for a chat about the future. From a small town in New Zealand to a Web3 evangelist, Briar is an entrepreneur like no other. She is an advisor for Interpol on their investigations and forensics team; she made an award-winning documentary, 48 Hours in the Metaverse; she has an avatar fashion line on Roblox, the Hyperscale podcast, a new reality-style docu-series, Cyborg to Be, and ... wait for it ... a...
Sep 11, 2024•38 min
Help me, André Smith, you're my only hope. Nothing is more iconic than the most famous hologram of all time—Star Wars, when Princess Leia was projected through R2D2, pleading for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In this show, we explore the power of holograms and how they can create more human connections. André Smith, co-founder and CEO of Holoconnects , shares how his company is making Holo technology user-friendly. Their Holoboxes are used in leading hotel chains for guest check-in and healthcare fa...
Aug 29, 2024•44 min
Shalene Gupta is a Minnesota-grown Boston-based writer with Chinese-Indonesian and Indian roots. She’s the author of The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD (Flatiron, 2024). She’s also the co-author of The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It (Public Affairs, 2021). The Power of Trust was nominated for a Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea award. In 2022, Shalene was identified as a thinker to watch out for and made the Thinkers50 Radar list. She’s also the host of th...
Aug 13, 2024•44 min
On this episode Pankaj Srivastava , CEO of Renaissance Park , dropped in to talk with us about an ancient crop that can heal our soil, make stronger products, is recyclable, and helps bees pollinate better (who doesn't love that?). We're talking about a world where everything starts and ends with the benefits of what this crop has to offer the planet -- industrial hemp. Pankaj is considered to be one of the most analytical minds in the business, a gifted raconteur, a modern philosopher, and jus...
Jul 31, 2024•58 min
In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, Rosa Schmidt , Founder of the Defem Agency in London, talks about why she wanted to help companies change the narrative on complex issues facing the world today. But for Rosa, her journey to storyteller was a byproduct of her quest to find meaning in her life. Guess what she did? Supported by her partner, family and friends, she packed up and moved to Thailand to learn Thai Boxing. Through that experience, this petite firecracker of a human being walked ...
Jul 12, 2024•34 min
In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, Dr. Max Gulde , the CEO and co-founder of constellr , takes us on his journey from scientist to CEO. While he was there, he created techniques for analyzing previously inaccessible material characteristics during hypervelocity impacts. And guess what? That helps us to improve our understanding of stellar formation processes, such as asteroids colliding with planets. Armed with a PhD in Physics, Max also created the first ultrafast low-energy electron dif...
Jun 26, 2024•38 min
Jan Ligaard is the CEO and co-founder of Immer Puzzles, fresh out of Copenhagen, Denmark. The company Immerspiele makes online word games to rival Wordle. A Reddit user said their game MOVES is akin to word chess—you need a strategy. They launched two months ago and already have 70,000 daily word game players in Denmark. The game is free and you don't even need an account to play it. Currently, there are four addictive games to play for free -- Moves, Stack, Splice, and Middle. To keep peopl...
Jun 11, 2024•30 min
On this episode of Tiny Little Victories, host Jennifer Kite-Powell talks with another Jennifer— Dr. Jennifer Hintzsche , CEO of PherDal Fertility Science . Dr. Jenn created the first FDA-cleared at-home sterile insemination kit, which has been selling like hotcakes—more than 400 kits were sold in the first few weeks. Dr. Jenn started PherDal because she was told by doctors she had unexplained fertility and there wasn't much more she could do other than expensive IVF treatments and invasive pr...
May 29, 2024•34 min
We all know the term public relations. It's a household name today—you either love it, hate it, or like to make fun of it, but it's here to stay in some form. Freelance journalist Louis Bedigian and Mindy Hull , CEO and Founder of Mercury Global Partners , join Massive Talk to discuss the cringe of assembly-line PR, doing foundational work before that pitching starts, and the basics like NOT calling a journalist, spelling their names correctly, or just including the right name (or any name). ___...
Apr 10, 2024•43 min
In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, directors Ken Feinberg and Craig Tollis talk about their new feature film, Love and Taxe$. The film was written by Lloyd J. Schwartz , writer, and producer of the 1970s sitcom, The Brady Bunch. Love and Taxe$ is an unconventional story that unfolds between a CPA and a waitress. Their connection? An annual meeting under the guise of preparing her taxes. Each year, these sessions evolve into much more than number crunching. Set against the colorful backdro...
Apr 03, 2024•33 min
In this big, big energy episode, the epic visual storyteller E stella Tse joins us for a frank, fun, and authentic discussion about creating moments through art and technology. An AR and VR creative artist and director, Estella is a talented visual storyteller who started coding when she was just 11 years old and later graduated to create webpages that featured her artwork. She holds a degree in Sociology from UCLA because she is fascinated with human behavior. Estella has always been a tinkerer...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 7 min
In this episode of Massive Talk - Sleep, Jennifer Kite-Powell and co-host Naos Wilbrink talk about sleep and why you need it. They took their cue from several new studies that show sleeping naked had a ton of health benefits, including reduced fungal infections. Yes! The Massive Talk talkers also examine a study from Penn Medicine highlighting how violence can severely impact our sleep quality. Not to mention, they also engage in a polarizing discussion about the use of sleep data. And how be...
Feb 21, 2024•59 min
In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, we are joined by the Gin Boss - Leon Dalloway . He founded the Gin Journey and experiential tour of gin distilleries in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Brighton, and Chester, and down under in Sydney, Australia. Gin Journey is the number one rated gin tour on the planet - so pack a bag and plan a trip to any of those cities for the best gin tour of your life. Leon is also a Gin maker. His gin - Bondi Gin is made in Australia and infuses the region'...
Feb 10, 2024•1 hr 6 min
In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, our guest, Theresa Neil , Founder of Guidea , a UX design company, tells us how she created Femovate, an accelerator program to support FemTech companies. The company donated $1M in UX design services to their first cohort of companies, and the success of the program has taken Theresa and her team by surprise. Theresa shares stories and advice for anyone thinking of creating a FemTech company and candidly talks about what she learned about this industry ...
Jan 22, 2024•50 min
In this episode of Tiny Little Victories' Massive Talk, guest host Naos Wilbrink has turned the tables on host Jennifer Kite-Powell for an intimate and candid discussion of her poetry and process. Hint: it's always a muse. Check out Jennifer's two books of poetry, Love, Lust, Longing and Truth and the chapbook, Deluge in a Paper Cup on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble online. You can also follow her new works of speculative poetry and short flash fiction on Substack and Medium. Jennifer on Subst...
Dec 18, 2023•47 min
Our guests in this episode are two inspiring women from the UK who discuss the importance of diversity, inclusion and authenticity in technology. Rosemarie Wilson , the founder of Pragmatic Coaching and author of the book " Imposter Syndrome and Your Performance - What's the Link?" is a mentor, speaker, and advocate for women in tech. Jennifer Opal (she/her), an award-winning DevOps engineer, writer, speaker, AI enthusiast and advocate for inclusion and neurodiversity in the tech industry, share...
Dec 01, 2023•48 min
This is Massive Talk! An episode inside of the podcast, Tiny Little Victories, co-hosted by your favorite pilot, Naos Wilbrink . You may remember Naos from S3 E2 on Tiny Little Victories called The Pilot. In this inaugural segment of Massive Talk, we talk about massive issues facing us today as humans with candor and humor - from Naos' new 'jet job,' wealth to how to create a world based on gifting to others and switching off at the end of the day. _____ Did you like the episode? Please do us a ...
Nov 17, 2023•42 min
Did you know that the European honey bee is known as Apis mellifera in scientific terms? In this episode, I had a chat with two amazing urban beekeepers, Patrick McKannan and Kyle Tindle, who shared their experiences and love for keeping honey bees. Patrick is not just an experienced urban beekeeper but also a fantastic mentor who teaches beekeeping classes and mentors bee scholarship students at Paul Quinn College in Dallas. He is our bee guru in our journey as new urban beekeepers. Kyle Tindle...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 33 min
In this episode, explorer, environmentalist and entrepreneur John Hazelwood talks about his journey from Texas to Bulgaria and back again. (bet you didn't see that coming). From his time growing up in Greece to London and Alabama, John is now back in Texas after decades building businesses in Bulgaria. He also was involved with bringing the Bulgarian soccar team to Austin so for all you soccar fans out there, this is an incredible story of some sports management in the world of soccar in Texas. ...
Oct 17, 2023•37 min
