Entrepreneurship 101

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  Andrew Quillen on the Future of AI: Beyond the Hype to Winning AI Strategy 17.09.2026 28min

  Andrew Quillen Founder of AndMaverick | Built, led, and advised across OpenAI, Spotify, Coinbase, and Stripe | AI advisor to executives, investors, and governments. Today's guest is Andrew Quillen, founder of AndMaverick. Andrew has worked across Stripe, OpenAI, Spotify, and Coinbase before founding AndMaverick, where he now advises executives, investors, governments, and major institutions on AI strategy. He's here to discuss where AI is actually headed, what separates lasting strategy from hype, and how leaders can make better decisions before everyone else catches up. Andrew Quillen is the founder of AndMaverick, where he advises executives, investors, and governments on artificial intelligence strategy. Before founding AndMaverick, he held leadership and advisory roles across Stripe, OpenAI, Spotify, and Coinbase during some of the defining moments in AI and financial technology. Today, his client list includes Microsoft, Blackstone, Mayo Clinic, JPMorgan Chase, and the governments of Australia and New Zealand. He helps leaders understand where AI is heading, identify durable opportunities, and make better strategic decisions before the rest of the market catches up.
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  Email Marketing That Builds Trust and Drives Revenue with Tanya Brody 16.09.2026 24min

  Tanya Brody Email Marketing Expert and Direct Response Copywriter Tanya Brody is an Email Marketing Strategist and Consultant with more than 15 years of experience working in marketing. Her philosophy of serving first, selling second is about building life-long relationships with potential customers. She works with conscious businesses, or businesses with a mission, of all sizes to increase their engagement and revenue through email marketing. Tanya’s main focus is helping business owners share their message, mission, and beliefs with their audience by sending weekly nurture emails or newsletters. This helps grow their “know, like, and trust” factor with their subscribers and creates the community that will support their businesses for years to come. She is also a professional musician and used to tour around the U.S. with her Celtic Band, The Muses. That’s how she got her start in email marketing.
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  Career Reinvention and Marketing That Works with Gary Pageau 15.09.2026 25min

  Gary Pageau Marketing communications that work for business. After 25 years of working at an international non-profit, Gary Pageau started his own marketing communications business. Since then, he has built a leading niche community - the Dead Pixels Society - and done business development for international companies in the imaging space. If you're looking for a story of career reinvention with a solid dose of real-world responses, Gary is the guest for you. ry Pageau is a marketing, communications, and media expert with diversified experience in market research, in media relations, in publishing, in social media, and in editorial strategy. He is adept at communicating complex ideas and concepts across a variety of platforms, including digital and social. He also teaches entrepreneurship as adjunct faculty in a local community college.
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  How Strategic Financial Leadership Helps Entrepreneurs Scale Smarter with Jeff Glick 14.09.2026 38min

  Jeff Glick “Helping Entrepreneurs Build Smarter, Stronger Companies through Strategic Financial Leadership” I’m Jeff Glick, Head of U.S. Operations at Outsourced CFO (OCFO), where I help growing businesses achieve financial clarity and confidence through strategic, tech-driven finance leadership. With more than two decades of experience as a CPA and fractional CFO, I’ve worked with companies across multiple industries to build scalable systems, raise capital, and make data-driven decisions that support sustainable growth. I’m passionate about helping founders see beyond the numbers—turning financial insight into strategy, and strategy into results. On podcasts, I enjoy discussing topics such as modern financial leadership, how technology is transforming accounting, the rise of fractional CFO services, and how small to mid-sized businesses can use financial planning to unlock new opportunities. My goal is to make finance accessible and empowering for business owners everywhere, and to show how the right financial partner can help any company lead with clarity.
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  Tunji Abass on First Generation Wealth Building, Financial Discipline, Repeatable Money Systems, and Creating a Lasting Family Legacy 13.09.2026 25min

  Tunji Abass Tunji Abass is a finance mentor helping first-generation wealth builders install disciplined systems that turn income into legacy. Tunji Abass is a finance mentor and founder of the 2G Community — a modern “finance gym” built for first-generation wealth builders who want structure, clarity, and long-term discipline. With a background shaped by military-grade discipline, procurement strategy, and private market exposure, Tunji’s work centers on one core belief: wealth is not built by intensity — it is built by repeatable systems. He helps ambitious earners and founders move beyond reactive money habits and install structured financial frameworks that compound over time. Through 2G, Tunji guides first-generation builders in developing financial literacy, risk discipline, and long-horizon decision-making — positioning them to create second-generation outcomes without inherited capital or insider access. His mission is simple: redefine how modern finance is taught, practiced, and lived — replacing noise with structure and short-term hype with durable wealth architecture.
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  Faith, Freedom, and Resilience: Congressman Barry Loudermilk’s Journey Through Service and Adversity 12.09.2026 32min

  Barry Loudermilk US Congressman and Best Selling Author. Barry Loudermilk is a U.S. Congressman from Georgia, a veteran of the United States Air Force, and the son of a World War II veteran, who holds a deep dedication to God and country. Barry is a bestselling author and inspirational speaker and is also known for his work to lessen government regulation and investigate government corruption. Barry is regarded as a trusted authority on American history, the Christian faith, overcoming trials, and conservative policy, and he is frequently featured in major national television and print media outlets. As a steadfast defender of truth, faith, and the Constitution, Barry Loudermilk has endured numerous physical and political attacks. He has survived a domestic terrorist attack, an assassination attempt, a tragic train crash, a serious car accident, and a politically motivated false accusation that threatened both his freedom and he and his family’s safety.
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  Bradley Aman on AI and the American Dream: How to Succeed in a Changing Economy 11.09.2026 36min

  Bradley Aman AI and the American Dream. Today's guest is Brad Aman, entrepreneur, author, business strategist, and founder of the American Dream Book Series. Brad has spent decades building companies from the ground up, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40 and ultimately selling his primary business after growing it into a national leader in its industry. Now he's focused on a new challenge: helping everyday Americans succeed in an AI-driven world. His latest book, American Dream: Success in an AI World, shows readers how to use artificial intelligence as a practical tool to increase productivity, create opportunity, and stay competitive in a rapidly changing economy. His message is simple: AI isn't here to replace ambitious people. It's here to reward those willing to learn and adapt. Whether you're a business owner, employee, student, or someone wondering what the future holds, Brad brings real-world experience, practical advice, and a strong belief that the American Dream is still alive for those prepared to earn it.
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  Allie Readyhough on Luxury Coastal Real Estate, Leadership, and Winning in Today’s Housing Market 10.09.2026 23min

  Allie Readyhough Luxury Coastal Real Estate Strategist & Team Leader at SERHANT. I’m Allie Readyhough, a second-generation real estate leader and Licensed Associate Broker based in Rhode Island, where I serve as Team Lead of the Sheil Readyhough Team at SERHANT. Before building my career in real estate, I worked in corporate finance and consulting with firms like PwC and Bain Capital, experiences that shaped the strategic, data-driven approach I bring to today’s competitive coastal housing market. Today, I help lead one of Rhode Island’s top-performing real estate teams, specializing in luxury and coastal properties throughout South County. In 2025, our team closed more than $75 million in sales and ranked #1 in Washington County, Narragansett, and South Kingstown. I’m also part of the founding group helping launch SERHANT in Rhode Island, where we’re combining innovative branding, media-driven marketing, and modern negotiation strategies to help shape the future of real estate. I’m passionate about entrepreneurship, leadership, luxury branding, and helping clients and audiences better understand how financial expertise can create a real advantage in today’s housing market.
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  The Secret Science of Brand Growth: Where Creativity Meets Consumer Behavior with Ethan Decker 09.09.2026 26min

  Ethan Decker Teaching you the "secret" science of brand growth. Ethan is a brand strategist and marketing expert who has spent 20 years doing award-winning brand strategy, advertising, and market research for some of the world’s biggest brands. A scientist by training but a marketer by trade, he’s the missing link between science and creativity. His career includes roles as Insight Manager at Radar Research, Planning Director at 72andSunny, Group Strategy Director at Crispin Porter Bogusky, and Vice President of Insight & Strategy at the Integer Group. He's done ethnographies in Tokyo and statistics in Matlab. He’s developed promotions scorecards and shopper marketing design principles. He's helped launch razors and position new lines of women's clothes. And he's presented on the science of marketing internationally, including SXSW and TED. Ethan’s first life was studying urban ecology. He earned a PhD at the University of New Mexico under a National Science Foundation grant for complexity theory in biology. He studied human evolution and urban metabolism, and he used computational models to explore patterns of urbanization. His papers continue to be cited today. Only his friends call him Doctor Decker. And only in jest.
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  Alyssa Nolte on Customer Psychology, Stronger Relationships, Revenue Growth, and Building Businesses That Keep Customers Coming Back 08.09.2026 25min

  Alyssa Nolte Rethinking the future of customer relationships and growth. Alyssa Nolte is a serial entrepreneur and the host of two podcasts, Taking Back Monday and The Growth Signal. She’s built multiple successful businesses, worked with brands like Salesforce, Cisco, and Chase, and is known for helping leaders crack the code between how customers think and how businesses grow. Her own journey started when she said yes to an unpaid, full-time role right out of college - a leap that taught her how to figure things out fast and set the stage for a career turning customer psychology into real revenue. Today, she’s here to share practical ways you can keep customers longer, grow sales, and win in your market.
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  From Surviving to Thriving: Michelle Rogers on Resilience, Empowerment, and Building Success Through Real Estate and Coaching 07.09.2026 35min

  Michelle Rogers Radical resilience and finding community with Michelle Rogers Michelle Rogers is the founder/owner of Magnetic Property Management and MLR Products. She is the author of The Resiliency Blueprint that empowers woman to be seen, to be heard, to be loved. Her coaching program helps woman move through the stages of surviving to thriving while finding their own strength. Michelle owns several real estate companies, has a background in healthcare, and serves on several non-profit boards.
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  Dr. Christiane Schroeter: How Small Steps Build Confidence, Leadership and Lasting Change 06.09.2026 23min

  Christiane Schroeter The Small Steps Doctor. Confidence and leadership, built one rep at a time. Dr. Christiane Schroeter helps leaders do the hardest part of change... actually start. Her work closes the gap between knowing what to do and doing it, so professionals lead with clarity and confidence when the stakes are high. She came to the US from Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, earned her Ph.D. in Health Economics, and built her entire career in her second language. Today she is a Professor of Marketing, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she has taught and advised more than 10,000 students and professionals over 20+ years. She has spoken on stages across five countries and been featured in Business Insider, SheKnows, and HigherEdJobs. Her TEDx talk, How Small Steps Create Big Change, introduces her Petite Practice® framework... a simple, repeatable system built on small actions that compound into lasting momentum. As a behavioral economist, she can prove it. Her research on how small changes ripple through an entire system includes a Journal of Health Economics paper cited more than 300 times, so small steps are not a slogan she borrowed. The framework anchors her keynotes, her teaching, and her book, Petite Practice®: Small, Steady Steps to a Life of Momentum and Real Change (2026). Christiane also hosts the Happy Healthy Hustle podcast, ranked in the Top 1% globally. On stage and on the mic, she brings research, real leadership experience, and practices audiences can use the same day.
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  Bobby Sawyer: Estate Planning, Business Continuity and Building a Lasting Legacy 05.09.2026 33min

  Bobby Sawyer is an attorney, entrepreneur, Army veteran, and Bronze Star recipient dedicated to helping people protect what they have worked hard to build. As the founder of Sawyer & Associates, LLC, he advises individuals, families, and business owners on estate planning, probate, Medicaid crisis planning, asset protection, and preserving a meaningful legacy. An entrepreneur since 2005, Bobby brings legal knowledge and real-world business experience to conversations about leadership, succession planning, and long-term stability. His practical approach helps business owners prepare for the unexpected, protect their families, and create organizations capable of thriving beyond their founders.
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  Dean Taylor: Unlock Your Purpose, Overcome Burnout, and Make a Meaningful Life Pivot 04.09.2026 39min

  Dean Taylor Unlocking Potential for a Purpose Driven Life Dean Taylor is a speaker, coach, and mentor who helps high-achieving people reconnect with purpose, regain clarity, and make meaningful pivots when success no longer feels aligned and confidently make meaningful pivots in life and work. Through his DIAMOND Pivot framework, he helps people move from feeling stuck and misaligned to living with greater clarity and confidence. Drawing from his own journey of setbacks, growth, gratitude, and renewed vision, Dean brings a grounded and hopeful message to people who know they are meant for more but feel stuck between what has worked and what is next. He speaks on purpose, vision, gratitude, identity, mindset, and the inner shifts that help people move from pressure, burnout, and misalignment to clarity, confidence, and alignment. Dean’s message is simple: your dreams matter, your setbacks are not the end of your story, and it is never too late to become who you were created to be. When he is not speaking or coaching, Dean enjoys running, hiking, biking, learning, and spending time with his family. He especially enjoys playing with his 4 amazing grandkids and making them laugh.
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  Steve Snedegar: How CEOs Build Scalable Businesses, Strong Teams, and Better Execution 03.09.2026 18min

  Steve Snedegar Founder & Managing Partner Steve Snedegar has spent his career in the arena—as a four-time CEO leading businesses through growth, transformation, integration, and turnaround. Today, as founder of Stage 5 Partners, he advises founders, CEOs, and leadership teams facing the difficult transition from working harder to leading and operating better. Steve brings a distinctive coach–mentor–operator perspective. He understands both the pressure leaders carry and the organizational problems they often struggle to see: unclear accountability, competing priorities, weak execution, leadership misalignment, stalled growth, and businesses that remain too dependent on the founder. His conversations are candid, practical, and grounded in real operating experience. Rather than offering generic leadership advice, Steve helps audiences understand why good companies stall, how leaders unintentionally create complexity, and what must change to build a healthier, more scalable organization. Listeners will leave with practical ways to improve their judgment, simplify priorities, strengthen accountability, develop their leadership teams, and convert strategy into measurable results. Steve is an engaging guest for conversations about leadership, business growth, organizational execution, executive decision-making, succession, integration, and the realities of leading through change.
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  Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Crispin Leyser talking about about Why poker mirrors the decision-making process for business and life. 01.09.2026 30min

  Crispin Leyser Executive training using poker as a game-based learning tool to enhance decision-making when information is incomplete, emotions are high and outcomes matter I'm British. I've been in LA for 23 years. I spent 17 years as Channel 4's LA-based consultant for acquisitions and co-productions. But during that time I also became a professional poker player and instructor for World Poker Tour Bootcamps, teaching classes across America how to become a better poker player. But what struck me even then, was that I wasn't just teaching people how to become better at poker. I was teaching them how to become better at life. That ranges from simple life lessons about controlling the controllables (such as your emotions and game selection); to more complex decision-making concepts such as expected value. Tens of thousands of people in LA have lost their jobs, arguably on the backs of bad decisions taken by studios and networks over the years. So I made a decision. To set up The Winning Hand and marry my poker skills with my executive background to provide leaders with a roadmap for better decision-making.
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  Omer Gabay: Building an AI Second Brain to Reclaim Focus and Human Curiosity 30.08.2026 27min

  Omer Gabay Founders of the OS for human Curiosity Omer Sharon Gabay is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of MindStash, a personal curiosity companion and AI second brain built as a counter movement to the attention economy. He quit his job and left university to go all in on it with his best friend. Since launching in late April, MindStash has reached hundreds of users, raised €150,000 from angels, and won three startup pitch competitions. He is a story driven guest who connects neuroscience, technology, and human behavior. Topics he speaks on: Why the attention economy is rewiring how we think, and what curiosity management offers instead What neuroscience says about focus, memory, and learning in an age of infinite content Building an AI startup from nothing, including the honest parts of fundraising and go to market First principles thinking, drawn from his years as a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete Omer has been building since he was 15, when he won a startup pitch competition in the MEET program in front of Facebook executives. He studied Neuroscience at Amsterdam University College and now leads growth and partnerships at MindStash. He goes deep on ideas and is just as happy telling concrete stories from inside the build. He is also building something new for creators and podcasters: a delightful way to share the resources behind each episode with their audience. If you host a show, ask him about it on the call.
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  Leadership Begins Within: Dr. Jessie and Omar Ferreira on Transforming Yourself and Organizational Culture 29.08.2026 29min

  Dr. Jessie And Omar Ferreira Lead Your Life. Shape Your Culture. Begin Within. Omar and Dr. Jessie Ferreira are the co-founders of ASQ Empowerment and the architects of the Fractal Coherence Methodology, a framework built on a single governing premise: leadership that begins within is the only kind that lasts. Together, they bring a rare combination to any podcast conversation. Drawing from their combined experience in operational nonprofit and higher education, they name the structural patterns underneath the problems leaders are already living, the feedback loops, the systems archetypes, the organizational dynamics that produce predictable outcomes and resist every individually-targeted intervention. They do not speak in abstractions. They work from precision, the specific fractal relationship between a leader's inner architecture and the organizational conditions that architecture produces. Their diagnostic lens operates at two scales simultaneously: the person carrying the weight and the system that either compounds or exhausts that weight. This is not a leadership inspiration conversation. When Omar and Jessie join a show, the audience gets something more useful: the experience of having their situation named with more accuracy than they expected, and a structural understanding of what creates it and what resolves it.
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  Stacie Shifflett: Modern Consciousness, Clearer Thinking & the Power of Intentional Choices 28.08.2026 26min

  Stacie Shifflett Founder & Architect of Modern Consciousness® Stacie Shifflett is the Founder and Architect of Modern Consciousness®, a philosophy and framework for strengthening our capacity to think with greater clarity, discernment, and intention. Her perspective wasn't developed from theory alone. It was shaped through decades of building businesses, leading teams, navigating major life transitions, and trying to understand why people think, choose, respond, and experience life as they do. Her path has been anything but conventional. She has worked in government technology, built and led businesses across very different industries, navigated the acquisition of a $50 million company, rebuilt her life following the end of a 28-year marriage, and continued to reinvent both her work and herself along the way. Across seemingly unrelated experiences and challenges, she began recognizing something consistent: the quality of our lives is influenced not only by what happens to us, but by the human capabilities we bring to what happens. That recognition eventually became Modern Consciousness®. Today, Stacie explores the questions, assumptions, patterns, interpretations, and choices that influence how we experience and engage with our lives. Her work is less about telling people what to think or giving them another formula to follow, and more about strengthening the capabilities that help us think for ourselves, examine what we believe, recognize what we may be missing, and make more intentional choices. Stacie is also the author of Treasure Map to Joy™, an Amazon bestselling parable that explores joy not simply as something we pursue, but as something our relationship with life can either support or constrain. She has coauthored with Jack Canfield and Les Brown and co-produced Lisa Nichols' Broadway show When My Soul Speaks. What Stacie Brings to a Podcast Conversation Stacie brings an unusual combination of real-world experience, intellectual curiosity, humor, and a willingness to examine ideas from more than one angle. She doesn't arrive with a canned speech or a predetermined answer. She brings distinctions, questions, stories, and perspectives that give hosts and listeners something to think about long after the conversation ends. Her conversations can explore everything from decision debt and the limits of our influence to our interpretations of reality, the questions directing our attention, and what our relationship with joy may reveal about how we're engaging with life.
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  John Cavendish on Founder Growth, Scaling Beyond Yourself and Building a Smarter Business Exit 27.08.2026 25min

  John Cavendish Three-time exited founder and NLP Master Practitioner, now advising operators in their second decade of building. I spent around fifteen years building and selling businesses. Three exits, most recently Seller Candy, where I sold the majority stake in December 2024 and kept a quarter. My track record sits in ecommerce and the Amazon space. Now I advise founders who are well past the startup stage. Not first-timers. People ten to twenty years in, often on their second or third company, often after an exit. The advice aimed at new founders runs out fast at that level. The real problems are different: how to scale without the business breaking, how to structure an exit so you keep what you earned, what to build when the money is no longer the point, and how to do any of it without the work taking over your health and your family. There is a pattern in almost all of them. The business grew and the founder did not grow fast enough to get out of the way, so the founder becomes the bottleneck on the thing they built. No amount of strategy or systems fixes that until the person changes first. I work on both halves at once, the commercial mechanics and the psychology underneath them. I am an NLP Master Practitioner with around 400 hours of training, and I use that alongside operating experience, not instead of it. I am British, based in Hoi An, Vietnam, and I advise founders across several countries from here. For a show, I am most useful on three things: the second-decade founder and why early-stage advice stops working; exits from the inside, including the deal terms that catch first-time sellers; and the founder who has become the limit on their own business, and what actually shifts that. I bring concrete stories and straight talk, no hype.