Particle Accelerator: A Particle41 Podcast

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  Your AI Shouldn't Know Everyone. It Should Know You. | Robert LoCascio 20.07.2026 57min

  In 1995, Rob LoCascio looked at the early internet and asked a simple question: where are the people? His answer became live chat, a piece of software now running on billions of websites. He built that into LivePerson, took it public, and ran it for almost three decades. Now he's building something that argues against the entire direction of the AI industry. Instead of one giant model trained on everyone's data, Rob believes the future belongs to individual AIs — trained only on you, owned b...
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  The "Dumbest Idea" That Built a $100M Fuel Empire | Eliot Vancil 11.07.2026 56min

  Eliot Vancil grew up the son of a house painter in Oakliffe, mowing yards for spending money. Twenty-five years later, he's built, scaled, and sold multiple companies, a Texas IT business he ran for 20 years, a telecom company he sold without an earnout, and then turned his attention to one of the most archaic, paper-driven industries in the country: fuel delivery. The result is Fuel Logic, which Eliot calls "the dumbest idea that ever worked." By applying the same technology, ticketing, and...
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  Growth doesn't break companies. Founder dependency does.| Brooke M Dukes 10.07.2026 50min

  Growth doesn't break companies. Founder dependency does. In this episode of The Particle Accelerator, Benjamin Johnson sits down with Brooke Dukes - co-founder of a 17-year consulting firm, author of international bestseller Burn On, Not Out, and founder of BMD - to unpack the pattern that silently stalls scaling companies, the founder who becomes the system. Brooke has worked with companies from $1M to $2B+ in revenue and has seen the same dynamic play out every time. When a co...
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  Innovation Isn't an Idea Problem, It's a Leadership Problem | Robyn M. Bolton 09.07.2026 45min

  What's the real reason innovation dies inside organizations? In this episode of The Particle Accelerator, Benjamin Johnson sits down with Robyn Bolton, founder of MileZero, former P&G brand manager on the Swiffer launch team, BCG and InnoSight advisor, author of Unlock Innovation, and 2026 Thinkers50 Radar honoree, for an unflinching look at the human side of corporate innovation. Robyn has spent her career at the intersection of big ideas and organizational reality. Her core thesis, com...
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  The gap between demo and reliable ROI | Pratik Verma 08.07.2026 49min

  Your AI agent nailed the demo. But two weeks after going live, you're staring at support tickets you can't reproduce, cloud bills you can't explain, and behavior nobody predicted. In this episode of Particle Accelerator, our host Benjamin Johnson sits down with Pratik Verma, Founder and CEO of Okahu AI, to unpack exactly why AI agents break in production and what it takes to actually build reliable, observable agentic systems. Pratik has spent years at Microsoft and leading his own AI infras...
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  Leadership after rupture | Dr. Kimberly Bonniksen 07.07.2026 52min

  In this episode of the Particle Accelerator, host Benjamin Johnson sits down with Dr. Kimberly Bonniksen, founder of Legends Research and creator of Kairos AI. A researcher, Dr. Kimberly brings three decades of experience studying how leaders carry responsibility, sustain trust, and create meaning that endures. From her early work scaling the University of Phoenix online division to her groundbreaking research with Tony Robbins and Chet Holmes, Kimberly has built a unique framework for...
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  The Question Jay Abraham Asks Every Founder 06.07.2026 1t 10min

  If you've ever used the phrase "unique selling proposition" in a meeting - you've used Jay Abraham's work. Same with strategy of preeminence, risk reversal, power partnering, and relational capital. These are frameworks the business world now runs on, often without knowing where they came from. In this episode, Particle41 CEO Benjamin Johnson sits down with Jay Abraham - founder of The Abraham Group, Forbes Top 5 Executive Consultant, 10,000+ clients across 400+ industries - for a wide...
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  How One Founder Built the "Google Street View" for HOAs | Wesley Hunt 05.07.2026 1t 4min

  Wesley Hunt co-founded Optic Systems after nearly a decade inside the property management industry - and the company he built looks nothing like what you'd expect. It started with a simple observation that property managers are expected to respond to homeowners instantly while also physically driving to every community they manage. You can't do both. Something always breaks down. The solution Wes and his co-founder landed on? "Google Street View, but on demand and for the private sector." 3...
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  Building in the Dark | Robbie Abed 04.07.2026 1t 28min

  Robbie Abed is not a developer. He's a writer who once penned a resignation letter so good that the CEO of Deloitte Consulting forwarded it to the entire firm. He's an Inc. columnist with millions of views. He took 250 coffee meetings in 400 days. He wrote a book - Fire Me I Beg You - and James Altucher wrote the foreword. Then he disappeared into his basement for six months and built a SaaS product. This is that conversation. In this episode of the Particle Accelerator podcast, Benjamin J...
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  How Anderson Business Advisors Scaled Without Adding Headcount | Aaron Videtto 03.07.2026 51min

  What does it actually look like when a growing company's technology can no longer keep up with its growth? In the first episode of The Particle Accelerator, Ben Johnson (CEO of Particle41) sits down with Aaron Videtto, Head of Product & Client Experience at Anderson Business Advisors, for a conversation that is anything but theoretical. Anderson is a one-stop shop for private real estate investors, handling entity formation, tax strategy, bookkeeping, and estate planning for clients whose...
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  What's Actually Working in Marketing Right Now | Jon Tsourakis 02.07.2026 56min

  Jon Tsourakis is President and Chief Revenue Officer at Oyova, a full-service digital agency serving clients from $3M startups to billion-dollar enterprises. He's been in digital marketing and web development for over two decades, built and scaled his own agency (Revital), and merged it into Oyova in 2019. In this episode, Jon and I go deep on everything that actually matters if you're trying to grow a business right now: what's working in marketing, the danger of customer concentratio...
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  AI Without Humans Is Just Noise | Tori Begg 01.07.2026 53min

  What does it actually take to embed AI into the DNA of a national marketing agency, and bring 400 employees along for the ride? In this episode of The Particle Accelerator, host Benjamin Johnson sits down with Tori Begg, Head of AI Programs at Voice Media Group (parent company of V Digital Services and the Dallas Observer). Tori owns the strategy, build, and enablement of a proprietary LLM and multi-agent system across a 300-person agency, all without writing a single line of code. She's bu...
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  The $25 Billion CX Playbook of Turning Customer Friction Into Revenue | Greg Tucker 30.06.2026 56min

  What if fixing your customer experience was actually the highest-ROI investment in your business, more than product innovation, more than M&A, more than anything else? Greg Tucker has spent nearly 30 years proving exactly that, and he has the receipts. In this episode of the Particle Accelerator, Benjamin Johnson sits down with Greg Tucker, founder of Tucker & Company and author of the upcoming book The Frictionless Brand Experience. Greg has identified over $25 billion in business o...
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  The AI Lead Crisis No One Is Talking About | Cory Long 29.06.2026 58min

  What if the reason your leads are slowing down has nothing to do with the economy, and everything to do with how AI has quietly rewritten the rules of digital visibility? In this episode of The Particle Accelerator, host Ben Johnson sits down with Cory Long, founder of Entrepreneurial Forge and YROCK Consulting, coach to over 5,000 entrepreneurs, and someone who rebuilt his entire life and career from scratch at 40 years old after 17 years in full-time ministry. Cory has been watching a sil...
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  Your Wearable Is Lying to You | Tony Medrano 28.06.2026 59min

  What does a 3x Ironman, Harvard grad, Stanford MBA, former Naval officer, and serial AI founder do when the health tech industry isn't solving the real problem? He builds the infrastructure behind it. Tony Medrano, Co-Founder & CEO of Longevity Plan AI, joins host Benjamin Johnson on the Particle Accelerator Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of human performance data, why most wearables give you noise instead of signal, and how AI-powered digital twins are about to cha...
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  The Alexa of Elder Care | Tiffany Hart 27.06.2026 1t 39min

  What does it take to walk away from managing $700 billion in global partnerships, and bet everything on a problem most people pretend isn't there? Tiffany Hart did exactly that. In this episode of the Particle Accelerator Podcast, Ben sits down with Tiffany, former World Economic Forum executive, Harvard-trained strategist, and founder of Connection Care AI, to talk about the $30B silent crisis in American healthcare, senior isolation and preventable cognitive decline. They go deep on: - Why...
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  Use Energy Twice. Pay For It Once | Scott Preston 26.06.2026 54min

  Every factory, restaurant, and industrial plant in North America is doing something that costs real money every single day, venting heat they already paid for straight out of the exhaust stack. Scott Preston, Founder and CEO of Norell Inc and the ThermStar System, spent decades leading billion-dollar industrial operations across 44 countries before discovering a Swedish heat recovery technology in Europe that nobody had brought to North America. Validated across Europe for over a decade, reco...
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  AI in Content Marketing | John Paul Mains 25.06.2026 40min

  Explore AI's impact on content marketing and building tech with purpose, featuring John Paul Mains, CEO at Click Laboratory. Join us in this episode of the Particle Accelerator Podcast as we welcome John Paul Mains, CEO at Click Laboratory. With years of experience in marketing and agency leadership, John shares valuable insights on how AI is transforming content marketing and building businesses with a kingdom purpose. Learn how to leverage AI for content creation and understand the shift a...
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  AI Entrepreneurship & Kingdom Values | Jay Storm 24.06.2026 47min

  Dive into the world of AI entrepreneurship with Jay Storm, an AI innovator at Storm Growth Group, exploring his journey from CrossFit to AI and his faith-driven business approach. Join us in this episode of the Particle Accelerator Podcast as we welcome Jay Storm, Entrepreneur and AI Innovator at Storm Growth Group. With a rich background in tech and entrepreneurship, Jay shares valuable insights on combining AI with business strategies and his faith-driven approach to innovation. Learn how ...
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  Strategic Problem Solving & Innovation | David Goldsmith 23.06.2026 1t 37min

  Explore David Goldsmith's groundbreaking strategies at Ferrari, solving multi-year problems in hours and leading a $1.6 trillion lunar project. A must-watch for aspiring strategists. Join us in this episode of the Particle Accelerator Podcast as we welcome David Goldsmith, Executive Strategy Consultant at Goldsmith Organization LLC. With decades of experience in strategic consulting, David shares valuable insights on solving complex problems efficiently and leading transformative projects. L...