Entrepreneurship 101
Entrepreneurship 101 is a dynamic, knowledge-driven platform designed to equip aspiring founders, small-business owners, and creative innovators with the mindset, tools, and strategies needed to excel in today’s competitive landscape. It breaks down the core fundamentals of entrepreneurship into clear, actionable insights that listeners can immediately apply to their own ventures. Each session explores essential themes such as opportunity discovery, building resilience, strategic planning, leadership development, financial literacy, branding, and sustainable growth. Through expert interviews, real-world case studies, and practical guidance, Entrepreneurship 101 demystifies the challenges of launching and scaling a business while inspiring listeners to think boldly and act with in...
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Omer Gabay: Building an AI Second Brain to Reclaim Focus and Human Curiosity
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 wh...
Leadership Begins Within: Dr. Jessie and Omar Ferreira on Transforming Yourself and Organizational Culture
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...
Stacie Shifflett: Modern Consciousness, Clearer Thinking & the Power of Intentional Choices
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 fo...
John Cavendish on Founder Growth, Scaling Beyond Yourself and Building a Smarter Business Exit
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...
Rohini Kasturi: Transforming SaaS Growth Through AI-Driven Leadership, Data and Go-to-Market Strategy
Rohini Kasturi Global C-Suite Executive | Board Member | Stanford & Harvard Alum Rohini Kasturi is the CEO and Board Member of HG Insights, a seasoned SaaS executive, founder, and board advisor with more than 25 years of experience leading companies through transformation, growth, and innovation. He has held senior leadership roles at SolarWinds, Pulse Secure, Veritas Technologies, and Avni.io, a hybrid cloud company he founded and later led through acquisition. Rohini is a strong guest for conversations around leadership, business transformation, AI-driven decision-making, SaaS growth, and the future of go-to-market strategy. He can help audiences understand how leaders can move faster without...
Four Decades of Real Estate: Building Wealth Through Market Cycles with David DePaola
David Depaola 40+ Years of Real Estate Experience Helping Clients Build Long-Term Wealth Hi, I’m David DePaola — a real estate broker, entrepreneur, and Broker Owner of David DePaola and Company Real Estate in Central New Jersey. I’ve spent more than four decades helping buyers, sellers, investors, and business owners navigate residential, commercial, land, and investment real estate. Since beginning my career in the early 1980s, I’ve completed thousands of transactions and experienced multiple real estate market cycles firsthand. Over the years, I’ve built my business around consistency, strong client relationships, honest communication, and a deep understanding of what truly...
Broadway Leadership Lessons: Teri Pruitt on Transforming Teamwork, Communication, and Trust in Business
Teri Pruitt Theatrical solutions for business problems Most people think Broadway is about the stars. Teri Pruitt knows it's really about the hundreds of people working together behind the curtain to create the magic audiences experience every night. Theatre is one of history's oldest living laboratories for teamwork, leadership, communication, and trust. After more than 30 years as a professional theatre artist—including over 25 years on Broadway—she founded Open the Aperture, where she brings the collaborative lessons of the theatrical process to organizations through keynotes, workshops, consulting, and conversations like this one. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm...
Kyle Bender on Real Estate Investing, Scaling Teams and Building Long-Term Wealth
Kyle Bender Broker, Investor & Real Estate Entrepreneur Helping Clients Build Long-Term Wealth Hi, I’m Kyle Bender — a real estate entrepreneur, broker, investor, and the CEO of Scarlett Property Group at eXp Realty based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over the last two decades, I’ve built multiple businesses across brokerage, real estate investing, and property management, helping clients and investors create long-term wealth through real estate. My passion for real estate started early through an interest in development and investing. I moved to Charlotte to pursue the business full-time, building custom homes while earning my real estate license at night. Since...
Beyond the Boardroom: How High-Achieving Women Rebuild After Divorce with Trena Briscoe Matthews
Trena Briscoe Matthews Post-Divorce Strategist: Transforming High-Achieving Women from Survival to Purposeful Reinvention Trena is a transformative leader, author, and post-divorce strategic coach dedicated to helping high-achieving women over 40 regain clarity and confidence after divorce, so they can intentionally design their next chapter in alignment with who they are now. As the founder of Silverline Publishing and Silverline Coaching, Trena has built a career rooted in strategic vision, authentic connection, and personal transformation. Through her signature framework, The Phoenix Protocol, she guides women through the deeply personal work of regaining emotional grounding after divorce, reclaiming their voices, and intentionally designing...
Anna Rikka Aborro: Building Systems, Delegating Effectively and Scaling Without Chaos
Anna Rikka Aborro Everything in Your Business Runs Through You. We Change That. nna Rikka Aborro is the founder of TAP Virtual Solutions and TAP OBM. She has 18 years of experience in operations and project management, helping business owners organize the messy backend of their business. She works with founders, coaches, consultants, and service-based businesses that already have clients, revenue, ideas, and a team, but still feel like everything runs through the owner. They are growing, but their systems, workflows, SOPs, accountability, and team structure have not caught up yet. That is where Anna Rikka comes in. She helps turn...
