Are you a high school or college student with a passion for business? Look no further than Studying Success, the ultimate podcast for aspiring young entrepreneurs. Join us as we delve into the secrets of success in the business world through captivating interviews with accomplished entrepreneurs, investors, and CEOs. Gain invaluable insights into their career paths, daily responsibilities, and lessons learned along the way. Discover what it truly takes to thrive in the world of business. If ...
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Midknight Robin, Remi Marvin, Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons, and Kerry Adderly co-host this weekday gymnastics talk show, joined by regular contributors, analysts, and guests. The show includes weekly news, interviews with sports athletes, coaches, entertainers, and personalities, spirited debates, and an assortment of other topics.
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A unique perspective of Politics and our robust Social Climate.
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An in-depth look at how ultra-endurance events place extreme and unique physiological demands on athletes. This podcast will feature athletes, and their support teams, talking about how they prepare and compete at the world's toughest events. Expect discussion around long-term preparation, nutrition, coping with environmental stressors and building psychologic toughness! Host: Nick Longworth has been hosting international sports technology and life science conferences for the last decade, an ...
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Hosted by Our Indigenous Traditions Shop at OITClothing.com The Talking Stick- culturally adopted by tribes and used today, is a stick that "empowers peace" between Nations. The stick is passed around in the four directions of the circle, given everyone who has the stick an opportunity to speak their mind freely, share a song, ask for help, and etc. The stick encourages everyone to listen to the stick holder and builds trust in the community. We will sit down and have discussions on Indigeno ...
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High-performing, successful executives of professional services businesses talk with Jay Kingley, CEO of Centricity, to trumpet their clarion call to their target market to change the status quo. In each episode, Jay uses Centricity's proprietary framework, Provocative Perspectives™, to guide his guest to articulate how executive decision-makers should solve some of their toughest business problems, positioning his guest as a strategic advisor instead of a peddler of products and pitcher of ...
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In today’s episode, we are joined by Frank Licea, founder and CTO at Howdy, the service that allows US tech companies to hire and manage software developers in Latin America. Beginning as a Y-Combinator students, Frank Licea and his co-founder, CEO Jacqueline Samira, have grown Howdy from an idea to a $105M valuation. In this episode, we discuss ho…
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Elie Seidman, former CEO at Tinder, current CEO at Fast Growing Trees
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In today’s episode, we are joined by Elie Seidman. Elie is the interim CEO of Fast Growing Trees where he is leading the scale up. Elie is the former CEO of Tinder where he led Tinder’s hyper growth scale-up and internationalization with revenue growth from $350M/year to $1.3B/year. Prior to Tinder, he was the CEO of OkCupid where he led a turnarou…
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Peter Lozano Alcolea, Cofundador Imascono
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Es un honor tener mi primer podcast en español con alguien tan impresionante e inteligente como Peter Lozano Alcolea. Peter es el cofundador de Imascono, una empresa que ayuda a otras empresas con su transformación digital mediante tecnologías como la realidad virtual y la inteligencia artificial. Después de tener una carrera destacada en el fútbol…
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Piers Thackray, Founder and CEO at Theone
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In this episode, we are joined by Piers Thackray, founder and CEO at Theone, the AI content creator and manager for businesses. After seeing his mother work tireless hours trying to promote her different small businesses, Piers wanted to build a solution that would help smaller businesses with the marketing. So, after founding and building a market…
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Matt Pru, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Stackmatix
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In today’s episode, we are joined by Matt Pru, co-founder and managing partner at Stackmatix, the startup and scaling growth partner. Prior to co-founding Stackmatix, Matt was the Head of Sales at MightyHive which he helped grow from 10 to more than a hundred employees and which ultimately sold to S4 Capital for $150M. In addition, Matt has worked …
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Talking Stick #28 hosted by Our Indigenous Traditions
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Mark and Mario Sanchez(South Valley Yowlumni Yokuts Tejon Tribe) Singers Dancers, Spiritual Advisors. Been on this road for a very long time. Since the early 90s. Thanks for the opportunity to speak to the people about our family. There are so many chapters to what we have accomplished. Hoka Let's go...…
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Amanda Hesser, Founder and Executive Chair at Food52
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For our 30th episode, I am honored to be joined by the Amanda Hesser, Founder and Executive Chair at the Food52, the online culinary community. After working at the New York Times as a food reporter, writer and editor, and columnist, Ms. Hesser felt that she was missing something in her life – entrepreneurship. Shortly after leaving the New York Ti…
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Abby Miller Levy, Managing Partner and Founder at Primetime Partners
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Today, we are joined by Abby Miller Levy, Managing Partner and Founder at Primetime Partners. After realizing the lack of opportunities for retired people when her father retired, Abby set out to build a business or businesses to give retired people a more vibrant and healthy life. After writing out several business plans, Abby realized that she wo…
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Paul Hedrick, Founder and Executive Chairman at Tecovas
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In this episode, we are joined by Paul Hedrick, Founder and Executive Chairman at Tecovas. In 2015, after having worked more traditional business roles at private Equity firm L Catterton and consulting firm McKinsey, Paul took the leap to build the direct to consumer, western-style boot brand, Tecovas. After launching the original Shopify store in …
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Kathryn Cavanaugh, Founder and Managing Partner at Capstar Ventures
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Today we are joined by Kathryn Cavanaugh, founder and managing partner at Capstar Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups. In this episode we discuss how Kathryn raised the first fund for Capstar, what it was like to go through COVID with Capstar, and what Kathryn looks for in founders. Stick around to the end to hear …
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Brian O’Malley, Managing Partner at Forerunner
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In this episode we are joined by Brian O’Malley, Managing Partner at Forerunner, a venture capital firm that invests in consumer businesses such as Away, Chime, and Glossier. In this episode, we discuss what businesses make Brian most excited to invest, how to market to the consumer, and Brian’s biggest challenges both as a VC and at Forerunner. Pl…
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Today we are joined by Josh Bowen, Co-founder and COO at Simba, a platform that provides affordable money transfer services for immigrants sending funds home. Prior to Simba, Josh was a Co-founder and head of business development and product at CrowdTwist. CrowdTwist sold to Oracle in 2019 and had more than $10 million in revenue. In this episode, …
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In this episode, we are joined by Chris Cabrera, founder and CEO at Xactly, a SaaS company that helps businesses manage aspects of their sales force including compensation and sales forecasting. Today we discuss how Mr. Cabrera built Xactly, the lessons he learned from his experiences working with VCs, and why Xactly was able to grow from $5 millio…
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Ben Lerer, Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau, Former Founder at Thrillist, Former CEO at Group Nine Media
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Today we are joined by Ben Lerer who is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau, an early stage investment fund that targets New York based businesses and that has invested in the seed rounds of companies like Casper, Venmo, and Warby Parker. Before Lerer Hippeau, Ben was a founder at Thrillist Media Group which provides city guides to nightlife and re…
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Talking Stick Episode #27 with BAIHP CEO Angel Galvez hosted by Our Indigenous Traditions
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Bakersfield American Indian Health Project located in Bakersfield, CA is a culture-based health access and advocacy program designed to enhance the health and well-being of the urban American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) peoples in Kern County. BAIHP provides medical case management, public health nursing services, mental health counseling, sub…
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7th Generation Podcast and The Talking Stick Podcast #26 Host by Dr. B. and Our Indigenous Traditions
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Dr. Bernard Navarro is all about American Indian Studies and teaches at Fresno City College, CA. We join together to discuss indigenous topics from leadership, business, self-identity, and history. YouTube: @dr.bteachessociology4471 Instagram: @7thgenpodcast TikTok: @mercilesssavagez ---------------- OITClothing Established in 2016 by Yendi and Joh…
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Kim Dowling, Founder and CEO at Ride Indoor Cycling
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In this episode, we are joined by Kim Dowling, Founder and CEO at Ride Indoor Cycling. Founded in Austin, Texas, Ride offers customers a fun workout experience filled with dancing, music, and colorful lights. In today’s episode, we discuss the power of word of mouth marketing for Ride’s success, how Kim creates a world class experience for Ride’s c…
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Cyrus Massoumi, Founder and CEO at Dr. B, Founder and Managing Partner at Humbition, Former founder and CEO at ZocDoc
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Today we are joined by Cyrus Massoumi, founder and CEO at Dr. B, a telehealth platform that offers affordable online medical consultations with doctors. Prior to Dr. B, Cyrus was the founder and CEO at ZocDoc, a platform that allows you to book appointments with Doctors in your area online. On top of Dr. B, Cyrus is also the founder and managing pa…
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Reed Taussig, CEO at AuthenticID, former CEO at Callidus Software and ThreatMetrix
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For our 20th episode, Studying Success is honored to be joined by someone as accomplished and successful as Reed Taussig. Taussig, in his epic career, has raised a total of $155 million and has returned to his investors $1.6 billion – yes, that’s billion with a b. From June 1997 to July of 2008, Taussig served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Cal…
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Jason Burchard, CEO and Co-founder at RootNote
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Jason Burchard is the CEO and co-founder at a SaaS (Software as a Service) company called RootNote. RootNote provides content creators such as youtubers, musicians, twitch streamers, podcasters, etc. with a single platform that houses all of their relevant data like follower count, streams, plays, etc. so that these content creators can make better…
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Rob Taylor, Former Founder and CEO, Current Board Member at LawnStarter
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Today we are joined by Rob Taylor who has founded and operated 5 vc-backed startups over the past 20 years including BlackLocus which sold to Home Depot in 2012 and TrueCar which went public in 2014. Most recently, Rob Co-founded and was the CEO of a B to B SaaS company called Convey which was acquired by Project44 in September of 2021 for $255M. I…
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Jon Broscious, Investor at Mucker Capital
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Mucker Capital is a venture capital firm that invests largely in preseed, seed and series A rounds. In today’s episode, Jon tells us why he likes “unsexy” software companies, what makes a company desirable to invest in in early rounds, and what are the characteristics of a great CEO. Please subscribe to Studying Success to hear more from the best e…
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Klaus Wegener, Co-Founder and Managing Director at 35up
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In this episode, we are joined by Klaus Wegener who is a Co-Founder and Managing director at 35up, a company that provides ecommerce sites with cross selling software. Prior to 35up, Klaus Co-founded a custom laptop and phone case company called Caseable where he was the CEO. In today’s episode, we dive into how Klaus and his team launched 35up, ho…
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Wesley Gottesman, Principal at Brand Foundry Ventures
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In today’s episode, we hear from Wesley Gottesman who currently works as a Principal at a venture capital firm called Brand Foundry Ventures. Brand Foundry Ventures has invested in companies such as Starface, the acne concealer products brand and Allbirds. Prior to Brand Foundry, Wesley launched a startup called Rollrcoastr and worked with Drew Bre…
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The Former Healthcare IT Consultant, Jihoon Baek, Founder and CEO at Dendi
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Dendi is a software platform that helps medical labs organize their data and run their businesses better. With the help of its founder and CEO, Jihoon Baek, Dendi grew to 7 figure growth and raised a $2 million round this August. In today’s episode, Jihoon tells us how he started Dendi in the medical field despite having no background in medicine, …
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Yul Moldauer discusses Arthur Gander Memorial, Swiss Cup, and the Bundesliga League. Yul interview guest 2007 NCAA all-around champion Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons. Yul Moldauer is a US Olympian, World Medalist, and a 7-Time NCAA Champion who trains at 5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
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The Mathematician and Entrepreneurial Magician, Tom Corwin, Founder of Metron
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Metron is a consulting service that uses advanced statistics and mathematics in projects primarily for U.S. government clients. One of Merton's most famous projects would be its part in creating a map that led to the discovery of the wreckage from Air France flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean in 2010. In today’s episode, Tom discusses how to have rel…
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The Lord of Laundry, Ajay Prakash, Co-Founder at Rinse
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Rinse is a service that picks up customers’ dry cleaning and laundry, cleans it, and returns it to their door. In today’s episode, Ajay walks us through how he and his co-founder built Rinse from serving 11 people to serving 8 major cities and how for the past 10 years he has worked to create a national brand. Stick around to the end to hear why it…
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Yul Moldauer discusses World Team Trials, World Championships, & the Bundesliga League. Yul Moldauer is a US Olympian, World Medalist, and a 7-Time NCAA Champion who trains at 5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
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Anna Henry - Climate Action Plans Required By Consumers
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Anna Henry of Shift Sustainability Consulting tells us that consumers are anxious about climate change and are beginning to demand that the businesses that they patronize are supporting this cause. Many consumers believe that brands have just as much responsibility for – and ability to take – climate action as governmental bodies. Anna points out t…
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Jeff Krukin of Earth-Space Commerce Advisors points out the tremendous potential that companies have to do business in the commercial space industry. While you’ve heard of space industry companies like Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and even the space force military branch, you may not appreciate ho…
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The Enzo Ferrari of the Nutrition Industry, Jamie Riepe, Founder of Bala Health
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Bala Health is a company in the nutrition industry that provides its customers with a personalized eating plan based on their “trigger foods” with the goal of improving their wellbeing. In this episode, Jamie Riepe, the founder of Bala Health, takes us through the process of how he built his initial product and got feedback on it, why he is decidin…
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Chia-Chun Chung - Going From The Lab To Commercial Production
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Chia-Chun Chung of Cadence Process Consulting observes that hard tech company founders have much uncertainty on how to go from “breakthrough performance” in the lab to “the new normal” for their product. Scaling up uncovers unexpected problems that lengthen the time to market putting the company trajectory in jeopardy. There are 3 big challenges to…
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Alex Burkhart - Innovation Inside The Enterprise
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Alex Burkhart of Zooky observes that while many enterprise executives desire to make a mark as innovators in their business, they fail to properly understand what it is they are trying to solve, who they are selecting to help solve the problem, and how they are going about solving the problem. Alex points out that innovation inside a corporation re…
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Scott Kaplan - Develop Sales Skills To Drive Revenue Growth
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Scott Kaplan of Quick Hit Sales Tips observes that sales is one area where most CEOs think they should and must do better. Frequent pain points are needing to level up the sales skills of their team, getting new hires up to speed, consistency, and management. Scott points out that these issues are often caused by a lack of experience in using the r…
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The Phil Knight of Insurance, Matt Randall, Co-CEO at Spot
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Spot is a health insurance company that covers people for their injuries in athletic adventures such as mountain biking, skiing, or skateboarding. In today’s episode, Matt Randall, the Co-CEO at Spot, walks us through how he started the company, how to get customers into a purchasing behavior, and how direct marketing to consumers through social me…
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Nicole Hanusek - Your Website Isn't An Historical Record Of Your Business
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Nicole Hanusek of Smack Happy Design points out that an out of date website can result in the growth of your business stalling out because you’re not getting the right leads. Many business owners think their website is a create it and forget it. She observes that your website reflected your business when it was created but over time your business h…
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Nick Kobayashi - Can Employers Get Career Development & Mentoring Right?
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Nick Kobayashi of Open Door Consulting laments that employers don’t understand that a big reason why employees are quitting is because they don't see a path for growth. Since the 1980's, employer's have looked at employees as commodities. The employer/employee relationship changed and the responsibility of training and continuing education fell to …
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Yul Moldauer sits down with former 5280 Gymnastics Teammates Taylor Burkhart and Zak Johnson
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Yul Moldauer discusses the US National team bonus scoring, college gymnastics, and more with his former 5280 Gymnastics teammates Taylor Burkhart (Stanford/US Senior National Team member) and Zak Johnson (Rocky Mountain Pride). Yul Moldauer is a US Olympian, World Medalist, and a 7-Time NCAA Champion who trains at 5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, Co…
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Joe English - Professionalizing Your Sales Function
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Joe English of 360 Consulting observes that so many businesses struggle to meet sales goals and expectations in spite of their best efforts. This manifests itself in stalled out proposals, inability to take sales to the next level, lack of time to manage sales, inability to find the "right" salesperson, or having the wrong compensation system. Joe …
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David McClaskey - Achieving 100% Excellence 100% Of The Time
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David McClaskey of the McClaskey Excellence Institute observes that two-thirds of employees are NOT engaged in their jobs. This results in your customers not getting products and services delivered so they 100% meet the brand specifications every time and not feeling welcome when they do business with your company. It also results in high manager t…
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The Bootstrapper, Chris Taylor, Founder and CEO of Square Root
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After growing and running his company, Square Root, for fifteen years without raising any money, Chris Taylor sold his company in February of 2021 to CDK. In this episode, we talk about the process of getting acquired, how to approach potential customers in a market, and how to be a small company working for giant corporations. Stick around to the …
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Yul Moldauer talks about US Gymnastics Championships, US Classics, Bundesliga League, & Pan American Championships. Yul Moldauer is a US Olympian, World Medalist, and a 7-Time NCAA Champion who trains at 5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
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John Gallagher - Balancing Work & Life To Maximize Impact
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Excellence only happens on purpose. John Gallagher of Growing Champions observes that too often, leaders fail to believe that success can be achieved in business AND life. Their definition of success, and thus, their personal worth, is limited to the title they have on their business card or the speed in which they climb the corporate ladder. John …
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Jonathan Barnes - Going From A Small Business To An Enterprise
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Jonathan Barnes of Work Heartily highlights the enormous challenge of needing an experienced executive team before you can afford one to go from Stage 1 of a business (start-up/mom & pop) to Stage 3 (enterprise). Twenty years ago you tried to make this transition on hope and prayer, and most didn’t make it. Today, Jonathan points out how companies …
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The Card Shark, Sean Spector, Founder and CEO of Dropoff
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In addition to co-founding GameFly, a video game rental company, and founding Dropoff, a same day delivery service, Sean Spector has become quite the poker player, having played in the World Series of Poker. In today’s episode, we dive into the ideation process of starting a business, when to raise capital, and how one builds a great consumer brand…
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