Best Loralyn Mears Podcasts (2024)

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Jennifer Moscato CEO One-Third Stories 22:28

6M ago22:28

22:28

Jennifer Moscato is the President of One-Third Stories, an innovative language-learning solution designed for children and the adults who are teaching them. In a clever "sneak attack," the stories begin in one language but slowly morph into another language so that people learn words and their context in a natural way. This improves learning and re…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Franca Borgia 59:24

8M ago59:24

59:24

Franca Borgia is a visionary, artist, and author. As a polyglot, she is hyper-aware of cultural sensitivies and the power of nuance: words have impact. She uses her artistry to create intricate, conceptual installations that are featured in several hotels and museums around the world. Her home - and her heart - is in Venice. This podcast was a spec…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Denise Drinkwalter 22:07

8M ago22:07

22:07

Denise Drinkwalter is one of those laid back, "take it as it comes," type of person that you can instantly relate with. Her Canadian roots and career in education as a teacher and principal offer immediate connection points and the confidence that she is going to help you get there - wherever it is that you are going. She is a life coach focused on…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Danielle Perlin-Good 18:27

12M ago18:27

18:27

Danielle Perlin-Good has deep experience in digital marketing and ghostwriting. She takes her clients on a journey of personal discovery and healing as the "Soul-Aligned Ghostwriter." Danielle exudes cautious optimism and a time-proven process that takes her clients step-by-step through getting their book idea out of their heads on onto the digital…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Dr. Brenda Boston 25:40

1y ago25:40

25:40

Dr. Brenda Boston is the President of the Dr. Marie Barney Boston Foundation which was founded by her late mother. It offers more than a scholarship to help students attend college, it also teaches accountability, responsibility, and giving back to the community. To date, since the foundation launched in 2015, they have helped 35 students with tuit…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Jennifer Holmes 22:01

1y ago22:01

22:01

Jennifer Holmes founded Joyous Journeys - all because she was interested in "voluntourism" and "eco-tourism" but couldn't find the services that she needed to play her offshore vacations. She, like so many others, enjoys taking vacations but also wants to give back while she's holidaying. Whether it is for a day, a few days, or even the focus of th…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Annie Mork 21:05

1y ago21:05

21:05

Annie Mork is the founder of Jobs For Therapists, which is a job board made for theraplists including SLPs, PTs, OTs, and Psychs. She is helping connect recruiters and job seekers in the therapy world in a more meaningful way. Her training is in speech therapty where she now has a telehealth practice supporting children with speech challenges, many…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Brilly Semenova 12:54

1+ y ago12:54

12:54

Meet Brilly Semenova - a disability self-advocate who does not take 'no' for an answer. She has the tenacity, spunk, and knowledge of an entire team of advocates. As a child, she was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and now has difficulty with daily living. But that hasn't stopped her from pursuing her Master's in Organizational Leadership and Nonprof…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Enrique Morgan 29:50

1+ y ago29:50

29:50

Accolade Wines is innovating everything from its bottles to its technology and production processes. Like bubbles? They have a new Prosecco ... and there are so many new ideas that will pop later this year. Enrique Morgan, managing director of the Americas, shares his gritty tales of beginning his wine journey selling to California gas stations to …

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Colin Darretta 24:03

2y ago24:03

24:03

Colin Darretta is a "reformed investment banker," serial entrepreneur, investor, and a journalist for Forbes, Inc, TechCrunch, plus other major media. He is the CEO and co-founder of Innovation Department, which spurs the brands of the future. Colin also co-founded FINN, which recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary. He lamented all the virtue …

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Christine Spang 35:19

2y ago35:19

35:19

Christine Spang, founder & CTO of Nylas, has evolved over the last decade growing her software company which is essentially like "the plumbing for the internet" connecting code. She talks about how the highs are super high and the lows are super low but that foundation at MIT prepared her for the mental fortitude that she was going to need to lead …

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Christina Richards 19:17

2y ago19:17

19:17

Christina Richards is the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Virtana - a software company specializing in cloud services. She took the road less traveled. Indeed, Christina calls it the "dark side" where she took a deep dive into engineering then evolved into marketing. With her role today, she has the opportunity to influence rising professionals in…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Dr. Deborah Jonas 23:46

2y ago23:46

23:46

Dr. Deborah Jonas is the director of SRI's Center for Education Research & Innovation. Yes, she has access to astronauts and researchers of the highest caliber in the world - but she focuses her efforts on community learning. Deborah shared her thoughts on how we can better support students to "fail productively" and essentially to fail forward so …

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Jeanelle Ditto 23:34

2y ago23:34

23:34

What a breath of fresh air! It's so easy to feel intimidated, especially when it comes to things like interior design, "Will my home meet your standard?" But Jeanelle Ditto, founder of Blush Interior Designs, is one of the most fun, accessible, down-to-Earth, and overall joyous people that you'll ever meet. No judgment! She offers listeners great a…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Lorrie Thomas Ross 25:08

2y ago25:08

25:08

Lorrie Thomas Ross is a breath of fresh air. She's The Marketing Therapist(R) and founder of Wild Web Women and Web Marketing Therapy. She understands the value of relationships and follows the mantra, "to lead with love." Her best advice for other female founders out there is to, "Always do what you do best and let others do the rest."…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest John Glowacki 32:42

2y ago32:42

32:42

John Glowacki, CEO of Combat Control Foundation, shares some deeply personal insights on life, loss, and leadership. He served our country in the role of combat control - for those unfamiliar with the role, it's like air traffic control but in a military application. Next year, a move feature a fallen combat control veteran will be released starrin…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears - live from Collision 18:40

2y ago18:40

18:40

For something a little different, Loralyn Mears recorded this podcast live from Collision Conference in Toronto. She highlighted some of the key insights around the downward trend of venture capital investment and spotlighted some key innovations. WebSummit does an incredible job organizing this event and, as usual, they were spectacular and made t…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Chris Beck 21:06

2y ago21:06

21:06

Chris Beck is the VP of the Family Law division of Soberlink. Their mobile sobriety technology helps document sobriety in real-time to ensure that a child is being co-parented by a sober guardian. Think of it like a breatholyzer on demand, all to keep children safe. This is especially important when parents are divorcing and fighting for custody of…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Josh York 26:01

2y ago26:01

26:01

Josh York, founder of GYMGUYZ, the global leader in personal fitness. He's elevated in-home training to a new level. But he had a rocky start and he openly shares how he's tapped into his unstoppable mindset, honed through fitness, to make the magic happen. Josh will challenge you to stop making excuses - and to just get it done. "Easy never pays w…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Lucas Stoltze 26:30

2y ago26:30

26:30

Meet Lucas Stoltze of ExitLag - the company behind-the-scenes of hundreds of games in countries around the world. They make your game connections faster so that you can communicate with other players sooner - maybe even before the bad guy sneaks up on your game buddy so that can avoid a takedown. Gaming can actually help improve soft skills like co…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Nick Grewal 31:49

2y ago31:49

31:49

Nick Grewal, serial entrepreneur and investor, is on a mision to make electronic vehicles more efficient and sustainable. He shared a key tip for entrepreneurs, "Don't put your success in someone else's hands. Be prepared to do it yourself." He highlighted how you need to know who you are as a company - and who you're not, and that mistakes are par…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Ahsan Rizvi 29:10

2y ago29:10

29:10

Meet Ahsan Rizvi, founder & CEO of Kiddom, who is transforming digital education to bolster the success of the next crop of learners. He's got a lot of wisdom to share about managing startup fires and digging in to gut through those infamously tough and gritty, early days of entrepreneurship. He'd know - he built Kiddom from the bathroom of a studi…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Michael Norring 26:05

2y ago26:05

26:05

Learn. Teach. Serve. That's a powerful motto and corporate culture that GCSIT's CEO, Michael Norring, has instilled in the workplace. It's more than a motto - people stand behind it - and employees are proud of the culture that they're helping create. Michael joins our show and shares some insights around digital transformation and how to lead an o…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Michael Peres 34:46

2y ago34:46

34:46

Michael (Mikey) shares some details about his "unusual" background and gives us a glimpse into how he, as a serial entrepreneur and software engineer, frames new ideas. As a neurodivergent, he has an insatiable appetite for learning new things and offers a fresh approach on how to combine the new ideas he learns - and that's what makes him an incre…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Bryan Fried 18:01

2y ago18:01

18:01

Bryan Fried is the founder and CEO of Pangea Global Technologies. They're been around for more than two decades, but they've never stopped innovating. They're taking LED lighting to the next level embedding private broadband internet access and enabling the commercial scale of crops - indoors - to address the global supply chain and hunger challeng…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Michael Esposito 29:45

2y ago29:45

29:45

Meet Michael Esposito - a family man on a mission to be better and to do more. His inspiration, dedication to self-improvement, and commitment to his customers of DenTen insurance isn't something that you see much of these days. Tune in to get inspired.By Loralyn Mears

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guests Alex & Daniel 24:50

2y ago24:50

24:50

Meet the co-founders of Branch Energy: Alex Ince-Cushman and Daniel MacDonald. They're making it easy for consumers to be smart about their energy consumption. They're growing quickly and offfered great advice for founders enduring "slogging through the minutia." They said, "Entropy of the world wants companies to come apart," and they offer advice…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Teresa Heath-Wareing 29:02

2y ago29:02

29:02

Teresa Heath-Wareing found her calling to inspire others when they get "stuck." She faced her personal challenges head-on and emerged stronger than before. Today, she's a TEDx speaker, coach, entrepreneur and best-selling author. Anything is possible!By Loralyn Mears

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Genecia Alluora 21:27

2y ago21:27

21:27

This is a MUST-listen episode. Genecia Alluora, founder of Soul Rich Woman, will inspire and motivate you. At the brink of death, on the ledge of a 10-story building, she changed her life. Her mother pulled her back from the edge and said, "Turn your mess into your message." And she's never looked back.…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Yulia Mamonova 27:46

2+ y ago27:46

27:46

Yuliia Mamonov is the Head of Content for Lemon.io, an innovative platform connecting clients to software developers on demand. Here's something you may not know - Lemon is based in Ukraine. Hear a first-hand account about some of the struggles trying to navigate the Russian war of aggression - and please do whatever you can to support Lemon and th…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Andrew Kashian 24:45

2+ y ago24:45

24:45

Hair loss? Hair transplant? The field has shifted far from the era of late night infomercials touting the latest miracle cream. Andrew Kashian and his team at Solve Clinics are working hard to make the industry safer and more transparent to enable consumers to make better choices. Most entrepreneurs on our show struggle with growth - Andrew is stru…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest James Barrood 21:58

2+ y ago21:58

21:58

Jim Barrood is the founder of Innovation+ and he's always on the cutting edge of what's new. The latest? Psychodelics - an industry which is still years behind the CBD industry but there's a lot of research in this area.By Loralyn Mears

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest David Lokshin 21:09

2+ y ago21:09

21:09

David Lokshin - and his father - have taken a road less traveled in entrepreneurship. With tenacity times ten, they adopted a "missionaries not mercenaries" philosophy until they found product market fit then never looked back. Trace is a wildy successful personalized sports memories solution: why watch every move by every member of the team when y…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Justin Huddy 18:09

2+ y ago18:09

18:09

Justin Huddy founded Radius Care to help family members manage the care of their loved ones. What's even more exceptional is that Justin has made his app free; it ties into Medicare and helps people find the most cost effective care solutions. Justin shares his thoughts on what he would have done differently as entrepreneurship can be a lonely jour…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Jim Kniest 21:49

2+ y ago21:49

21:49

Jim Kniest is a gamer, software developer, and entrepreneur. For the last five years, he's been building a unique app which helps people discover their sexual play styles. You can find his app, Halos & Sins, on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09R9BHFPRBy Loralyn Mears

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Muddu Sadhakar 22:14

2+ y ago22:14

22:14

Muddu Sadhakar is an innovator and a serial entrepreneur pushing boundaries around personalization at the intersection of technology and humanity. He's the co-founder and CEO of Aisera.ai; a digital and voice assistant for enterprise companies who offer support to their customers. Muddu's team trained their tech on 1 Trillion words! And I loved his…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Lauren Prager 26:45

2+ y ago26:45

26:45

Lauren Prager is the Chief Strategy Officer at Synapse, focused on building a tech ecosystem in Florida. She offered wonderful advice about aligning your heart with your purpose and how the community in Tampa is there for each other. When people align with what matters, and treat each other with kindness and respect, amazing advances are possible. …

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Mo Fathelbab 23:14

2+ y ago23:14

23:14

Mo Fathelbab just has a special way of engaging with his audience. He's a best selling author of two books with an incredible client list of who's-who. Mo is also the executive director of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO). His focus is helping others connect with their vulnerability to enable people to grow.…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Victoria Loskutova 12:04

2+ y ago12:04

12:04

Victoria Loskutova recently founded, "Bad Ass Bureau," an online agency to help amplify the voices of female founders in particular (although not exclusively) as we all know that ALL voices matter!By Loralyn Mears

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guests Max & Patrick 25:49

2+ y ago25:49

25:49

Maximilian de Melo and Patrick Niederdrenk operate MxP Group, which includes America One Luxury Real Estate in Arizona. With an exceptional work ethic and attention to detail, the co-founders and friends bring complementary skills to the table. They share how their grit and professionalism meet - and exceed - the expectations of demanding clients.…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Abby Match 20:36

2+ y ago20:36

20:36

This episode was both extra special and challenging to produce. As a breast cancer survivor myself, it was beautiful to hear Abby Match recount her dance with cancer and to learn about the advocacy work that she's doing to promote screening for Ashkenazi Jews who are carriers for the BRCA1 mutation. She's a force - leopard fierce! And she shares ti…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Sachin Jhangiani 16:07

2+ y ago16:07

16:07

Sachin Jhangiani co-founded Elevate Money after learning a thing or two on Wall Street. He wanted to find more purpose in his work so he created a platform where individuals can pool their resources and grow their assets together. Fractional everything is the current trend, and he's fully dialed into it to do good in the world and move towards equa…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Valeria Kogan PhD 21:00

2+ y ago21:00

21:00

Dr. Valeria Kogan is the co-founder of Fermata diagnosing plant health. Each year, millions of crop harvests are wasted and the world is increasingly seeking foods grown without chemicals. AgTech is not the industry you'll typically find young, female founders - but Valeria isn't letting that hold her back. She's got the grit and talent needed for …

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Claire Gunter 23:58

2+ y ago23:58

23:58

Claire Gunter has extensive experience in customer support, leveraging emotional skills to build relationships that last. She's worked at ZenDesk and is now the Latin America global manager of sales at eBanX, which is Brazil's first unicorn. Claire shares some tips on how to connect with customers and how to speak up to create opportunities for you…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Luke Ryan 14:50

2+ y ago14:50

14:50

The Grit Files (formerly known as Like a Boss) gets into the gritty backstory of US Army veteran, Luke Ryan, a war poet and author. Luke recently published his first novel, "The First Marauder." His day job keeps him hopping as the social media manager for the fastest growing coffee company in America. Tune in!…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Kanika Wahi 11:48

2+ y ago11:48

11:48

Kanika Wahi took over the responsibility of developing a topical product originally designed by her father to better manage her sister's allergies. Since then, Trutek Corp. has grown and Kanika talks about the dynamics of being an executive - and a relative - in the world of formulation chemistry and business.…

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The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Brittany Woyma 19:18

2+ y ago19:18

19:18

The Grit Files (formerly known as Like a Boss) with Loralyn Mears & Guest Brittany Woyma features the Startup Stories of WhereToBuy.io which offers the modern way to find the products you love on retail shelves. As a mother of three and former advertising agency executive, Brittany has embraced entrepreneurship and shares some tips on why she ditch…

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Like a BOSS with Loralyn Mears & Guest Dr. José Morey 16:51

2+ y ago16:51

16:51

Dr. José Morey is on a mission to make STEM accessible to everyone. As the Intergalactic Doctor, born in Puerto Rico but traveling the world supporting amazing projects like Elon Musk's Hyperloop, NASA, artificial intelligence for health at IBM Watson and more, his message is that STEM is for everyone because, in his words, "representation matters.…

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Like a BOSS with Loralyn Mears & Guest Ryan Walker 22:45

2+ y ago22:45

22:45

Ryan Walker founded one of the most successful social media management companies on the planet: TSMA. As in, "The Social Media Agency." His team pioneered the influencer economy engaging in celebrity social media management long before it became trendy to do so. He offers listeners some valuable insights and tips into how to grow your social media …

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Like a BOSS with Loralyn Mears & Guest Dr. Tommy Watson 29:22

2+ y ago29:22

29:22

Need some inspiration? Maybe along with a side of motivation? Dr. Tommy Watson faced incredible hardships growing up with his five siblings and parents who were drug addicts and repeatedly incarcerated. He moved around a lot from one foster home to another, lived in motels, and lived apart from his siblings, but he grew strong fueled by the desire …

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