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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 intention.
Whether you are an emerging entrepreneur seeking your first big idea or a seasoned builder refining your craft, Entrepreneurship 101 provides a reliable, accessible foundation for achieving long-term success. This is where knowledge meets ambition—and where visionary ideas become powerful realities.
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Jeremy Neilson
Venture Capital Expert
Jeremy is a seasoned fintech entrepreneur and private investment technology leader with over 15 years of experience working with SPVs and investment administration tools. Prior to Sally, he co‑founded and served as CEO of Assure, a pioneering fintech fund and SPV administration platform that helped power thousands of investment vehicles for angel groups, syndicators and venture capital funds across the U.S.
He also launched and managed Utah’s $300M Fund of Funds program and has led strategic initiatives in venture capital operations, due diligence, and fund administration — blending deep financial expertise with operational leadership to drive innovation in private markets
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Entrepreneurship 101, in its first season, features Robert Mahoney, a leading voice in Behavioral Threat Assessment and Targeted Violence Prevention (TVTP) solutions. In this compelling episode, Robert shares his expertise on how entrepreneurs, organizations, and leaders can proactively identify risks, strengthen workplace safety, and build resilient business environments. Drawing from his experience in behavioral analysis and threat prevention, he discusses how businesses can move beyond reactive crisis management and instead implement strategic, preventative frameworks that protect employees, customers, and organizational reputation.
This conversation explores the growing importance of security awareness in today’s rapidly changing business landscape, where behavioral insights and early intervention can make the difference between stability and disruption. Robert Mahoney provides practical guidance for entrepreneurs looking to integrate threat assessment strategies into their leadership approach, emphasizing communication, awareness, and proactive decision-making. Listeners will gain valuable insights into how thoughtful leadership, combined with behavioral intelligence, can create safer, stronger, and more sustainable organizations.
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Entrepreneurship 101, in its first season, features Courtney and Slava, the President and Founder of Puptqe, as they take listeners behind the scenes of their entrepreneurial journey—sharing the vision that sparked their business, the challenges they navigated in building a brand from the ground up, and the strategic decisions that shaped their growth. In this episode, they discuss the realities of leadership, the importance of resilience and adaptability in an ever-changing market, and how aligning passion with purpose can create a sustainable and impactful venture. Courtney and Slava also offer valuable insights on scaling operations, fostering innovation, and maintaining a strong company culture while pursuing long-term success in the competitive world of entrepreneurship.
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Pete Polyakov
Built the World's Largest 3D Car Tuning Library | Turning Automotive Frustration Into a $B Demand Signal Platform
Pete Polyakov is the founder of ModsNation - the world's largest 3D automotive tuning platform - and Arvion Bauhaus, a custom Porsche 911 Design House. After losing money buying parts that looked wrong on his car, Pete built what didn't exist: a 3D try-before-you-buy system for the auto aftermarket. Today, 600+ 3D cars and 250,000+ parts later, manufacturers use the platform to test demand before committing to production. Pete holds a PhD in philosophy, was born in Moscow, raised in South Asia, and now builds from Florida. His background spans architecture, film, and software - which is exactly why his platform looks different from everything else in the industry.
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Today’s guest is Ali Badi, founder of The Score Machine and a credit & funding strategist who helps entrepreneurs optimize their credit profiles, get approved for funding, and build real financial leverage. Ali breaks down how the credit and banking system actually works, common mistakes business owners make, and the simple steps people can take right now to improve approvals and access more capital.
I’ve been in the credit and funding industry for over 15 years. I started right after college when I didn’t get into law school and took a different path into the credit repair world. That early experience gave me a front-row seat to how the industry really works — the good, the bad, and the parts most people never see.
Over the years, I learned directly from top operators in the space, worked alongside high-level performers, and saw firsthand how many people are given surface-level advice that doesn’t actually prepare them for real approvals. Eventually, I transitioned deeper into funding, where I saw the biggest gap: people were being sent to institutions before they were ready.
In 2020, during the early days of COVID, I experienced my first major breakthrough month in funding — and that’s when it fully clicked. The real opportunity wasn’t just helping people apply for funding. It was preparing them to meet institutional standards before they ever walked into a bank or lender conversation.
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Entrepreneurship 101, in its first season, features Emily Reynolds, discussing her journey as the founder of the award-winning R Public Relations. In this episode, Emily Reynolds shares how she built a respected public relations agency known for its strategic storytelling, innovative campaigns, and strong client relationships across multiple industries. The conversation explores the realities of entrepreneurship—from identifying opportunities and building a brand to leading a team and maintaining credibility in a competitive communications landscape. Emily reflects on the discipline, creativity, and resilience required to grow a successful business while staying committed to authentic messaging and meaningful community impact. This episode of Entrepreneurship 101 offers listeners valuable insights into leadership, business development, and the entrepreneurial mindset required to transform a vision into a thriving company.
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Bilal Ahmed
Interventional cardiologist. Founder of Lylah Health. Bringing science to the supplement space (Reset your gut - Upgrade your heart health). Internal/external mantra is no bullshit, ever.
Dr. Ahmed is an interventional/structural cardiologist and co-founder and CSO of Lylah Health, the personalized microbiome therapeutics company.
Lylah Health is a gut microbiome solution that combines prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics targeted at heart health and risk factors for heart disease.
He's a doctor first and entrepreneur second. His mantra is "no bullshit, ever.
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Dusty Gulleson
CEO at Tectonic (formerly eResources) | Strategic Partner to Mission-Driven Orgs | Dad, Builder, Bourbon & Cigar Guy
Dusty Gulleson didn’t start with a grand vision.
After leaving a misaligned COO role, Dusty Gulleson rebuilt from the ground up, waiting tables and taking freelance web projects until one client turned into many. Over 25 years, that hustle grew into Tectonic (formerly eResources), a 100+ person digital services and technology firm built without outside capital.
As CEO, Dusty has guided the company’s growth and transformation, unifying its divisions into a cohesive digital powerhouse while helping leaders cut through digital noise to drive measurable results.
He has led five successful acquisitions, built recurring revenue across sectors including housing, higher education, and public health, and created distributed teams that operate on trust, autonomy, and shared purpose.
Dusty has guided Tectonic through major growth by unifying multiple divisions into a single, cohesive digital powerhouse. Along the way, he’s learned that tools are just tools. What matters is clarity, trust, and a step‑by‑step plan that avoids overwhelm.
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Chris Miles
Cashflow Expert and ANTI-Financial Advisor
Chris Miles is the Cash Flow Expert and Anti-Financial Advisor who helps high-income earners achieve financial freedom—without relying on Wall Street.
After years as a traditional financial advisor, Chris saw the truth: no one was actually retiring early with 401(k)s and mutual funds. So he did the unthinkable—left the industry, turned to passive income strategies, and retired at 28. Then he did it again at 39, proving it wasn’t a one-time fluke.
As founder of Money Ripples and host of the Money Ripples Podcast, Chris has helped clients unlock over $300 million in hidden cash flow and create predictable streams of passive income. He’s been featured in CNN Money, BiggerPockets, and Entrepreneurs on Fire, and is on a mission to help others stop working for money—and start making money work for them.
In case you were wondering, Chris is also a marathon runner, former competitive ballroom dancer, and proudly took 5th place in his 3rd grade spelling bee. Now you know more than you needed to.
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Entrepreneurship 101, in its first season, features Jake Stahl, creator of Neurostrategy™ and CEO of Orchestraight™, as he shares his innovative approach to leadership, strategy, and business transformation. In this episode, Jake discusses how neuroscience, strategic thinking, and human behavior intersect to shape more effective leadership and decision-making in today’s complex business environment. As the creator of Neurostrategy™, he explores how understanding the brain’s patterns, motivations, and cognitive processes can help entrepreneurs design smarter strategies, improve performance, and lead teams with greater clarity and purpose. Through his work at Orchestraight™, Jake focuses on aligning people, systems, and strategy so organizations can move with precision and adaptability in an ever-changing marketplace. This conversation on Entrepreneurship 101 invites listeners to rethink traditional business strategy and consider how insights from neuroscience and behavioral science can unlock innovation, strengthen leadership, and create sustainable success for modern entrepreneurs.
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Faisal Ensaun
Certified High performance coach, business coach, Speaker
As an immigrant from a war-torn country, I've faced immense challenges, including overcoming addiction and bouts of deep personal despair. Today, I stand as a beacon of success, fulfillment, and purpose, reaching heights that seemed unimaginable in my childhood.
Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of coaching over 2,000 individuals from diverse backgrounds—ranging from students and stay-at-home moms to CEOs and multimillionaires. Certified in high-performance coaching since 2015 and business coaching since 2022, I've made profound impacts through both one-on-one sessions and group workshops. I regularly appear on podcasts and at events, inspiring participants to connect deeply with their visions and unlock their potential.
I co-founded the Coaching Mastery Community to empower other coaches to refine their skills and expand their practices. I also lead the CMI Coaching and Mentoring Mastermind for multifamily investors and entrepreneurs, providing weekly sessions that focus on high performance, personal development, and investing.
I am a devoted father to two beautiful daughters and the husband of a successful coach who has been my rock. When not coaching, I enjoy camping and traveling the world with my family. Whether it's in our motorhome or by plane, ship, or train, I cherish connecting with nature and meeting people committed to making a positive impact. As a community leader, I am dedicated to helping the younger generation achieve
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Joe Patneaude
Executive Coach for Financial Advisors | Creator of the STAR Scalability℠ Method.
Joe Patneaude is an executive coach, author, and creator of the STAR Scalability℠ Method, a practical, people-first framework that helps leaders grow their businesses without sacrificing their time, health, or team.
With more than 25 years in financial services, Joe’s career spans operations, compliance, technology, and executive leadership, including a rise from the mailroom to the C-suite. That journey gives him a perspective most coaches don’t have: he understands the invisible gap between how leaders think their business works and how their people actually experience it.
Joe specializes in helping founders, financial advisors, and service-based leaders simplify complexity, build stronger teams, and scale sustainably. His work blends real-world leadership experience with direct, honest insight. No fluff. No recycled coaching platitudes. Just clear, actionable principles grounded in lived experience.
Podcast audiences appreciate Joe because he brings a refreshing mix of straight talk, relatable stories, and genuinely useful strategies. Whether discussing burnout, team culture, scaling pains, or the challenges of growing a business that actually supports your life, Joe makes complex leadership issues simple and practical.
If your audience is full of leaders, owners, advisors, or entrepreneurs looking for clarity, focus, and a sustainable path forward, Joe brings the insights, and the candor, that make conversations memorable and valuable.
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Entrepreneurship 101, in its first season, features Jodi Hume, who joins the program to share insights from her 15-year career as the Chief Operating Officer of a rapidly growing architecture firm. In this episode, she discusses the realities of executive leadership, operational strategy, and what it takes to scale a professional services business while maintaining culture, efficiency, and long-term vision. Drawing from years of hands-on experience managing teams, navigating complex projects, and guiding organizational growth, Jodi offers valuable perspectives for entrepreneurs seeking to strengthen their leadership, operational discipline, and decision-making in an evolving business landscape.
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Entrepreneurship 101, in its first season, features Pericles Rellas discussing the powerful concept of Shifting Negative Money Mindsets. In this episode, we explore how deeply ingrained beliefs about money—often shaped by upbringing, culture, and past experiences—can unconsciously limit entrepreneurial growth and financial success. Pericles shares practical insights on recognizing scarcity-driven thinking, reframing limiting beliefs, and developing a healthier relationship with wealth creation. The conversation highlights how entrepreneurs can replace fear, guilt, or self-doubt around money with clarity, confidence, and intentional financial strategies. By shifting mindset from survival to abundance, business owners can unlock greater opportunities, make better decisions, and build sustainable prosperity in both their ventures and personal lives.
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Jesse Sells
Jesse Sells is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Impact Growth Capital, where he manages the daily operations of a diverse portfolio of properties and companies. With a strong passion for creating meaningful change, Jesse connects strategic vision with concrete results. His focus ensures that each project not only achieves its goals but also positively impacts communities and the wider market.
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In this episode, Derek shares the strategic and spiritual architecture behind creating Pachamama Sanctuary a space designed for transformation, healing, and conscious community. We explore what it truly takes to launch and sustain a sanctuary-based business model, from land acquisition and infrastructure development to brand positioning, retreat programming, and long-term sustainability. This is not just about starting a business; it’s about stewarding a vision that integrates profitability with purpose.
Listeners will gain insight into founder resilience, values-aligned leadership, and the operational realities of running a retreat destination in a global marketplace. How do you scale impact without compromising authenticity? What risks must founders embrace when building something unconventional? This episode delivers clarity for entrepreneurs who want to build not only revenue but legacy.
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Entrepreneurship 101, in its first season, features Josh Carr, CEO of Echo Water, a pioneering company at the forefront of hydrogen-based wellness innovation. In this in-depth conversation, Josh shares what it truly means to lead a science-driven brand in a rapidly evolving health market, navigating regulatory landscapes, consumer skepticism, and competitive pressure while staying anchored to mission and long-term vision. He breaks down the entrepreneurial realities behind scaling a wellness company — from product development and operational logistics to building a values-based culture and positioning a brand as both credible and cutting-edge. This episode explores leadership under pressure, strategic growth, disciplined execution, and the mindset required to transform emerging technology into a sustainable global enterprise. For founders, innovators, and ambitious entrepreneurs, this discussion offers practical insight into building not just a company, but a category-defining movement.
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This episode moves beyond résumé screening and into the structural mechanics of building high-performance teams.
Michael T. Brown emphasizes that hiring is not a transactional decision—it is a strategic investment. The wrong hire does more than reduce productivity; it disrupts culture, drains leadership energy, and creates long-term financial leakage. Slow growth is recoverable. Cultural misalignment is costly.
Even talented individuals fail when expectations are ambiguous. Brown highlights the necessity of defining measurable outcomes, decision authority, and accountability structures before extending an offer. Alignment reduces friction and accelerates execution.
The episode also addresses founder psychology. Many entrepreneurs hire reactively—either too quickly out of urgency or too late out of control tendencies. Brown argues for disciplined workforce planning grounded in projected revenue, workload analysis, and cultural readiness.
From onboarding systems to performance reviews, this feature of Entrepreneurship 101 reinforces that hiring is leadership in action. Every addition to a team reshapes organizational identity. Strong companies are not built by chance—they are built by intentional selection.
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Sonia Couto
2x Tech Founder. Learned Leadership Through Multiple Start-Overs. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Sonia Couto is a tech founder, operator, and product builder known for turning chaotic environments into clear, grounded, and high-performing systems. She leads two global SaaS platforms and has spent over 20 years rebuilding products, teams, and companies through disciplined, common-sense leadership.
A breast cancer survivor who continued running and scaling companies throughout treatment, Sonia brings a rare, practical perspective on resilience, decision-making under pressure, and leading when fear is loud.
Her insights cut through theory and get straight to what founders and executives actually face: uncertainty, complexity, and the responsibility of execution.
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Entrepreneurship 101, in its first season, features Stan Kurtz, CEO of Quantum Research, in a powerful conversation exploring the cellular, emotional, energetic, and spiritual blocks that often limit entrepreneurial growth. In this thought-provoking episode, Stan examines how unseen internal patterns can quietly influence leadership decisions, risk tolerance, resilience, and long-term vision. He breaks down how emotional conditioning, subconscious belief systems, and energetic imbalances can affect clarity, execution, and performance at the executive level.
Listeners gain insight into how high-level leaders can move beyond surface strategy and address deeper internal constraints that impact innovation and scaling. This episode challenges founders and business owners to view entrepreneurship not only as a financial pursuit, but as an integrated journey of personal alignment, mindset recalibration, and holistic performance.
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