In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Janet Nambi, the founder of Unconscious Brilliance. Janet shares her incredible journey from co-founding and scaling a successful recruiting agency across six African countries to the brink of burnout, which ultimately led her to leave the business and rediscover her path. This personal experience with the high-stress, all-consuming nature of entrepreneurship became the foundation for her current mission: to help other...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Stefan Grant, a creative strategist and brand engineer. Stefan shares his unconventional journey into entrepreneurship, which began in high school with guerrilla marketing for parties and evolved through experiences in the music industry as a rapper and record label owner. He explains how these early ventures taught him to marry creative vision with business acumen, a skill that now forms the core of his approach to he...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Warren Sager, a partner at Assured Strategy and a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience building and selling more than 15 e-commerce businesses. Warren shares the powerful, personal story behind his "work smarter, not harder" philosophy, which was born from the tragic loss of his father to the stress of running their family farm. He recounts his own early entrepreneurial failures, where a lack of strateg...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Rachel Strawser, the founder of Thrive Collective Holistic Health and Fitness. Rachel shares her remarkable journey from a 15-year career in public education finance—a sedentary, numbers-focused life—to becoming a passionate health coach. She reveals that a family health crisis, including her mother's cancer diagnosis, served as the pivotal push she needed to leave her corporate role and build a business that offered t...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we are joined by Kate Lalak, the founder and principal consultant of The Engine Room. Kate shares her journey from a 17-year corporate career in marketing and sales leadership to launching her own consultancy eight years ago, a move she describes as the hardest but best decision she's ever made. She discusses the pivotal realization that many business owners and teams have a fundamental misunderstanding of sales, viewing it as a pushy...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Patrick Vuong, a business coach with Avid Action Coach and a seasoned entrepreneur. Patrick shares his unique journey from owning and scaling a successful brick-and-mortar gym to over a decade coaching high-caliber athletes, which ultimately led him to his true calling: business coaching. He reveals the pivotal moment he realized that being a skilled "technician" in your field does not automatically translate to busin...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we are joined by Laura Lillie Goodridge, an executive coach and former HR leader with over a decade of experience. Laura shares her journey from climbing the corporate ladder to the top of her field, only to realize her innovative approach to leadership development was better suited for entrepreneurship. She discusses the pivotal moment she decided to leave her corporate role to found her own coaching practice, aiming to solve a criti...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Reggie James, the founder of Digital Clarity. Reggie shares his incredible journey from the early days of the dot-com boom, working with pioneers like AltaVista and Yahoo, to pivoting from a commoditized digital marketing agency into a strategic advisory firm. He delves into the critical importance of aligning sales, marketing, and product teams under a unified revenue strategy and why understanding a company's true s...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Maggie Perotin, the founder of Stairway to Leadership. Maggie shares her journey from a successful corporate career, where she climbed the ranks into senior leadership roles, to becoming an entrepreneur. She reveals that experiencing burnout was a pivotal moment that made her question the corporate ladder and seek a path where she could merge her business acumen with her passion for coaching and developing people, ultimatel...
n this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Kirsten Dubreuil, the founder of Maven Executive Coaching. Kirsten shares her powerful journey of transitioning from a 25-year military career in the Canadian Armed Forces, where she led teams of up to 400 people, into the world of entrepreneurship. She reveals how her own experience with an executive coach as a commanding officer ignited her passion for guiding others, leading her to establish a firm dedicated to helping wo...
In this episode of Founders Future, host Olivia Sammons sits down with Vinny Raval, internationally known as The Speech Coach. Vinny shares his unique journey from a childhood passion for acting and an early proficiency with languages—including sign language learned to communicate with his deaf uncle—to becoming a speech and language therapist. He reveals the pivotal decision he made at the start of his degree to combine his clinical knowledge with his performing arts background, setting him ...
In this episode of Founders Future, host Milan Kohut sits down with Barbra Carlisle, the founder and leadership coach behind Glee Coaching. Barbra shares her journey from a decade-long career in diversity, inclusion, and social value within the engineering and construction sectors to launching her own coaching practice. She delves into her passion for supporting purpose-led leaders, often those who have risen from technical roles, to build confidence, resilience, and strategic thinking while ...
In this episode of Founders Future, host Milan Kohut sits down with Katie Campbell, a board-certified health and wellness coach and the founder of Mindful Constitution. Katie shares her powerful personal journey from working in the hospitality industry, where binge drinking was normalized, to becoming a holistic health expert. She reveals how her own decision to take an indefinite break from alcohol in 2020 became the catalyst for her business, as she experienced profound improvements in her ...
In this episode of Founders Future, host Milan Kohut sits down with Chantal Landreville, a certified relationship and communication coach and the founder of Raise Your Love Signal. Chantal shares her unconventional journey from a 20-year career as an export director in the global wine industry, where she honed her skills in listening and cross-cultural communication, to founding a heart-centered coaching business. She reveals the pivotal realization that her natural ability to connect and ask...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we are joined by Jeba Nesa, the dynamic founder behind Beast Mode Media. Jeba shares her unconventional journey from a background in forensic science and a full-time role in the NHS to becoming a leading UGC (User-Generated Content) creator and mentor. She reveals how the lockdown period became a catalyst for her business, pushing her to take her content creation hobby seriously, which quickly evolved from filming at local events t...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Hudson Wikoff, the founder of Elite Team AI. Hudson shares his incredible journey from a college athlete and corporate safety manager at DuPont to a successful fitness and nutrition coach, detailing the pivotal moments and calculated risks that led him to his true calling. After a decade and a half in health and fitness, he realized that to achieve massive impact, he needed to scale his knowledge, which led him to dedi...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Justin Jones, the founder and CEO of SONIQCX, an innovative outsourced customer experience company. Justin shares his extensive background in call centers, from starting as a frontline agent to managing massive BPO operations, and reveals the pivotal moment that led him to launch his own venture. He explains how the industry's broken focus on efficiency and activity-based KPIs, rather than meaningful outcomes, inspired...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we sit down with Hana Omori, the founder of AI Marketing Flow. Hana shares her incredible journey from being a technical SEO expert to an innovator in the cybersecurity space. The pivot was driven by a personal crisis when she became the target of sophisticated Russian hackers, forcing her to apply her deep understanding of algorithms and AI not for marketing, but for digital defense. She explains how this experience transformed he...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we are joined by Ryan Sprague, the founder of Highly Optimized. Ryan shares his unconventional journey from working in the cannabis industry to becoming a mindset and performance coach after a profound "kundalini awakening" at a Las Vegas convention. He explains how this experience revealed his unconscious limiting beliefs and led him to leverage cannabis as a conscious tool for personal transformation, ultimately inspiring him to ...
In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Dana Foster, the founder of Network Mama. Dana shares her unique journey from a high-stakes career as an ICU pharmacist to building a supportive community for mothers in online business. The pivotal shift came after the birth of her two children, which prompted a complete identity and career change. She discovered a need for a more feminine, connection-based approach to sales, drawing a direct parallel between convincing su...