Bending Rules -- Dood Woof CEO, Elina Panteleyeva explains how she went from being fired to starting a company that generated 650K in its first year and is on target to more than double sales in 2025

Bending Rules -Chris and Jeremy, founders of 10 Barrel Brewing Co, which they built and guided to a successful exit to Anheuser-Busch in 2014, share the ups and downs of that journey and what followed

Christa King, a two-time startup founder, and I dive deep into failure and explore where to find the fortitude and drive to start again

Bending Rules | Michael Ulin, Co-Founder of Paxton AI, a legal technology company that recently closed a $22 million Series A, shares his journey into entrepreneurship and how it led him to Paxton AI

Bending Rules - Mark Josephson, former CEO of Bitly and later founder of Castiron, discusses the trade-offs in hiring an outside CEO versus navigating the journey as a founding CEO

Rob Little, CEO of Cairn, a company he co-founded in 2014 and acquired by Outside Magazine in 2021..

Bending Rules - Dan Hobin, Founder/Former CEO of G5, one of Oregon's most successful SaaS companies in the last couple of decades, employing ~250 people when acquired in 2021

Bending Rules -- Alan Rich, most recently Founder and CEO of Chrome River, a company that was acquired for 520M in 2019, shares his journey and what keeps him inspired to keep creating companies.

Scott Allan, CEO of Hydro Flask, a consumer product company that he guided from $2 million in sales to $100 million in a four-year period (2012-2016), is a story worth telling.

Bending Rules -- Monica Enand, CEO & Founder of Zapproved, shares her incredible and inspiring journey, including growing a company to 170 employees, and navigating the company to an exit in 2023

"Bend"ing Rules - Taylor Welsh joins as employee #1, several years later assumes the CEO position and leads company to a successful exit in 2022. She's now onto her next exciting start-up.

Bending Rules - joined by "solopreneur" Reynolds Maxwell, a successful commercial real estate investor, shares journey from Corp America into solo entrepreneurship vs joining a smaller co or start-up

"Bend"ing Rules -- from a team that raised 36M in a funding round, to boot-strapping his next venture, Nick McEvily doesn't sit still

"Bend"ing Rules - Dan O'Day leaves Thompson Reuters to start ECFX, 5 years later the business is thriving; learn more about raising money, earning a customer's trust and jumping in with both feet

"Bend"ing Rules -- Learn how Special Forces Army Ranger, Kyle Morris, leverages his military experience to build a successful services/software company

"Bend"ing Rules -- Gabe Ayers, founder of Apricity, bootstrapped his services company that eventually pivots to a product offering, which ultimately finds a successful exit.

"Bend"ing Rules -- Patrick Davidson, Oracle Executive joins to share stories of being an "intrapreneur" and eventually an entrepreneur as well

"Bend"ing Rules -- Justin Johnson joins BR today. Learn why Justin left a 20 year professional services career, a year way from sabbatical, to launch his first start up.

Bending Rules -- Ian Olsen, Restaurant Entrepreneur and Co-founder of Lemonade, a 50M+ in annual sales restaurant chain shares his journey with Pete and Chris

BENDing Rules -- Today we break down the last 4-5 guest and look for patterns on what they had to share. Further, answer work-life-balance questions, like are entreps more happy than non-entreps?