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Author: Salman Ahmed

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A weekly podcast with entrepreneurs and creatives about how they got started with building impactful companies and creative projects. In each episode, Salman has conversations with guests across different areas of expertise about the early inspiration behind their ideas, how they launched the first versions of their products, how they won the very first customers, how they scaled their businesses, and all the lessons from failures along the way - to inspire you to take the leap of faith and start yourself up.
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Farah Nanji is a British entrepreneur, journalist, TED Speaker, podcaster, and DJ committed to driving change around the world through the fusion of music and motorsport industries. Farah is the founder of Regents Racing, which is a private community that accelerates leadership through the exploration of motorsports such as Formula One. Farah fell in love with motorsports from a young age, competing in racing throughout her childhood. However, she was got diagnosed with Dyspraxia; a deve...
Bryant Ellis is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and adventurer. Bryant is the Founder of the Adventure Challenge, which is a scratch-off book that reveals challenges filled with adventures. The way it works is that you get to pick a challenge within the book, without really knowing what the challenge is, you scratch it off, and then complete the adventure with a loved one, and the rules are that you have to complete the challenge and there are no takebacks. Over the span of just a few y...
David Habib is the Founder and CEO of Yo Mama’s Foods. Growing up as a first-generation American, David Habib was inspired by his mother’s ability to unite people of all cultures and backgrounds around the table through healthy and delicious food. In 2017, he quit his job as a Deloitte Consultant to found Yo Mama’s Foods, which is a company that makes healthy pasta sauces salad dressings, and condiments. The brand can be found in more than 8000 retail stores nationwide, including Whole Foods,...
Katherine Grill is the CEO and co-founder of Neolth, a technology company that provides personalized mental health support to teens through a self-guided mobile app that was built in partnership with over 300 students. The app consists of on-demand content in the form of personalized relaxation practices, stigma-reducing videos about lived experiences, and other health-tracking features. The app is now adopted by over 200 schools. Prior to founding Neolth, she worked at Child...
Michael Martocci is the Founder and CEO of SwagUp. Some of us might have experienced this when we start a new job at a company or a start-up; our employer might send us a box of Swag, with cool T-Shirts, and other company branded goodies, to welcome us, and include us into the community, but behind the scenes, employers often need to work with fragmented set designers, suppliers, and logistics providers to package them together? SwagUp has built a seamless end to end to swag creation and dist...
Jared Campion is the Founder of Dream Drive - a company that builds, rents, and sells premium campervans in Japan, and these are not just any campervans, think of them as a hotel on wheels with foldable beds, mini kitchen, and solar panels that enable people to travel in a new way and experience the amazing nature that Japan has to offer. Jared’s goal is to bring Vanlife to Japan by building premium campervans and creating routes and educational content about how to travel via a camper i...
Ezra Levine is the CEO of Collectable, an app that allows you to purchase fractional shares in sports memorabilia and iconic trading cards. Collectable has democratized access to investing in this new asset class that was previously reserved for the wealthy insiders. Ezra was a former Portfolio Manager at Hilltop Park, an NYC-based hedge fund in the Sports, Media, Consumer, and Entertainment industries. He also served as the CFO & CSO of The Spring League. Ezra has been featured by Busine...
Dr. Renee Dua is a visionary physician-entrepreneur who is the co-founder of two innovative companies; Heal and heyRenee. Renee is a board-certified nephrologist and served as the Chief of Medicine at two of LAs largest hospitals. As she spent more time as a doctor, she became more and more frustrated with the outdated health care system here in the US, and after one difficult trip to the ER with her son her frustration turned into an idea and she partnered with her husband to create ‘Heal’, ...
Start Yourself Up is a weekly podcast with entrepreneurs and creatives about how they got started with building impactful companies and other creative projects. In each episode, Salman has conversations with guests across different areas of expertise about the early inspiration behind their ideas, how they launched the very first versions of their products, how they won the very first customers, how they scaled their businesses, and all the lessons from failures along the way, to inspire you ...
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