School for Startups Radio

Mark J. Silverman – Executive Coach, Speaker, Podcaster an Author of The Rising Leader Handbook: Turning High Achievers Into Effective Leaders

Most CEOs I know are actually lovely people, but many of them, because of the stress and the strain, either seem erratic or indecisive or change their mind or change direction or authoritarian in different situations… Leadership is so lonely and CEOs don’t have people to talk to.

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Kenneth Correa – Founder of DataNeural and Author Cognitive Organizations: Leveraging the Full Power of Generative AI and Intelligent Agents

So the cognitive organization is an organization that combines AI and human agents…..

Kenneth Correa is a technology thought leader, entrepreneur, and author of “Cognitive Organizations,” published by MIT in 2024. As the founder of DataNeural, an AI consulting firm, and Head of...

Taylor Scott – Hospitality Expert and Author of Give Hospitality: A Hopeful Story of What Happens When We Live, Work, and Love from a Place of Generosity 

We are all wired to feel before we think – so whether you’re leading, selling, or influencing, it behooves all of us to connect with

Taylor Scott is a best-selling author, inspirational keynote speaker, and organizational development consultant. Through his books, workshops, k...

Simon Severino – Strategy Sprints™ Method and Author of Strategy Sprints: 12 Ways to Accelerate Growth for an Agile Business

So probably my only skill is endurance, because 22 years ago, I decided that I am here to serve entrepreneurs and to help them solve sales problems, and I have never given up since that day.

Simon Severino has created +2B in additional sales for his clients over the last 21 years. As an advisor who became C...

Pat Alacqua – CEO of Blue Magnet Partners and Author of Obstacles to Opportunity: Transforming Business Challenges into Triumphs

Growth is not scale. Don’t mistake the two. Scale is capacity, not chaos, and start building scale early, because you run out of hustle at some point.

Pat Alacqua is a seasoned business growth strategist who has built his own successful businesses and helped others achieve exponential grow...

Stefanie O’Connell – Personal finance expert, featured on The Today Show, ABC World News, Bloomberg, CNBC, and more

My strategy is a time in the market is better than timing the market.

In a time when traditional savings accounts are offering less incentives to younger generations, new research shows that Bitcoin (BTC) is emerging as a frontrunner in how Millennials and Gen Z approach wealth building—and older generations may be ...

Ross Nelson – Founder of Smootheeze

After about five months, we crossed six figures in revenue. And so it was a great milestone, and just validation that people continue to buy after that.

Ross Nelson is the Founder of Smootheeze, I am passionate about transforming the way people prepare and enjoy smoothies. Our innovative silicone freezer trays make it easy to prep, freeze, and blend fresh ingredients, ensuring delicious, nutrit...

Federico Marchetti – Member of the Board of Trustees at Circular Bioeconomy Alliance

The most important thing is take courage. Take risks, because if you don’t take risks, it would be impossible to be lucky. I was very lucky, but simply because I took so many risks, and most of the times it went well.

Federico Marchetti took a few million dollar investment from Benchmark, a venture capital firm, in early 2000 and tu...

Amen Rahh – Founder/CEO at Knowlej and Author of  Revolutionary School Culture: The 6 Principles of Unlocking Your School’s Hidden Treasure

I was graduating 100% of my students year over year for three years straight, and I have one student who was homeless and in foster care… he needed $400 to get from California to Alabama to pay for his ticket. He tried to hustle the money up on the streets, and before he could ge...

Scott Schaffer – Founder of Upstop Media and Videographer of Coaster Force

Constant content that people are interested and engaged with, I would say is the best way to put it… The more consistent you are, and the more YouTube recognizes that, the more YouTube pushes your content, and then the more viewers you get, the more subscribers you get, and the more money you end up making.

Scott owns Upstop Media, which is a...

Kelvin Johnson – CEO of Brevity and Author of The Sales Trap Prevention Playbook

In essence, a lot of people believe that practice makes perfect. We don’t believe that. At Brevity, we believe perfect practice makes perfect.

Kelvin Johnson is a leader and sales expert who founded Brevity. He is CEO and can speak about many topics such as leadership and his philosophy about starting a successful company. Brevity, a Tw...

Scott Stirrett – Founder and CEO of Venture for Canada and Author of The Uncertainty Advantage: Launching Your Career in an Era of Rapid Change

Self compassion is a really important part of navigating uncertainty… adaptability means not setting really rigid plans for yourself, but being guided by your values and your life mission.

Scott Stirrett’s mission is to help people reach their full potential. As the Founder and CEO of Ven...

Gary MacDermid – Founder of USA Private Equities and ProGrowth Solutions and Author of Set Your Own Goals-Or Someone Else Will: How to Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs and Get Things Done

You’re the sum of the five people that you spend the most time with, and sometimes you do have to remove yourself from negativity to position yourself for success.

Gary MacDermid is a highly sought-after motivational speaker, private...

Alice Lovejoy – Professor at University of Minnesota & Author of Author of Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War

We know that our smartphones and computers can’t run without rare earths, without materials that have very violent histories behind them… what Tales of Militant Chemistry shows is that these present-day histories are part of a much longer story, one that stretches back to film.

Alice Lov...

Kevin Eikenberry – Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group

Engagement is not something we do to people. It’s not ping pong tables, it’s not casual Fridays… Engagement is something that someone chooses. Our job as leaders is to create an environment where people want to engage.

Kevin Eikenberry is a world-renowned leadership and remote work thought leader, a multiple-time bestselling autho...

Katie Nelson  – Founder/CEO of Sales UpRising 

Don’t put yourself so far ahead of ‘I need to be this persona of a CEO, or I need to be a persona of an executive, or a president, or whatever the case is.’ Just be who you are and go hawk your stuff. Go see who the right buyer is for you, figure that out first, and then the rest, you’ll have time, you can afford to spend time on building the rest of it, if you can get t...

Margaret Moore – Executive Coach and Co-Author of  The Science of Leadership: Nine Ways to Expand Your Impact

Conscious leadership is really about setting aside the mental and emotional human stuff… and actually, like in Taoism, it’s called the mountain – you see, you’re still, you’re calm, you’re clear, you move deliberately, you know where to go, you see things clearly.

Margaret Moore/Coach Meg, MBA, is an executive coach, coac...

Jeremy H. Gottschalk – Founder & CEO of Market Place Risk and Author of “Bulletproof Your Marketplace: Strategies for Protecting Your Digital Platform“

What happens when you integrate these Gen AI tools like ChatGPT to help you communicate faster, or create profiles or message one another? Right then that’s not the user’s not generating that. The platform’s not generating that, but the platform integrated that tool that genera...

Jacob Zachs – Founder and CEO of Fasten Rewards

My wife was three months pregnant. I looked at her with our first child, and I said, ‘Hey, I think I want to start a company.’ And she said, ‘You’re crazier than I thought, but let’s go and let’s do it.

Jacob Zachs brings a wealth of experience from the early-stage tech ecosystem. He played a pivotal role in the growth of Newsela as its 12th employee, helping the compa...