DissedMedia: A Startup Story
DissedMedia: A Startup Story is a podcast that chronicles the start of DissedMedia and takes listeners along for the journey starting from the first week the company was founded. This podcast is about what a founder goes through trying to start a business and is meant to be a learning tool for anyone interested in starting a business of their own. Listen as founder Ben Olmos and his co-founding board work to take DissedMedia from concept to reality.
Episodes
If you're serious about personal development, this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story is exactly what you've been looking for. Dr. Andy Neillie, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and leadership consultant with over 20 years of experience, joins Ben for a deep dive into the leadership skills that separate great leaders from bad bosses. Dr. Neill...
Are you drowning in admin tasks and losing sight of why you started your business in the first place? In this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, Ben sits down with Anna Brambilla, founder of Virtually Aligned, to talk about how hiring the right virtual assistant can help entrepreneurs reclaim their time, refocus on their zone of genius, and fall ...
What makes someone a great leader? According to Rich Ashton, it is not something you get to decide for yourself. The people who follow you make that call.
Rich Ashton is the founder of Growing Your Own Leadership, a program built specifically for small businesses that need...
Most founders think the gap between a great idea and a funded business is a product problem. Pamela Cytron has spent 30 years proving it is a sales problem.
Cytron is a award-winning technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Pendo Systems, and the architect of Founde...
What if the secret to building confidence, growing a business, and improving your health had nothing to do with massive effort and everything to do with tiny, consistent action? In this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, Ben Olmos sits down with Dr. Christiane Schroeter, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, health economist, California professor, an...
What if the best business idea in America was hiding in a small town in the Polish Alps? That is exactly where Jessica and Damien Zouaoui found it.
Jessica and Damien were living the corporate dream in New York City. Good salaries, promising careers, and absolutely zero pr...
What happens when a former CIO with a decade of AI experience sits down to have an unfiltered conversation about where artificial intelligence is really headed? You get this episode.
Stephanie Sylvestre is the founder and CEO of Avatar Buddy, an AI company she started buil...
Most entrepreneurs start a business chasing freedom. What they get instead is a job they can't quit, a team that can't move without them, and a calendar that owns every hour of their life. David Salerno built a packaging solutions company from zero to eight figures with fewer than 20 people, and then walked away. Not because he burned out. Because he b...
What happens when your startup faces a crisis and you have no plan? In Episode 60 of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, Ben Olmos sits down with Joshua Altman, Fractional Chief Communications Officer and founder of Beltway Media, to break down crisis communications strategy for startups and small businesses. Joshua shares the three-tier framework every foun...
What happens when a Wall Street veteran bootstraps a Kickstarter campaign into a seven-figure e-commerce business and then turns around to help other founders do the same? In Episode 59, Ben sits down with Nate Littlewood, founder of Future Ready CFO, to unpack the financial truths most founders learn too late. Nate shares how he grew Urban Leaf from a...
What happens when algorithms replace editors and social media becomes America's newsroom? In this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, host Ben Olmos sits down with Julian Baron, Managing Editor of Off The Press and Baltimore Sun contributor, to tackle one of the most urgent challenges facing managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs today: how do you b...
Most business owners know they need to show up on social media. The problem? They don't know where to start, they're afraid of the camera, and they don't have time to create content every day. Aaron Witnish has built a career solving exactly that problem.
Aaron is a conten...
What does it actually take to walk away from a career that looks successful on paper and build something that feels purposeful? Chanda Coston knows that moment well, and she has made it her mission to help other women navigate it.
Chanda is a business strategist, certified...
What if the fastest path to generational wealth is not launching a startup, but acquiring one?
In this episode, Tyrus Shivers breaks down entrepreneurship through acquisition and why serious founders must master capital raising, business systems, and long-term strategy if they want to build real enterprise value.
We explore how to design a business operating system that creates a scalable b...
What does it take to walk away from a six-figure income, start over from scratch, and build a thriving ad agency from nothing? In this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, Ben Olmos sits down with Jeremy Yang, a paid media expert, agency owner, and one of the sharpest minds in digital advertising, to unpack the real journey behind building a succes...
What do you do when the content is good… but the growth is not there?
In this raw update, I break down the strategic pivot that is reshaping DissedMedia from a blog-first platform into a video-driven business engine.
This episode is for founders, operators, coaches, and creators who are wrestling with:
• Organic growth that feels too slow • Courses that do not convert • Traffic that does not return • Content that does not c...
What if your marketing has been speaking to the wrong customer all along? In this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, founder Ben Olmos sits down with Amber Gaige, founder and chief marketing advisor at Far Beyond Marketing, to break down exactly why most small business marketing fails, and what to do about it.
Most people overlook raw land as a real estate investment. No utilities, no structures, no obvious appeal. Abi Asija saw something different. Starting with just $5,000, no debt, and a strategy most investors had never considered, Abi and his wife built a seven figure land business from the ground up, completing more than 700 deals across the United Sta...
The audiobook industry just crossed $2 billion in U.S. revenue and is projected to double. So why are most entrepreneurs, coaches, authors, and podcast hosts still sleeping on it?
In this episode, Ben Olmos sits down with Tina Dietz, CEO and founder of Twin Flames St...
Is your business one phishing email away from a devastating data breach? In this episode, cybersecurity expert and bestselling author Robert Siciliano breaks down exactly how today's hackers, scammers, and organized cybercriminals are targeting small businesses and what you can do right now to stop them.
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