One Day with Jon Bier

Jeff Byers, former NFL lineman and co-founder of Momentous, opens up about burnout, leadership, and rediscovering his purpose. After visiting Maui Nui Venison and witnessing their wild overnight harvests, he was inspired to create a new Fuel flavor that gives back - donating $10 from every pack to feed families across Maui. He talks with Jon about what it means to lead with integrity, scrap bestsellers when the science doesn’t hold...

Jo Weinand, founder of Nutcase, joins Jon to share her unlikely startup story. During Canada’s COVID lockdown, boredom led her to Google how to make a delicious plant based chocolate milk. She blended cashews, cocoa, dates, and water, and accidentally launched a business. What followed: poker games, celebrity investors like Ninja and Steve Aoki, a reality show on X, and an upcoming live-streamed equity crowdfunding finale in June, ...

Mac Davis never planned on revolutionizing human health through gene therapy. A serial biotechnology entrepreneur, he founded Minicircle after developing a groundbreaking transient genetic enhancement platform. In this episode, Davis shares his journey from scientific researcher to innovative startup founder, discussing the potential of hormones like statin to optimize muscle health, reduce inflammation, and potentially slow aging....

NextSense CEO, Jonathan Berent, never planned on reinventing how we sleep. He was a successful Google X engineer until a fascination with brain-sensing technology pushed him to leave everything behind and found his company. Now, he develops EEG earbuds aimed at upgrading our nightly rest and well-beingbeing. In this episode, he talks about his leap from corporate engineer to entrepreneur, why going “all in” was non-negotiable, and ...

Amy Zalneraitis never planned on entering the pet food business. She was a fashion creative director until her sister Alissa, who ran a thriving raw dog food company, passed away. Stepping in to continue production, Amy grew We Feed Raw into a leading disruptor in the $45 billion U.S. pet food market, where fresh and raw foods are the fastest-growing segment. In this episode, she shares her journey from reluctant entrep...

Brent Polacheck, owner of Polacheck’s Jewelers, is proving that the art of generational relationship-building still drives retail success in an era of instant gratification. How do you keep customers coming back for decades and sustain a 101-year-old family business when most people shop with a single click? In this episode, Jon talks with Brent about turning his Calabasas showroom into a social destination, choosing customers who ...

Kristin Olszewski, founder of Nomadica, is bringing premium wine to aluminum cans — and major retailers are taking notes. How do you take an industry rooted in tradition and turn it on its head? Kristin Olszewski, sommelier-turned-entrepreneur, is revolutionizing the $385 billion wine industry—one aluminum can at a time.

As the founder of Nomadica, Kristin brings organic, zero-sugar, premium wine to the masses in eco-conscious packa...

Vadim Fedotov, CEO of Bioniq, aims to personalize the supplement market by creating custom pharmaceutical-grade products. Having played basketball on the German National Team, Vadim experienced firsthand the shortcomings of conventional sports supplements. After tearing his ACL, he was prescribed various off-the-shelf vitamins and nutrients, but none provided the relief he needed. This experience made him realize that supplementati...

Mike Feldstein, Founder and CEO of Jaspr, joins the show to discuss how he transformed bulky commercial-grade air purifiers into stylish, accessible solutions for home use. With a background in disaster restoration, Mike developed a deep understanding of air quality issues and recognized the need for products that effectively capture 99.9% of ultra-fine particles, including wildfire smoke and mold. He initially designed Jaspr for f...

Forrest Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Kineon, joins the show to discuss how he transformed bulky clinical machines into convenient, wearable devices for red-light therapy. With a background in Chinese language and 18 years of startup experience in China, Forrest recognized a market opportunity for portable, FDA Registered near-infrared therapy devices after witnessing the therapeutic benefits firsthand during his sports career. Kine...

Sam Faycurry, Co-Founder and CEO of Fay, joins the show to discuss how a family favor led to the creation of a personalized nutrition counseling service. Initially helping his mother and sister, both registered dietitians, with their dietetics practice, Sam discovered an untapped business opportunity and co-founded Fay—a digital platform that connects people with registered dietitians for personalized nutrition counseling. Fay has ...

Tim Rosa, CEO of Somnee, sits down to discuss his journey from gaming and fitness tech to pioneering sleep neurotechnology. Tim shares how his mission to help people led him from successful stints at major gaming companies and Fitbit to his current role leading Somnee, which is developing personalized neurostimulation devices to improve sleep. Tim details Somnee's innovative approach using EEG and alternating current stimulati...

Ray Kelly, founder of TERSA, joins the pod to share his journey from celebrity injury rehab expert to wellness tech innovator. Ray is building an innovative ecosystem of technology products that he says, “address the intersection of emotional, physical, and mental health.” His crown jewel is Sava, a sound therapy pod designed to induce altered states of consciousness. Ray discusses the potential medical applications of Sava, includ...

In this episode host Jon Bier talks to Hyrox CEO, Christian Toetzke about one of the fastest growing fitness movements since Crossfit.

HYROX is a global fitness race that combines running, high intensity interval training (HIIT), and functional strength training. The race is designed to challenge a participant's strength, power, endurance, and cardiovascular fitness. 

HYROX combines both running & functi...

Gilad Jacobs is the son of, Dr. Laura F. Jacobs, MD, PhD, who is the founder of Normatec Industries, a company that specializes in compression and recovery technology. Jacobs, a physician bioengineer, started the company in 2004 with the goal of helping people improve their lives by increasing blood flow and circulation. 

She originally created Normatec to help breast cancer patients recover from lymphedema, a type of swel...

If you haven't heard of Mid-Day Squares yet, you will as this family-run start up out of Montreal is sweeping across Canada and the USA.  

In 2018, Jake Karls co-founded Mid-Day Squares with his sister, Lezlie Karls, and her husband, Nick Saltarelli. The trio wanted to create a modern chocolate bar, replacing the unhealthy sugar snacks that litter the food aisles with a low-sugar, high-protein plant-based alternative....

In 2008, while Jason was in Special Forces and Emily his wife was in the CIA, they started GORUCK out of her house in war-torn West Africa. 

The goal was pretty simple: build a rucksack with life or death quality standards that would thrive in Baghdad and NYC, not to mention Côte d’Ivoire — and show people of all walks of life how to operate smartly and safely in some of the harshest environments in the world (using said r...

Matteo Franceschetti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, the sleep fitness company.

Eight Sleep developed a proprietary technology which is redesigning sleep by developing cutting-edge AI and machine learning models to track bio signals during the night and optimizing body recovery and rest while asleep. The end goal of the Pod is to compress sleep and scan your body while asleep to monitor your health.

Eight Sleep is...