Real Leaders Podcast
Our archives are today's headlines. The Real Leaders Podcast provides real, fresh, and inspiring experiences from the world's most forward-thinking impact business CEOs, leadership authors, and thought leaders. Each episode will leave you with a page-full of notes on how to lead the future of work.
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Speaker: Andy Alsop, CEO of The Receptionist
Session Description:Many companies prioritize structure and efficiency to scale, but true growth comes from empowering employees at every level. This session explores how employee supremacy—a model where employees are trusted as the driving force of innovation—can rev...
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Speaker: Top Impact Company CEO Aaron Zeper of DMD Systems Recovery, LLC
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Most companies looking to scale focus on process, process, process. And while process is important, innovation is mandatory. Discover how to leverage controlled anarchy to drive innovation and scale your business effecti...
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Join Keith Bearden, CEO of Alter Eco Foods, for an inspiring session on how mission-driven companies can scale impact while achieving lasting business success. With a wealth of experience in consumer packaged goods, industrial ingredients, and food services, Keith has mastered the art of turning vision into reality. Fr...
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Employee ownership isn’t just a trend—it’s a powerful strategy to drive growth, build alignment, and leave a lasting legacy. Darin Anderson, Chairman & CEO of Salas O’Brien, shares the company’s journey from single owner to closely held ownership, to an ESOP, and finally to a thriving direct ownership model wit...
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Discover how Dan Green, CEO and co-founder of Helpsy, transformed his Wall Street expertise into a mission to keep clothes out of landfills while creating meaningful, impactful jobs. Learn how Helpsy’s unique model blends second-chance employment, incentive pay, and employee ownership to align efforts, inspire hard...
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Speaker: Top Impact Company CEO Brandon Schwertner of Priority Power
Session Description:
Power demand is intensifying at a rate never seen before from emerging industries like AI. What is the balance in meeting this demand and underlying decarbonization goals? What does the world of energy look like decades into the fut...
Are you a LinkedIn Lunatic? On this episode, Kevin explores the underground of reddit which exposes the satirical humor of linkedin.
Also, do you work on Saturday's? Perhaps you're fed up by today's hustle culture. Two takes on this.
If you're still reading this perhaps you're curious about how to fire people. Kevin shares his experience in how to do it quick.
What do you do when you're working overtime doing someone else's job that you're not getting paid for?
You're an entrepreneur who has so many ideas but you don't know where to focus.. where do you spend your time?
You've just been appointed CEO but you're not ready.. what now?
In this episode, Kevin combs Reddit for a poor examples of leadership and finds an example that will make you never want to present again!
By looking at criticism as a constructive learning tool, we can grow and mature in our roles.
In 2025 the Real Leaders Podcast shifts to focus on community questions and content tailored to our community to support real people with real work/life questions.
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Ankur Edkie is the Co-Founder & CEO of Murf AI, an early-stage funded start-up working on simplifying voice audio and making high-quality voice overs accessible to everyone, using artificial intelligence.
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Palash Soni is the CEO of Goldcast, an AI-powered B2B Video Campaign Platform that transforms marketing by putting video and events at the heart of the customer journey.
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Dr. Artika Tyner is the CEO & Founder of Planting People Growing Justice, an organization that is set on building strong communities by developing leaders and empowering them to discover their own leadership potential in order to make an impact in the world.
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Peggy Shell is the CEO & Founder of Creative Alignments, a recruiting company that partners with quickly growing companies in consumer products and technology that are using their business as a force for good by creating people-focused cultures, commitment to DEI, or impact-focused products or services.
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Keith Bearden is the CEO of Alter Eco Foods, a chocolate-centric, sustainability-directed food company that takes healthy indulgence to a new level. Alter Eco is dedicated to spreading social justice and environmental regeneration while creating a new category of enlightened indulgences.
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Bob Miles is the Founder & CEO of Salad Technologies, the world's most affordable GPU cloud for AI/ML inference at scale. In this episode, Bob shares how to think about disrupting a massive trillion dollar market.
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Dena Trujillo is the CEO of Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention. For over 20 years, Dena has operated at the intersection of nonprofit and for-profit, discovering and amplifying models that scale innovative solutions and maximize social impact.
Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a volunteer Crisis Counselor
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Asim Bawany is the CEO of Codup, a full-service development agency that builds technology solutions customized for the specific needs of clients to help them overcome challenges and grow their bottom lines.
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David Obrand is the CEO of Salesloft, which powers durable revenue growth for the world’s most demanding companies. Salesloft’s industry-leading Revenue Orchestration Platform uses purpose-built AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal.
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Yonatan Raz-Fridman is the Founder & CEO of Supersocial, a metaverse studio and tech company with a mission to create and empower digital communities to play, explore, socialize and meaningfully express themselves in the next era of the Internet.
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