The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore
This is your ultimate guide to navigating the wild ride of launching a small business - packed real talk, expert strategies, and inspiring success stories. Catch new episodes every Thursday.
Episodes
October 9, 2025 • 24 mins
How do you break into a tough market and win? This CEO has done it twice.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Dutch Pet, Inc. founder and CEO Joe Spector joins the show to answer the question: How can I break into a complex market? Spector, also the co-founder of the public health company Hims & Hers (HIMS), transformed the telehealth sector for both humans and animals through the creation of Hims & Hers and now Dutch. ...
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October 2, 2025 • 24 mins
Knowing your product’s worth is imperative for lasting business success.This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, celebrity and wildlife photographer Michael Muller joins the show to answer the question: How do I build client trust? Self-employed, Muller built his brand by cultivating strong relationships with A-list celebrities, large-scale movie studios like Marvel, and extremely well-known low-profile groups - all without u...
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September 25, 2025 • 24 mins
Here’s the secret to building brand loyalty: create things people actually like.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Harry’s co-founder and Mammoth Brands co-CEO Jeff Raider joins the show to answer the question: How do I create customer loyalty? Mammoth Brands, the parent company to Harry’s, Flamingo, Lumē, and Mando, prides itself on their motto, “create things people like more.” Raider shares his entrepreneurial stor...
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September 18, 2025 • 24 mins
What if the secret to being a successful CEO had nothing to do with what you say, but everything to do with how you move?
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Sisterpreneur CEO and body language expert Linda Clemons joins the show to answer the question: How can I use body language to communicate in business? Clemons is one of the country’s top body language experts and uses her skills to help entrepreneurs and other bus...
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September 11, 2025 • 24 mins
Going from Wall Street to wellness wasn’t easy - but this CEO proves it’s possible.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Apothékary CEO and founder Shizu Okusa joins the show to answer the question: How do I navigate a career pivot? Okusa — who got her start working in finance on Wall Street — decided to overhaul her career and pivot to entrepreneurship in the wellness sector. Okusa and Gore discuss what it takes to ente...
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September 4, 2025 • 23 mins
Want to succeed as an entrepreneur? Focus on the problem, not the product.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Waze and Pontera co-founder Uri Levine joins the show to answer the question: How do I start a business by solving a problem? Levine, a serial entrepreneur, has spent his career building solution-oriented businesses rooted in real problems in society. From money management to navigating traffic, Levine breaks d...
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September 4, 2025 • 24 mins
Want to succeed as an entrepreneur? Focus on the problem, not the product.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Waze and Pontera co-founder Uri Levine joins the show to answer the question: How do I start a business by solving a problem? Levine, a serial entrepreneur, has spent his career building solution-oriented businesses rooted in real problems in society. From money management to navigating traffic, Levine breaks d...
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August 28, 2025 • 24 mins
Can you turn your passions into profit? This Tony Award-winning Broadway producer did just that!
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Seaview Productions CEO Greg Nobile joins the show to answer the question: How do I monetize my passions? Nobile, a life-long fan of the performing arts, became a theatre producer as a way to work in the industry without having to act, sing, or dance. He and Gore break down what it means t...
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August 21, 2025 • 24 mins
For this CEO, customer feedback changed her company’s game.This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Slick Chicks Founder & CEO Helya Mohammadian joins the show to answer the question: How do I design a product with my end customer in mind? The adaptive apparel line began as a side hustle for Mohammadian. Gore and Mohammadian break down how she took her prototype underwear design and through customer feedback was able to scal...
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August 14, 2025 • 24 mins
Want press for your business? Inc. Magazine’s editor in chief breaks down the best way to do it.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Inc. Magazine editor in chief Mike Hofman joins the show to answer the question: How do I get press for my company? Following this week’s announcement of the 2025 Inc. 5000 honorees - a celebration of the fastest-growing private companies in America - Hofman stopped by the show to celebrat...
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August 7, 2025 • 24 mins
Can your favorite pastime become a thriving business? This CEO made it happen.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, DripShop CEO and co-founder Javaughn Lawrence joins the show to answer the question: How do I monetize my hobbies? Lawrence turned his childhood hobby—collecting and trading Pokémon and other collectible cards—into a live-shopping e-commerce platform. He and Gore discuss why he chose to pursue this path pro...
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July 31, 2025 • 24 mins
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To find your “big idea” - start with what breaks your heart or lights your soul on fire - an emotion that drives great businesses. That’s what powerhouse entrepreneur Kathleen Griffith says on how to discover your business’s core purpose and turn it into a powerful brand. On this episode of The Big Idea,...
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July 24, 2025 • 24 mins
In a star-studded industry, these women carved out their own lane.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, 1953 Tequila co-founders Shivam Mallick Shah and Lindsey Davis Stover join the show to answer the question: How do I enter a trending industry? Tequila is incredibly bullish right now - with A-listers like George Clooney, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Kylie Jenner, to name a few - creating their own brands. Mallick S...
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July 17, 2025 • 24 mins
What do Beyoncé and luxury western wear shoppers have in common? They can’t resist the magic of Kemo Sabe.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Kemo Sabe president & owner Wendy Kunkle joins the show to answer the question: How do I create the best in-store experience? Kunkle, who began working for Kemo Sabe 20 years ago, climbed the ranks and took over the luxury western wear brand in 2020. She attributes her success to...
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July 10, 2025 • 24 mins
Is now the worst—or best—time to launch a business in a struggling industry?
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, chef & Valette Wines owner Dustin Valette joins the show to answer the question: How do you build a business in a struggling industry? Valette shares his family’s story of immigrating to the United States during the early 1900s, settling in Sonoma County, and how that ultimately inspired him to become a resta...
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July 3, 2025 • 24 mins
Revisit this inspiring conversation on The Big Idea as Elizabeth Gore chats with Warby Parker CEO Neil Blumenthal about disrupting an entire industry.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Warby Parker co-CEO and co-founder Neil Blumenthal answers the question: How do I make my brand stand out in a dominated industry? Gore and Blumenthal look at the entrepreneur's early days with Warby Parker and the innovative and "bizar...
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June 26, 2025 • 24 mins
From public duty to private enterprise, a role in service can shape unstoppable entrepreneurs.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, veteran and former Congressman Patrick Murphy joins the show to answer the question: How does a role in service help entrepreneurs? Murphy - the co-host of the Yahoo Finance video podcast Warrior Money - talks with Gore about US veterans and how some of the most successful CEOs in this coun...
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June 19, 2025 • 24 mins
Listen back to this inspiring episode of The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore from when Elizabeth chatted with T.D. Jakes Group Chairman & CEO T.D. Jakes.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, T.D. Jakes Group Chairman & CEO T.D. Jakes joins Elizabeth Gore to answer the question: How do I do well by doing good? How can an entrepreneur succeed while also giving back to their community? Gore and Jakes break down his real estate...
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June 12, 2025 • 23 mins
Running a small business is hard. Let AI make it easier.
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, Exer AI Co-Founder and CEO Zaw Thet joins the show to answer the question: How can AI grow my business? From calendar management to time management, Thet breaks down all of AI’s capabilities and best practices so entrepreneurs can use it to maximize their time and help grow their businesses.
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June 5, 2025 • 24 mins
This week on The Big Idea with Elizabeth Gore, noted fashion designer and entrepreneur Rebecca Minkoff joins the show to answer the question: How do you leverage your personal brand for a product? Minkoff shares her experience as a multi-hyphenate fashion designer, podcaster, author, and media personality and the best ways for entrepreneurs to find success when their names are tied to their business ventures.
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