The Founder's Growth Show

In this episode, we sit down with Andrea Mohamed, Co-Founder of QuantumBloom, to discuss the systemic "leaky bucket" in STEM industries. Andrea shares how her organization is moving the needle on retention by treating culture as a business outcome rather than a moral initiative. Topics Discussed: The STEM Exit: Why 70% of women leave technical paths by age 30 and how to stop the bleed. Founder-Led...

What does it take to turn 26 years of deep subject matter expertise into a global brand and a lasting legacy? In this episode, we sit down with Andrea Donsky, Nutritionist and Co-Founder of Morphus, to explore the evolution of a founder who has successfully navigated three distinct businesses with the same partner for over two decades. Andrea shares the vulnerable reality behind her 13-year journe...

In this episode, John Hill, AKA Small Mountain, sits down with  Brett Chotkevys , CEO and Founder of Assisted Living Mansion . Brett shares his journey from flipping 50 houses a year to revolutionizing the senior care industry through high-end memory care "mansions." We dive deep into his hands-on approach to leadership, the necessity of founder grit, and how to build a resilient culture in a high...

Are you leading by design, or leading by default? In this episode, John Hill (AKA Small Mountain) sits down with Diana Urbina , founder of Sharro Solutions and a 21-year veteran of  Microsoft and Xbox . Diana's career has spanned the extremes of corporate culture—from the high-intensity Steve Ballmer era to the cultural transformation under Satya Nadella. She's seen firsthand that no amount of pro...

In this episode of The Founder's Growth Show, John Small Mountain sits down with Nicholas Kirchner to discuss the complexities of running both a high-level service agency and a US-based manufacturing brand. Nicholas challenges the "optics-first" mentality of many founders, urging a return to life-alignment and data-driven decision-making. Topics discussed include: Breaking through the $500k revenu...

In an era where every founder is "running with their hair on fire" toward AI automation, Morgan J. Ingram (Founder of AMP Social) is sounding a necessary alarm: Efficiency without connection is a dead end. In this episode, John Small Mountain and Morgan dig deep into the messy transition from a high-performing "Lone Wolf" seller and sales trainer to a scalable Business Owner. Morgan shares the raw...

If you feel like you're barely hanging on or are at your wit's end about how to help your business (and yourself!) thrive, this episode is the map to getting unstuck. In the second half of our conversation, Blake Schofield (founder of Impact With Ease) shares her transition from corporate burnout to building a $500k business on a 15-hour work week. We move past the surface-level hacks to discuss t...

Most founders don't realize they're burned out until their body forces them to stop. Blake Schofield spent 16 years as a top performer in corporate retail before hitting a total breakdown—three times. Now, she helps leaders solve the root causes of the burnout cycle that so many of us go through without even realizing it, at least, not until it's too late. This was a two-hour interview, and in Par...