A Curious Exchange

Alice Rolli made a truly bold vocational bet in 2023: with no prior experience in elected office, she ran for mayor of Nashville, a major metropolitan city.  With an MBA and a background in high growth firms, this was a significant departure, and we talked about her reasons for getting into the race and what she learned along the way. A few insights: 1. The person stopping you is probably you I as...

Entrepreneur Kristen Nicholson left a 22-year corporate career to build Urban Sweat, a luxury wellness studio offering infrared sauna, red light therapy, and cold plunge. The decision built over years. What pushed her over the edge was when in 2022,  "I heard three times in one day that I should bet on myself.” She later acquired a multi-site sauna studio and also co-founded Comfort Imaging, a cen...

If you lead teams in messy, growing companies, you will find refreshing, practical execution wisdom in this interview. We cover the five jobs of leadership, balancing this week vs. the next 90 days, turning field shadowing into product improvements, and keeping your compass true at work and in art. Frazer argues great operators are “born with an operator brain,” but the muscle is honed by doing fi...

An introduction to the podcast.