Unstoppable: For leaders who refuse to settle.

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with Jeff Shafritz, founder of Franchise Guidance and a franchise executive with more than 30 years of experience, who decided to practice what he had spent his career preaching by purchasing and operating a franchise of his own. Jeff had spent years helping people evaluate franchise opportunities, understand their goals, and find businesses...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana explores one of the most consequential strategic decisions in modern business: Jensen Huang’s decision to keep investing in CUDA when Nvidia was still known primarily as a gaming company, the market wasn’t convinced, and the financial returns were nowhere near justifying the investment. In 2006, Nvidia had a strong business built around graphics proces...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with Dominic Forth, CEO of Thought Leaders America, whose approach to leadership, decision making, and entrepreneurship was shaped by a near fatal experience that forced him to confront just how quickly everything can change.  Dominic takes us back to a whitewater rafting trip on the Zambezi River during his honeymoon. What began as an advent...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with Tina Larsson, founder of The Folsom Group and former Wall Street executive, whose decision to challenge the leadership of her New York City co-op ultimately led to a business helping residential communities operate more effectively. Tina takes us back to how it all started. Fifteen years ago, Tina and her husband noticed that their build...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with attorney, former COO, and executive leadership strategist Drea Lynn, who walked away from a successful corporate career at the exact moment when everything seemed to be going right, only to discover that becoming an entrepreneur required her to completely rethink what had made her successful in the first place. Drea takes us back to a mo...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s solo episode, Jana explores one of the most consequential decisions of Elon Musk’s career, and the specific trap that even smart, disciplined leaders can fall into when resources run out. In December 2008, Musk was facing a crisis that looked almost impossible to survive. SpaceX had failed three consecutive rocket launches. Tesla was weeks away from missing payroll....

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with interdisciplinary artist and executive director of Alchemia Art Workshop, Christopher Quigley, whose life changed dramatically after a near-fatal stroke forced him to confront his mortality and rethink what he wanted to leave behind. Christopher takes us back to the events that ultimately led him to create Transformation of Dangerous Spa...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur, author, and founder of the COO Alliance, Cameron Herold, who has spent decades building companies, scaling businesses, and helping entrepreneurs create success without allowing their businesses to consume their lives. Cameron takes us back to when he was just 20 years old and made a decision that would shape the rest of his...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with author and veteran executive Sean Pieri, who spent more than three decades building a successful career in institutional advancement and fundraising before an unexpected job loss forced him to confront a question he had never seriously considered: who are you when your career no longer defines you? Sean takes us back to August 14, 2018,...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s solo episode, Jana explores one of the most pivotal decisions in business history, and why the greatest risk isn't always losing what you have. Sometimes it's becoming too dependent on it.  In 1971, Phil Knight had spent seven years building Blue Ribbon Sports into the dominant distributor of Tiger running shoes in the United States. The business was thriv...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur and founder of Uplift 360, Wes Towers, who spent more than two decades building a successful digital agency before realizing the rise of AI wasn't just another technology trend. It was a turning point that could either make his business obsolete or force it to evolve into something even more valuable.  Wes takes us back...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with former three-time commanding officer of the Blue Angels Greg 'Boss' Wooldridge, who was preparing to retire from the Navy when he received an unexpected call that would force him to choose between the future he had planned and a mission that needed him one more time.  Greg takes us back to one of the most consequential decision...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with leadership strategist and former executive operator Kathy Eastwood, who spent more than 30 years leading transformation inside global enterprises before making one of the hardest decisions of her career: walking away from a successful executive role because it was changing the person she had become.  Kathy takes us back to a time when sh...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s solo episode, Jana unpacks one of the most consequential turnaround decisions in modern business history, and why the real lesson has almost nothing to do with coffee.  When Howard Schultz returned to Starbucks in 2008, he inherited a company in freefall. The stock had collapsed, the financial crisis was accelerating, competitors were gaining ground, and years of re...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur, former professional basketball player, and founder of United Home Relief Art Morrison III, who refused to let injury, instability, and the opinions of others dictate the future he had envisioned for himself. Art takes us back to the defining decision that changed the course of his life. After tearing his ACL during his seni...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with therapist, organizational advisor, and founder of Meaning in Practice Ashley Gibson, who walked away from a successful executive career in Broadway marketing to pursue a mission she believed could create deeper, longer-lasting change. Ashley takes us back to a realization that didn't happen overnight. After years of climbing the lad...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur and founder of Recognize Alex Grande, who built a career around behavioral science, technology, and performance—but whose path started with a series of unconventional decisions and one belief that shaped everything that followed: you can create your own reality.  Alex takes us back to a moment early in his career when he found himself in wha...

On this week’s solo episode, Jana explores a problem hiding in plain sight: why so many intelligent, capable people keep making decisions that quietly undermine the future they say they want to build.  It starts with a familiar scene. A boardroom. A red number. A decision that everyone in the room knows is wrong long-term but necessary short-term. Delay the investment. Hit the quarter. Survive ano...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with hedge fund founder, financial strategist, and wealth educator Patience Dean, who rebuilt from homelessness multiple times before retiring in her 30s and creating a system designed to help others build sustainable wealth from the ground up.  Patience takes us back to a decision she made at just 10 years old. After watching people around her trade time for...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur and founder of Groas David Pourquery, who walked away from one of the most competitive and prestigious career paths in finance to build a fully bootstrapped AI company on his own terms.  David takes us back to the moment he realized that success on paper wasn’t translating into the life he actually wanted. After breaking into private equity...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with leadership strategist, keynote speaker, and author Neen James, who built a successful business helping organizations improve productivity and attention, only to realize she was being pulled toward a message that didn’t fit neatly into any category. Neen takes us into a pivotal moment during one of the most uncertain periods in recent history. As live eve...

On this week’s episode, Jana breaks down one of the most important strategic decisions in business history: the moment Intel realized the product that built the company could also destroy it if leadership refused to let go. At the center of the story is former Intel CEO Andy Grove, sitting in a cubicle with co-founder Gordon Moore during the collapse of Intel’s memory chip business in the 1980s. A...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with entrepreneur and former Wall Street VP Len Ward, who walked away from the traditional corporate path after watching his e-commerce business collapse during the 2008 financial crisis, and then rebuilt his career by betting on a digital future most businesses still didn’t understand. Len takes us back to the moment everything changed. After years of succes...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with compensation strategist and independent consultant Scott Trumpolt, who spent nearly two decades climbing the corporate ladder across the U.S. and Germany before realizing that success had slowly pulled him away from the work he actually loved. Scott takes us inside the moment that forced him to confront a difficult truth. While working for a global corpo...

On this week’s episode, Jana sits down with Nicolas Breedlove, CEO of NVB Playgrounds, who built a national business without a traditional blueprint, and then had to rebuild it after a major breakdown in trust. Nicolas takes us into a pivotal moment early in his company’s growth, when a trusted employee exploited internal systems, stole leads, and created competing distributorships behind the scen...