Fortune's Path Podcast

Tom interviews Brad Stinson, founder and CEO of the Collective Global, a culture consultancy in Nashville. Brad talks about how failure has made him an expert on the culture required to support transformational success and how the Collective Global studied a diverse set of transformational leaders to identify the steps organizations need to take to build relationships that foster success.

In this preview of episode 12 of the Fortune's Path podcast, Brad Stinson, founder and CEO of the Collective Global, a culture consultancy in Nashville, talks about how failure has made him an expert on the culture required to support transformational success and how the Collective Global studied a diverse set of transformational leaders to identify the steps organizations need to take to build re...

Mark Tochtenhagen, entrepreneur, product leader, and Senior Vice President of Product at Quovant, a private equity backed legal services and technology company, talks about the sacrifices of being a founder, what it takes to build a business, why he's an entrepreneur, what it's like to grow up in an entrepreneurial family, how to bootstrap a business, how to find product-market fit, how to get goo...

Paige Collins, Vice President of Customer Success at fast growing XOi, talks about being proactive, data driven, and obsessed with making customers successful. Paige describes how XOi navigated COVID-19 with their clients by giving things away and pursuing virtue. She also talks about how to succeed with a board, the problems many start-ups fall into, how to select great customer success talent, w...

Brian Adams, President and founder of Excelsior Capital, super-smart, clear, and engaging investor talks with Tom about how to not let money ruin a family and why real estate is a good investment. Brian tells Tom how Excelsior Capital works, why you need to take taxes and fees into account when evaluating the return on an investment, why cash is what matters and not gross IRR, why the S&P 500 is n...

Brian Adams, President and founder of Excelsior Capital, super-smart, clear, and engaging investor talks with Tom about how to not let money ruin a family and why real estate is a good investment. Brian tells Tom how Excelsior Capital works, why you need to take taxes and fees into account when evaluating the return on an investment, why cash is what matters and not gross IRR, why the S&P 500 is n...

Just in time for back to school, Tom talks with Harrison Stuart, founding head of one of Nashville's most dynamic startups, the Episcopal School of Nashville. Harrison is the real deal, a level-5 leader who's collected an amazing staff of educators and supporters determined to create a great, inclusive, affordable, neighborhood school in East Nashville. Harrison talks about the challenges of openi...

Just in time for back to school, Tom talks with Harrison Stuart, founding head of one of Nashville's most dynamic startups, the Episcopal School of Nashville. Harrison is the real deal, a level-5 leader who's collected an amazing staff of educators and supporters determined to create a great, inclusive, affordable, neighborhood school in East Nashville. Harrison talks about the challenges of openi...

Jim Reeves, a twenty year veteran sales leader in healthcare IT, talks about how the key to effective sales is to have a burning intellectual curiosity to know your customer, how good sales technique is more about question asking and problem solving than manipulation, and how to work with clients who don't trust you. Tom and Jim also talk about how Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning," faith...

Ronald Webb Jr., product leader, pastor, father, mentor, and veteran difference maker, confesses his love for Tom and his barber, what success means, how to allow our life principles to govern our corporate behavior, what's the right way to communicate with your team and your family, real world examples of customer delight, and the true meaning of servant leadership. Tom gets schooled on that one.

Tom interviews Anderson Williams, author and COO at BOS Framework , on why knowing you're wrong is the beginning of getting things right, how the right kind of failure can build trust, using writing to be better at work, how BOS Framework is going to market, what's a product manager's role, what's the right way to treat customers, and how power works at work. BOS Framework is a recent addition to...

Tom interviews Anderson Williams, author and COO at BOS Framework, on why knowing you're wrong is the beginning of getting things right, how the right kind of failure can build trust, using writing to be better at work, how BOS Framework is going to market, what's a product manager's role, what's the right way to treat customers, and how power works at work.

Tom and Christy discuss why users and students never do what you think they will, why we have to be still to find what we really want from life, and why we have to focus on what we can control to stay happy and productive.

Hear a preview of the next episode of the Fortune's Path podcast. We interview  product leader and problem solver Christy Frink. Christy talks about how she's staying busy and happy while being unemployed, defining a good life for herself instead of buying into someone's idea, and making the most of whatever those pesky users do, even if it's not what you want.

Tom and Aaron Briggs talk about good questions to ask product managers during job interviews and how to answer them, what love on a product team looks like, how Aaron made the transition from individual contributor to team leader, and what's one of Aaron's favorite products.

Here's a preview of the next episode of the Fortune's Path Podcast with Tom Noser.

The first episode of the Fortune’s Path Podcast features an interview with Lee Bridges, successful entrepreneur and senior product manager at XOi about Lee’s favorite virtue, how he applies it at work and home, why he started a family, and how love can lead to monopoly profits.