Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Janelle Trujillo, founder of Executive Health Habit Coaching. Janelle shares her journey from nearly two decades in the fitness and personal training industry into habit-based health coaching, shaped by her leadership roles in big-box gyms and the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. As gyms shut down and stress behavior...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Jen Peterson, founder of Slay Social with Jen. Jen shares her unconventional journey from psychology graduate and mortician to hospital administration, and ultimately into entrepreneurship as a social media strategist and coach. Her transition began while working in a med spa, where curiosity around analytics, reach, and...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Jen Funk, a relationship coach dedicated to helping individuals and couples build stronger, healthier, and more intentional relationships. Jen shares her deeply personal journey—from growing up in a divorced household to navigating her own marriage without strong relational role models. With a background in psychology, sales...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Jacqui Higgins, founder of Self Worth Foundation. Jacqui shares her journey from building a seven-figure commercial design firm to realizing that external success did not equal internal fulfillment. Despite checking every box of traditional entrepreneurial achievement, she found herself exhausted and disconnected, prompting...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Christina McGhee, founder of Divorce and Children and creator of the Co-Parenting Specialist Training Program. Christina shares how her personal experience as a child of divorce and later as a stepmother, combined with her background in social work, led her to dedicate her career to helping families navigate separation in a...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Johann Callaghan, founder of the Sleep Success System. Johann shares her journey from a 17-year corporate career as a single mother into holistic healing, personal development, and ultimately sleep coaching. After experiencing profound personal loss and burnout, she began exploring self-healing, sleep science, and mindse...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Allie Gold, founder of All Gold Media Agency. Allie shares her journey from nearly a decade in corporate marketing into entrepreneurship, detailing how her background in influencer marketing and brand growth led her to launch a boutique social media agency. She reflects on the leap from a stable corporate role to buildin...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Kathrine Farris, founder and CEO of Marketecs. Kathrine shares her journey from a long career in community banking—rising to vice president before age 30—to discovering digital marketing through technology, teaching, and problem-solving for small business clients. What began as curiosity around email marketing evolved into...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Sarah Kinlin, founder of Pearl Performance Inc. Sarah shares her journey from spending over 20 years at Johnson & Johnson in research, quality, and operations leadership to stepping away from corporate life after a pivotal career moment during the pandemic. While leading a large essential manufacturing team through COVI...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Chris Keep, founder of Virtual Personal Training. Chris shares his 15-year journey in the fitness industry, from starting as a personal trainer straight out of college to managing large gym teams in central London and eventually owning his own brick-and-mortar gym. He reflects on the lessons learned from leadership, business...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Thomas Oben, founder of Oben Incorporated. Thomas shares his 15-year journey in marketing, including years spent working in-house across B2B and B2B SaaS, and how those experiences revealed a recurring challenge for early-stage startups: the pressure to grow without the budget, tooling, or senior expertise to scale internal...

In this episode of Founders, Future, with host Zach Young, Zach sits down with James Westphal, a voice and confidence coach who helps professionals show up, speak with authority, and convert presence into opportunity. James walks us through his journey from doing hands-on client work to thinking bigger about offer structure and scale, explains his current one-to-one pricing and packages, and share...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we meet Beste Ozer Tezcan, a talent development and leadership coach who left a successful HR career at Google to start her own practice. Beste shares her journey of feeling "powerless" within the large corporate system, which inspired her to help others avoid a similar fate. Driven by her own experiences with burnout, misalignmen...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Tanya Naydukh, founder of The Finance Goddess. Tanya shares how her journey into personal finance began through curiosity and self-education, after realizing she was never taught how to manage money in school or university. She reflects on discovering investing later in life, balancing a corporate career while building h...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Alex Lefever, founder of Adaptable Strength. Alex shares his unconventional journey into coaching, beginning with years of experience working with Special Olympics athletes and later as a 911 dispatcher. Witnessing firsthand the long-term health toll faced by first responders inspired him to shift from reacting to emergencie...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Jack DePiro, founder of Countrywood Investments and Yata Flavor. Jack shares his unconventional path from working as an automotive technician to becoming a content creator, strategist, and entrepreneur. What began as casually posting videos online quickly turned into brand partnerships, monetization, and a realization th...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Heather McDonald, founder of Hala Connected and Unshakeable Coaching. Heather shares her unconventional journey from therapist and educator into entrepreneurship, explaining how her background in psychology, teaching, and human behavior naturally evolved into a connection-led marketing agency. She reflects on building Ha...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Alex Sheridan, founder of Impacts. Alex shares his journey from a decade-long career in B2B sales—cold calling, prospecting, and enterprise account management—to building a purpose-led consultancy focused on brand, positioning, and impact. He reflects on developing his personal brand on LinkedIn before COVID, how inbound...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Jodi Borrometi, founder of Wave of Wisdom Parent Coaching. Jodi shares her 30+ year journey in education, from elementary classroom teacher to middle school counselor, and the pivotal moment that inspired her to build a parent coaching practice alongside her full-time counseling role. Drawing from decades of experience work...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Courtney Killeen, founder of Compass Rose Consultants. Courtney shares her journey from serving as an executive leader in the nonprofit sector—where she helped scale a youth-focused STEAM organization more than sevenfold—to launching a heart-centered consulting practice designed for founders who think differently. She refle...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Jeanette C. Jordan, executive coach and founder of Jeanette C. Jordan Coaching. Jeanette shares her journey from senior product marketing roles at high-growth tech companies to building a coaching practice that supports founders, executives, and leaders navigating scale, transition, and complexity. Drawing on her experience...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Zach Monaco, a fitness coach and entrepreneur helping men who already work out consistently eliminate stubborn belly fat and achieve a lean, confident physique through his Transcend coaching approach at Transcend Transformations. Zach shares how his passion for fitness began at a young age—drawing inspiration from profession...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Emma Alston, founder of Emma Alston Voice. Emma shares her deeply personal journey with voice, from growing up with a pronounced childhood stammer to relearning how to speak after a traumatic brain injury in her twenties. Her story traces an unconventional entrepreneurial path—from engineering and running a welding business...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Cecilia “Ceci” Carmona, founder of The Flow Path, a business mentor supporting ambitious mothers in building freedom-driven online businesses. Ceci shares her 20-year career in the advertising industry, her move from Argentina to the Netherlands, and how two burnouts—combined with becoming a mother in 2024—led her to reasse...

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Nikki Hardy, founder of A Sea of Hope Coaching. Nikki shares her journey from working as an employment specialist in NHS mental health services to building a coaching practice shaped by her own late ADHD diagnosis at age 43. She reflects on how that diagnosis reframed her career, sense of self, and purpose, ultimately guidi...