Inspired By Example

Inspired By Example is a podcast about the heart of leadership — revealing conversations with leaders across business, public service, education, and the military, asking five essential questions about who shaped them, what tested them, and what values ground them. In this episode, Will and Rich’s guest is Greg Slamowitz , an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, educator and author whose journey e...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about the heart of leadership — revealing conversations with leaders across business, public service, education, and the military, asking five essential questions about who shaped them, what tested them, and what values ground them. In this episode, Will and Rich's guest is Amish Jani , a top-tier venture capitalist and founding partner at FirstMark Capital ,...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. In this episode, Will and Rich's guest is Casey Sheahan, a renowned outdoor industry executive, someone who has had an uncommon impact on how we play in nature and how business can work to protect it. As CEO of Patagonia, Casey led the company through its most successful per...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. In this episode, Will and Rich's guest is Lawrence K. Fish, former Chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial Group, someone with a remarkable record of leadership in business, philanthropy, arts, education and more.  During his 17 year tenure in charge of Citizens, CFG grew 30...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. In this episode, Will and Rich's guest is Mike Erwin, founder and Executive Director of Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) an organization that guides veterans through a journey of transition from a life of selfless service to building a post-service lifestyle with a stro...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Gary Rieschel, a legend in the venture capital world and Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners , one of China's premier VC firms. Qiming invests in Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare and has $9.5 billion U...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Marc Pierce, Co-Founder and “head dreamer” of Warm Springs Productions, a Montana-based production company with over 30 years of award-winning work across a wide variety of networks including History Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery, ESP...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Mark Gainey, co-founder and chairman of Strava, the social fitness company used by more than 100 million athletes in over 195 countries.   In 1996, Mark co-founded Kana Communications, eventually reaching an over $10B valuation in 2000 on...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Anthony Soohoo, the rare business leader who has led startups and driven industry-changing digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies.  As EVP at Walmart, he led one of the largest digital transformations in history, generating billio...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is the Reverend Dr Malcolm Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.  As Dean, Malcolm has led the Episcopal cathedral (the third largest in the US) in its mission to reimagine church in the 21st century. Malcolm is the author of The S...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Frédérique Campagne Irwin, President and CEO of the National Women's History Museum (https://www.womenshistory.org/) an innovative DC-based museum dedicated to uncovering, interpreting and celebrating women’s diverse contributions to...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Waded Cruzado, President of Montana State University. Waded shares the "five traits" of leadership that have shaped her own style and journey, one that began as the first member of her Puerto Rican family to attend college and th...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Zebulon Scoville, Lead Flight Director of NASA's Mission Control. Zeb shares the lessons from his remarkable career at NASA, which includes leading the International Space Station from the console at Mission Control, creating "re...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Tony James the "five questions." Tony discusses the lessons of leadership built over a remarkable career leading at DLJ and as president of the global asset management firm Blackstone. We think this episode is a master class on leadership fr...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Dan Goldsmith the "five questions." Dan talks about his meteoric rise to become one of IBM's youngest ever partners in its global consultancy, the lessons he brought with him to Veeva (that transformed the life sciences industry on its way to a $30B...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask David Coulter the "five questions." David talks about about some of the valuable lessons he's learned along the way from people like Mac McQuown (former innovator at Wells Fargo),  Tom Clausen (former CEO of B of A),  Dan Case (former CEO of Hambrec...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Mitchell Kertzman the "five questions." Mitchell recently retired as Managing Director of Hummer Winblad, and before that was CEO of private and public companies for over 30 years, including Powersoft, Sybase and Liberate Technologies. In this episode, M...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Admiral Steve Abbot USN (Ret.) the "five questions." Steve's remarkable life has included being a Rhodes Scholar, combat fighter pilot, Bronze Medal recipient, test pilot of the F-18, Commanding Officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Operation...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Steve Burke the "five questions." Steve Burke talks about his career (from running Walt Disney Europe to president of ABC, from CEO of NBC Universal to the "third act" of his life), his mentors and friends (which include legends like Michael Ei...

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. In this first episode, Rich interviews his cohost (and big brother) Will, to ask the "five questions."  From an international childhood, to a "traditional" path of Harvard, Morgan Stanley and Bay Area tech, to a life in the mountains of Montana, transforming the landscape...