Just Go Grind

Shiv Gaglani is the co-founder and CEO of Osmosis , a medical and health sciences education technology company aimed at revolutionizing the way clinicians learn and retain information. Osmosis' social learning platform and high-quality content are being used by 800,000 present and future medical practitioners. They also currently have around 1 million YouTube subscribers and a total of 100 million...

Candice Lu is a founding partner at OnPrem Solution Partners and has 20 years of experience in media and entertainment consulting, focused now on surrounding herself with the best talent to do the best work for clients. At OnPrem Candice and her team spend every day innovating and building a next-generation consulting firm. They are passionate about hiring the best people and empowering them to be...

Taylor Simpson's entrepreneurial spirit emerged when he was just seven years old and launched his first business – an art studio (selling crayon masterpieces for a few dollars). When that didn't pan out, he moved on, undeterred, to businesses such as a graphic design company and other garage ventures, all before college. Using experience gained from the failure and success of his first 3 technolog...

Cody is a Partner at Techstars – the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed – and works as steward of Techstars' equity investments and venture capital funds for one of the most active early stage venture investors in the world. As of October 2018, Techstars is investing in 460 companies per year and the Techstars portfolio has gone on to raise nearly $6Bn in follow-on capital. Techsta...

Serah Blackstone-Fredericks, the Founder and CEO of Books in Harmony, works with individuals and small businesses to help them efficiently track their finances. By starting with clear goal setting of what is needed, they can structure a streamlined bookkeeping system and then create an action plan to process a range of items including: Monthly Bookkeeping Accounts Receivable Accounts Payable Court...

As of one of Dallas' most aggressive real estate magnates in the making, Chris D. Bentley has built his reputation upon surpassing client expectations. Having sold millions of dollars' worth of homes during his 15+ year career, 50% of Chris's business has consisted of repeat and referral clients and the other 50% from social media exposure. Specializing in the most elite properties in the Dallas-F...

Shrein Bahrami is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Francisco and the founder of Evolve Wellness Group that specializes in eating, anxiety, and relationship disorders. Prior to the group practice, Shrein built her private practice from part-time to full-time after working as a clinician at an eating disorder treatment program. Shrein is also the author of Stop Bingeing, Start Living:...

Astrid has been treating coughs, colds, rashes, and infections with things she can find in her kitchen for years. She was shocked by how well these food-based remedies worked and excited when modern nutrition research started revealing why. When others started asking her for tips, recipes, and advice, she knew she had to make them accessible to all. This led Astrid to start Good Medicine Co. — a c...

Molly Sullivan is the owner of Miss Molly's Cafe and Pastry Shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She went to culinary school in Minneapolis and started working at Birchwood Cafe to start her culinary career. Prior to starting her cafe, Molly worked at Braise Restaurant while she starts her pastry business as a side hustle. Unaware of how to start a business, Molly started to reach out with other restaura...

Miraya Berke creates experiences that spark delight! She's always dreamed of being an event planner and started her own events company Pop Productions at age 24. In 2016 she launched Dessert Goals, a wildly popular dessert festival that curates local dessert vendors. In 2.5 years she's planned 7 festivals and gathered over 20,000 dessert lovers. Her newest venture is Rom Com Fest, a romantic comed...

Justin Rezvani is a first generation American entrepreneur, investor, Forbes' 30 Under 30, and Founder of theAmplify : a data-driven advertising technology platform that produces influencer advertising campaigns for premium brands across social platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube and Periscope. theAmplify has produced major campaigns in every vertical for industr...

Allison McGuire is the Founder and CEO of Walc , a walking navigation app based on visual cues (turn right at Starbucks, left at the bank) and Monaghan McGuire (MM), a premium boutique consulting firm. A passionate presenter and brand builder, she has won every competition in which she's pitched Walc. Billed Waze for walking, Allison's Walc attracts top talent, such as Waze's CMO and the former CF...

Chic's passion is inspiring executives, MBA students and children to be "curious first… critical second" while creative problem solving. His latest creative adventure is founding " WagiLabs " A global, social innovation incubator for kids' ideas. Chic is a Batten Fellow of Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia's Darden Business School and adjunct faculty at the Brookings Institution and t...

Lindsay Gordon, the founder of A Life of Options , is a career coach for analytically minded people who are feeling uninspired or crushed by an ill-fitting job. Her programs allow you to step back from the stress of not knowing what to do next, reflect on who you are, where you've been and where you want to go, and emerge with a solid career plan you're excited about. Lindsay started her career wo...

Natalia Kochan is a co-founder of Curensea , an online art community where you can publish your creative work as an artist, curate other's work, and tip artists and art curators in an ad-free environment. Natalia is an artist by passion and profession. Writing poems at an early age, later on she became a screenplay writer where she was able to travel and live overseas. While working and studying i...

Paul Loeb, founder of DropTrack and No Ego Records, has three passions in life - music, business, and technology - and he's incorporated all of them in the businesses he's created. In this episode of Just Go Grind we discuss how Paul launched and grew these businesses as well as other ventures early on in his life. DropTrack helps record labels and artists promote their music and get feedback from...

Lucas Pols is the founder of Spark xyz, a technology platform built to connect incubators and accelerators with early-stage start-ups and help with their talent management. He has written a 40-article series discussing the topics of entrepreneurship and founder failures. Lucas also currently writes for Forbes and does speaking engagements around Los Angeles. As a Principal at Quake, Lucas is focus...

Sam Simones became a Certified Financial Planner at the age of 26, something less than 1% of financial advisors do, but decided to leave the field and pursue a different life path. Sam now works in two domains - business coaching and real estate - and in this episode he shares a high level view of starting side hustles and how he's forged his own unique career path. As you'll hear in this episode,...

Lucas Lee-Tyson is the founder and CEO of Growth Cave , an independent marketing consultancy and agency. Launched in June of 2018, Growth Cave helps businesses grow online by providing 1:1 consulting and an extensive online training center to educate business owners on how to create, manage, and scale effective Facebook Ad campaigns. Prior to Growth Cave and freelancing, Lucas created and grew num...

Joe Teglia owned and operated a major Southeast Wisconsin asphalt and concrete site construction services and asphalt material provider for 30+ years with his focus on project management, new pavement and pavement reconstruction design, operations management, and asphalt material production. As an experienced project manager with a career total of both public and private sector infrastructure proj...

Artur Meyster is the CTO of the Y Combinator backed startup Career Karma, co-host of the wildly popular Breaking Into Startups Podcast, and earlier in his career switched from 3 years of investment banking to tech by becoming a self-taught software engineer. Career Karma is a career development platform for people looking to break into the tech industry. The Breaking Into Startups Podcast features...

Quentin Allums is a LinkedIn influencer , speaker, community builder; as well as the CEO of Urban Misfit Ventures, a fast growing startup based out of Milwaukee. He has amassed over 10 million views on LinkedIn content. On his channel #justQ he covers the stories of amazing people across the globe, speaks about personal stories, and gives tips on storytelling and business. Quentin has also been na...

In the first episode of the Just Go Grind podcast with multiple guests, we have Sera Alper, the Founder & CEO of PMSBOX , and Desiree Hostettler, head of PR & Media Relations. PMSBOX is a monthly subscription box that includes five items (plus a bonus token item) to improve women's menstrual experience. With every box purchased, PMSBOX gives one box of menstrual supplies in India or Turkey...

Mikey Taylor is the current President and Managing Principle of Commune Capital, a private equity real estate investment firm. A serial entrepreneur at heart, he first found success with nearly two decades of professional skateboarding. Throughout his career Mikey held lucrative sponsorship contracts with DC Shoe Co., GoPro Cameras and Alien Workshop. Over his tenure, he had over 100 signature ska...

Michelle Pyan is the owner of COMMERCIAL INVESTIGATIONS LLC (CI), a licensed private investigative agency. COMMERCIAL INVESTIGATIONS LLC is a certified woman-owned business. Michelle founded the agency in 2004 and is responsible for growing the business with a proactive approach - setting new standards in the background investigations industry. As President she is responsible for the strategic dir...