Stairway to CEO

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up in Buffalo, New York as the second of five children How at a young age he always appreciated the hard work he put into yard work or shoveling snow, getting to see the transformation he was able to make What it was like going to Cornell University, being the first one in his family to leave his hometown, changing his major to business,...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: Her life growing up in Pasadena, California, with dreams of becoming a marine biologist, and her first entrepreneurial journey of breeding bunnies and selling them to local pet stores What it was like going to a boarding school in Connecticut, being far away from family How leaving college she was unsure of what she wanted to do, so she decides to go the investme...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: -What it was like growing up in Northeastern, New Jersey as the youngest of four to a single mother, growing up as a tomboy hanging out with her older brothers -Her first job working as a dog groomer at the age of 12, setting her own hours and rate -The funny story of how the DMV messed up her driver's license, making her 21 at the age of only 16 -How her hippie...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up in a small suburban town in Detroit with entrepreneurial parents, creating friendship bracelets and earrings and selling them to friends and family How the fascination with babies at a young age gave her the desire to be a pediatrician, but once she got to college and began taking advanced science classes, it led her to explore other p...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: His early life growing up in Livingston, New Jersey, being an outgoing kid with an entrepreneurial drive, and how being a hustler at summer camp got him kicked out How his entrepreneurial drive came from his serial entrepreneur father His experience going to college in a co-op program where he got hands on experience in marketing and banking but realized it wasn’...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up in Northern New Jersey with entrepreneurial parents How he knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur at an early age by selling candy to kids at his summer camp How he created his own major in college, studying Consumer Psychology and how he uses it today in running Caraway Why he moved back in with his parents after graduating college to s...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: Her early days growing up, excelling in school and graduating from college at just 18 years old The challenges she faced in selling bullet proof plates as a young teenage girl, helping run her father’s business The key takeaways she learned during her time running her dad's business and working in performance marketing How meeting a former CEO of a major beauty b...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What is was like growing up in Minnesota with a snail farm in his house  How the passion his parents had for side hustles gave him the passion for entrepreneurship and pursuing his own company His time working in investment banking and how it was a blessing in disguise How he launched a reading game app for kids, and how this experience taught him a tough lesson...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: Her life growing up with entrepreneurial parents in San Francisco with dreams of becoming a rower in college How her time at Wharton business school wasn’t fulfilling so she changed her major to study liberal arts and history  How her time working for a natural foods company taught her a lot about creating products and gave her skills she now uses to build Copina...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up in New Jersey throughout most of her younger life, to moving to the UK in highschool and having a shift of realization How growing up she knew she always wanted to be in a boardroom and rise to the top in a company, but learned in her later life that entrepreneurship was something she could achieve How she showed up to her friend’s int...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up with three sisters and entrepreneurial parents in Pasadena, California and how living in an entrepreneurial household gave her the drive to start her own business Why she believes her nurturing personality has helped the growth of True Botanicals  What her time working in marketing at Levi’s taught her about marketing and communication...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What is was like growing up in a holistic household, having a thirst for knowledge and dreaming How having the thirst for knowledge led to her getting three different degrees and starting her career at Microsoft What she learned in her time at Target in her many different roles and how that taught her how to scale her business What led her to creating Rae and col...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: His journey from growing up in Vancouver struggling in school to ending up in finance for college  What he learned from his internship at Credit Suisse that helps him in what he does today How his time traveling the country while working in finance pushed him to create something he was passionate about, The Naked Market Why The Naked Market chose to create a coll...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: How he grew up as a first-generation Britt in West London with his immigrant parents How being unsure of what he wanted to do throughout college led him to investment banking and his internship at Goldman Sachs What his time at Goldman Sachs taught him throughout his internship, and into the 10 years of his career spent there Some of the takeaways he learned at G...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up with his parents, brother, and sister in California, to going through his parents long divorce at age of 10, to moving in with his brother at the early  age of 14 How living with his brother at 14 taught him a lot about life and helped him grow up faster with having to pay for his own food, clothes, and other expenses How losing his mo...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up in Seattle, being the daughter of the producers for the hit show, Bill Nye the Science Guy How over the course of a decade she accumulated her entrepreneurial skills by creating an organic sorbet, to baking and delivering custom cupcakes How never fully understanding what she wanted to do throughout college helped plant the seed of bec...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: How most of his childhood was spent outdoors in his hometown near Seattle How even as a kid he had an entrepreneurial spirit by upselling pizza slices to his schoolmates How his different jobs of working the door at nightclubs in San Francisco, to working in event planning and working music festivals gave him the experience needed to start Evermill How cooking an...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What is was like growing up in Maryland as one of five siblings What his experience was like interning at the White House How moving to Boston with a new tech startup shifted his career path  How being passionate about people and working in the startup world gave him the passion for being a “wantrepreneur” How losing his uncle to skin cancer raised his awareness...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up in Scranton, Ohio where the hit show The Office, was based How growing up being active in sports and performing in front of others carried over throughout his life  How his passion for wanting to express himself and entertain others led him to move to New York City How losing his first wife to cancer shifted his perspective on life and...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: His entrepreneurial journey from growing up in the Pacific Palisades and what it was like growing up with parents working within the entertainment industry  How his mentorship with Keith Ferazzi began and how he continues to learn from him today  What June’s hiring process is like and why it’s important for Matt and his co-founder to stay involved in the process...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What it was like growing up in upstate New York with dreams of becoming a doctor How growing up with a single parent that had an autoimmune disease led her to a passion of holistic wellness How always having a sense of fire within her led her to building Golde How always having a passion for holistic wellness sparked the idea for creating a superfood brand Her ad...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What he learned about himself from an early job at Fry’s Electronics, what then got him into banking, and how he ended up starting Lolli and Pops Why Sid learned so much from launching Lolli and Pops after buying a failing candy store chain and bringing it from the brink of closure to a continued success What mistakes he made in the past in leadership, what he le...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: Why Stephen didn’t feel like he was cut out for corporate life and what that led him to do instead throughout college How he met his wife and Co-Founder, Allison, and started working for her family in oil and gas What led to Allison discovering the health benefits of apple cider vinegar and the desire to make it taste better What turned their first iterations of...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: Why he became passionate about alternative protein and animal rights while in college  How his time at Acton School of Business helped him learn a lot of what he needed to know about entrepreneurship and how he started an internship with ProVeg Incubator in Berlin, Germany What led to the idea of a seafood alternative, specifically raw tuna substitute, and what t...

In This Episode You’ll Hear About: What her childhood was like and how she has always been a leader and had many interests and passions from an early age What changed her focus from International Relations and Economics and perhaps leading to work in the State Department to working in marketing at the NFL instead and what she learned during her time there What profound takeaways Mayssa gained duri...