The Founders Sandbox

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda McCabe speaks with Kelly Breslin Wright, Founder & CEO of Culture Driven Sales. They discuss resilience and purpose related to the Culture Driven Sales methodology where Kelly Breslin Wright operates as a C-level executive, board director, advisor, and adjunct university professor. Kelly Breslin Wright is an experienced executive and corporate board...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda speaks with Genevieve LeMarchal about Resilience: Journalist to Venture Capitalist. They speak about Genevieve's "Phoenix Manifesto", and what journalism and venture capitalism have in common. Genevieve LeMarchal is the Managing Partner of Suncoast Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund specializing in healthcare impact and equity funding opp...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda speaks with Anna Jacob about "Maximing Purpose while Achieving Profits". They speak about her broad experience coming full circle from her experiences growing up that informed her future career purpose- and in assisting women business owners to think strategically on exit strategies. Anna Halloran Jacob specializes in selling privately owned compani...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda speaks with Shashi Triphati. They speak about the purposeful "design driven life", Shashi's personal struggles as an immigrant to the US, the growth and recognition as CIO and as entrepreneur. Learn more about his fund nurture.ventures and their work at TIE SoCal. Shashi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, board member and advisor to several compani...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda speaks with Oscar Neyra, CEO and founder of Lisus Energy, about building a sustainable business model. Lisus is focused on identifying better sites to source materials for batteries. Oscar holds a Doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA, as well as a Master studies in Homeland Security from USC and Global Security from John Hopk...

Listen to the latest episode of "The Founder's Sandbox", where Brenda tackles the topic of starting discussions with your clients on setting up the board. Brenda speaks with Matthew Lopez, managing director of Wolf and Snow, about board creation. Matthew Lopez is the Managing Director of Wolf and Snow, the first national firm providing fractional General Counsel services to founders. After years a...

Transcript: 00:43 Welcome back to the Founders Sandbox. This is Brenda McCabe and I'm joining you actually from Spain, where I'll be for a couple of weeks. This is my back to school message oh for the listeners of the Founders Sandbox. The back to school for me was actually going back to the first 01:12 episode of the Founders Sandbox, which is my intro to the Founders Sandbox. I was delighted to...

Check out this month's timely podcast with film composer and creator, Carlo Siliotto. We talk about co-creation; the music supporting the storyline. The Writers Guild of America strike that began on May 2, 2023 continues as of the date of the release of this podcast. You can listen into Carlo's soundbites on AI in the creative process, the economics of residuals and governance as a committee membe...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, our host, Brenda McCabe speaks with Rushabh Mehta- CEO and Founder of MatchbookAI. They speak about Resilience: creating a new category by filling unmet needs with a new Data category. Rushabh shares his point of view on the primary challenges faced today in large enterprises, including latency, high costs associated with how data is used across enterprise...

On today's episode of The Founder's Sandbox, our host Brenda McCabe speaks with Min-Yi Shih. Min- Yi has a background in Physics and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, (quantum optoelectronics field aka laser, etc), got his MBA from UCLA, prior CTO, COO and GM in the R&D, defense, medical and communication equipment industries, angel investor and more recently advisor to early-stage founders and ac...

On today's episode of The Founder's Sandbox, our host Brenda McCabe speaks with Lisa Greer Quateman – Corporate Board member, recently retired Attorney, and advocate of a greater presence for legal expertise on Boards of Directors. They speak about "Enhancing resilience and supporting good governance by tapping legal expertise"- how to incorporate legal practices into your startup to enhance the g...

For our third Women's History Month special podcast, Brenda McCabe speaks with Martha Gamboa; CEO and Founder of Frendii. Martha shares how a personal journey of health and wellness led to building Frendii- a technology startup developing a solution for women over 50 to build community and facilitate frequent social and human connections. You can find out more about Martha and Frendii at: https://...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda speaks with Veronica Parmar. Veronica manages and teaches at a Pilates studio in the greater Los Angeles area, where her diverse client list includes professional athletes, entertainment personalities, seniors, and those recovering from injuries. With her deep understanding and passion of the Pilates work, she is able to inspire her clients to gain...

Today our host, Brenda McCabe, speaks with Betsy Berkhemer Credaire. Betsy is an advocate, author, and search professional, CEO and President. Her retained executive seach firm, Berkhemer Clayton Inc., has celebrated 28 years in business. The retained executive search firm specializes in senior-level national and regional searches with diversity focus for Corporate Boards, Communications & Marketi...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda McCabe speaks to Brian MacMahon of Expert DOJO. Brian specializes in helping entrepreneurs become more successful in their business by using all the tools available as owner of the largest peer to peer peak performance academy in the world. Expert DOJO improves the success rate of early-stage entrepreneurs with investment, foundation, showcasing, in...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda McCabe speaks with Enrique Serrano, founder of B5Tec, about how his company combines organic chemistry coupled with manufacturing at scale. You can find out more about B5Tec and Enrique at https://b5tec.com/ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_23_232 https://www.linkedin.com/in/enriqueserranodorado/ https://b5tec.com/b5tec-a...

On this episode of Founder's Sandbox, Brenda McCabe speaks to Christopher Locher, PhD; Co-founder and CEO of Versatope Therapeutics. He previously led drug discovery projects for infectious diseases at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston, inflammatory diseases at Opsona Therapeutics in Ireland and malaria and alphaviruses vaccine development programs at Maxygen in California. Their conversation cente...

Our host, Brenda McCabe, reads outloud from her blog about the crucial steps to forming a corporate board and the meaning of starting off with good governance.

On this Episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda McCabe speaks with Gaurav Kumar. Gaurav is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, angel investor, and an avid golfer, based in Southern California. He is the Founder and CEO of BeyondCodes Inc.—a global leader in Sales and Lead Generation for IT Services, Product Engineering and SaaS-based product companies. Gaurav Kumar is also an author of "Sales Lesso...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, our host, Brenda McCabe interviews Dr. Larry Taylor on Corporate Governance! Dr. Taylor is a seasoned independent corporate director, having served on 24+ corporate boards, including family-owned, publicly traded, private-equity owned, closely held privately-owned, advisory, and non-profit boards. He has been recognized as a "Financial Expert" by the SEC w...

On this episode, our host, Brenda McCabe speaks with Pete Lee; a writer, teacher and coach. Pete has been supporting the spiritual growth and transformation of many life purpose and truth-seekers for over 16 years through one-on-one and group coaching sessions, gentle and restorative yoga and meditation classes and workshops, healing energy work and gong sound frequencies. Pete is also a certified...

On this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda McCabe interviews Rocio Summers; an independent director and a global CFO, with business and financial experience in Europe, North and Central America, and South America. They discuss setting in place scaleable processes to create a sustainable business model that can grow and change over time. You can find Rocio on Linked in at: https://www.linkedi...

Leadership teams that recognize that "it takes a village" to build a sustainable, well governed business – are increasing the probabilities to be successful. In my experience, there are three core indicators of a sustainable business led by a high performing leadership team: 1. Revenue 2. Governance 3. Time Management transcript: 01:19 Hello, it's Brenda at Next Act Advisors. I'm here to read the...

Operating from your center leads to a purposeful life. The same applies to a business. To be operating from your center all your life – is highly unlikely. Often, it isn't until having enough experiences over time that some of us can find our life's purpose.. But; It doesn't have to be that way for a business. Purpose is your "Why." transcript: 01:17 This is Brenda with Next Act Advisors. I'm read...

In this episode, NAA founder, Brenda McCabe, talks about the "soft" aspect of personal and professional success; Resilience. Like a three-legged stool, resilience is best found when all three legs are present: 1) knowing oneself and how one best performs and learns; 2) having options and making choices and 3) being thankful. transcript: 01:17 Hello, this is Brenta. I'm with NextAct Advisors. I'm h...