The Jon Schultz Podcast: The Myth of Overnight Success

Amber Allen, CEO, and Founder of Double A Labs, never stayed inside of the box during her career from humble roots in east Texas to becoming a leader in Web 3.0. Always looking for that next adventure she kept an open mind, learning along the way, Amber takes us on her journey from her time at Disney, Warner, and the rise of E-Sports with Riot Games. Amber’s passion for creating experiences and to...

Brett Yormark, COO, Roc Nation, knew he couldn’t spend a life stuck working in a boring job, so he doubled down on his passion for sports. He had a vision for his career and built what he calls his personal progression ladder, a series of steps that took Brett from ticket sales to CEO of the Brooklyn Nets. Hear firsthand how Brett managed his career with his end goal in mind. He gets candid about...

Esther Choi has always been an ambitious person. From selling bulk candy to friends in middle school to reading “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” in high school, the entrepreneurial spirit has always been present. But it’s never enough simply to have a business. Esther’s competitive spirit drives her to be the best. Hear the evolution of Esther’s career. Her mindset is work shouldn’t feel like work. That’s no...

Susan Sly started as an entrepreneur at age 11 and hasn’t looked back. Today she is a tech entrepreneur, author, and investor, but her road to AI CEO has been full of twists and turns. One of her first jobs out of college was at a men’s maximum-security prison. Susan has never been afraid to pivot. She owned a health club, was a pro-triathlete, had a radio show, was a sales manager, and a digital...

Kara Goldin, CEO, and founder of Hint, may be known as the inventor of healthy, flavored water, but her roots are in the tech industry. She helped grow many ventures, starting with the early days of CNN to an Apple-spinoff marketing firm called 2Market to AOL. While Kara never thought of herself as an entrepreneur, working for entrepreneurs helped her see that it was exciting and kind of fun. She...

Hugh Weber, President at Harris Blitzer Sports Entertainment, didn't envision himself someday running professional sports teams, but he did set out to have an impact. He was always interested in running teams and motivating people to achieve complex objectives. If you're tackling big challenges, naturally, you will experience failures. Hugh instead thinks of blunders as honing your craft and findi...

If you are a business owner, executive, or aspiring to towards those goals, Randy Garn will help get you there. He’s driven to help grow companies and people. A serial entrepreneur, Randy is a partner at High-Performance Institute and an operating partner at Tamarack Capital. He’s an NYT bestselling author and a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine on leadership and growth potential. We explore Ra...

Many people think success in sports is about being talented to be the best at something. Scott O’Neill, former CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports Entertainment and author of Be “Where Your Feet Are”, prefers to see sport as a vehicle for change. Growing up, he was a super-competitive multi-sport kid who harnessed his passion and ambition to land a job with a professional NBA team at 22. It was hands-on...

You gotta have guts to be an entrepreneur, and guest Brandon Steiner has plenty of them! Known as the guy who sold Yankee Stadium, founder of CollectibleXchange, Brandon is the epitome of the rags to riches story. As a poor kid with a learning disability hustling in Brooklyn, Brandon learned his first lesson about business from failing a paper route challenges. That lesson has been core to overcom...

Welcome to the ultra-competitive restaurant world of New York City. It’s hard to innovate in a city that seems to have everything, but that’s never deterred entrepreneur Stratis Morfogen. Raised in a restaurant family, he showed an early passion for the business. So his Dad set him to mopping the floors and washing the dishes. He didn’t get it back then, but that time getting his hands dirty in th...

The Jon Schultz Podcast unpacks the lessons from industry leaders who refused to quit. Success is a tightrope. Everyone who’s reached the top of their game has wobbled on the way up. Those losses propelled them to the bigger and better places they are today.  In a curious way, it’s the upsets that lay the foundation for winning. Our guests dig into their stories; we talk about the challenges they’...