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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur , host Juming Delmas sits down with Dom Finetti , founder of Parrot , a SaaS platform designed to make the hiring process more fair, skills-based, and transparent. The conversation explores one of the most difficult realities founders face: when you are building a company, should you hire the person you know and trust, or should e...

Send us Fan Mail n this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur , host Juming Delmas sits down with Ashok Mittal , CEO and Founder of Fintech Global Center , for a wide-ranging conversation about artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, and the future of business. Ashok brings a rare long-view perspective to the AI conversation. Originally from India, he moved to the United States 40 ye...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur , host Juming Delmas sits down with business mentor and coach Benoy Tam for a direct conversation about entrepreneurship, cash management, sales, work-life balance, and why “hope” can become one of the most dangerous traps in business. Benoy shares insight from his experience starting seven businesses and explains why entrepreneur...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur , host Juming Delmas takes on a leadership label that is often treated like an insult: being a “hard ass.” Juming argues that demanding people are not always cruel, unreasonable, or impossible to work with. In many high-performance environments, the person who refuses to lower the standard may be the same person pushing a team, at...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur , host Juming Delmas sits down with Cidney Green , an author, phone sex operator, trainer, and adult-industry entrepreneur, for a candid conversation about making money in unconventional spaces, building a business from lived experience, and challenging the social rules many people take for granted. Cidney shares how she entered t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast , host Juming Delmas sits down with Leah Williams , a pitch deck strategist and designer, for a real conversation about what it actually takes to pitch investors. This episode strips away the glamor around venture capital and angel investing and gets into the harder truth: investors are not funding dreams, ideas, or excite...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur , host Juming Delmas uses the legacy of Michael Jackson as a case study in branding, business, fame, and the personal cost of becoming one of the most recognizable people on earth. This CEO Confessions episode looks at Michael Jackson not only as an entertainer, but as a global brand — a marketing machine whose name, image, music,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur , Juming Delmas sits down with Dr. Matthew Zaideman for a candid conversation about business ownership, masculinity, grit, and what it really takes to lead when pressure hits .  Dr. Zaideman shares that his path into ownership was never random or rushed. Rather than starting from scratch, he spent five years working inside the pra...

Send us Fan Mail Oprah signed a nine-figure deal with Amazon. Joe Rogan crossed $250 million. Alex Cooper closed $125 million. And you're still calling your podcast a hobby. Juming Delmas gets on the mic and says what most business coaches won't. Your podcast isn't failing because of your gear, your budget, or your schedule. It's failing because you're using all three as r...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Untraditional Entrepreneur , the conversation gets unusually candid as Juming Delmas sits down with entrepreneur Calvin Beauford, founder of Freakypreneur Cigars , for a discussion that blends business strategy, personal controversy, branding, and lifestyle choices. Calvin shares the story behind building his cigar company, which has been operating for about...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Un-Traditional Entrepreneur , Juming Delmas sits down with entrepreneur Kenneth Alexander for a thoughtful and sometimes intense conversation about business, personal success, and the mindset it takes to keep evolving. Kenneth shares his journey from working in corporate America while building multiple side businesses to owning ventures that ranged from a ha...

Send us Fan Mail Click Here to support our Podcast to keep getting raw and authentic business topics.  What does it really cost to run a childcare business — and is the freedom worth it? In this episode of the Untraditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas sits down with Janna Johnson, CEO of Just Like Angels in Tallahassee, FL — a childcare entrepreneur who has built a nearly million-doll...

Send us Fan Mail Click Here to support our Podcast to keep getting raw and authentic business topics.  Is obsession the secret weapon of every great entrepreneur — or a ticking time bomb? In this episode of the Untraditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas goes head-to-head with tech entrepreneur and mentor Sylvester Thompson in one of the most unfiltered, no-BS conversations about what i...

Send us Fan Mail Click Here to support our Podcast to keep getting raw and authentic business topics.  What happens when a self-made entrepreneur who built a club empire from the streets goes head-to-head with a $36 billion corporate giant — and refuses to back down? In this episode of the Untraditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas sits down with Tommy D, a New Jersey entrepreneur who...

Send us Fan Mail Nobody talks about the part before the six-figure business. The part where you've launched your website, posted on social media, told everyone you know — and heard absolutely nothing back. In this solo episode of the Untraditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas gets brutally honest about the hardest milestone every entrepreneur faces: landing that first paying clien...

Send us Fan Mail Is entrepreneurship really for everybody? Is your brand worth more than your talent? And can David Shands actually beat Juming Delmas in Monopoly? In this episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas sits down with David Shands — podcaster, entrepreneur, and creator of the Social Proof Podcast and Hot Seat series — for one of the most entertaining and tho...

Send us Fan Mail He dropped out of high school. Got kicked out for disciplinary problems. Left home at 14. Then went back, got a certificate, an AA, a bachelor's in marketing from Flagler College, and a master's from Florida State University — graduating with a 3.9 GPA. In this solo episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas gets completely personal about his...

Send us Fan Mail Juming Delmas saw the betrayal coming in November. He told one person. It happened in February — not from one person, but multiple, all at once. In this solo episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, Juming gets more personal than he's ever been — talking about betrayal in both his personal and professional life, why fearlessness isn't about reacting, and what...

Send us Fan Mail Why do so many talented actors never make a living — and what does that have to do with entrepreneurship? In this episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas sits down with Lydia Nicole — professional actress, producer, and filmmaker with over 45 years in Hollywood and 100K+ YouTube subscribers — to have the conversation the entertainment industry doesn&...

Send us Fan Mail Motivation is unreliable. Feelings will lie to you. Your business doesn't care how you feel today. What actually moves the needle is form. In this solo episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas breaks down one of the most important concepts in entrepreneurship that nobody is talking about — getting into form. Not grinding harder. Not staying motiv...

Send us Fan Mail Juming Delmas spent months building a prototype. He hired a developer. He stayed up night after night. He used ChatGPT to do his market research. And then his mentor Googled it. In this raw, unfiltered solo episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, Juming gets brutally honest about one of the most painful lessons every entrepreneur eventually learns — AI is a powerful to...

Send us Fan Mail Free networking events are full of broke business owners trying to make money off other broke business owners. That's not shade — that's just the math. In this solo episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, host Juming Delmas comes fresh off speaking at Podfest — one of the biggest podcast conferences in the country — to break down the real difference between p...

Send us Fan Mail In December, Juming Delmas lost three clients in one month. He also hired three new team members in the same month. This is how that's possible — and what it taught him about building a business that can't be held hostage by bad clients. In this raw solo episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, Juming breaks down everything that happened — the late payments, t...

Send us Fan Mail Gary Vee says employees are quitting because they have options — TikTok, Instagram, influencer life. Juming Delmas respectfully disagrees. Hard. In this solo episode of the Un-Traditional Entrepreneur Podcast, Juming breaks down the real numbers behind influencer income and makes the case that quitting your job to become a social media influencer isn't an option — it's a...

Send us Fan Mail "I don't need marketing — I get all my business from word of mouth." That sentence is exactly why your business isn't growing. And in this episode, Juming Delmas explains why word of mouth IS marketing — and why using it as a reason to skip real marketing strategy is just a polished way of saying you're broke. In this short, sharp solo episode of the Un-Tr...