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The Founders Live Podcast

The Founders Live Podcast tells stories of unique and inspiring entrepreneurship from around the world.

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9/10/2021

142 - Surbhi Rathore of Symbl.ai: What It's Like To Lead A Fast Growing Startup In A Pandemic artwork

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142 - Surbhi Rathore of Symbl.ai: What It's Like To Lead A Fast Growing Startup In A Pandemic

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Nick Hughes is joined by Surbhi Rathore who is the CEO and cofounder of symbl.ai from Seattle WA. Symbl.ai natively integrates conversation intelligence into your voice or video applications without building machine learning models. Nick and Surbhi jump into a fun conversation that starts with Surbhi's early days and how she entered into the technology industry and discovering her desire to be an entrepreneur. We hear about her early experience as an engineer in telcos where she learned insights on the industry and customer intelligence applications. She then decided she could do it better and set out to build automated conversational intelligence software. The team has grown incredibly fast and Surbhi shares her lessons of leading a fast growing team - even through the pandemic and working remotely - as well as her experience as a woman in tech, raising money and the challenges therein. The conversation ends with her tips and lessons learned so far. This is a very inspiring and educational conversation with a founder who is emerging on the technology scene destined for greatness and success. Take some notes and enjoy! https://symbl.ai/

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9/10/2021

141 - Erin McCune of Easeenet: Giving People A Voice of What They Want After Their Life Ends artwork

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141 - Erin McCune of Easeenet: Giving People A Voice of What They Want After Their Life Ends

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Nick Hughes is joined by Erin McCune, cofounder and CEO of Easeenet from Portland Oregon and recent winner of Founders Live Portland. Easeenet effortlessly organizes and preserves your digital estate, making your online life easy to see for you today, and your family tomorrow. Nick and Erin start the conversation around her journey and why she choose entrepreneurship. Then they cover how she discovered FL and her experience pitching and winning Founders Live Portland. Next, they dive into the company and the challenges she experienced in her own life with a estate planning and especially the digital properties and online life we live, struggling to figure out how to unwind those assets once someone passes away. We live most of our lives online and digitally, but have you ever wondered what happens once we are gone? It takes 570 hours on average to settle an estate of a family member who has passed. Erin and her team aim to reduce challenges and confusion of that experience. They aim to help with people's digital rights after life ends and give individuals a voice of what they want to happen after their life ends. This is a very interesting and thought provoking conversation with a founder who - although in a challenging industry - has discovered a very large opportunity. We hope it helps you today! https://easeenet.com/

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8/22/2021

140 - John Naughton of GoContractor: Building The Foundations of A Great Company artwork

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140 - John Naughton of GoContractor: Building The Foundations of A Great Company

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Nick Hughes is joined by John Naughton who is the CEO of GoContractor from Brisbane, Australia. GoContractor is built to help construction general contractors move their worker onboarding and subcontractor safety management online. Nick and John jump into a fun conversation that covers a variety of different topics including how he ended up downunder and what he loves about Australia, how he discovered his entrepreneurial path, and why he choose entrepreneurship. They also cover the origins of GoContractor, the foundations of a great company and what was the biggest hurdle early on for him and his team to get over. John Naughton speaks the truth of how to grow a great company and lead a team to success, and we hope it helps you today! https://gocontractor.com/

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8/22/2021

139 - Artin Nazarian: How To Launch Your Dream Side Venture While Working A Full Time Job artwork

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139 - Artin Nazarian: How To Launch Your Dream Side Venture While Working A Full Time Job

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Nick Hughes is joined by Artin Nazarian, Author and executive in LA who recently released the book Side Venture: The playbook to leverage your corporate job, pursue a side venture, and find happiness and fulfillment. Nick and Artin have a very interesting and engaging conversation around how to launch the side venture or hustle you have always dreamed of through simple hacks, tests and steps. They cover how to leverage your corporate job and current experience and connections, ideation and how to find that idea that moves you, to developing your prototype, finding developers to help build the app/website and how to best launch it successfully. They also touch on working to discover what makes you happy and the experience in self publishing the first book. Artin Nazarian is full of helpful tips and wisdom in launching your dream side venture, and we hope it helps you today! Book - Side Adventure The playbook to leverage your corporate job, pursue a side venture, and find happiness and fulfillment

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8/14/2021

138 - Hrish Lotlikar of SuperWorld: Soon You Will Live In A SuperWorld In The Metaverse artwork

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138 - Hrish Lotlikar of SuperWorld: Soon You Will Live In A SuperWorld In The Metaverse

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Nick Hughes is joined by Hrish Lotlikar, Co-Founder & CEO of SuperWorld who joins us from Europe but the company is from San Francisco. SuperWorld is a virtual world where users can buy, sell, collect, and curate over 64 billion unique plots of virtual land. The SuperWorld virtual real estate platform is mapped over the entire surface of the globe, allowing users to purchase — literally — any place on Earth. From skyscrapers and stadiums to historical monuments and iconic structures including wonders of the natural world, when you step into SuperWorld, you’ll truly make a world of your own. Nick and Hrish jump into a mind-bending and exciting conversation around all things metaverse and SuperWorld. They start the conversation off with thoughts around nomadic living - pros and cons of it, and how to separate the person from the position/startup for holistic healthy living. We then hear about how Hrish and his team conceived of the concept, how they got started, and the vision of where this new Virtual World metaverse is headed, including Virtual Real estate, NFT's, and other aspects of the new world. Hrish truly sees a different and unique human experience in the blending of virtual and physical spaces, and what is possible in commerce and tokenization once more people start to explore these spaces. This is a unique and interesting conversation between two industry leaders who inspire large communities and are in their own ways building the next thing around the world, and we hope it helps you today! https://www.superworldapp.com/

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8/6/2021

137 - David Berkowitz of Serial Marketers: Building Community Post-Pandemic Requires More Meaning and Intention artwork

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137 - David Berkowitz of Serial Marketers: Building Community Post-Pandemic Requires More Meaning and Intention

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Nick Hughes is joined by David Berkowitz, founder of Serial Marketers from New York City. Serial Marketers is an inclusive community based in Slack, the 2,500+ Serial Marketers members share job opportunities, get recommendations for who to work with and what technologies to use, post event invites, showcase their latest projects, and support each other in countless ways. Nick and David have an amazingly refreshing and uplifting conversation around building community and what it really means to grow a purposeful community today - especially during and post-covid. We hear the origins of Serial Marketers and why he decided to start the group, and what shifted and changed when the world went into lockdown and continues to struggle with gathering in person. They both share insights and thoughts on the foundations of communities and the unique core values that bind people together. Lastly, they share tips and lessons of success along the way. This is a unique and fun conversation between two industry and community leaders who inspire large communities around the world, and we hope it helps you today! https://serialmarketers.net/ https://within.co/

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8/6/2021

136 - Diana Muturia of Clyn: A Cleaning App That Respects And Serves All Cleaners artwork

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136 - Diana Muturia of Clyn: A Cleaning App That Respects And Serves All Cleaners

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Nick Hughes is joined by Diana Muturia, Founder and CEO of Clyn from Phoenix, AZ and recent winner of the Founders Live - Emerging Black Founders event. Clyn is a mobile applications that connect homes to home service providers and vice versa. Clyn is here to optimize the cleaning industry. For far too long, consumers have been overpaying and cleaners have been treated as second class citizens. Here at Clyn, we pride ourselves on outperforming the established market players in operating efficiency and levying the human touch. Nick and Diana have a great conversation that starts with her experience discovering Founders Live in Phoenix and then pitching at Founders Live - Twice - and the second time she emerged as the winner. She shares some tips on preparation and pitch practice, and then we get into the conversation around how she started Clyn and what impacts and improvements she wants to have on the cleaning industry. We hear her pandemic challenges and excitements around the potential of the startup, plus lessons she has learned along the way. This is a really great conversation with an up and coming startup leader who will make an impact in the cleaning industry for sure, and we hope it helps you today! https://clynapp.com/

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8/4/2021

135 - Debbie Garcia of Virsitour: The Future of The Event Industry Will Blend Virtual and Physical Experiences artwork

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135 - Debbie Garcia of Virsitour: The Future of The Event Industry Will Blend Virtual and Physical Experiences

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Nick Hughes is joined by Debbie Garcia who is the founder and CEO of Virsitour from Nashville, Tennessee. Virsitour is an online platform for event planners to venue source virtually utilizing virtual site tours. It is the only marketplace for meeting and event planners to source hotels and venues virtually. You can tour, add to list and send RFP’s all in one visit. Nick and Debbie jump into a fun founder conversation starting with their thoughts about Nashville, as Nick was visiting the city for a few months and attended the Nashville launch event (in-person) where Debbie emerged as the winner (we also hear pitching tips and lessons from Debbie). They then shift into talking about Virsitour, the problems she discovered in the Event Planning industry and how she and her team determined to fix them, even before the pandemic began. Once the world was shut changed due to the global pandemic, it became even more important to blend the virtual and physical worlds to improve the event planning industry. This is a fun conversation with an up and coming leader who will make an impact in her industry, and we hope it helps you today! https://www.virsitour.com/

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8/4/2021

134 - Stephanie M. Hutchins of Serotinous Life: Personal and Professional Transformation After Trauma artwork

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134 - Stephanie M. Hutchins of Serotinous Life: Personal and Professional Transformation After Trauma

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Nick Hughes is joined by Stephanie M. Hutchins, founder of Serotinous Life, and author of the book Transformation after Trauma . Stephanie's mission is to help clients start living their life on purpose by breaking the chains of yesterday that keep holding them back from a life that is meaningful to them. To stop going through the motions of day-to-day life, wishing for Friday to come, for the weekends to be longer and for Monday to never come. Nick and Stephanie step into a very moving and meaningful discussion around Trauma, how humans naturally deal with it and how we can use it to transform our life. We get to hear about Stephanie's entrepreneurial path, where they talk about starting a business when still working in a full time career and how to best balance life when there are numerous demands. And they dive into trauma, what is it exactly, why we experience it, as well as suggested coping strategies to using self care and healthy approaches to dealing with the trauma so we can turn it into positive lessons and changes in our lives and business. This is an amazing conversation with the potential to educate and heal those who are currently struggling, we hope it helps you today! https://www.serotinouslife.com/ Transformation After Trauma: Embracing Post-Traumatic Growth https://www.amazon.com/Transformation-After-Trauma-Embracing-Post-Traumatic-ebook/dp/B095RZQCQ7

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6/20/2021

133 - Clinton Anani of Quick Buy Online: Powering Local Digital Marketplaces Across Ghana artwork

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133 - Clinton Anani of Quick Buy Online: Powering Local Digital Marketplaces Across Ghana

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Nick Hughes is joined by Clinton Anani, CEO of Quick Buy Online from Accra Ghana. Quick Buy Online is a centralized online marketplace on college campuses, that is putting product and service vendors onto one platform, making the market readily available to students. Nick and Clinton jump into an engaging conversation which starts by getting to know Clinton a bit more, his background, and hearing more about Clinton's experience pitching at a recent Founders Live Accra event online. We then hear about the vision of Quick Buy Online, how they are powering local ecommerce marketplaces and purchases starting with college campuses in Accra and how Clinton sees the vision of expanding to more cities in Ghana and beyond. Clinton and Nick then finish with some thoughts, tips and lessons of entrepreneurship. This is a great conversation with an emerging African business leader and we hope it helps you today! https://linktr.ee/quickbuy_online

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6/20/2021

132 - Kesha Rodgers and Sara So of The Ally League: The Importance Of Highlighting Black Owned Businesses and Entrepreneurs artwork

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132 - Kesha Rodgers and Sara So of The Ally League: The Importance Of Highlighting Black Owned Businesses and Entrepreneurs

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Nick Hughes is joined by cofoudners Kesha Rodgers and Sara So of The Ally League from Seattle WA. The Ally League's mission is to combat racism by helping allies move from empathy for those affected by racism to action to dismantle it. Our initial goal is to make an impact on our community by supporting and amplifying Black-owned businesses. We bring great products from Black entrepreneurs to allies who might not otherwise know about them. This gives allies an opportunity to act toward change by including more Black-owned businesses in their buying behaviors. And that, in turn, helps stimulate the economies of our communities. Nick, Kesha and Sara have an incredibly important and informative conversation around what they are bringing to the world, with the conversation starting around their backgrounds and how they met at work, then choosing to start a company together after the pandemic and the George Floyd events in 2020. They had seen enough and knew it was time to bring change to their world. We then hear about their Black Boxes which have different products and information from black owned businesses, as well as what they see as the future of The Ally League. Very important work is being done by these leaders and we appreciate bringing this amazing conversation between a few leaders whose main focus is to improve the world we live in. We hope it helps you today! https://www.theallyleague.com/

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5/29/2021

130 - Bryan Rutberg: Do Your Customers Love You Enough? artwork

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130 - Bryan Rutberg: Do Your Customers Love You Enough?

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Nick Hughes is joined by Bryan Rutberg, Founder and CEO of 3C Communications from Seattle WA. 3C Communications helps companies build relationships that are more profitable and last longer with great communications and targeted programs geared to win with your greatest asset, your customers. The Customer Connection Company – delivers the right combination of a communications firm and a laser-focused customer advocate. We help brands communicate effectively and build the right programs and culture to win more deals, get more referrals, and turn customers into fans. Nick and Bryan jump into a fun and very enjoyable conversation which first starts with them figuring out when they met and how Bryan discovered Founders Live (a small Seattle event called Feature Friday back in the day) and then how Nick and Bryan partnered to bring pitch coaching to founders who were presenting at the event. We then hear why Bryan believes communications, relationships and loyalty of customers is the foundation of great business, as well as how Bryan and 3C serves companies large and small in helping them achieve success. This is an amazing conversation between leaders whose main focus is to improve people's lives. We hope it helps you today! https://3ccomms.com/

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5/28/2021

131 - Ryan Frederick: The Founders Manual And The Discipline Required For Success artwork

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131 - Ryan Frederick: The Founders Manual And The Discipline Required For Success

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This was a recording of a Founders Live Conversations live video interview. We talked with entrepreneur Ryan Frederick on the journey of entrepreneurship, how he has built his companies, and tips and lessons from his book the Founders Manual. Ryan talks on the principles in this book that are based on his experiences starting companies, building products, & advising others over 20 years. We hear about principles around being a Founder, building a product, and starting a company to increase the odds of success. What will you learn? Each section of the book focuses in different principles to achieve FLOW in being a Founder, creating a product customers value, and building a successful company. This was a group discussion so you will hear Nick mention other questions from the audience. https://www.thefoundersmanual.com/

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5/22/2021

129 - Ihsan Salleh of Zestefy: What Is Your Why? artwork

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129 - Ihsan Salleh of Zestefy: What Is Your Why?

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Nick Hughes is joined by Ihsan Salleh, CEO and founder of Zestefy from Los Angeles. Zestefy is a financial wellness startup building a life planner for shopping and goals using automated financial planning, powered by AI. Nick and Ihsan get started in a very intriguing and thought provoking conversation initially learning where Ihsan grew up, how he discovered he was different, and how he got started on his entrepreneurial path. They then jump into what he is building and why. They touch on how to look at your market positioning, and Ihsan points to consumption and financial problems as the main issues they are looking to solve for people. Lastly, the conversation takes a turn as Ihsan asks Nick about his "why" and the origins of Founders Live mission! This is a very interesting, through provoking and enjoyable conversation with many tips and entrepreneurial golden nuggets and hope it helps you today on your journey. https://zestefy.com

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5/14/2021

128 - The Inspired Ones with Just Isaac: Think Fearlessly artwork

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128 - The Inspired Ones with Just Isaac: Think Fearlessly

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This is a special episode recording of The Inspired Ones show, with special guest Just Isaac, a six-time Canadian boxing champion (Including 2-time Golden Glove Champion), actor, recording artist & motivational speaker and now author. In this discussion, Nick and Just Isaac talk his journey as an athlete turned entrepreneur - the similarities, differences, what makes some exceptional at each, and why we are seeing a convergence of the two professions. What is it about high performance? And can anyone tap into that space within themselves? They also dive into the concept of “Think Fearlessly” - addressing the fears, isolation and uncertainty of entrepreneurship, that which the existing pandemic has impacted affected us to an even larger extent. It’s important to step outside ourselves and know there is something bigger than ourselves, to cope. A very personal choice, but one that allows us to move forward. Just Isaac believes, “We are free to be the best we can be, whatever the circumstance.” Pay attention to the difference between negativity and support. “Think Fearlessly” helps readers through the noise and leads them to the peace. This was a group conversation and you will hear audience members join in the discussion.

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5/14/2021

127 - Vikrant Shaurya of BestsellingBook.com: How To Self Publish Your First Bestselling Book artwork

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127 - Vikrant Shaurya of BestsellingBook.com: How To Self Publish Your First Bestselling Book

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Nick Hughes is joined by Vikrant Shaurya, CEO and Founder of BestsellingBook.com from Pune, India. BestsellingBook.com - Fully personalized services to write, publish, and market your book — all professionally DONE FOR YOU. Nick and Vikrant start this conversation by getting to know each other a bit better, talking about the current state of India and the Covid crisis, as well as learning about where Vikrant grew up and how he discovered the path to publishing and entrepreneurship. His journey starts like a lot of us - staring at a screen and searching within the internet as well as within ourselves on how we are going to survive. He then figures out that he wants to write and publish books. After accomplishing that, he discovers others want to as well and finally creates a platform to help others share their words with the world. This is an incredible story of not only discovering a business, but one that will give to others and help them with their journey as well. Nick and Vikrant end the conversation with a few tips and words of encouragement for those of us who are just getting started on their entrepreneurial path. This is a very inspirational conversation with lessons and helpful thoughts, and hope it helps you today on your journey. https://bestsellingbook.com/ https://bestsellingbook.com/checklist/

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5/14/2021

126 - Chike Nwoke of Klippit: Here's The Future of influencer Marketing For Local Merchants artwork

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126 - Chike Nwoke of Klippit: Here's The Future of influencer Marketing For Local Merchants

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Nick Hughes is joined by Chike Nwoke who is Founder of Klippit in Atlanta, Georgia . Klippit provides a platform for local businesses to create special offers and promotions, and then enable their customers to discover, redeem, and share these offers; and receive monetary rewards. Nick and Chike jump into a fun and enjoyable conversation which starts off with both of them finding out they are in the same city (Atlanta) where Nick is visiting for the current month. We learn about where Chike grew up, and how he decided to follow the path of entrepreneurship. They then go into what problem Chike and his team see in the world, what the future of influencer marketing looks like especially for local merchants, and how they intend to bring it to market. Lastly Chike gives early stage founders some advice and tips for getting going and building a startup. This is a very fun conversation with many tips and entrepreneurial golden nuggets and hope it helps you today on your journey. https://getklippit.com/ https://primetime.founderslive.com/pitches/atlanta-klippit

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5/4/2021

125 - Mike Venturi, Leader of Founders Live Indonesia: The World Is Full of Talented People and Startups artwork

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125 - Mike Venturi, Leader of Founders Live Indonesia: The World Is Full of Talented People and Startups

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Nick Hughes is joined by Mike Venturi from Jakarta Indonesia. He is an Ecosystem Builder and Founders Live Indonesia leader and helping grow Founders Live around the world. Nick and Mike jump into a enjoyable conversation where we first get to know Mike, and how he discovered Founders Live. He attended a livestream event (we think it was Seattle) and then went into the networking room to meet people. That's how he met Nick. Following the event, he simply asked the question "can I expand Founders Live into Indonesia?" and the rest, as they say, is history! We also hear about what Mike would like to do with Founders Live to expand and spread throughout APAC, as well as what he sees in his future of helping fund and grow startups around the world. Founders Live is very pleased with Mike's leadership and vision and we are blessed to have him a part of the Founders Live leadership team. This is a very enjoyable and inspirational conversation with many thoughts and entrepreneurial tips and we hope it helps you today on your journey.

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4/25/2021

124 - Shawn Flynn of The Silicon Valley Podcast: This Is How You Host A Great Podcast artwork

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124 - Shawn Flynn of The Silicon Valley Podcast: This Is How You Host A Great Podcast

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Nick Hughes is joined by Shawn Flynn, an investment banker and host of the Silicon Valley Podcast. Shawns podcast unlocks the secrets of top Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Business Leaders, was labeled the "#1 Silicon Valley Podcast You Must Follow in 2020" and in this conversation you can tell why! Nick and Shawn quickly step into a funny, enjoyable and wide ranging conversation which starts by getting to know Shawn a bit more and then we hear how he gets established in his conversations and podcast. Interestingly, Shawn and Nick have many things in common - from early experiments in filming interviews, to their podcast pursuits as well as their love of traveling. They spend most of their time breaking down what goes into a great podcast, how to ask the right questions, how to keep conversations going and to get the most interesting tidbits out of guests. They then shift to the amazing joys of traveling and what its so addictive to certain people. They end with their thoughts and predictions on the new drop-in audio apps like Clubhouse and Facebook Hotline. This is a very fun and entertaining conversation with two podcast hosts who just want to learn from people, we hope the podcasting tips help you today on your journey. https://thesiliconvalleypodcast.com/

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4/18/2021

123 - Sheila Kogo-Malinga of Lodge Solutions in Uganda: Improving Hospitality Will Only Help Your Country Thrive artwork

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123 - Sheila Kogo-Malinga of Lodge Solutions in Uganda: Improving Hospitality Will Only Help Your Country Thrive

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Nick Hughes is joined by Sheila Kogo - Malinga who is CEO and founder of Lodge Solutions from Kampala, Uganda. Lodge Solutions is the first reliable and professional ‘one-stop-shop’ for tourism and hospitality products and services in Uganda. Nick and Sheila have a wide ranging and enjoyable conversation around Sheila and her vision to help make her country more tourist friendly. We first get to know Sheila, where she grew up and how she found herself in the position to start her own company. We also get an idea of how she discovered Founders Live, how she decided to pitch (and ultimately win) Founders Live Kampala, along with her tips of how to prepare and deliver a 99-second pitch. They then shift to Sheila's vision of providing more support for hospitality and tourism companies through her Lodging Solutions Service company, and where she thinks it will go in the future. You can just hear and feel Sheila's energy and her heart to improve the hospitality in her country of Uganda. This is a very enjoyable and helpful conversation with many thoughts and entrepreneurial tips and hope it helps you today on your journey. https://www.lodgesolutions.net/

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