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How Scout & Zoe’s Founder Cindy Dunston Quirk Created a Purpose-Driven Pet Products Brand | Dog Allergies, Sustainable Pet Treats & Entrepreneurship

What if the next big innovation in pet nutrition came from an invasive fish, an insect, and an entrepreneur who refused to succumb to the status quo? Meet Cindy Dunston

Ben Hindman on Creating Le Lick from Scratch: From Shopify to a CPG Startup, Trusting Your Gut and Creativity While Making Giving Part of Running a Business

What does it take to leave the tech startup world behind and build a consumer brand around something as simple as a lollipop? And what if the secret to building a succes

How AI Is Creating Opportunity for Chefs: Cootoh's Co-Founder Jarrett Applewhite on Entrepreneurship, Ownership & Building a Mission-Driven Startup

What if the biggest problem facing solopreneur chefs isn't finding customers, but rather not having the time to run the business operations? For independent chefs, cooki

Author Eric Ries on his NYT Best Selling Book Incorruptible: How Founders Build Companies That Survive Success | Startup Culture, Leadership & AI

What happens when a successful company begins diluting, or worse, removing the very mission, culture, and values that made it successful? Eric Ries, the New York Times'

Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship: How Dillas Quesadillas Co-Founder Kyle Gordon Incorporated Giving Back Into Growth

What if giving back wasn't something your business did as an afterthought, but was an important piece of how you became successful? Kyle Gordon, Co-Founder & CEO of Dill

News With Context: Kira Shishkin on Repairing Our Broken Media Relationship through informed.now

When did staying informed become a full-time job filled with frustration and outrage? We live in time with access to more information than at any point in history, yet s

The Anti-Addictive Smartphone: Sleke Founders Austin Boer & Brennan Jordan on Digital Minimalism and Reclaiming Your Time

What if the measure of a great technology product wasn’t how long it kept you engaged, but how it helped you derive value from using it? On this episode of Worthy for Th

The Future of Work: AI, Apprenticeships & the Skills That Actually Get You Hired | IWSI America's Nicholas Wyman & Deborah Williamson

What skills are necessary to stay competitive and employable when AI, automation, layoffs, and a rapidly changing economy are rewriting the rules of work? On this episod

Fentanyl, Overdose Prevention & the Conversations Parents Need to Have | Leah Shepherd, Victoria’s Voice Foundation

One pill or substance can kill. And for parents, waiting until there’s a problem may already be too late. In this episode of Worthy for Thirty, I spoke with Leah Shepher

Chef Ed Porter on Food, Music, Culture & Creativity: Building Purpose Through Storytelling

Chef Ed Porter is a multi-hyphenate professional: he's a chef, musician, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and host of the Taste Music Hear Food Podcast. In this conversation on W

How Chef Ed Porter Uses Food, Music & Storytelling to Create Connection

Chef Ed Porter is a multi-hyphenate professional: chef, musician, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and host of the Taste Music Hear Food Podcast. In this conversation on Worthy f

He Looked Fine on the Outside. Then Sobriety, Service & Coffee Changed Everything. Jason Senzon, Co-Founder, Wyndcrofte Coffee

What happens when the life that looks successful from the outside is quietly falling apart on the inside? Jason Senzon, co-founder of Wyndcrofte Coffee, joined me on the

Ticker Shock, Retail Investors, and the New Rules of Market Storytelling with Katie Perry, CMO of Zerohash

What happens when markets stop being driven only by fundamentals and start being shaped by retail investors, social media, AI, and real-time narrative? In this episode of

How Alex Fredericks Built Tonewell: Voice AI, Wellness, and the Entrepreneurial Pivot That Changed Everything

What if your voice could reveal something meaningful about your body, your energy, and your readiness to perform? In this episode of Worthy for Thirty, I sat down with A

How MJ Gottlieb - Loosid's Co-Founder - Turned Sobriety Into a Company That Scales Belonging

For years, sobriety has been viewed as a subtraction. No drinks. No substances. No fun, supposedly. No social life, supposedly. MJ Gottlieb is building the opposite sto

When Art Becomes Infrastructure: Monica Yunus and Camille Zamora on Building Sing for Hope

In this episode of the Worthy for Thirty podcast, I sit down with Sing for Hope co-founders Monica Yunus and Camille Zamora for a wide-ranging conversation about creativi

Rob Tod of Allagash Brewing Company on Building a Sustainable Business That Lasts for Decades

Some founders build a business. Others build a system that keeps getting better long after the startup euphoria fades. Rob Tod, founder of Allagash Brewing Company, belon

How Mission-Driven Founders Can Build More Inclusive Companies: Diego Mariscal and Mindy Scheier

What Happens When Access Becomes a Strategy? Some conversations make you think differently about a topic you thought you already understood. This episode did that for me

Business Coach Jen Aly on Burnout, Business Reinvention, and Building a Life That Fits

“Most entrepreneurs don’t burn out because they’re lazy. They burn out because they keep building businesses that demand more of them than they were ever designed to give

Stanton 'Stan' Ross on Trust, Transparency, and Building Better Live Experiences

Stanton ‘Stan’ Ross, CEO of Kustom Entertainment, joined me on the podcast to share how a lifetime around music, events, and customer experience shaped the way he leads t