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Why You Must Love the Problem You Solve – Caleb Avery – S6 – E11

Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Why You Must Love the Problem You Solve – Caleb Avery – S6 – E11 What does it really take to build a fintech company from scratch? In this episode, Caleb Avery, Founder and CEO of Tilled, shares his journey from going door-to-door selling payment solutions at 19 to building

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Believe in Yourself and Just Do It – Meredith Hirsh – S6 – E10

Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Believe in Yourself and Just Do It – Meredith Hirsh – S6 – E10 What happens when someone who never planned to work in medicine ends up building a thriving healthcare business? In this episode, Meredith Hirsh shares her journey from advertising and teaching to becoming CEO of the Hirsh

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Building Wealth Without Losing Yourself – Rick Beyer – S6 – E9

Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Building Wealth Without Losing Yourself – Rick Beyer – S6 – E9 In this episode, Rick Beyer shares his journey from mergers & acquisitions and large-scale manufacturing with Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler, to building one of Arizona’s top financial services practices, and now leading companies focused on wealth planning and

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Why I Don’t Want an Easy Life – Richard Crane – S6 – E8

Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Why I Don’t Want an Easy Life – Richard Crane – S6 – E8 What does it take to build a company from two people in a room to hundreds across the world? In this episode, Richard Crane, Founder, CTO, and CAIO of MILL5, shares his journey from engineer to

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Why Entrepreneurs Must Accept Uncertainty – Bart Davis – S6 -E7

Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Why Entrepreneurs Must Accept Uncertainty – Bart Davis – S6 -E7 In this episode, Bart Davis shares how a traditional career in accounting at PwC unexpectedly led him into entrepreneurship and eventually to co-founding 512 Financial, a fractional services firm helping companies with finance, accounting, talent, and operational support. Listen

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The Real Story Behind Building a $5M Business – Dave Grebetz – S6 – E6

Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ The Real Story Behind Building a $5M Business – Dave Grebetz – S6 – E6 How do you go from working factory jobs and climbing cable poles to building and selling a successful company? In this episode, Dave Grebetz shares the real story behind founding ClearCom, growing it into a

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The Real Secret Behind Entrepreneurial Success – Brad Swineheart – S6 – E5

Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ The Real Secret Behind Entrepreneurial Success – Brad Swineheart – S6 – E5 What happens when everything you’ve built disappears overnight? In this episode of A Founder’s Life, Bradley Swineheart shares the deeply personal story of rebuilding after a hurricane destroyed his family home,  and how that experience reinforced the

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How Saying “Yes” Built a 16-Year Business – Scott Leff – S6 – E4

Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ Podcast A Founder’s Life: Balancing Entrepreneurship, Family, Health, & Fun​ How Saying “Yes” Built a 16-Year Business – Scott Leff – S6 – E4 In this episode of A Founder’s Life, Scott Leff shares the honest, unfiltered journey of building a B2B content agency over 16 years, from freelancing without a plan to leading a 28-person team serving global clients.

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Tokyo Marathon: Two Majors Down, Five to Go

I was standing in the start corral in Shinjuku with 39,000 other runners, running on two nights of four hours’ sleep and three weeks removed from the worst tonsillitis-flu combination I’ve had in years. Not exactly the preparation I’d planned. But I was there, and I was ready. The target was to beat my Berlin time of 3:44 — illness or not, I wasn’t lowering the bar. My watch had

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