In an interview on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, sales expert Shelby Sacco reframed something most people misunderstand:“Everybody thinks sales is a job. It’s not. It’s a skill set.”And if you master it, she believes so…
In an interview on the podcast And The Writer Is with Ross Golan, Olivia Dean opened up about imposter syndrome, writing “terrible” songs, and the emotional process behind her album The Art of Loving .When she first arrived in Los Ange…
How Shonda Rhimes built Shondaland, changed television, and reinvented herself — without ever losing her voice"The most exciting part of my legacy? I meet so many young women who went into science and medicine because of Grey’s Anato…
When Mati Staniszewski co-founded ElevenLabs, he wasn’t trying to build a $6.6B AI company.He was trying to fix bad dubbing.Growing up in Poland, every foreign film was narrated by a single, monotone voice — regardless of whether the…
In an episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant (TED), Whitney Wolfe Herd opens with a line that sounds like product strategy—but it’s really a values statement:“We’re in the era of AI, and I want to make sure that we use AI …
After two decades in operations leadership, Romie Montpeirous recognized a critical gap: leaders were expected to perform without proper development. As the founder of Leadership From The Heart, Romie empowers leaders to truly embody their roles, tr…
In a conversation on The Oprah Podcast, Oprah Winfrey sat down with Belgian tech pioneer and venture capitalist Jürgen Ingels, founder of Clear2Pay and author of Start, Grow, Sell: 50 Tips for Entrepreneurial Greatness .What unfolded wasn&rsq…
Before the stages.Before the private jets.Before the bestselling books and global influence.Tony Robbins was a kid trying to survive chaos.And that matters—because the mindset that built his empire wasn’t learned in comfort. It w…
Angela Duckworth didn’t set out to question grit.She helped define it.As the psychologist behind one of the most influential ideas in modern achievement culture, Duckworth gave a generation of founders, students, and strivers a language fo…
For decades, Silicon Valley has been sold as the default destination for ambitious young builders. If you’re smart, driven, and interested in technology, the script goes, you move to San Francisco, start a company, and change the world.But i…
Nate Hebbert's journey from wantrepreneur to entrepreneur began with a personal crisis that reshaped his path. As the founder of SelfWare Consulting, he tackles tech industry burnout with innovative strategies that don't require hitting pause on lif…
Maria Sharapova didn’t just dominate tennis — she transformed it.From winning Wimbledon at just 17 to becoming the world’s highest-paid female athlete, Sharapova crafted a legacy that blended fierce athleticism with smart busines…
Practical Founder Lessons from Amazon, Blue Origin, and a Life of Big BetsJeff Bezos has built companies that require a kind of thinking most founders never attempt: decade-long time horizons, massive upfront losses, and bets where success isn&rsq…
**In an interview on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, Peter Steinberger, creator of PSPDFKit and Claudbot, shared how he went from elite iOS engineer to burned-out founder—and came back with a radically different approach to building software. …
In Silicon Valley lore, founders are often celebrated for bold, reckless bets — the moments when they “push all their chips in” and hope genius or luck saves them.Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, tells a very different st…
When people talk about Peloton, they usually focus on extremes: the meteoric rise during COVID, or the brutal correction that followed.John Foley sees something else.He sees a leadership education that could only be earned the hard way.In a ca…
“We had $25,000 left in the bank. We were going to shut down the company.”For most founders, that’s the end of the story.For Natalie Barbu, it was the beginning of the comeback.The creator-turned-tech-founder built Rela, a so…
“I was never interested in building a business. I just wanted to build software people loved.” — Tobi LütkeWhen Tobi Lütke started hacking together a better way to sell snowboards online, he wasn’t trying to b…
Janice Buswell's entrepreneurial journey began with a simple invitation that transformed her life. As the founder of Experience Writing, she empowers writers to discover their unique voices and navigate the authoring journey. In this Wantrepreneur t…
“Don’t go viral. Go valuable. Then you’ll stay.” — Jun YuhIn today’s content-saturated world, getting seen is hard — staying relevant and profitable is harder. But creator and entrepreneur Jun Yuh has …
Mandy Geyer’s journey from corporate leader to founder of Integral Edge Consulting is a story of alignment, clarity, and bold reinvention. After chasing a version of success that didn’t feel like her own, she redefined her path—com…
When Jasmine Tookes walked the runways of Paris at just 17 years old, she was surviving an industry that often crushed them.In an intimate interview on Valeria Lipovetsky’s show, Jasmine opened up about her rise in the modeling world, her en…
After years of navigating the remote work landscape and testing out business ideas that didn’t stick, Phillip Wyness finally turned insight into action—launching Remote Flo, a company helping startups build resilient distributed teams wi…
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