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A Hurricane Took Her Home and Uprooted Her Staff. How One Entrepreneur Pushed Forward and Recommitted to Her Company. Mar 07, 2018

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Martha Stewart’s Empire Was Actually Her Third Career. How Curiosity and Optimism Have Helped Her Evolve. Feb 28, 2018

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Martha Stewart launched her brand more than 25 years ago and it continues to serve as a model for what’s really possible for when it comes to building a personal empire. This brand -- a third career after modeling and stockbrokering -- has expanded from books and magazines to a range of collaborations including a cooking show with rapper Snoop Dogg, and partnerships with retailers like Home Depot, Staples, Macy’s and most recently, the QVC. She’ll talk to us today about what she’s learned -- and the role of curiosity and optimism in building something that evolves and lasts.

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One Entrepreneur Wants to Remind You: Tough Times Mean You’re Changing, Not Failing. Feb 21, 2018

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Daina is one of the co-founders of Health-Ade, a kombucha company, that you might have seen at Whole Foods or on the shelves of one the more than 10,000 stores it’s available at in all 50 states. But five years ago, before its first or its second plant, before the $25 million in funding, it was just a side hustle started in her apartment with some friends and $600. Today, Daina will talk about those hard early days, about quitting a corporate job and an orderly life, about getting evicted and taking conference calls in her car. She’ll talk about how she found a light to follow when the path wasn’t clear -- and what she’d like every new founder going through just these struggles to understand.

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Every Life is Precious. How This Simple Idea is Helping One Woman Coach Underserved Entrepreneurs. Feb 14, 2018

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This Best-Selling Author and Goal Expert Says These 4 Simple Mistakes Are Holding You Back From Designing Your Future Feb 07, 2018

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Michael Hyatt is a bestselling author whose latest book "Your Best Year Ever: A 5 Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals" uses the latest research to help us take control of our time and our dreams to build the lives we want. He’ll talk to us about the 25,000 people who helped inspire this book as well as the simple ways we all get off track and what we need to do instead.

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Cards Against Humanity’s Founders Are Less Concerned With Balance Sheets Than Making Each Other Laugh Jan 31, 2018

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You might know Cards Against Humanity as profane, dark and politically tinged party game. You might also know it for its pranks, like the Super Bowl ad that featured only a potato with the word “advertisement” written on it. But you might not know the company funds a scholarship for women pursuing STEM careers and has raised millions for causes like internet privacy and government transparency. It might also surprise you that CAH for many years was run by 8 friends-turned-founders who kept their day jobs while running the card game as a sidehustle. Today we’ll talk to two of its founders, Ben Hantoot and Max Temkin, on their unique approach to running a company.

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This Leader Does Job Interviews Over Email and Chat -- and Maybe You Should, Too Jan 24, 2018

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Nathan Kontny, the CEO of Highrise, is a tech leader whose career has followed a somewhat unconventional path. He was trained as a nuclear chemist and discovered a love for software programming when a broken ankle kept him from working in the lab during a summer internship. He’d would go on to found not one, or two but three companies, including a ‘Zynga for advertisers’ and Draft, the writing software he always wished he had. Through all these experiences, he'd learn that tapping into passion, be it for software and even writing, has made opportunities appear that he never imagined. In this week's podcast, he'll talk about what he's learned about passion, how writing shapes how he leads and why he hosts job interviews over chat.

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Joy Mangano Says Everything is Product -- And Thinking This Way Can Change Your Life Jan 17, 2018

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This Entrepreneur Climbed Mount Everest Without Supplemental Oxygen -- and it Changed How He Manages His Team Jan 10, 2018

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This Author Discovers the Simple Tweaks That Can Help You Work Better With Others to Get More Done Jan 03, 2018

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