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What do you want to hear more about? What are helpful tools you are missing or want to learn more about? Join Patrick and Will as they talk about what is on the horizon and argue over who has the best analogies. They unpack how culture is shaped not by what's written on the wall, but by the daily decisions, conversations, and values that drive your business forward.

Snow balls not snow cones. Elizabeth Yarbrough, founder of Untangled, shares her journey from running a snowball truck to helping founders systematize and scale their companies. We talk about strawberry cake, knowing the inflection point of your business, and working in a way that enriches your life and relationships. It's not all business, sometimes it's cake.

Josh Schairbaum is a historian, technologist, and friend. In his day job, Josh helps Fortune 500 companies implement AI solutions. But for fun? AI helps Josh build worlds, remember his loved ones, and become a better person.

This conversation is for you. Josh shares 4 principles that will help you in your own engagement with AI. It will broaden and deepen your understanding of AI, challenge your own perspectives, but more than that, it will help you think about your own legacy and path to becoming a better human.

Personal Goal Setting with GenAI: https://youtu.be/Q4pBfIyYIG0

Preserving Family Memories with GenAI: https://youtu.be/7cw2mT3nk2k

Great Western Wrestling Alliance: https://www.gwawrestling.com

Patrick kicks things off by sharing with Will the tale of a recent and bizarre midnight adventure. They talk strategic business pivots, cheating experience, and how passion and process drive success.

Sandeep is a bildr and not afraid of failure. He just left his full-time job to run a start-up. He is the co-Founder of Heald, a start-up that is laser-focused on wholistic, lifestyle diabetes remission. We walk through his journey, failures, and success. Sandeep has worked at DELL, Amazon, and Rackspace, and talks about his approach to work, life, and legacy.

Recapped: Hannah & DJ; Ugo Batussi; Ginger Diaz; Wendy Brand

Maria joins the conversation to sample a few of the tasty cake conversations Patrick and Will have had. Why? It's great to not pass over people's stories too quickly, so we want to celebrate what their journey is so far.

And Maria and Will give an update on ETLA, their delicious Mezcal.

Wendy Brand has over 25 years of leadership experience, spanning cruise ships, the NCAA Final Four and WNBA to Texas fast-food favorite, Whataburger. She now runs a consulting business to help CEOs integrate their values, vision, and mission into their companies' daily operations. Find out more about Wendy and how she can help your business at https://culturecoachwendy.com

Ginger Diaz is the owner of three retail stores, soon to be four, in San Antonio, Texas. She shares how her passion to help local artists and to support small business led her into opening Feliz Modern. Ginger emphasizes building business and teams intuitively and in an organic way.

"This has to feel viscerally right for you." This might capture the range of Patrick and Will's conversation, where they touched on intuition, alignment, and decision-making in both personal and professional contexts. Will is also not the person to call when your toilet breaks.

Patrick and Will are joined by Ugo Bitussi, an entrepreneur in the medical field. Ugo shares his practices, methods, and how his belief that "Everything has a purpose" permeates his life and work.