ContenderCast with Justin Honaman

Swiggies were invented as an alternative to fanny packs and having to carry water bottles while exercising. This new hands-free approach is simple and easy to use. You just fill them up with water and go! They also make a great unique gift for anyone on your shopping list. Swiggies is now sold in 25 countries and was a NASDAQ product of the year semi-finalist. Founder and CEO Julie Austin joins Justin to discuss bringing a great idea to life!

Established in 2002, Nutrabolt is a fast-growing nutritional life science company. Their marquee brands, Cellucor, C4 Energy, and XTEND, are among the world's leading sports nutrition and performance energy product lines. You can find C4 Energy, America's #1 pre-workout and fastest-growing performance energy drink brand, plus XTEND, the world's #1 BCAA brand, in a wide variety of online and physical retailers around the globe. Doss Cunningham, Nutrabolt's CEO, joins Justin to discuss leading and growing the brand.

Tellinga (like telling a story) is a Houston, TX-based startup that creates personalized hand-drawn greeting cards that tell your story through snail mail. Story recipients receive illustrated stories about themselves based on unique preferences. It can be fun, dramatic, thoughtful...anything! CEO and founder Alex Kurkowski joins Justin to discuss launching and growing the business!

Brooke Navarro and her husband Matt founded Without A Trace Foods to address the challenge of good food without the ingredients that cause food allergies. Their vision is for every kid to never feel left out because of his or her allergies or be labeled as "the allergic kid." They also want to simplify snack time. This means creating snacks for the whole family delivered to your doorstep. Brooke joins Justin to discuss launching and growing the business.

When Michel Myara decided to launch a hard seltzer brand, he wanted to take a different approach to the category. He was the first to use Guaraná to give the drink a subtle, exotic flavor! Absolutely no sugar added. Michel joins Justin to discuss this new upstart brand. Get Lytt, today!

Cannapreneur Partners is a team of excellence-driven professionals that have the passion and drive to help entrepreneurs attain success while guiding investors to make more educated decisions and thoughtfully place capital in the cannabis space. Todd Sullivan, co-CEO, joins Justin to discuss the Cannabis market and developing companies in the space.

HUSHconcerts relentlessly innovates to manifest creative solutions to the challenges of live event production in both common and non-traditional settings. They apply unique experience, technology, and methodology to actualize any type of performance in all environments, regardless of regulations, restrictions or misunderstandings. HUSHconcerts also creates and markets unique experiences of its own for a blossoming community of live entertainment aficionados. CEO and co-founder Robbie Kowal joins Justin to discuss this unique entertainment organization.

4Sight is making big data small (and human) – mining thousands of unfiltered, real time user generated (social media, reviews, blogs) content to solve vexing business issues via patent-pending machine learning and natural language processing algorithms. Founder and CEO Mark Jeffreys joins Justin to discuss the Consumer Goods industry and using product review data to drive brand growth and consumer engagement.

Celsius Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CELH), founded in April 2004, is a global company with a proprietary, clinically proven formula for flagship brand CELSIUS®. With an extensive consumer goods background, John Fieldly, is a results-driven executive with over 20 years of broad financial and operational experience. In his current role as CEO of Celsius, Fieldly uses his strong background in financial leadership and operational expertise to maximize resources to drive revenue, corporate efficiencies, and shareholder value. John joins Justin to discuss his role as leader as well as growing this strong beverage brand.

Jennifer Stone, founder of Ciel Café Privé Sélect, is a Licensed Quality Grader by the Coffee Quality Institute as well as an internationally recognized coffee cupper and judge for the Cup of Excellence. Jen joins Justin to discuss launching a new coffee brand.