ContenderCast with Justin Honaman

Sherry Stewart Deutschmann founded her first venture, LetterLogic, in her basement and grew it to a $40 million company by putting her employees first and creating an empathetic work culture. Sherry initiated a practice called "Lunch with Lucy" where any employee could invite "Lucy" (Sherry's midday moniker) to lunch as a coworker and she credits this approach with the success of her company. She wrote "Lunch with Lucy" to share her insights into transformational leadership through empathy. Sherry joins Justin to talk about her business practices and new book.

Stephen Opie and Charlotte Heim are the co-founders of Sweetmobility. With their combined insights and skills, they are delivering products that support mobility with decorative style. Sweetmobility's first product, CaneWraps, is a product set to help people who want to stay active and be seen as an individual. Stephen and Charlotte join Justin to discuss this new product!

Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases, which devastate bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers. His expertise and passion is developing the most effective and profitable decision-making strategies, based on pragmatic business experience and cutting-edge behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience, to empower leaders to avoid business disasters and maximize their bottom lines. Gleb joins Justin to discuss his new book and COVID-19

Rick Clark, Georgia Tech's director of undergraduate admissions joins Justin to discuss the college admissions process – tactics that work and a few that don't!! Rick joins Justin to share his admissions experiences on this best-of-ContenderCast episode.

Kaihan Krippendorff is the founder and CEO of Outthinker and bestselling author of Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs. Driving Innovation from Within provides the toolkit, frameworks, and know-how that leaders need to transform their organizations and drive growth by activating employee-driven innovation and entrepreneurship. Kaihan joins Justin to discuss all things innovation!

For the past 15 years, "DreAllDay" (Dre Baldwin) has changed the lives of over 60 million entrepreneurs, athletes and business professionals, sold thousands of copies of his books, courses and programs, pioneered personal branding through content, and built a business that helps tens of thousands of people master their "Game" in business, sports and in life, from the inside-out. Dre joins Justin to discuss his book "Work On Your Game: Use The Pro Athlete Mindset To Dominate Your Game In Business, Sports, and Life."

Carol Sanford is a recognized thought-leader working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executives in designing and leading systemic business change and design. Through her university and in-house educational offerings, global speaking platforms, multi-award-winning books, and human development work, Carol works with executive leaders who see the possibility to change the nature of work through developing people and work systems that ignite motivation everywhere.

Anne Carlson is the founder and CEO of Jiminy's LLC. Anne decided one day that while she enjoyed working in the pet industry, she wanted to be a part of something that made a positive impact on the environment and on pet health, so she founded Jiminy's dog treats. They come in a variety of different flavor combinations, and contain all-natural dog-friendly ingredients, including CRICKET (yes!) protein powder, which is found to be an actual superfood! Anne joins Justin to discuss launching and growing the business.

Janece Shaffer is an award-winning and internationally produced playwright and has written more than a dozen works. Janece has translated her story-telling expertise into a business collaborating with companies and individuals to create impactful stories for professional success and also a class at Georgia Tech. Janece joins Justin to share her story on this best-of-ContenderCast episode.

Raymond D. "Ray" Zinn is an inventor, entrepreneur and published author. In addition to a number of significant inventions improving wireless radio (RF) communication and voltage/power regulation devices, he is also the longest-serving Chief Executive Officer of a Silicon Valley company (Micrel Corporation). Ray joins Justin to discuss his experience creating a winning business and winning with employees and staff.