In this episode, we sit down with Kimberly Spencer, entrepreneur, coach, speaker, and founder of CrownYourself, to explore how adversity can become a catalyst for confidence, purpose, and extraordinary growth.

Kimberly's journey is anything but ordinary. From overcoming difficult childhood experiences, abusive relationships, financial struggles, and major personal losses to building four successful businesses and achieving a successful exit, she has learned firsthand what it takes to keep moving forward when life doesn't go according to plan.

We explore Kimberly's philosophy that ownership is essential, confidence is cultivated, and the language we use can shape the reality we create. She shares how changing the way we speak to ourselves can change the way we approach challenges, opportunities, and our future.

Kimberly also shares practical lessons from helping her clients achieve remarkable results from scaling businesses and increasing revenue to overcoming personal obstacles, finding purpose, and creating greater impact.

We dive into entrepreneurship, mindset, confidence, resilience, wealth creation, leadership, personal growth, and the courage to pursue a bigger vision, even when fear is present.

This conversation is packed with stories, practical strategies, and mindset shifts designed to help listeners stop waiting for the perfect circumstances and start taking ownership of the life and business they want to create.

If you're an entrepreneur, leader, or purpose-driven professional looking to build greater confidence, overcome adversity, and turn your vision into meaningful results, this episode is for you.

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In this episode, we sit down with Ted Yang, author of Ageless Peak Performance: The Playbook for AI-Powered Excellence, to explore a different way of thinking about artificial intelligence not as a tool for replacing people, but as a way to amplify human potential.

Most conversations about AI focus on automation, job displacement, and what technology might take away. Ted takes a different perspective: human leverage.

We explore how AI can function as a personal cognitive team helping with research, strategy, analysis, editing, coaching, memory, decision-making, and execution. Instead of simply asking AI to write an email or complete a basic task, Ted challenges us to rethink our entire relationship with cognitive work.

The conversation also explores how AI could change the traditional performance curve. While speed, memory, and stamina may naturally change over time, qualities such as judgment, pattern recognition, relationships, experience, and strategic thinking can become increasingly valuable.

Ted explains why becoming an AI Adopter, rather than a casual AI user, could be the key to extending your most productive years and turning decades of experience into an even greater advantage.

If you're a professional, entrepreneur, leader, or experienced expert wondering how AI can enhance not replace your abilities, this episode offers a practical and optimistic perspective on the future of work and human performance.

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In this episode, we sit down with Solveig Petch, a brand strategist and design expert with more than 20 years of experience working at the intersection of strategy and design.

Solveig has built her career around helping founders and established businesses identify the patterns, disconnects, and opportunities they often can't see because they're too close to their own business.

We explore what happens when a company grows but its brand doesn't grow with it and how that disconnect can quietly affect perception, positioning, customer trust, and long-term growth.

Solveig breaks down the difference between a logo and a true brand, explains brand equity in practical terms, and shares why having a beautiful brand strategy means very little if the strategy never makes it into the business itself.

We also discuss her Business, Brand, Legacy approach and how founders can build brands designed not just for today's success, but for longevity.

Beyond branding, Solveig gets candid about the less polished side of entrepreneurship: self-doubt, financial uncertainty, identity shifts, and the challenge of keeping work and life from becoming completely intertwined.

If you're a founder, consultant, entrepreneur, or business leader building something you want to last, this conversation will challenge you to look at your brand differently and ask the uncomfortable questions that could unlock your next stage of growth.

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In this episode of DesignWave Podcast, we sit down with Ryan Griffin, founder of Chunky Duck, to explore entrepreneurship, creativity, leadership, burnout, and what it really means to build a successful business without losing your humanity along the way.

Ryan’s journey has been anything but conventional. From representing Australia in baseball and earning All-American honours in the US, to fast-tracking his career in digital marketing, major surgery, burnout, and an existential quarter-life crisis, Ryan learned that success isn't always about moving faster.

After cycling across South America and later working with sharks, rays, and penguins at Sydney Aquarium, Ryan eventually found his way back to marketing. During the pandemic, he founded Chunky Duck, a creative agency built remotely from day one and grounded in performance, integrity, flexibility, and genuine human connection.

In this conversation, Ryan shares lessons on burnout recovery, remote work, creative leadership, entrepreneurship, work-life balance, and building a business that supports your life rather than consuming it.

A candid, funny, and inspiring conversation for entrepreneurs, creatives, leaders, and anyone questioning what success should actually look like.

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In this episode of DesignWave Podcast, we sit down with Lauren Harris, a marketing strategist and co-founder of Reliable PR & Marketing, to uncover why so many businesses struggle with marketing despite constantly trying new tactics.

Lauren challenges the idea that most marketing problems are actually marketing problems. In her experience, weak results often point to deeper issues with strategy, positioning, audience, messaging, and clarity.

With more than 150 brand strategies across 12+ industries, Lauren shares practical insights into why rebrands fail, what founders get wrong about content, why “differentiate” is one of the most misused words in marketing, and how businesses can build marketing systems that actually compound over time.

We also explore the difference between strategy and tactics, how to know whether your marketing is truly working, and why sustainable growth doesn't require chasing virality or constantly jumping onto the latest trend.

A sharp and practical conversation for founders, marketers, and business leaders who are tired of generic marketing advice and want a strategy that produces measurable results.

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In this episode of DesignWave Podcast, we sit down with Michelena Rose  a Playboy-featured model, sex and relationship coach, licensed massage therapist, entrepreneur, content creator, and single mom with a story that challenges the idea that we have to fit into just one box.

Michelena brings humor, honesty, and real-life experience to conversations around relationships, dating, sexual confidence, motherhood, entrepreneurship, personal branding, divorce, reinvention, and self-acceptance.

We explore why so many people struggle to embrace their authentic selves, how shame and social expectations influence relationships and sexuality, and what it takes to build confidence while navigating life's messy and unexpected chapters.

Michelena also shares lessons from building businesses, creating a bold personal brand, and learning to turn unconventional experiences into sources of strength rather than things to hide.

A candid, funny, and empowering conversation about owning your story, breaking expectations, embracing confidence, and being unapologetically yourself.

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In this episode, we sit down with Evgenii Tilipman, founder of Khod, a web and growth agency helping funded B2B startups in AI, Web3, and enterprise SaaS turn their websites into powerful growth engines.

Evgenii has helped launch websites for companies including Bland AI, Synthflow, Chili Piper, and Avarra, with Khod working with more than 20 funded startups and retaining 75% of them for ongoing work.

We explore a simple but often overlooked idea: most B2B deals are influenced long before a sales conversation happens and your website plays a major role.

Evgenii shares practical frameworks for understanding what separates a B2B website that converts from one that simply looks good. We discuss website strategy after raising a funding round, what enterprise buyers and investors expect, how quickly a high-performing site can be launched, and the role of SEO, CRO, messaging, and design in driving qualified leads.

We also dive into Evgenii's journey from building Webflow sites as a freelancer to scaling a full-service growth agency, including the challenges of systematizing creative work, pricing, positioning, and building a team that doesn't depend entirely on the founder.

If you're a founder, B2B marketer, growth leader, agency operator, or Webflow enthusiast, this episode is packed with real examples, frameworks, and lessons on turning your website into a serious business asset.

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In this episode, we sit down with Chad Paris, founder and CEO of Stonefly Consulting Group and host of Process Over Pressure, to explore why many businesses don't actually have a sales problem they have a process problem.

After spending 15 years in executive leadership in the building industry, Chad helped drive more than $37 million in revenue growth and an 18% increase in EBITDA before leaving the executive seat to build Stonefly.

Chad shares a powerful perspective on why adding AI to a broken process can actually make things worse. Instead of solving the underlying problem, businesses can end up automating failure and making it run faster.

We explore how founders and operators can identify the hidden gaps draining revenue, build smarter processes, and use AI strategically rather than simply adopting technology because everyone else is doing it.

We also discuss the connection between business growth and team burnout, why the two are often symptoms of the same missing system, and where leaders who feel behind on AI should actually begin.

With real-world experience, strong opinions, and practical examples, Chad offers a no-hype approach to process design, AI adoption, operational efficiency, and sustainable growth.

If you're a founder, business leader, or operator looking to scale without creating more chaos, this conversation offers practical ideas you can start applying immediately.

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In this episode, we sit down with Thomas Addison, a technology advisor and entrepreneur who has spent the last decade building, deploying, and operating technology inside real businesses including his own.

Thomas brings a practical perspective to digital transformation, focusing on the gap between what technology can do and what actually works in a real business environment.

We explore why many companies remain dependent on spreadsheets, email chains, manual processes, and software that nobody uses, and how businesses can replace operational bottlenecks with smarter systems and automation.

Thomas also explains the concept of AI Business Operating Systems AI-powered operating layers designed around the specific needs of a business and how companies can use AI to streamline decision-making and reduce dependence on the owner or leadership team.

We also discuss digital transformation using tools such as Zoho, custom applications, and automation, as well as Thomas's approach to exit readiness, including the key factors that can influence business valuation.

If you're a business owner, entrepreneur, or leader looking to scale, automate, adopt AI, or prepare your company for a future exit, this episode offers practical insights focused on implementation not just recommendations.

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In this episode, we sit down with Jeff Niebuhr, an experienced technology and operations leader who has spent his career guiding large, complex organizations through modernization, transformation, restructuring, and periods of significant change.

Jeff brings a pragmatic operator’s perspective to executive leadership, one shaped by leading global teams of hundreds, delivering mission-critical platforms, and working where strategy meets the realities of execution.

We explore what it really takes to lead organizations through change, why transformation often fails between strategy and execution, and how leaders can navigate complexity while keeping teams focused on meaningful outcomes.

Jeff also shares insights on balancing people, technology, business priorities, and execution, particularly when organizations are operating under pressure and transformation isn't optional.

Rather than focusing on leadership theory or buzzwords, this conversation gets into the practical realities of leading at scale: making difficult decisions, managing organizational change, executing strategy, and building teams capable of delivering when the stakes are high.

If you're an executive, technology leader, entrepreneur, or professional navigating organizational change, this episode offers practical lessons on turning strategy into results and leading effectively when real-world constraints get in the way.

#JeffNiebuhr #ExecutiveLeadership #Leadership #OrganizationalChange #DigitalTransformation #TechnologyLeadership #BusinessTransformation #Strategy #Execution #ChangeManagement #LeadershipDevelopment #EnterpriseTechnology #BusinessGrowth #TeamLeadership #OrganizationalLeadership #Innovation #Podcast #PodMatch #DesignWave