Entrepreneurship 101

Entrepreneurship 101

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Entrepreneurship 101 episodes

  • Beyond the Boardroom: How High-Achieving Women Rebuild After Divorce with Trena Briscoe Matthews
    Trena Briscoe Matthews
    Post-Divorce Strategist: Transforming High-Achieving Women from Survival to Purposeful Reinvention
    Trena is a transformative leader, author, and post-divorce strategic coach dedicated to helping high-achieving women over 40 regain clarity and confidence after divorce, so they can intentionally design their next chapter in alignment with who they are now.
    As the founder of Silverline Publishing and Silverline Coaching, Trena has built a career rooted in strategic vision, authentic connection, and personal transformation. Through her signature framework, The Phoenix Protocol, she guides women through the deeply personal work of regaining emotional grounding after divorce, reclaiming their voices, and intentionally designing a next chapter aligned with their values, desires, and evolving identity. Her work helps women move beyond survival and step into a more confident, self-defined way of living.
    Trena is the host of the Wings of a Phoenix podcast and the author of the upcoming book, The Phoenix Path, arriving in late 2026. Her mission is to empower women to realize that divorce isn’t the end of their story, but the beginning of their most intentional chapter yet.
    In addition to her work in the coaching and publishing space, Trena is the owner of Electi Travel TCB LLC, where she curates high-end, personalized travel experiences. Looking forward, she is integrating this luxury travel brand to host exclusive retreats for her Phoenix Protocol alumni—creating physical spaces for women to rest, reset, and rise together in luxury. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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    26 min
  • Anna Rikka Aborro: Building Systems, Delegating Effectively and Scaling Without Chaos
    Anna Rikka Aborro
    Everything in Your Business Runs Through You. We Change That.
    nna Rikka Aborro is the founder of TAP Virtual Solutions and TAP OBM.
    She has 18 years of experience in operations and project management, helping business owners organize the messy backend of their business.
    She works with founders, coaches, consultants, and service-based businesses that already have clients, revenue, ideas, and a team, but still feel like everything runs through the owner. They are growing, but their systems, workflows, SOPs, accountability, and team structure have not caught up yet.
    That is where Anna Rikka comes in.
    She helps turn vision into actual execution. Not just ideas sitting in someone’s head. Not just random tasks scattered in Slack. She helps create real systems, clear ownership, better workflows, and a business that does not depend on the founder holding everything together every single day.
    She is also passionate about helping VAs grow into stronger operational roles because she believes there is a big difference between being a task doer and becoming a true strategic partner.
    On podcasts, Anna Rikka enjoys talking about operations, leadership, delegation, building teams, scaling without chaos, and what it really takes to create a business that can run without the founder rescuing everything. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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    34 min
  • Ammarah Ahmed: Turning UX, CRO and Behavioural Psychology Into Business Growth
    Ammarah Ahmed
    Founder, CRO Expert, Ex-Operator in Tech
    Ammarah Ahmed spent 10 years inside some of the largest growth platforms in the region. Delivery Hero, Foodpanda, Talabat, and Daraz, across MENA and 15 countries. The kind of roles where you own the outcome, not just the recommendation.
    In 2022, she started Precision Consulting on the side while still in those jobs. Earlier in 2025, she went full-time. It is a boutique CRO and UX consultancy, and the thing that drives it is something she kept seeing across every platform she worked in: businesses leaving revenue on the table not because their product was broken, but because nobody had looked hard enough at how people were actually moving through it.
    120+ funnels audited. A 4.9 rating and 90+ founder reviews. She brings a behavioural psychology lens to conversion work, and it shows in the results. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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    30 min
  • Brian Beck: Turning AI and Cybersecurity Strategies Into Measurable Business Results | Entrepreneurship 101
    Brian Beck
    Joining us today is Brian Beck from Proxurve Solutions. Brian works with mid-sized organizations to turn AI and cybersecurity from concepts into real business outcomes.
    While most conversations in this space focus on what AI can do, Brian focuses on why companies struggle to implement it—and how to fix that. His work is all about helping leaders cut through the noise, align technology with real workflows, and drive measurable impact without increasing risk.
    Brian, welcome to the show.
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    31 min
  • From Holy Water to Happy Hour: Matt Estrin’s Journey from Pastor to Entrepreneur and Founder of 477 Distilling
    Matt Estrin
    Alcohol entrepreneur, foodpreneur, published author, and an incredibly nice guy
    Matthew Estrin is an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of 477 Distilling. After spending 15 years as a pastor, he made the leap into business ownership and has since launched seven businesses. He's the author of I Know the Owner: From Holy Water to Happy Hour, where he shares honest lessons on entrepreneurship, leadership, and building businesses that matter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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    32 min
  • Karen Robinson: 24 Years of Transforming Lives Through Trauma Recovery, Therapy, and Compassionate Coaching
    Karen Robinson
    Trauma Recovery Expert
    Karen Robinson, LCSW, is a service driven social worker, therapist, and coach with 24 years of clinical experience. Karen received both her BSW and MSW from the University of Maine, where she is originally from. Karen is a genuine, authentic, compassionate provider. Her specialties are trauma recovery, anxiety, and depression. In her free time, Karen enjoys reading, writing, and spending time with her family.
    Heal Thrive Dream is a mother-daughter company that includes a wide range of service and products for women recovering from trauma. We offer holistic therapy, coaching, virtual group coaching memberships, community service, courses, planners, journals, books, inspirational products and workbooks. We are a one-stop shop for women who are ready to fire their boss, as we offer touchless e-commerce agencies and a full-service digital agency to assist with websites, logos, social media management, SEO, etc. Last, we teach survivors how to explore relationship and affiliate marketing as several streams of revenue will set them up for the best chance of success in every aspect of their lives. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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    23 min
  • What 10 Years in Google Ads Taught Me About the AI Revolution | Michael Elliott
    Michael Elliott
    For over a decade, I was deep in the trenches of Google Ads, mastering the algorithms, optimizing campaigns, and consistently driving measurable ROI for businesses of all sizes.
    This wasn't just about keywords and bids; it was about understanding human psychology, market dynamics, and the relentless pursuit of scalable growth. My superpower became translating complex digital advertising into tangible business results.
    Then, the AI revolution began to accelerate, and I saw a seismic shift approaching. What was once the domain of science fiction was rapidly becoming a game-changer for every entrepreneur.
    My unique perspective, honed by years of practical, bottom-line focused digital marketing, immediately identified a critical gap: many business owners were either overwhelmed by the hype or paralyzed by the fear of AI, missing out on its immense, immediate potential.
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    27 min
  • Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Stephen Wright talking about helping small to midsize business owners cut through noise, and identify as well as the your book.
    Stephen Wright
    Stephen E. Wright - Speaker | Strategist | Author of Four Proven Strategies to Focus and Accelerate Your Business: PICK ONE
    Stephen Wright is the author of PICK ONE: 4 Strategies to Focus and Accelerate Your Business. He helps small to midsize business owners cut through noise, identify the real issue, and choose the one strategic move that creates traction.
    Drawing from years of experience working inside struggling and growth-stage companies, Stephen delivers practical, high-impact answers, stories and illustrations that move leaders from overload and reaction to clarity, focus, and profitable momentum.
    He brings the unusual combination of real CEO/VP turnaround experience as well as more than 10 years consulting with business owners through growth, expansion, team development and execution challenges. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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    25 min
  • Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Beth Flippo talking about being the Founder & CEO of Dexa: Turning Chaos into Strategy, Not Excuses.

    Beth Flippo

    Founder & CEO of Dexa: Turning Chaos into Strategy, Not Excuses

    Beth Flippo is the CEO and Founder of DEXA and the first female CEO of an unmanned aviation company in the U.S. With a background spanning Goldman Sachs and the Department of Defense, she now leads one of the nation’s few FAA-certified drone carriers, helping redefine the future of delivery through fast, autonomous logistics. Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, Beth is focused on building technology that empowers local businesses to compete in today’s on-demand world.


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    26 min
  • Entrepreneurship 101 in its first season, features Andrew Parr talking about being a UK therapist, trainer and author with 33 years of clinical practice and over 20,000 one-to-one client sessions.

    Andrew Parr is a UK therapist, trainer and author, practising since 1992, with over 20,000 one-to-one client sessions.

    His book The Real You is published by Penguin Life, and he has trained more than 500 practitioners in his own root-cause approach to lasting change.

    He's come to see that real transformation is less about anything we typically call therapy, and more about de-hypnotising ourselves from the invisible conditioning we live by.

    He's especially good on a question most people have felt but never had answered:

    Why we stay stuck even after years of therapy and self-help, caught struggling with something that feels like it's inside us, yet outside our control, and what actually finally shifts it.


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    26 min

About Entrepreneurship 101

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Entrepreneurship 101 is a dynamic, knowledge-driven platform designed to equip aspiring founders, small-business owners, and creative innovators with the mindset, tools, and strategies needed to excel in today’s competitive landscape. It breaks down the core fundamentals of entrepreneurship into clear, actionable insights that listeners can immediately apply to their own ventures.