Being an entrepreneur is exciting, ambitious, and also incredibly difficult.  But the simple fact is founding and launching a company takes grit, patience, heart and a lot of sweat!  Join me on this epic ride as we explore the journey of some amazing people and how they have found the anchors to hold fast through adversity. 

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In a noisy world, the entrepreneur has the power to find the inner strength to a balanced life. 

This is the season's final episode.  We will be pushing pause on the podcast for a month or two.  Look for Season two trailer coming soon.

In this episode, Todd reflects on the great learnings from this podcast that played out in real life with the challenge of losing his job.

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Father Greg McBrayer is very inspiring. He has worked and served in the aviation industry for more than 40 years. As an Atlanta native, he was licensed by the FAA in 1984. And since has held numerous positions throughout his aviation career. He is currently the Chief Dispatcher at American Airlines at the Integrated Operations Control Center in DFW in Dallas, where he serves also as the corporate chaplain. As a bi-vocational priest, he serves as an assistant pastor and priest at the St. Barnabas Anglican Church in Fort Worth. He is also the president of DFW chapter of the American Airlines Christian Employee Resource Group or ERGs. He is Chairman of the Board and Director of DFW Airport Interfaith Chaplaincy and leads weekly services there. 

Raja Al Mazrouei is a visionary and entrepreneurial leader in the finance industry in the Middle East.  She led in developing an ecosystem for Fintech entrepreneurs in Dubai helping it become a top ten global FinTech hub. She has worked for leading companies like Dubai Holdings and Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Authority where she has influenced over 200 FinTech, RegTech, and InsurTech startups to begin operating in the United Arab Emirates. She is the Executive Vice President of FinTech Hive, and her leadership has been recognized on a global scale, with her being recognized as, the top 100 Women in FinTech, the 50 Most Influential Women in Middle East Finance, and the top 100 Power Businesswomen in The Middle East by Forbes. She is an executive graduate of the Harvard Business School, where she serves as a member on the MENA and Central Asia Advisory Board.  She is an Emirati national living in Dubai with her family.

Nektarios Liolios is a global thought leader and speaker. He is one of the top influencers in the Fintech industry. He worked for financial giant SWIFT for many years helping the company innovate through the 2008 world financial crisis.  He was the co-founder and CEO of Startupbootcamp Fintech helping thousands of Fintech startups thrive and connect into large corporate banks.  He resides in London where he continues to speak globally and influence corporates and entrepreneurs to shape the way we see finance and technology. He also is co-founder fo the Future Farm and a brand new podcast for entrepreneurial mental health called Naked by the Future Farm

Lujza Bubanova is a truly inspiring founder and entrepreneur.  She is an international speaker, thought leader, and investor.  Her background is in economics and digital marketing, graduating from Hult Business school. She is also an ex-golf pro which we will explore later on.  She’s the founder and CEO of YouFirst, an artificial intelligence platform for measuring the emotional responses from the audiences of social media influencers. She is from Slovakia and has an extended global network of amazing people.  She is a creative thinker and always up for a new challenge. Using her passion for emotion she is launching a new venture called Seeme, an application for analyzing emotional responses of babies.

Amos Schwartzfarb is an incredible serial entrepreneur and a mentor of minds.  He is the managing director at Techstars in Austin, an investor, advisor, and board member of some great up and coming tech companies   He successfully helped build and exit many businesses that were acquired by Yahoo, Home Depot and more.  He is a brilliant sales mind of our time and he most recently wrote a book called Sell More Faster which is available on Amazon. He is an avid cyclist and a music junkie

Lisa OBrien is an entrepreneur, an author, and a professional executive coach. She grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, where she was always launching and running the family businesses as an adult. She raised two children while launching multiple businesses, including a music school and coaching businesses in London & Dubai, she also worked for McKinsey. She currently works as an executive coach at Procore, a software construction platform. I have known her for over 30 years. She inspires me every day and we have recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. 

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