Lu Li  is an international entrepreneur, author, speaker and living in London. She has worked with great companies like McKinsey & Procter and Gamble.  She is the founder of Blooming Founders, an acclaimed brand and company designed to help early-stage female entrepreneurs and diverse teams succeed. Blooming Founders runs an award-winning co-working space in east London and also offers support for startups. In 2016, she published the book Dear Female Founder which contains 66 personal letters of advice written by female entrepreneurs from 20 countries

Lars is a coworker and friend.  He is a no-bullshit kind of guy and I like that.  He ran the smartphone R&D division of Nokia during the smartphone disruption era.  He is a shareholder in more than 40 startups and helped broker 100s of investments deals form both sides of the table.  He launched and ran multiple programs for Startupbootcamp Europe, launched a corporate VC fund and raised up a digital Health ecosystem in Berlin.  He recently established the Startupbootcamp in Russia and now resides in Dubai where he is launching many corporates partnerships and building some great ventures in the Middle East, North Africa, and Russia.

This is a special bonus episode to honor the women we have interviewed on this podcast and the three very special women in my life.  

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This episode is a super inspiring talk with an incredible innovator of peace.  She is working with some seemingly impossible situations in the Middle East and she manages to find inner peace.  Even going through her own struggles with life and health she shares an inspiring story and opens up about her heritage and the people that she is working with to bring peace and freedom.  Lynn is the MD of the Zovighian Partnership and she is a business and peacebuilder in the Middle East. 

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Steve is the president at Procore, a construction SAAS unicorn, where he oversees human resources, learning and development, facilities and real estate, and information technology. He has a strong focus on the creation and scaling of positive workplace culture as a sustainable competitive advantage for achieving superior business results. He is experienced in capital raising, from angel rounds to IPO. He currently lives in Santa Barbara California with his family.

In this episode, Steve walks us through his journey to get to where he is today and shares some valuable insights into building companies the right way.

Stuart Kime is a successful serial entrepreneur.  He taught himself to code at age 20 by hacking computer games (Quake, Command and Conquer 2, Counter-Strike) and by 35 had invented and architected 10 software systems that went from zero to generate over $2 Billion in cumulative gross revenue.  In 2012, he was named the Chief Information Officer of the Year in Tampa Bay and promptly retired to become a full-time Angel Investor.  He loves to travel and finds himself all around the world along with his wife and their 5 children and is based out of Austin, TX where he is working on his latest passion project called HOP - Helping Other People (www.hop.life) where they are connecting real people based on proximity like residents in condos or luxury apartments giving them a unique platform to interact and grow as a community.

Shayna Brown has an amazing story around her journey as a female audio engineer.  She is a highly sought after audio recording ninja with years of experience in Radio, TV and Film, music and audio editing, ADR (Additional Dialog Replacement) which is when they have to retake audio from poor quality recording on the film set.  She has worked with actors like Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey and she has recorded for Academy award-winning films and television shows like The Walking Dead, the Blind Side, Grey's Anatomy and more. She is a philanthropist and serves the community to impact social change. You can find out more about her studio at www.chezboomaudio.com

Piers Linney is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and adviser. He was a former investor on BBC Dragons' Den (Shark Tank in the US). Previous to Dragons Den he was in investment banking. He travels the world speaking and gives expert advice to entrepreneurs through is online course startup.pierslinney.com

This episode is pivotal in this series as Kyle unfolds her genius knowledge of listening.  As the founder of Listenly.co, she practices listening every day.  Her insights are eye-opening and prescriptive.  I was honored to have this interview with Kyle and I am already planning my next episode with her in the future.   
I hope you will enjoy this enlightening time with Kyle Zamcheck! She is an expert on communication transformation. She’s a consultant, speaker, trainer, and coach! She has been on the executive leadership team in great tech companies like Jackrabbit mobile and now the company, Listenly, a digital platform that promotes emotional health through listening. She works with startups, Fortune 100 companies, and government institutions like the National Security Agency.  She helps transform leadership through one-on-one coaching with high-level executives and facilitating company-wide team training. She has a degree in theater and psychology with a focus on performing identify.

My guest today is the epitome of a successful serial entrepreneur.  He has launched and sold multiple businesses, played amazing roles in founding companies like Bazaarvoice, Capital Factory, Mass Relevance (acquired by Spreadfast) Clearhead acquired by Accenture and many many more. He holds board seats and has an active involvement in many up and coming technologies.  He is an author of 2 “how to” Marketing books, an investor and mentor and a pillar in the Austin community and beyond.

In this episode, Sam discusses so many great points about his life as an entrepreneur and the learning and meaning he has found through it all.