Fortune's Path Podcast

Tom talks with multi-award winning Broadway producer Bonnie Comley, co-founder of BroadwayHD, an on-demand video streaming service for Broadway quality live theater. Tom and Bonnie talk about Bonnie's career as an actor, an on-air television personality, Broadway producer, technology start-up founder, and parent. Growing up the daughter of entrepreneurs, Bonnie learned how working in an elevator repair business can prepare you to found a digital streaming platform. Bonnie also talks about how raising money for Broadway shows is like raising money for start-ups, how just being available when someone's first choice quits can jumpstart your career, how work has changed for women since the Me Too movement, why the only people who don't fail are the ones who aren't doing anything, and why no one should end up like Charles Foster Kane.

Tom talks to Cyndee Sugra, serial entrepreneur, creator, musician, founder and Chief Strategy Officer of the Werck Group, a values-driven strategy and product consultancy firm in the Netherlands. Cyndee started, grew, and sold a successful digital agency in Los Angeles before following her dream to live in Amsterdam. Cyndee talks about how she got to Amsterdam, recovering from founder burnout, why she started her second digital agency, why values are the foundation of brand, how she works with clients in a virtual brand sprint before creating new products, what it's like working in Europe versus the U.S., how the Netherlands reacted to COVID-19 during the first summer wave, why it's harder to get funding for a business when you're a woman, what's the right way to use data when creating a product or a brand, how to manage intense creativity and ambition so they don't spoil your life, what artists and entrepreneurs have in common, and how to bridge the gap between leadership's perception of market fit and the reality of the product. Cyndee is very smart.

Tom interviews Brad Stinson, founder and CEO of the Collective Global, a culture consultancy in Nashville. Brad talks about how failure has made him an expert on the culture required to support transformational success and how the Collective Global studied a diverse set of transformational leaders to identify the steps organizations need to take to build relationships that foster success.

In this preview of episode 12 of the Fortune's Path podcast, Brad Stinson, founder and CEO of the Collective Global, a culture consultancy in Nashville, talks about how failure has made him an expert on the culture required to support transformational success and how the Collective Global studied a diverse set of transformational leaders to identify the steps organizations need to take to build relationships that foster success. Look for the full episode soon.

Mark Tochtenhagen, entrepreneur, product leader, and Senior Vice President of Product at Quovant, a private equity backed legal services and technology company, talks about the sacrifices of being a founder, what it takes to build a business, why he's an entrepreneur, what it's like to grow up in an entrepreneurial family, how to bootstrap a business, how to find product-market fit, how to get good intelligence from competitors, how product management should work with sales, marketing, and operations, incremental development,  how to deal with conflict on a development team, collecting competitive intelligence, why he likes Costco, why he loves his current job, and what he's learned from his kids about humility and compassion.

Paige Collins, Vice President of Customer Success at fast growing XOi, talks about being proactive, data driven, and obsessed with making customers successful. Paige describes how XOi navigated COVID-19 with their clients by giving things away and pursuing virtue. She also talks about how to succeed with a board, the problems many start-ups fall into, how to select great customer success talent, what product management and customer success need to do to win together, thoughtfulness around solutions, the discipline of making time to be creative, why she'd rather be a co-founder than a CEO, diversity and favoritism, and how she measures the success of her team and clients.

Brian Adams, President and founder of Excelsior Capital, super-smart, clear, and engaging investor talks with Tom about how to not let money ruin a family and why real estate is a good investment. Brian tells Tom how Excelsior Capital works, why you need to take taxes and fees into account when evaluating the return on an investment, why cash is what matters and not gross IRR, why the S&P 500 is not as diversified as you might think, why preserving wealth is so difficult if you have more than one child, why it can be tough to maintain your lifestyle after you sell your company, the psychological and emotional toll of accumulating wealth, why money is the way we keep score, whether generational wealth is a problem, and why we need a national conversation about the death tax.

Brian Adams, President and founder of Excelsior Capital, super-smart, clear, and engaging investor talks with Tom about how to not let money ruin a family and why real estate is a good investment. Brian tells Tom how Excelsior Capital works, why you need to take taxes and fees into account when evaluating the return on an investment, why cash is what matters and not gross IRR, why the S&P 500 is not as diversified as you might think, why preserving wealth is so difficult if you have more than one child, why it can be tough to maintain your lifestyle after you sell your company, the psychological and emotional toll of accumulating wealth, why money is the way we keep score, whether generational wealth is a problem, and why we need a national conversation about the death tax.

Just in time for back to school, Tom talks with Harrison Stuart, founding head of one of Nashville's most dynamic startups, the Episcopal School of Nashville. Harrison is the real deal, a level-5 leader who's collected an amazing staff of educators and supporters determined to create a great, inclusive, affordable, neighborhood school in East Nashville. Harrison talks about the challenges of opening school in the age of COVID-19, what happens when a startup grows beyond its early adopter period, how he attracts the best talent, and why he's hooked on startup life.

Just in time for back to school, Tom talks with Harrison Stuart, founding head of one of Nashville's most dynamic startups, the Episcopal School of Nashville. Harrison is the real deal, a level-5 leader who's collected an amazing staff of educators and supporters determined to create a great, inclusive, affordable, neighborhood school in East Nashville. Harrison talks about the challenges of opening school in the age of COVID-19, what happens when a start-up grows beyond it's easily adopter period, how he attracts the best talent, and why he's hooked on startup life.