Founder to Mentor

By Mike Fata

Mike Fata is an entrepreneur with multiple nine figure exits, and a passion for health and mentorship. Join Mike on a journey where he connects with world class founders to inspire your personal and p... more

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March 24, 2022 Kara Goldin: Tech Executive Turned Founder of Hint, Inc.
In this episode, Mike is joined by Kara Goldin, CEO and founder of Hint, Inc. Hint is a San Francisco-based beverage company that was founded in 2005 and is best known for its delicious unsweetened flavored water. Throughout this conversation, Kara tells the story of how her personal health journey led to her to leave her tech executive position to founding Hint, Inc. She talks about entering the ready to drink industry, why she chose to co-pack, the importance of data, using social media to communicate with customers, and more.
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38min
March 17, 2022 Q&A with CEO and Founder of IWON Organics Mark Samuel
In this episode, Mike is joined by the CEO and founder of IWON Organics, Mark Samuel. In 2016, Mark founded IWON Organics (I’m Winning On Nutrition), a legume-based food company that makes bold, flavor-infused snacks, cereal and granola made from plant-based proteins. Throughout this episode, Mark answers questions from other founders regarding the direct to consumer landscape, co-packing, raising brand awareness, validating product before going to market, and more.
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39min
March 17, 2022 Mark Samuel: Lessons from Founding IWON Organics
In this episode, Mike is joined by the CEO and founder of IWON Organics, Mark Samuel. As a health enthusiast and serial entrepreneur, Mark has over 17 years of start-up experience. In 2016, Mark founded IWON Organics (I’m Winning On Nutrition), a legume-based food company that makes bold, flavor-infused snacks, cereal and granola made from plant-based proteins. Throughout this conversation, Mark talks to Mike about understanding your customer, the influence of social marketing, how to present yourself to the people who work for you, and more. Check out Part 2 for a Q & A with Mark!
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22min
March 10, 2022 Q & A with Love Good Fats founder Suzie Yorke
In this episode, Suzie Yorke, the CEO and founder of Love Good Fats joins Mike for a Question & Answer session with other founders. Suzie has had incredible success since launching Love Good Fats bars in 2016, surpassing $100 million in revenue in just over 3 years. She answers questions about digital sampling, when to decide to co-pack, making a launch successful, fundraising, doing consumer research, presenting to retailers, and more. Suzie’s insights and advice from her experience can help all founders no matter what stage their business is in.
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53min
March 10, 2022 Suzie Yorke: Learning that Fats Are Fuel & Founding Love Good Fats
In this episode, Mike is joined by Suzie Yorke, the CEO and founder of Love Good Fats. As a marathon runner, cyclist, and 11x Ironman athlete, Suzie realized that her low fat diet was doing more harm than good and that incorporating fats in her diet could fuel her better. Suzie then founded Love Good Fats, a nutrition bar company that is low in sugar and loaded with good fats, and the company has since surpassed 8 figures. Throughout this conversation, Suzie shares her story of founding Love Good Fats and what she has learned about building a business in the natural products industry.
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46min
March 03, 2022 Q & A with Flow Alkaline Spring Water Founder Nicholas Reichenbach
In this episode, Nicholas Reichenbach joins Mike for a Question & Answer session with other founders. Throughout this session, Nicholas answers questions about expanding distribution, when to ‘divorce’ from your company, how to enter new ventures, and more. Nicholas is the Founder, Executive Chairman, and former CEO of Flow Alkaline Spring Water- one of 11 companies he has built- and has great insights that founders in all industries can benefit from hearing.
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42min
March 03, 2022 Nicholas Reichenbach: Founding Flow Alkaline Spring Water & 11 Other Companies
In this episode, Mike is joined by Nicholas Reichenbach. Nicholas is the Founder, Executive Chairman, and former CEO of Flow Alkaline Spring Water. Throughout this episode, Nicholas talks about when he knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, building Flow Alkaline Spring Water, strategic thinking for market and channel, how his role at Flow Alkaline Spring Water has changed, and more. Nicholas is an incredible entrepreneur, having built 11 companies and led Flow Alkaline Spring Water to massive success in the natural products industry.
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42min
February 24, 2022 Q & A with Bio-K+ Founder Isabele Chevalier
In this episode, Isabele Chevalier, the founder and former CEO of Bio-K+, answers other natural products founder’s questions. Some of the topics that she provides her insights and answers to are about building a business with family members, what she looks for when investing in other founders, getting customers to try your product, raising equity, and more.
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36min
February 24, 2022 Isabele Chevalier: Pioneering the Probiotic Industry & Building Bio-K+
In this episode, Mike is joined by Isabele Chevalier, the founder and former CEO of Bio-K+. Bio-K+ is a Canadian company that provides premium-quality probiotic products backed by science. Since launching Bio-K+ over 20 years ago, the company has been massively successful and expanded internationally. Throughout this episode Isabele shares her story of building Bio-K+ with her family and what she has learned from being in the early stages of the probiotic industry to now. Check out Part 2 to hear Isabele answer other founders’ questions!
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35min
February 17, 2022 Q & A with Sol Cuisine Founder Dror Balshine
In this episode, Mike hosts a Q & A session with Sol Cuisine Founder, Dror Balshine. Dror answers questions about working with wholesalers, building brand awareness, what he would tell his younger self, channel expansion, packaging, and more.
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