Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Sabrina Angel, a soul-aligned productivity coach and founder of Spirit Mind Synergy. Sabrina shares her journey from studying psychology and earning a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy to building a coaching business focused on helping high-achieving women break free from overthinking and anxiety. Drawing from her own experience as a new mother navigating stress, debt, and decision paralysis, she explains how personal struggle shaped her mission to help others move from mental overwhelm into intentional action.

The conversation explores Sabrina’s coaching philosophy, blending mindset work, values-based decision making, and practical accountability to help clients align mind, body, and spirit. She breaks down her one-on-one coaching model, digital offerings, and organic growth strategy through authentic social media engagement. Zach and Sabrina also discuss consistency, fear-driven pivots, patience in business growth, and why sustainable success comes from staying focused on one offer, one strategy, and long-term alignment. It’s an honest conversation about confidence, clarity, and building momentum without burning out.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Kayla Kraft-Goob, brand designer and business coach at Kayla Kraft Designs. With over a decade of experience in digital design and marketing, Kayla shares how her journey—from low-income beginnings and addiction recovery to building a purpose-driven business—shaped her mission to help mindset coaches scale with integrity. She explains why she transitioned from growth marketing to coaching, determined to teach coaches how to understand their numbers, messaging, and systems instead of relying on surface-level agency tactics.

Kayla breaks down her three-pillar framework—offer clarity, lead flow, and high-ticket sales—detailing how ads, automations, DM systems, and authentic sales conversations work together to create predictable growth. The conversation also explores delegation, team building, paid traffic experimentation, and how faith, mindset, and disciplined execution guide her leadership and vision for 2026. This episode offers an honest look at scaling a coaching business with clarity, confidence, and values at the center.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Victoria Joseph, founder and president of Birds of a Feather Matchmaking, the first certified boutique matchmaking firm specializing in ethically non-monogamous (ENM), open, poly, and swinger-lifestyle relationships. A U.S. Navy veteran, MBA graduate, and certified matchmaker through the Global Love Institute, Victoria shares how her background in military service, business, and community-building led her to create a space for authentic connection outside traditional relationship structures.

The conversation explores Victoria’s highly selective, ethics-driven matchmaking process, including her rigorous vetting, love-clarity sessions, and focus on quality over quantity. She explains how privacy, cybersecurity, and consent are central to her work, why her firm accepts fewer than 12% of applicants, and how she builds trust through education, events, and intentional community-building. Victoria also discusses hosting ENM social events, speed dating, and curated experiences nationwide, offering a thoughtful look at modern relationships, human connection, and building a values-aligned business in a misunderstood niche.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Gina Nacnac, founder of Good Energy Media, a personal brand strategist helping founders, consultants, and wellness experts turn their expertise into monetized personal brands. Gina shares her journey from influencer marketing and large-scale brand campaigns—including go-to-market work with Adobe—to building a full-service agency focused on brand strategy, content systems, and lead generation rooted in clarity and authenticity.

The conversation dives into Gina’s framework for building high-performing personal brands, including signature method development, podcast-style content creation for scalable distribution, and hyper-targeted LinkedIn outbound strategies that drive qualified leads. She also discusses delegation, identifying one’s zone of genius, the return of human connection through storytelling and in-person experiences, and redefining success through balance after burnout. This episode offers a thoughtful look at how modern founders can build brands that feel aligned, cohesive, and designed to support both business growth and personal well-being.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Shirley Billigmeier, founder of Innergetics, a pioneering approach that helps people resolve eating and weight issues without drugs, dieting, or restriction. Shirley shares her personal journey from lifelong food and body angst to discovering the body’s innate hunger and taste boundaries, a process rooted in the gut–brain connection. Long before intuitive eating became mainstream, she authored Inner Eating in 1991 and began teaching a radically different philosophy centered on restoring trust in the body’s internal wisdom.

With over three decades of experience and more than 10,000 clients served, Shirley explains how disordered eating is not a failure of willpower but a disruption of natural biological signals. The conversation explores how Energetics works today through online courses, one-on-one support, and coach training, emphasizing real-time guidance, emotional awareness, and total food freedom. Shirley also reflects on the cultural shift toward medication-based solutions and shares her mission to help people reclaim energy, clarity, and creativity by putting eating back in its natural order.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Eric Lyons, founder of Aurelian Solutions, who helps high-responsibility professionals escape survival mode and build intentional, values-driven lives. Drawing from over a decade of service in the U.S. military and firsthand experience with financial instability early in life, Eric shares how witnessing bankruptcy at a young age and navigating leadership pressure shaped his mission to help others find clarity, stability, and forward momentum.

The conversation explores Eric’s coaching philosophy across both financial and life coaching, emphasizing behavior change, mindset, and sustainable systems over quick fixes. He breaks down his client-centered approach, including discovery calls, customized coaching programs, and long-term support designed to help clients move from feeling overwhelmed to confident and focused. Eric also discusses authoring his book From Lost to Locked In, his perspective on leadership and accountability, and his goals for growing Aurelian Solutions while balancing military service, family life, and purposeful impact.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Liz Emelogu, an executive strategy and well-being coach, award-winning business mentor, and founder of Achieve Her Network, a global community supporting women founders and senior leaders. Liz shares her non-linear journey from corporate finance and sales into entrepreneurship, explaining how her work in interior design unexpectedly revealed her deeper passion for helping business owners and executives navigate clarity, leadership, and sustainable success.

The conversation explores Liz’s work with women entrepreneurs and senior executives, blending productivity, accountability, and well-being to prevent burnout while driving performance. She breaks down her alignment-first coaching approach, the importance of values-driven goals, and her signature Velvet Boardroom program, which helps women lead with grace, grit, and confidence in high-pressure environments. Liz also discusses balancing B2C and B2B work, building and delegating to a virtual team, scaling through group coaching and community, and the ongoing challenge of shifting perceptions around well-being at the executive level.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Toni Brown, a brand strategist and designer behind Brand Coach Toni, who helps women and organizations strengthen identity, messaging, and online presence to support career and organizational growth. Toni shares her unconventional journey from a 20-year career in the legal field to building a brand strategy practice, sparked by an early fascination with the internet and a desire to help businesses tell more compelling, human-centered stories online.

The conversation explores Toni’s evolution from visual design to strategy-first branding, emphasizing clarity, messaging, and personal brand development as the foundation for meaningful visibility. She discusses why people buy people—not logos—how LinkedIn can be used as a relationship-building platform, and why quality connections matter more than follower count. Toni also reflects on building a sustainable solo business, the value of community and collaboration over large teams, and her goal to reconnect with in-person networking as a powerful driver of long-term growth

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Katie Campbell, founder and lead matchmaker at Soul Matchmaking, a boutique matchmaking service connecting driven professionals across Canada and the United States. Katie shares her journey from a decade-long career in corporate finance into entrepreneurship, explaining how burnout, motherhood, and a desire for meaningful human connection led her to build a highly personalized, privacy-first matchmaking business.

The conversation explores what it really takes to run a boutique matchmaking practice—from vetting emotionally ready clients and managing expectations to balancing personalization with scalability. Katie opens up about client acquisition through referrals and LinkedIn, pricing high-touch services, expanding into the U.S. market, and navigating economic uncertainty in a luxury, relationship-driven industry. She also reflects on staying intentionally small, maintaining quality over volume, and designing a business that supports both her clients’ goals and her own lifestyle.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Kathy Laucius, founder of The Time Is Now Fitness. Kathy shares her journey from a 12-year career in sales and marketing to stepping away to raise a family, and how her own lifelong struggle with weight, diet, and consistency became the catalyst for building a fitness business rooted in sustainability rather than quick fixes. Drawing from her personal transformation and years of hands-on experience as a trainer, competitor, author, and speaker, she explains how shifting from an “all-or-nothing” mindset to a lifestyle-based approach reshaped both her health and her professional mission.

Throughout the conversation, Kathy breaks down how she works primarily with women—especially those entering their 40s and navigating hormonal and lifestyle changes—through a mix of one-on-one coaching, group training, workshops, and community-driven education. She discusses why growth doesn’t always mean “more,” but often means “better,” her preference for relationship-based marketing over social media noise, and the importance of boundaries, trust, and alignment between coach and client. The episode offers grounded insight into building a fitness business with longevity, integrity, and real human impact.