In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Gina Blundell, an accredited trauma-informed and certified financial coach, and the founder of Gina B. Gina shares her deeply personal founder journey—from a career in accountancy and years as a stay-at-home mum, to leaving a long-term emotionally and financially abusive marriage and rebuilding her life from the ground up. Her lived experience became the catalyst for a purpose-driven business focused on helping midlife women reclaim safety, confidence, and independence during and after divorce.

The conversation explores how Gina supports women through one-to-one coaching, VIP days, and Divorce Reset retreats that combine trauma-informed tools, brain spotting, and practical financial guidance. She discusses the challenges of scaling a high-touch service business, the power of in-person connection and community, and the importance of alignment when building support teams. Gina also shares her long-term vision of raising awareness around coercive control and financial abuse, empowering women to set boundaries, trust themselves, and see divorce not as an ending—but as the beginning of a new chapter.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Alexander Kharadi, founder and CEO of MIE Coach, a London-based health and performance coaching practice. Alexander shares his unconventional founder journey, shaped by a multicultural upbringing, a deep sports background, and a life-altering spinal injury that forced him to challenge traditional healthcare and performance models. His experiences led him to question what health and well-being truly mean—and how lasting change can be built through intentional daily actions rather than reactive treatment.

The conversation dives into how MIE Coach evolved from hands-on therapy into a holistic coaching model built around mental, internal, and external performance factors. Alexander explains his shift from one-to-one service delivery toward scalable B2B solutions, the challenges of balancing growth with alignment, and why organic growth, self-accountability, and behavioral science sit at the core of his work. He also shares his long-term vision for impact-driven scale, including building systems and technology that make proactive health more accessible—while maintaining integrity, clarity, and purpose at every stage of growth.

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Anna Lundberg, strategist and mentor for quietly driven founders and solopreneurs building sustainable, life-first businesses. Anna shares her unconventional path from studying philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford to a decade in FMCG marketing at Procter & Gamble, before leaving corporate life in 2013 to work for herself. What began as consulting evolved organically into coaching and mentoring, as people sought guidance on designing businesses that offer autonomy without burnout. Along the way, Anna experimented with multiple business models, offers, and programs—eventually realizing that complexity and growth for growth’s sake were creating stress rather than freedom.

The conversation dives into Anna’s current focus: helping experienced solopreneurs recalibrate when a once-successful business starts to feel heavy, reactive, or misaligned. She discusses simplifying offers, redesigning business models around intentional constraints, setting better boundaries, and redefining success beyond hustle culture and constant scaling. Anna and Milan explore ownership, delegation, marketing evolution, relationship-driven growth, and the mindset shifts required to “play bigger” without sacrificing personal well-being. The episode closes with a thoughtful reflection on ambition, enoughness, and what it truly means to build a business that supports both meaningful work and a fulfilling life.

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Daya Naef, a former practicing attorney turned legal business strategist, coach, and AI leader. Daya shares her journey from law and serial entrepreneurship into consulting with small and mid-sized law firms, where she helps leaders navigate growth, culture, and operational change. Drawing on more than two decades of business leadership experience, she explains how her work evolved from people and talent strategy into integrating artificial intelligence as a practical teammate inside traditionally run law firms.

The conversation explores the real resistance law firms face when adopting AI, balancing innovation with risk, reputation, and deeply entrenched legacy systems. Daya breaks down her bespoke, relationship-driven approach to working with firms, why education and trust-building often take years, and how incremental change is the key to sustainable transformation. From networking and referrals to CLEs and podcasting, she offers an honest look at long sales cycles, internal firm dynamics, and what it takes to modernize professional services without breaking the culture that makes them successful.

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Anne Hill, a certified executive coach and founder of Ann Hill Coaching, whose journey from microbiology and medical science to executive leadership and coaching offers a powerful perspective on transformation. Anne shares how her early career as a scientist during the height of the HIV pandemic shaped her understanding of people beyond data, ultimately pulling her out of the lab and into leadership, business transformation, and coaching. Working with senior leaders, executives, and high-performing women, Anne recognized a recurring challenge facing women in midlife — a profound loss of confidence and identity often driven by hormonal and life transitions that traditional leadership models fail to address.

Anne breaks down how her coaching integrates science, psychology, somatic awareness, and leadership strategy to help clients move beyond burnout, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and imposter syndrome. She introduces her signature frameworks, including Stop Being Stuck and the Empowered Transition Blueprint, explaining how deep self-trust, insight, and practical action create lasting change. The conversation explores why transformation can begin in a single moment of realization, how safe and intentional coaching spaces accelerate growth, and why community, identity, and self-belief are essential to sustainable leadership in midlife and beyond.

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Laura Armstrong, a wealth mastery and money mindset strategist based in Toronto, Canada, and the founder of ANKB and Wealth Strategy with Laura. Laura shares her extraordinary journey from becoming a three-time world martial arts champion and coaching elite athletes to working in high-pressure corporate trading environments as the only woman on the desk. After experiencing a toxic corporate culture and a major career turning point, Laura made a defining decision to build a life centered on purpose, impact, and financial freedom — while redefining her own relationship with money and success.

Laura breaks down how she now works with high achievers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to dismantle limiting beliefs, realign vision, and build sustainable wealth from the inside out. The conversation explores the deep connection between childhood experiences, mindset patterns, and adult success, as well as the parallels between elite athletic performance and business leadership. Through powerful stories — including the defining moment that led to her first world championship — Laura highlights the importance of support systems, emotional resilience, and inner mastery. The episode offers an honest look at why high performers often feel stuck after achievement, and how reclaiming clarity, confidence, and purpose unlocks the next level of growth.

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Steph Ward, a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, founder of The Evergreen Academy, and director of Ford Business Solutions. Steph shares her journey from years in the corporate world — including roles at major organizations like McDonald’s and Siemens — to building and scaling her own businesses. After leaving corporate life in search of greater freedom, Steph and her husband built a property business from the ground up, learning hard lessons along the way that shaped her resilience, business acumen, and passion for entrepreneurship.

Steph explains how becoming a mother pushed her to create a more flexible, sustainable income model, leading to the launch of The Evergreen Academy. She walks through her mission to help coaches, trainers, and service-based founders turn their knowledge into scalable, evergreen courses that generate consistent income without trading time for money. The conversation explores evergreen business models, community-driven learning, group coaching, the balance between automation and human connection, and why mentorship, structure, and support are essential for founders at every stage. Steph also shares her long-term vision of helping thousands of new entrepreneurs start their businesses with clarity, confidence, and a framework built for long-term success.

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Vladyslav Kriulin, founder of Article Alchemy, an SEO specialist helping e-commerce brands scale through revenue-focused organic search strategies. Vladyslav shares his journey from copywriting to content marketing and ultimately SEO, explaining how spotting widespread industry gatekeeping and underperformance motivated him to build an agency centered on real, measurable results rather than vanity rankings. He walks through how his SEO practice evolved from generalist work to a focused e-commerce niche, delivering full-stack SEO strategies that blend technical optimization, content, backlinks, and conversion thinking.

Vladyslav dives into how he builds trust with clients who’ve been burned by past agencies, his decision to operate on flexible month-to-month engagements, and why transparency is essential in a crowded SEO market. The conversation also explores his LinkedIn-driven growth strategy, personalized outbound outreach, and how SEO and AI-powered search tools like LLMs intersect rather than compete. Looking ahead, Vladyslav shares his perspective on blending SEO with paid ads, leveraging AI to scale efficiently, and expanding his agency into a broader performance-driven marketing offering while staying grounded in what actually drives business growth.

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we sit down with Lauren Smit, a mindset and marketing coach for female entrepreneurs, creatives, and service-based founders. Lauren shares her journey from graphic design to coaching, including the pivotal moments that led her to seek deeper fulfillment during motherhood, relocation, and the uncertainty of COVID. Through her own experience with business coaching, she discovered the transformative power of mindset work and how inner awareness can radically change not only business outcomes, but daily life itself.

Lauren explains how her work centers on helping women — especially moms — reconnect with the mind behind the message, aligning their marketing with their identity, values, and lived experience. She discusses her heart-centered, permission-based approach to marketing, the importance of emotional safety, and why fulfillment is the foundation for sustainable success. The conversation explores balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship, intimate connection-driven marketing strategies, self-validation, and the courage it takes to grow without abandoning alignment or integrity.

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we sit down with Linda Bartholme, founder of Be Thriving Moms Today, to explore her journey from educator to transformational coach for ambitious mothers. Linda shares the deeply personal experiences that inspired her work — from navigating pregnancy and illness while caring for her family to supporting a child through time in the NICU — and how intentional habits, mindset tools, and self-compassion helped her show up as the best version of herself during life’s most challenging moments.

Linda explains how Be Thriving Moms Today supports midlife mothers who appear successful on the outside but feel drained, disconnected, or unfulfilled internally. She discusses her evolving ideal client, the importance of alignment beyond motherhood, and the courage it takes to pursue purpose despite self-doubt, societal expectations, and limited support. The conversation also touches on entrepreneurship, patience, resilience, and why acting before you feel ready is often the key to meaningful growth and long-term fulfillment