Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Will Steel, a former Royal Air Force pilot turned high-performance and transformational coach. Will shares his unconventional journey—from military aviation and the airline industry to spending over two decades leading large-scale transformational and leadership programs across the globe, impacting tens of thousands of people. After the pandemic brought live programs to a halt, Will made the decision to fully step into coaching as an independent founder, choosing to work with individuals who are committed to making meaningful impact beyond financial success.

The conversation explores Will’s deeply human approach to coaching elite entrepreneurs, executives, and change-makers—helping them uncover the unseen beliefs and early-life patterns that limit performance, fulfillment, and leadership. He explains why clarity, freedom, and presence matter more than tactics, how trust and referrals have shaped his business growth, and why scaling coaching with integrity remains both a challenge and a priority. Will also reflects on the inspiration behind his internationally bestselling book Free to Lead, written to help leaders break internal constraints and lead powerfully from who they truly are, not who they think they need to be.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, Katie Henricks shares her deeply personal journey from being a credentialed teacher to becoming a leading women’s relationship and intimacy coach based in Los Angeles. What began as her own experience with heartbreak and feeling unequipped for modern relationships evolved into powerful inner work around self-worth, communication, and emotional intimacy. Katie explains how her lived experience became the foundation of her work, guided by the belief that “the hole you crawl out of becomes the medicine you serve,” and why relationships are an art that must be learned, practiced, and embodied.

Throughout the conversation, Katie unpacks how she supports women—primarily ages 25 to 65—through deep, transformational coaching focused on responsibility, self-awareness, and emotional maturity. She discusses building a sustainable coaching business, moving beyond one-on-one work into layered offerings like group programs, workshops, and courses, and staying aligned with personal values while scaling impact. This episode offers an honest look at long-term entrepreneurship, reinvention, and the courage to ask for more—in business, relationships, and life.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, Tonia Koss shares her unique founder journey—from teaching and sales to ministry, and ultimately building Preaisle, a pre-marriage coaching business designed to help engaged couples create strong, intentional foundations before they say “I do.” Drawing from over 30 years of marriage and deep experience in communication and education, Tonia explains how her “Commitment Conversations” guide couples through self-awareness, core desires, and the often-avoided topics of money, intimacy, and spirituality.

Throughout the conversation, Tonia opens up about building a values-driven, service-based business as a solopreneur, the importance of systems, and the challenges of marketing something many people don’t yet realize they need. She also discusses scaling with integrity, balancing impact with sustainability, and why holding your vision loosely allows room for growth. This episode offers thoughtful insights for founders building human-centered businesses—and for anyone who believes strong relationships are built through honest conversations, not assumptions.

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 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 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 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.