Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Jessie Legent, the founder of JL Coaching. Jessie shares her powerful journey from a 15-year career as a corporate trainer to becoming a coach, a transition catalyzed by the profound loss of her first pregnancy. This life-altering event forced her to reassess everything, reinforcing the belief that "tomorrow is not promised" and compelling her to finally pursue her long-held dream of coaching. She began her practice eight years ago, initially focusing on supporting grieving mothers, providing them with practical tools and hope to navigate their loss and build a new future.

Today, Jessie empowers ambitious women, entrepreneurs, and leaders to step into their highest potential by combining energy work, mindset shifts, and practical strategy. Her work is deeply intimate, focusing on helping women overcome self-imposed and culturally-ingrained limitations to give themselves permission to succeed. Looking ahead, Jessie is exploring how to integrate AI into her business to scale her impact, develop B2B offerings, and create avenues to serve her community without always being personally present, all while navigating the eternal challenge of time as a solopreneur and busy mom.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Paul Rise, a solopreneur coach who specializes in guiding mid-career professionals out of the corporate world. Paul shares his own journey of feeling unfulfilled and "stuck" in the corporate structure, leading to a failed first attempt at entrepreneurship before he finally found his path. He opens up about the unique challenges faced by professionals at this stage in life—burnt out and burdened with responsibilities—and why their transition requires a calm, confident, and planned approach rather than a dramatic, impulsive leap.

Paul delves into the core of his coaching offer, a structured 6-week program designed to be executed while clients are still employed, building a safe "runway" and exit plan. He explains his two-pillar marketing system of high-quality content and strategic outreach on LinkedIn, which he both uses and teaches. The conversation explores the scalable nature of a modern one-person business through digital products and AI-assisted coaching, offering a compelling vision for a sustainable and impactful solopreneurial career without the need for a large team.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Kirsha Campbell, the founder of The Cash Lab. Kirsha shares her journey from a corporate career to entrepreneurship, a leap she was motivated to take for greater flexibility after the birth of her twin boys. She discusses the genesis of her business, which was founded to help a diverse range of clients—from executives and franchises to solopreneurs and not-for-profits—move from financial chaos to clarity by creating sustainable cash flow and implementing strategic financial systems.

Kirsha delves into the core of her work, which varies from personalized money management and sustainable budgeting to corporate training and leveraging AI for financial efficiency. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the difference between profit and cash flow, a common point of confusion for many business leaders. Looking ahead, Kirsha outlines her vision for scaling her impact globally through a new paid podcast and group coaching programs, while also candidly discussing the challenges of finding the right team to support this growth.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Natasha Suri, the founder of Nikitasha Consultancy. Natasha shares her journey from a decade-long corporate career in marketing and branding, where a frustrating experience and a lack of support ultimately pushed her to start her own boutique agency. She discusses the initial challenges of self-doubt and the transition from a structured corporate environment to the uncertainties of entrepreneurship, a leap that has now defined her business for over three and a half years.

Natasha delves into the core of her full-service communications agency, which prioritizes a "strategy-first" approach to help brands—from startups to established companies—find their story and achieve commercial growth. She emphasizes the importance of her hands-on role, working directly with C-suite executives, and her commitment to transparency and quality by building a specialized team of experts rather than a one-size-fits-all operation. Looking ahead, Natasha outlines her vision for steady, sustainable growth and the challenges of scaling while meticulously preserving the quality of work and client relationships that have been the bedrock of her success.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Kurt Uhlir, a globally recognized operator and "King of Scaling" with experience taking companies from startups to over $500 million in revenue. Kurt shares his unconventional origin story, which began with hacking federal servers as a teenager, leading him to a path of using his skills for business growth rather than mischief. He delves into his current role as CMO of Easy Home Search, where he is part of a mission-driven team challenging real estate industry behemoths by prioritizing consumer privacy, transparent information, and the success of their local partner agents over the traditional data-selling model.

Kurt outlines the core pillars of his marketing strategy, which blend heavy organic content, selective partner fit, and a unique co-branded ecosystem that empowers agents. The conversation explores the critical leadership qualities he looks for in a company, emphasizing the need for a humble, visionary CEO who is transparent about long-term goals and open to healthy conflict. Kurt also shares his personal mission to "multiply himself" through servant leadership, both within his company and through the CEO Netweavers organization, focusing on building lives and businesses that people genuinely love.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Andy Watson, a seasoned football coach educator and the founder of the upcoming venture, Sports Smarts Education. Andy shares his extensive background of nearly 20 years in the industry, working with everyone from grassroots to elite-level coaches. He discusses the critical gaps he has observed in current coach development, where new coaches often lack the rounded skills and confidence to effectively transition between qualification levels and make a real impact on their players.

Driven by this need, Andy is building Sports Smarts Education to launch in 2026. His vision is to provide a more holistic and foundational coaching education. The business will start with government-approved multi-skills qualifications, blending online learning with essential in-person, on-the-grass training. Looking ahead, Andy plans to expand into vital supplementary areas for coaches, including communication skills, mental health support, and sports nutrition, with the ultimate goal of creating more confident, effective, and well-rounded coaches both in the UK and 

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Sam Aramando, we meet Rachel LaForce, a nationally recognized comedian and the co-founder of Skewed Orbit Studios. Rachel shares her journey, which began in 2018 after she got sober and found herself with a renewed drive to create. Together with her now-husband Alex, she pitched a podcast idea on a whim, which was immediately bought, launching them into the world of creative production. This pivotal moment revealed a clear path forward, transforming their complementary skills into a full-fledged business dedicated to helping others tell their stories.

Today, Skewed Orbit Studios has evolved into a unique service for professionals like lawyers, doctors, and real estate agents who are now called to build a personal brand online. Rachel and her team offer a powerful "creative intensive" that combines her husband's strategic "zone of genius" extraction with her intuitive coaching to help clients feel comfortable on camera. They then produce a wealth of authentic, clip-ready content for them. Looking ahead, Rachel's vision is to achieve greater consistency in their workflow and income, allowing them to build out their team and free up more time to strategically scale their impactful and unique offering.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Stefan Grant, a creative strategist and brand engineer. Stefan shares his unconventional journey into entrepreneurship, which began in high school with guerrilla marketing for parties and evolved through experiences in the music industry as a rapper and record label owner. He explains how these early ventures taught him to marry creative vision with business acumen, a skill that now forms the core of his approach to helping creators, coaches, and entrepreneurs build brands that are not only visually compelling but also drive real revenue.

Stefan delves into his philosophy of taking a client from a mere concept to a tangible, revenue-generating business, emphasizing the importance of selling a specific vision rather than just a service. He provides actionable advice for standing out in saturated markets like fitness by niching down and articulating a client's ultimate fantasy. Looking ahead, Stefan reveals a powerful mindset shift for all entrepreneurs: to view themselves as one-person media companies, building a cohesive content ecosystem to cut through the noise of AI and build genuine, trust-based relationships with their audience.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Warren Sager, a partner at Assured Strategy and a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience building and selling more than 15 e-commerce businesses. Warren shares the powerful, personal story behind his "work smarter, not harder" philosophy, which was born from the tragic loss of his father to the stress of running their family farm. He recounts his own early entrepreneurial failures, where a lack of strategy and understanding of cash flow led to his first business collapsing, teaching him the hard way that hard work alone is not enough for sustainable success.

Warren delves into the proven "Scaling Up" methodology that transformed his approach, focusing on the four key areas of strategy, execution, people, and cash. He explains how Assured Strategy offers a unique, team-based coaching model, often deploying multiple coaches to a single client for a more holistic perspective. The conversation explores their high-ticket, one-on-one engagements, their more accessible group coaching "Velocity Circles," and their ambitious company-wide BHAG to impact 100,000 lives by 2030, driving their mission to guide leaders to find their freedom through scalable, efficient business growth.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Janet Nambi, the founder of Unconscious Brilliance. Janet shares her incredible journey from co-founding and scaling a successful recruiting agency across six African countries to the brink of burnout, which ultimately led her to leave the business and rediscover her path. This personal experience with the high-stress, all-consuming nature of entrepreneurship became the foundation for her current mission: to help other founders and high-achieving leaders avoid the same pitfalls by breaking through their unconscious barriers to success.

Janet delves into her coaching methodology, which combines neuro-linguistic programming and transformational coaching techniques, including Brooke Castillo's self-coaching model. She explains how she works one-on-one with founders who have become the bottleneck in their own businesses, helping them cultivate self-awareness, implement effective systems like SOPs, and develop the leadership skills needed to step back and scale. The conversation also explores her content strategy on LinkedIn, her plans to launch a group coaching program, and her goal to build a business that provides impact without being entirely dependent on her constant