Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, host Milan Kohut sits down with Chantal Landreville, a certified relationship and communication coach and the founder of Raise Your Love Signal. Chantal shares her unconventional journey from a 20-year career as an export director in the global wine industry, where she honed her skills in listening and cross-cultural communication, to founding a heart-centered coaching business. She reveals the pivotal realization that her natural ability to connect and ask profound questions was the foundation for her true calling: helping people build healthy, lasting relationships.

Chantal delves into the core of her work, explaining how she helps her clients—primarily women over 40 seeking life partners—move beyond surface-level desires to uncover deep-seated blockages, inherited family dynamics, and self-worth issues. She discusses her multi-faceted approach, which includes both intimate one-on-one coaching and transformative group programs, and opens up about the authentic challenges of entrepreneurship, from the pitfalls of rapid scaling and hiring the wrong help to the importance of honoring her own truth and intuition while navigating the pressures of the online business world.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we are joined by Jeba Nesa, the dynamic founder behind Beast Mode Media. Jeba shares her unconventional journey from a background in forensic science and a full-time role in the NHS to becoming a leading UGC (User-Generated Content) creator and mentor. She reveals how the lockdown period became a catalyst for her business, pushing her to take her content creation hobby seriously, which quickly evolved from filming at local events to building a thriving career in the fast-growing UGC space.

Jeba delves into the core of her work, explaining how she creates authentic UGC for brands while also mentoring new creators through an agency partnership. She discusses the upcoming launch of her "Beast Mode Academy," a creator's college designed to teach UGC fundamentals, from finding your unique selling point to navigating the business and financial aspects of being a creator. Jeba also opens up about the challenges of balancing a 9-to-5 job with her entrepreneurial ambitions and her philosophy of embracing new trends, like the current UGC boom, and running with them to build momentum and success.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Justin Jones, the founder and CEO of SONIQCX, an innovative outsourced customer experience company. Justin shares his extensive background in call centers, from starting as a frontline agent to managing massive BPO operations, and reveals the pivotal moment that led him to launch his own venture. He explains how the industry's broken focus on efficiency and activity-based KPIs, rather than meaningful outcomes, inspired him to build a company with a radical mission: to prove that customer service is not a cost center, but a massive, untapped revenue generator.

Justin delves into the unique model of SONIQCX, which ties its success directly to client outcomes through a revolutionary billing structure, moving beyond the traditional "pay-per-hour" approach. He shares the incredible results of this philosophy, including agents earning over $150,000 annually and the company hitting $1 million in ARR within its first 90 days, all driven by a powerful, authentic presence on LinkedIn. Looking ahead, Justin outlines his ambitious goal to become an industry "wrecking ball," forcing a fundamental rethink of customer service's role in business growth and challenging the giants of the BPO world.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Hudson Wikoff, the founder of Elite Team AI. Hudson shares his incredible journey from a college athlete and corporate safety manager at DuPont to a successful fitness and nutrition coach, detailing the pivotal moments and calculated risks that led him to his true calling. After a decade and a half in health and fitness, he realized that to achieve massive impact, he needed to scale his knowledge, which led him to dedicate a full year to mastering AI and automation, ultimately founding Elite Team AI to package his expertise for other business owners.

Hudson delves into how Elite Team AI creates custom, secure automation platforms that solve critical business problems like system fragmentation and intellectual property protection. He provides powerful examples, such as AI voice agents for sales training that provide personalized coaching and detailed performance dashboards for managers, saving immense amounts of time. Looking ahead, Hudson's mission is to empower as many businesses as possible by teaching them to effectively combine AI, automation, and systems, helping them scale their operations, reclaim their time, and build towards a future where their own businesses become valuable, sellable assets.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we sit down with Hana Omori, the founder of AI Marketing Flow. Hana shares her incredible journey from being a technical SEO expert to an innovator in the cybersecurity space. The pivot was driven by a personal crisis when she became the target of sophisticated Russian hackers, forcing her to apply her deep understanding of algorithms and AI not for marketing, but for digital defense. She explains how this experience transformed her into a "digital fire inspector," using her unique skills to build creative and unconventional security solutions designed to make individuals and businesses "uncrawlable" to AI-powered threats.

Hana delves into the fascinating projects born from this necessity, including an encryption model that uses ambient electromagnetic fields (EMF) to create a unique security key based on a user's location. She emphasizes that in the age of AI, hacking has become scalable and democratized, moving beyond large "whale" targets to put everyone with a digital presence at risk. Looking forward, Hana discusses her mission to empower entrepreneurs and everyday users with accessible security tools, her open-source approach to spreading protection, and why thinking creatively and "being weird" is the ultimate defense against automated attacks.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we are joined by Ryan Sprague, the founder of Highly Optimized. Ryan shares his unconventional journey from working in the cannabis industry to becoming a mindset and performance coach after a profound "kundalini awakening" at a Las Vegas convention. He explains how this experience revealed his unconscious limiting beliefs and led him to leverage cannabis as a conscious tool for personal transformation, ultimately inspiring him to create a platform dedicated to helping people optimize their health, mindset, and relationships from the inside out.

Ryan delves into his unique coaching methodology, which combines breathwork, narrative trauma work, and the intentional use of cannabis to help two primary client archetypes: the spiritual seeker struggling with dependency and the high-powered CEO seeking balance and purpose. He also details his innovative "decentralized node network" marketing strategy, which relies on podcast appearances, joint ventures, and gifting his home-cultivated cannabis to build powerful relationships, bypassing the restrictions of traditional social media. Looking ahead, Ryan discusses his vision to expand this collaborative network and his goal of appearing on major platforms like the Joe Rogan Experience to further scale his mission.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we are joined by Sadequl Hussain, the founder of ProData Skills. Sadequl shares his unique journey from being an IT professional and trainer to accidentally stumbling into entrepreneurship through a hobby of technical writing. He recounts how his first blog sale for $20 ignited a passion, leading him to build a global technical content marketing agency that now serves clients worldwide. He opens up about the challenges of scaling, the heartbreaks and joys of entrepreneurship, and the pivotal lesson of building a solid "supply chain" of passionate, skilled authors before aggressively pursuing clients.

Sadequl delves into the core of his B2B business, explaining how ProData Skills operates as a white-label agency that bridges the critical gap between marketing and IT for technology companies. He details their meticulous, multi-stage process for creating high-impact content like whitepapers, case studies, and sales collaterals that empower their clients' sales teams. The conversation also explores his strategic approach to lead generation, his perspective on why paid ads are less effective in his high-trust, relationship-driven niche, and his ambitious plans to optimize sales operations and expand into new service areas like marketing technology implementation in the year ahead.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Dana Foster, the founder of Network Mama. Dana shares her unique journey from a high-stakes career as an ICU pharmacist to building a supportive community for mothers in online business. The pivotal shift came after the birth of her two children, which prompted a complete identity and career change. She discovered a need for a more feminine, connection-based approach to sales, drawing a direct parallel between convincing surgeons on medication and the relational trust required to market authentically online. This led her to create Network Mama, a space for moms to navigate the isolation of entrepreneurship and motherhood.

Dana delves into her mission of supporting her "ideal community members"—mothers who are the sole providers for their young families and seek to build a passionate, profitable online business without the "hustle and grind" culture. She explains how her 16-week program combines modules, group calls, and one-on-one coaching to instill confidence and teach attraction marketing. Looking ahead, Dana's vision is to expand the community through in-person retreats and masterminds, fostering the deep, real-world connections that she believes are essential for a mom's success and well-being in the digital business space.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Michal Kankowski, the founder of Kickstart Side Hustle. Michal shares his journey from moving to the UK with entrepreneurial dreams to building a unique platform dedicated to deconstructing viral marketing campaigns. He discusses how his initial curiosity about the psychology behind why things go viral evolved into a comprehensive library of case studies and marketing principles, helping other creators and founders validate their ideas and build sustainable businesses.

Michal opens up about the realities of being a founder, from the initial self-doubt that led to undercharging for his service to the challenges of balancing product development, marketing, and technical issues. He provides a candid look at the "spiritual journey" of entrepreneurship, including the highs of rapid growth and the lessons learned from burnout. The conversation also delves into his future plans for scaling the platform and his fascinating analysis of how pure psychology, rather than big marketing budgets, can propel a business to millions of users and a successful acquisition.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Paul Finck, the Maverick Millionaire. Paul takes us on a profound journey from his beginnings in clinical psychology to becoming a serial entrepreneur driven by the need to support his family of eight, which included three sets of twins. He shares the pivotal moment he realized the critical difference between possessing knowledge and applying it—a distinction that launched his 20-plus year career in coaching entrepreneurs to bridge that gap and create extraordinary wealth and fulfillment.

Paul opens up about the philosophy behind the Maverick Universe, emphasizing that true success is about building a life on your own terms, not just accumulating money. He provides a masterclass in scaling a business, stressing the importance of being omnipresent through books, live events, social media, and a strong team. In a deeply personal turn, Paul reveals how the recent passing of his wife has re-energized his mission to build a lasting legacy and inspire others to live with no regrets, sharing powerful advice on taking bigger risks, asking for help, and playing a bigger game in business and life.