Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Nadine Zeinoun, MCC, an executive coach and emotional intelligence expert. Nadine shares her powerful journey from growing up during the Lebanese Civil War to becoming an award-winning marketer and sales leader, revealing how her early experiences with conflict shaped her mission to create harmony and understanding in the workplace. She delves into the core of her work, explaining how she helps leaders and teams move beyond their own assumptions and egos to foster environments of trust, alignment, and high performance.

Nadine provides a fascinating look into the common challenges teams face, highlighting that the biggest obstacle to flourishing is often the inability to manage diversity and accept different perspectives. She offers profound insights on navigating the human side of technological change, including the widespread fear of AI, and emphasizes the critical need for leaders to create psychological safety for their teams. This conversation is a masterclass in emotional intelligence, offering actionable wisdom for any leader looking to strengthen their team's connection and resilience.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Natalie Stavola, a multifaceted mindset and performance coach, speaker, and film producer. Natalie opens up about her unique journey from studying psychology and criminology to navigating the worlds of coaching and Hollywood. She reveals how her own experiences with burnout and personal challenges led her to a powerful methodology that helps high-achieving clients, especially men, unblock subconscious fears and limiting beliefs to manifest success in their careers and love lives within 90 days.

Natalie delves into the fascinating science behind her work, explaining how breaking bad habits over 30 days and building new neural pathways over 60 days leads to permanent transformation. She shares powerful insights on how healing core relationship wounds directly translates to career acceleration, and how "luck" is actually a replicable state of being when you are aligned and unblocked. Looking ahead, Natalie discusses her ambitions to expand her impact through public speaking, corporate boot camps, and by raising funds for her own film projects, marking her next personal frontier of betting on herself.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Taireez Niswander, the Chief AI Officer and creator of the Automation Goldmine platform. Taireez shares her incredible journey from becoming a US citizen to building an AI-driven business with a mission to empower small businesses. She opens up about her unique approach to automation, which focuses on identifying manual, repetitive tasks within specific job roles to free up time for revenue-generating work, rather than attempting to automate everything at once.

Taireez delves into the core of her business, explaining how her platform helps companies diagnose automation opportunities for a flat fee, making AI practical and accessible. She also discusses the consulting side of her work, where she helps clients implement these automations, often dealing with complex, customized solutions. Throughout the conversation, Taireez's passion for helping the "little guy" and her philosophy of trust and genuine connection in business shine through, as she outlines her goals for growth and the personal hurdles she faces with scaling and sales.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we meet Laura Besenyi, a certified holistic health coach and founder of Inner Power Health Coaching. Laura shares her fascinating journey from a career in corporate finance to her mission of empowering busy professionals and women in transition to reclaim their vitality. She reveals how the 2020 lockdowns were a catalyst, sparking her passion for a preventive, holistic approach to health that focuses on reading the body's signals before disease manifests, rather than waiting for a crisis.

Laura delves into her unique methodology, which combines deep-dive health history analysis, functional medicine principles, and the ancient practice of medical astrology as a pattern recognition system. She explains how this multi-faceted approach helps uncover the root causes of issues like gut dysfunction, metabolic problems, and unexplained chronic symptoms. Laura also outlines her vision for the future, which includes developing group programs to make her knowledge more accessible and eventually training other health practitioners in her integrative techniques to create a broader impact.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Abdo Mazloum, the founder and CEO of WebTmize. Abdo shares his journey from a computer science graduate and web developer to becoming a seasoned marketing expert and agency owner. He delves into the pivotal moments in his career, including being laid off, which ultimately pushed him to take the leap into entrepreneurship. Abdo provides an honest look at the challenges and triumphs of building his Montreal-based performance marketing agency, which now boasts a team of 30 and serves e-commerce and SaaS brands across North America.

The conversation explores WebTmize's core services, from paid search and SEO to the emerging field of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for LLMs like ChatGPT. Abdo offers invaluable advice on hiring the right people, the importance of documenting processes early, and building a company culture based on strong leadership and values. He also candidly discusses the difficulties of scaling a sales team and his focus on sustainable, organic growth through client retention and inbound marketing, providing a realistic and insightful perspective for aspiring agency founders.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we dive into the journey of Dr. Tracy King, a clinical psychologist and mindset coach. Dr. Tracy shares her non-linear path from fashion buying and corporate communications to founding her own practice, driven by a profound passion for understanding the human mind and a need for a career that fit her life. She opens up about the immense sacrifices made along the way, including funding her studies while raising a young family, and how these experiences now fuel her mission to help others.

Dr. Tracy details her holistic "Mountain Method" framework, which focuses on regulating the nervous system as the foundation for overcoming self-sabotage and limiting beliefs. She explains her ideal client is often a woman who has lost her voice amidst life's many roles, and she discusses her powerful work through both one-on-one sessions and group programs, including upcoming in-person retreats. The conversation also covers the challenges of marketing as an introverted entrepreneur, her goal to scale her impact by reaching a wider audience online, and her vision for a future where she can run her business while traveling the world.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Polly Watt, the founder of WattNext. Polly shares her journey from a long career in Learning & Development to launching a cutting-edge consultancy that uses AI to diagnose organizational health. She explains how her proprietary tool, Vivo Pulse, conducts confidential, agentic AI-powered interviews to identify alignment issues, hidden heroes, and systemic blockers within a company's structure, delivering actionable insights in just 2-3 weeks instead of the traditional 9 months.

Polly delves into the practical applications of her technology, from serving HR departments and consultants to unexpected use cases in mergers & acquisitions and exit planning. She discusses the challenges of bootstrapping a deep-tech startup, her strategy for niching down to achieve scalable growth, and her vision of building a massive dataset that could change organizational development forever, all while maintaining a deeply human-centric approach to artificial intelligence.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we meet Nick Berman, founder of Heart Lead Leadership - The Lived Experience Coach. Nick shares his journey from a successful 20-year career in design and digital recruitment to his current role as a leadership and confidence coach. He opens up about how his personal experiences, including navigating divorce and fatherhood, fueled his passion for guiding founders and executives to build emotional intelligence, navigate vulnerability, and evolve into their most authentic and effective selves.

Nick delves into his hands-on coaching methodology, which blends practical communication techniques with mindfulness and body-scanning exercises to help clients release emotional and physical tension. He explains why he prioritizes in-person connections to build his practice and how he uses platforms like LinkedIn to share his lived experience, arguing that true leadership requires letting go of past stories and operating systems to become more present and functional in both business and life.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Gem Garcia, the founder of Corporate in COLOUR Consulting. Gem shares her powerful 25-year journey through the world of talent acquisition, from the exhausting grind of agency recruiting to finding her true calling as a career coach and strategist. She opens up about the pivotal moment she decided to demand her worth, a decision that catapulted her career and solidified her mission to demystify the hiring process for everyone, especially those from underrepresented communities.

Gem passionately discusses the founding of Corporate in COLOUR Consulting, born from a desire to empower individuals by sharing the "secrets" of recruiting that are often withheld. She highlights the unique challenges faced by people of color and the importance of bringing one's whole self to their professional journey. With a deeply empathetic and holistic approach, Gem is dedicated to helping people overcome internal and external barriers, finish her book, and continue inspiring others to find success on their own terms.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we meet Holly Lasky, MA, CMP, PCC, a Master Certified Hypnotherapist and founder of AOVC Coaching. Holly shares her unique journey from a professional concert pianist and composer to a highly-specialized coach. She explains how her background in music, with its discipline and dedication to practice, provided an unexpected but perfect foundation for entrepreneurship and the deep, transformative work she does now with clients.

Holly delves into her integrative coaching methodology, which leverages over 30 different modalities to create a customized experience for each client. She explains the critical difference between the conscious and unconscious mind and why aligning both is essential for achieving lasting, sustainable results. The conversation also covers the power of group coaching, the importance of creating a safe space for vulnerability, and Holly's exciting future plans, including publishing books and hosting live events.