Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Tine Zekis, the founder and CEO of Getting Black Women Paid. Tine shares her powerful journey from being a high school math teacher to a software engineer, where she strategically doubled and then tripled her income. This personal success ignited her mission to empower other Black women, leading her to become an income strategist who helps them overcome imposter syndrome, claim their worth through bold negotiation, and build financially sustainable careers and businesses.

Tine delves into the core of her work, explaining how she helps clients navigate the mindset blocks and logistical challenges of increasing their income or launching a venture. She details her unique "Pocket Coaching" service and her vision for the future, which includes building a powerful community where Black women can learn, support each other, and find solidarity without having to constantly explain their unique professional experiences.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we are joined by McKenzie Reeves Decker, the founder of System and Soul. McKenzie shares her journey from leading a department within the Maxwell Leadership empire to chasing autonomy and co-founding a company that helps growing businesses scale with clarity and accountability. She delves into the core of System and Soul, a flexible operating framework designed for companies with 20+ employees who are facing the complexities of growth. McKenzie emphasizes the importance of a relational, human-centric approach to implementing structure, ensuring that a company's unique culture and soul are preserved in the process.

The conversation explores the current state and future ambitions of System and Soul, including their primary focus on serving executive teams through a network of certified business coaches and their proprietary software. McKenzie opens up about the marketing challenges of a service built on trust and relationship, outlining their shift towards founder-led, organic content. Looking ahead, she reveals ambitious goals to impact 25,000 companies by 2030 and discusses the strategic pivot to a SaaS-first model to make their framework more accessible, while also acknowledging the challenges of speed and expertise required to capitalize on these emerging opportunities.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we sit down with Fedor Levikov, the founder of Revenue Amplifier. Fedor shares his entrepreneurial journey from co-founding a pioneering neobank in Europe to his current mission of transforming B2B sales. He delves into the critical importance of having a compelling, problem-solving offer and explains how his company builds scalable outbound engines that convert cold leads into consistent revenue by leveraging the latest sales and AI technologies.

Fedor provides a masterclass in modern sales strategy, discussing why he focuses on financial services and other niches with high-value offers. He outlines his vision for evolving Revenue Amplifier into a holistic B2B marketing partner and shares his core scaling philosophy: that a robust pipeline is the ultimate solution to most early-stage business challenges. Listeners will gain invaluable insights on sales enablement, resource management, and the mindset required to build a standout agency.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we sit down with Ali Ravari, the founder of Profitsource.io Ali shares his journey from being a high-ticket setter and closer to becoming a fractional sales manager, detailing how he now helps established coaches and companies scale their revenue by building and managing their sales teams. He discusses the organic strategies he uses to find ideal clients, the challenges of replicating his leadership skills, and the strategic crossroads he faces in deciding the future growth path for his business.

Ali opens up about the importance of focusing on high-impact activities to drive growth, rather than getting lost in a sea of potential optimizations. He also offers valuable advice for new entrepreneurs, emphasizing the need to master crucial skills and to take action without waiting for the "perfect" moment, underscoring the mindset that has propelled his own entrepreneurial journey.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Sonya Mehta, the founder and CEO of Expand Your Capacity Virtual Assistant Agency. Sonya shares her inspiring journey from being a public school teacher and non-profit advocate to building a virtual assistant agency dedicated to helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs. She discusses the pivotal moment she hired her first assistant and realized the transformative power of having a true partner to help reclaim time, scale impact, and end the isolation of being a solopreneur.

Sonya delves into the unique, high-touch model of her agency, which goes beyond simple placement to include curated matching, comprehensive onboarding, and ongoing coaching for both the client and the assistant. She emphasizes the importance of building a values-driven company culture, paying team members well, and fostering long-term partnerships that allow founders to focus on their zone of genius. Sonya also shares her thoughtful approach to steady, aligned growth and her vision for the future, including creating educational content to help even more entrepreneurs expand their capacity.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we dive into the entrepreneurial journey of Saumil Shah, Director of Marketing and Strategy at GrowthHive Australia. Saumil shares his unique path from mechanical engineering to becoming a strategic marketing leader, revealing how his curiosity about Google's algorithms sparked a self-taught career in digital marketing. He details the genesis of GrowthHive, a business born from identifying a gap in the franchise market. Saumil explains how his company acts as a "matchmaker," using a unique blend of intent-led marketing, deep consultation, and relationship-building to connect the right people with the right franchise opportunities, focusing on emotional alignment and long-term fit over just the numbers.

Saumil provides a masterclass in modern marketing strategies, particularly on navigating the evolving landscape of Meta ads. He shares actionable tips, including testing Meta's consolidated campaign approach that uses multiple ad types in a single ad set and leveraging broad audience targeting over detailed traits. Looking ahead, he discusses GrowthHive's successful formula of combining technology with a high-touch, consultative model and unveils ambitious plans for international expansion into high-volume Asian markets, aiming to bring their systematic and authentic approach to a global stage.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we are joined by Kayvon Kay, the founder of The Sales Connection. Kayvon takes us back to the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey, sharing a pivotal moment of being $150,000 in debt and days from bankruptcy. This crisis led him to pivot from marketing to sales, where he discovered his true calling and eventually built a business that has generated over $375 million in sales.

Kayvon delves into the core philosophy of his work, which is about creating alignment and a solid foundation within a business before scaling. He emphasizes that success isn't just about revenue but about building a responsible and sustainable company infrastructure. He shares powerful advice for entrepreneurs on the importance of working smart, hiring experts better than yourself, and removing self-imposed limitations to achieve what you truly desire.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Nicki Hambleton, a visual thinking strategist and founder of NiH Consultancy. Nicki shares her journey from a graphic designer and art teacher to an entrepreneur dedicated to solving a universal problem: cognitive overload and miscommunication in teams and organizations. She discusses how her unique tools and methods, like sketchnoting and MapChat, make thinking visible, helping leaders and teams think clearly, connect authentically, and collaborate more creatively.

Nicki delves into the profound impact of visual thinking on inclusion, especially for neurodiverse individuals, and her mission to balance the rise of AI with essential human cognitive skills. She passionately explains her "classroom to boardroom" approach, aiming to instill these valuable techniques in children while also helping business leaders foster environments where every voice is heard and complex challenges are untangled.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we are joined by Hilary Porta, The Life Architect. Hilary opens up about her profound personal journey, from a high-conflict divorce that forced her to rebuild her life from scratch to near-death experiences that reshaped her perspective. She explains how these "forged in fire" moments became the foundation for her mission: to help high achievers, from celebrities to entrepreneurs, reprogram their subconscious beliefs and step into their true identity. Hilary delves into the intersection of neuroscience and strategy that defines her work, emphasizing the importance of designing a life of alignment and intention over one of mere grind.

Hilary discusses the evolution of her businesses—Equip2Elevate, Inc., H Porta et al. Coaching & Consulting, and R3 International, Inc.—and her philosophy of "closing the gap" between who her clients are and where they want to be. She shares why she believes success is deeply personal and warns against the comparison trap fueled by social media. Looking ahead, Hilary reveals her exciting plans to make her transformative teachings more accessible through digital products and a supportive community platform, moving beyond exclusive one-on-one coaching to empower millions to architect a life they love.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we meet Gaby Kowalski, a quantum coach and founder of The New Earth Mission Collective. Gaby shares her incredible journey from creating puppet shows for children with cancer to mastering high-stakes sales and finance, all while undergoing a profound personal transformation after a car accident led her to study quantum physics and consciousness reprogramming. She explains how she now fuses these worlds, empowering visionary leaders and "mission souls" to build heart-centered enterprises by aligning with their purpose, using what she calls the "light side" of sales and marketing, and working multidimensionally to create abundance and positive impact.

Gaby delves into the core of her work, which involves teaching clients to reprogram their subconscious, activate their authentic voice, and build "mission enterprises" that contribute to a new paradigm of business. She discusses her ambitious future goals, which include expanding her non-profit, Magic School for Kids, to instill leadership and consciousness in the next generation, and leading grid-work quests to sacred sites around the world to help reactivate the planet's original, abundant blueprint. This conversation is a deep dive into the intersection of business mastery, quantum principles, and global transformation.