Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Ammar Elm, we sit down with Michelle Garrett, the founder of Garrett Public Relations. Michelle shares her journey from working in various PR roles to launching her own successful boutique consultancy in 1999, inspired by her self-employed parents. She delves into the core of her business, explaining how she helps B2B manufacturing and tech clients with media relations and content strategy, and why she prioritizes authentic, self-written content over AI-generated material.

Michelle offers invaluable advice for new consultants, emphasizing the importance of financial preparation, being discerning about client fit, and the necessity of asking the right questions upfront. She also discusses her marketing strategies, which include leveraging LinkedIn, writing a book, and creating authentic video content, while sharing her thoughts on the tools that have been game-changers for her business and her vision for the future.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we are joined by Jennifer Day, the founder of APPLIED EMOTIONAL MASTERY LIMITED. Jennifer takes us on her remarkable journey from a career in the high-drama world of show business to becoming an expert in practical emotional intelligence. After a personal and professional collapse led her to study psychology and meditation, she dedicated nine years to developing a non-academic, application-focused methodology. She explains that the key differentiator of her work is the "applied" element—providing leaders, parents, and entrepreneurs with tangible tools to manage their emotions and reactions in high-stress, real-world situations, from the boardroom to the breakfast table.

Jennifer delves into the core of her business, which focuses on working with individuals who influence others, such as corporate leaders and founders. She shares her unique approach to helping clients bridge the gap between their intentions and their impact, ensuring their authenticity lands as intended. We also get a glimpse into the future of APPLIED EMOTIONAL MASTERY LIMITED, including a new online program for women in leadership and a sophisticated corporate offering that involves in-depth participatory research to diagnose and transform team dynamics and company culture from the inside out.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we sit down with Emily Lewis, a certified personal trainer and holistic gut practitioner. Emily shares her inspiring journey from a grad student struggling with body image to the founder of her own coaching business. She delves into how a personal experience with a coach ignited her passion for helping women achieve health through personalized fitness, macronutrient guidance, and gut health optimization, ultimately leading her to quit her corporate job and become a full-time entrepreneur.

Emily provides a detailed look into her highly personalized coaching system, which includes tailored workout programming, educational courses, and hands-on support via an app and direct communication. She discusses how she attracts clients primarily through authentic, educational content on Instagram, the importance of transparent client relationships, and her future goals to increase her impact by partnering with corporations, hosting workshops, and even opening a physical gym.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we meet Nata Salvatori, the founder of Accidental CEO. Nata shares her unexpected journey from a doctorate-level career in physical therapy to becoming a serial entrepreneur with six businesses. She delves into the pivotal moment of questioning her career path and taking the leap into entrepreneurship, driven by a desire for mental challenge and flexibility, despite having no entrepreneurial background.

Nata details her current mission: helping high-performing, overachiever founders transition from being overwhelmed operators to confident CEOs. She explains her tailored, one-on-one coaching approach that combines crucial mindset shifts with actionable strategy, enabling business owners to delegate effectively, scale sustainably, and lead with clarity without sacrificing their sanity. The conversation also covers her diverse marketing strategies and her future goals for launching courses while maintaining her high-touch, impactful coaching model.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we are joined by Bob Molle—Olympic silver medalist, two-time Grey Cup champion, and renowned business coach. Bob delves into the philosophy behind his book, GCBU (Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable), " tracing its origins from a lesson by an Eastern philosophy mentor to its application in his athletic and business careers. He shares powerful anecdotes from wrestling behind the Iron Curtain, winning with a "top three moves" strategy, and turning around a university wrestling team, all to illustrate the core principles of resilience, strategic focus, and the critical importance of putting the right people in the right positions for success.

Bob translates these battle-tested strategies into his current work as a consultant, specializing in facilitating smooth leadership transitions in family-owned businesses. He emphasizes that his success is built on a non-negotiable foundation of three core values: radical honesty, prioritizing relationships over profits, and ensuring everyone wins. For any entrepreneur, Bob's stories provide a masterclass in building trust, managing dynamics, and creating sustained success by getting the foundational "setup" right.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we meet Neda Želeva, a business mentor and the creator behind Infinitude Space Ltd. Neda shares her decade-long journey from freelancing on international projects to discovering her passion for helping experts—particularly women coaches, consultants, and therapists—build authentic personal brands. She discusses the pivotal moments that shaped her mission: moving to a new country, mastering community-driven sales, and realizing the power of combining deep coaching models with AI to give her clients unparalleled clarity and confidence.

Neda delves into her current 3-month mentorship program, a unique double-layered approach that guides clients through 10 modules covering brand identity, target audience, offer creation, and content strategy, all while integrating ChatGPT for prompt engineering and streamlined execution. She outlines her vision for the future, which involves taking her innovative program to the global market, with a focus on the UK and Europe, and her belief that the key to scaling lies in strategic marketing investment to reach the right audience.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we meet Sarah Saputra, the innovative founder behind ORIAI. Sarah shares her powerful journey from a health scare and burnout while running her e-commerce jewelry brand, Bell Fever, to discovering the critical need for automated systems. This experience, combined with her work as a business coach, revealed a common pain point among founders: chaos and decision fatigue. She founded ORIAI to bridge this gap, creating a "Founder's Cookbook" of workflows and using custom AI agents to help entrepreneurs systemize their businesses, automate complex tasks, and reclaim their freedom.

Sarah delves into the core of ORIAI, explaining her unique 5-day "brand sprints" where she builds an entire marketing funnel for a selected business using her AI team, while others can shadow the process. She emphasizes that the key to scaling isn't hopping on every new tool, but first establishing solid, repeatable workflows for your business. The conversation covers her goals to help a thousand businesses escape burnout, the challenges of cutting through the noise in the AI space, and the crucial advice she'd give her past self: "Don't build alone," and to build systems that allow you to step into leadership sooner.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with David Angel, the founder of Tusta, The Ultimate Sales Training Academy. David takes us on a raw journey from his early career as a chef to a personal and professional breakdown, and how a single opportunity to help a friend's business sparked the creation of his UK-based company. He shares the profound mission behind Tusta: to empower service-based business owners and founders to refine their sales processes, train their teams, and achieve rapid, sustainable growth without burnout.

David delves into the core of his "Conversations to Clients" program, explaining his unique methodology that combines building the business "vehicle" (systems and automations) with training the "driver" (mindset, skill set, and habits). He emphasizes the importance of fast-acting results to rebuild client confidence and his philosophy of providing direct, one-to-one access to ensure lasting impact. The conversation also explores David's intentional approach to scaling, prioritizing a fulfilling lifestyle and deep client relationships over massive, impersonal growth, offering a refreshing perspective on building a business that serves your life, not the other way around.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Alicia Dee, the founder of ThriveWorthy. Alicia shares her powerful journey of leaving a 25-year corporate career in HR, where she reached the pinnacle role of CHRO, only to find herself feeling misaligned, stressed, and unable to show up as the person she wanted to be. She explains how this personal "mess became her message," leading her to create a coaching and consulting company dedicated to helping experienced professionals and executives escape that same feeling of being stuck.

Alicia delves into the two sides of her business: holistic career coaching for individuals seeking a meaningful path aligned with their authentic selves, and executive coaching for leaders and teams. She discusses the importance of mindset work, rewiring limiting beliefs, and fostering a deep sense of "deservingness" to thrive. Alicia also shares her scaling plans, including digitizing her content into an on-demand course and launching a podcast to reach more people with her vital message that everyone is worthy of a career and life they love.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Ammar Elm, we sit down with Katie Hayes, the founder of Coaching by Katie. Katie shares her inspiring journey from a 15-year career in the male-dominated venture capital industry to pursuing her passion for helping women over 40. She discusses the pivotal moment she realized she lacked passion for her corporate path and decided to leverage her own health transformation to create a business that empowers women to reclaim their bodies, confidence, and energy through sustainable habits, fat loss, and mindset coaching.

Katie delves into the specifics of her signature 16-week program, "Fierce and Fabulous," which is built on a personalized, four-step framework focusing on bespoke planning, foundational strength training and nutrition, true transformation, and locking in a new sustainable identity. She opens up about the limiting beliefs and self-doubt she had to overcome during her entrepreneurial transition and outlines her vision for the future, which includes creating a broader community platform, writing a book, and developing a corporate offering to make her message of powerful aging accessible to more women.