In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Monika Sundem to explore how Adventure Life has built a reputation for journeys that go beyond sightseeing—offering connection, transformation, and purpose. From navigating the unpredictable waters of Antarctica to witnessing the wildlife of the Galapagos, Monika shares the magic of destinations that change travelers forever. She also reveals how her team survived the near-collapse of the travel industry during COVID, staying transparent with customers while holding onto integrity and trust.

Key Discussion Points:
Monika describes the awe of walking among curious wildlife in the Galapagos and the vast, untouched beauty of Antarctica’s big skies. She explains why Adventure Life travelers aren’t just tourists—they’re adventurers seeking movement, flexibility, and meaning in their journeys. The conversation dives into emotional stories, from a widow retracing the Antarctic crash site where her family died, to a cancer patient finding renewed purpose by traveling across South America. Monika also shares her perspective on the impact of social media on tourism, the future possibilities of space travel, and how transparency and integrity helped Adventure Life rebuild post-pandemic.

Takeaways:
Listeners will learn why travel can be deeply personal and even healing, why adaptability matters more than itineraries, and how responsible tourism can benefit local communities instead of harming them. Monika also highlights why integrity in business—especially during crises—is what builds long-term trust with customers and staff. Her stories remind us that travel is not just about seeing new places, but about making connections, experiencing humility, and finding meaning.

Closing Thoughts:
Travel can be life-changing—whether it’s honoring loved ones, exploring the farthest corners of the earth, or finding happiness in unexpected places. For Monika Sundem, leading Adventure Life isn’t just about booking trips; it’s about creating experiences that last a lifetime.

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In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Jonathan Kaufman Iger to uncover how Sage has thrived for more than a century in one of the most competitive real estate markets in the world. Jonathan shares the company’s journey from its founding in 1924 by his great-grandfather to becoming a multigenerational force in NYC real estate, and how Sage is redefining office buildings through innovation, hospitality, and experience.

Key Discussion Points:
Jonathan explains why 90% of companies fail before 10 years—and how Sage has lasted over 100. He details how the company has pivoted across real estate asset classes to anticipate cultural and economic shifts, from post-WWII workforce growth to today’s hybrid-work era. He also shares how Sage builds loyalty not with flashy amenities but through hospitality-driven experiences, like branded umbrella programs and concierge services, setting a new standard for office life.

Takeaways:
Listeners will learn why the New York office market isn’t “dead” but transforming, how experience has become the new currency of commercial real estate, and why Sage’s long-term success is rooted in generational vision rather than short-term exits. Jonathan also highlights how blending hospitality into real estate isn’t just survival—it’s the blueprint for the next century of urban life.

Closing Thoughts:
Sage’s 101-year legacy proves that lasting businesses aren’t built on short-term hype—they’re built on adaptability, vision, and a relentless focus on customer experience. Jonathan Kaufman Iger’s story is both a history lesson and a roadmap for building companies that stand the test of time.

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In this episode of Founder’s Story, Ben Glinsky uncovers the truth about the supplement industry — an opaque $150 billion market where overpriced products and shady “proprietary blends” have become the norm. Ben shares how LiveGood is flipping the script by making premium-quality, fully transparent supplements available at a fraction of the cost, creating a model that already attracted millions of customers in record time.

Key Discussion Points:
Ben exposes the industry’s “dirty secret”: most supplements hide actual ingredient dosages behind proprietary blends, while marking up products 5–10x their cost. He explains why consumers have been conditioned to associate high price with high quality — and how LiveGood is breaking that illusion by offering USDA-certified organic products with published lab tests at near-cost pricing. Daniel and Ben also dive into the company’s unique membership-driven, affiliate-fueled growth model, the power of transparency in building consumer trust, and why adapting to AI-driven commerce is key to staying ahead in health and wellness.

Takeaways:
Listeners will learn how to spot misleading supplement labels, why the average consumer quits after 3 months due to pricing, and how LiveGood’s Costco-style membership model makes health sustainable and affordable. Ben shares personal insights on walking away from the industry when it felt ethically broken, only to return with a mission-driven approach that’s reshaping consumer expectations. His story is a reminder that passion and purpose — not just profit — fuel enduring business growth.

Closing Thoughts:
The supplement industry isn’t just about wellness products — it’s about trust, transparency, and accessibility. With LiveGood, Ben Glinsky is proving that entrepreneurs can scale a global company while putting consumers first.

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In this episode of Founder’s Story, Ken Boyce to discussed why CyberGlobal USA is tackling one of the fastest-growing threats of our time—cybersecurity for small businesses. With the global cybersecurity market projected to hit $500 billion by 2030, Ken explains how his company is bringing enterprise-level protection to the 33 million small businesses that remain largely unprotected.

Key Discussion Points:
Ken reveals how AI has transformed cybercrime from a “fishing pole” to a “fishing net” game, making it possible for hackers to cheaply target even the smallest companies. He compares the fight against cybercrime to cops and robbers—hackers trying to break in, cybersecurity firms racing to block them. He also explains why most small businesses can’t afford the same protections as Fortune 500 firms, and how CyberGlobal’s franchise model changes the game by making cybersecurity scalable and affordable.

Takeaways:
Listeners will learn why 60% of small businesses shut down after a major cyberattack, why prevention is far cheaper than reacting after the fact, and how AI is both the biggest weapon for hackers and the strongest defense for security firms. Ken also shares his vision for franchising as a distribution model, creating “trust networks” across the U.S. that put cybersecurity within reach for millions of vulnerable companies.

Closing Thoughts:
Cybersecurity isn’t just about Fortune 500 firms anymore—it’s about protecting the backbone of the economy: small businesses. Ken Boyce’s mission at CyberGlobal USA is clear—helping entrepreneurs survive in an era where AI-driven hackers never sleep.

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Prepare for a paradigm shift! Chad unpacks why you can't earn your way to financial freedom – you have to invest your way there. This isn't just about money; it's about building a 'Fully Invested' life where you win in business and at home.

In this deep dive, you'll discover:

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In this episode of Founder’s Story, Alejandro Cuauhtemoc-Mejia joins to discuss how Silicon Valley Certification Hub (SVCH) is bringing standards and trust to AI adoption worldwide. From his perspective inside Silicon Valley, Alejandro reveals why executives—not technology—are the primary reason AI fails within organizations, and why SVCH’s certification is becoming the gold standard for responsible, strategic AI use.

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Pavitra describes commuting from New Jersey to New York before remote work existed, holding client meetings while deciding whether to miss a school play, and starting her first company in 2008 when Wall Street was on fire. She didn’t set out to be a CEO; clients from a collapsing firm pulled her into entrepreneurship, and a former CFO wrote the first check. Years later, COVID grounded her flights and exposed how fragile main street really was. A talk with her hairdresser—a friend and mother in her son’s circle—revealed the gap: local merchants were juggling siloed tools while big-box stores thrived on integrated tech. DealMagik was her answer: unify the messy stack and give mom-and-pop shops enterprise-grade capabilities without enterprise-grade pain.

Key Discussion:
Pavitra reframes “mom-guilt” as an incomplete story: presence matters, but so does modeling problem-solving at home. Her son, now a PhD student, grew up in the spillover of dinner-table debriefs about customers, product choices, and resilience; that, she says, was its own kind of presence. She walks through the real leap from employee to owner: writing every check yourself, discovering that scaling requires constant storytelling and sales, and learning that credibility in SMB land is won delivery by delivery, not pitch by pitch. As an immigrant founder, English wasn’t her first language, and she names the cultural and linguistic adjustments that fed years of self-doubt. The antidote was curiosity—the habit of asking how trades settle on Wall Street and, later, how salons, florists, and restaurants actually run their days. Curiosity led to competence; competence quieted the doubt. On AI, she’s optimistic: technology will change jobs, shorten the week, and rewire work, but it will also open new doors if we choose to walk through them. For founders considering a leap, she offers a grounded rule: get to the basics of the problem, solve it in small circles, and let trust compound.

Takeaways:
Ambition and family aren’t opposites when you bring your learning home. The difference between corporate and founder life is owning every line item and every outcome. Local business tech doesn’t fail for lack of tools; it fails for lack of integration and trust. Curiosity is a founder’s renewable energy; self-doubt loses to evidence. The future of work will be different not just in tools but in tempo—and platforms like DealMagik show how that future can reach the corner shop as surely as the Fortune 500.

Closing Thoughts:
Pavitra’s story isn’t a victory lap; it’s a field manual. She built through crisis twice, turned guilt into grit, and is now arming small businesses with the rails they lacked when the world shut down. If you want to see what practical optimism looks like, watch where DealMagik shows up next—and who it keeps in business.

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As an NYU student, Anthony mined ETH until the dorms “asked him not to come back,” collected early NFTs, and—after a lucky GameStop options win—bought a $95K Banksy print with two friends for one reason: to burn it and sell the moment as an NFT. The plan was part dare, part experiment, not a get-rich scheme. What followed was a week of whiplash: Vice photos, Forbes first coverage, BBC calling for comment and publishing a slam thirty minutes later, a Toyota Camry breakdown on the Van Wyck with a Banksy in hand, and a final sale near $400K. The hate was real; the lesson was bigger. Being anonymous forced him to let action speak, and the public’s confusion exposed a harder truth: crypto, as used by normal people, was unusable. That’s the seed of Xion—make crypto disappear behind experiences people already understand.

Key Discussion Points:
Anthony unpacks how the Banksy burn wasn’t destruction but translation: moving value from paper to a new medium and testing whether culture would accept it. Half the crowd called it idiotic; the other half called it genius—and he admits he didn’t know which it would be. The post-burn months became a proof loop: dozens of Clubhouse NFT launches, a window into how attention compounds when the product is simple and the story is clear. He contrasts that with today’s Web3 friction—seed phrases, bridges, gas, Metamask—and makes the case that Xion exists to remove all that: walletless by default, mobile first, sign-in with familiar IDs, and rails that let products ship without forcing users to learn crypto. We drift into the value of anonymity as an innovation unlock—embarrassment becomes cheaper, experiments get bolder—and the double edge of social media, the most potent dopamine machine in history and the new gatekeeper of distribution. On AI, he’s pragmatic: it’s a calculator for creativity—an amplifier, not a replacement—shrinking the menial so people can actually say something. He loves the mischief brand of guerrilla making and hints that once the platform is ready, the provocations will return—this time at scale, powered by Xion.

Takeaways:
Attention is today’s currency, but utility is tomorrow’s moat. The Banksy burn proved that narrative can vault a new medium into relevance; the years after proved that unless crypto feels like nothing—no wallets, no jargon, no hurdles—most people will never cross over. Xion is built around that thesis: hide the chain, surface the value, meet users where they already live (their phone and their existing login), and let developers build products people touch without noticing the rails. Anonymity can catalyze audacity; simplicity sustains it.

Closing Thoughts:
Anthony’s arc reads like a thesis: provoke to reveal the seams, then engineer them away. If Guernica turned pain into picture, Burnt Banksy turned a picture into protocol—and Xion is the rails that make the protocol disappear. If you see him at Korea Blockchain Week, ask about the next stunt; odds are, the art will be the interface and the chain will be invisible.

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We begin with the question people rarely ask an artist directly: what does an artist’s life actually look like? Charles Edelman answers with a life-in-stories—New York studios, MoMA walkabouts, and a candid aside that meeting Andy Warhol was “boring.” He frames his practice at Charles Edelman Masterpieces as a “mental gym,” a place where discipline, curiosity, and play keep boredom at bay and skill compounding. His book Crashing Waves of Passions threads through the conversation: Van Gogh’s legend (including “the ear”), Susan Valadon’s overlooked power beside Toulouse-Lautrec, and a time-travel tableau that situates these spirits in modern rooms to explain the disabilities they navigated and the work they made. He rejects the doom story that artists only matter after death—he’s lived well, taught at Dartmouth, trained in a gifted program at Yale, and painted twelve-hour summer days by choice. The episode pivots to purpose: inspired by Picasso’s Guernica, he’s raising support for a ten-by-thirty-foot mural that does the opposite—an explosion of joy, love, and light—arguing that beauty can heal as forcefully as outrage can indict.

Key Discussion Points:
Charles traces how early memories of light became a lifelong motif, and how quiet places—Belize jungles, Cusco skies, Cozumel shores—strip away noise until people find themselves. He argues that creativity is teachable; a seventy-something student gave up golf because making art felt truer. Corporate teams, too, can be rewired: give them constraints, history in forty-five minutes, and a playful brief, and they’ll surprise themselves—just like his billionaire students tasked with designing family-friendly paintings for a Central Park restaurant. He tells a lineage story through Marcel, the eighty-three-year-old master printer for Picasso and Dalí, who looked at Charles’s work and said, “He would love it.” There are gallery-wall brags and grounded details—charity projects, low pricing for collectors who return for ten to fifteen pieces, a recent New York Weekly profile—and there’s a standing invitation: he believes one painting can change how we see, maybe even lift a tragedy’s weight.

Takeaways:
Art isn’t mysticism; it’s method. Show up early, work long, keep it fun, and your eye will catch more light. The myths about artists suffering to matter are lazy; a sustainable life is possible with craft, community, and a clear offer. Inspiration multiplies in silence; go somewhere quiet and your hand gets honest. Great teaching unlocks dormant makers—whether they’re executives, students, or “not creative” friends. And if Guernica proved painting can channel horror, a monumental counter-image of joy can be just as world-shaping.

Closing Thoughts:
Charles Edelman’s stories make the studio feel less like a pedestal and more like a train you can board. If you want on, start with one page, one sketch, one hour—then repeat. To see the work, commission, or study, visit CharlesEdelmanMasterpieces.com or find Crashing Waves of Passions on Amazon.

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We open with the question everyone secretly asks: can a life really change that much? Dr. Stoyana Natseva answers with names and outcomes, not platitudes. Through Happy Life Academy, she’s watched Tatiana Markova move multiple sclerosis into remission, rebuild family bonds, and buy her first home, and Tsetsa Dimitrova outlive a one-month cancer prognosis to become a holistic therapist who now mentors others. Those stories anchor her thesis: when mind, emotion, and habit align, health and circumstance can follow. She dismantles the “I’ll be happy when…” script—more money, more success, more love—and insists that happiness isn’t deferred; it’s practiced now. Social comparison and cultural conditioning (the “matrix,” as she calls it) train us to chase what’s missing; her work re-trains attention toward gratitude, abundance, and authorship. The entrepreneur in her is direct: treat happiness as a skill. Start with awareness and acceptance, then do the reps daily—writing, meditation, loving action, community.

Key Discussion Points:
The conversation stays close to the real lives behind her frameworks. We explore how labels like “I’m damaged” become convenient autopilots—and how observing thoughts proves we aren’t our thoughts. Dr. Natseva maps the unlearning arc she teaches: notice honestly without shame, choose a creator identity over a victim identity, and rehearse new beliefs through practices that involve mind, feelings, and body. Gratitude is central but not a slogan; it is specific, sensory, and active—thanking the sun, the meal, the breath, the lesson inside the setback—until the nervous system recognizes abundance as home base. She challenges the hidden cost of an unhappy life: illness in the body, erosion of self-worth, fractured families, and years quietly stolen. Even simple physiology supports the shift—a genuine smile feeds back to the brain, making anger hard to sustain. When listeners ask how to begin, she keeps it simple: write what’s true, name three real gratitudes, sit in stillness for a few minutes, and repeat. The point isn’t perfection; it’s momentum.

Takeaways:
Happiness is not an outcome to acquire later but a discipline to practice today. By choosing the stance of creator—“I am not a victim of circumstances”—and pairing it with small, repeated actions, the story changes from the inside out. Gratitude reframes trauma as curriculum, not identity; attention placed on emptiness multiplies emptiness, while attention placed on abundance multiplies abundance. Community accelerates change because it interrupts isolation and offers models to mirror. Start where you are, feel what you feel without punishment, and move one honest step at a time.

Closing Thoughts:
Dr. Natseva leaves us with a decision rather than a dare: choose happiness as a daily act. When thoughts, emotions, and actions line up, life follows. If you’re ready to practice, her programs at Happy Life Academy turn the idea into a method—and the method into a life.

Dr. Natseva’s message is simple but profound: happiness is not a gift or a circumstance—it’s a choice. And the cost of not choosing it could be your health, your family, and your future.

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