By Don Burdge
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In this episode, Don interviews Marc Pierce! He is the CEO of GTFO It’s Vegan, the largest online vegan/plant-based wholesaler and retailer in the country. The company was started by Marc and his wife Tanya, the co-founder of GTFO It’s Vegan, after she told him they were going vegan in 2015. Back then, Marc looked at her with skeptical eyes and said “GTFO, are you serious!?!” As a loving and devoted husband, he of course said he was open to the idea, but wanted to know why. Tanya went on to explain how she had read about the cruelty of animals, the negative impacts on the environment and our health, and as spiritual human beings – it does not align with what is right, just, and why we are on this planet.
Therefore, Marc and his wife Tanya sought to start a company that would give others the benefits that she gave him 5 years ago — another chance at life. And of course, innovation in vegan food has come so far along that the options are limitless and new vegan food innovations are available that we could never have imagined before so living a vegan lifestyle is easy. The goal with GTFO Vegan is to make living a vegan lifestyle easy, fun, and delicious.
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In this episode, Don interviews Anna Ready! She is the Founder and CEO of Accrew. Accrew is an accounting and consulting firm leveraging smart systems and fun people to help clients at any stage of their journey. They are a crew of approachable experts who partner with businesses and nonprofits to build and grow remarkable organizations. Accrew started with one goal in mind: running a business and still getting to live life. And as they grew, they realized just how many of their clients were looking for the same thing.
They believe your business shouldn’t crumble when you step away. They want you to be able to go on vacation or go to your kids’ sports ball games. Their team is passionate about solving problems so that executives can spend less time on their business finances and more time showing up for the things that really matter. They want to focus on what they do best, so you can focus on what you do best, and together they can grow your business.
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In this episode, Don interviews Melinda Hwang! She is the Founder of Happy Masks. Happy Masks is an innovative mask company birthed in the pandemic, and has always been a family affair. 20 years ago in Taiwan, Melinda’s father partnered with a scientist to develop a powerful nanofiber membrane filter to protect against the airborne SARs epidemic in 2003. Fast forward to March 2020, and Melinda’s mom was worried about the family’s safety as COVID spread in the U.S., so she sent them a box of these masks. As Melinda and her kids started wearing them around the neighborhood, friends and neighbors started noticing the advantages of these unique “parrot beak” shaped masks. Soon friends of friends, and friends-of-friends-of-friends, started asking for them.
Melinda was able to combine her past in marketing with her future as a business owner, and used her father’s technology to meet demand with supply. Hence, Happy Masks was formed. Happy Masks was created because they wanted to make these masks available for all families. Whether it’s going to the grocery store or visiting a grandparent, their mission is to make it possible for you to do the things you love with the people you love.
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In this episode, Don interviews Daniel Smith! He is the Founder at JIMMYCASE, a company that handcrafts iPhone cases in Los Angeles and ships them directly to customers around the world. The engine that drives JIMMYCASE and enables them to grow consistently, without outside investment, is a marketing method that Dan developed as a creative executive in Hollywood. JIMMYCASE focuses almost exclusively on conversion rate and has developed methods to drive consistent conversion rate growth and grow profitably.
Daniel talks about his transition from the Hollywood entertainment business to starting his own company. He also shares what it was like going from a well-established brand and big company to bootstrapping on his own. And how a completely self-funded company survived the stark economic realities of the pandemic.
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In this episode, Don interviews Brittany Dolin! She is the CEO of Pocketbook Agency. Pocketbook Agency is a leading recruiting firm that places support level and administrative roles for domestic and corporate clients across the US. They offer exceptional talent for companies and families in various industries across the United States. They apply years of industry experience and relationship-building to curate the very best talent pool available in today’s market.
Brittany talks about how Pocketbook Agency forms bonds with both sides, client and job seeker, to see who’s most compatible not only in terms of skill sets, but also character and personality. They are determined to consistently source the very best support-level talent across the US in order to provide unparalleled, long lasting placements. Brittany also talks about the impact of the pandemic, and how now that they are in the first quarter of 2021, and they have seen a substantial uptick in hiring especially when it comes to administrative and support roles.
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In this episode, Don interviews Vivek Kartha! He is the CEO of Workspace. They build portfolio management software for investors, owners, and operators of commercial real estate. Their goal is to make the lives of commercial real estate professionals easier and to help them operate with confidence and simplicity.
Vivek outlines the way that his company’s software helps streamline communication and processes between commercial real estate assets, from the property manager, building engineer, owner all through to tenants and service providers.
He also talks about the impact that the COVID 19 pandemic had on the real estate market, plus the critical moves that they as a company made to retain their client base and even go on to thrive and grow.
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In this episode, Don interviews Steven Munatones! He is the CEO and Co-founder of KAATSU Global. Steven and his team created the BFR or Blood Flow Restriction market that is now used by the US military, professional sports teams, and aging Baby Boomers.
When COVID happened, Steven talks about the pivotal moment when he had to shift his company overnight. It was either that or go under. He moved all operations online, transitioned the team to work from home, and created an online education program: “We went completely from a person to person sales pitch to everything online.”
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In this episode, Don interviews James Creech! He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Measure Studio, a social analytics tool that benchmarks content performance across Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Finding a successful content strategy isn’t easy, but with Measure Studio, brands, publishers, and creators can identify which posts are doing well and what can be improved.
James talks about Measure Studio’s social media data tracking, which helps businesses understand what types of their social content perform best with target audiences, and how changes in social media trends affect this. He also highlights the impact the pandemic has had on social media, including the role it played in campaign tactics during the US presidential elections in 2020.
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In this episode, Don interviews Ryan Wenger! He is the CEO of WhereTo, a cost-saving business travel platform that uses Artificial Intelligence to help employees book business trips in minutes. WhereTo has about 30 employees, but was recently acquired by a 20,000 employee company, Flight Centre.
Ryan talks about how WhereTo transitioned from being a small 30 person startup to operating within a 20,000 employee global agency, and some of the changes that came with having more resources available as a result.
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In this episode, Don interviews Elan Sudberg! He is the CEO of Alkemist Labs, one of the last remaining family owned and operated third-party analytical labs, focusing on botanical analysis for the dietary supplement industry.
Elan gives some insight about what the company does, and also shares some of the tips and tricks he has learnt about maintaining healthy family relationships outside of work while operating a family business. He also talks about the challenges they faced when the pandemic hit, and how being on the right side of the ‘essential worker line’ saved the company from the kind of fate that quite a lot of businesses have faced this past year.
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The podcast currently has 82 episodes available.