What happens when you wake up one morning and suddenly question everything you thought you knew about yourself?

In this raw and deeply personal solo episode of OnlyFounders, Anne Gillaspie opens up about a morning when she felt completely overwhelmed — as a mother, entrepreneur, brand strategist, movement maker, and founder trying to build the next chapter of her life.

After getting pulled into social media instead of doing the morning movement that normally helps her reset, Anne found herself comparing her vision to women who seemed years ahead of her. Suddenly, the things she had been building started to feel crowded, outdated, or even completely wrong.

Her brand. Her messaging. Her identity. Her purpose.

Instead of trying to immediately problem-solve her way out of the discomfort, Anne decides to sit in it.

Because sometimes the uncomfortable moments aren't a sign that you're failing. They may be a signal that you're being challenged to level up again.

In this episode, Anne gets real about:

• What it feels like to question your identity and purpose
• The emotional reality of raising children while building businesses and movements
• How social media comparison can completely derail your mindset
• Why surrounding yourself with people who are ahead of you can be both powerful and uncomfortable
• The importance of finding your “truth tribe”
• Why founders need people who can hold space for them when they're struggling
• The connection between taking care of yourself and showing up for your family
• What happens when your brand or messaging no longer feels aligned
• Why you don't always need to immediately “fix” a difficult emotional season
• How uncomfortable seasons can be invitations to evolve
• The pressure of building something meaningful when you feel like the market is already crowded
• Why being fully seen and heard starts with fully expressing who you are
• The question every founder should be willing to ask: Who the fuck are you?

This isn't a polished motivational speech.

It's Anne sitting in the uncomfortable middle — questioning, reflecting, and allowing herself to feel what she's feeling instead of pretending everything is okay.

Because sometimes a lot can happen in an hour.

THE BIG QUESTION

Who are you — and are you fully expressing that person in the world?

PULL QUOTES

“Who the fuck are you?”

“I’m sitting in this shit for a while because I think this shit needs to talk to me.”

“I think this is calling on me to sit in it and really listen.”

“Sometimes you’re not allowing yourself into the spaces that are so uncomfortable that challenge you.”

“You know who you are, but you’re not fully expressing it in the world.”

“I just want to question and disrupt your autopilot.”

“A lot can happen in an hour.”

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YouTube: OnlyFounders Podcast

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Anne Gillaspie: Anne Gillaspie

Instagram: @annegillaspie

LinkedIn: Anne Gillaspie

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What if your body isn’t broken — and you’ve just never been given the right information?
In this episode of OnlyFounders, Anne Gillaspie sits down with Kimberly Cunningham, founder of Cunningham Clinic, nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and author of Great Sex Never Gets Old. Kimberly shares the personal and professional journey that took her from a devastating injury and years of limited mobility to building a thriving healthcare practice focused on hormones, longevity, functional medicine, and helping people feel better in their bodies.
Kimberly and Anne get real about what changes as we age — especially for women — and why hormones, sexual health, brain health, energy, and longevity deserve a much bigger conversation.
In this episode, we get into:
Why hormones can affect so much more than menopause
Kimberly’s journey from severe injury to building Cunningham Clinic
How she grew a business organically without taking out loans
The hardest part of growing a company: knowing when and who to hire
Why “maybe” is always a no when hiring
Building a human-centered team where patients feel seen and heard
Negotiating with vendors while protecting the patient first
What women need to understand about testosterone, estrogen, and aging
Why sexual health is part of healthcare
Brain health, heart health, muscle, bone health, and healthy aging
Kimberly’s book Great Sex Never Gets Old
Why women entrepreneurs need to stop getting in their own way
Learning to change your mind when new information becomes available
Kimberly’s approach is ultimately about looking at the whole system, not treating one symptom in isolation. And her message for women is powerful: it’s not always about whether you can do something — it’s about deciding whether you want to.
GUEST
Kimberly Cunningham, NP
Founder of Cunningham Clinic and author of Great Sex Never Gets Old: Health, Hormones And Having It All After Forty. Kimberly has spent more than two decades in healthcare and built Cunningham Clinic from a one-woman operation into a growing team focused on personalized wellness, hormone care, healthy aging, and aesthetics.
FIND KIMBERLY
Instagram: @cunninghamcliniccolorado
Cunningham Clinic

PULL QUOTES
“Maybe is always no.”
“Your body isn’t broken.”
“It’s not a question of whether you can do it. It’s whether you want to do it.”
“I reserve the right to change my mind.”

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LinkedIn: Anne Gillaspie on LinkedIn
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You’re your own boss—but who holds you accountable when nobody is watching?

For founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs, freedom can be both the best part of building a business and one of its biggest challenges. Without a boss, structure, or someone telling you what to do, it’s easy to lose your boundaries, overbook your calendar, and eventually feel like you’re drowning.

In this solo episode of OnlyFounders, Anne Gillaspie shares what she’s learning about creating “containers” instead of rigid rules—structures that provide accountability while still giving you the freedom to follow your energy, creativity, and real life.

In this episode, Anne talks about:

• Why being your own boss can create loneliness and a lack of accountability
• Creating flexible “containers” instead of rigid schedules
• Why simply blocking “Anne’s time” wasn’t enough
• Giving yourself permission to rest and do nothing
• Protecting your calendar and controlling who gets access to your time
• Why your time and energy are more valuable than money
• Breaking big projects into smaller, manageable steps
• Using procrastination and last-minute pressure to your advantage
• Balancing business, parenting, personal life, and mental energy
• Why founders need grace, flexibility, and permission to pivot

One of Anne’s biggest reminders in this episode is simple: your resources start with your calendar, your boundaries, and where you choose to put your time and energy.

And sometimes, the most productive thing you can do is absolutely nothing.

PULL QUOTES

“You are your own boss. So who holds you accountable?”

“We have to schedule rest time.”

“Your time is greater than money.”

“The container has to have room to swim.”

“Give yourself permission to pivot.”

CONNECT WITH ANNE

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@onlyfounders.podcast

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PuNBpWpZKzCnuwmFQOPI4?si=97a26df7e350478a

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/onlyfounders/id1832541527

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annegillaspie/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annegillaspie/

Website: https://theannegillaspie.com/

ABOUT ONLYFOUNDERS

OnlyFounders is about the real side of entrepreneurship—the messy, human, complicated reality behind building businesses, leading teams, raising families, navigating failure, and figuring out who we are along the way.

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What if the place where you feel pain isn't actually where the problem is?

Laura Mahe is a manual osteopath and body worker based in Calgary, Alberta, with more than 25 years of experience in the health and wellness industry. After starting her career in massage therapy, Laura found her way to manual osteopathy—and discovered a completely different way of looking at the body, pain, and healing.

What she loves most about her work is the impact it can have on someone's life. Her goal is simple: help people with chronic conditions relieve pain, improve mobility, and get back to doing the things they never thought they could do again.

In this episode, Anne and Laura get into the fascinating connection between the body, chronic pain, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and the importance of asking for help.

In this episode, we get into:

• Why pain isn't always coming from the place where you feel it
• Laura's journey from massage therapy to manual osteopathy
• Why she says her clients can “get their life back”
• Building a business around meaningful, life-changing work
• The reality of reaching your personal capacity as a service-based founder
• Why learning not to do everything yourself matters in both motherhood and business
• Delegation, virtual support, and finding the right people to help you grow
• Laura's experience with social anxiety, networking, and stepping outside her comfort zone
• Her vision for multidisciplinary sound-healing centers around the world
• The fascinating world of tuning forks, frequencies, and sound-based wellness

Laura also opens up about being a mom of three, the challenge of balancing family with entrepreneurship, and the moment she realized that getting help wasn't a failure—it was actually better for everyone.

The conversation ultimately becomes a fascinating exploration of healing, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and what happens when you stop trying to do everything alone.

Pull quotes:

“They get their life back.”

“The problem is not where the pain is.”

“I’m a great therapist. I obviously should own a business.”

“You can’t do it alone, but nor should you.”

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Laura Mahe / Chiron Collective Calgary:

Website: http://chironyyc.com

Instagram: @chironyyc

Facebook: Chiron Collective Calgary

What if work-life balance isn’t actually the goal when you’re building a business and raising a family?

In this solo episode of OnlyFounders, Anne Gillaspie gets honest about the reality of being a founder, a mother, and a partner—and what happens when the carefully planned systems of work and family simply stop working.

After a summer filled with changing schedules, childcare challenges, unexpected setbacks, and difficult decisions, Anne realized something important: maybe balance was never the goal. Maybe it’s harmony.

She shares what went wrong, what she learned from it, and how becoming more flexible, listening to her family, and being willing to change the plan helped her find a better way forward.

In this episode, we get into:

• Why Anne believes there is no such thing as perfect work-life balance
• The difference between balance and harmony
• The reality of running a business while raising three children
• What failed during Anne’s summer—and what those failures taught her
• Why childcare and support systems are critical for working parents
• Learning to listen to your children instead of forcing a plan that isn't working
• How family meetings created more space for honest conversations
• Why great leaders—and great parents—need to be willing to change their minds
• The importance of admitting when something isn't working
• Why Anne considers raising her children her number one project

Anne also opens up about the emotional side of trying to be present for her family while building a business, including fear, resentment, guilt, and the pressure to make everything work.

The conversation ultimately comes back to a simple idea: you don't need to get everything right the first time. Sometimes the failure is simply new information showing you what needs to change.

Pull quotes:

“Fuck balance. It’s harmony.”

“Family comes first and your work comes second.”

“Our emotions matter when we have really hard moments.”

“A great leader, which is also a great parent, changes their mind often because you’re getting new information every single day.”

“My life's work will be raising three amazing people.”

Building a business and raising a family will rarely follow a perfect plan. The goal isn't to make everything equal—it’s to stay curious, listen, adapt, and create a life that actually works for the people who matter most.

Watch this episode on our YouTube channel:

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What happens when nearly 30 years of supporting executives leads you to realize that your biggest career chapter might still be ahead of you?

Bonnie Schutz is the founder and CEO of Tandem Resource Solutions, a US-based remote support and administrative recruiting firm helping founders stop being the bottleneck in their own business. After nearly three decades as a corporate Executive Assistant, Bonnie turned her experience into a second act built around entrepreneurship, delegation, and helping business owners get the support they need to grow.

She is also the host of the Delegate2Elevate Podcast, where she has conversations with business owners about delegation, leadership, and what it really takes to build something sustainable without carrying everything yourself.

In this episode, Bonnie shares the unexpected moment that pushed her out of corporate life, the identity shift that came with becoming a founder, and what she has learned about confidence, boundaries, networking, and building a business through relationships and support.

In this episode, we get into:

• Bonnie's transition from a long corporate career to entrepreneurship
• Why your “second act” can become one of the most powerful chapters of your life
• The unexpected experience that pushed Bonnie to finally leave corporate
• Learning to step into her identity and confidence as a founder and CEO
• Why founders need to stop trying to do everything themselves
• The power of delegation, support systems, and “creative delegation”
• How networking and finding the right people helped Bonnie grow
• Overcoming imposter syndrome and recognizing your own value
• Why boundaries and self-care matter when building a sustainable business
• How virtual assistance, remote work, and AI are changing the support industry

Bonnie also gets honest about building businesses later in life, authentic branding, the pressure to grow, and why sometimes the biggest step forward is simply letting other people help you.

Pull quotes:

“The only way to make a business really work is to give it a hundred percent.”

“You hire people who are not like you, who do things better than you do.”

“Sometimes you have to get creative when there's not a budget.”

“It's okay to say no.”

The conversation ultimately comes back to a powerful lesson about entrepreneurship: you don't have to do everything yourself. Your experience, relationships, and ability to build the right support system can become some of your greatest advantages.

Your second act might not be starting over. It might be finally becoming who you were ready to be all along.

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Visit our website:
https://theannegillaspie.com/

Bonnie Schutz:
Website: https://tandemresourcesolutions.com

Podcast Website: https://Delegate2ElevatePodcast.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnieschutzea/

Tandem Resource Solutions LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tandem-resource-solutions/

Delegate2Elevate LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/delegate2elevate-podcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Delegate2ElevatePodcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delegate2elevatepodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delegate2elevatepodcast/

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What if AI isn't here to replace the human part of your work—but to finally give you more time to actually be human?

In this solo episode of OnlyFounders, Anne Gillaspie takes on one of the biggest fears surrounding AI: “Is AI going to replace my job?” Her answer is blunt: fuck no.

Anne explores what human-centered leadership looks like in the age of AI, and why the qualities that make people valuable—thought, emotion, empathy, care, creativity, judgment, and the ability to make other people feel seen and heard—aren't things leaders should be trying to automate.

Instead, Anne argues that AI should function as a support tool: handling administrative work, organizing information, speeding up repetitive tasks, and giving humans more space to focus on the work only they can do. She shares how she uses AI in her own branding business to transform a process that once took 6–8 hours of intensive brain work into roughly 1–2 hours, while keeping the human judgment and emotional meaning at the center.

In this episode, Anne gets into:

Why fear of AI replacing your job can actually limit how you use the technology

What human-centered leadership really means in an AI-driven workplace

Why AI should supplement your brain—not replace it

How Anne uses AI to turn 40–60 pages of brand therapy notes into organized, usable brand insights:

• Why the human meaning behind a founder's story can't simply be automated
• How AI helped Anne reduce a 6–8 hour brand guidebook process to around 1–2 hours
• Why time and attention are more valuable than money for a founder and mom
• How AI can help leaders become better listeners by removing the need to take notes during meetings
• Why leaders should focus less on generic bonuses and more on actually making their employees' lives easier
• What “surprise and delight” can look like in leadership, culture, and customer experience
• Why founders need to stop giving away their ideas and expertise for free
• Anne's philosophy on using AI for good—and for humanity

Pull quotes:

“AI should be a tool that helps you organize. It should help you with your tasks.”

“Time is my greatest value. My attention is my greatest currency.”

“I now use AI to be more human in my work.”

“Being a human-centered leader requires you to actually be a human.”

The conversation ultimately comes back to a simple idea: your humanity is your advantage. Use AI to eliminate the busywork, organize the noise, and create more space for empathy, connection, creativity, leadership, and the work that actually matters.

Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@onlyfounders.podcast 

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What happens when a classically trained illustrator and electrical engineer decides the answer to AI's biggest problems isn't more data, it's less?

Sayre Blake is the CEO and technical founder of SkillSaige, a soft-skills training platform that reimagines corporate learning as an actual video game, built by someone who's directed shipped titles, built enterprise VR training, and helped brands escape "five stock illustrations from 2019" territory. Her AI-powered trainer, Sage, runs a 15-minute conversation on a fraction of the compute most chatbots burn, using less power, she says, than streaming 15 minutes of Netflix, while being explicitly designed to never remember you, bond with you, or pretend to be more than a character in a story.

In this episode, we get into:

• Why "enshittification" isn't inevitable. It's a choice companies keep making anyway
• The theater training principle Sayre used to build AI boundaries that actually hold
• Why "good-ish" AI might be more dangerous than AI that's just bad
• The real math behind AI's power problem, and why she thinks the current data center boom won't survive contact with reality
• Running a lean, remote-first company without a "corporate culture" clause
• Why she calls most public vulnerability "performative honesty," and why that's a problem

Sayre also gets brutally honest about the state of SaaS, the video game industry's identity crisis, and why she's not "socially digestible" enough to run for president (her words), but might be building something more useful than a campaign anyway.

Pull quotes:

"It's almost more dangerous than being outright bad, because it encourages you to keep trying."

"We could do this with twelve people instead of twelve hundred."

This is a conversation about building tech that knows its own limits, and why that restraint might be the most radical business strategy in the room.

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Sayre Blake:
Website: https://skillsaige.com/
Sayre’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayre-blake/
SkillSaige LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skillsaige  

Anne Gillaspie:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annegillaspie/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annegillaspie/
Website: https://theannegillaspie.com/ 

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What happens when the guy who built a podcast marketing agency also builds the AI tool designed to make that agency obsolete? John Taylor isn't afraid of the answer. He's already got a number in mind, and the day someone hits it, he's gone.

John is the CEO of Act3 Agency, a San Francisco based podcast marketing agency, and the founder of PodAgain.ai, an AI powered podcast promotion and content platform launching in weeks. Act3 already serves podcasters directly; PodAgain scales that same intelligence, including content repurposing, competitor gap analysis, cross show networking, and analytics driven episode ideation, into a self-serve SaaS built to turn static back catalogs into constantly working assets.

In this episode, John and host Anne Gillaspie go far beyond the pitch:

• Why John calls PodAgain his own "self-destruct button," and is fine with it
• Building a company you can sell on purpose, with a life already planned on the other side
• What 7 months a year on tour (MTV Music Awards included) teaches you about partnership and absence
• Marriage, divorce, and being a "cycle breaker" after watching parents make it work for 66 years
• Where AI should sit in a founder's workflow, as leverage for a human, not a replacement for one

John's blunt take on relationships lands just as hard as his take on building: "An affair is not the problem, an affair is a symptom of a problem." And on the exit he's already building toward: "When anybody offers me this number... I will retire, and you will not see me again."

This one moves fast between founder strategy and hard-won personal truth, sometimes in the same sentence.

Resources and links (John Taylor)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtnorcal/
Website: https://podagain.ai/

Agency: http://act3agency.com/

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She built a mentoring program before she knew it was her business.

What happens when the thing people keep pulling you aside to do quietly becomes the thing you can't stop building?

Elissa Zylbershlag, M.Ed., is the Founder of Work Wise Labs, helping new leaders build the confidence to lead, manage, and hold a room. She's spent 20+ years in professional development, with leadership roles at the Anti-Defamation League, the NJ State Bar Foundation, and the NJ Division on Civil Rights, and she's Certified in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She built her own IP-rich curriculum from scratch and grew her practice from 3 paid programs in 2023 to 7 the next year, all while working full-time. Now she runs monthly public workshops and coaches leaders through the exact confidence gap she's had to close herself.

In today's episode, we talked about:

• Pricing yourself for the first time, and why "I don't know what to charge" isn't a character flaw, it's a rite of passage

•  Why every discount should cost the client something too ("that value is the value")

•  The moment she blurted out a service she hadn't built yet, and landed a six-month contract anyway

• Bombing a 250-person keynote after crushing the same room two years earlier, and what that taught her about the difference between a facilitator and a speaker

•  Her framework for confidence as a fundraising thermometer: insecurity first, then the skill, then the stumble, then the win

Pull quotes:

"We are all in the same business, and that is the business of making money."

"Facilitation is guide on the side. Speaking is sage on the stage."

She still doesn't have a will. But she's got a company, a client list, and a keynote she's determined to nail, Toastmasters and all.

Resources and links (Elissa Zylbershlag)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elissazylbershlag/

Website: www.workwiselabs.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workwiselabs/

Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/20jKUdIdaQ8

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Follow Anne Gillaspie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annegillaspie/

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Join Coffee Club: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevT9HVr57sn4fFUVpsWpcO-ZMeQKgftrg19tdVXPPrM5xQIQ/viewform

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