The Changeup

New episodes every Monday starting Feb 21! 

The Changeup is back for another season, featuring deep dive interviews with founders, innovators and those who made the brave leap from the corporate world to starting their own thing. 

In the season finale of Season 1, we have the pleasure of talking to the legendary broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien about her decision to leave the cable news world and  create her own company, Soledad O'Brien Productions. We also discuss her new HBO docuseries "Black and Missing",  the phenomenal work done by her organization PowHERful Foundation, and the growing difficulties of caring for your elder parents. 

In this episode we talk with  all around force of nature Tara McGowan, the CEO and Founder of Good Information, Inc, which owns Courier Newsroom. She shares her mission to help battle disinformation in media and increase civic engagement through trusted local journalism in critical local markets. We also talk about the gutting news coming from the Supreme Court in the Roe vs. Wade hearings and how important it is for us to vote in every election, not just the Presidential ones. 

In this episode, we sit down with the founder of Third City Advisory, Michael Miraflor. We talk about how his curiosity keeps him energized in an ever evolving advertising world, how the agency world is still not diverse enough and  he helps me wrap my head around Web3, NFTs and DAOs. 

Melanie, the Founder of Story Fuel,  is a keynote speaker, author, award-winning branded content creator, and lifelong storyteller.  In this episode, she talks about how she figured out what she was worth as a speaker,  why marketing is essentially just building a relationship, and how she ended up living in Raleigh of all places. 

In this episode, we sit down and chat with Akeelah Kuraishi, the Co-Founder of the subscription box service,  Little Global Citizens. Akeelah discusses how her later in life "gap year" ended up being one of her most profound experiences that ultimately led to her creating her own company. She shares her thoughts on the commonalities of people across the world, how exposure to others fosters compassion and understanding, and most importantly, how we can teach these things to the next generation.

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In this episode, we sit down with Co-Founder of Toolkits, Shareen Pathak and discuss her transition from being a journalist and editor to a business owner,  how to build up a good BS radar when interviewing people and how having a friend as a business partner makes even boring tasks seem fun.

In this episode, we talk with the CEO and Founder of Spikeball, Chris Ruder. He talks about what Spikeball is and why no one is good at it to start with,  what it takes to get on and win on Shark Tank,  the foreignness of getting to make all your own decisions as a CEO, and the difference between a calculated risk and just being stupid.


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Today we sit down with S. Mitra Kalita and she shares her thoughts on how the pandemic shaped lives,  the importance of diversifying media content, and the subtle but important differences between local and community media

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and on this episode of The Changeup, we have the honor of sitting down and talking with Jeri Millard, CEO & Founder of In The Pink.  

Jeri is a two-type cancer survivor who is using her experiences to better help other cancer patients with their durable medical needs.  Her non-profit boutique offers wigs, breast protheses, post-mastectomy bras, swimwear, scarves, hats, skin-care products and most crucially, counseling, for those battling cancer.  In The Pink currently has a community of over 12,000 people in the Jacksonville, Florida area, with a goal of reaching many more in the years to come.