The Changeup

This week's guest is the Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Ruth Gotian.

Dr. Gotian is also the author of The Success Factor – Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance, where she researched CEOs, Nobel laureates, and Olympic and NBA champions to find out how we can all optimize our success. 

Last year, she was among the 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar list, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking.  Get ready to get motivated as we discuss peak performance, becoming aware of and managing your strengths, and how we all can apply these lessons to our daily life. 

This week's episode is with the Founder and CEO of SalientMG, Mack McKelvey.

SalientMG is a strategic marketing firm, focused on accelerating market position for growth stage tech companies. 

We talk about leveraging digital tools to better share your skill set, why being a Chief of Staff is the ultimate pipeline to becoming a CEO, and the discrepancy she sees in how founders are able to raise money. 

Season 3 Premiere! 

So excited to welcome the CEO and Co-Founder of Mojo, Vinit Bharara. 

Mojo is a sports stock market, where fans can literally invest in their favorite players' careers. Along with Vinit, there are some pretty big names as co-founders, Bart Stein, Mark Lore, and a baseball player turned businessman,  you might have heard of Alex Rodriguez. 
Vinit has founded and sold multiple companies prior to this. Quidsi to Amazon, Some Spider Studios to Bustle Digital Group, and CAFE Media to Vox Media, so it's safe to say he knows a thing or two about building companies. 

We absolutely nerd out about sports in general, and we talk about the vision for Mojo.

Mojo is now live in New Jersey, check it out! 

We took the month off of interviewing and while on break, we put together two special episodes with some of our incredible past guests to highlight some themes that were recurring. 

This week we focus on diversity and race. 

These entrepreneurs have firsthand experience with the disparities within the corporate and business world and offer insight into their own stories and possible solutions. 

During our short break from interviewing, we decided to reflect back on some of our great past guests. 

This week we’re highlighting some of our female entrepreneurs from seasons 1 and 2 to reflect back on their experiences in the male-dominated business world. 

This week we welcome the CEO and Co-Founder of Quantified, Noah Zandan. 

Quantified is the leading firm in combining behavioral science, AI, and experiential learning technology to help people enhance their impact, improve their interactions and establish a greater human connection. 

We talk about how a former Wall Street guy got into behavioral science, what it’s like to prepare for and give a Ted Talk and we learn some of the small ways we all can be better communicators. 

This week we welcome my friend and my mentor, Andy Wiedlin. 

Andy is the founder of the VERY creatively titled Andy Wiedlin Consulting, an advisor to many startups and publishers, and the host of the marketing podcast, Backstage with the Brand. 

We talk about what it takes to be a great sales leader, the differences in the advertising world now versus when he started and I try to get him to be the commissioner of Major League Baseball for a day. 

Phluid launched initially as a physical and online store that makes gender-free, non-binary apparel and accessories. It has grown into a movement committed to challenging the dated practices that inhibit freedom and self-expression. 

We talk about building a community by being a listener and always learning, creating a place where people can freely express themselves and how he bucked the “don’t quit your job after your first burning man” advice and created Phluid. 

This week we welcome the CEO and Founder of SquadLocker, Gary Goldberg.

SquadLocker is innovating the athletic apparel market by making it easier for coaches and league administrators to manage purchasing for sports teams. 

We talked about the thousands of hours he had in the textile business, how he applied that to build his own company and the real-time moment when he saw how his customers were actually using the platform. 

This week we welcome Winnie Sabbat, Managing Partner of Sabacica Capital. 

Sabacica Capital is a women-led venture fund that focuses on exceptional women and people of color-led startups. 

We talked about how they are changing the game with funding, their unique approach to partnering with startups, and her passion for global travel.