Startup Hypeman: The GOAT to Market Show

"During interviews, of course you’ll get some of those reactions and think ‘Oh I’ve found the right person!’, and then as time goes you learn a bit more about the people you bring into your team. And you find that it’s really challenging. And you don’t really know until you come across an issue or challenge you have to address as a team, and that’s where I find out a lot about (them). Their skills, their ambition, their passion, how they think, how are they going to get out of this situation, what is the next solution, their problem solving, and that’s where you really find the true strength of your team. And how well they can transpire those skill sets across different kinds of challenges, and as a startup there are never-ending challenges."Lisa Sohanpal, Founder & CEO of Nom Noms World Food, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“In the military you have this environment that allows transparency. It allows candor to just run rampant. And there’s a reason for that on so many different levels, it has to take place. For example, if I’m about to jump out of a plane, and I’ve got a guy in front of me who’s about to jump out of a plane, and your job is to check over their parachute and make sure it’s safe. Now if I tap that guy on the shoulder and I say, “Hey, your pack’s messed up”, and he looks over his shoulder and says, “F U man, I got this, I know what I’m doing,” that’s just not the case. But you see that a lot in the workplace where people are just not willing to listen to the people behind them saying ‘you messed up, you need to fix this’.”Justin Walker, CEO at Halo Group and Executive Director of Bunker Labs, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“You can’t be an entrepreneur without resilience. You just can’t. Because you’re gonna get knocked down, and you have to get up, and you have to always get up. It’s kind of like ants. When I was little kid I used to like to mess with anthills. And you’d watch them re-dig that hill over and over again. And that’s what the entrepreneur has to do. If you look at wild animals…and you look at lions attacking hippos or whatever, the fight for life to survive is so strong that they will do anything to do it. Entrepreneurs have to be that way.”Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"For the social entrepreneur, or the social enterprise, you are quite often changing behavior. And that is so much different than trying to get someone to buy something that would benefit them."Beth Bond, Founder of Community Startups, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“...We had every kind of client you could imagine. We had $20 million deals, but every time we would get on the brink of major success, something would impact us. (We had an embezzlement) but we didn’t let that embezzlement bring us down. We instead took it, and when we would sit in front of another investor or corporate partner, we would be honest with them. And it’s interesting because some people will not want to work with you--they think you’re irresponsible because you let it happen. They blame you. Are you kidding me? We’re just trying to innovate and drive business here. And when someone is a professional at hiding things, you should just be happy we found it within 4 or 5 months. And oh yeah, by the way Mr. Investor, we lost our house.”Tim Wales, Cofounder & CEO of Kadima Ventures, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've reached our 100th episode!“So many times, we don’t even know when we should ask for help. As entrepreneurs, we want to be a jack-of-all-trades and do it all ourselves. But when someone offers to help, or take things off your plate, it was one of the biggest things I realized this year. Instead of me saying ‘no thanks, I’ve got it’, I said ‘sure, let’s give it a shot. I would love it if you could help me with X, Y, Z.’ And that became one of those things that did take a couple hours off my plate. And it enabled us to, even more so, feel joined at the hip as a team when others started taking over tasks.”​RJ Pahura, Founder & CEO of Venture Connects and FUND Conference, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"I think that moment where I realized I really needed to do something was when I saw those empty bottles of sleeping pills. I felt broken-spirited, and I knew that this was not the answer. And I had that epiphany of getting rid of your ego. There's something deeper than just what I'm pursuing. And that's when I realized that--you know what--MAYBE there's a chance to be satisfied. Maybe not forever, but having a taste of it. And to be reminded of it, and be able to pull it back out and feel it when you want to--that's enough."​Shirley Yang, Founder of Muses, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“I don’t want to live a life where I’m behind an office, and when I have to reach out to my CEO or my business partner it’s uncomfortable. We just got done with a trip to Germany, and we took a weekend in Amsterdam, and that was our business trip! If you’re gonna spend so much time working, and make that such a big part of your life, why in the world would you do it with someone you don’t like. Why?”Patrick Tannous, Cofounder & President of Tiesta Tea, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“...That’s what I heard a lot (when I got started). It’s an app, it’s tech, I have ‘zero experience in tech’. And every time I heard that, it was almost debilitating. If you’re thinking ‘I’m starting from nothing, how do I even start, I have zero experience’ and all the time that’s constantly what you’re hearing, it is kind of hard to get started. But I look at it like we’re never really starting from zero experience. We have something. If you lay out whatever project is in front of you and break it down in pieces there is something you know, something you can relate to.”Kimberly Jackson, Founder of Stand In, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“As I’ve grown and been influenced by people, and had mentors that have been very successful in the venture capital community, very successful businesspeople, the connection between all of them is their integrity. And it doesn’t matter what kind of vertical they’re in, what kind of market they’re in, that’s what makes them successful.”​Ben Hewitt, Partner & Head of Sales at Hunt Club, and Operating Partner at New Coast Ventures, joins us.Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.