After two decades in operations leadership, Romie Montpeirous recognized a critical gap: leaders were expected to perform without proper development. As the founder of Leadership From The Heart, Romie empowers leaders to truly embody their roles, tr…
In a conversation on The Oprah Podcast, Oprah Winfrey sat down with Belgian tech pioneer and venture capitalist Jürgen Ingels, founder of Clear2Pay and author of Start, Grow, Sell: 50 Tips for Entrepreneurial Greatness . What unfolded wasn&rsq…
Before the stages. Before the private jets. Before the bestselling books and global influence. Tony Robbins was a kid trying to survive chaos. And that matters—because the mindset that built his empire wasn’t learned in comfort. It w…
Angela Duckworth didn’t set out to question grit. She helped define it. As the psychologist behind one of the most influential ideas in modern achievement culture, Duckworth gave a generation of founders, students, and strivers a language fo…
For decades, Silicon Valley has been sold as the default destination for ambitious young builders. If you’re smart, driven, and interested in technology, the script goes, you move to San Francisco, start a company, and change the world. But i…
Nate Hebbert's journey from wantrepreneur to entrepreneur began with a personal crisis that reshaped his path. As the founder of SelfWare Consulting, he tackles tech industry burnout with innovative strategies that don't require hitting pause on lif…
Maria Sharapova didn’t just dominate tennis — she transformed it. From winning Wimbledon at just 17 to becoming the world’s highest-paid female athlete, Sharapova crafted a legacy that blended fierce athleticism with smart busines…
Practical Founder Lessons from Amazon, Blue Origin, and a Life of Big Bets Jeff Bezos has built companies that require a kind of thinking most founders never attempt: decade-long time horizons, massive upfront losses, and bets where success isn&rsq…
**In an interview on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, Peter Steinberger, creator of PSPDFKit and Claudbot, shared how he went from elite iOS engineer to burned-out founder—and came back with a radically different approach to building software. …
In Silicon Valley lore, founders are often celebrated for bold, reckless bets — the moments when they “push all their chips in” and hope genius or luck saves them. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, tells a very different st…
When people talk about Peloton, they usually focus on extremes: the meteoric rise during COVID, or the brutal correction that followed. John Foley sees something else. He sees a leadership education that could only be earned the hard way. In a ca…
“We had $25,000 left in the bank. We were going to shut down the company.” For most founders, that’s the end of the story. For Natalie Barbu, it was the beginning of the comeback. The creator-turned-tech-founder built Rela, a so…
“I was never interested in building a business. I just wanted to build software people loved.” — Tobi Lütke When Tobi Lütke started hacking together a better way to sell snowboards online, he wasn’t trying to b…
Janice Buswell's entrepreneurial journey began with a simple invitation that transformed her life. As the founder of Experience Writing, she empowers writers to discover their unique voices and navigate the authoring journey. In this Wantrepreneur t…
“Don’t go viral. Go valuable. Then you’ll stay.” — Jun Yuh In today’s content-saturated world, getting seen is hard — staying relevant and profitable is harder. But creator and entrepreneur Jun Yuh has …
Mandy Geyer’s journey from corporate leader to founder of Integral Edge Consulting is a story of alignment, clarity, and bold reinvention. After chasing a version of success that didn’t feel like her own, she redefined her path—com…
When Jasmine Tookes walked the runways of Paris at just 17 years old, she was surviving an industry that often crushed them. In an intimate interview on Valeria Lipovetsky’s show, Jasmine opened up about her rise in the modeling world, her en…
After years of navigating the remote work landscape and testing out business ideas that didn’t stick, Phillip Wyness finally turned insight into action—launching Remote Flo, a company helping startups build resilient distributed teams wi…
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“Discipline is not restriction. Discipline is freedom.” — Tracy Harmoush That single sentence flips everything early-stage entrepreneurs think they know about discipline. In a powerful episode of The Balance Theory Podcast, e…
After being fired during maternity leave, Kat Rogers didn’t just bounce back—she rebuilt her life on her own terms. As the founder of Mariposa Mastermind, she helps working mothers shed burnout, rediscover themselves, and lead with inten…
“You never want a day to pass without doing something that will benefit you in a decade.” — James Clear James Clear, best known for his bestseller Atomic Habits, has built a reputation for distilling powerful truths into simp…
“We’re being trained to forget how to be artists.” – Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon In a strikingly candid conversation on Power User with Taylor Lorenz, Jack Conte — co-founder and CEO of Patreon — delivered one…
On an episode of Social Currency, entrepreneur and brand visionary Gwen Whiting gave a raw, unfiltered account of her journey — from bootstrapping The Laundress into a global cult brand to watching it crumble under corporate mismanagement afte…