288: Improving the Employee Experience w/ Amanda Earhart of PushKin

Summary: Welcome back to the Startup Junkies podcast!   Jeff Amerine, Caleb Talley, and Grace Gill were joined by Amanda Earhart, CEO and Founder of PushKin. Amanda is on the quest to build a healthy community where businesses can communicate and reach their potential. This tool is shaking up the way companies have meetings, celebrate employees, and set culture and vision. Be sure to listen to the podcast and even hear all about why you might want to be a doomsday prepper.    Thanks for tuning in!     Shownotes: (0:58) Introducing PushKin (3:39) The Backstory of Amanda Earhart  (4:56) Working with Cartwheel  (9:34) Web 2.0, Meta, and Entropy  (11:44) The Future of Ownership in B2B SAS Software (13:26) A Passion for People to Grow (17:02) PushKin Industry Domination (22:48) Fighting Frontline Worker Fatigue (24:22) The Impact of Mentorship  (27:22) Raising in Venture Scaling (33:15) Advice to Younger Self and Closing Remarks     Links: Jeff Amerine Grace Gill Caleb Talley Amanda Earhart  PushKin Cartwheel  Quotes: “[Who can support a startup?] You look to accelerators, you look to startup studios, and you look for a mentorship group.”  (5:23) - Amanda Earhart     “Communication, when you get down to the brass tacks of it improves so many business outcomes.” (15:05) - Amanda Earhart   “One of the things [my mentor] was always really passionate about for me personally is to get out of my comfort zone. When she saw me comfortable, she would challenge me.” (25:41) - Amanda Earhart https://www.startupjunkie.org/   Episode Sponsors: AEDC - https://www.arkansasedc.com/ Teemyco - https://www.teemyco.com/