The Aaron Caulfield Podcast
by Aaron Caulfield
Aaron Caulfield dives deep with high-achieving entrepreneurs, CEOs, and founders of startups. He gives you an inside look, unscripted at the dreams as well as the emotional challenges they face as leaders. Aaron previously worked for Accenture in Silicon Valley and studied finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Episodes
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Nikil Viswanathan, Co-Founder And CEO Of Alchemy, On Reaching A 1/2 Billion Dollar Valuation In Eight Months (#24)
Alchemy went from public launch to a half-billion-dollar valuation in eight months. The company is the world’s leading blockchain developer platform powering $30+ billion in transactions with 10+ million users in 197+ countries worldwide.Founded by Nikil Viswanathan (@Nikilster) and Joe Lau...
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Nikki Adamson — How To Create A More Diverse, Equitable, And Inclusive Startup Team (#23)
Nikki Adamson is the founder of Hustle Hunters, a recruiting firm for early stage startups.They help teams attract, support, and retain top talent and create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) organizations.Candidates in their network include people that have historically been excluded:...
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Justin Shenkarow on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Winning NFTHack, Launching Hashink, Celebrity Autographs, and More (#22)
Justin Shenkarow is an actor, voice actor, producer, writer and director from Los Angeles. He’s best known for his roles as Matthew Brock in Picket Fences, Simon Holmes in Eerie, Indiana, and the voice of Harold Berman from the Nickelodeon animated series, Hey Arnold!Justin recently participated…
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Claude Cayemitte On Types Of Trauma, The Spectrum Of Racism, And Addressing Systemic Oppression (#21)
Claude Cayemitte is a NARM-certified, award-winning psychotherapist based in West Palm Beach, Florida. He works at a health center and runs a private practice, Clear and Connected Counseling, for individual therapy with adults and adolescents.I met Claude through the NARM Training Institute…
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Abhishek And Aaron On Democratizing Entrepreneurship, Building In Public, And A Platform For Founders (#20)
On this episode Abhishek Gutgutia interviews me as a potential customer for the platform he’s building.Abhishek is the Chief Product Officer at Chronicled and is creating a platform on the side of his full-time job to help fellow entrepreneurs succeed. By providing resources, tools, coaching,...
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Marquis Lupton On Overcoming Stuttering, Growing A Digital Media Business, And Launching TCP TV (#19)
Marquis Lupton, co-founder and CEO of the TCP Network, struggled with stuttering while growing up. To overcome his speech impediment, he worked with speech coaches and practiced speaking in front of the mirror: making eye contact, squaring his shoulders, and wearing a microphone. Determined to be…
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April Frazier On Overcoming Failures, Social Media Strategy, And Money Mindset (#18)
April Frazier is the founder of FRWD Confidence Coaching.She was a technologist who wrote code and led software development teams for 18 years before realizing that her true passion is in serving others through coaching.Through 1-on-1 and group coaching, she helps emerging entrepreneurs turn…
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Quentin Cantu On Creating A Lifestyle Brand, Hitting $3.6 Million In Sales, And Overcoming Nos (#17)
Since starting Ranch Rider Spirits at the end of 2019, Quentin Cantu and Brian Murphy have expanded operations from Texas to Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee with plans to be in Louisiana, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, and Nevada soon.Their idea for cocktails came while...
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Drishay Menon on Developing Confidence, Men’s Skincare, and Growing a Business (#16)
Drishay Menon co-founded Bottlecode to help men take care of their skin. The company matches customers with skincare and personal-grooming products to solve their specific problems.For Drishay and co-founders Jeff Meyers and Rob McIntosh, this is part of a larger mission to help men be happy,...
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Sam Interrante on Building a Photography Business, Faces Against Racism, and Believing in Yourself (#15)
In light of the racial tensions following the murder of George Floyd, among the many other wrongful deaths at the hands of police violence, Sam Interrante launched Faces Against Racism.He photographed over 100 people, each of which donated $100. Together the people of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,...
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Randy Paris - Servant Leadership, Handling Conflict, and Building a High-Performing Team (#14)
Randy Paris is the CEO of Brewbike, a coffee company that exists to empower young people through entrepreneurial experience.Brewbike gives college students opportunities to run coffee businesses, thereby equipping them with leadership, decision-making, and real-world skills.Randy attributes his...
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Chris Sempeles - Helping Restaurants and Chefs Grow Their Businesses (#13)
ProtoTaste is a low-cost food truck rental program. Restaurants and chefs can use ProtoTaste’s food trailers to go to events and test new markets, thereby reducing the costs and risks associated with doing so.CEO Chris Sempeles and his team handle all of the logistics, including the clean-up, so...
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Sophie Roman - Becoming CEO, Scaling The Pop'd Shop, and Discovering Her Roots (#12)
Sophie Roman co-founded The Pop’d Shop in 2017 with Mark Wieder.They met at The Great Social Enterprise Pitch in Sophie’s hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where they ran the business for several years. Earlier this year they moved the company to Puerto Rico.The move was both strategic for the...
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Villond Cook - 32 Years, 2 Months, and 3 Days (#11)
Villond Cook spent 32 years, 2 months, and 3 days in prison, most of which were in maximum security.At the age of 12, Villond started selling marijuana on the streets of Los Angeles. He later sold crack, joined a gang, and was making thousands of dollars per week in “fast cash.”Throughout his...
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Branded with Rich Litvin (#10)
In this episode, I'm being coached by Rich Litvin. Rich is an expert at taking high-achievers to the greatest levels of success. He's been a mentor and coach of mine for years. Here he's helping me with my branding as an executive coach and strategy consultant for startup CEOs. We draw out two...
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CEO Circle with Naman Trivedi, Caroline Caselli, and Randy Paris (#9)
On this episode, Aaron answers questions from three up-and-coming startup CEOs: Naman Trivedi, Caroline Caselli, and Randy Paris regarding:How to think about strategic opportunities vs. fundraising.How to create psychological safety and engage their teams.How to balance managing people vs. doing...
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Ishmael Jackson - Moving Through Life (#8)
Ishmael Jackson, founder and CEO of The Body Academy, grew up in abject poverty in Liberty City, Miami.He's faced discrimination based on skin color and sexual orientation since he was a kid.As Ishmael comments, “[I’m] an African American, recently married, my partner is male, in a country that…
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Lucas Philips - Willing to Lead (#7)
Lucas Philips founded BrewBike while he was in college at Northwestern University in 2015.Pre-coronavirus, BrewBike had expanded to UT Austin, Texas State, and the University of Miami, sold over 100,000 cups of coffee, paid student employees over $150,000 for their work, and raised over $2.5...
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Giovanna Marino - How to Self-Publish a Book on Amazon (#6)
This episode is an interview with Giovanna Marino, an entrepreneur based in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.Giovanna self-published her book How to Draw Graffiti Art: Learn to Master Tags, Wildstyle Technique, Urban Lettering and Creative Piecing on Amazon in November 2019, only 11 months after...
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Naman Trivedi - Leadership in Crisis (#5)
Naman Trivedi is the CEO and co-founder of WattBuy, an online electricity marketplace that helps residents save money and go renewable with their home electricity.As coronavirus continues to spread throughout the US and world, Naman was asking himself what he should be doing as a leader. How much...
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Mark Wieder - Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone (#4)
This episode was recorded before coronavirus spread significantly to the US and Puerto Rico.Mark Wieder got three degrees and worked as an attorney before jumping ship to start his own company.The Pop'd Shop, which he founded with his business and life partner Sophie Roman in Lancaster,...
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Benji Leibowitz - Building Things that Last (#3)
Benji Leibowitz is a data scientist at Tempus where he is working diligently to accelerate cancer research. He has visions of helping cure diseases, starting with cancer and ultimately slowing down aging.Like many of us, he feels held back by not valuing himself at a deep level, which he and…
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Frank Corrigan - Light-Bulb Moments (#2)
Frank Corrigan is a husband and dad of two kids. He's currently the director of supply chain performance for a large retailer. Recently, he ran the Houston Marathon in 2 hours and 34 minutes.Frank has held leadership positions for years, but now he's ready to commit to following a more direct…
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Himalaya Mehta - Follow Your Highest Excitement (#1)
Himalaya Mehta is a health actuary for a Fortune 500 company, a data science student pursuing a Masters from Northwestern, and a professional athlete for the Philadelphia Phoenix ultimate frisbee team. Now he's looking to create more of an impact in sustainability.Aaron guides Himalaya to take...
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Aaron Caulfield dives deep with high-achieving entrepreneurs, CEOs, and founders of startups. He gives you an inside look, unscripted at the dreams as well as the emotional challenges they face as leaders. Aaron previously worked for Accenture in Silicon Valley and studied finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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