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The Journey
by Mission.org
It only takes one idea or one story to change the whole trajectory of your life, career, and work. In each episode, we talk to entrepreneurs of all stripes, so you can prime yourself with the knowledge and mindset you need for your own journey.
Episodes
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Venturing into Solopreneurship with La Vaca Founder and CEO Emily Vaca
Emily Vaca, Founder & CEO of LA VACA Designhouse, talks about having a one-in-a-million idea, designing the iconic MINNIDIP pool, and what it’s like to take a huge bet on yourself. Tune in to learn: What it’s like to balance creativity and art (4:30) Why 4 am can be a game-changer (4:00) How to...
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What Does Resiliency Look Like? With Steve Denton, CEO of Ware2Go
Steve Denton didn’t grow up knowing how to be accountable, he had to learn that skill throughout his life. Along the way, accountability turned into dependability and, more importantly, resiliency, which has helped him see his way through a journey filled with highs and lows. Tune in to learn…
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Solving the Unsolvable Problem with Tini Lux Founder & CEO Jackie Burke
Jackie Burke wasn’t interested in being an entrepreneur. As an engineer, she was very risk-averse. But when her own skin allergy had her searching for a hypoallergenic earring and coming up empty, she felt called to solve a problem - and in the process, started a business, Tini Lux, that has…
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The Advantages of Adapting with Richer Poorer Founder & CEO Iva Pawling
To be an entrepreneur is to be constantly adapting. In a world where the market is ever-changing, it’s important to be able to shift, to refocus and rebrand… to be ready for whatever is coming next. Iva Pawling, the Founder & CEO of Richer Poorer, a California-based inner wear company with a cult...
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Standing Out in a Crowded Market with Paume’s Founder & CEO Amy Welsman
Any entrepreneur is going to face competition – it’s the nature of the game. All you can do is make your product the best it can be and hope that your consumers feel the same. But sometimes, your timing is unique, making that competition even fiercer than normal. Amy Weisman had her work cut out...
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Building Hydro Flask and Finding Purpose in Entrepreneurship with Travis Rosbach
The road to entrepreneurial success is long. It’s tedious. And there are points where it might make more sense to cut losses than it would be to keep forging onward. But sometimes, an idea gets bigger than just you – it becomes a movement… something that changes lives. “I was like, what happened,...
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Disrupting the Beauty Binary with Matthew Herman of Boy Smells
The world often wants to put people into boxes, to sift everyone into categories. It just seems easier sometimes: rich or poor. Successful or not. Worth listening to or worth tuning out. Right or wrong. Male or female. But there are people who are pushing back on those categories – people who...
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Following Passion to Unexpected Places, with Raili Clasen, Owner of Raili CA Design
When Raili Clasen’s interior designer left just a week into the job, Clasen was left looking at a massive project that seemed daunting. But when she listened to her gut and decided to take a swing at designing the space herself, it opened up a world of possibilities that launched an incredibly...
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Solving Everyday Problems with Innovative Solutions with Kelly Higney, Founder of Bug Bite Thing
When Kelley Higney moved to Florida, she knew she’d face some challenges: She was a young mother in a new state. She was in a new house in a new town. But there was one problem she didn’t expect: her daughter’s severe reactions to mosquito bites. Higney would watch helplessly as her six-month-old...
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The Best Leaders Can See the Big Picture and Small Details All at Once with Francois Kress of Feelmore Labs
If you’d asked Francois Kress what he thought he was going to be when he grew up, he probably would have told you that he was going to be a mathematician. It seemed like a very obvious answer, given his background. But life had other plans, and now Kress has arrived at the top of an industry he...
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Pivoting to Progress with Nadine Fonseca, Co-founder, Mighty Kind
Plot twits might be fun to read about in a story, but when it’s your life that’s getting upended or dramatically changed, you might not like it as much. Dashed dreams are among the hardest to pivot away from, because where do you go? Nadine Fonseca, co-founder and CEO of Mighty Kind, knows all…
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To Have Success, The Choice Needs to Be Yours with Hilary Coles, Co-founder of hims and hers
When we’re growing up, we’re always told that we can be what we want, we can do what we love, and we can have anything as long as we work for it. The harsh reality, though, is that for many people, the options are limited. When it comes to things like jobs, homes, or other huge aspects of life,...
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Using the Creator Economy to Your Advantage with Patricia Santos, Founder of Volition Beauty
The world of innovation is full of many unique challenges and conundrums, but perhaps none so painfully true as this: those who have access to the money don’t always have the ideas… and those who have the ideas often find themselves struggling to find the money. This problem is uniquely…
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What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Risk Aversion with Julian Reis, CEO and Founder of SuperOrdinary
In finance, there’s a term commonly used when analyzing different investment options called “opportunity cost.” Opportunity cost is what businesses use to analyze the potential benefits — and potential costs — of choosing one option over another. But for today’s guest, the discussion of…
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Building a Brandless Business with Jeremy Cai, CEO at Italic
The 10,000 hour rule, popularized by author Malcom Gladwell, states that it takes about that many hours of dedication in order to achieve mastery in a given task. Thinking innovatively about creating new business opportunities is helped by understanding as much as you can about that industry, the...
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Don't Be Afraid of Feedback with Andrew Suzuka, Founder of Otamot Foods
Have you ever been sitting around a campfire with friends, or riffing with your partner about some great business idea you had when you were walking the dog, or driving to the grocery store? We all get ideas that pop into our head when we see a need, have an unfilled want, or notice the way...
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Testing for Business Viability with Adam Callinan, Co-founder and President of BottleKeeper
Here are three words that might ring a bell: The scientific method. In its most basic form, the scientific method follows these steps: First, you identify the problem or question. Then you hypothesize a solution or outcome. From there, you design and run an experiment to test this prediction. And...
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How Paul Rathnam Made Millions by Saying "Yes"
You might have heard someone tell you to “protect your yes.” Meaning, you should not feel obligated to agree to do things, participate, or take something on that you truly don’t want to do. If it doesn’t fulfill you in one way or another, why do it? In business, sometimes you can’t protect your...
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Building a Nationally-Distributed Brand with No Industry Experience with Rod Johnson, Co-founder of BLK & Bold
We’ve seen it time and time again — entrepreneurs build a business driven by an existing passion for a product or service. They then leverage that knowledge of an industry’s pain points to find new and exciting ways to innovate within it. But we’ve also heard stories of the exact opposite. The...
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Authenticity Over Everything with Michael Chernow, Founder of Kreatures of Habit
In a book there are chapters that, together, create not just a story, but an entire world or reality that you can transport yourself into. Each of our own lives is made up of similar chapters that form the whole story of who you are and what you have become. Entrepreneurs often take elements of...
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From Bootstrapping to Bootlegging with Mitchell Hayes, Founder and CEO of Los Sundays Tequila
As Ernest Hemmingway wisely said, “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." But trusting blindly doesn’t come without risk and if someone ultimately proves they didn’t deserve your trust to begin with, it may already be too late.. That is the devastating lesson that...
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Telling the Best Story with Johannes Quodt, Co-CEO of Koio
What makes for a good story? Is it the world building? The hero? The big plot twist? How can we be left feeling unsatisfied at the end of a 2-hour-long movie, yet be left in tears by a 30-second commercial? What separates the story that resonates and the one that falls flat? And what does any of...
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More than Married: Finding the Right Cofounder with Elsie Rutterford and Dominika Minarovic, Co-founders of BYBI
‘I do.’ Those two words conjure up visions of wedding fayre, flowers, cake, brides, grooms. Marriage is a serious decision, complete with signed government documents and promises related to health and finances. If you break down a co-founder relationship, what you’ll find is a lot of those same...
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Why Celebrity Chefs and At-Home Cooks Flock To This Scrappy Apron Business with Ellen Bennett, Founder of Hedley & Bennett
There are some beloved characters in pop culture. Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird. Yoda from Star Wars. And then, of course, Dora The Explorer… Okay, maybe that last one is a bit of a stretch. But for Ellen Bennett, the founder of multi-million dollar apron...
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Korean Beauty Hack Brought to US Market by Ju Rhyu, CEO, Hero Cosmetics
Have you ever had an idea for a business or a product? If you are listening to this podcast, then the answer is most likely a resounding “yes!” But here’s a harder question… What did you do next? Maybe you jotted some things down in a notebook, or even went as far as making a business plan. But...
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Profitable from “Day 1” with Peter Dering, Founder and CEO of Peak Design
Oculus - a VR company acquired by Facebook for 2 billion dollars in 2014. Popsockets - the little pop out button that attaches to the back of your phone, a simple idea that is now making more than 100 million dollars in profit every year. And Tile - the bluetooth device that lets you find…
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Every Problem is an Opportunity with Russell Aldridge, CEO and Co-founder of SISU Cinema Robotics
What were you doing when you were 11 years old? Whatever it was, do you think it was shaping the person you are today? Not philosophically, I mean directly. Was the 11-year-old you learning the skills you’d need to succeed in the job you’re doing now? Very few people would answer yes to that...
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The Journey Continues!
Hey, Journey fans! It’s been a while, and I’ve been eagerly waiting to tell you something exciting… we’re back! Starting this Wednesday, we’ll be releasing weekly episodes highlighting the stories of some of the world’s most incredible small business leaders. They’ve risked it all, made big bets,...
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It Takes an Ohana: A Conversation with the Founding Team of Merivis
The founding story for any company is comparable to that of a great sports story: It typically features inspiring mentors, classic fumbles and recoveries, and of course, a team that has your back through it all. That’s why today’s episode of The Journey is a little bit different. Rather than...
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Reinventing Yourself with Mike Slagh, CEO of Shift.org
Imagine this. You’ve been working your way up inside an organization for 20 years. Your kids go to school on the company campus. Your spouse works on campus. You go shopping, get gas, grab coffee, walk your dog, and essentially live, work, and play all on campus. And then, imagine, 2 decades in,...
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Impact-Driven Business with Jesse Grothaus, CEO of Cloud Pathfinder Consulting
What if business can, at its core, be philanthropic? What if everything a business does is entirely derived from the motivation to do good? "We separate this idea of business and doing good in the world as two things that cannot be compatible with each other, but I think ... they can both exist....
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Getting to Market with Robert Patton, Founder of Sheath Underwear
You have a great idea for a product. It’s revolutionary, and it’s a project you need to bring to life. So, how do you build it? Unless you plan to handcraft every product, your next step is to perfect the design and then find a manufacturer to mass-produce it for you. But even when you find that...
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Taking the Pulse of the Market with Marissa Limsiaco, Co-founder and President of Otso
It’s no hidden truth that the lifestyle of an entrepreneur is in most ways a gamble. You’re risking finances, personal relationships, and often your own mental well-being. Yet it’s this BIG bet that so many smart, driven people are willing to make -- and it’s a gamble that today’s guest was…
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Success, One Customer at a Time with Glenn Gonzales, Founder and CEO of Jet It
When building a business, it is easy to be blinded by the big, flashy measures of success. And when your heart and mind are set on acquiring more customers, getting more investors, hiring more people, and scaling the business as fast as possible… you can quickly lose sight of the daily wins that...
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Season 8: The Inspiring Stories of Veterans-Turned-Entrepreneurs
The Journey is back for another season! Season 8 focuses on the stories of veterans-turned-entrepreneurs. We’ll dive into the backgrounds of men and women who chose to dedicate themselves to service to their country, and then took on another difficult role when they re-entered civilian life and...
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From Venture Capital to Social Capital with Kobie Fuller, General Partner of Upfront Ventures
We live in a diverse world full of different cultures, new ideas, fresh perspectives, and uniquely-themselves people. But oftentimes those who are seated around boardroom tables or walking up and down corporate halls don’t reflect this same level of diversity. In Kobie Fuller’s experience, this...
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A System for Success with Shelly Bell, Founder of Black Girl Ventures
Embracing a certain amount of delusional optimism is the hallmark of every entrepreneur. But what separates the dreamers from the doers? What differentiates those who would like to reach their goals and those who do reach their goals? “At that point I had three children, and staying the course…
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Meeting Your Customer Where They Are with Charley Moore, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lawyer
Many of the institutions that we rely on every day have been built on decades-old infrastructure and outdated business philosophies. There are countless industries with roots in the past that have yet to face disruption or embrace innovation. One such institution is our legal and justice system....
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Becoming the Arbiter of Your Destiny with Melissa Bradley, Co-founder of Ureeka
How much of our destinies do we control? How much is predetermined? And how much do the environments around us play a role in who we can be or what we can do? As entrepreneurs, we like to think that we own our destinies, that we are 100% in charge. But the real world has a habit of reminding us...
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Representation Matters with Widline Pyrame, Founder and CEO of Fushion Dolls
We do weird things to fit in… buy the new Nikes, cave to the Kombucha, even try goat yoga. Fads come and go all the time, but what happens when these “passing fads” don’t pass, and they bleed into our cultural definitions, instead? When they become destructive or harmful – all in the name of an...
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Connecting the Dots with Dionna McPhatter, Founder of Nacci
Being too young, or being too old. Having an accent. Overcoming a disability. Being female or a person of color. These so-called ‘boxes’ that we fall into shouldn’t play a role in how others see us or how we see ourselves, yet so often we find ourselves trapped by the burden of our labels. Dionna...
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Overcoming Success Disasters with Ryan Smith, Co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics
A huge part of growing a business is understanding what can scale and what can’t. What will HR, sales, marketing, customer experience, employee experience, or even the foundational business model all look like as the company grows? The truth is that none of these systems will look exactly how…
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Go Big or Go Home with Tiffanie Stanard, Founder and CEO of Stimulus
Every decision we make brings with it a certain amount of risk. Sometimes the risk is so small it’s negligible. Other times the risk is so daunting it scares you into submission. Going all-in on a new and novel business idea, saying no to the steady paycheck and yes to financial instability,...
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Finding Your Founding Team with Kraig Swensrud, Founder of Qualified.com
We’ve all heard some variant of the phrase “Good business is just about building good relationships.” But, as true as this statement is, it’s also true that building and maintaining good relationships is hard - it takes time, thought, passion, and connection. And perhaps one of the most…
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An Honest Conversation About Pay with Cynthia Medina Carson, Founder and CEO of WAGER
If you are a fan of this podcast, then you are likely a business owner, an aspiring entrepreneur, or at the forefront of innovation within a growing company. Today, you are the one creating jobs, but think back to when you were the one applying for them. How much did you get paid? Were you paid...
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Creating a Community of True Fans with Amber Atherton, Founder and CEO of Zyper
When you live in a world of curated feeds, it can sometimes feel impossible to know what’s real. Finding the companies and people who are making genuinely great products while maintaining the values that you support is like finding a needle in an ever-expanding haystack. And when you are the...
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A How-To Guide in Dreaming Big with Anna Piñol, Co-founder and CMO of Jupiter
There’s an old saying that goes “Man plans, God laughs.” Things very rarely go according to plan. No matter how meticulously we think ahead, the path toward our goals is always subject to roadblocks and detours. But while the journey might rival Pan’s labyrinth, the BIG dream – your ultimate goal...
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Say Hello to Season 6
The Journey is on break this week, but don't let that get you down! We will be back next week with an all-new season focused on community-building inside and outside your organization. Don't miss it! --- Learn more about The Journey at mission.org/thejourney. The Journey is sponsored by our…
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Finding Your North Star with Warren Schaeffer, Co-founder and CEO of Knowable
As we grow up, moments of stark realization are inevitable. Our parents don’t actually know everything. Dinosaurs don’t still exist. A whole dollar isn’t really that much money. For Warren Schaeffer, one of those moments meant coming face to face with the darker side of entrepreneurship at a…
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Building a Lasting Team with Chris Hsu , Co-founder and CEO of Zibo
Leading a team onto the battlefield of business – or quite literally a battlefield – isn’t for the faint of heart. Being a leader is about setting the route for others to follow; it’s a huge responsibility that often results in having to make extremely difficult decisions. “A month or two into my...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
It only takes one idea or one story to change the whole trajectory of your life, career, and work. In each episode, we talk to entrepreneurs of all stripes, so you can prime yourself with the knowledge and mindset you need for your own journey.
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