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What We Need to Grow.
by A conversation series by 79 Development
What We Need to Grow is a 79 Development conversation series with the people building what's next, hosted by Caleb Pedosiuk.Execution is getting cheaper. The scarce thing now is the clarity to know what's worth growing before you touch a single tool.Every conversation comes back to one question: not what can we do, but what should we be doing?We cover everything from mergers, acquisitions and private equity to regenerative agriculture, wellness and humanitarian work, and what it means to solve meaningful problems today.Who should we talk to next? Reach us at 79dev.com.
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Ep. 064 | Showing Up in AI Search Takes More Than an SEO Checklist | Jesse McFarland
Jesse McFarland is the founder of SpearPoint Marketing, the Denver B2B SEO and AI search agency he launched in January 2022 after roughly seventeen years in digital marketing, including CMO and head-of-growth roles across cybersecurity, SaaS, legal and healthcare. He works mostly with B2B...
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Ep. 063 | How a Nonprofit Scales Without Relying on Donations | Miriam Chickering
Miriam Chickering is a registered nurse with an MBA and the CEO of The Frank Foundation, the US charitable foundation whose platform NextGenU.org gives away free, competency-based health sciences education to anyone in any country. She founded Nurses International in 2013 to mobilize nursing...
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Ep. 062 | The Brand Architect Behind Beyoncé, Destiny's Child, and More | Mathew Knowles
Mathew Knowles is the founder, president and CEO of Music World Entertainment, the Houston label and management company he started after walking away from a twenty-year corporate sales career at the age of forty. Before that he spent ten years at Xerox, most of it in the medical systems division...
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Ep. 061 | Why Canada Has a Family Doctor Shortage When Care Is Free | Julie Wilson
Julie Wilson is a family physician and the CEO and Medical Director of Terra Nova Medical Clinics, a physician-led primary care network in British Columbia. She has grown it over eleven years from a single location to, by her own count, 25 clinics and 170 clinicians, in a province where solo...
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Ep. 060 | Why AI Recommends Airbnb Instead of Your Rental Business | Nathan Harwell
Nathan Harwell is the owner of B&B Hosting, an end-to-end short-term rental management company in Abilene, Texas. His background was in large commercial electricity contract structuring and negotiation, where he built a company to 49% ownership and then found he could no longer steer where it…
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Ep. 059 | What Brands Actually Buy in a Sports Sponsorship | Scott Gwartz
Scott Gwartz is Vice President, New Partnerships for UCLA x Rose Bowl Properties at JMI Sports, which holds the commercial rights to UCLA Athletics and the Rose Bowl Stadium. He has spent more than twenty years in sports marketing partnerships and has managed over $110 million in corporate...
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Ep. 058 | How Allied Health Providers Build a Private Practice | Andrea Plitz
Andrea Plitz is a co-founder of Bloom Integrative Health & Movement Centre, an interdisciplinary clinic with locations in central Ottawa and in Stittsville, and an orthopaedic and pelvic floor physiotherapist who has worked in pelvic and women's health for sixteen years. She is also a registered...
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Ep. 057 | Why Firefighters Train in VR Before Real Fires | Evan Sitler-Bates
Evan Sitler-Bates is the co-founder and CEO of XpertVR, an Ontario company that builds virtual reality training simulations for firefighters and other first responders. He co-founded it in 2017 with Drew MacNeil while both were students at Brock University's Goodman School of Business, spent the...
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Ep. 056 | How People in Recovery Build a Career After Treatment | Stephen Deason
Stephen Deason is the founder and CEO of The OPARASA Group in Roswell, Georgia, a family of businesses that ties healthcare staffing and home care to helping people in recovery build worth. The group includes OPA Home Care, a Georgia-licensed private home care provider serving the elderly, the...
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Ep. 055 | Why AI Has Not Reduced Misdiagnosis in Primary Care | Paul Battle
Paul Battle is the co-founder and President of Medome, an AI-powered personal health record platform built on five years of research at Stanford and Harvard and designed to prevent primary care misdiagnosis before it happens. He spent more than two decades in technology at IBM and then Lenovo,...
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Ep. 054 | Social Enterprise to Combat Human Trafficking | Dawn Manske
Content advisory: this conversation includes direct description of child sex trafficking.Dawn Manske is the founder of Made for Freedom, a St. Louis based for-profit social enterprise that sells apparel, jewellery, home decor, bath and body products, baby gear and coffee made by survivors of…
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Ep. 053 | What Happens to Future Leaders When AI Takes Entry-Level Jobs | Chris Berta
Chris Berta is a partner at Laurel Group, an executive search firm that places C-suite and senior leaders at technology companies, where he leads business development and senior management searches. He has more than 24 years in recruiting, sales and marketing, and before search he was Head of...
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Ep. 052 | How Buyers Earn the Trust of a Retiring Business Owner | Shawn Heeren
Shawn Heeren is the founder and CEO of Crestline Cleaning Group, a long-term owner and operator of commercial cleaning businesses in Southern Ontario. Crestline buys owner-led commercial janitorial, facility and specialty cleaning companies with recurring accounts, and it does not broker and does...
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Ep. 051 | Why AI Recommends One Competitor Over Another | Nico Photos
Nico Photos is head of marketing at One Step GPS and co-founder of The Peachy Company, working as a fractional marketing lead across two or three companies at a time. He ran two agencies of his own before this, a design agency that became a PPC agency, which is where his scepticism about agencies...
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Ep. 050 | Why a Downturn Is the Right Time to Start a Business | Matt Remuzzi
Matt Remuzzi is the founder of CapForge, the San Diego accounting and bookkeeping practice he started in 2000 out of a layoff and now runs with a team of about eighty serving clients across the United States. He got there the long way: a psychology degree, years managing restaurants and being…
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Ep. 049 | Why the STEM Talent Pipeline Starts With 8th Grade Algebra | Adrian Mims
Dr. Adrian Mims Sr. is the founder and CEO of The Calculus Project, the Massachusetts nonprofit he built out of his own doctoral dissertation and has run since 2009. The program works with school districts, families and educators to get Black, Hispanic, Indigenous and low-income students into...
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Ep. 048 | Why B2B Podcasts Are Brand, Not Performance | Corey Coates
Corey Coates is the co-founder and CEO of Podfly, the branded podcast production company he has run since 2013, and the co-creator and co-host of The Podcast Producers. Podfly builds shows for organizations rather than for itself, among them NI's engineering series Testing 1, 2, 3 and a run of...
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Ep. 047 | How Artists Can Lead Community Transformation | Patty Bowman Kingsley
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 047 Patty Bowman Kingsley is a painter and arts leader based in Bowmanville, Ontario, CEO of CreateGood Inc. and administrative director of a Canadian arts charity. She studied painting and drawing at OCAD University, was elected to public office at twenty-one, and has...
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Ep. 046 | How a Ramen Shop Became a North American Grocery Brand | Jared Ferrall
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 046 Jared Ferrall co-founded Crafty Ramen in Guelph, Ontario in 2017 with his wife Miki, after roughly ten years cooking in Michelin-starred kitchens, including Gordon Ramsay's, and a spell as a private chef on a luxury yacht. The two of them trained together at the...
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Ep. 045 | Hardware Emulation vs Digital Twins for Defense Teams | Peter Brady
Peter Brady is the founder and CEO of Certo Systems, the Arlington, Virginia company building a real-time emulator of custom hardware so software teams can develop and validate against a device before the physical device exists. He is a software engineer with a bachelor's in electrical…
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Ep. 044 | How Professional Service Firms Win and Keep Clients | Hilary Fordwich | Founder Talk
Hilary Fordwich is the president and founder of Strelmark, the Washington, D.C. business development firm she started in 2002 to teach professional service firms how to gain and retain clients. Before founding it she spent more than a decade running business development for KPMG, as head of…
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Ep. 043 | How to Measure the Mental Side of Athletic Performance | Ryan Schachtner
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 043 Ryan Schachtner is the co-founder of Success Beyond Game Day, a neuroscience-based athlete development company, and the president of Carolina Asset Management, the Charlotte financial planning firm he built after a shoulder injury ended his college baseball career.…
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Ep. 042 | Why Clean Tech Startups Need PR to Raise Capital and Scale | Kari Kylo
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 042 Kari Kylo is the founder and managing director of SOMA Public Relations, a B Corp certified boutique PR agency in North Vancouver that works with purpose-driven organizations in health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and technology for good. SOMA's…
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Ep. 041 | What Happens When a Founder Leaves the Company to His Employees | Paige Mejia
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 041 Paige Mejia is co-owner and chief marketing officer of Pyrotex, the oldest Texas-based professional pyrotechnics company, founded in 1979 by Randy Beckham and based on 80 acres in Leonard, Texas. She joined in 2011, and in 2017, when Randy died two days after the...
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Ep. 040 | Why an Independent Mortgage Broker Advises on the Whole Market | Deren Hasip
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 040 Deren Hasip is the founder, principal broker and broker coach of Mortgage Scout, a boutique mortgage brokerage licensed in Ontario and British Columbia, which he built after a couple of decades in institutional banking. Mortgage Scout was named Best Brokerage,...
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Ep. 039 | How to Make a Startup Investment Ready Before You Raise | Gabriel Osamor
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 039 Gabriel Osamor is the founder and CEO of Migasuto, the London fractional CFO firm he co-founded in 2023, and the CFO of the Black British Initiative, a charity working to close the wealth gap between Black entrepreneurs and the wider UK public. He trained in law…
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Ep. 038 | How to Manufacture in the US Without Raising Money | Adam Baker
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 038 Adam Baker is the founder and CEO of SodaPup, the Boulder, Colorado company he started in 2012 under True Dogs, LLC and built into one of the leading names in food-based enrichment for dogs. Lick mats, slow feeders, enrichment trays and durable chew toys, every one…
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Ep. 037 | Why Projects Keep Failing When You Only Treat the Symptoms | Mounir Ajam
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 037 M ounir Ajam is the founder and CEO of Uruk Project Management, based in Houston, Texas, with over 35 years on projects worth billions of dollars.Fifteen of those years were inside capital projects in oil, gas and petrochemicals, from a small job inside an operating...
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Ep. 036 | Why Chronic Symptoms Get Chased Instead of Traced | Martin Pytela
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 036 T he Score and the Concert: The Path to Wellness, Genetics & Epigenetics, Life EnthusiastMartin Pytela is the founder of Life Enthusiast and a certified metabolic typing advisor, based in Victoria, British Columbia. He arrived in Canada from Czechoslovakia with a...
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Ep. 035 | Why This VC Runs Fourteen Small Funds Instead of One Big One | Andrew Batey
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 035 F inding Four Billion Dollars: The Fraud Hiding Inside Music Streaming, and Why This VC Runs Fourteen Small Funds Instead of One Big One | Andrew BateyAndrew Batey is the founder and general partner of Side Door Ventures and the co-founder and co-CEO of Beatdapp....
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Ep. 034 | How 3D Bioprinting Replaces Animal Testing in Drug Discovery | Stephanie Willerth
What We Need to Grow Ep. 034 W e'll Sell the Ink: Why Mice Don't Get Alzheimer's, and How a Professor Built a Bioink Company by Selling to Everyone Else's Printers | Dr. Stephanie WillerthDr. Stephanie Willerth is co-founder and CEO of Axolotl Biosciences and a professor at the University of...
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Ep. 033 | How to Buy and Run a Manufacturer Through a Tariff Shock | Liohn Sherer
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 033 N ot a Wartime CEO: A Quebec Manufacturer on Tariffs, Selling the Family Business, and the Systems That Made It Worth Buying | Liohn Sherer, Ideal SecurityLiohn Sherer is the former president and owner of Ideal Security, a Greater Montreal specialty door hardware...
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Ep. 032 | How Many Real Decisions a Leader Actually Makes in a Year | Derek Wilder
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 032 Eight to Ten Decisions a Year: A CPA and Homebuilding CEO on Chaos, Feedback Loops and What a Leader Is Actually Paid For | Derek Wilder Derek Wilder is a CPA who started a residential building company in the 1990s, sold it about four years ago to a large Midwest...
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Ep. 031 | Why Booking a Speaker Is a Behaviour Change Problem | Martin Perelmuter
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 031 T he Behavior Change Business: The Co-Founder of a 40,000-Engagement Speakers Bureau on Why an Event Is Not a Slot to Fill | Martin Perelmuter, Speakers SpotlightM artin Perelmuter is president and co-founder of Speakers Spotlight, the Toronto speakers bureau he...
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Ep. 030 | Why Meetings Are the Work, and How to Fix Them | Mark Barbir
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 030 The Meeting Is the Work: An AI Chief of Staff Founder on Collapsing the Gap Between Talking About Work and Doing It | Mark Barbir, earmarkMark Barbir is co-founder and CEO of earmark, an AI chief of staff for product and engineering teams that turns what gets said…
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Ep. 029 | How to Decide Which Growth Work Deserves to Be Done | Laura Patterson
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 029 What Deserves to Be Done: A B2B Growth Strategist on Why Companies Don't Have an Execution Problem | Laura Patterson, VisionEdge MarketingLaura Patterson is co-founder and President of VisionEdge Marketing, the Austin firm she started in 1999 and has led for...
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Ep. 028 | What Survived the Clean Tech Collapse | Ben Klepacki
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 028 Follow the Bouncing Ball: An Energy Engineer on Why Energy Scarcity Beats Ideology, and What the Clean Tech Shakeout Left Standing | Ben Klepacki, WestGen TechnologiesBen Klepacki, P.Eng., is co-founder, President and CEO of WestGen Technologies, the Calgary company...
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Ep. 027 | What Combat Sports Teach Founders About Emotional Control | Max Reck
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 027 You Don't Box Angry: A Berlin Founder on Building an AI Meditation App for People Who Think Meditation Is Nonsense | Max Reck, SYLOMax Reck is co-founder and managing director of SYLO, a Berlin company building an AI meditation and journaling app that generates…
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Ep. 026 | How Lenders Actually Assess Small Business Risk | Juana Attieh
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 026 Risk Is a Movie, Not a Photograph: A Fintech Co-Founder on Why Open Banking Solves Access But Not Meaning | Juana Attieh, AMLOKJuana Attieh is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of AMLOK, a Toronto company building risk intelligence infrastructure for the...
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Ep. 025 | How Class Action Settlements Actually Reach People | Scott Hardy
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 025 Increase Access to Justice: The Non-Lawyer Who Built the Biggest Class Action Audience in the Country on Organic Search Alone | Scott Hardy, Top Class ActionsScott Hardy founded Top Class Actions in 2008 after finding a class action settlement that almost everyone…
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Ep. 024 | How Bitcoin Fits Into Generational Wealth Planning | Brandon Karpeles
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 024 Generate Your Own Entropy: A Bitcoin Advisory CEO on the Coldcard Exploit, Self-Custody, and Why Groupthink Is Not Verification | Brandon Karpeles, SovreignBrandon Karpeles spent almost all of his professional career working with distressed assets, companies and...
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Ep. 023 | How to Keep AI-Generated Content Sounding Human | Matt Blumberg
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 023 The Machines Are Looking for Signs of Humanity: A 30-Year Tech CEO on Content Governance, AI Search, and Why Everybody's Content Now Sounds the Same | Matt Blumberg, Markup AIMatt Blumberg has been building on the internet since the dot com boom. He founded Return...
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Ep. 022 | How a Physical Product Startup Gets Into Retail | Sean Rana
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Ep. 021 | How to Turn Professional Services Into a Repeatable Pipeline | Dave Anderson
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Ep. 010 | Why Soil Is the Infrastructure of a Local Food System | Josh Blank
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Ep. 016 | Why Your Organization Behaves Like Weather, Not a Machine | Derek Wilder
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Ep. 017 | How Veterans Navigate Systems That Were Built to Help Them | Ryan Hawley
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Ep. 019 | Why Scaling an Impact Business Can Undo the Impact | Sam Hasty
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Ep. 020 | How Canadian Farmers Get Paid to Produce Nature | Bryan Gilvesy
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Ep. 018 | Five Estate Documents Every Family Needs | Bryan Walley
What We Need to Grow · Ep. 018 Half of Homeowners Have No Will: A Fintech CEO on the Five Estate Documents Every Family Needs | Bryan Walley, Forward Inheritance Bryan Walley spent twelve years at City National Bank building and eventually running Exactuals, its fintech payments platform, moving...
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What We Need to Grow is a 79 Development conversation series with the people building what's next, hosted by Caleb Pedosiuk.Execution is getting cheaper. The scarce thing now is the clarity to know what's worth growing before you touch a single tool.Every conversation comes back to one question: not what can we do, but what should we be doing?We cover everything from mergers, acquisitions and private equity to regenerative agriculture, wellness and humanitarian work, and what it means to solve meaningful problems today.Who should we talk to next? Reach us at 79dev.com.
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