All Episodes

#179 – Henry Munez | Leadership, Relationships and the Future of Banking

#178 – Christina Ackermann | Leading Beyond Legal: Strategy, Growth and Governance

#177 – Wendell Dallas | Powering Illinois: Leadership, Strategy & the Future of Energy

#176 – Varvara Alva | What Great CFOs Actually Do: Leadership, Teams & the C-Suite

#175 – Tyrone Thomas | Inside the Mind of a General Counsel: Leadership, Risk & Decision-Making

#174 – Nick Moran | Why Outsider Founders Win and How New Stack Picks the Best Early-Stage Teams

#173 – Michael Roytman | How AI Is Changing Cyber Risk And What Most Companies Get Wrong

#172 – Betsy Fore | From First Indigenous Founder to Raise a Series A to Becoming a VC Leader

#171 – Rola Dagher | Rising from War to the Global Boardroom: Leadership with Purpose

#170 – Terry Graunke | From Founder to Family Office: Lessons on Building Businesses That Last

#169 – Brian Wolfe | Private Equity in Chicago: Lessons on Building and Backing Startups

#168 – Pablo Srugo | Inside Mistral VC: How Canadian Venture Capital Backs Startups

#167 – Vijen Patel | From P&G Exit to $41M VC Fund: Why Boring Industries Win

#166 – Harry Kraemer | Leading with Values: Lessons from a Former Global CEO & Kellogg Professor

#165 – Michael Fassnacht | Building Brands, Driving Growth, and Elevating Chicago

#164 – Landon Campbell | Venture Capital, Community Building, and Chicago Tech

#163 - Edward Woodford | Crypto, Stablecoins, and the Future of Finance

#162 - Thomas Thayyil Thomas | Transforming Deal Strategy Using AI

#161 - Duane Jackson | Investing in Founder-Led Businesses and Building Author Capital Partners

#160 - Shawn Ellis | Inside a $100M Fund Investing in the Future of Risk

#159 - Chris Crawford | Making Prescription Drug Costs Affordable

#158 - Sean Johnson | Proven Marketing Strategies for Professional Services

#157 - Samara Hernandez | Journey from Mexico to $52M VC Fund

#156 - Andrew Sykes | The Power of Habits & Building Trust

#155 - Mike de Vere | How Zest AI, a Fintech Breakthrough, is Making Fair Credit Accessible

#154 - Victor Pascucci III | Pioneering Venture Capital at the Forefront of Natural Gas Innovation

#153 - Gale Wilkinson | Demystifying Investing, The Path to Inclusive Venture Capital

#152 - Allison Whalen | Balancing Parenthood and Career, The Journey to Founding Parentaly

#151 - Samir Mirza | The Ups & Downs of Entrepreneurship

#150 - Dan Zavorotny | leveraging technology to improve global health

#149 - Chris Kelly | The Sandler Sales Training Methodology

#148 - Claude Cimeus | Being Authentic & Bringing People Together

#147 - Swapnil Shinde | exiting 2 startups & building AI for finance teams

#146 - Mark Achler | How to Sell Your Startup, Maximize Return and Build Legacy

#145 - Kenny Rose | earning passive income through franchise investing

#144 - Kristel Bechara | Becoming the First Female Artist From the Middle East to Launch NFT’s

#143 - Priyanka Jain | Reinventing How We Understand & Treat the Female Body

#142 - Daniel Dubois | Co-ownership Platform Providing Access to Real Estate for All

#141 - Amanda Lannert | Vulnerability in Leadership & Daring to Be Great

#140 - Paul Hsu | Investing in Web3 With a $48.8M Blockchain Venture Fund

#139 - Guy Kawasaki | The Art of the Start & Lessons From Steve Jobs

#138 - Victor Gutwein | Building One of the Most Active VC Firms in the Midwest at 29

#137 - Boyede Sobitan | building a digital marketplace for cultural groceries

#136 - Anoop Gupta | SeekOut crossing unicorn status & lessons from working with Bill Gates

#135 - Austin Long | Building Community Through Internet Collectibles

#134 - Pete Wilkins | Finding Purpose as an Entrepreneur

#133 - Lauren Foundos | From Wall St. to Fitness Tech

#132 - Kyle Nakatsuji | Building a Smarter Choice for Car Insurance

#131 - Yuval Brisker | The Emergence of Embedded Finance

#130 - Ash Agarwal | Digitally Transforming the Resource Industry

#129 - Marc Champagne | Questions That Stimulate Your Mental Fitness

#128 - Brendan Wallace| Building the Largest Venture Capital Firm Focused on Real Estate Tech

#127 - Brian Barnes | Personal Finance, Fintech, & Reaching Unicorn Status

#126 - Matt Van Horn | Cofounding Zimride (Now Lyft) & Creating an Intelligent Oven

#125 - Joe Foster | The Founder of Reebok 👟

#124 - Kailin Noivo, Co-Founder of Noibu | From Finance to Entrepreneurship, Lessons From the Trenches

#123 - Matt Bailey, Founder GameOn | Building the Future of Superfan Engagement

#122 - John Abrams, CEO of Venzee Technologies | Optimizing supply chain with artificial intelligence

#121 - Michael Schein, President of MicroFame Media | Lessons From the World’s Greatest Propagandists

#120 - Deon Nicholas, CEO of Forethought | TechCrunch Disrupt winner, the "AI for Customer Support"

LGC E119 - Jon Cheney | Augmented Reality Meets Commerce

LGC E118 - Rachel Tipograph | Creativity, eCommerce, & Influence

LGC E117 - Jeff Korzenik | how second chance hiring works for your business and the community

LGC E116 - Tessa Wijaya | building the fastest growing digital payments infrastructure in Southeast Asia

LGC E115 - Rohan Kapoor | being a houseguest on Big Brother Canada 9 #roshow

LGC E114 - Eytan Bensoussan | building the most effective banking experience in the world

LGC E113 - Naveen Jain | ideas that will push humanity forward 🚀

LGC E112 - Hardika Shah | Financial Inclusion for Small Business Entrepreneurs

LGC E111 - Elie Habib | Becoming the First Arab Tech Company to IPO on Nasdaq

LGC E110 - Sean Merat | entrepreneurship, MMA, life & more

LGC E109 - Ryan Walsh | Shaping the Future of Drone Delivery

LGC E108 - Anthony Zhang | Overcoming Tough Times & Building a Platform for Fine Wine

LGC E107 - Allen Lau | Building One of the Largest Storytelling Platforms and Getting Acquired for US$600M

LGC E106 - Kalpesh Kapadia | Creating a digital-first credit card platform for students & immigrants

LGC E105 - Brett Johnson | Professional Soccer Player Turned Startup Founder

LGC E104 - Jay Samit | One of the World's Leading Experts on Disruption

LGC E103 - Dr. Shawn Baker | The Carnivore Diet 🥩

LGC E102 - Isabelle Kenyon | Changing the way the world treats weight

LGC E101 - Anshul Pandey, Ph.D. | Day in the life of a CTO building no-code AI

🎊 LGC E100! with Jean Desgagne | Life & career lessons from the C-Suite (a special episode with a friend, and mentor)

LGC E99 - Ablorde Ashigbi | Consultant turned VC turned startup founder & building 4Degrees

LGC E98 - Cheryl Kemp | Starting a company during COVID after being let go & meeting Co-Founders virtually

LGC E97 - Jared Mattsson | First time founder making networking more efficient

LGC E96 - Xenia Muntean | Entrepreneurship in Europe, Building Planable, Forbes 30 Under 30

LGC E95 - Anshul Ruparell | Disrupting real estate & raising $100M

LGC E94 - Tim Schumm | The world of recruiting post pandemic & landing a job effectively

LGC E93 - Andrew Ostro | Shaking up the life insurance industry

LGC E92 - Jake Dunlap | Shaping the Future of Modern Sales

LGC E91 - Jeremie Bacon | Building the world's largest aerial adventure park while being a full-time Tech CEO

LGC E90 - Loulou Khazen Baz | Exiting Nabbesh.com and becoming an angel investor in the UAE

LGC E89 - Garry Cooper | Building tech to scale reuse within organizations via Rheaply

LGC E88 - Godard Abel | 2 successful exits (Oracle & Salesforce) to now building G2.com, one of Chicago's top B2B Tech startups

LGC E87 - Kieran Mathew | Changing the way brands communicate with youth (Gen Z marketing)

LGC E86 - Jeffrey Doucet | Software to help people advance their careers

LGC E85 - Justin Bailie | Running a startup while being a father of four

LGC E84 - David Cairns | What offices will look like post-COVID

LGC E83 - Zev Siegl | Starting up the largest coffee company in the world, Starbucks

LGC E82 - Shrad Rao | "Building the kind of company I've always wanted to work at"

LGC E81 - Sophie Le Ray | Being an entrepreneur & mixing business with family/life

LGC E80 - Michael Brody-Waite | Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do