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The Disruption Lab — 93 episodes
There’s a Hospital Bed for the Child. Where’s the Bed for the Mom?
She Sews for Super Bowl Halftime Shows; Then She Moved the Work to Kansas City.
Kansas City Didn't Leave Out Its African Entrepreneurs. It Didn't Know They Existed.
Building a Business That Heals a Community
The Masks Weren't the Business, The People Sewing Them Were
What the Network Enables (Part II)
How Kansas City Won a World Cup It Wasn't Supposed to Get
The New Geography of Growth
The Labor Shortage Is a Lie: How Two Immigrant Founders Built a 96% Retention Company
She Ran a $14M Beauty Department, Then Watched It Shut Black Founders Out
You Can't Eat IRR: Why Venture Capital's Economics Are Broken
She Grew Up Homeless in Lykins. Now She's Building Homes There
Easy To Work With
How One Attorney Turned a Broken Divorce System Into an Operating System for Families
The Chemical Keeping Your Fridge Cold Just Got Banned; Here's What Happens Next
The Judge and the Data Scientist Rebuilding Justice From the Inside
85% Want Help. 5% Get It. This Founder Duo Is Closing the Gap.
11 Years and Counting: The Creative Chief Who Outlasted His Own Rule
From Haute Couture to Kombucha: How One Founder Is Growing the Future of Fashion
The Innovation Nobody Can Measure
The Logistics Hub Hiding in Plain Sight: How Kansas City Quietly Powers America
AI Broke the Grid; Nuclear Is How We Fix It
Designed, Not Counted
Ideas Are Cheap; This Is What Actually Builds a City
Doing Well by Doing Good: The Lesson That Took 15 Years to Land
The Kids Who Never Got to Practice: How VR Is Teaching Social Skills Schools Forgot to Teach
The Hidden Influencers: What Analysts Know, What AI Just Changed, and What It Really Costs to Build Something Worth Stepping Away From
The Corporate Antibody: How Big Companies Kill Innovation (And What Actually Works)
The Quiet Revolution: Why Animal Health Is America's Overlooked Superpower
The Growth That Counts
They Were Wrong by 50% Every Time — Inside the Invisible Crisis Running America's Food Supply Chain
From the Capitol to the Startup: Why a State Senator Quit Politics to Fund Founders
The Mayor Who Refuses to Play Small: Rebuilding Trust in an Underestimated City
Inside the Food Access Model Cities Are Getting Wrong: Corner Stores, Redlining, and Feeding a City
Stop Calling It Charity. Affordable Housing Is Infrastructure.
The Money Isn’t the Problem
From Grammy Stages to Kansas City Creative Economy
The Bottleneck Is Never What You Think It Is
95% of It Goes Through China — And We Can't Do Anything About It
The #1 Bottleneck in Drug Development Isn’t Science
The Overlooked Mental Health Barrier No One Talks About: Pets, Trauma & A 100% Return-Home Solutionn
Building in Public: How Radical Transparency Is Changing Real Estate, Cities, and Power
What Happens to Work When AI Knows Almost Everything? (And What That Means for You)
Building Autonomy and AI for National Security in Kansas City
If Your Team Isn’t Listening, It’s Not Them—It’s This One Leadership Mistake
The Truth About Gentrification: Can Development Help Without Displacement?
From Grants to Growth: How KC GIFT Is Rewriting the Rules of Economic Development
AI Isn’t Killing Us—We Are: How to Use Robots Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Community)
The Power of People: How Benny Lee Built Global Companies—and a Legacy of Giving
Smart Cities 101: How Tech, Safety & Equity Are Redefining Urban Life
Inside the Nation’s First Wellness Court - From Punishment to Possibility
The Viral Razor from Shark Tank: How Go Nuts Is Changing Men’s Grooming Forever
Turning 381 Million Tons of Plastic Waste Into Fashion: The Salubata Story
The Future of Voting: Can Civic Tech and AI Save Democracy?
From Wall Street Dreams to Regenerating Cities: How Capital Can Heal Communities and the Planet
The Startup Taking On the Autism Resource Crisis (And Winning)
How a Streetcar, a Park, and a Crazy Idea Changed a Whole City
The Startup Fix No One Talks About: Why Community Beats Capital
Why These Founders Are Betting on Startups to Fix Their Countries (Inside the global shift toward entrepreneurship)
Why the $1.8T Construction Industry Is Finally Ready for Disruption (and How AI Will Lead It)
You’re Not Failing—You’re Just the First One to Try: What Founders Get Wrong About Doubt
Why 76% of OTs Want to Be Entrepreneurs (And What’s Broken in Clinical Care That’s Pushing Them There)
She Turned Her Wedding Returns Into a High Growth Venture (And It’s Genius)
Why Building Something That Last Feels So Messy (And What That Actually Means)
Why Innovation in Government Feels Impossible — And What Actually Works
How One Scientist Is Turning a $20B Pollution Problem Into a Climate Solution
The Biggest Lie in Entrepreneurship—and The Brutal Truth About Starting a Business
How a Small Bank is Quietly Disrupting Big Finance
Businesses that heal: How Social Ventures Can Rebuild Divided Communities
Solving Healthcare’s Billion-Dollar Problem: Meet the Founder Changing Medical Injections Forever
$11 Million Mistake to Startup Success: How DevStride's Founder is Fixing Project Management
Can Journalism Survive? Inside the Fight to Rebuild Trust & Save Local News
This AI Skeptic Built One of America's Fastest-Growing Tech Communities: How to Use AI Without Losing Your Humanity
"Why Traditional Crime Prevention Is Failing — And What Actually Works, According to People Who’ve Lived It"
He Rode With Truckers to Fix a Broken $18B Industry—Here’s What He Learned
Are We Failing the Future? What Students Really Need to Succeed Today
He Built a $100M Business from ‘Lost’ Packages—Here’s How
Why Building in Public is the Ultimate Growth Hack (Even If It’s Uncomfortable)
Can Cities Build for Both Creatives and Communities? A look at Arts & Housing
The Truth About Inclusive Innovation: Why Most Innovation Ecosystems Fail & How to Fix It
The Future is on Us: AI, Jobs & The Choice to Build a Better World
Why Most Buildings Are Built to Fail – The Code to Sustainable Housing
From Paralyzed to POWERHOUSE: The Hidden Crisis No One Talks About
Why You Don’t Really Own Your Medical Records (And How The Healthcare System Failed This Founder's Son)
Can This Nonprofit Solve Tech’s Biggest Problem?
The Untold Story of Google Voice: How Curiosity Fuels Disruptive Innovation
How Filmmaking Can Reduce Gun Violence and Unite Communities
Why Most Startups Fail—and How Cypher Beat the Odds to Scale Fast
From Smart Roads to Smarter Startups: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurial Resilience
Why This Founder Thinks Kansas City Needs to Step Up Its Game
This Entrepreneur Took on the DMV… and Won: Lessons from a GovTech Founder
How Music Education Transforms Communities, Brain Development, & The Economy
Why Entrepreneurship is a Public Issue – The Economic Benefits Explained