Driven by doing

Lindsay Tabas is a product-market fit expert, coach, and speaker. Lindsay helps founders design and sell the right product before spending too much with developers building the wrong one.  Lindsay has worked with over 100 startups & investors, as well as teams across Fortune 500 firms.   

Saurabh is the founder of Fun2Do Labs (EdTech Startup). Fun2Do Labs is pioneering a new space in EdTech called 'Transmedia Education'. He has also founded a social initiative called StartupLearn.org.  Saurabh was Vice President at Paytm till February 2021. 

He was also heading the ‘Paytm - Build for India’ program and also had an active role in startup products, developer relations, social impact / CSR within Paytm.  

Nico De Bruyn is the founder of Boundless Media and the author of "We're All Marketers", a book about 20 go-to principles to help you market like a marketer! Nico shared about his entrepreneurial journey and how he pivoted and learned about his true passion.  

Mahavir Sharma is a serial entrepreneur who had great success in several businesses and social organizations and exudes passion in angel investing, leadership, and mentoring. Mahavir shared his story and lessons learned from more than three decades of his entrepreneurial journey.  

Bernardo is an Industrial Psychologist with expertise in developing strategic enterprise-wide business and technology solutions, designing digital transformation frameworks and roadmaps, and transforming organizations through process optimization, machine learning, and robotic process automation.

Bernardo started his career at American Express and has led global teams transforming business units for Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan. Bernardo has successfully led program and portfolio level multi-year initiatives leading to profit and loss revenue generation and efficiency gains ranging from $20M to $150M.

Bernardo is a ICF Certified Coach, Certified Project Management Professional, a Six Sigma Blackbelt, and an Industrial Psychologist with faculty experience and book publications related to Project Management, Leadership, and Human Behavior in the workplace.

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Beau McCoy is the founder & CEO of SOLcademy, an easy way to discover and share video lessons for teachers and students. Beau shared how he found his passion for education working in Tech and for EdTech startups. He talked about decentralized education, new creator economy and shared great advice for entrepreneurs in this episode.  

Michelle Blanchet is an educator and social entrepreneur, who is passionate about inspiring innovation in the field of education. She has been working with young people for the past ten years and aims to revolutionize teacher training and support educational innovation.  

Piyush Verma is the founder and CEO of Manush Labs and a research affiliate at MIT.  Manush labs is a sustainability accelerator program for entrepreneurs working on creating social ventures from Tier 2 cities in India.  Piyush worked at multi-disciplinary organizations around the world, including MIT D-Lab, MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Innovation Labs, IBM Design Studios Germany, X studio- Tsinghua University China, University of Sydney, Australia, and IIT Delhi, India.   

Summer Owens is an author, a speaker, a S.O. What! Success Coach, as well as a university professor where she teaches marketing as well as life skills and personal development courses. Summer shares hard-learned lessons from her life to educate, inspire, and motivate youth and young adults to overcome their own obstacles and achieve their own S.O. What! Success.

Dr. Sonia is the founder of an Australian Startup StanleyOrigin which strives to find new ways to make health care accessible. Dr. Sonia shared her inspiring journey from growing up in a small town in Haryana, India to becoming a health care professional and an entrepreneur.

Dr. Sonia's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsoniasonia/

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Zac Stern is the founder of Official, an app for couples to allow them to do more together. Zac is a graduate from NYU Stern School of Business and he shared his journey from working in Venture Capital, how he got the idea and what inspired him to build a startup. Zac is also an angel investor and shared great actionable advice for those who are looking to become entrepreneurs and solve problems.  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-stern/

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Shobhana Viswanathan is the Global Head at Automation Anywhere and the host of "The Change Alchemist" podcast. She shared her journey and how working at top tech firms shaped her career. Shobhana is an expert in product marketing and executive leader focusing on cloud at AI.  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shobhanav/ 

Change Alchemist podcast: https://thechangealchemist.com/about/

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Sabber Ahmad is the founder of Xoolooloo, a location-based platform to connect with other like-minded people in your area. Sabber is originally from Bangladesh and came to Memphis, Tennessee to go to the University of Memphis where he got his Ph.D. in Geophysics and currently working as a Data Scientist. Sabber shared his journey about what inspired him to build location-based networking platform Xoolooloo and his initial success.  

Brendan Kumarasamy is a YouTuber and a public speaking coach. Brendan shares great tips and insights on his YouTube channel MasterTalk. In this episode, he shared great advice on storytelling, networking, how to gain confidence and become a good public speaker.  

Liz McKee is the Director of Internal Communications at Baker Donelson. Liz shared about her inspiring career journey how she started as a reporter and transitioned into a corporate career in communications. Liz shared great learnings, advice, talked about workplace culture, and many more in this episode!  

Rahul Rana is the author of “Making Moonshots." It’s a deep-dive into the mindsets, philosophies, and strategies that are conducive to building moonshot companies. Rahul is currently a sophomore at Rutgers Business School and works at Lux Capital venture capital firm.  

Rahul LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-rana-99b338169/ 

Get Rahul's Making Moonshots book at - https://www.amazon.com/Making-Moonshots-Rahul-Rana/dp/163676620X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

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Dr. Gad Allon is a professor of Operations at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gad shared about his teaching journey, how he built an EdTech startup ForClass, his insights on Gig Economy, Cloud Kitchen, and advice for entrepreneurs.   

Vinnie Fisher is the CEO of Fully Accountable and the author of "The CEO Mindset" and "False Profit". He shared how he started several successful businesses and also helping other e-commerce businesses thrive.  

Sam Gupta has been an ERP thought leader in the digital transformation space for nearly two decades, with the primary focus on financial systems and ERP. He has been part of large transformation initiatives for fortune-500 corporations but now spends his time consulting with SMEs as a Principal Consultant at ElevatIQ. Sam regularly speaks at industry conferences and contributes his experiences through many popular blogs and publications. He also hosts a podcast called WBSRocks focused on business growth through digital transformation and ERP where he interviews top influencers and executives from ERP, Supply Chain, Digital Transformation, Supply Chain, and Accounting.  

To learn more about Sam or ElevatIQ, head over to ElevatIQ.com. To learn more about his podcast, head over to wbs.rocks.

Saurabh Bhide is the founder of Mediyum, a design studio that helps Educational Technologies startups around the world. Saurabh shared how he found a niche market and started his own company. He is passionate about designing great user experiences and shared advice for startups and professionals interested in design.  

Devon Turcotte is the founder of Careerified which helps students to figure out next steps in their career and education journey. Devon talked about how she identified student problems while working in college which lead to building her own company.

Devon LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/devon-turcotte/
Careerified - https://careerified.ca/

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Evan Knox is the Founder of Caffine Marketing and an Investor. He makes marketing easy for small businesses. Evan shared his story about how he found his passion for marketing and how he got his marketing business off the ground. Listen to this episode to learn how you can become a marketer.  

David Kabakoff is a Dale Carnegie training Coach for 40 years. David shared about defining moments in his life and how to live an intentional life. He also shared how to build confidence and communicate effectively.   

Michael Romrell is the Co-Founder of LiteralApp. Literal is an award-winning app that makes reading entire books fun, engaging, and addictive - even for the most unmotivated of readers!  Michael shared his story how he met with his Co-Founder Lawton Smith while doing his MBA at ESADE in Spain, how they got their first customer and raised investment.  

Michael's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelromrell/

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Ashley Steele is Head of Professional Services for Apptegy, EdTech Startup in Little Rock, Arkansas. Ashley shared her journey of how she pivoted her career from working for a Magazine into Digital Marketing. She has wealth of experience working for several clients and Startups.  

Daniel Wax is an entrepreneur and helps his customers turn their LinkedIn profile into a revenue generator. Daniel shared his entrepreneurial journey and lessons he learned in his career so far.   

Ben Ivey is an entrepreneur and CEO of Entrepreneur Lifestyle. He is specialized in helping overwhelmed entrepreneurs. Ben shared his story and how a personal incident changed his life.  

Dr. Santosh Swamy is an Agricultural Scientist currently working at ITC. Santosh shared his story of how he found his passion for Agriculture. He talked about the current trends in AgTech and he believes Agriculture is the mother of all cultures.  

Nate Peo is Host of the All-In Podcast and a Startup Advisor. Nate Peo serves as VP of Purchasing and Construction for a successful California-based real estate company. Nate shared his story of how he overcame self-doubt to become successful in this career and life.  

Raven Richardson is a self-starter and self-motivated business graduate with proven and tested business development, management, communications, marketing and sales skills. Raven is currently pursuing doctoral degree in Entrepreneurship at Walden University.

Connect with Raven on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raven-richardson-mba-doctoral-student-70b963113/

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Abhishek Rana is the CEO of Gravitate AI. Abhishek is currently working in Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and Genetic Systems. He is a passionate entrepreneur from India who started building startups while he is in college. Abhishek shared his entrepreneurial journey in the driven by doing podcast.  

Lloyd George was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Atlanta, United States in 2006. Lloyd is a people connector. He shared his story and great insights on how to leverage LinkedIn for networking. Lloyd is a Toastmaster and supports several non-profits in Atlanta.  

Dr. Dantryl Smith shared his story of how he overcame obstacles to graduate from college and ultimately finding his passion for mentoring students. Dantryl is currently working at Tarrant County College in Texas and has experience working with high school students, college students, and graduate students from diverse backgrounds.  

Casey Grant is the owner of Grant Therapy Services. Casey shared powerful tools that help to improve mindfulness and to embrace failures. She leveraged her background and skills to pivot her career and become a successful entrepreneur.  

Nibu Thomas is working as Associate Director at Whatfix in Bengaluru, India. Nibu has more than two decades of experience and he shared his roller-coaster career journey and how he found his passion. 

Ryan Pierce is an entrepreneur in residence at Crews Center for Entrepreneurship and a young leader helping students learn how to validate their ideas to build startups. He is currently pursuing a bachelor's in Economics & political science at The University of Memphis. Ryan shared his story and passion to bring equity that leads him to become an entrepreneur.  

Sara Forgaciu is a bachelor's student pursuing Digital Culture program at King's college, one of the oldest universities in London.  Sarah loves story telling through digital means. She shared about her internship experiences and how she is leveraging LinkedIn to build her network and brand.

Alexander Grant is Founder and Blogger at Tech Job Vets. Alex is currently working as a Program Manager at Google. He is a veteran with a strong background in operations and program management. Alex shared great insights into networking, job search, and mentoring.  

Jeanette Jordan is the Chief Marketing Officer of Kapor Center, non-profit which helps to eliminate the barriers for STEM Education. Jeanette talked about her story and navigating career transition. Learn about the stepwise approach to switch your career.   

Dominique Hollins is a High-performing diversity and inclusion strategist known for transforming internal operations through the actualization of workplace equity for all. Dominique is skilled at integrating diversity and inclusion viewpoints throughout all business touch points, removing cultural barriers to broaden employee engagement and focus

Susan Newman is the founder of School2life. Susan has prepared hundreds of students to enter workforce with confidence. Susan has a great story of how she leveraged her passion to help students market themselves to get into their dream career.  

Deeksha Ahuja is an EdTech entrepreneur, serial networker, and a diversity enabler. Deeksha believes "True happiness comes from the simplest of human emotions; that is of helping a fellow human"  She is the founder of Encubay which helps women entrepreneurs with mentoring and resources to build their startups.   

Yogesh Thite is the Founder & CEO of Entie, a business dating platform for startups, investors, want to be co-founders. Yogesh has a wealth of entrepreneurial experience and a great story. Yogesh shared how he overcame obstacles without any money to build his startup. 

Dominic Lawson is a native Memphian who is dedicated to empowering people. Dominic is the host of Startup Life podcast giving his audience the edge to grow their businesses and climb the corporate ladder.  

Alexandria Butler (Lexi) is currently working as a Sr. Program Manager at Twitter in San Francisco. After completing her bachelor's at Stanford University, She went on to work at Facebook, Air bnb, and NetApp. Alexandria is also the founder of Sista Circle and Growth Up Truth. She is a freedom fighter and a mentor.   

Augusto is an expert digital marketer and helps brands across the world with digital marketing strategies. Augusto is from Colombia and came to the US as an international student. He shared his journey of how he learned about his passion for digital marketing.  

Ora works at the intersection of education, technology, policy, and research to prepare educators and their students for the Age of AI. She is the Co-Founder of AIForum.org helping "future-proof" students by working to ensure they have a fundamental understanding of artificial intelligence, its impacts, and many applications. AIForum's mission is empowering all students, especially those from marginalized communities.  

Peter Escobar is an advocate for racial equity and currently working as a Career Advisor at the Youth Job Center in Chicago. Peter shared great tips on how to navigate the job search. He also shared his journey in supporting students from diverse backgrounds in this podcast.

Amardeep Singh Gill is a performance and well-being coach from Brisbane, Australia. He is the founder of BuildYourNow.com to help people to learn how to tap into their true potential.  Amardeep is on a mission to eliminate untapped potential, burnout, and unhealthy work-life practices for Leaders and Entrepreneurs.