Real Leaders Podcast

Ankur Edkie is the Co-Founder & CEO of Murf AI, an early-stage funded start-up working on simplifying voice audio and making high-quality voice overs accessible to everyone, using artificial intelligence.

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Palash Soni is the CEO of Goldcast, an AI-powered B2B Video Campaign Platform that transforms marketing by putting video and events at the heart of the customer journey. 

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Dr. Artika Tyner is the CEO & Founder of Planting People Growing Justice, an organization that is set on building strong communities by developing leaders and empowering them to discover their own leadership potential in order to make an impact in the world.

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Peggy Shell is the CEO & Founder of Creative Alignments, a recruiting company that partners with quickly growing companies in consumer products and technology that are using their business as a force for good by creating people-focused cultures, commitment to DEI, or impact-focused products or services.

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Keith Bearden is the CEO of Alter Eco Foods, a chocolate-centric, sustainability-directed food company that takes healthy indulgence to a new level. Alter Eco is dedicated to spreading social justice and environmental regeneration while creating a new category of enlightened indulgences.

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Bob Miles is the Founder & CEO of Salad Technologies, the world's most affordable GPU cloud for AI/ML inference at scale. In this episode, Bob shares how to think about disrupting a massive trillion dollar market.

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Dena Trujillo is the CEO of Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention. For over 20 years, Dena has operated at the intersection of nonprofit and for-profit, discovering and amplifying models that scale innovative solutions and maximize social impact.

Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a volunteer Crisis Counselor

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Asim Bawany is the CEO of Codup, a full-service development agency that builds technology solutions customized for the specific needs of clients to help them overcome challenges and grow their bottom lines.

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David Obrand is the CEO of Salesloft, which powers durable revenue growth for the world’s most demanding companies. Salesloft’s industry-leading Revenue Orchestration Platform uses purpose-built AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal. 

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Yonatan Raz-Fridman is the Founder & CEO of Supersocial, a metaverse studio and tech company with a mission to create and empower digital communities to play, explore, socialize and meaningfully express themselves in the next era of the Internet.

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Andy Alsop is the President & CEO of The Receptionist, a versatile, effective and easy-to-use Visitor Management system. In this episode, Andy inspires leaders to shift to Employee Supremacy, a philosophy that prioritizes employees before customers.

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Eytan Wiener is the CEO of Getida, the global leader in Amazon FBA auditing and reimbursement solutions for sellers and consumer brands. 

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Brad Black is the Founder and Co-CEO of EO Products, a certified B-Corporation based in Marin County, CA who has been making plant-based skincare products with a higher purpose in mind: to make personal care products that care for the whole person and the planet.

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Michael Walsh is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cariloop, which helps families manage their loved ones' care needs by connecting them to an employer-sponsored caregiver support platform.

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Travis Howerton is the Co-Founder & CEO of RegScale, compliance and cybersecurity experts who are sharpened in highly regulated industries from nuclear energy to the military to financial services. RegScale overcomes speed, timeliness, and cost effectiveness limitations in legacy GRC by bridging security, risk, and compliance through our Continuous Controls Monitoring platform.

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Fredrik Thomassen is the CEO & Founder of Superside, the leading AI-powered creative service that delivers fast, scalable, world-class design and creative solutions to over 450 globally-renowned companies such as Amazon, Meta, Salesforce and Shopify.

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Sean Grundy is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bevi, which is redesigning the beverage supply chain with machines that purify water and make customized drinks in seconds with a system that vastly cuts the cost and carbon footprint of beverages.

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Derek Richardson is the CEO & Founder of Deako, a high-tech hardware startup based in Seattle, WA. Deako has invented the world's first plug-n-play light switch, giving homeowners maximum flexibility to customize their systems, at any time, in minutes.

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Vess Pearson is the CEO of Aptive Environmental, the fastest growing pest control service in North America with a commitment to helping protect the world's health from disease-carrying pests.

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Jonathan Brun is the CEO & Founder of Nimonik, which offers an integrated compliance management software for organizations to better manage their obligations across quality, environmental, safety, privacy, human resources, and other regulated areas.

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Brandon Afari is the Co-Founder & CEO of FUZE Technology, a cutting-edge technology company that specializes in creating innovative IoT solutions to power connections and experiences for businesses, events, and consumers.

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Lauren Salz is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sealed, a climate tech company on a mission to stop home energy waste by enabling contractors to install more home weatherization and electrification projects and grow their businesses.

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Martin Rowinski is the Co-Founder & CEO of Boardsi, a modern recruiting company providing executives with Board of Advisors and Directors positions and companies with top C suite Executive talent. Through their advanced technology, human connection and private network Boardsi helps revolutionize businesses and grow careers.

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Jeff Spahn is the Founder & President of Leading Leaders, an executive education firm that has engineered a distinctive leadership technology for the digital age. For more than 20 years, Jeff has researched, coached and inspired top business executives and their teams through the distinctive collective leadership process of We the Leader®.

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Conrad Oakey is the CEO of NovaTech Automation, which produces the easiest to use and best supported automation products and solutions for electric utilities. NovaTech's mission to accelerate the evolution and decarbonization of the power grid is reflected in their intentional commitment to Net-Zero operations by 2050.

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Scarlett Nolen is the President of Truly Nolen of America, one of the largest family-owned pest control companies in the United States with over 80 branch offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

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Candice Ammori is the Founder & CEO of Climate Vine, a new membership community that curates group of experts with diverse backgrounds, ranging from policy, investment, corporate, non-profit, entrepreneurship, and tech & science.

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Sachin Chaudhry is the Founder & CEO of TrustCircle, a brain healthcare startup that utilizes AI-driven Social-Emotional Learning programs to improve emotional resilience & well-being for all. Organizations, cities, counties, and states can leverage TrustCircle's data-driven model to identify high-risk population segments/areas and take proactive action to promote health & well-being within their community.

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Seth Forman is the CEO of Socialsuite, a sustainability and impact technology company helping companies and non-profits share their impact with the world offering simple and affordable solutions including end to end materiality software. Over 100 public and private companies leverage Socialsuite tools and services today helping them get started and progress their sustainability journeys.

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Joshua Berry is the author of Dare to Be Naive: How to Find Your True Self in a Noisy World and is also the Co-Founder & CEO of Econic, an innovation, transformation, and strategy consulting group that helps enterprises discover their meaning of growth and cultivate the space to achieve it. Through the process of building innovation labs and programs, workshopping, coaching, management consulting, and creating resilient strategies, Econic helps teams and organizations realize tangible results.

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Daryn Dodson is the Managing Director & Joanna Kuang is the Senior Vice President of Product and Impact at Illumen Capital, an impact fund of funds addressing systemic inequity by reducing racial and gender bias in investing. Working closely with the world’s leading social psychologists at Stanford SPARQ, Illumen Capital combines investment capital with evidence-based tools and training designed to reduce implicit racial and gender bias in order to unlock latent return and multiply impact. 

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As co-founder and CEO of EcoMap Technologies, Sherrod Davis is at the forefront of developing ecosystem intelligence that revolutionizes how information is accessed and utilized, empowering communities and industries like government and economic development, universities, and industry associations.

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Tony Bedard is the CEO of Frontier Co-op, which is dedicated to sourcing the highest quality spices, herbs and botanical products through their Frontier Co-op, Simply Organic® and Aura Cacia® brands. By offering easy access to high-quality, competitively priced choices that are both environmentally friendly and socially responsible, Frontier Co-op seeks to lead the way in bringing nature and peace of mind to customers.

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Rochelle Gorey is the CEO and Co-Founder of SpringFour, the only Certified B, social impact fintech company that helps financial services institutions limit risk by empowering improved payment performance and increased customer engagement.

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Elan Sudberg is the Chief Executive Officer of Alkemist Labs, a contract testing laboratory that specializes in plant authentication, botanical ingredient identification, and quantitative analytical services. Alkemist Labs is the only ISO 17025 accredited plant/fungi lab with a DEA Schedule 1, 2, 3n, and 4 licenses to legally test all types of botanicals, including hemp and psychedelics.

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Catherine Griffin is the Founder & CEO of Impactable Analytics, which helps purpose-built founders and funders bring clarity and intelligence to their impact claims. Impactable generates powerful, forward-looking impact data with processes to analyze, manage, track and share them over time - all to drive capital towards solutions with the greatest impact potential.

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Deborah La Franchi is the CEO & Founder of SDS Capital Group, a national leader in impact investing with over $1 billion in assets under management. Each impact fund on SDS’s platform serves a different geography and employs a unique investment strategy, but they all generate positive impacts for low-income communities and people.

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Caroline Barlerin is the Founder & CEO of Platypus Advisors, a diverse team of social impact practitioners with experience and expertise in accelerating social good through philanthropy, impact investing, collective impact, social innovation, and cross-sector collaboration.

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Colin Moffett is the CEO & Co-Founder of Artemis Ward, a global creative agency that partners with brands, companies, and organizations, combining rigorous strategy and unbridled creativity to craft dynamic experiences and engage audiences.

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Katy Carrigan is the CEO of Goody, a gifting marketplace that powers employee engagement, client appreciation, and sales prospecting gifts at more than 12,000 leading companies. Goody's business gifting platform, Goody for Business, integrates with 30 leading HR platforms, allowing companies to automatically gift employees on birthdays and work anniversaries.

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