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Entrepreneurship 101

Daniel Lucas/ Michael T. Brown

Entrepreneurship 101 is a dynamic, knowledge-driven platform designed to equip aspiring founders, small-business owners, and creative innovators with the mindset, tools, and strategies needed to excel in today’s competitive landscape. It breaks down the core fundamentals of entrepreneurship into clear, actionable insights that listeners can immediately apply to their own ventures.

Each session explores essential themes such as opportunity discovery, building resilience, strategic planning, leadership development, financial literacy, branding, and sustainable growth. Through expert interviews, real-world case studies, and practical guidance, Entrepreneurship 101 demystifies the challenges of launching and scaling a business while inspiring listeners to think boldly and act with intention.

Whether you are an emerging entrepreneur seeking your first big idea or a seasoned builder refining your craft, Entrepreneurship 101 provides a reliable, accessible foundation for achieving long-term success. This is where knowledge meets ambition—and where visionary ideas become powerful realities.

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#148
Today · 30 min
Prophet Afolabi Aduroja: Spiritual Root Causes of Life’s Struggles, Faith and Breakthroughs
Prophet Afolabi The most important conversation you'll have this lifetime. Today’s guest brings a perspective I can guarantee you have not ever encountered. Prophet Afolabi Aduroja is a spiritual teacher whose work centers on understanding and explaining patterns in people’s lives that do not change, even when they have applied discipline, strategy, and faith consistently. His focus is not on surface-level behavior or generalized advice, but on identifying the underlying causes that keep certai
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Yesterday · 23 min
Michael Podolny: Social Entrepreneurship and Empowering Women Through Theodora Africa
Michael Podolny From Wall Street to West Africa, I build market-driven, scalable businesses that lift women out of exploitation, link global markets, and transform injustice into opportunity. MICHAEL PODOLNY 2020 to Present – Founder/CEO, Theodora Africa Project, Accra, Ghana, Albuquerque, New Mexico Michael Podolny has been a social impact innovator developing the Theodora Africa model. Theodora Africa is an innovative social impact enterprise incubator that uses a market-based, demand driven
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Monday · 25 min
The Human-Only Social Network: Ross Thorpe on Rooverse, Blocking AI Content & Bringing People Back to Social Media
Ross Thorpe CEO of Rooverse - The Social Media Platform that blocks all AI generated content Social media is awash with AI generated content. 71% of of images being uploaded everyday are made by AI. Some platforms have over 45% of the users as bots. You are not interacting with people any more. The 'social' has gone from social media. Ross is the CEO of Rooverse. A social media platform that blocks users from uploading any AI generated content. Just people interacting with people. Also the
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Sunday · 19 min
From Furlough to Founder: Rachel Minion on Turning a Side Hustle Into a Thriving Business | Entrepreneurship 101
Entrepreneurship 101 features Rachel Minion, an entrepreneur and marketing innovator whose journey demonstrates how uncertainty, resilience, and preparation can transform an unexpected career disruption into an entirely new chapter. In this episode, Rachel shares her experience working in the entertainment and marketing industry, including her time connected with Ticketmaster and Live Nation, before the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the business landscape. Despite early optimism that l
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Saturday · 25 min
Building High-Performance Teams: Ron Cooper on Personality, Principled Leadership & Transforming Workplace Culture
Ron Cooper Personality insights and principled leadership for organizational growth. Ron Cooper is the Founder of The Cooper Culture business dedicated to helping organizations increase their personnel productivity and efficiency through personality strengths and principled leadership. The Cooper Culture assesses organizational strengths employing DISC human behavior attributes then customizes training to help organizations achieve or maintain high performance. Ron is a human behavior consultant
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Friday · 26 min
Build a Brand That Commands Authority: Teaira Abston on Strategy, Premium Clients & Scalable Growth
Teaira Abston Brand Strategist Helping Experts Become Authorities Through Strategy, Design & Systems Teaira Abston is a Brand Strategist, Speaker, and Founder of Dreamcatcher Creative Studio. She helps service-based businesses, such as health & wellness professionals, turn their brand into a strategic asset that attracts premium clients and supports scalable growth. Through her work, she equips founders with the clarity and frameworks needed to move from being just another option to becoming a t
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Thursday · 36 min
The Podcast Lawyer™: Gordon Firemark on Podcasting, Copyright, Contracts & Entertainment Law | Law 101
Gordon Firemark The Podcast Lawyer™ Gordon Firemark has practiced media, entertainment and business law in solo practice since 1992. In podcasting circles, he is known as The Podcast Lawyer™, and is producer and host of the Entertainment Law Update podcast (since 2009), and author of the Podcast, Blog & New Media Producer’’s Legal Survival Guide. His undergraduate degree in radio, television and film and experience in live theatre production informs his thinking about all things legal. In
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September 29 · 37 min
Find the Bottleneck Holding Your Business Back with Micah Logan | Entrepreneurship 101
Micah Logan Operations Consultant | Author of The Brown Box | I find the one constraint capping owner-led companies Micah Logan is an operations consultant, Forbes contributor, and author of The Brown Box. After building and exiting a multi-location fitness brand, he now installs the TURNAROUND Method in owner-led companies that look successful from the outside and stall on the inside. His point is simple: the business usually isn’t broken; one thing is, and until you name that bottleneck, more
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September 28 · 24 min
Benas Leonavicius: From Solo SEO Business to Building Personal Brands for Leading Experts | Entrepreneurship 101
Benas Leonavicius I Built a $150k Solo SEO Business. Then I Founded an Agency That Serves the World's Class Experts. Benas is the founder of Avium, a personal brand agency that builds online visibility infrastructure for keynote speakers, book authors, and founders. His clients include Hall of Fame speakers, Harvard psychologists, and Columbia professors. He started from pocket money SEO work, scaled solo to $120k+ a year, and built the agency without sacrificing the margins that made the solo m
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September 27 · 27 min
Lara Bezerra on Conscious Leadership, Purpose, and Building Organizations Where People Thrive
Lara Bezerra Global CEO, Conscious Leadership Pioneer, and the World's First Chief Purpose Officer Lara Bezerra is a global business executive, leadership thinker, author, and founder of Work Coherence®, whose work sits at the intersection of leadership, organizational culture, neuroscience, and human potential. Born in Brazil and shaped by life and leadership experiences across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, Lara's understanding of work as a calling rather than simply a profession began early
#138
September 26 · 27 min
How to Build Your Personal Brand and Become a Trusted Authority with Kelly Schuknecht
Kelly Schuknecht Empowering Thought Leaders to Elevate Their Brand and Share Their Voice. I’ve spent over 20 years in marketing helping entrepreneurs and professionals move from being the "best-kept secret" to the trusted authority in their field. I am the author of Unlocking Your Authority X-Factor, where I share my 3-Pillar Framework for personal branding: Visibility, Credibility, and Consistency. I wrote this book for the professionals—especially women—who have spent years building expertis
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September 25 · 24 min
Why Your Marketing Isn’t Working: Fix the Strategy First | Lauren Harris
Lauren Harris Most Marketing Problems Aren't Marketing Problems. I Helping Founders Fix the Strategy Underneath. - MS, Strategic Marketing - 150+ Strategies Across 12+ Industries I'm Lauren Harris, a marketing strategist and co-founder of Reliable PR & Marketing. I help founders stop chasing tactics and start running real strategy. My core take: most marketing problems aren't marketing problems. They're strategy problems wearing a marketing costume. "Our posts aren't converting" usually means w
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September 24 · 26 min
Whole Human Leadership: Victoria Pelletier on Resilience, Personal Branding, and Leading with Empathy
Victoria Pelletier C-Suite Executive | Speaker | Author | Passionate Diversity & Inclusion Leader | Personal Brand & Networking Expert | Board Director Victoria is a 20+ year Corporate Executive, Board Director, #1 selling author and Professional Public Speaker. Nicknamed the “Turn Around Queen” and the “CEO Whisperer” by former colleagues and employers, Victoria inspires and empowers her team and clients to change mindsets and drive growth in business, leadership and culture. As someone who do
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September 23 · 25 min
How Evgenii Tilipman Builds B2B Websites That Convert and Scales an Agency Beyond the Founder
Evgenii Tilipman Founder of Khod. Scaled a solo dev shop into the agency behind 40+ funded B2B startup launches — Chili Piper, Bland AI, Synthflow, and more. Evgenii Tilipman is the founder of Khod, a web and growth agency for funded B2B startups in AI, Web3, and enterprise SaaS. His team has shipped the websites behind Bland AI's $40 million Series B, Synthflow's $20 million Series A, Chili Piper, and Avarra — which generated 10 qualified inbound leads per day within six weeks of launch. Khod
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September 22 · 24 min
Build a Business That Creates Freedom: Nate Yoder on Leadership, Systems, and Growth
Nate Yoder Helping ambitious leaders build businesses that create freedom. Nate Yoder is an entrepreneur, business strategist, speaker, and founder dedicated to helping ambitious leaders and business owners build businesses that create freedom instead of dependence. After building, scaling, and exiting multiple companies, Nate discovered that the biggest obstacle to growth isn’t usually marketing, sales, or even revenue. It’s the business owner becoming the bottleneck. Today, he helps leaders i
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September 21 · 25 min
10 Ways to Feel Better: Bob Bekian on Happiness, Healthy Habits and Reinventing Your Life
Bob Bekian Author , Speaker and Hollywood Producer. Bob Bekian is the Author of the book “10 Ways to Feel Better” and has committed his life to helping others Feel better by making small daily habits turn into big results. His experience comes from 20 years as a Hollywood producer and entrepreneur working with some of the most famous people in the world of Movies and entertainment. But what he found was some of the most successful people were often unhappy and self- destructive. After going thro
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September 20 · 24 min
Building High-Performing Teams: John Pezoulas on Talent, Leadership & Entrepreneurship
John Pezoulas Executive Search Co-Founder, Entrepreneur, Recruitment expert in sales, marketing, hr and operations, Father of 3. I’m John Pezoulas, Co-founder of Ready Set Exec an executive search firm recruiting talent in the USA and Canada and I’d love to be a guest on your podcast to discuss talent acquisition, HR, sales, marketing, operations, entrepreneurship, fatherhood, and startup life. I bring a blend of executive search expertise and hands-on experience in sales, marketing, and operat
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September 19 · 24 min
Silvia Rizzo: Leadership Under Pressure, High Performance & Better Decision-Making
Silvia Rizzo High-Performance Leadership & Decision-Making. Silvia Rizzo works in high-performance environments across sport and business, focusing on leadership and decision-making under pressure. Her background is in elite sport, where she has spent years working with performance, error management, and mental resilience in real-world, high-stakes situations. On podcasts, she explores how leaders handle pressure, make decisions when things don’t go as planned, and maintain credibility over time
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September 18 · 27 min
Steve Caton: Escape the Founder Sales Trap & Build a Repeatable Revenue Engine
Steve Caton B2B Sales Growth Expert | Super Connector | Whiskey Aficionado | Classic Car Nut | CEO & Founder. Steve Caton is the Founder of Altezza which helps small to medium sized businesses solve sales challenges by installing fractional sales professionals that sell like insiders without the high risk and complexity. Steve has been in sales his entire career. He’s been a top producer, a sales leader and a Chief Revenue Officer for many emerging growth companies over a career spanning more th
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September 17 · 28 min
Andrew Quillen on the Future of AI: Beyond the Hype to Winning AI Strategy
Andrew Quillen Founder of AndMaverick | Built, led, and advised across OpenAI, Spotify, Coinbase, and Stripe | AI advisor to executives, investors, and governments. Today's guest is Andrew Quillen, founder of AndMaverick. Andrew has worked across Stripe, OpenAI, Spotify, and Coinbase before founding AndMaverick, where he now advises executives, investors, governments, and major institutions on AI strategy. He's here to discuss where AI is actually headed, what separates lasting strategy from hy

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