The Keri Croft Show
The Keri Croft Show is a podcast for people building something BADASS. A business. A dream. A life that actually feels like yours. Hosted by Keri Croft, this podcast explores the real stories behind the build, what it takes to start, and more importantly, the Mental Athleticism™ it takes to stay in it when the excitement fades and the work gets real. The Keri Croft Show features conversations with founders, creatives, musicians and people in the middle of building something meaningful, without the highlight reel. 🎙 New episodes drop every Thursday.
Episodes
Kevin King is the CEO of Donatos, but the first thing you should probably know about him is that he really loves his wife.
Leslie has challenged him, sharpened him, expanded his taste in music, and spent more than three decades helping him become the person and leader he is today. So naturally, Keri calls her in the middle of the interview.
What follows is a very human conversation about marriage, parenting, family, l...
I sat down with Meleka Jolliff, one of the seven incredible women who helped bring our very first IRL experience to life. Meleka was not only a generous sponsor, but she and her team played such a huge role in making the entire space feel beautiful, thoughtful, and intentional. So before anything else, a massive thank you to this woman.
As the founder of MMJ Events and Aiden & Grace, and co-owner of Skyflower, Me...
In this episode, I sit down with Kelsey Lensman for a conversation about faith, fear, identity, trauma, and what happens when life forces you to stop white-knuckling the wheel.
Kelsey shares the moments that cracked her open and rebuilt her from the inside out: walking away from an eight-year relationship, questioning the version of faith she grew up with, surviving a violent highway crash on I-270, and choos...
After we wrapped my conversation with Joe DeLoss, we kept talking.
What started as a conversation about marriage turned into something much bigger: masculinity, ego, service, leadership, and why so many men seem to be struggling to find their footing right now.
Joe shares his perspective on the version of masculinity that's being celebrated online, why he thinks it's missing the mark, and what he's learned through bui...
Joe DeLoss is best known as the founder of Hot Chicken Takeover, one of Columbus’s most recognizable restaurant stories. But this conversation is not really about chicken.
Joe talks with Keri about the rise of Hot Chicken Takeover, the ego that came with it, the people impacted by his leadership, and the personal reckoning that followed. He is honest about marriage, fatherhood, masculinity, ambition, and the un...
Elizabeth Blount McCormick doesn't think women should play small.
As CEO of Uniglobe Travel Designers, she helped navigate one of the most challenging periods in modern business history when COVID brought the travel industry to a standstill. Today, she's leading a nationally recognized company, setting audacious growth goals, and challenging conventional thinking about leadership, ambition, and success.
We talk about ...
Most people talk about ideas. Very few actually write the check and start.
Nick Braun went from building a pet insurance comparison company to scaling a water filtration business doing millions in revenue. But this conversation is really about risk, timing, relationships, and why entrepreneurship in the Midwest looks different than Silicon Valley.
We talk about building businesses in Columbus, raising ...
Sixty seconds of total silence doesn’t sound that long… until you’re standing on a Persian rug making eye contact with some of the most famous investors in America.
This week, Megan Pando joins me to talk about what Shark Tank actually feels like from the inside — the nerves, the pressure, the mindset shifts, and what happened after the cameras stopped rolling.
But this episode goes way deeper...
Hello, my friend, hello...
This week, Libby Welch joins me for a conversation that starts with wedding songs, curly hair, and dance moms… and somehow lands in grief, postpartum anxiety, mental health, identity, and building a business that actually gives a damn about people.
Libby opens up about losing her dad after years of overwork and an undiagnosed mental health condition, and how that experience changed th...
The internet loves to scream “women supporting women”… right up until a woman makes a choice they wouldn’t make themselves.
This episode starts with the backlash around Lisa Oxenham’s British Vogue essay about becoming a mom at 49—and spirals into a much bigger conversation about judgment, fertility, grief, motherhood, ambition, and why women can be brutal to each other when somet...
They create some of the most recognizable homes in Columbus, Ohio. But behind the aesthetic is pressure, conflict, obsession, and nonstop work.
This conversation with Stacy and Tracy from Paul + Jo Studios gets into what it actually takes to build a design business as a married couple while raising kids, renovating homes, running projects, and trying not to lose yourselves in the process.
We talk about creativity vs. ...
By 8 a.m., some of us feel like we’ve already lived a full day.
We’re up early trying to work out, get kids fed, get everyone out the door—and still show up like we’ve got it together. Meanwhile our nervous system is already buzzing from constant needs, noise, and decisions.
In this episode, I’m naming it:
the overstimulation, the mental load, and the exhaustion that hits before ...
It's back and bigger than ever... that's right we're talking about Little Legends Lemonade Stand Fundraiser 2026.
What started as a simple lemonade stand now has a goal of 500 stands nationwide.
Keri sits down with the team behind Little Legends Lemonade to talk about how this actually came together, why kids need real-world experiences early, and how something small can turn into something that matters. They al...
Most people think they’re doing Pilates. They’re not.
Sara Ortlip built one of the most respected Pilates studios in Columbus by doing it differently and actually doing it right.
We get into what Pilates really is vs. what’s being sold, why “the burn” is misleading, and how breath work changes everything, from performance to trauma response.
She also opens up about building her business th...
What happens when you actually do the thing that scares you?
In this solocast, I’m recapping the very first In Her Badass Era IRL event—and honestly, I’m still processing it. What started as an idea in my head turned into a room full of powerful, honest, wildly inspiring humans who showed up ready to connect, share, and step into their own version of badassery.
This episode is part re...
I pushed myself into a new level with this one.
For the first time ever, The Keri Croft Show went live with an IRL experience called “In Her Badass Era.”
I sat down with a room full of female entrepreneurs who are actually building something and we got honest about what it really takes. Not the highlight reel. The chaos, the self-doubt, the pressure, the moments you think you’re going to fail, and th...
Jessica didn’t set out to build a nonprofit.
She was living her life. Raising kids, building her career, doing all the normal things and then everything shifted. A diagnosis. A timeline no one was ready for. And a version of life she never planned to navigate.
And somewhere in that, she built something.
Brave Men started because of her husband, Demetrius, but what it’s become is bigger than that. It’s...
Your comfort zone isn’t harmless.
It looks like safety. It feels like routine. It even disguises itself as “being responsible.”
But underneath that? It can quietly drain your energy, cap your identity, and delay the future you keep saying you want.
In this episode, I’m breaking down the real cost of comfort through the Mental Athleticism lens—and why the goal isn’...
Rick Harrison is the Executive Director of North Market, but that’s not really the story. The story is how he got there. Fashion career in LA. Job ends. Starts a food truck having no idea what he’s doing. And somehow that path leads him back to Columbus running one of the most important spaces in the city.
We talk about what it actually looks like to start over, what people don’t understand about bu...
That late-night “who’s at the door?” instinct?
Yeah—you should be using that on your calendar, your phone, and the people who think everything is urgent.
This episode is Part four of Mental Athleticism—and we’re going straight into Environmental Design: aka Protect Your Yard.
We’re talking:
- Why your attention is getting hijacked (and how to take it back)
- How your phone, feeds...
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