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
Psychedelics are everywhere right now—but what’s actually happening beneath the hype?
Dr. Alan Davis has been studying psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapy for more than 15 years. As a clinical psychologist and researcher at The Ohio State University, his work sits right at the intersection of trauma, mental health, science, and some of the most talked-about treatments in medicine today.
And this ...
Lindsay Fork pulled up to the studio fresh off dropping her oldest daughter at college… and within about 30 seconds, we were both trying not to cry.
So naturally, we went there.
We talk about the weird, beautiful heartbreak of watching your kids grow up, what happens to your identity when the role you’ve poured so much of yourself into starts changing, and why having a purpose that exists alongside mother...
Women’s health is having a moment—but there are still some pretty massive gaps in what actually happens when a woman walks into a doctor’s office and says, “Something doesn’t feel right.”
Enter Amy and Jodi, the women behind Vibe Women’s Health Collective.
Their story started nearly two decades ago after Amy was diagnosed with breast cancer at 44. Physically, s...
You can have the career, the independence, the confidence, the whole “I’ve got this” thing going for you… and still find yourself wondering what the hell you’re doing in dating, work, or life.
That’s part of what I loved about this conversation with Bri McNees.
Bri takes us behind the scenes of how a completely organic casting connection took her from corporate retail in Columbus, ...
Your child has a fever, you get told it’s probably nothing, and then one morning everything changes. John and Renee join us to tell the story of their son Will’s diagnosis with stage four Wilms tumor, a rare pediatric kidney cancer, and the brutal speed at which normal life turns into ultrasounds, surgery, pathology reports, chemo, and radiation when the cancer has spread to the lungs. Hearing Renee desc...
A kid goes from running everywhere to barely being able to walk, and the first answers don’t point to cancer at all. That is the gut punch at the center of our conversation with Kim and her son, Max, as they walk us through the real timeline from “maybe it’s a sports injury” to a leukemia diagnosis and two and a half years of treatment. If you’ve ever felt dismissed by “normal&rdq...
Pediatric cancer is a gut punch most people can’t look at for long, and that discomfort has a cost. We sit down with Dr Dean Lee, Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, to talk about why kids’ cancer research is still massively underfunded and why community-driven giving is not a feel-good extra. It’s often the only way the next breakthrough g...
Only 8% of cancer research funding goes to pediatric cancer and that single number explains a lot about why families still face limited options, harsher treatments, and too much uncertainty. I’m joined by Drew Dollmatsch, managing director for the Columbus market at CancerFree KIDS, to break down what that funding gap looks like on the ground and why the earliest stage of research is where progress either star...
It's that time of year again, ya'll. The Little Legends Lemonade stand is back and better than ever, baby!
For the third year, The Keri Croft show & Little Legends Lemonade are teaming up to bring kids, families, local businesses, and our entire community together to raise money for a great cause. This year, it's CancerFreeKIDS and our goal is a big one: raise $5,000 in two hours to help fund the ea...
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...
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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. ...
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