Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future

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What do you do when you’ve tried everything—and nothing worked?

A note for listeners: this episode includes an honest reflection on a period of deep emotional and spiritual distress, including a moment of asking God to take one’s life. Please take care while listening.

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, John Stewart Hill share...

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Can a mental health diagnosis make you a better leader? Todd Hagopian says yes.. After 15 years undiagnosed with bipolar disorder, Todd faced a terrifying tradeoff: sanity or success. When medication stabilized his life but muted the hypomanic edge that powered his output, he did what founders do, he built a system around it.

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Futur...

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What happens when a mother of seven and a fearless serial entrepreneur—someone who has built 11 companies, and lived life in constant forward motion—suddenly finds herself on her own deathbed for 70 days?

In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, Holly Porter reveals the 70-day battle that dismantled her identity and rebuilt her purpose from the inside out. In...

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Most leaders don’t struggle with ideas.
They struggle with articulating them.

Because how can you be heard if you can’t find the right words?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I talk with Shelley Goldstein, founder of Remarkable Speaking, about why so many experts choke at the podium, get caught in a rabbit hole, or hide behind a fully written out script...

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You’ve followed the “right” steps and things are not where you’d like them to be.
This is a time of massive transformation, systems are breaking, hustle culture is broken, nobody wants to wait until some point in the future to be happy. If you are questioning your path, your identity, or your place in this rapidly shifting world — this episode is designed for you.

In this very personal 200th epis...

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We’re living through a trust crisis.
Audiences recognize even the best hidden pitch from a mile away, customers tune out, and “ethical marketing” has become a buzzword hiding high-pressure sales tactics.

So what is ethical persuasion — and does it influence without manipulation?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I sit down with Patrick van der Burght, fo...

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What happens when life strips away everything — your home, your art, your sense of self?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I speak with Christopher Wesley, a storyteller and transformation coach who lost everything in the Altadena fire. But instead of letting tragedy define him, he used it to rebuild his identity and purpose from the ground up. 

If you have ...

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We’re mastering business, money, and personal growth — but why does business success often mean that high-achievers feel empty in love?

We live in a world that glorifies hustle and independence. Myself included, many of us believe there is a reward for doing everything on our own. Meet Suzanne Raja, co-founder of WarriorSage, who looks at what happens when success comes at the cost of our connect...

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Why are healthcare costs skyrocketing for small businesses—while coverage keeps getting worse? 🤯 Benefits are important incentives for businesses to provide to their employees. And then you find out how your “advisor” really gets paid.

In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I sit down with Donovan Pyle, a former benefits broker who was fired for calling ou...

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Why do we keep trusting the loudest person in the room instead of the most capable one? We seem drawn to the tall, bold, confident, and the loud, but not always to the wise. I invited Maria Brinck, founder of Zynergy International, and author of The Leadership We Need, to help me unpack this uncomfortable truth. 

Maria argues we have accepted being led by bullies and that our subconscious bias to...

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We live in a world where we are compelled to showcase how great our lives are. Yet, on the inside many of us are fighting silent battles with shame, trauma, and are trying to hide the parts of ourselves that we don’t want others to see. 

Melissa Monte, host of the Mind Love podcast, knows that feeling all too well. Deeply entrenched into the wrong kind of relationship and a screaming eating disorder s...

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What happens when your body turns against you? For Sheridan Ruth, that question became brutally real. By 25, she had lost her hair, her eyebrows, and her lashes. At the same time, she faced the suicide of her husband and the collapse of her life in Colombia.

The grief, the shame, and  the pressure to keep going until it all came crashing down. Talk therapy didn’t work. Yoga helped for half an hou...

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Entrepreneurs deal with fear, anxiety, and overwhelm daily. Dr. Christiane Schröter does not just acknowledge it—she teaches how to turn it into momentum.

In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, Dr. Christiane Schroeter introduces the STEP framework (Simplify, Tell, Examine, Praise). It is a clear, four-step system designed to break big goals into small, doable a...

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Betrayal cuts deep. It’s not just emotional pain but often impacts your health, your work, and your ability to trust again. In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I sit down with Dr. Debi Silber, founder of the PBT (Post Betrayal Transformation) Institute, to uncover why betrayal is a different kind of trauma and why traditional healing or talk therapy approach...

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Privacy isn’t free—and Tanner Haas is here to prove it. 

In this episode of the  Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, we cut through the noise about so-called “end-to-end encryption” and uncover what’s really happening when you send that photo, video, or text. Tanner reveals why free apps like WhatsApp and iMessage aren’t as private as they claim, and how their business model depend...

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The systems we’ve been told to trust are falling apart — and I’ve said it before: they were never built for women, minorities, or creators like us. In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I speak candidly about why these outdated structures fail, who they were really designed to serve, and what that means for those of us who want to live and work differently bec...

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What does it really mean to live and lead without limits? For Laura Gisborne, it’s not a catchphrase — it’s her guiding principle and her life’s work. Having built nine companies and sold six, Laura could have stopped there. But a near-fatal car accident and a lifetime of overcoming trauma pushed her to step into a bigger calling: helping leaders turn their businesses into vehicles for legacy.

In this...

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Wes Towers didn’t just stumble; his whole world collapsed. A failed marriage, a business undervalued to nearly nothing, and nights spent sleeping under his desk — this was the reality he faced. Yet, in the middle of one of his darkest days, Wes wiped away tears, pulled himself together, and closed the biggest deal of his career. That moment became the start of an unexpected journey — one where pain t...

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She’s not here to play nice — and she’s definitely not here to sugarcoat anything. Laurel Mintz — my friend, favorite bada$$, and unapologetic force of nature — built a marketing agency that’s worked with over 400 brands (including Squishmallows) and then decided, screw it, I’m starting an investment fund too. On this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, we kick off ...