Heartbeat For Hire with Lyndsay Dowd
The Heartbeat for Hire Podcast was created to inspire leaders on how to get through the most difficult of circumstances. I feature CEOs, Olympians, Professional Athletes, Authors, Disruptors, Emmy Winning Journalists and more as they share their stories of resilience with my lens on leadership and culture. My guests share their vulnerability and lessons learned so those of you who have never had a good leader can see the possible in the way they lead. My goal is to transform leadership as we know it and this podcast features the best of the best in showing you the way.
Episodes
June 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Moe “The Closer” Allen—a firestarter, a disruptor, and the powerhouse founder & CEO of UpStatus Logistics LLC.
Moe is on a mission to close the wealth gap for entrepreneurs—especially those underestimated by traditional lenders and underrepresented in rooms where decisions (and deals) are made. Through her work, she helps founders tap into non-personal capital, rewire their beliefs about money, and build businesses with true stayi...
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June 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Michael Stutts is the Chief Brand Officer at Dollar Shave Club, the OG viral direct-to-consumer razor company that changed an entire industry. Michael’s job is to keep the fire of the brand, grow the omnichannel customer base, and drive innovation to bring new products and categories to market.
Before Dollar Shave Club, Michael held executive roles in Marketing, Digital, and Information Technology at Azamara Cruises and Bloomin Br...
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May 28, 2025 • 23 mins
Adam House Sr. is the visionary founder of the House of Bricks, a comprehensive platform for entrepreneurs that integrates Advisory, Community, and Academy.
As a 7x entrepreneur with three high-multiple exits,a podcast host, and former pro basketball player, Adam leverages over 25 years of experience to empower entrepreneurs.
His mission is to significantly reduce the failure rate of startups and small businesses by providing the ...
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May 21, 2025 • 42 mins
Mickey Bergman is a two time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, a fringe diplomat, CEO of Global Reach, a best selling Author, regular contributor to the NY Times, the Washington Post, Huff Post, The Boston Globe and numerous other well known publications.
He is a gentleman, an outlier and an influencing force in some of the most well known hostage negotiations which you will hear about today.
Mickey Bergman is the CEO of Globa...
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May 14, 2025 • 28 mins
Kathy Love is a certified self-care coach, 2x TEDx speaker, and bestselling author of My Self-Care Sh*t: The Workbook*. With over a decade of experience in wellness, leadership, and coaching, she helps —stop the people-pleasing and start reclaiming energy, time, and peace.
Known for her bold yet compassionate approach, Kathy combines practical tools with deep mindset work to help clients break patterns of burnout, codependency, an...
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May 7, 2025 • 34 mins
Shola Richards is the CEO and Founder of Go Together Global®, the best-selling author of the award-winning book Civil Unity, and he is leading a worldwide movement to change the world based on how we treat each other at work. His tireless international efforts to make the world a kinder place from San Juan to Singapore have earned him the well-deserved nickname, “Brother Teresa”.
As a speaker, Shola has shared his transformative l...
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April 30, 2025 • 24 mins
Steve is a globally renowned talent strategist and advisor, sought after by leaders and organizations around the world.
His client roster includes innovative organizations such as Airbnb, Salesforce, the Country Music Association, Manchester United Football Club, the BBC, and the City of Lisbon Portugal.
Additionally, Steve is frequently retained by top VC firms and top consulting firms like Deloitte and McKinsey for his experti...
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April 23, 2025 • 25 mins
Over the last decade, Madeleine has built 3 successful companies and a community of over 2 million people.She is the founder of MHM Luxury Properties, Madeleine Raiford-Holland (MRH) Education, and Moderately High Maintenance Luxury Properties.Her mission is to inspire anyone who feels chained by golden handcuffs to step out of their comfort zone and build their own massively profitable short term rental business.Madeleine helps as...
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April 16, 2025 • 29 mins
Jim Fielding is a respected leader and C-Suite veteran in brand strategy, consumer products and experiences, and storytelling. He has worked at some of the world’s largest media and retail companies, including Disney, Dreamworks, and 20th Century Fox. He is a passionate advocate and philanthropist for the Queer Community, higher education, and diversity, equity and inclusion. As author of All Pride, No Ego (Wiley, Aug. 15, 2023), h...
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April 9, 2025 • 33 mins
Enrique “Ric” Prado is a 24-year veteran of the CIA’s operations directorate, playing a pivotal role in counterterrorism and clandestine operations. As a co-founder of the Osama bin Laden task force, Alec Station, and later Chief of Operations for the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, he was instrumental in the agency’s post-9/11 counterterrorism expansion.
Prado led high-stakes intelligence and kinetic operations worldwide, earning...
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April 2, 2025 • 34 mins
What do you get when you combine a national touring DJ, a weight-loss transformation story, a 3 time game show contestant, an extroverted entertainer and a highly interactive keynote speaker? You get Rich Bracken.
Rich is a phenomenal combo of heart, wit, smarts and experience and when he delivers a keynote- you won’t forget it.
Rich is an award-winning global keynote speaker, thought leader, television and media contributor, and...
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March 26, 2025 • 28 mins
Sam McKenna, has spent her 15+ year career in Enterprise sales doing two things: breaking over 13 sales records and doing so by leading with a manners-first and buyers-first approach to sales that shuns the status quo of the profession.In addition to sharing her practical and actionable sales, leadership, and entrepreneurial tips, Sam holds an unparalleled amount of distinctions as a LinkedIn expert, including being one of few peop...
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March 19, 2025 • 30 mins
Command Sergeant Major Gretchen Evans, (U.S. Army, ret.) was at the height of a three-decade career in service to the country when she lost it all. Reaching the rank of Command Sergeant Major, the highest rank a non-commissioned officer may achieve. While overseeing 30,000+ ground troops in Afghanistan, CSM Evans was injured by a mortar blast from insurgents at a forward operating base. She woke up in a hospital in Germany and was ...
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March 12, 2025 • 33 mins
Jacquie has spent over 30 years in mainstream consumer media. Working on iconic brands ranging from Country Life to FHM, and Grazia to The Sun and The Times. Jacquie’s expertise has covered trading, creative partnerships, sponsorship and affiliate deals. Jacquie has worked across different platforms – with the majority of her experience nestled in mainstream press, digital and events. Jacquie co-founded Visible Inc with Jane Evans ...
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March 5, 2025 • 34 mins
Melanie Borden is the Founder & CEO of The Borden Group, where she helps Founders, C-suites, and Executives align their real-life expertise with impactful strategies to unlock opportunities and build meaningful relationships at scale. With a strong foundation as a marketing executive, Melanie has leveraged extensive expertise to bridge the gap between online marketing strategies and brand-building for both corporate and personal br...
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February 26, 2025 • 32 mins
With over two decades of experience founding and scaling 3 global companies to $50M+ in revenue, Garrett Delph is the Founder/CEO of Clarity Ops, LLC, the first choice operating partner to Founders, CEO's, and C-Suite Leadership Teams. He specializes in reorganizing business operations for scale and growth through his proprietary The FASTT Solutions System. Think of Garrett as the Marie Kondo of business-eliminating clutter and cre...
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February 19, 2025 • 35 mins
It is said life is a tough teacher. We get the test first and then learn the lesson.Perhaps no one knows that better than Kristen Christy.As a world-class athlete at 15, she experienced a massive stroke from a brainhemorrhage that left her physically and mentally broken with her identity inquestion.The suicide of her first husband after a deployment devastated her family andleft Kristen feeling shame and guilt.Both of her sons’ att...
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February 12, 2025 • 25 mins
Chris Hare uses Atomic Storytelling™ and strategic narrative design to help visionary leaders and their teams make a more meaningful dent in the universe. Chris a veteran of Amazon and Microsoft and is founder and principal of The Storied Future, where he helps clients—ranging from startups and midmarket companies to trillion-dollar titans—to build narratives that shift the future. He is also a keynote speaker and the host of The S...
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February 5, 2025 • 21 mins
Courtney Turich is a bold risk-taker, seasoned sales leader, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the medical device and healthcare industries. From securing a deal on Shark Tank with Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner, to helping cancer patients minimize hair loss as Global VP of Sales and Marketing at Cooler Heads, Courtney’s career is defined by innovation and impact. She is passionate about empowering others to make bo...
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January 29, 2025 • 30 mins
Christine is a dynamic C-level executive, transformational leader, and leadership coach, celebrated for blending business innovation with human-centered leadership. With expertise spanning healthcare, technology, biotech, and consumer packaged goods (CPG), she drives commercialization, scalability, and growth by uniting people around shared visions and creating empowered, collaborative cultures.
As the Founder and CEO of Cofinity ...
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