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The 21st Century Entrepreneurship Podcast is a 4 x Gold-Award weekly show that features interviews with cutting-edge leaders and successful entrepreneurs. We talk about the fundamentals of starting and growing a business, achieving and maintaining success, as well as the difficulties of entrepreneurship and its future. Subscribe to the 21st Century Entrepreneurship Podcast and never miss an episode, so you can stay on top of the curve and gain the knowledge you need to succeed in today's competitive landscape.
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Jake Stahl is a psychology-trained communication strategist, NLP master practitioner, and global trainer who has coached over 10,000 people across six countries—and we spoke about how people actually make decisions. His core premise is simple: every person has two profiles, the polished public one and the internal one “that responds to fear and biases and happiness,” and only that second profile makes decisions. Jake teaches leaders, founders, and sales teams how to communicate directly to th...
Peter Maher is the U.S. expansion lead for Ovanti—recently rebranded as Flote—and we spoke about why he left a stable, well-paid role in fintech leadership to build an alternative to what he calls a “very, very broken” credit system. With 12+ years in payments, partnerships, and market launches, he brought a career’s worth of operational and commercial experience to a problem he personally lived through. Maher’s motivation is rooted in his early setbacks. A single poor decision at 19 “cost me...
Jeff Abraham is an entrepreneur who retired after selling a semiconductor engineering company, and we spoke about how he later built a sexual wellness brand by using medical credibility instead of hype. He explained that “even in healthy couples, the average man finishes in 5 minutes and 40 seconds” while “the average female takes 18 minutes,” a difference he called “the arousal gap.” Rather than compete with “197 products online—shark fin, deer antler extract,” he chose to power statisticall...
AJ Cassata is an entrepreneur who has spent more than a decade building companies using one core mechanism—outbound lead generation. We spoke about why so many founders struggle with lead flow and how, as he says, “leads are the lifeblood of your business,” yet most assume they need ads, a large audience, or influencer status to grow. His turning point was realizing that targeted outbound—“starting conversations with your target market at scale”—can outperform paid channels when done with pre...
Paul Cecil is the VP of Strategy at realpha and we spoke about how a young founder-minded strategist thinks through scale, pressure, and the role of AI in real business results. He began as a pre-med student, switched into business after realizing he “liked trading stocks a lot more,” and later worked for years without pay to learn capital formation. Joining realpha as employee number ten, he helped drive seven acquisitions, eight capital raises, and a NASDAQ listing in under three years. A k...
Bogdan Micov is a former CEO who led 700 people in Dubai before a stroke at 32 forced him to confront what he calls “how stress affects us” and how much of his success was built on pressure rather than wellbeing. We spoke about his shift from operating on cortisol to operating from calm, and the method he later developed to help high performers do the same. His approach is built on a simple chain: thinking creates emotion, emotion shapes behavior, and behavior determines results. As he puts i...
Srikar Yeruva is an engineer-turned-serial entrepreneur, and we spoke about why he believes healthcare transformation starts with respecting the problem—not throwing technology at it. After years building technical companies, exiting one to Bain Capital and selling another in smart contracts, he realized “technology doesn’t sell—solutions do.” That shift pulled him into the heart of U.S. health systems, where he learned firsthand how hospitals operate, why workflows break, and why efficiency ...
Melissa Faith Hart is a public-safety innovator with 20 years of experience, and we spoke about how personal survival, technology, and community systems shaped her mission. She began her career at Xerox helping police departments modernize, eventually co-building the first criminal e-discovery system in Colorado. As she put it, she always asked, “how can I make the system better… so that we can help victims?” A major turning point came after a brain surgery and a domestic-violence crisis that...
Brandon Williams is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and business executive with over twenty years of experience bridging law, business, and entertainment across the globe. We spoke about how he turned persistence and practical judgment into the foundation for billion-dollar deals and international success stories. After representing Fortune 10 companies and global icons, Williams learned that growth begins with grit: “Everything starts small. Learn to build. It’s going to be hard.” His journey took a...
Adam Cerra is a high-ticket sales expert who has closed more than $30 million in offers for coaches, consultants, and entrepreneurs. We spoke about how he teaches people to “sell without selling” — a process he calls inverse closing, where persuasion is replaced by empathy and guided conversation. As Adam puts it, “You’re not convincing anyone to buy anything. You’re getting your prospect to sell themselves for the offer.” His approach hinges on emotional intelligence — the ability to feel wh...
Dwan Bent-Twyford is one of America’s most recognized real estate investors and educators, known for turning a $75 setback into a multimillion-dollar career. We spoke about how losing her home and car as a single mother became the catalyst for a 35-year journey and over 2,000 completed property deals. Her approach begins with empathy, not transactions. “People before profits,” she said, describing how she focuses on homeowners in distress—those facing foreclosure, divorce, or loss—rather than...
John Frost is the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Marketing at Doane University with nearly 20 years in higher education across community colleges and private and public universities. We spoke about what it truly means to change lives through learning—and why education is not just for the gifted but for anyone curious enough to start. Frost believes that “what we do is what politicians, kings and queens promise to do—we change lives each and every day.” His approach goes beyond ac...
Patrick Wood is a 30-year entrepreneur in finance and capital markets across Canada and the U.S., now leading an early-stage public company redefining how digital asset treasuries hedge risk. We spoke about what it really takes to endure the entrepreneurial grind — and why expecting failure can become your most powerful advantage. “Always plan on failure first,” Patrick says. “Expect it’s going to fail — then move, pivot, and adjust.” That mindset has guided his own journey, from stockbroker ...
Gail Kasper is an author, professional speaker, and performance coach who has spent over 15 years training entrepreneurs and executives—from solo founders to leaders in multi-billion-dollar companies—on leadership, customer service, and sales. We spoke about how few CEOs (only 15%) have ever been formally trained in sales, and why that missing skill often determines whether a business scales or stalls. Her approach centers on what she calls the Systematic Attitude Development Technique—a meth...
Christopher Hossfeld is a 27-year U.S. Army veteran and leadership educator who translates battlefield decision-making into modern business strategy. We spoke about how lessons from military history can sharpen leaders’ thinking, reduce bias, and strengthen organizations. “Investing in your people is the best way of spending your limited resources,” he explains—because leadership, at its core, is about leaving something that transcends business. Through his Barrel Strength Leadership framewor...
Michael Jacobson is the CEO who transformed a struggling flower shop into a thriving, multi-location enterprise generating over $9 million in revenue. We spoke about how he acquired a near-bankrupt business and rebuilt it by blending technology, artistry, and a mission grounded in love rather than profit. “Profit’s a great thing,” he said, “but it’s a means to our greater why.” Instead of chasing corporate slogans about being “number one,” Jacobson focused on culture, human connection, and el...
Iñigo Rivero is the co-founder of House of Marketers and a former early TikTok Europe team member who helped transform the app from a lip-syncing platform into a global content powerhouse. We spoke about how he built a 50-person remote agency by turning short-form creativity into measurable results for brands. After leaving TikTok, Iñigo noticed that “brands didn’t know how to actually succeed on TikTok,” and decided to fill that gap. His journey began as a sales-driven professional who saw t...
Brennan Haelig is a digital marketer turned agency owner, and we spoke about going from sleeping in a 10×10 studio to leading a multi–seven-figure team of 18. “Back in 2018, I was homeless, sleeping in my recording studio,” he recalls, adding, “I remember having 50 cents in my bank account.” The early aim wasn’t millions—it was simply to support himself without “a full time corporate job.” His turning point came when he was let go from a part-time day job and had to go all-in. Growth followed...
Kyle Whitehill is a former Vodafone executive who spent three decades inside global giants like L’Oréal, Diageo, and PepsiCo before asking himself, “Am I not entrepreneurial?” Seven years ago, he found out—leaving the corporate world to lead a smaller, founder-built company and test whether discipline and responsiveness could thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. He explained that his leadership philosophy rests on four pillars: responsiveness, authentic purpose, governance, and accountab...
Alex Mehr is a scientist-turned-entrepreneur who built and sold companies generating over a billion dollars in revenue. We spoke about how the speed and accessibility of AI have fundamentally changed what it means to be an entrepreneur today. “The best thing you can do is to become an idea machine,” he says — because execution cycles are now so fast that markets reward creativity and adaptability over long-term focus on a single idea. He calls this new model the “one-two punch”: first, turn a...
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