How Success Happens

The Shark Tank star shares her toughest money management lessons and how take your business to the next level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jean Case is a tech industry pioneer. Besides her role as CEO of The Case Foundation, which she co-founded with her husband Steve, she’s also chairman of the board of trustees for the National Geographic Society -- and, of course, a former AOL executive. Her new book on success and risk-taking, Be Fearless, covers five principles common to people and organizations that change the world. In this episode, Case talks pitch tips, data privacy and how to gauge whether your idea can go the distance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zachariah Reitano and Saman Rahmanian want to fight stigmas with technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lisa Roth made several career pivots before landing on a formula that has translated to nearly 100 albums and hundreds of millions of streams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yunha Kim shares how she keeps wellness a priority while she grows her company, which recently closed a $10 million series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Galahad Clark is the co-founder of VIVOBAREFOOT, which he says is better for your foot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Kelly is founder and CEO of The Points Guy, a travel website covering everything from how to maximize your credit card rewards points to city guides for your next vacation. He shares what sparked his passion for travel points, how he made his first business idea scalable (including partnerships with big brands such as Capital One) and his top tips for consumers looking to save when booking their next trip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Haile Thomas teaches kids how to prepare healthy and sustainable food through The HAPPY Organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Amazon Prime show invites pitches for investment in cannabis startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eight-hour work days, no pointless meetings, vacations that are actually vacations -- it all sounds great, but how do you make it happen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Itthipat 'Tob' Peeradechapan, the founder of Taokaenoi, recently launched a new brand aimed at American market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lizanne Falsetto, the founder of ThinkThin, talks about her new venture, LF Advisory, and the types of people she wants to work with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The comedy veteran explains how he pivoted from nightclub performer to baking authority. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The CEO discusses getting fired from her first big job, dealing with imposter syndrome, and building a support system for all women in business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since Venmo took off, Magdon-Ismail has combined his passions with the lessons he learned about what made the payments company succeed. His new audio-sharing app, Ense, is in beta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 27, Jessica Vosk took the ultimate leap of faith: She quit her Wall Street job to pursue her dream of acting full-time. Now, night after night, she stars as Elphaba in Wicked, the second highest-grossing Broadway show of all time. Vosk's path wasn't easy: On this episode of How Success Happens, she offers tips for using your “business brain” to ensure people want to work with you time and time again, motivating yourself even on your worst days and networking without feeling "fake." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jen Glantz launched her business Bridesmaid for Hire with a Craigslist post. Today, the writer and career coach helps people get through the most pressure-filled days of their lives -- and has learned a lot about finding opportunities in unexpected places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Author and business journalist Elaine Pofeldt discusses how solo entrepreneurs can break $1 million in revenue before they hire a single employee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The serial entrepreneur's next act is helping new entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground. He reveals the advice he won't be giving them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jennifer Ann Openshaw is an American financial innovator, author, and commentator. She is perhaps best known for starting Women’s Financial Network – the first online financial firm created for women and a trendsetter in the financial industry. Her new venture, 'Girls With Impact' offers young women entrepreneurs, grades 9-12, a digital education on business plans, funding, the art of pitching and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Volk-Weiss built the world's largest comedy production and distribution company taking risks on comedians that weren't yet household names and became global superstars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A conversation with author Stephanie Storey about how she found success with a daring risk-it-all game plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rowe's been in business since the late '80s, making and marketing "eco bags" to replace those yucky plastic bags clogging up our beaches and park. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the latest episode of How Success Happens, Joey Gonzalez of Barry's Bootcamp shares how he rose from customer to CEO of the high performance boutique fitness chain. The father of two also talks work-life balance, how his immigrant parents inspired him to succeed and key business growth strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On the latest episode of How Success Happens, the insanely busy Daymond John shares what goes on behind the scenes of Shark Tank, his advice for starting and growing a business, and explains how he relaxes by surrounding himself with bees. Yes, bees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Becoming an entrepreneur often means forging your own career path. Career Contessa's Lauren McGoodwin evolved from education major to recruiter to founder. Now, her site advises women on how to take control of their careers -- including which skills are most important for getting to where you want to go, whether you're an employee or an entrepreneur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode, we listen in to the hilarious interview Kumail Nanjiani did for the May 2017 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. Learn about how he got his start in tech, how he got the courage to make the leap into comedy and how he and his wife, Emily V. Gordon, figured out how to work together without driving each other nuts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heidi Zak founded ThirdLove in 2013 to change how women buy bras. The company pioneered half-sizes and developed an app that’s helped it aggregate more than 150 million data points from real women to ensure a better fitting bra. She’ll explain a surprising key to moving quickly and building her business that can help any leader: asking better questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Serial founders get good at knowing how to mobilize, when a big change is coming and how to push through. And if they’re lucky, they also know themselves a lot better. That’s certainly the case with Adam Braun. With his first venture, Pencils of Promise, Braun, who was in his 20s at the time it started, was able to completely focus of his nonprofit’s mission: to build schools and create educational programs for those living in developing countries. He built 450 schools across the globe. He also suffered from major burnout -- a state he’d rather not reach again. Today, Braun is a more experienced founder with a new project: MissionU, a college alternative with no upfront tuition. To learn more about how Braun prevents burnout, the principles behind MissionU and his take on being an entrepreneur, listen to the latest edition of How Success Happens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chris Soukup understands the frustrations the deaf community faces. He’s seen deaf children put in schools that isolate them and deaf adults struggling to get work. A third-generation member of the deaf community, he knows the unexpected roadblocks that can emerge during any task -- from placing a phone call to even applying for a loan. But Soukup also understands what’s possible -- and he’s working to make a global impact with his nonprofit Communication Service for the Deaf, an organization dedicated to supporting people with hearing loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Stevenson is a futurologist and historian who's book We Do Things Differently took him across the globe to find people looking for unexpected solutions for the big problems we’re facing across the globe. In this podcast, he talks about what that research taught him about how laughter and tenacity power innovation -- and what anyone can learn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antonia Dunbar has built a career developing new products to make women's lives better. She's been called a "feminist genius" for her part in designing THINX underwear, a revolutionary self-absorbing undergarment which eliminates the need for tampons or pads. Now Antonia Dunbar is stepping into the shoe industry with Antonia Saint New York, a line of high-tech heels and flats that feel like sneakers on the inside. How Success Happens host Linda Lacina spoke with the serial disrupter about her drive to provide innovative solutions for women, and how sacrifice, commitment and practice have fueled her success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each year, thousands descend upon Austin, Texas for SXSW, a celebration of tech, movies, education and politics. They come, in part, for the more than 2,000 panels and presentations packed with thought leaders, actors, authors, astronauts and a range of buzzy personalities. Attendees have Hugh Forrest, the event’s chief programming officer, to thank for the lineup. In this podcast he’ll talk about how he’s learned to maximize the 10-12 month planning cycle that makes the festival come to life. He’ll also share the routines he puts in place not just to make that event possible, but to keep his team connected and engaged and moving projects forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Martha Stewart launched her brand more than 25 years ago and it continues to serve as a model for what’s really possible for when it comes to building a personal empire. This brand -- a third career after modeling and stockbrokering -- has expanded from books and magazines to a range of collaborations including a cooking show with rapper Snoop Dogg, and partnerships with retailers like Home Depot, Staples, Macy’s and most recently, the QVC. She’ll talk to us today about what she’s learned -- and the role of curiosity and optimism in building something that evolves and lasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daina is one of the co-founders of Health-Ade, a kombucha company, that you might have seen at Whole Foods or on the shelves of one the more than 10,000 stores it’s available at in all 50 states. But five years ago, before its first or its second plant, before the $25 million in funding, it was just a side hustle started in her apartment with some friends and $600. Today, Daina will talk about those hard early days, about quitting a corporate job and an orderly life, about getting evicted and taking conference calls in her car. She’ll talk about how she found a light to follow when the path wasn’t clear -- and what she’d like every new founder going through just these struggles to understand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Michael Hyatt is a bestselling author whose latest book "Your Best Year Ever: A 5 Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals" uses the latest research to help us take control of our time and our dreams to build the lives we want. He’ll talk to us about the 25,000 people who helped inspire this book as well as the simple ways we all get off track and what we need to do instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You might know Cards Against Humanity as profane, dark and politically tinged party game. You might also know it for its pranks, like the Super Bowl ad that featured only a potato with the word “advertisement” written on it. But you might not know the company funds a scholarship for women pursuing STEM careers and has raised millions for causes like internet privacy and government transparency. It might also surprise you that CAH for many years was run by 8 friends-turned-founders who kept their day jobs while running the card game as a sidehustle. Today we’ll talk to two of its founders, Ben Hantoot and Max Temkin, on their unique approach to running a company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nathan Kontny, the CEO of Highrise, is a tech leader whose career has followed a somewhat unconventional path. He was trained as a nuclear chemist and discovered a love for software programming when a broken ankle kept him from working in the lab during a summer internship. He’d would go on to found not one, or two but three companies, including a ‘Zynga for advertisers’ and Draft, the writing software he always wished he had. Through all these experiences, he'd learn that tapping into passion, be it for software and even writing, has made opportunities appear that he never imagined. In this week's podcast, he'll talk about what he's learned about passion, how writing shapes how he leads and why he hosts job interviews over chat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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