Artist James Corwin discusses growing from selling art in local famers markets to owning multiple galleries. He shares advice on crafting emotional wildlife paintings, delegation strategies and thoughts on running an art business.

From Adobe's founding by a family friend to playing pickup basketball with his brothers, Fritz Lanman share his unusual path to Microsoft executive turned startup founder eventually leading him to become the CEO of ClassPass and Mindbody.

Explore the inspiring journey of John Ignacio. Coming from a Filipino immigrant family as he navigates life, education, and work in the multicultural landscape of Brooklyn, New York and Manila, Philippines. Insights into the immigrant experience and the strength of community.

The article emphasizes that startups can thrive by being adaptable, customer-focused, and innovative. Building resilience through efficient operations, diversified revenue, and strong team dynamics will be crucial in weathering economic challenges and fostering long-term success.

Sher Downing, an innovative EdTech Strategist & CEO of Downing EdTech Consulting, leverages 30+ years in higher education & corporate training. A digital learning pioneer, she drives global organizations through transformative journeys, prioritizing accessibility. Recognized as an EdTech Trendsetter Finalist by EdTech Digest, her firm and she have clinched prestigious accolades like The Top 50 Women Leaders in Arizona 2022 & the 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year Women in IT USA Awards. Her unwavering commitment continues to inspire in the EdTech sphere

Chase Brignac has a unique journey from Cancer Alley Louisiana to working at NASA, Target, Apple, and being admitted into Y Combinator as a first time startup founder. His story is fascinating and inspiring

Meet Melissa Kwan, a 3X Bootstrapped Founder with an exit from her previous company, Spacio in 2019. She launched eWebinar as a way to give founders and sales teams their time back to pursue passionate and fun endeavors. She is also the host of ProfitLed Podcast where they review and uncover proven growth strategies for bootstrapped entrepreneurs from the people who have done it before.

Diana Stepner shares her inspiring tech career journey, from communications in San Diego to an MBA at Boston University. She discusses working in CRM at Epsilon and Macromedia, then making the move to Epiphany's cloud-based tools. After relocating to London, Diana joined Salesforce in its early days as a UX researcher, later getting an HCI degree from Berkeley. She returned to London for roles at Monster and Pearson, starting their Future Technologies Group. Diana sees AI transforming education, with VR/AR enhancing learning platforms. Her career is driven by a commitment to create the best product-user fit through UX research.

Ranjodh Singh began exploring mindfulness through transformative zen meditation, which led to incorporating daily breathwork and cold shower rituals. Through over 5 years in B2B software sales, he developed strong business relationship building and negotiation skills. He headed country operations for 2 years at a startup in Cairo, learning critical lessons in adaptability and resilience. An exhilarating paragliding experience in India provided an incredible perspective shift. He is currently creating 60-second educational Instagram videos to simplify complex concepts for a wider audience. Psychedelic experiences sparked profound spiritual growth and self-awareness for him. He is passionate about building mental fortitude through practices like strength training. Overall, he finds immense fulfillment in coaching and supporting individual growth journeys.

Armando Vera Carvajal, co-founder and CEO of social planning app Hangtight, shares about his life as a first-generation immigrant from Mexico. He recognizes the sacrifices his parents made in pursuit of the American dream and embraces his status as a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. After struggling to fit in as a child due to linguistic and cultural differences, he realized in college that his natural entrepreneurial spirit could allow him to feel comfortable fitting into his own mold. He further developed his entrepreneurial skills during an experience studying abroad in Paris and Singapore. Facing initial hitches in technical talent acquisition after launching his startup, Hangtight, his fortunes changed when his company was able to acquire a competitor's tech stack, trained machine learning models and users. Armando concludes by emphasizing the importance of resilience when faced with adversity.

From switching careers, changing industries to balancing work and personal ambitions, my journey was anything but conventional. Looking back, there are valuable insights and great stories to share that may serve as a guide or inspiration to others.

From Division One Football to Startup Entrepreneur: The Inspiring Journey of Luke Ashenbrand

In this episode we dive into Robyn Hobson journey from growing up in South Africa to being a global marketing superstar.

Direct quote from Robyn herself: "My career has been anything but boring! I interned at a digital marketing agency that was home to some of the best creative minds in Africa, dove into the deep end at a mobile technology start-up that successfully exited, learnt how vital a crisis communications

plan is at a low-cost airline, dipped a toe into corporate waters, ate

far too much chocolate launching a FMCG brand, started a business,

studied, spent time scaling a global EdTech company, and then ...

started marketing Sprinter vans. ”

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