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I met Phil Cogley 17 years ago. We shared a street corner in front of the Federal building in downtown Columbus in a group protesting the military action in Iraq. This was before he became The Saturday Giant. About 3 years ago we sat down to chat about his latest album he was working on, … Continue reading "The Saturday Giant – Episode 25"

Season 2 begins with a round up of the movement to expose and topple evil and powerful men who have histories of harassing and assaulting people. We talk about Matt Lauer's button, Charlie Rose's robe, and Garrison Keillor's “prairie home companion.” Karim and I take a close look at the “Silence Breakers” TIME People of … Continue reading "The Sexual Harassment Episode – Episode 24"

English is probably your first language. For a few generations now, English has been the language of business and science. This means that energetic and promising young minds around the world want to learn English. Karim, our co-founder, speaks English as a second language. He speaks Arabic fluently and probably a few others. Fluency is … Continue reading "English is your first Language – Episode 23"

One of our favorite activities in Columbus is sitting across a bar from Travis Owens. Usually it means a fine cocktail crafted by hand with fresh ingredients. Drinks at Curio at Harvest are inspired by the days of the speakeasy, like a white whiskey sour, or the day's news, like the “Bad Hombre”. (The Bad Hombre, … Continue reading "Travis Owens – Curio at Harvest – Episode 22"

Pop quiz! What do you talk about on youtube to get 75k subscribers or 640k views on a single video… Times UP! The answer, of course, is FOUNTAIN PENS! Today we are joined by Brian Goulet of The Goulet Pen Company. A business founded by Brian and Rachel Goulet. Karim is kind of a pen … Continue reading "The Goulet Pen Company – Episode 21"

Our ONE year anniversary We have talked to some amazing people over the year and are so grateful to all of them. Along the way, Conscious Capitalism and purpose have been the connecting theme. Karim and Adam and Daniel thank you with this awesome interview! The man who co-founded Conscious Capitalism joins us for an … Continue reading "Raj Sisodia, founder of Conscious Capitalism – Episode 20"

We knew that Danielle would be the perfect columbus creative entrepreneur to feature for our last podcast of Creative Entrepreneur Week. When I emailed to set up this interview, Danielle asked me to meet at her house in Schumacher Place to save on her car2go bill, “just let me know if you can accommodate my … Continue reading "Danielle Evans – Marmalade Bleue – Episode 19"

Elaine Grogan Luttrull – founder of Minerva Financial Arts, author of Arts and Numbers, and Department Head of Business and Entrepreneurship at CCAD sat down with Daniel from Entreprenerds Podcast to discuss the language of business and how she has spent her career translating that into the artist lexicon. The following are some reactions to her … Continue reading "Elaine Grogan Lutrull – Minerva Financial Arts – Episode 18"

*photo by Lauren Garms for Columbus Underground We launch Creative Entrepreneur Week with our interview with Justin Johnston. Justin became the inaugural Executive Director of Wild Goose Creative in 2015. Before that role, he worked as a classically trained clarinetist, performing with the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony and toured the world as … Continue reading "Justin Johnston, Wild Goose Creative – Episode 17"

This episode includes a Big Kitty and an Oracle of Omaha! Thanks to Matt Neff of EntreNeato who co-hosted and provided the audio equipment. Check out their podcast too!   Matt Helt is the Director of Startup Week at Techstars. In this role, Matt works with organizing teams all around the world to host Startup … Continue reading "Startup Week part 2 Matt Helt & Dan Rockwell – Episode 16"

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So this is a very straight forward blog. We are here to talk about BEER! Also, check out our Patreon account where you can hear exclusive podcasts and quick cuts and extra content and help support our efforts to make great stuff for you! If you were a patron you would have heard this podcast 2 … Continue reading "Wolf's Ridge – Chris Davison – Episode 014"

On this lucky 13th episode of Entreprenerds we focus on our core!  COLUMBUS STARTUPS! Also, we now have a Patreon account where you can hear exclusive podcasts and quick cuts and extra content and help support our efforts to make great stuff for you! In my article titled Columbus, OH ranks as the best city in the … Continue reading "Columbus Startup Week and Rev1 – Episode 013"

“Purpose” is a pretty loaded word. Luckily, Storyforge exists to unpack that big idea for your business. Haley Boehning has over 20 years experience elevating storytelling and aligning cultures with differentiated brand positions for Fortune-500 companies, non-profit organizations and start-ups. Most recently, before co-founding Storyforge, Haley spent 16 years designing strategic, leadership and internal communications to engage the 100,000 global employees of … Continue reading "What is your PURPOSE? – Episode 012"

Episode 10!! What??!! This time we talk about Social Media Digital Strategy. We recorded this through Facebook LIVE as well. The big Interview this week is with entrepreneur Matthew Grossman of Idegy. 23 years of running Idegy has taught him a lot about how to run a business successfully – and what NOT to do. Turns … Continue reading "Social Media and Engagement with Idegy – Episode 10"

When Urban Meyer tweeted this article around the same time as signing day, plenty of people perked up! The article, written by our own Daniel the Retailer, was a collection of accolades from the past few years. It was shared over 115,000 times on facebook and viewed 850,000 times (as of this writing) on LinkedIn. … Continue reading "Columbus, OH ranks as Best City in the World"

Hello ENTREPRENERDS!! We have a great show for you. We begin talking about an article I published on LinkedIn regarding the demise of Macy's. Just under 2000 people have read the article and continue to engage with me with comments and messages regarding the news. We cover sincerity, and my upcoming book: Make Them Feel Important. … Continue reading "Macy's Twilight Zone – Episode 008"

True Originals – in this episode (30 minutes): Adam Grant, Casey Neistat, Warby Parker, Wagner, Columbus Symphony Orchestra and their Mascot BEE-thoven, Chocolate Rain, and of course James Bond! As a special treat, Adam, our producer, joins the podcast in front of the mic. Adam Grant and his ted talk about original thinkers. He discusses: Procrastination, Irons … Continue reading "True Originals – Episode 007"

This episode – the boys are back! In this episode we talk about the loony origins of the franchise and then we interview SNAP Columbus franschisee Tony Capuano! photo credit (Hannah Capuano via The Metropreneur) We ran into Tony while blasting our quads at Snap Fitness Bexley and loved his story and the new space! … Continue reading "Franchiseeeee – Episode 006"

YOU BETTER WORK! Yes, the first 30 seconds of this podcast is an excerpt from Rupaul's Supermodel (You Better Work). There has been a lot of local and national news around Drag Queens.  We wanted to talk about these performers and how they really embody the pure spirit of entrepreneurship – creating something out of nothing, … Continue reading "Drag-trepreneur – Episode 005"

New this week – we are titling episodes! I know!! This one is all about crowd-funding. Mostly we talk about indiegogo and kickstarter. We bring our conversation about roll: Bicycle Company full circle with an exclusive interview with founder Stuart Hunter.  In another exclusive, we talk to Daniel the Retailer's dad, Clay, about his early … Continue reading "Entreprenerds 004 Crowd-Funding"

Another Podcast! So much cool stuff this time. First follow Entreprenerds Podcast instagram and @entreprenerdspc on twitter It's all about purpose! In this episode we have some great quotables like: “Connect your purpose to everything you do.” “Purpose needs to be strong enough that you are willing to do it for free.” “Purpose needs to … Continue reading "Entreprenerds 003"

We have just recorded and wrapped up our second podcast! Follow us on Twitter: @EntreprenerdsPC where Dan Pena himself retweeted us! Check out our Instagram feed: Entreprenerds Podcast Speaking of instagram…. we mentioned Compton construction  in a recent post about an article in Columbus Business First. Compton Construction is owned by local entrepreneur Blake Compton. Some recent projects … Continue reading "Entreprenerds 002"

Big thanks to our producer, Adam Kaiser, who lets us use all his fun sound geek stuff. Also, special note of gratitude to the composer of our theme music, Omar El-Deeb of Key 66 Productions. *Our podcast occasionally includes expletives (including the last 5 minutes of this one – mostly Dan Pena's fault). Don't forget to … Continue reading "entreprenerds 001 full episode"

When Adam started recording, Karim and I weren't aware. So, here's the random stuff we talked about until the show started. Some links below to understand our conversation a little more. Michael Phelps Uluru Aboriginals Rotorua egg salad enjoy!