Wisdom.MBA
Business insights from MBA students, professors and alums. We look to share wisdom, focusing on the hard-lessons learned through different career, school and business endeavors and share insights into how you can put a business education to best use.
Episodes
48 episodes
Reef, DC Shoes, Sanuk & the Road to Becoming a CMO with Michael Minter
Michael Minter has had a very successful career as a creative marketer working with some of the world’s largest footwear brands. Michael is currently the CMO of Reef, a 40-year-old legendary sandal brand that has recently seen an expansio...
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Season 2
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Episode 48
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1:02:09
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition & Nomadic Business Ownership with Bakari Akil
Bakari Akil is a visiting lecturer at Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management teaching students how to buy a business. Bakari is also a successful search fund entrepreneur and independent sponsor. Bakari recently sourced the a...
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Season 2
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Episode 47
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1:11:32
The Entourage Effect & Plunge’s Parabolic Rise with Ryan Duey
Ryan Duey is the Co-Founder + Co-CEO of plunge.com. Plunge has seen fantastic growth with increases in demand for cold plunge and contrast therapy coming out of the pandemic. Ryan and I go deep into what caused the company’s parabolic rise and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 46
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56:08
Product Development, Market Fit & Minimum Viable Businesses with Chris McKleroy
Chris McKleroy is the founder and CEO of Nocs Provisions, a company which has reinvented binoculars. Chris is a successful entrepreneur with a proven track record of designing disruptive products and bringing them to market.Prior to Nocs...
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Season 2
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Episode 45
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1:02:40
Start-up Exits, Social Impact in Surf & Venture with Bradley Harris
Bradley Harris is the principal and CEO of A-Frame - a venture studio built for sustainable growth. Brad and I met on acquire.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling startups. I was looking to purchase the surf and board sports ...
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Season 2
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Episode 44
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1:06:10
Investment Crowdfunding & the Future of Fundraising with Will McGuire
Will McGuire is a seasoned entrepreneur with a passion for helping startup founders raise capital. Will and I take a deep dive into the JOBS act and how equity crowdfunding came to be in the United States. We talk about a bill that just passed ...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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52:13
Hemp and Health: An Unconventional Journey to Business Success with Mike Fata
Mike Fata is a true pioneer in the health food sector and a passionate advocate for wellness. Mike's story is as inspiring as it is unconventional. His career began not in the boardroom, but in a personal battle with weight loss and the pursuit...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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53:40
Managing Moderna’s Global Launch, MIT’s EMBA Program & More with Jen "JB" Braly
Jen “JB” Braly is a hands-on transformation executive with a proven track record of driving large-scale change. Most recently, she was the Vice President, Program Office for Moderna during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting directly to the Chief ...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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1:15:24
Multiple Exits, Fast Cars & Saying no to Elon with Kelly Smith
Kelly Smith has had an incredibly diverse career and is a true business renaissance man. 5 exits. Investor in companies which were acquired by ESPN, Amazon and Google. Vice President of Digital for Starbucks China when the company was experienc...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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53:50
Building the World’s Best Meditation Cushion and More with Eddie Cohen
Eddie Cohen is the founder of Walden, a brand that designs, engineers, and manufactures products for meditation. Eddie’s founder journey started after a 10-day meditation retreat. As a product designer who worked at Apple, he discovered that th...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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1:04:33
The Sauna / Cold Plunge Boom with Andrew Lachlan
Andrew Lachlan is the founder and CEO of Sauna House, a modern bathhouse committed to enhancing bathing culture and social wellness. Joe Rogan, Jesse Itzler, Russell Brand, Wim Hof … there is no shortage of Internet health and wellness gu...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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1:05:09
A.I. For Educators & Entrepreneurs with Jason Gulya, Ph.D.
Jason Gulya is a Professor of English at Berkeley College. In 2020, Jason received Berkeley’s Faculty of the Year Award for Teaching Excellence. He is also a higher ed consultant who helps students and professors prepare for the future and give...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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1:04:03
Branding, Storytelling & Hypergrowth on Social Media with Jake Karls
Jake Karls is the Co-Founder and Rainmaker for Mid-Day Squares, the first functional chocolate bar on the market. The company was founded in 2018 by Jake, his sister Lez and brother-in-law Nick. Their goal is to build a modern chocolate company...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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48:37
Making $$ as a YouTuber, ChatGPT, the TikTok Algo & Celebrity Cap Tables with Finn McKenty
Finn McKenty is one of my favorite YouTube content creators who is also a brand strategist and marketing director. Between his Punk Rock MBA and personal channel, Finn has over 500k subscribers on YouTube. The Punk Rock MBA looks to promote car...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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1:23:21
Harvard Business School, ETA & Advice for Veterans with Juan Ruiz & Doug Walsh
Harvard Business School Students Juan Ruiz and Doug Walsh run communEtA -- an MBA student-run fund which invests in search entrepreneurs. The first of its kind; it is a community of LPs, students, and searchers. The group looks to provide...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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56:05
eCommerce, Shopify, Building a Tea Brand, Dragon’s Den & More with Sheena Brady
Sheena Brady is the founder of Teasewellness.com, a wellness brand that creates all natural, tea and botanical based products that support you to live and lead consciously. As a B-Corp and through its’ Founder Fund, Tease also helps support und...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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53:33
POWDR CEO, Building an Adventure Lifestyle Company & Managing Adversity with Justin Sibley
Justin Sibley is the CEO of POWDR, an adventure lifestyle company that owns some of the best resorts on earth, including Copper Mountain, Killington, Silver Star and more. Justin is a fellow Fuqua MBA graduate who was the Vice President of Fina...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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42:03
100 Mile Runs, Working at the White House & Combating Human Trafficking with Natalya Wallin
Natalya Wallin is an endurance athlete with an amazing work career. Natalya just finished a 100-mile ultramarathon in Moab, Utah. We talk about setting hard goals, remaining tenacious when faced with adversity, the ups and downs of ultrarunning...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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58:58
Digital Marketing, Geofencing, Print Media & Intrapreneurship with Rory Gillis
Rory Gillis is the President of Triangle Media Partners and Founder of Triangle Digital Partners. Triangle Media Partners is the largest lifestyle influencer in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina. The company owns Chapel Hill Magazine...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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54:19
Launching a D2C Brand, TikTok Marketing & Death by Sweat with David Spratte and Kasper Kubica
Kasper Kubica and David Spratte are the co-founders of Carpe, makers of Dermatologist recommended sweat care products. Carpe is quickly becoming a major player in the world of antiperspirants, competing against giants like Unilever which owns D...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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43:17
Digital ETA, MicroAcquire, 3x Exits, Buying & Selling Businesses with Andrew Gazdecki
Andrew Gazdecki is the founder and CEO of MicroAcquire which is billed as the world’s #1 acquisition marketplace for Startups. Andrew is a successful founder with 3 exits to his name. He has been named an Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 entrepr...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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56:22
Building Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Start-up Exits, Museum Hacks & More with Nick Gray
Nick Gray is a successful entrepreneur, author and talented public speaker who has given a very inspiring TEDx talk on how he built and sold his multimillion-dollar start-up Museum Hack. Nick also runs a popular newsletter for business owners a...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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48:49
The Traditional Search Fund Model is Broken with Robert Graham
Robert Graham is a successful search fund entrepreneur. As a Partner at Search Investment Group (SIG), Robert advises searchers on deal sourcing, due diligence, and capital raises. He is also an investor in multiple Private Equity and search de...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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59:44
NCAA NIL & the Future of Collegiate Sports Marketing with Ishveen Jolly
Ishveen Jolly is the CEO + Founder at OpenSponsorship. OpenSponsorship is a marketplace that connects brands to professional and amateur athletes. The platform covers multiple sports in 120 different countries.Ishveen and I talk about ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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50:45
The Future of Private Aviation, Leadership & Special Forces Training with Tommy Sowers, PhD
Tommy Sowers is a true renaissance man with an incredible resume. He is an entrepreneur, academic, politician and a decorated Military officer with an 11-year career in the Army, having achieved the rank of Major. He has taught at West Point, t...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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56:52