Pull the Chute - Grow your People, Grow your Company Podcast
The goal of this podcast is to interview business owners and/or C-level executives to get an understanding of how they built their culture, what worked, what failed, and what tips can they give new and upcoming business owners. Our goal over the next ten years is to help as many small to medium-sized businesses get to the next level by growing their people, which will grow their company. Through coaching and transformational leadership, Pull the Chute can guide company leaders to invest time to get to know their people and understand their roles, goals, and challenges to provide learning & growth opportunities - ultimately helping their people be the best they can be.
Pull the Chute - Grow your People, Grow your Company Podcast
Grounding Yourself is the Only Lever to Pull
Pull the Chute podcast features Jodi Hume, On-Call Decision Support for Founders & Entrepreneurs navigating Growth & Acquisition. Confidential, Objective, and Neuroscience-based.
Jodi Hume is the Founder & CEO of At The Core, specializing in on‑call decision support for founders and entrepreneurs navigating growth and acquisition. Over the past decade, she’s worked confidentially with more than 100 C‑suite leaders across seed-stage startups to $200 M+ ARR ventures, helping them make smarter decisions grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and business pragmatism.
A third-generation entrepreneur, Jodi spent 15 years as COO of an architecture firm growing from 8 to 50 people, then earned credentials in psychology (Loyola University), facilitation (Johns Hopkins), co-active coaching, and the MIT Sloan Neuroscience of Business program.
Her method is objective, confidential, and neuroscience-based: she provides a trusted, real-time sounding board to help founders separate emotion from strategy, recharge cognitively, and arrive at clarity amid complexity The NEW ROI: Return on Individuals.
Off the clock, Jodi co-hosts the So, Here’s My Story… podcast, leads monthly entrepreneurial roundtables, and is the lead singer of her band The Wafflers. She even once took first place in a truck pull.
