Business Origin Stories for Entrepreneurs, Coaches, and Leaders
Business Origin Stories is the podcast for leadership, life, and business. This show features coaching calls and heart-to-heart conversations with successful entrepreneurs, leaders, authors, and experts.
Join your host, Amy Schutte, a business coach and brand strategist, as she dives into ways to create stand-out brands and aligned businesses through storytelling and proven business frameworks.
At its core, Business Origin Stories is a recognition that the stories we tell are our greatest currency.
Episodes
134 episodes
133: How to Trust Yourself, Make Better Decisions, and Lead From Within with Hannah Holt
Who do you turn to first when you have a difficult decision to make?Your partner? A colleague? A coach? A friend?Hannah Holt wants you to add one more person to that list: yourself.Hannah Holt is a speaker, coach, an...
132: Building a Million-Dollar Business Through Change, Resilience, and Reinvention with Crystalee Beck
What does it take to build a million-dollar business while raising a family, and what happens when the business you built enters an entirely new season?Crystalee Beck knows both sides of that story.She is the owner of Comma Copywr...
131: How to Get Headhunted: LinkedIn, Resume & Personal Branding Strategies with Executive Recruiter Zach Nold
Your resume can look polished and still fail to communicate why someone should hire you.Zach Nold, executive recruiter, entrepreneur, and founder of Crucial Hire, has spent years studying what makes candidates stand out. His concl...
130: AI, Human Judgment, and Better Business Execution with Tres Roeder
Technology can help an organization move faster. But what happens when the people expected to use that technology aren’t moving with it?Tres Roeder, president of Roeder Consulting, has spent 25 years helping organizations decide w...
129: Beyond the Business Plan: Using Intuition and Business Constellations to Solve Hidden Problems with Martijn Meima
What if the business problem you keep trying to solve isn’t actually the problem?For many entrepreneurs and leaders, the instinct is to respond to a challenge with another strategy, a new marketing plan, a leadership book, or a spreadshe...
128: 35,000 Views in Two Weeks: The Story Behind My TEDx Talk
What happens when the life you built to earn approval stops feeling like yours?In this solo episode, Amy shares the real story behind bringing her Kármán Line™ framework to the TEDx Cambridge stage — a year and a half of rejection a...
127: Business Analyst to Black Belt: How Paula A. Bell Built a Mind-Body-Soul Coaching Empire
Paula A. Bell wears a lot of titles — business analyst consultant, life coach, fitness coach, third-degree black belt in karate — and in this episode, she explains why she never niched down to just one.Paula built Paula A. Bell Consultin...
126: Nove Style: Building the Business Platform Personal Stylists Actually Need
In this episode, host Amy Schutte sits down with Megan Wright and Kaitlin Oran, co-founders of Nove — a platform built specifically for personal stylists to manage and grow their businesses. From digitizing client closets to track...
125: The Rebel's Guide to Culture Change: Tanarra Schneider on Coaching Teams Through Fear, Conflict & Growth
What if the people challenging your organization the most are actually the ones who could save it? In this episode, Tanarra Schneider — founder of Rebel 75 — unpacks why healthy dissent gets mistaken for disruption, and how leaders can build te...
124: How to Build Credibility at Every Level of Leadership with Cynthia Newman
In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Cynthia Newman shares lessons from more than 40 years in wealth management and her transition into executive coaching. After spending decades leading people, developing talent, and navigating o...
123: Strike the Right Chord: Leadership, Team Building & the Music Framework That Changes Everything with Michael Brenner
What happens when a professional musician spends 26 years building leadership teams? Michael Brenner, founder of Right Chord Leadership, joins the show to share how a single conversation with a mentor turned his passion for music into CHORDS — ...
122: Divorce as a Business Deal: How to Leave a High-Conflict Partner Strategically with Divorce Strategist Courtney Harkness
Divorce is one of the most financially and emotionally high-stakes events in a person's life — but most people walk into it completely unprepared. In this episode, Amy sits down with Courtney Harkness, a divorce strategist who helps successful ...
121: What Great Leaders Know About Themselves with Jason Daily
What happens when leadership growth becomes less about gaining skills and more about understanding yourself?In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Jason Daily, founder of Anchored Leadership, shares the experiences and leader...
120: The Second Act: Helping Women Return to Work with Confidence
What happens when life takes you away from the workforce for nearly two decades?For Heather Nemelka, that question became the foundation for a mission that is now helping women, career changers, and workforce returners rediscover ...
119: The Courage to Realign: Tucker Branham on Values, Leadership, and Designing a Life That Fits
What happens when the life you've built no longer aligns with who you are?In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Tucker Branham shares how his unconventional journey shaped a career dedicated to helping individuals and organi...
118: The Founder-to-CEO Transition: Leadership Lessons for Growing Marketing Agencies with Dan Newman
What if the biggest obstacle to scaling your agency is not your marketing strategy, but your leadership systems?In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Amy sits down with Dan Newman, founder of Learn to Scale, to talk about th...
117: From Performance to Service: Executive Presence, Leadership Communication, and Confidence with Katya Davydova
What if executive presence has less to do with performance and more to do with service?In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Amy sits down with Katya Davydova, leadership coach, facilitator, and communication expert, to expl...
116: Leadership Under Pressure: David Fivecoat on Battlefield Lessons, Grit, and Decisive Leadership
What changes when leadership decisions carry real consequences?In this episode of Business Origin Stories, I sit down with David Fivecoat, a former U.S. A...
115: Legacy Is a Verb: Rethinking Philanthropy, Wealth, and Giving with Elena Fracchia
Most people don’t struggle with the desire to give. They struggle with knowing how.In this episode, Elena Fracchia shares what she has learned working across nonprofit management, fundraising, and wealth strategy. After seeing bot...
114: Build Leaders Before You Need Them: Why Mentorship Can’t Wait with Randy Hain
Most companies wait too long to develop their next generation of leaders.In this episode, Amy sits down with Randy Hain, executive coach, author, and founder of Serving Partners, to talk about the gap most organizations ignore: in...
113: Why the Entry-Level Hiring Playbook Is Broken and How to Help Young Professionals Land Jobs in Today’s Market with Chris Greene
The path from college to career is not working the way it used to.In this episode of Business Origin Stories, the founder of YoPro shares what he’s seeing firsthand after working with more than 70 young professionals trying to lan...
112: Conscious Leadership: Why High Achievers Must Slow Down to Lead Better with Claudia Beck
What happens when the traits that made you successful start working against you?In this episode, Claudia Beck, founder of Better Together Group, shares her journey from a 30-year corporate career to coaching senior executives on c...
111: Time, Money, and Freedom: Building a Business That Actually Fits Your Life with Carrie Veatch
What if the number you’re chasing in business isn’t actually the number you need?In this episode, Amy sits down with Carrie Veatch, who helps entrepreneurs build time, location, and financial freedom in a way that is grounded in t...
110: Take Back 10–30% of Your Time: Removing the Drama and Trauma of People Management with Neil Katz
Most leaders don’t think about HR until something breaks. But by then, it’s already costing time, energy, and momentum.In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Neil Katz shares how his fractional HR firm helps companies remove the ope...
109: AI Readiness Over Hype: Why 90% of AI Projects Fail and How to Get It Right with Matt Murphy
AI is no longer optional. But rushing into it may be the most expensive mistake your business can make.In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Matt Murphy shares what he’s learned from deploying AI inside real companies and wh...