Hidden Foundations
Hidden Foundations explores how childhood environments shape the leaders, performers, and high achievers we admire today. Each week, I sit down with entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and operators to uncover the early family dynamics, money conversations, sibling roles, and first adversities that forged their resilience and ambition.
This show isn’t about polished success stories, it’s about the real scenes at home that built their operating system long before the world noticed. As a father of two daughters, I started this podcast to understand what actually helps kids develop grit, confidence, and long-term success.
If you’re a parent, founder, coach, or anyone curious about human performance, these conversations break down the hidden patterns that drive lifelong growth. We dig into emotional environment, childhood influence, and the habits that shaped today’s top performers.
New episodes every week. This is where high performance begins, at home.
Hidden Foundations
Latest Episodes
Peter Groverman on Grovara, AI, and 15 Years to Overnight Success | Hidden Foundations Ep. 12
In this episode of Hidden Foundations, Kendall sits down with Peter Groverman, founder of Grovara, to explore the long entrepreneurial road behind building a global B3B trading platform. Peter shares how early exposure to his father’s box facto...
Alexandra Bojarski-Stauffer on Architecture and Triathlons | Hidden Foundations Ep 11
Viewer discretion is advised. This episode includes sensitive conversations about alcoholism, suicide threats, family instability, and difficult parent-child dynamics.In this episode of Hidden Foundations, Kendall sits down with Alexand...
Doug Taylor on Taylor Chip, Faith, Grit, and Starting From Scratch
Viewer discretion is advised. This episode includes sensitive conversations about childhood adversity, trauma, addiction, abuse, faith, business stress, and difficult family experiences.In this episode of Hidden Foundations, Kendall sit...
Suchit Bachalli on Empathy, AI, and Building Unilog | Hidden Foundations Ep. 9
In this episode of Hidden Foundations, Kendall sits down with Suchit Bachalli to explore how family, education, entrepreneurship, and early sales experience shaped the way he leads today. Suchit shares how he built Unilog brick by brick with hi...
Sara Faubion Stipkovits on Chaos, Conflict, and Reading the Room | Hidden Foundations Ep. 8
In this episode of Hidden Foundations, Kendall sits down with Sara Faubion Stipkovits to explore how childhood chaos, hard work, and early responsibility shaped the way she reads people, negotiates conflict, and parents today. Sara shares how g...