Episodes

Jan. 12, 2021

#34 Will Toms: The power of creative community

Will Toms is the cofounder of REC Philly, an incubator, community, and resource center aimed at helping independent creatives make a sustainable living. In short, he's out to challenge the narrative of the starving artist and create an international community …

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Dec. 29, 2020

#33: 8 Lessons Learned in 2020

For the last episode of 2020, Andrew reflects on 8 big lessons learned from guests this year, and shares a few reflection questions to ask yourself. Wishing you all a peaceful end to this turbulent year. Here's to making things …

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Dec. 15, 2020

#32 Alex Hillman: How to play the long game of business

Alex Hillman is a pioneer who has made it his mission to help independent creatives build sustainable careers. He's the author of the recent bite-sized hit, "The Tiny MBA." He cofounded Indy Hall, Philadelphia's first coworking space, and helped kickstart …

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Dec. 1, 2020

Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams

Marty Cagan is the godfather of modern tech product management. His new book, EMPOWERED, is the seminal work on how to create an empowered team where product people can do the best, most creative work of their lives.

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Nov. 17, 2020

#30 Natalie Nagele: Building a people-first company at Wildbit

Natalie Nagele is the cofounder and CEO of Wildbit. Wildbit is a bootstrapped, independent, people-first software company that is celebrating a special milestone: 20 years in business! Now entering their "third act," Wildbit is starting to expand its focus to …

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Nov. 3, 2020

#29: One year of the podcast! And a new show name.

Wow, it's been a year of the podcast! So much has happened. Acknowledging the anniversary ep — which happens to be on election day in the USA — and announcing an upcoming name change for the show.

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Oct. 20, 2020

#28 Rob Walling: Build a great business and let that be enough

Do you want to build a small giant startup? Where do you begin, and what and when is enough? Learn the reasons and mindsets needed to build non-venture track startups. In this episode, Andrew Skotzko talks with Rob Walling, serial …

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Oct. 6, 2020

#27 Hope Gurion: What nobody told you about being a product leader

Hope Gurion coaches product leaders and teams seeking to grow through customer-centric, evidence-based strategies. She's led almost 50 products teams in her career, in both consumer and B2B companies. This conversation will help you shorten your learning curve and be …

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Sept. 22, 2020

#26 David Dylan Thomas: Understand cognitive bias to create positive …

This is a conversation about the power we each have to affect the world around us. David Dylan Thomas's work will help you see how we're all unavoidably biased, and more importantly, what we can each do about it. No …

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Sept. 8, 2020

#25 Karl Kuhnert: How to find strength in vulnerability and live your…

Ever struggle with vulnerability as a leader? Me too. Karl Kuhnert will help you think about how to find the genius and strength in vulnerability, the levels of development that you’ll go through as a leader, and how you can …

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Aug. 25, 2020

#24 Laura Garnett: Find your zone of genius and never fear a job sear…

This conversation will help YOU craft a JOYFUL career. Laura Garnett is a performance strategist, TEDx speaker and coach to highly motivated CEOs, executives, and managers who want to maximize their engagement, tap into their unique talents, and access a …

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Aug. 11, 2020

#23 Soushiant Zanganehpour: Solving systemic problems with social ent…

Soushiant Zanganehpour is a social scientist and serial entrepreneur with a long history of working to solve problems at the intersection of public policy, business, technology, and systems change. In 2018, he founded Swae, a platform to help organizations create …

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July 28, 2020

#22 Pam Fox Rollin: How to be a decisive leader who helps people come…

Pam Fox Rollin is an executive coach, facilitator, and strategist with extensive experience in senior team development, especially in healthcare and tech. She's worked with many clients in the Fortune 100, fast-growth startups, consulting firms, and NGOs. She was a …

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July 14, 2020

#21: April Dunford - Find your power in the market through positioning

April Dunford is a legend in the product marketing world. She's an executive consultant, speaker, and author who helps tech companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. April's expertise is built from 25 years as an …

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June 30, 2020

#20: Nilofer Merchant — Unleashing Onlyness to benefit from the ideas…

Nilofer Merchant is one of the world's top business & management thinkers, and is also one of my new favorite humans. As an operator, she was involved with the launch of over 100 products that collectively generated more than $18 …

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June 16, 2020

#19: Dan Gould — Fighting unconscious bias and attacking systemic pro…

Dan Gould is a prolific technologist and serial entrepreneur. In this conversation, we dive into the issues of unconscious bias and systemic inequality that have shaped our society, and we tactically discuss how one can attack systemic problems effectively as …

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June 2, 2020

#18 Josh Seiden: How to create clarity with outcomes thinking

In this conversation, Josh Seiden gives a masterclass on clear thinking and how to create order out of the chaos that surrounds any creative endeavor. His most recent book, Outcomes Over Output, has become one of my favorite resources for …

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May 19, 2020

#17 Dr Matthew Cook: Identity shifts, beating trauma triggers, and co…

Dr. Matthew Cook is one of the most cutting-edge doctors I've come across. He's a board-certified anesthesiologist with 20+ years of experience in medical practice, who — as he shares in this conversation — pivoted his practice toward functional and …

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May 5, 2020

#16 Holly Hester-Reilly: Building a customer-centric team and product…

Holly Hester-Reilly is the founder and CEO of H2R Product Science, where she combines more than a decade of experience in technology companies with years of experience in scientific research to bring her clients a rigorous, research driven approach to …

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April 21, 2020

#15 Sam Fankuchen: Leadership and responding to the needs of the worl…

Sam Fankuchen is the Founder & CEO of Golden, a platform that makes it easy for anyone to volunteer and for organizers to manage their volunteers and staffing programs. This episode was important to release now because of the amazing …

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April 7, 2020

#14 Derik Mills: Cultivating a faculty of wonder in business and life

In this episode of ENLIVEN we talk with Derik Mills the founder and CEO of Glo. We chat about how they went from being a bootstrapped company, raising no outside investments to being featured in Forbes, Oprah and more. We …

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March 24, 2020

#13 Muriel Clauson: The Future of Work — identity, engagement, and be…

"Are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" In this conversation, Muriel Clauson and I go deep on the future of work: identity, engagement, and being future-ready. We also discuss how to develop self-awareness and communicate your …

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March 10, 2020

#12 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experie…

This is the second half of my conversation with Rian & Conor of the Flow Research Collective. We discuss Flow, which is defined as an optimal state of consciousness and is considered to be the optimal experience of life. This …

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Feb. 25, 2020

#11 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experie…

Flow is defined as an optimal state of consciousness and is considered to be the optimal experience of life. This episode helps you to understand and increase your time in flow, so you can get the most out of every …

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