Season 2 Episodes

Christopher Lochhead is a three-time public company CMO and best-selling author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, and The Existing Market Trap. He is recognized as one of the leading voices in category design, helping companies create and dominate new markets rather than compete in existing ones. Christopher is also the host of the top-rated business podcast Follow Your Different, where he interviews founders, innovators, and thought leaders shaping the future of business and technology.

Haider Alleg is a strategist, entrepreneur, and investor helping regulate an industry's scale through innovation and brand performance. As the founder of Kainjoo, a marketing and strategy consultancy for regulated industries, and GP at Allegory Capital, Haider can bring us some really interesting perspectives on what it takes to innovate in sectors that are notoriously hard to innovate in.

Sami Inkinen is the co-founder and CEO of Virta Health, a unicorn that’s helping 100,000 people reverse type 2 diabetes and obesity through clinically proven nutrition and digital care. Sami previously co-founded Trulia, scaled it to an IPO, and then sold it for $3.5 billion. And on top of all that, he’s a rockstar athlete, a super Ironman, a father, and a genuinely good human being.

Melissa Reaves is the founder and CEO of Story Fruition, a public speaking and storytelling training company. She helps leaders in both large enterprises and startups apply her mind movie method, which is also described in the bestselling book and audiobook.

Aaron Dun is the VP of Marketing at Thoropass. He is a go-to-market leader with 15 years of experience in growth product marketing—CMO, VP of Marketing, demand generation—you name it. He led teams at Datto and SnapApp, one of the pioneers of interactive content. He is also one of the top 50 CMOs to follow on Pavilion's list from last year.

Luke Tobin is a serial entrepreneur who's exited three companies, including Digital Ethos, the UK's fastest-growing marketing agency, which was sold to Cadastra. As co-CEO of Cadastra EMEA, Luke oversaw 900 employees and a $50 million revenue portfolio, working with small clients like Samsung, Unilever, and the NHS. He now leads Tobin Capital, focused on scaling high-potential companies, with a portfolio that includes well-known companies like SpaceX and RELAYTO.

David Siegel is the former CEO of Meetup, Investopedia, and Seeking Alpha. He’s led these companies to 7X and 5X exits. He’s the author of the bestseller Decide and Conquer, a professor at Columbia, and a fellow alum of the University of Pennsylvania, Class of ’97.

Shane Neman is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and real estate developer. He has had an incredible journey. After dropping out of NYU Medical School, he built JoonBug, a nightlife digital events powerhouse. He later wrote a book called NightLife Lessons and, more interestingly, founded and exited EZ Texting, the largest business SMS SaaS platform in the U.S. Today, Shane is a prolific startup investor and manages a real estate portfolio that includes properties like the Santa Monica Pier.

Geoffrey Reid started on the ground floor of Marcus Evans Group, became its CEO, and has now taken that 25 years of experience and brought it together into a book that we'll talk about called Revenue Catalyst: Mastering the Art of Sales.

Oleksandra Matviichuk is the head of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, an organization established 15 years ago to protect human rights in Ukraine. This organization, led by Oleksandra, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. Time magazine has featured Oleksandra as one of the 100 most influential people, and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described Oleksandra as living proof that women are not just victims of war—they can be agents of peace and justice.

Nick Jain is a CFA and the CEO of IdeaScale, an innovation software company that serves everyone from NASA to federal government agencies across the country to McKinsey.