Building While Flying
Welcome to Building While Flying: a weekly business podcast from Gary Vaynerchuk’s agency The Sasha Group. We are the small- to medium-sized business arm of VaynerX, the most contemporary independent holding company in the industry. At The Sasha Group, we teach, guide, and execute modern-day brand building and marketing for ambitious businesses looking for meaningful growth.
Building a business isn’t linear. The journey is wrought with turbulence, delays, and re-routes. Those who win are resilient, unafraid of challenges, and willing to flex in order to reach their destination. We get it; entrepreneurship is in our DNA, and we’re built of people with entrepreneurial experience and empathy.
Right now, times are volatile and ambiguous. Across all sectors, there is an air of experimentation. Brands and businesses are investigating new methods, exploring new paths, testing and learning, adapting, and, well, building the plane while flying. By adopting an uncertainty mindset, we can navigate the ever-changing skies of entrepreneurship together by listening, learning, applying, and sharing.
On Building While Flying, we hear from a diverse range of business leaders about how they face challenges head on and stay calm under pressure. Their stories are riddled with the unexpected and share how their strategies have been put into practice and changed their business.
Past episodes have featured stories of turning side hustles into main hustles, building businesses inspired by their families’ needs, dealing with rejection, selling the company they built, innovating better-for-you foods and products, and above all else, following their dreams and navigating the trials of entrepreneurship.
Thanks so much for flying with us. We’re glad you’re on this journey, too. Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss our weekly episodes.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Creating a Plant-based Hair Care Company That Doesn’t Use the Usual Chemicals - Tanya Perkins, Founder of The Refig
Tanya Perkins is the founder of The Refig. The Refig is a plant-based hair care company without compromise. After finding out about an auto-immune condition, she needed hair care that didn’t have cer…
Creating a Sustainable and Trustworthy US-based Hair Accessory and Jewelry Brand - Abby Dubois, Founder of EACH Jewelry
Abby Dubois is the founder of EACH Jewelry. After years of designing for world-renowned brands, like Kate Spade and Coach, Abby set out to forge her own path and build her own jewelry brand. Her miss…
Using AI to Help People Get Ready For South Asian Weddings/Events - Tania Kottoor, Founder and CEO of West X East
Tania Kottoor is the Founder and CEO of West X East (pronounced “West by East”). Tania has effectively married tradition with innovation. She’s led her team in building the world’s first AI-powered d…
Unpacking Longevity: Bridging Biotech and Tradition - Kas Bordier, Biotech and Medtech Entrepreneur
Longevity expert Kas Bordier's story is one of tenacity and determination. As a biotech and medtech entrepreneur, Kas is commercializing the latest health innovations. She is making health and vitali…
Making It Easy to Engage with Skincare - Adam Ross, CEO and Co-founder of Heyday
Adam Ross is the CEO and co-founder of Heyday, which launched its first skincare shop in New York City’s nomad neighborhood in 2015, with the belief that everyone should have access to professional s…
Using Product Innovation to Make Makeup More Fun - Natalie Mackey, CEO and Co-founder of Winky Lux
Natalie Maxey is the CEO and co-founder of Winky Lux. From working in fashion, finance, and e-commerce, Natalie decide that the self-serious beauty business was ready for an overhaul and to bring fun…
Combining Storytelling with the Physical World - Devin Lars, CEO and Founder of Kurieo
Devin Lars is the Founder and CEO of Kurieo Media, a creative agency specializing in fusing digital marketing with the physical world to bring unique solutions to their clients. Kurieo has worked wit…
How Alterations Can Reinvigorate The Fashion Industry and Make it More Sustainable - Nancy Rhodes, Founder of Alternew
Nancy Rhodes, the founder of Alternew, is a veteran in the fashion industry. Her years of adding to the wasteful overconsumption of goods led her to a Master’s degree in sustainability and eventually…
Redefining Sales Through Servant Leadership - Dale Dupree, Co-Founder of Sales Rebellion
Dale Dupree is the co-founder of Sales Rebellion, which provides sales training and personal development. He is audacious with his outreach, intentional in his sales walk, and driven to create a comm…
The Importance of Retreats in a Remote/Hybrid Work World - Jared Kleinert, founder of Offsite
Jared Kleinert is the founder of Offsite, a company that plans retreats that can save you time, money, and stress. Jared is also a TED speaker and is recognized as USA Today’s most conceptual millenn…
The U.S. is on the Verge of an Animal Care Crisis - Dr. Michele Forbes, Founder of Compassionate Care Animal Hospital
Dr. Michele Forbes is the founder of Compassionate Care Animal Hospital, which is a Fear-Free certified practice, and an AAHA (American Animal Hospital Association) accredited hospital, which only 15…
Using the Power of Community to Make an Impact - Cate Luzio, Founder & CEO of Luminary
Cate Luzio is the founder and CEO of Luminary, a global professional education and networking platform created to uplift and up-skill women through all phases of their professional journey. Members a…
[Re-Run] Winning by Staying in the Game - Sehreen Noor Ali, Co-Founder & CEO of Sleuth
Sehreen Noor Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sleuth, a search engine for parents to help with their children’s health and development. Sleuth originally began as a solution for her own family’s need…
Our 100th Episode! Check Out Our Guests’ Growth
In honor of our 100th episode, we thought it would be a great time to check in with previous guests and see what’s happened since we last spoke to them. Listen to our guests share exciting new update…
Making Someone Feel Special Through a Cup of Coffee (Nicholas Stone, Bluestone Lane)
Nicholas Stone is the founder and CEO of Bluestone Lane, the fastest-growing premium café brand in the United States. Almost a decade ago, Bluestone Lane reset the coffee scene, introducing New York …
Overcoming Trauma, Eliminating Obstacles, and More Advice with Noted Entrepreneur Matt Higgins (RSE Ventures, Guest Shark)
Matt Higgins is the CEO and co-founder of RSE Ventures. Matt is a noted serial entrepreneur and growth equity investor. He is also an executive fellow at the Harvard Business School where he teaches …
Q&A with The Sasha Group: Scaling Your Media Team, There’s No Cheat Code to Content Marketing, Best Practices for Scheduling Posts on Social Media
We love taking questions from our listeners and answering them in our episodes. In this episode of Building While Flying, Joe Quattrone, SVP at The Sasha Group, is back to answer some of YOUR questio…
Q&A with The Sasha Group: The Impact of AI, Content Creation as an Introvert, Where Small Businesses Should Invest $5,000
We love taking questions from our listeners and answering them in our episodes. In this episode of Building While Flying, Joe Quattrone, SVP at The Sasha Group, is back to answer some of YOUR questio…
Why Human-Written Copy Will Still Sell Better Than AI (Ken Moskowitz - Founder and CCO of Ad Zombies)
SHOW NOTES:Ken Moskowitz, aka Spanky, is the founder and CCO of Ad Zombies, while also being the founder and business coach of the podcast EntreGrow. Spanky started his creative career in New York Ci…
Helping Women Reach Their Web 3. and Blockchain Potential (Maggie Love - Founder of SheFi)
Maggie Love is the founder of SheFi, a decentralized finance company and broader crypto educational initiative and community aimed at onboarding more women into the new financial economy enabled Web …