Built From the Dream Up: Founders' Stories
At Built From the Dream Up: Founders' Stories, you'll hear stories from founders of businesses who’ve used perseverance, agility, and some good old-fashioned luck to build multi-figure companies from dream to reality, even if they stumbled along the way.
Host Sharyn Konyak, Chief Storyteller and brand strategist at Story Powered Brands digs deep with Founders, who share stories of what they’ve tried, what they learned and how they put it all into practice. Built From the Dream Up is your bootstrap university. What you’ll learn may even be better than any business school education. A resource to set you firmly on the path to making your entrepreneurial dreams come true. It always starts with a story.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 19
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
Socks with Soul: Weaving a Message of Inclusion Into a Brand
Super excited to share this special PRIDE month interview with Pals Socks Founder Hannah Lavon.
What product combines a passion for great design and desire for real social change? Socks might not be…
Safe to Smoke: Bringing Certified Lab Testing to the NJ Cannabis Industry
Not content with the limitations of her sales career, Sarah Ahrens saw an opportunity to merge her interest in conscious consumerism with the burgeoning field of cannabis.
New Jersey's need for cert…
Hungry for Success: A Banana-Powered Journey to Fight Food Insecurity with Plant-Based Milk
Growing up hungry in inner-city Miami put a fire in Michael Baptiste 's belly to build a career in the food business and end food insecurity.
Tune in to hear how Michael and his college business par…
Fashion Meets Tech: Designing AR Wearable Jewelry in the Metaverse
In this episode, phygital jewelry designer Tracy Greenan shares the story of her journey from Toronto design school graduate to successful NYC fashion designer, why she had to give it all up and how …
Dorm Room to Board Room: Transforming a College Idea into an 8-Figure Ad-Tech Startup
With a domain name owned since college and a desire to do something more, Jesse Pujji left a lucrative Wall Street career behind to build an ad tech startup, Ampush, with his former college roommates…
A Healthy Dose of Service: Revolutionalizing Microgreens to Power Nutritional Supplements
A career serving our country was the path Joshua Diskin expected for himself. But when he left the Marines, he left lost. Poor nutrition and depression weighed him down and sent him on a journey of…
Breaking Barriers and Taking Flight As A Female Drone Company Founder
Leaving a successful decades-long career working for package goods giants to start a drone company with no aviation experience may seem foolish. But for Bronwyn Morgan, it was a dream a lifetime in t…
Building Community and Apps for Connection
When Jon Werner conceived of Bones in Motion, the first fitness tracker for runners, in 2004, he knew he had a winner. But, he also knew being an early market entrant meant that growing the business…
Mapping a New Route to Success
Building on MapQuest's idea of utilizing geo-location to provide real-time data, Roberto Camhi developed the MapCity app for Chile in 2002. More than two decades later, geo-location services are a m…
Bootstrapping Your Founder's Journey? Coworking Spaces Can Be the Solution to Office Space Challenges
Bootstrapping your Founders' journey often means building lean. Finding funds for office space may be a problem. Could a coworking space be the solution?
Listen to my conversation with Carina Boston P…
From Farm to Tech: Delivering Mission-Focused Success
Growing vegetables on his family's Canadian farm taught Colin C. Campbell of Startup.club the value of hard work. But it was his love of technology and its intersection with human behavior that culti…
Rescuing the DNA of Old Wines and Coffee
Ten years as a Wine Enthusiast leading National Geographic Expedition tours taught Max Morales all he needed to know about wine.
But his experience building Andes Wines into the largest wine outlet i…
A Natural Approach to Skincare
Dr. Trevor Cates struggled with skin imperfections and imbalanced hormones in her early years. Her search for answers led her to natural medicine and the creation of a cleaner and simpler skincare li…
The Playbook for Succeeding in Business
The power of persistence is a must for any successful Founder. So is the ability to generate and trade relationship capital.
David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports1 Marketing uses both to guide his life…
Giving Office Furniture a Second Life
Even office furniture deserves a chance to rewrite the end of its story.
That's what Brandi Susewitz thought when she heard 17 billion pounds of office furniture end up in landfills each year. And wit…
Funding the Creator Economy
The Creator Economy, the online space where creators and influencers earn revenue from their creations, is an estimated $100 billion business. With nearly 1/3 of that revenue coming from YouTube, br…
Telling the Story of Your Perfect Customer
Entrepreneurs often find themselves searching the herd for their perfect customer or what my guest Jeff Koser, Founder of Zebrafi, calls a Zebra. Customers whose problems you solve and are likely to …
Clearing the Path for Female Disruptors
Why should male entrepreneurs and Founders get all the press, when plenty of deserving female entrepreneurs struggle to get media attention? Unless, of course, they were breaking down barriers. Shat…
Built From the Dream Up: Founders' Stories Trailer
At Built From the Dream Up: Founders' Stories, you'll hear stories from founders of businesses who’ve used perseverance, agility, and some good old-fashioned luck to build multi-figure companies from…