Fortune's Path Podcast
The Fortune's Path Podcast explores the role of virtue in business to help you get more of what you want by helping others get what they want. See more at www.fortunespath.com
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Amin Haidar-Managing Product Managers
How do you manage and measure product managers? What is the Shape Up methodology and why should you care about it? How do you build a process that creates great products?
These are some of the questio…
Walter Hindman—Junkdrop & Charity for Profit
26 year old Walter Hindman tells Tom how he became CEO after losing his job during COVID when his offer was rescinded. Walter tells Tom about Junkdrop Nashville, his junk removal business that gives …
Teja Yenamandra—How you know it's time to raise money
Teja Yenamandra, CEO of gun.io, a staffing and placement firm for software engineers, talks about why he took money after boot strapping his business successfully. Tom and Teja discuss the future of …
Cooper McGoodwin - prioritization and delegating to a two year old
Long time product manager Cooper McGoodwin talks about priotizing features, delegation, and potty training his two and half year old. He and Tom also discuss the pitfalls of scrum and agile, why road…
Ben Kettle – Why product and sales are the same job
Ben tells the story of how he started his sales consultancy. Ben talks about getting laid off and how he helped his team, many of whom were also laid off, through the process. Ben says if you're not …
Katie Reilly: Winning is when all boats rise
Katie Reilly, long-time product management leader, describes how product management is the glue between technology, sales, and go-to-market and how any organization can benefit from product managemen…
Robert Carroll – Interface design and asking, "What do you want to achieve?"
Robert Carroll, successful entrepreneur and product leader, tells Tom about his journey as a father and how he’s approached different stages of his career based on his personal needs. Robert tells ab…
John Farkas – Collaborative Leadership
John Farkas, founder of Golden Spiral Marketing, tells how his first job working in a hardware store prepared him for a career in marketing. According to John, marketing is largely about helping peop…
Chris Gann – Only Fools are Certain
Chris Gann started in product development when he was very young, working in healthcare EDI at the dawn of HIPAA while promoting his punk band. Chris taught himself to use the resources available and…
Bob Batcheler – Growing Your Network with Lean
Bob "Batch" Batcheler shares his secret for growing his consultancy and finding great companies. He gives his services away, and that makes people want more. Batch tells how his initial conversations…
Ann Howard on Leadership and Feeling Good About the Future
Ann Howard, product and technology leader, talks about how leaders need to share information widely and make decisions publicly. Ann says leaders are charged with predicting the future. She lays out …
How to find companies to invest in and what it takes to sell with Adam Zais
What makes a great sales person? And how do you pick a company to invest your money and talent with? These are some of the questions we ask old friend of Fortune's Path Adam Zais. Adam is a longtime …
Do we really have to keep faxing medical records? Carm Huntress and Credo Health
Carm Huntress, CEO of Credo Health and four-time company founder, talks to Tom about improving access to medical records and other things digital health. Carm explains what Credo does, and why it's g…
Eric Carroll - Family first: building a career and a wonderful home life
Eric Caroll grew up in an entrepreneurial household. His father did the “grind” of running his own business but always made time for his family, even if it meant burning the midnight oil once the kid…
Bill Horne - Discernment and listening in executive leadership
Bill Horne built the foundation of his career in sales at IBM and realized his dream of becoming an executive at age 40. He is a committed lifelong learner who believes in active listening - and it s…
Anne Chaconas - Building love, trust and consistency through marketing
Anne Chaconas likes vanilla, but she doesn’t want to be vanilla. She’s visually “out there” in most tech leadership spaces and wears her beliefs on her sleeve. Anne explains that knowing yourself and…
Shannon Hooper – stoicism and growing healthcare companies
Shannon Hooper talks about how she stays inspired by looking at what's happening on the bleeding edge of technology, particularly writing about the Metaverse – our shared digital reality. Tom asks Sh…
Chuck Garcia – Leadership Communication, Executive Presence, and Emotional Intelligence
What makes a good leader? Does it change with the size of an organization? How do you find your safe place when you have to make an important presentation? And why did Michael Bloomberg have a hard t…
Gavin Ivester – A world of possibilities
Tom talks with innovation leader and brand builder Gavin Ivester. Gavin is the former Vice President of Design for Bang & Olufsen, the beloved maker of artful audio equipment and televisions. Gavin t…
Wise Product Management – Chris Boyd of Built Technologies
Back in November Tom talked with Chris Boyd, start-up advisor, mentor, and one of the wisest people we know working in product management. For over five years Chris has been the head of product for B…