INspired INsider Podcast

Dealing with grief is hard enough, but even harder when you are running a busy startup business like Zapier. Wade Foster, co-founder of Zapier discusses his hardest moment on this episode: The loss o…

Chris Voss spent 24 years in the FBI and was the FBI’s lead international kidnapping and hostage negotiator for 4 years. He was an Instructor of International Business Negotiation at Harvard and is a…

Never give up. You hear it said a lot these days but it’s not always so easy to decide if it’s good advice. Jake Atwood, founder of Buzzbuilder knows the struggle to make the decision intimately. In …

Global Food Sources are now being used to create healthy and in-demand products and Brian Oaks, founder of Global Goods uses the demand to generate a supply in struggling areas where the economic boo…

Business systems are what make or break any eCommerce business. That’s the wise counsel of James Thomson, founder of MarketplaceAccelerator.com which is a consulting company for large Amazon sellers …

Effective delegation is a skill any founder has to learn or the company will not grow. Brian Goulet co-Founder of The Goulet Pen Company learned the lesson of delegation in the trenches. He and his w…

Chris Voss spent 24 years in the FBI and was the FBI’s lead international kidnapping and hostage negotiator for 4 years. He was an Instructor of International Business Negotiation at Harvard and is a…

Mom entrepreneurs fill one of the hardest roles on the planet. Laura Fuentes founder of Momables.com and food and lifestyle brand LauraFuentes.com knows the struggle of balancing home and work intima…

It’s hard to be a generous person when you’re experiencing hard times. But Peter Awad, who Founded Import Auto Performance which he has grown to 7 figures, discovered that those are EXACTLY the tim…

If you want to master your craft you’ve got to hear this conversation with Jay Papasan. Jay co-authored The ONE Thing - The Surprisingly simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results with Gary Keller. It…

When you make an expensive business mistake like Brian Oaks did early in the life of his business, it can sink you. Brian Oaks founder of GLobal Goods where they source and manufacture Agave Nectar, …

To start from scratch is never easy, but Peter Rahal, co-founder of RxBar didn’t know any other way to do it. He and his team manufacture whole food protein bars with a “No B.S” value proposition sin…

When a customer decides to cancel an order - a big order - it’s not an easy thing to handle. On today’s episode Manuel Becvar shares the impact a large cancelled order had on his business as it was j…

Healthy food matters to Kimberly Crupi Dobbins. A lot. It was her own health needs that motivated her to found Simple Squares, a supplier of premium organic nutrition bars. She bootstrapped the compa…

Energy products that make a difference in people’s lives are an important focus of Edmond Torbati’s company, Label Choices. It’s a company that provides labels for some of the industry's most recogni…

The natural foods industry didn’t see Jim Simon and his sister Annette coming. They are the co-founders of JimmyBar. JimmyBar is Jim’s 6th start up and he decided to tackle the food & obesity problem…

Nik Ingersoll cofounder and Chief Marketing Officer of Barnana with Caue Suplicy and Matt Clifford. Barnana is a healthy organic banana snack with flavors like coconut/banana, banana chocolate and ma…

Excellent customer service is a hallmark of every company Jason Friedman runs. Jason is founder of CXFormula™. Through CXFormula he helps fast-growing, entrepreneurial companies gain an unfair advant…

Quitting a job with nothing to fall back on is nothing new to Jim Simon and on this episode you’ll hear his story. Jim Simon is co-founder of JimmyBar. He and his sister Annette started the company t…

Product Shipping is Divey Gulati’s specialty. Divey is Co-Founder of ShipBob, a company he started with his partner Dhruv Saxena. ShipBob provides automation and on demand shipping and packaging for …