When Pigs Fly

Growing midwest fashion.

We chat with Erin Roddy, CEO and designer of MEAS Active, which is an activewear brand focused on producing sustainable and ethical clothing for female runners. Erin uncovers …

Bridging The Gap Between Government, Small Business & Research.

We chat with Kate Gilpin of Parallax Advanced Research & Steve Flaherty of necoTECH to learn more about how Parallax's APEX program is h…

The business of baking.

We chat with Jasmine Davis, the creator and founder of Sweet Jazz Treats, about her experience leaving the corporate world to follow her passion of baking, how the pandemic set…

PR with a pink punch.

We chat with Allison Schroeder, the founder and lead strategist of Pomme Communications, about the PR landscape in 2021, what she's doing differently from other small and large …

What is private equity?

We chat with Neil Ursic of RKCA to learn about private equity, what RKCA is doing differently and explore RKCA's perspective on the current state of entrepreneurship in Cincinn…

Creating social change and making a profit can be possible.

Jerry Valentine, Founder and CEO of Renter Mentor, talks about taking his passion for creating a more seamless environment for affordable ho…

E-commerce is here to stay, and some alcohol brands are staying off the shelves.

We chat with CEO & Founder, Jake Whitman, of Really Good Boxed Wine about why he's taking the brand online rather than …

It's the Uber of shipping for businesses.

Luke Denny, Co-Founder and CEO of Frayt Technologies, talks about how Frayt is implementing trackable on-demand shipping in 34 states, why his accounting back…

This episode is special, because we're introducing our parent podcast, Upside; a podcast all about startup investing outside of Silicon Valley.

You'll get to meet Upside's hosts, Eric Hornung and Jay …

A Watch that Saves Lives.

Founder of Safewave Technology, Trevon Bruch, shares his story about innovating watch technology to help keep the deaf/HOA community safe in times of emergency. He uncovers w…

What do you think Cincinnati's food scene looked like back in the 1800's?

We bring back Cincinnati History Buff, Greg Hand, and paint a picture of the food and grocery scene back in the early days. Fr…

What does it take to be your own brand?

We chat with Amanda Valentine about her weight loss journey, how her experience in radio led to her building her own brand, and what it takes to build a communi…

Discover and connect with disruptive research, technologies, and experts.

We chat with the founder of Perceive now, Vinitha Upaassana, and uncover how they're using revolutionary industry-centric ai  …

What does it take to break through the competitive industry of fitness as an instructor?

We chat with Kelly Amshoff of I'm with Kelly Fitness to learn how she is making a name for herself in the indu…

Building a business can put us in sweaty situations, but Hyrdo Labs is building a business based on sweat.

We chat with Mikel Larson, founder & CEO, of Hydro Labs to learn how research and data collec…

The financial landscape is evolving.

We chat with Connor Cleves from Nector Capital to uncover the complications of commercial real estate, how they've utilized the digital world to approve loans fas…

We made it to 21!

Now that we're at the adult table and can legally prost, we figured it was time to put our two sense in with a recap of our first 20 episodes. We hash out some of our key take-aways…

Museums bridge generations, and Sarah Strickland, of the Cincinnati Fire Museum, has experience curating just that. We talk what it takes to keep a museum's lights on, how the Cincinnati Fire Museum …

What does it take to create brand love and brand loyalty?

Anne Candido & April Martini have 35+ collective years of experience working on big brands in the marketing world. Together, they've joined fo…

Will the dog eat the dog food? Numbers will prove that.

We chat with Troy Vosseller of gener8tor (the company that runs The Brandery) and learn why traction and numbers matter, how gener8tor is consu…