Season 3

Wells Thompson began his journey to co-founding Soccer Resilience after a 9 year career as a professional athlete. Making the transition from athlete to business leader was a hard and necessary change, and luckily, Wells didn...

What should a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion executive add to company culture? I asked Carolyn Rhodes while sitting at the Durham Bottling Co. to give me her opinion on the matter. With career experience in human resources,...

I sat down with Joye Speight at American Underground to talk about all things event planning. When you build a business around making others feel special it can be hard to remember to make time for yourself. Entrepreneurship ...

What's your favorite local business in Durham? Think about how many unique places you could discover by asking this question. Sheila Amir started The Bulls of Durham out of complete curiosity. We talked about her perspective ...

I sat down with Topher Thomas, the founder of Coram Houses, at the Durham Bottling Co. to talk about his venture into building affordable housing units in his community (and backyard!). What started as an itch to his curiosit...

I sat down with the founder of we are, Dr. Ronda Taylor-Bullock, at the Durham Bottling Co. As the executive director of a nonprofit, she has her own definition of what it means to "scale" or grow a nonprofit. We …

I sat down with the co-founders of Rofhiwa Book Cafe at the Durham Bottling Co to talk about their journey to co-founding their community-centered bookstore. They shared with me their partnership dynamic, the importance of or...

I sat down with Dionne McGee at the Durham Bottling Co. to talk about her journey from being an intrapreneur to a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur. As the founder of DG McGee Enterprises, she is here to help you find your ROAR. …

Efrem Yates is the first franchise owner I've had on the show. He's the owner of Your Pie and has learned a lot from his experience buying and building an existing business. We talked about hiring for fit vs. skillset, …

I sat down with Rebekah Miel, the founder of Miel Design Studio, at the Durham Bottling Co. to learn all the secrets she learned from being a full-time designer and social enterprise owner for almost 20 years. We discussed al...

I sat down with Courtney Napier of Black Oak Society at the Durham Bottling Co. Her digital magazine and blog have one mission: giving Black Raleigh her flowers. With her business fittingly named after the City of Oaks, Court...

I sat down with Jes Averhart, the creator of the Reinvention Road Trip, at the Durham Bottling Co. When she's not podcasting or being a CEO, she's helping women identify critical life moments that are key to empowering them o...

I sat down with Raleigh-based CPA Faith Bynum Patterson at the Durham Bottling Co. We discussed how her college experience helped shape her career as an entrepreneur, how relationships with her peers and professors created a ...

Azul is a music artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. We sat down at the Durham Bottling Co. to discuss how we all have overlapping identities, how music artists are combatting queer erasure, what you need to be a successf...

I sat down with Anne-Claire Broughton, the founder of Broughton Consulting, at the Durham Bottling Co to unpack her career as a social entrepreneur and nonprofit leader. We talked about employee ownership, building a business...

Amie Thompson is the CEO of Creative Allies, a digital marketing company based in North Carolina. We sat down at the Durham Bottling Co. to talk about her experience buying an existing service-based creative business, buildin...

I sat down with Danae Edmonds, the founder of Aspiring Co, at the Durham Bottling Co. She's an incredible designer building a media agency featuring stories of womxn and nonbinary folx. We talked about creative partnerships, ...

I sat down with Jason Gillikan and Cee Cee Huffman of Earfluence at the Durham Bottling Co. They produce a podcast for themselves and for their clients. We talked about podcast monetization, virality vs. value, and the impact...

I sat down with Wanda Williams, an author and life coach at the Durham Bottling Co. We talked about coping with loss, the intersection of mental health and spirituality, and self-care habits you can start today (like writing ...

Chris Everett is the founder of Speller Street Films, an independent documentary film production company. As a documentary filmmaker, Chris gained experience putting together a winning film crew, producing a feature film, sub...

I sat down with Alex and Bethany McGee of the synth-pop duo Waking April at the Durham Bottling Co. These musicians were all set to go on tour, and then the pandemic happened. We talked about how they overcame their …

This week’s guest is Justin Minott of Provident 1898. We talk about creating in alignment with your “why,” reverse engineering your dream, and living in your values. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show, ...

I sat down with Greg Hedgepeth of Substantial Magazine to talk about how he's innovating communications practices in print and online. He's been a communications professional within the college and university system for over ...

Jason Nelson is the founder of Apollus Solutions, a bookkeeping and accounting service for micro-businesses. We sat down to talk about his journey to entrepreneurship, his multiple business endeavors, and the life he enjoys t...