S1 Ep132: Walt Disney Companies Debra O'Connell on Building a Great Culture
If you ask around at any business with a truly great company culture, you might hear a few reasons as to why its like that. We noticed it right away while visiting WABC TV in New York City this past Winter. President, Debra O’Connell says it’s all about building the right team, and getting them rowing in the same direction. But after interviewing her we suspect that attitude itself--the lack of...
56m Mar 25, 2020
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S1 Ep131: Inspirato's Brent Handler on Spotting Consumer Trends
In 2002, Brent and his brother Brad launched Exclusive Resorts, and quickly became pioneers in the destination club industry. Then, in 2011 the Handler brothers launched Inspirato, a luxury travel club with an impressive roster of exclusive experiences and bespoke travel itineraries. Now Inspirato offers a ground-breaking subscription model, which lets members pay a flat monthly rate for unlimi...
48m Mar 18, 2020
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S1 Ep130: Pawn Stars Creator and TV Tycoon Brent Montgomery on Being A 10 Year Overnight Success
They say every “overnight success” takes 10 years, and that’s something reality TV tycoon Brent Montgomery knows all too well. In 2014, Brent sold an 80% stake of his production group Leftfield Entertainment for $360 million—the most lucrative nonfiction television deal ever made in North America. But if you rewind ten years, you’d find Brent producing wedding videos in New York City. He was wo...
1hr 1m Mar 11, 2020
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S1 Ep129: Hollywood Heavyweights Michele Ganeless, Alysia Reiner, and David Alan Basche on the Business of Making a Movie
A movie is a piece of entertainment. But a movie is also a business. There are budgets, payroll, marketing—you name it. Michelle Ganeless, the former President of Comedy Central, Alysia Reiner, an actress famous for her role on Orange is the New Black, and her husband, the accomplished actor David Alan Basche talk about how making their movie, EGG, was very much like building a business.
45m Mar 04, 2020
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S1 Ep128: Baked by Melissa's, Melissa Ben-Ishay, on Why Getting Fired Changed Her Life
Melissa Ben-Ishay is the founder of Baked by Melissa. When she was let go from her job, she had no idea what to do. But her brother suggested she start baking. Melissa wasn’t sure if her love for baking as a real business opportunity or just a distraction. But he encouraged her to nurture her creative instincts, and boy did it pay off. Those little colorful cupcakes ended up in the hands of som...
47m Feb 26, 2020
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S1 Ep127: BaubleBars Daniella Yacobovsky on How to Fail Your Way to Success
Daniella Yacobovsky the co founder of BaubleBar the go-to online retailer for on-trend jewelry seemed to understand early on that failures she had in her business were just part of the necessary process needed to eventually find success. She built BaubleBar into a major fashion accessories business by failing her way to success. Figuring out the right answers by making the wrong decisions. Even...
49m Feb 19, 2020
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S1 Ep126: Celebrity Chef and Restauranteur Scott Conant on Finding True Happiness In Business
Scott Conant's career in the culinary space has spanned over 30 years, he really has achieved just about everything someone could in one industry. HIs accomplishments have included multiple award winning restaurants, of course Scarpetta and Alto, best selling books, James Beard Awards, Scott even has a regular role on the Food Network show Chopped. But most telling might be the rabid following ...
54m Feb 12, 2020
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S1 Ep125: Celebrity Chef Leah Cohen on Being a Successful Woman in a Male Dominated Industry
Leah Cohen started in the restaurant business way before the #metoo movement. Many people might know her from her wildly successful New York City restaurant Pig and Cow. Or her brand new restaurant Piggyback. Others possibly know her from her appearance on Season 5 of Top Chef. But most don't realize her success didn't happen overnight. She put in a lot of years working for a variety of chefs a...
46m Feb 05, 2020
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S1 Ep124: StyleSeat's Melody McCloskey on Overcoming the Fears of Starting a Billion Dollar Business
Melody Mcloskey founded StyleSeat - the premiere marketplace for beauty and barbering services. It has generated more than $6.5 billion in revenue and powered more than 120 million appointments in 16,000-plus cities across the U.S. But Melody actually sat on this idea for two years. She was passionate about it, but she was afraid of taking the leap. She had so many personal doubts, fears and in...
48m Jan 29, 2020
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S1 Ep123: Montage Hotel Founder Alan Fuerstman's Rise From Doorman to Industry Legend
Alan Fuerstman started his career in the hotel industry as a doorman at a Marriott in New Jersey. He then came up with an idea for a new type of hotel. It would be an ultra-luxury property that allowed people to be causal. He called it Montage, and built it in Laguna Beach California. And he was right. It set the standard for a new type of luxury property, and is now one of the most well-known ...
40m Jan 22, 2020
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S1 Ep122: MIndy Scheier On Pioneering The Fashion Industry's Adaptable Clothing Market
There are over one billion people globally living with disabilities, but up until a few years ago no one in the fashion industry was making clothes for them. That was until Mindy Scheier started Runway of Dreams, a nonprofit that partnered with Tommy Hilfiger to create an adaptable clothing line. More recently, Mindy launched Gamut, a business that helps people with disabilities to find work in...
52m Jan 15, 2020
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S1 Ep121: Marc Merrill On Rising Above Business Disasters To Achieve Unprecedented Success
Marc Merrill is the Co-Founder of Riot Games. Riot created League of Legends, one of the most popular video games of all time. League of Legends World Championship rivals the Super Bowl viewership — with close to 100 million last year. The company even brought in $1.5 billion in revenue this past year. But when Marc started the company, there were times they barely had funds left to pay employe...
1hr 7m Jan 08, 2020
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S1 Ep120: Danny Meyer On How Customer Experience Has Always Been HIs Secret Sauce
There is a reason we choose to pay $5 for a cup of coffee. The customers aren't paying for the coffee, they are paying for the experience of being at Starbucks. Danny Meyer the famed restauranteur was doing this before the term "experience economy" was even coined back in the 1990's. He opened his first restaurant in New York City called Union Square Cafe back in 1985 and one thing he has alway...
45m Jan 01, 2020
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S1 Ep119: Alexa Von Toble On Trying To Start A Business In The Middle of The Great Recession
Starting a business at any time can be scary but how about dropping out of school to start a business during the greatest recession in the history of the world? To make a move like that can be downright frightening. Alexa Von Toble literally left Harvard Business School before graduating to pursue her mission to educate everyday Americans on how to manage their own finances.
45m Dec 25, 2019
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S1 Ep118: Jarrod Moses On Overcoming Age Discrimination To Find Success
Jarrod Moses went from being a college intern at Grey Advertising to becoming its youngest president ever. He was a 30-year-old boss of a major publicly traded company, and regularly faced age discrimination because of it. But it didn’t stop him. He went on to found the United Entertainment Group—a joint venture with Hollywood powerhouse Untied Talent Agency, that would produce branded entertai...
52m Dec 18, 2019
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S1 Ep117: General Assembly Founder Jake Schwartz On Overcoming Struggles to Find Success
Jake Schwartz started a company called General Assembly that just sold to the big human resource company Adecco Group for a reported 413 million dollars. After graduating from Yale and thinking he learned all he needed to to succeed in business, Schwartz got smacked in the face with reality. He realized education and the way people were learning was changing. GA started with relevant classes th...
50m Dec 11, 2019
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S1 Ep116: Fanduel's Lesley Eccles on Finding the True Meaning of Success 
Lesley Eccles is the co-founder and former head of marketing of FanDuel, the billion-dollar fantasy sports company. But despite the company’s success, Lesley and Nigel didn’t get to enjoy the spoils. Their relationship with their investors fell apart, and they left the business in 2017 having made almost no money on the deal and retaining no interest in the business.
52m Dec 04, 2019
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S1 Ep115: Randi Zuckerberg Is On A Mission To Even The Playing Field In The Tech Industry
Randi Zuckerberg was one of the first employees at Facebook. She contributed on many fronts in those early days of Facebook, and was responsible for creating the Facebook Live tool that today is used by billions of people. But something nagged at her. She would often look around while on meetings and realize she was the only woman there. And she felt called to fix that—not just in Silicon Valle...
44m Nov 27, 2019
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S1 Ep114: The Co-Founder of Skinnygirl Margarita On Going From Selling Mortgages to Selling Booze
How do you deal with the feeling of not being able to make a difference in a changing industry? David Kanbar is a serial entrepreneur who started a mortgage business which he later sold because  he realized he could never make a difference in a business that had become commoditized. He changed industries and eventually founded the brand Skinnygirl Margarita with Bethenny Frankel. Now Kanbar is ...
28m Nov 20, 2019
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S1 Ep113: Buddy "The Cake Boss" Valastro Jr. On Refusing to Fail
You might know him as the Cake Boss from his hit show on TLC. Buddy Valastro Jr. is no overnight Hollywood success story. His story is one of hard work going back to the time he started working in his father's bakery when he was just 11 years old. When his father passed when he was only 17, Buddy made a promise to himself that he would do everything humanely possible not to fail with the busine...
44m Nov 13, 2019
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S1 Ep112: rewardStyle's Amber Venz Box On Taking Initiative To Create Opportunities
Amber Venz Box is the founder of rewardStyle a business driving over one billion dollars in retail sales by uniting brands, influencers, and consumers. Despite never having any previous connections, contacts or easy ways into the Fashion industry she ended up becoming one of its most successful entrepreneurs. Amber simply forced her way in through will power and maximizing any and all opportuni...
46m Nov 06, 2019
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S1 Ep111: Caroline Hirsch On Finding Success in an Industry Dominated by Men
Caroline Hirsch. Maybe you don't know her name, but you know the people whose careers she launched Chapel, Tracy Morgan, Seinfeld—the list goes on. And she did it at what has become the most famous comedy club in the world, Carolines Comedy Club in New York City’s Time Square. She started it 35 years ago, long before #MeToo, when the business of comedy was dominated by men. The comics were most...
49m Oct 30, 2019
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S1 Ep110: Soul Cycle’s Founder On Building Solid Partnerships
Ruth Zuckerman will be the first to tell you that she has faced many struggles with some of her business partners over the years. But Ruth has persevered using lessons from these partnerships and relationships to learn more about herself and in turn grow as a business woman. While she has provided transformative experiences for her students over the years she herself has been transformed by the...
52m Oct 23, 2019
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S1 Ep109: Celebrity Chef David Burke On Pushing Yourself To Success
How hard should you push yourself to achieve success? David Burke is one of the biggest names in the culinary world but in getting there he had to put in years worth of 90 hour work weeks and make incredible personal sacrifices. David has changed over the years learning to take better care of himself but we wanted to know if he could have achieved the same success he has if he had always been t...
57m Oct 16, 2019
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S1 Ep108: Rent the Runway's Jenny Fleiss On How to Sell Crazy Ideas
How do you sell something that people don’t understand? In 2009, when Jenny co-founded the company Rent the Runway, the business transformed the retail industry by making designer clothing rentals a convenient and accessible luxury experience for millions of women. Not many folks envisioned a world in which people would love to rent their clothing. But Jenny did and now she is back at it with h...
49m Oct 09, 2019
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S1 Ep107: Rachel Shechtman On Merging with Macy's and Innovating the Retail Model
Perpetual pop-up shop Story challenged the retail model when it launched in 2011. But now, since being acquired by Macy's, Story is scaling nationwide--and its founder has even bigger plans for the retail giant.
30m Oct 02, 2019
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S1 Ep106: The 'Batman of Tech' Says Creativity Is the Heart of Entrepreneurship
A chat with Reid Genauer, singer, songwriter and Chief Marketing Officer of Smule, one of the most popular music apps on the planet.
27m Sep 25, 2019
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S1 Ep105: How This Entrepreneur and Kimbal Musk Are Changing the Future of Food
In 2016, Tobias Peggs and Kimbal Musk partnered up to launch Square Roots, a Brooklyn-based urban farm. Farmers grow food in shipping containers by way of controlled microclimates and specialized lighting, aiming to connect communities with fresh, local produce. Before Square Roots, Peggs earned his PhD in AI and led two tech companies to acquisitions by Adobe and Walmart. In this episode, Pegg...
23m Sep 18, 2019
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S1 Ep104: How Google's Youngest-Ever Hire Launched an AI Company Backed by Mark Cuban
At age 19, Falon Fatemi became known as Google's youngest-ever hire. She's also the daughter of two immigrant entrepreneurs, and after leaving Google, she founded her own AI company. Backed by Mark Cuban, Node aims to use deep learning to analyze relationships between people and companies, then pinpoint sales, marketing and recruiting opportunities for those companies. In this episode, Fatemi t...
45m Sep 11, 2019
45m
S1 Ep107: Rachel Shechtman On Merging with Macy's and Innovating the Retail Model
Perpetual pop-up shop Story challenged the retail model when it launched in 2011. But now, since being acquired by Macy's, Story is scaling nationwide--and its founder has even bigger plans for the retail giant.
30m Sep 04, 2019
30m
S1 Ep103: When Told It Couldn't Be Done, the Founder of Hint Water Wasn't Afraid to Ask 'Why Not?'
Learn the mindset that helped Kara Goldin turn a simple idea into an empire boasting more than $100 million in sales.
28m Sep 04, 2019
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S1 Ep102: Here's Why Bedding Company Boll & Branch Expanded Into the Hyper-Competitive World of Online Mattresses
Married co-founders Scott and Missy Tannen didn't pay attention to the naysayers.
24m Aug 28, 2019
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S1 Ep101: Surprised by How Customers Were Using His Website, This Entrepreneur Created a Whole New Business
Dusty Stutsman, co-founder of Night Out, on recognizing those great ideas that are staring you right in the face.
24m Aug 21, 2019
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S1 Ep100: How This Farmer Entrepreneur Is Literally Growing Her Profits
Former chef Patty Gentry's love of amazing food led to her buying a farm. And no, she did not see that coming. Thanks to our sponsor: LinkedIn: To get $50 off your first job post visit linkedin.com/hsh
30m Aug 14, 2019
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S1 Ep99: The Meal Kit Company Thrives Because Its Founder Focuses on Defensibility
Ooshma Garg says she and her team at Gobble have puts years of work into each recipe and focus on making its subscribers' lives easier. Thanks to our sponsor: Paychex works with you the way you want to work. Learn more: paychex.com
26m Aug 07, 2019
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S1 Ep98: A Monk-Turned-Financial Advisor on Mindful Money Management
In his 20 years as a monk, Doug Lynam saw financial suffering firsthand -- in his teaching community and in monastery guests, not to mention the monastery itself. Lynam decided to take a leap and pivot to a career as a financial advisor, then helped pull his community out of bankruptcy. Now, Lynam aims to help people learn mindful money management and provide clear, step-by-step guidance on how...
24m Jul 31, 2019
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S1 Ep97: This Immigrant Entrepreneur and DACA Recipient Raised Over $15 Million in Funding
Google, eBay, Tesla, Yahoo, AT&T: These companies were all founded, completely or in part, by immigrants -- who also account for close to 30 percent of all new entrepreneurs in the U.S., the highest share in 20 years. Victor Santos, who emigrated from Brazil at age 12, is one of them. Santos launched Airfox, a mobile financial services company for individuals in emerging markets, and he's also ...
23m Jul 24, 2019
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S1 Ep96: Want to Be Healthier and Happier? Just Change One Thing, Says Fit Men Cook's Kevin Curry
The founder of the 2 million+ member community Fit Men Cook talks about his unexpected pivot in lifestyle and business.
29m Jul 17, 2019
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S1 Ep95: This Co-Founder Wants People With Food Allergies to Feel Safer at the Dinner Table
Shireen Yates is the CEO of Nima, the maker of a device that tests for gluten and peanuts.
19m Jul 10, 2019
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Here's How Paychex Can Simplify Insurance for Your Business
Paychex's Sally Prather explains how providing customers with a one-stop service for insurance and payroll needs allows them to focus on their core business.
22m Jun 19, 2019
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S1 Ep94: How to Build a Startup Around a Mission, According to the Co-Founder of a $200 Million-Plus Funded Company
Josh Tetrick, co-founder of Just, shares he his company has found success around its goal of reducing eggs from chicken in the food system.
21m Jun 12, 2019
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S1 Ep93: The Try Guys Built a Brand Beloved By Millions By Not Being Afraid to Fail -- And They Are Just Getting Started
Known for their viral videos dedicated to getting them out of their comfort zones, Ned Fulmer, Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld and Eugene Lee Yang share what they learned from their first year in business.
24m Jun 05, 2019
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S1 Ep93: How This Production Company Got Will Smith to Jump our of A Helicopter
As the partners and founders of Content23 Media, Eric Conte and Dan Weinreich have developed an impressive resume. In this episode of HSH, we discuss the art of collaboration, how to stay relevant in an evolving market, and we share a few laughs.
39m May 29, 2019
39m
S1 Ep91: This Entrepreneur Makes Sense of All Those Crazy Cannabis Business Regulations
Cannabis business regulations vary not just from one state to the next but from one town to the next. Amanda Ostrowitz built CannaRegs so not just entrepreneurs but the regulators themselves can keep track of it all.
32m May 22, 2019
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S1 Ep90: Bob Saget Is the World's Raunchiest Renaissance Man
Here's how the comedian, actor, director and producer does it all...with a laugh.
40m May 08, 2019
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S1 Ep89: The Co-Founder of Vita Coco on the Early Coconut Water Wars and Where His Company Is Going Next
Michael Kirban discusses how he built the company to become the dominant player in a relatively new beverage space.
21m May 01, 2019
21m
S1 Ep88: Deepak Chopra on Motivation, Meditation and Finding Peace in the Information Age
We’re smack-dab in the middle of the Information Age, and it can feel like a flood where we’re barely staying above water. Spiritual guru and bestselling author Deepak Chopra shares his advice for finding peace in a constant stream of data and how to decide which information we allow to affect us. He also details his morning routine, habit-building strategies and how entrepreneurs facing obstac...
20m Apr 24, 2019
20m
S1: Paychex Is the Ultimate Solution for Paying and Managing Employees
Paychex's Jason Santana breaks down all the ways they can help your company.
19m Apr 18, 2019
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S1 Ep87: She Won $1 Million for Her Big Idea at WeWork's Global Pitch Competition. Here's How -- and Her Top Pitching Strategy.
In January, Medinas Health CEO Chloe Alpert won $1 million at the WeWork Creator Global Finals. Her big idea? A data-driven marketplace that aims to help healthcare organizations resell and purchase medical equipment and supplies. (By some estimates, the U.S. healthcare system wastes about $765 billion a year.) Alpert shares her strategy for a winning pitch, how to surround yourself with a team...
27m Apr 17, 2019
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S1 Ep86: Designer Rebecca Minkoff Shares How She Built a Brand Beloved All Over the World
Minkoff discusses how she aims to use her platform to pave the way for other female founders.
18m Apr 10, 2019
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