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BizBlend
Ready to level up your business, career, and personal life? Join Host Sana on BIZBLEND for daily live shows featuring raw, honest conversations with industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and problem-solvers. Get practical advice, success stories, and actionable tips to overcome real-world challenges—all with a dash of fun and inspiration! Whether you’re building a business, advancing your career, or chasing personal growth, this is your go-to podcast for motivation and strategy. Let’s grow and…
Episodes
BizBlendLeading Organizational Change Through Trust and Grace | Keith Haney
If your last change initiative stalled, it probably wasn't the strategy. It was the trust that had already quietly broken down before anyone even announced the…
BizBlendWhy Great Executives Fail in Their First 18 Months | Stephen Moss on BizBlend
Getting the senior role is one challenge. Surviving the transition into it is another. In this episode of BizBlend, Sana sits down with Stephen "Steve" Moss…
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How One Bed Became a Global Movement | Luke Mickelson
Luke Mickelson’s story starts with a deceptively simple question: What happens when success no longer feels fulfilling? In this episode of BizBlend, Sana…
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Narrative Leadership: Jon Symes on Rewriting Your Origin Story
Your origin story got you your first customers, your first hires, maybe your funding. Sana sits down with Jon Symes, creator of Narrative Leadership and author…
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The Funnel Leak Costing You Growth: Ammarah Ahmed on BizBlend
Most local businesses aren't losing money because their product is broken, it's because nobody stopped long enough to watch how people actually move through…
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Why Your Business Runs on You Instead of Running: Georges Hanna on BizBlend
If your business cannot function without your constant involvement, you don't own a business, you own a demanding job with overhead. Sana sits down with…
BizBlendSilence as a Communication Tool: Lynn Neillie on BizBlend
Most business problems that land on a consultant's desk get diagnosed as a strategy issue, a revenue issue, or a leadership issue. Underneath most of them…
BizBlendTracing Destructive Habits to Their Root Cause: Michael Muccio on BizBlend
What if the habits quietly sabotaging your business, your leadership, even your relationships, all trace back to the exact same root cause? Sana sits down with…
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Blowing the Whistle on Corporate Fraud: William "Bill" Sullivan on BizBlend
A note for listeners: This episode discusses a real, publicly documented Department of Justice case (United States ex rel. Sullivan v. Informatica Corp.) that…
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Boldness Built on Judgment, Not Recklessness: Sean Clarke on BizBlend
In January 2024, a man who had spent four decades leading through crisis after crisis faced the one he couldn't manage his way out of: a near-fatal heart…
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What the Subconscious Can Teach Entrepreneurs: Ali Christos on BizBlend
You've journaled, read the books, maybe even sat in therapy, and you still know exactly what's holding you back, yet here you are doing the same thing again…
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Why AI Cites Earned Media, Not Ads: Kate Engler on BizBlend
A large majority of AI citations reportedly come from earned media, not social posts, not even a business's own website. Sana sits down with Kate Engler…
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Building Persephone.ai as a Single Mom Founder: Ashley Wilson on BizBlend
The founder story we usually hear skips over who was also doing bedtime, packing lunches, and figuring out childcare in between the funding rounds. Sana sits…
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The ROI of Investing in Your Frontline Team: Sandra Coker on BizBlend
The fastest route to your bottom line runs directly through the people most companies are least likely to invest in, and it's not the leadership team. Sana…
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Think in the Future Perfect Tense: Pascal Laliberté on BizBlend
What if the biggest productivity upgrade isn't another app or planner, but simply changing the way you think about the future? Sana sits down with Pascal…
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Using AI to Increase Human Connection: David Levine on BizBlend
Most businesses are using AI to talk to customers less, chatbots instead of a live answer, automated replies instead of a written one. Sana sits down with…
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Energy Management, Not Time Management: RJ Kedziora on BizBlend
Most of us were handed the same quiet equation somewhere along the way: do more, and you'll be worth more. Sayan sits down with RJ Kedziora, co-founder and COO…
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The Chief Everything Officer Trap: Alli Murphy on BizBlend
The exhaustion that hides best doesn't look like exhaustion at all, it looks like reliability. Sana sits down with Alli Murphy, former Managing Director turned…
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Walking Away From a Successful Career: John Bond on BizBlend
This is not a story about the climb, it's about the step away. Sana sits down with John Bond, former chief content officer for an international publisher…
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The One Decision That Accelerates Your Business: Stephen Wright on BizBlend
Most business owners don't struggle from a lack of ideas, they struggle from having too many. Sana sits down with Stephen Wright, author of Pick One: Four…
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AI Adoption for Non-Technical Founders: Marnie Wills on BizBlend
For the last decade, we've quietly handed ourselves over to our screens and started calling it productive. Sana sits down with Marnie Wills, founder of…
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How to Build a Business That Doesn't Need You: Louis Swart on BizBlend
Knowing you should delegate and actually building a business that runs without you living inside it every day are two very different things. In this follow-up…
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Leadership Patterns Rooted in Childhood: Theresa Gale on BizBlend
If you've ever wondered why the same conflict, the same stuck decision, or the same exhaustion keeps showing up in your business, this episode is for you. Sana…
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537 Days of Winter: David Knoff on Leading Through an Unknown End Date
Imagine leading a team of twenty four people on a twelve month Antarctic expedition, then being told your ride home isn't coming, with no fixed date and no…
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Building a Business That Doesn't Need You: Todd Krause on Letting Go
If you disappeared for a month, would your business actually run, not just limp along? In this episode, Sana talks with Todd Krause, CPA, MBA, and founder of…
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The Hamster Wheel Trap: Why Founder Dependency Discounts Your Business, with Peter Boolkah
Most founders never see it coming. The business built to set them free slowly becomes the thing that owns them, and Peter Boolkah calls this the Hamster Wheel…
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From Nursing to Novels: Nancy Jasin Ensley on Turning Experience Into Story
What happens to everything you witness across decades of work that demands deep empathy, once you finally sit down to write? Nancy Jasin Ensley has spent a…
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Trust, Not Skills, Is Why You Get Hired: Eric Woodard on Winning at Work
From scuba instructor in Guam to the White House, the Senate, the State Department, and the Smithsonian, Eric Woodard's career never followed a script. He…
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Why HR Becomes the Scapegoat and How to Change That, With Carolyn Moore
Something goes wrong with culture, hiring, or a change program, and everyone looks at HR. HR absorbs it, fixes what it can, and gets blamed for the rest…
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Change Is a Leadership Capability, Not a Plan: Eva Aimable-Kolosko
Eight countries, more than twenty years, and one clear lesson: organizational change is not a project plan, it is a leadership capability. Eva Aimable-Kolosko…
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High Agency: Corey Gladwell on Building Personal Brand Equity That Lasts
There is a real difference between promoting yourself and building something that keeps creating opportunities long after you've stopped working on it. Corey…
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You Don't Have an Ad Problem, You Have a Growth System Problem, with Johannes Krebs
Most companies do not actually have an advertising problem, they have a growth system problem, and a campaign is only as strong as its weakest link in that…
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From Pro Tennis to Human Rights Law: Building a Values-Led Business, with Barbara Kvelstein
Professional tennis player and model across ninety countries, then a human rights lawyer and certified anti-trafficking investigator, now the founder of a…
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Same Crisis, Different Brain: What ADHD Leaders See That Others Miss, with Kai Stowers
A test fails, a deadline looms, and one person sees a crisis while the person next to them sees the most interesting problem they have had in months. Same…
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Why Dysfunction Keeps Coming Back: Joel Klemmer on Fixing Broken Systems
You bring in new leadership, a new strategy, the right tools, and a few years later the same dysfunction is sitting in the same chair with a different name. A…
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The Myth of Always Being Zen: Samantha Kane on Authentic Calm at Work
Almost every founder quietly holds themselves to an impossible standard, always calm, always centered, never rattled. Samantha Kane says that entire framing is…
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Stop Chasing Visibility: Marketing Stability With Juliana Weiss-Roessler
Marketing can start to feel like a hamster wheel, another platform, another trend, another expectation to keep posting just to stay visible. Juliana…
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One Breath Leadership: How Your Breathing Shapes Decisions Under Pressure, with Ed Howard
The biggest leadership limitation is rarely a lack of skill or a flawed strategy, it's what happens to your thinking under real pressure. Ed Howard, founder of…
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The Activation Gap: Why Good Strategy Stalls, With Brianna Sylver
The insight is brilliant, the deck is gorgeous, everyone nods, and then nothing happens. Brianna Sylver calls this the activation gap, and it has less to do…
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Effective vs Coherent Leadership: Lara Bezerra on Ending the Mask
There is a difference between a leader who is effective and a leader who is coherent, one produces results, the other produces results that come from something…
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Personality Isn't a Label, It's a Doorway: Arky Jones on Self-Awareness
Personality tests can be gamed, labeled, and misused, but Arky Jones believes they can also be a doorway into real self-awareness, if you know how to use them…
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Who Defined Your Success? Shante Alexander on the Emotional Cost of Clarity
Almost nobody asks who defined success before spending twenty years chasing it. Organizational psychologist Shante Alexander says for most high achievers, the…
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Why 70% of Organizational Change Initiatives Fail, With Dr. Richard Carson
Roughly 70% of organizational change initiatives fail, and it is rarely the strategy that breaks. Dr. Richard Carson says the real problem is usually that…
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The Ripple Effect of a Decision: Stephanie Wachman on Alignment, Intuition, and Change
In this episode of BizBlend, Sana talks with executive coach Stephanie Wachman about the moment her son ran to his father instead of her, and how that one…
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How One Board Takeover Uncovered $340,000 in Hidden Building Costs, with Tina Larsson
One woman found $340,000 sitting inside her own apartment building's finances, money nobody had been tracking until she decided to look. Tina Larsson…
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The Relationship Gap: Why Trust, Not Liking, Predicts Employee Retention, with Eddie Mac
People don't quit their jobs for the reasons you think. A twenty year SWAT commander turned leadership consultant says the real cost is a relationship gap that…
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Inadvertent Bottleneck to Intentional Catalyst: A Founder's Leadership Shiftm with Tracy Clark
Most founders never question the leadership habits that got them here, until those same habits quietly turn them into the one thing their business is waiting…
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Confidence Comes After Action: Leadership Lessons From Yogi Mueller
Confidence is usually treated like a prerequisite, something you need before you act. Leadership coach Yogi Mueller, a former Disney trainer and professional…
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Choosing Presence Over Vindication: A Father's Story of Pressure, with David VanBeenen
Would you still fight for your own name if it cost you time with your children? David VanBeenen had to answer that question for real. A performance coach and…
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Occupational Friction: Why Half of All Hiring Decisions Fail, with Martin Gibbons
What if the productivity gap in your business has nothing to do with headcount, and everything to do with fit. Martin Gibbons has spent twenty-six years…
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From Postpartum Anxiety to UNLEASHED: Crystal Bean on Rebuilding Yourself
This episode is for any founder or leader who's built an impressive career and still feels like they've lost themselves somewhere along the way. Host Sana…
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Commerce as Human Value: Rethinking Money After 25 Years in Fintech, with Connie Davis
What if commerce was never just the transaction. Connie Davis spent twenty-five years building products for the payments and fintech industry before she walked…
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The COPE Method: How Leaders Can Handle Stress Without Breaking | Corey Jefferson
What if the advice we’ve been given about stress is exactly what’s hurting us? In this deeply honest episode of BizBlend, host Sana sits down with Corey…
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From Paintbrush to Six Figures: Michael Cappa on Building a Profitable Trades Business
What if one of the smartest entrepreneurial opportunities today isn't in tech, but in the skilled trades? In this episode of BizBlend, entrepreneur and…
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The Hidden Cost of AI: Energy, Water, Privacy, and the Infrastructure Behind the Hype | Ken Chester
Everyone is talking about what AI can do for business. Far fewer people are asking what it is costing us beneath the surface. In this episode of BizBlend, host…
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Escaping Survival Mode: Leadership Lessons From Disaster Reconstruction, with Paul Padgett
Reacting all day is not a strategy. Many teams run on survival mode for years, not because it works, but because nobody stopped to design something better…
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AI Adoption Fails Without Change Management: Human First AI Strategy, with Mykel Salomon
You are not behind on AI. You might just be unclear. Most teams buy the tool before naming the problem, and it quietly collects dust. Mykel Salomon explains…
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Why Great Business Strategies Fail: The Missing Link Between Strategy and Execution | Alex Sydnor
What happens when a company has a brilliant strategy, clear data, and capable people, yet nothing truly changes? In this powerful BizBlend conversation, Sana…
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The Real Cost of Bad Leadership: Daniel Neissany on Why I Am the Problem
In this episode of BizBlend, Sana talks with Dr. Daniel Neissany, a physical therapist turned healthcare business leader, about the version of bad leadership…
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Why Being Clear Is Being Kind: Kati Peterman on Leadership Clarity
In this episode of BizBlend, Sana talks with fractional executive and business strategist Kati Peterman about the moment most leaders quietly avoid, saying the…