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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
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201 Cold Calls to Yes: Jackie Coffey on Real Estate and Discipline
In this episode of BizBlend, Sana talks with Jackie Coffey, who made two hundred and one cold calls before landing her first real estate deal at twenty two…
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Decision Making Under Pressure: Silvia Rizzo on Leadership and Structure
In this episode of BizBlend, Sana talks with Silvia Rizzo, who works at the crossroads of high performance sport and business, about what really happens in a…
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Buying Instead of Building: Jay Bourgana on AI, Business Acquisitions, and the Future of Entrepreneurship
What if the smartest way to become an entrepreneur isn't starting from scratch, but buying a business that's already working? In this insightful episode of…
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The Career Podium: Why Money Isn't the Gold Medal, with Mark Cook
Meet Mark Cook, host of the Bold Encounters podcast, who joins BizBlend to unpack what makes work feel meaningful, drawn from studying award-winning leaders…
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Ideas Don't Scale Businesses, Execution Does, with Ken Paskins
Meet Ken Paskins, founder of GCE Strategic Consulting and creator of the Fractional Integrator model, who joins BizBlend to explain why great ideas rarely…
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Lead Last: Olaolu Ogunyemi on Service-First Leadership on BizBlend
:This episode is for the leader caught between wanting credit and knowing credit isn't the point. Olaolu Ogunyemi, a U.S. Marine officer, founder of…
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Building a Business From Your Pain: Wanda Thibodeaux on BizBlend
This episode is for anyone who has been taught to heal privately and show up polished. Wanda Thibodeaux, a business writer and podcast host whose work sits at…
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People-First Leadership Was Never the Soft Choice: Adrienne Wilkerson on BizBlend
This episode is for the founder who assumes people-first leadership is the gentle option, the thing you can afford in good times and cut first when things get…
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UFO Encounters, Faith, and Business: Jason Ford on BizBlend
This episode is for the entrepreneur or leader who assumes business challenges are always strategic or operational, and nothing more. Jason Ford, a former…
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Wealth Creation Is About Alignment, Not Income: Steve Lawson on BizBlend
This episode is for anyone who has made more money every year and somehow felt further from free. Steve Lawson, founder of Unbroken Investing and author of…
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Building an Intelligent Business: Ted Wolf on AI Transformation on BizBlend
This episode is for any leader who bought the AI tools, ran the pilots, and still isn't seeing the transformation everyone promised. Ted Wolf, CEO of Guidewise…
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Collective Intelligence Leadership for Uncertainty: Nikola Ilic on BizBlend
This episode is for the leader who feels like the ground keeps shifting under them, in a boardroom or anywhere else. Georgetown professor and Otpor movement…
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Business Operations Systems for Founders: Damon Flowers on BizBlend
This episode is for the founder who looks confident from the outside but feels the cracks underneath. Business systems strategist Damon Flowers joins BizBlend…
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The Body Keeps the Score of Your Ambition, with Victor Dedaj
The wins keep coming and everything looks good on paper. Meanwhile your body sends quiet signals, skipped meals, short nights, a heart that races. And you keep…
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Dressing From the Inside Out: Fashion, Identity, and Confidence with Marisol Colette
You open the wardrobe and nothing feels right. It is rarely the clothes. It is that something inside has not settled yet. Marisol Colette, a psychotherapist…
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Small Business Growth: Why In-Person Community Wins, with Tim Beynon
Most business advice online is built for companies that do not exist in your town. Cloud based, asset light, scale from your laptop. Tim Beynon built a 2,500…
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Brand Clarity vs Louder Marketing: Lindsey Huettner on Small Business Positioning
This episode is for small business owners and founders tired of chasing every platform to stay visible. Lindsey Huettner, founder of Dallas agency The it…
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Personal Branding for Gen X: The Cost of Staying Invisible with Ange Dove
You have decades of expertise and you are still the best-kept secret in your industry. This one is for the quietly competent. Ange Dove joins host Sana on…
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Branding, PR, and SEO Working Together to Attract Better Clients, with Benjamin Behrooz
If your dashboards are full but your pipeline is empty, this one is for you. Being visible and being chosen are two different things, and most businesses spend…
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Unclaimed Money: $72 Billion Waiting to Be Claimed, with David Dorfman
Right now, more than $72 billion is sitting with state governments across America, money that already belongs to real people who have no idea it is there. It…
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Successful but Unfulfilled? Joy-Led Living with Ted Kopecko on BizBlend
There is a version of success that never makes the highlight reel: the founder who hits every target and still wakes at 5 a.m. with a chest full of static, who…
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Post-Divorce Reinvention for High-Achieving Women | Trena Briscoe Matthews
From the outside, everything looks fine: the career intact, the calendar full, the bills paid. But a lot of high-achieving women are making every decision from…
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Poker as Leadership Training: Decision-Making Under Pressure | Crispin Leyser
Two equally smart leaders can look at the same information and make completely different calls. Crispin Leyser has spent a career watching exactly that, first…
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Building a Flexible Business in Tiny Pockets of Time | Anna Runyan
The entrepreneur story most of us were sold is all-nighters and hustle. Anna Runyan built something different: a business shaped around real life, in small…
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Leading Through Complexity: Why Old Leadership Playbooks Fail | Pamela Potts
Every leader was promoted for having the answers. Then technology changed, the team changed, the market changed, and the playbook stopped reading the room…
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Why Culture Breaks After an Acquisition: John Hutchinson, The Nuance Effect
Speed sells. Certainty sells. But the leaders whose teams still trust them in five years are usually doing something quieter: paying attention to what nobody…
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Recovering From a Layoff: Rebuilding Identity Beyond Your Job Title With Shelley McIntyre
There is a quieter question underneath every layoff, and it isn't "what's next." It's "who am I when the badge comes off." This episode is for the Gen X…
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Building Workplaces Where People Feel Safe Asking for Help: Saroni Kundu on BizBlend
A note before you press play: this episode includes an honest conversation about suicide loss and a family's mental health journey. Saroni shares her story…
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Decision Fatigue for Entrepreneurs: Suzanne Castle on the Sparkle Factor
Entrepreneurs are not tired from working too hard. They are tired from deciding too much: fifty small calls before lunch and three big ones kept postponed…
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AI Adoption Is a Human Problem, Not a Tech Problem: Bryant Oberg on BizBlend
Everyone is being told AI will change everything, and somewhere in the noise, the actual person sitting in front of the screen quietly thinks: I don't even…
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Quitting a Six-Figure Job to Bootstrap a Business: Liz Mbwambo on BizBlend
You have been building someone else's company while a different idea keeps tapping your shoulder. Leaving corporate to start a business is rarely the clean…
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Beyond Hustle and Manifestation: Danelle Gallo on BizBlend
This episode is for entrepreneurs who've been told there are only two ways to build a business: hustle harder or lean back and manifest. Danelle Gallo, a…
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Vulnerable Leadership: Why Imperfect Leaders Build Stronger Teams, with Allie Grack
For the founder or manager exhausted from looking like they have it all figured out. Host Sana talks with Allie Grack of Workhorse Marketing about why…
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AI Isn't the Problem: Why Companies Actually Have a Governance Problem, with Ioannis Antypas
This one is for the leader caught between AI hype on one side and quiet FOMO on the other, wondering if they're falling behind, or about to make an expensive…
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Why Enterprise Tech Adoption Fails: The Human Side of AI at Work, with Tom Gersic
This one is for the founder, rev ops leader, or customer success professional watching their company pour money into AI tools that nobody actually uses. Most…
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Your Expertise Isn't Replaceable, But Your Positioning Might Be, with Dr. Angela Mulrooney
This one is for the accomplished leader, founder, or expert quietly wondering if AI is making their years of experience irrelevant. If you've built real…
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Execution Beats Intelligence: The 2% Rule and GPS Goal Method, with Coach Willie Blake
If you've ever built the perfect plan and still never started, this one is for you. It's for the smart, capable person who feels stuck, not from a lack of…
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Why Capable Teams Fail: Cristian Y. Gonzalez on BizBlend
This episode is for leaders who assume a struggling team is a talent problem. Cristian Y. Gonzalez, author of What Everyone Knew and a leader with 20 years…
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Why Most Businesses Can't Scale: Blake Erickson on BizBlend
This episode is for founders who assume they can scale by simply doing more of what's already working. Blake Erickson, co-founder of Scaling.com and co-author…
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Respect, Leadership, and the Bottom Line: DR Rawson on BizBlend
This episode is for any leader who suspects something is quietly costing them money and can't quite name it. DR Rawson, a serial entrepreneur who has founded…
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Authenticity and Purpose: Jay Izso's Journey from Farmhand to Coach on BizBlend
This episode is for anyone quietly wondering if the version of success they're chasing is even theirs. Jay Izso, an executive and performance coach, joins host…
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Corporate Piracy: What Founders Don't See Coming, with Amanda Sima
Note: This episode was recorded: May 11, 2026 This episode is for founders who assume patents and NDAs are enough to protect what they build. Amanda Sima…
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Dignity as a Competitive Advantage: Shawn Gibbs on BizBlend
This episode is for founders and leaders who assume dignity belongs in the ethics column, not the strategy deck. Shawn Gibbs, a physician assistant turned…
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Enterprise AI in Action: Why Data Foundations Matter Before You Scale, with Nishanth Sirikonda
Most companies say they are doing AI. Very few actually are. There is a quiet gap between the announcement and the outcome, between the dashboard and the…
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People Strategy Is Business Strategy: Leading With Heart and Clarity, with Oksana Lukash
Ask most founders where their business strategy lives and they'll point to a deck. Ask Oksana Lukash and she'll point to the people. Not as a nice idea, but as…
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Building a Counseling Practice: The Business Side Nobody Prepares You For, with Stephanie McAlister
You spend years training to help people heal. Nobody trains you to run the business that makes that help possible. And the moment you decide to grow from solo…
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Your Personal Operating System: Stop Managing Time, Start Managing You, with Morris Sims
Most people running their own book of business wake up reacting and end the day exhausted. The week moves them more than they move it. Underneath all the…
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The Mental Weight of Ownership: What the NFL Taught Me About Business, with Corey Parchman
Most aspiring business owners never get warned about a very specific moment. The moment you sign your name on a personal guarantee. The moment your decisions…
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Cultural Capital: Can Hip-Hop Own What It Built, with Grand Agent
Culture shapes how we talk, what we buy, what we believe is possible. But when a community builds that much influence, does it own the value it created, or…
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The Trust Tax: The Hidden Cost of Being the One Who Always Delivers, with Dr. Natalie Luke
Every team has one. The person who delivers no matter what. The one whose reliability gets rewarded with more, whose quiet competence the system quietly…
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Why Mission-Driven Organizations Stay Underfunded and How to Fix It, with Lonna Gibson
Most nonprofits and mission-driven organizations don't have a cause problem. They have a clarity problem. The work is real, the need is urgent, and the people…
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Why Clarity Beats Hustle: Building a Business That Fits Your Life, with Graham Kuhn
Most business advice still treats hustle as a virtue: wake earlier, push harder, outwork the room. But Graham Kuhn has watched something quieter take down more…
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When Teams Learn to Think Together: Beyond the Leader Bottleneck, with Shaun Mader
Many leaders assume they have a strategy problem. Often it's a thinking problem, and not their own, but everyone's around them. The team stopped owning…
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How to Move Past Burnout and Find Work That Shares Your Values, with Cindy Morris
On a hike in the Galapagos, Cindy Morris noticed that going downhill, the part everyone assumes is easy, was harder than the climb. That moment reshaped how…
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Why High-Achieving Women Collapse Under Visibility and Pressure, with Carmen Wiesinger
A lot of high-achieving women know this moment. The promotion lands, the room gets bigger, and inside, something starts to shake. Not because they aren't…
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The Anti-Pitch: Building Authority and Trust Without Being Salesy, with Ely Delaney
Most founders don't hate the work. They hate the selling, the moment they have to ask for the sale, when something tightens in the chest and a quiet voice…
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Transforming Brilliant Jerks Into Inspiring Leaders: The Real Cost, with Dr. Katrina Burrus
Every team has known one. The brilliant performer everyone tiptoes around, whose results are undeniable and whose presence is exhausting. For years companies…
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Your Relationship With Money: How Money Mindset Shapes Your Business | Scarlett Stanhope
Most founders think their business has a money problem: pricing, cash flow, sales. But sit with it long enough and a quieter truth shows up. Often it isn't the…
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Balancing Kids' Screen Time: Building Connection in a Digital World, with Kirsty Nolan
There's a quiet conversation happening in almost every founder's home. The same hands that build companies are passing screens to small humans just to buy ten…
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Cutting Through the AI Noise: Calmer, Smarter Decisions for Leaders | Ryan Drumheller
Every leader is carrying the same quiet pressure right now. Move faster. Add AI. Don't fall behind. Underneath the noise, a different question is trying to…