Episodes

Everyone talks about burning out on the way to the exit, but nobody talks about what happens after. Nick Merich co-founded Songlink, built it to 22 million users, and sold it to Linktree. Then he felt like he jumped off a cliff, and there was no bottom. In this episode: Nick takes us behind the highlight reel. The perfectly crafted LinkedIn posts, the Instagram moments, the version of yourself you put out into the world when you're building something and desperately need it to work. He tal...

Shaler Houser built and sold four companies over three decades. He also lost everything more than once, not just financially, but personally. In this episode, I sit down with Shaler Houser, a 4x exited founder and Partner at Founderville VC, who has spent nearly three decades building companies, losing everything, rebuilding, and using every hard-won lesson to invest in and support the founders coming up behind him. This is the most honest conversation I've had about addiction, identity, and w...

Every founder deals with self-doubt, but most never tell anyone. In the very first episode of The Founder Exhale, I sit down with Grant Winns, an 8-time founder with 4 successful exits, including the globally recognized brand BYLT Basics, and CEO of Yuna Health, an AI-native mental health platform built to fill the gap between crisis care and traditional therapy. Grant gets real about the mental health challenges across two decades of entrepreneurship, what self-doubt actually looks like from ...

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