In this edition of Entrepreneur Experience, we sit down with Emily Sylvester, founder and CEO of NurtureTalk, a company focused on delivering education and support for infant feeding without bias and agenda. Our conversation ranges from the challenges of founder moms to the source of imposter syndrome (and strategies to deal with it!). Emily shares her journey from scientist and clinician to technical founder, and believe us, it’s one you definitely don’t want to miss!

In this episode, we continue our Entrepreneur Experience series talking with CEO of OnlySky Charles Von Thun. As a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor, Charles offers a unique perspective about what makes a startup successful, and what investors and entrepreneurs should be focused on, and he shares with us what it takes to turn someone else’s great idea into a real, successful business.

In this episode, CEO and Co-Founder of Precursa, Cynthia Del’Aria, gets down and dirty with dispelling and revealing the myths of the startup world. Many people want you to believe certain things about being a startup founder, but those things are usually only to their own benefit… Not to yours, and not to your company’s. If you want to do this entrepreneur thing, let’s get you set up for real success – not a roller coaster ride on a myth that ends in suffering.

In this episode of our Entrepreneur Experience series, we sit down with serial entrepreneur and corporate executive Tracey Abbott, founder of Refuge Acupuncture and global business strategist. From being a corporate executive for huge brands, like Kodak, Foot Locker and PepsiCo, to her own ventures as a Chick-fil-A franchisee and owner of a wellness and Chinese medicine business, Tracey’s experience is vast and her knowledge of what it takes to build a successful business is filled with juicy nuggets to keep you on the right path. Join us on the global journey of Tracey’s background, what she’s working on now, and her advice for how to avoid risk.

In this short-but-important episode, Precursa CEO and Co-Founder Cynthia Del’Aria shares the breakthroughs the company is experiencing, but also the ones she is experiencing personally. Building a startup isn’t always about what you think it’s about, and sometimes that can be (really) good news.

Today for the next episode in our Entrepreneur Experience series, we chat with serial entrepreneur and operations genius Amanda Gunville, current COO and CMO of Wander+Ivy, and CEO and Co-Founder of Sports Bet AR. There are very few people who can give such keen advice to new and repeat founders alike, and there’s absolutely no one with Amanda’s unique blend of wisdom, experience, and insight.

In the very first installment of our new series, Entrepreneur Experience, we chat with branding and marketing strategy expert Kimberly Lafleur, founder of HUEMANITY, a branding agency with a social mission. Our discussion ranges from humanitarian issues with the supply chain to 80’s talk shows… And Kimberly shares her views on what it’s really like, and what it takes, to be an entrepreneur.

In this bonus episode, we get a little raw. What happens when everything doesn’t go as you plan? How do you cope? Who do you turn to? When you’re the founder and CEO of a company, it can feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, and in reality the weight of your company IS… So what’s an entrepreneur to do?

In this episode, we talk about the shifts in our execution strategy that have necessitated a little break. (We promise it’ll be short.) During this time, we are getting a new podcasting space, reworking the pro forma (because profit is… bad?), and applying for research grants so that we can spend our first six months post-launch giving the product away and proving the technology works.

Together again, Precursa’s co-founders talk about the reality of feeling overwhelmed when sorting out what’s important and urgent to get done and what really can wait. We share our strategies for dealing with overwhelm, when to ask for help, who to go to, and how to build your community… Entrepreneurs need each other.

Humans are, by nature, creators. We have new ideas ALL THE TIME. The challenge for us as entrepreneurs and startup founders is understanding when a new idea is an opportunity versus when it’s just a distraction. Plus, how a trip to the grocery store is kinda like vetting and validating your new idea.

Thanks to our business model pivot, we’ve been re-working the pitch and the deck, and we’ve been re-hashing previous conversations with investors to get them up to speed. In the process, we’ve learned some incredibly valuable lessons about what it means to be an entrepreneur and the true (sometimes hidden) value of asking for money.