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Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons

Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons

Written by: Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
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 Are you curious about how a business is born – why someone was compelled to leave a paycheck and benefits behind to head off into the wild blue yonder, without a safety net, navigating high levels of uncertainty, and risking financial ruin?

Entrepreneurship is an adventure, and you will love hearing these phenomenal founders share their nail-biting moments and their uplifting wins – often occurring within hours of each other in any given day!

As a 4x Founder I easily resonate with each guest's uniqe startup story and am able to bring to light the vulnerable moments from their founder journey.

On the Startup Life Show you’ll find inspiration for navigating your best life through the fascinating stories of Diverse Founders who fought through obstacles and bias to change the world with their beautiful social impact businesses.

Tap the link to your favorite podcast platform and get ready to hear an awe*mazing adventure that will leave you feeling exhilarated and empowered.

Waving from Boston - cheers!

Ande Lyons
Producer + Host of the Startup Life Show© 2024 Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Helping Founders Successfully Scale Their Startup

    Helping Founders Successfully Scale Their Startup
    Jun 26 2023
    Whether you're a tech founder or a non-tech founder, you need help to successfully scale a startup.
    Our guest, Software Engineer turned “The Mary Poppins of Startups”, Naily Makangu, is passionate about bringing her multi-faceted toolkit to lead complex software projects and launch products. With over ten years of experience, she has a proven track record of turning around struggling technical projects and organizations, from seed startups to large corporations such as Siemens Industry Software.

    Naily has a gift for bridging the gap between tech teams and the rest of the business to ensure successful project delivery. As a Startup Advisor and Tech Consultant, she’s helped several startups and scaleups improve the maturity of their teams while continuing to deliver what customers expect.

    Investors count on her to help keep their startups teams on track, reducing the need to breathe down their necks. Naily is committed to fostering innovation and growth in the startup community via Athena Leaders' "Tech and Product Catalyst".

    The"Tech and Product Catalyst" is designed to empower startup founders and investors alike. It helps startups close, onboard, and manage more clients, particularly in the B2B sector and prepare for investor scrutiny and due diligence. We improve startup maturity level, enabling faster building, launching, and scaling. Investors can benefit from additional support for struggling startups in their portfolio.

    💥 Check out Naily's Tech and Product Catalyst 👉 http://athenaleaders.com/tech-and-product-catalyst

    🎤 Check out "The Mary Poppins of Startups Podcast" giving your startups or business the tools to build your first prototype, reach product-market fit and blossom 👉 https://bit.ly/PodcastAthenaLeaders

    💻 Sign up to Naily's 1-1 Tech & Product Mentoring sessions 👉 https://bit.ly/1-1FreeTechMentoring

    👋 Connect with Naily Makangu on LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nailymakangu/

    Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!

    Ande ♥
    https://andelyons.com
    #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • EP 288 Building the Best All-in-One SaaS Solution for Mentoring, Connectivity & Skills Development

    EP 288 Building the Best All-in-One SaaS Solution for Mentoring, Connectivity & Skills Development
    Jun 13 2023
    Fostering connection among employees and company leaders is hard enough to do within brick and mortar walls.

    Building company culture and forging employee relationships without the four walls is a challenge many companies are failing at today.

    Our guest, Dave Wilkin, is an award-winning serial LGBTQ+ entrepreneur who grew up in a small, rural town, and experienced firsthand that mentors and meaningful connections were critical to accessing career-progressing and skills development opportunities.

    He solved this problem by launching Ten Thousand Coffees (10KC) and building the only all-in-one talent experience platform for inclusive mentoring, employee connectivity, and skills development.

    Dave also helps equity-seeking groups leverage 10KC’s platform to access critical mentoring and career progressing networks through some of the largest social impact organizations in the world including ALPFA, Ascend, Black Professionals in Tech Network and more.

    Stay tuned for an inspirational fireside chat with an extraordinary entrepreneur on the Startup Life Show!

    To learn more about 10KC, please visit: https://www.tenthousandcoffees.com/

    Thank you for tuning in to the show - let me know what you think of Dave's startup story in the comments - cheers!

    Ande ♥
    https://andelyons.com
    #inspirationalstories #startupstories #startuplife

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    CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:
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    SPONSORSHIP
    If you resonate with the show’s mission of amplifying diverse founder voices, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life Show! ande@andelyons.com.
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    54 mins
  • EP 287 A Digital Health Platform Expanding Access to Peer Support and Group Therapy

    EP 287 A Digital Health Platform Expanding Access to Peer Support and Group Therapy
    Jun 9 2023
    You are not built to do life alone.

    But how do you get the real support you need to navigate the real life events you’re sailing through?

    This delicious conversation on the Startup Life Show is with Tamar Blue - the fab female co-founder of MentalHappy – an online health platform that provides access to peer support and group therapy, especially for people of low-income, underrepresented populations, and people living in rural areas.

    What I especially loved about this conversation was how Tamar’s life beautifully prepared her to be the ideal co-founder of MentalHappy!

    From her hugely successful volunteer program in high school called Safety Ambassadors to her dual degree in econonmics and sociology, to her 10 years in corporate environments teaching her how to drive revenue and manage gross profits, to addressing her own challenges with anxiety and panic attacks and being bullied as a first-generation Haitian American. Tamar’s lived experiences uniquely prepared her to be the ideal co-founder of her startup!

    I know you will enjoy hearing Tamar’s inspirational startup stories and learn why … and how… she left the paycheck and benefits behind to launch a social impact, Y Combinator backed startup: MentalHappy.

    To learn more about MentalHappy, please visit: https://mentalhappy.com

    To learn more about MentalHappy’s Wefunder Campaign, please visit: https://wefunder.com/MentalHappy.

    Connect with Tamar and Mental Happy on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamarlucienblue/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/mentalhappy/

    Thank you for tuning in to the show - let me know what you think of Tamar's startup story in the comments - cheers!

    Ande ♥

    https://andelyons.com
    inspirationalstories #startupstories #startuplife

    JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUP
    Get an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVE

    CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyons https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyons

    SPONSORSHIP If you resonate with the show’s mission of celebrating diverse founders' inspirational startup stories, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
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    53 mins
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