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What Fuels You

What Fuels You

Written by: Fuel Talent
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Shauna Swerland, CEO of Fuel Talent, launches the What Fuels You podcast, where she sits down with influential, interesting and successful leaders to learn from them. She digs into the stories and choices that made them who they are today, with the goal of sharing the inspiration, perseverance and stories of resilience that are normally only shared within an inner circle. You'll walk away feeling fueled by each episode as Shauna uncovers things like personal hardships and failures, what it’s like to become an entrepreneur and tips on building a successful career.2026 Fuel Talent Careers Economics Personal Success Politics & Government
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  • Ross Goodhart - Founder and Co-CEO of Jupiter
    Apr 21 2026

    Ross Goodhart is Co-CEO and a Founder of Jupiter—the new standard in dandruff care,
    delivering clean, elevated, and seriously effective dandruff care products. He was born and
    raised in Hawaii, and received his B.B.A from the University of Michigan School of Business in
    2002, with an emphasis in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship.
    From 2002 to 2015, Ross worked in investment banking at Peter J. Solomon Company and
    then private equity at Siguler Guff & Company, managing funds focused on consumer and
    tech investments in emerging markets.

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    44 mins
  • Jennifer Worthington - Co-Founder and President of Two Dice
    Apr 7 2026

     Jennifer Worthington is the Co-Founder and President of Two Dice, a new live experience company she's building with George Kliavkoff, with whom she shares a belief in the power of live experiences to create connection and lasting memories.

    She started her career at Jerry Bruckheimer Films, where she rose to senior vice president at age 23, working on some of the biggest films of that era: Armageddon, The Rock, Black Hawk Down, Pirates of the Caribbean. Then she walked away from Hollywood to open the Coyote Ugly Saloon on the Las Vegas Strip, which became the highest grossing bar per square foot in the country.

    Jennifer is the author of In the Spirit of Las Vegas for Assouline and the creator of Little Angels, a multi-platform entertainment franchise developed in partnership with Mark Burnett and Roma Downey and now part of Hearst Entertainment.

    Most recently, she served as CEO and Co-Founder of Play Social Inc., where she launched Play Playground, a next-generation experiential entertainment concept redefining social play for teens and adults.

    She holds a degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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    55 mins
  • Ardie Sameti - Co-Founder and CEO of Scala
    Mar 24 2026

    Ardie Sameti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scala. Ardie is part of a new generation of Northwest leaders rethinking how AI can solve one of the biggest challenges in enterprise operations—the ability to act on customer data in real time.

    Scala is building an AI platform that unifies enterprise data and turns it into actionable intelligence, helping leaders see what's happening across their operations, respond faster, and empower their teams to perform at their best.

    Before co-founding Scala, Ardie spent nearly a decade at Accolade leading AI and Platform initiatives inside high-volume healthcare operations. Ardie and his wife Ali are raising their three young kids in Kirkland, and he remains deeply engaged in the Pacific Northwest startup and community ecosystem.

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    46 mins
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