Just Go Grind

Shrein Bahrami is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Francisco and the founder of Evolve Wellness Group that specializes in eating, anxiety, and relationship disorders. Prior to the group practice, Shrein built her private practice from part-time to full-time after working as a clinician at an eating disorder treatment program. Shrein is also the author of Stop Bingeing, Start Living: Proven Therapeutic Strategies for Breaking the Binge Eating Cycle. On this episode, Shrein talks about taking the leap into entrepreneurship, building her private practice and group practice, the challenges of writing a book, and how she avoids burnout by managing her schedule.

Astrid has been treating coughs, colds, rashes, and infections with things she can find in her kitchen for years. She was shocked by how well these food-based remedies worked and excited when modern nutrition research started revealing why. When others started asking her for tips, recipes, and advice, she knew she had to make them accessible to all. This led Astrid to start Good Medicine Co. — a company that makes functional food, beverage, and body products for modern ailments and health needs.

Molly Sullivan is the owner of Miss Molly's Cafe and Pastry Shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She went to culinary school in Minneapolis and started working at Birchwood Cafe to start her culinary career. Prior to starting her cafe, Molly worked at Braise Restaurant while she starts her pastry business as a side hustle. Unaware of how to start a business, Molly started to reach out with other restaurant owners and she found Nell Benton of The National Cafe who eventually became a personal Business guru. On this episode, Molly talks about the challenges she has had to overcome in starting her business, such as finding the right team and getting funding, and how she launched her business as a side hustle and now is going at it full-time with plans for expansion. Show notes: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/

Miraya Berke creates experiences that spark delight! She's always dreamed of being an event planner and started her own events company Pop Productions at age 24. In 2016 she launched Dessert Goals, a wildly popular dessert festival that curates local dessert vendors. In 2.5 years she's planned 7 festivals and gathered over 20,000 dessert lovers. Her newest venture is Rom Com Fest, a romantic comedy film festival, to celebrate the genre and connect the community. As she has re-imagined the food festival experience she now seeks to reimagine the film festival experience. Miraya is based in the Bay Area and travels to LA and NYC often. http://dessertgoals.com https://romcomfest.com http://popproductionsnyc.com Show notes at: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ 

Justin Rezvani is a first generation American entrepreneur, investor, Forbes’ 30 Under 30, and Founder of theAmplify: a data-driven advertising technology platform that produces influencer advertising campaigns for premium brands across social platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube and Periscope. theAmplify has produced major campaigns in every vertical for industry leading clients including Lions Gate, COTY, Unilever, Taco Bell, Campbell’s and Nissan. Rezvani is a notable keynote speaker for global marketing events and has been featured in cover articles in the Wall Street Journal, AdWeek, Forbes and The Los Angeles Business Journal. Rezvani received his Bachelor of Science in business administration, marketing management and advertising from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where he was named student of the year in both 2010 and 2011.

Allison McGuire is the Founder and CEO of Walc, a walking navigation app based on visual cues (turn right at Starbucks, left at the bank) and Monaghan McGuire (MM), a premium boutique consulting firm. A passionate presenter and brand builder, she has won every competition in which she’s pitched Walc. Billed Waze for walking, Allison’s Walc attracts top talent, such as Waze’s CMO and the former CFO of Snapchat. Allison also created a pedestrian navigation app that within six months gained 500,000 MAUs with $0 spent on marketing and PR. Allison founded MM to give intrapraneurs and entrepreneurs alike the confidence they need to target customers, share stories, and rally an audience around their vision. Whether it's building an online presence, leading a technical roadmap, or optimizing a website for targeted traffic, MM provides high-touch services and product direction. Prior to entrepreneurship, Allison managed communications and business development at a tech company formed by AOL, Cisco, and Yahoo!, Network for Good. She also has political experience in national security and human rights through her work on Capitol Hill, with organizations such as MassEquality, and for the UK Parliament. Allison is an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur, belonging to organizations such as Vista Caballo, Women's Startup Lab, and Dreamers//Doers. She has delivered keynote speeches, guest lectured, and presented at China's Global Business Innovation Summit, SXSW, Plug & Play, BMW iVentures, NJ Tech, NYU, CUNY, Georgetown University, Columbia University, Mississippi State University, the Coalition for Queens, the East Harlem School, Mayfield Senior School, Soundview Academy, and the Chandler School. A former award-winning actress, Allison obtained a degree in Theatre Arts and Political Science from Boston University.

Chic’s passion is inspiring executives, MBA students and children to be “curious first… critical second” while creative problem solving. His latest creative adventure is founding “WagiLabs” A global, social innovation incubator for kids’ ideas. Chic is a Batten Fellow of Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School and adjunct faculty at the Brookings Institution and the Young Presidents’ Organization. His first book, “What a Great Idea!,” published by HarperCollins, was a main selection of the Executive Book Club. In 2001, Harvard Business School released a case study on the speaking career of Chic entitled “What a Great Idea!.” His second book, “Yes, But...” was a guide to overcoming the bureaucratic language that stifles continuous innovation. He wrote this book after consulting with GE to help design their continuous improvement process called “Work-Out.” Chic worked in new product development and marketing for: • W.L. Gore and Associates (Gore-Tex®) • Johnson & Johnson • Walt Disney During the last 30 years, Chic has given over 4500 presentations and has teamed up with talent ranging from Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey to Cirque du Soleil and Second City Improv.

Lindsay Gordon, the founder of A Life of Options, is a career coach for analytically minded people who are feeling uninspired or crushed by an ill-fitting job. Her programs allow you to step back from the stress of not knowing what to do next, reflect on who you are, where you’ve been and where you want to go, and emerge with a solid career plan you’re excited about. Lindsay started her career working as a recycled water engineer in Melbourne, Australia before landing at Google doing technical support for the Google Apps team. After 5 years of technical support, she transitioned into career development at Google before starting her own business. She loves applying her engineering brain to helping people find careers that fit, baking complicated pastries and barbershop singing. On this episode, Lindsay talks about how to choose a career that's right for you and also how she built her side hustle into a full-time business. The show notes for all episodes are at justgogrind.com/podcast

Natalia Kochan is a co-founder of Curensea, an online art community where you can publish your creative work as an artist, curate other's work, and tip artists and art curators in an ad-free environment. Natalia is an artist by passion and profession. Writing poems at an early age, later on she became a screenplay writer where she was able to travel and live overseas. While working and studying in China, she met her friend and co-founder, Sofi. Encouraged by the problems of artists in general, they started Curensea to help their fellow artists showcase their creations. On this episode, Natalia shares her journey as an entrepreneur and artist, and the struggles of launching and growing a business without any prior experience. The show notes are at: https://www.justgogrind.com/natalia-kochan-podcast/

Paul Loeb, founder of DropTrack and No Ego Records, has three passions in life - music, business, and technology - and he's incorporated all of them in the businesses he's created.  In this episode of Just Go Grind we discuss how Paul launched and grew these businesses as well as other ventures early on in his life. DropTrack helps record labels and artists promote their music and get feedback from global DJs, blogs, playlisters, radio, and industry contacts. No Ego Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, specializing in house and dubstep music. Their main business is music publishing, and they work with partners worldwide for synch and media licensing. Find the show notes for all episodes of Just Go Grind at justgogrind.com/podcast