
Real Leaders Podcast
The Real Leaders Podcast is for leaders who want to do more with their influence. Each episode shares real, honest stories from CEOs and founders about how they built businesses that matter. No fluff — just the lessons, mistakes, and moves that helped them grow their impact. If you're serious about leading with purpose and leaving something meaningful behind, this podcast is for you.
Latest episodes

May 19, 2023 • 38min
Ep. 336 Cecile Moulard CEO at MixR
MixR is designed to help organizations build exceptional company cultures, and keep people connected, fulfilled & productive along the way.
MixR is built around the simple principle that when people are expected to achieve something together, it’s better when they know and trust each other. Their SaaS platform empowers employees to create vibrant communities around their interests and organize in-person community events. Countless studies show that deepened relationships and workplace friendships are powerful drivers of belonging & well-being at scale.
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May 17, 2023 • 53min
Ep. 335 - 4 Keys to Growth || Chris Sullens CEO at Central Reach
CentralReach provides a complete, end-to-end software and services platform that helps children and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) - and those who serve them - unlock potential, achieve better outcomes, and live more independent lives.
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May 15, 2023 • 17min
Ep. 334 Dr. Andrew Benedek CEO at Anaergia
Anaergia was created to eliminate a major source of greenhouse gases by cost effectively turning organic waste into renewable natural gas (biomethane), fertilizer and water. With a proven track record of delivering world-leading projects on four continents, Anaergia is uniquely positioned to provide end-to-end solutions for extracting organics from waste, implementing high efficiency anaerobic digestion, upgrading biogas, producing fertilizer and cleaning water. Their customers are in the municipal solid waste, municipal wastewater, agriculture, and food processing industries. In each of these markets Anaergia has built many successful plants including some of the largest in the world.
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May 12, 2023 • 25min
Ep. 333 Julie Davitz CEO at Plus Media Solutions
Plus Media is an impact agency offering a multi-sided software platform where content and calls to action seamlessly integrate. Founded in 2021 by Julie Davitz, Plus Media is an all female, public benefit corporation based in New York City.
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May 10, 2023 • 52min
Ep. 332 Elaine Rasmussen CEO of Social Impact Now!
Elaine is the CEO of Social Impact Now! Are you looking for ways to cultivate a strong, positive, and inclusive work culture? SIN's exclusive Cultural Assessment, utilizing their proprietary Situation Intake System (SIS) can help you gain clarity on your next most critical actions. SIS measures across 58 cultural dimensions that provide the insights needed for meaningful change with long-term effects.
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May 8, 2023 • 43min
Ep. 331 Tamara Loehr CEO of Beusail Academy
Beusail Academy helps $1M+ companies build in-house marketing capability to drive growth and reduce their dependency on agencies
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May 5, 2023 • 22min
Ep. 330 Rupesh Sanghavi CEO of Ergode
Ergode is passionately building brands, both D2C and digital first , partnering and acquiring businesses that are loved by global horizontal and vertical marketplaces. They not only take pride in our expertise to hyper-scale them but make them a truly global brand that is preferred by customers across all regions and boundaries in the digital space.
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May 4, 2023 • 49min
Ep. 332 Justin Kulla, Head of Impact & ESG at TZP Group
Justin is the Head of Impact & ESG at TZP Group. Founded in 2007, they are a private equity firm focused on investments in lower-middle market Technology & Business Services and Consumer Products & Services companies in the United States and Canada. They have raised $1.7 billion since inception across our firm.
TZP has three pillars of differentiation: acting as a Partner of Choice for entrepreneurial owners and management teams; managing the firm as a Company, Not a Deal Shop which makes them better owners and more effective operational advisors; and establishing the TZP Platform with proprietary, scaled capabilities and diverse strategies.
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May 3, 2023 • 29min
Ep. 329 Michael Shapiro CEO of TAPinto
The media industry is undergoing dramatic changes resulting in a growing void in local news coverage in thousands of communities across the United States. Meanwhile, more than $400 billion was spent on digital marketing in 2022. Local and regional businesses are looking to connect more deeply on the local level than ever before. TAPinto is helping to fill the void in local news by applying proprietary technology paired with a franchise business model to the local news space. TAPinto is also enabling local and regional businesses to meaningfully communicate with the residents of their town, improving customer loyalty and providing support for the small and medium-sized businesses that are integral to our communities.
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May 1, 2023 • 22min
Ep. 328 Matthew Guelke CEO of The Plant Cafe
The Plant Cafe's mission is to offer delicious, fresh wholesome dishes, freshly made juices, salads, sandwiches, soups, entrees and desserts…all organic and at affordable prices. Wherever possible, they rely on only the best quality local produce. In many cases, food has been growing only a day or two before it is served to their customers. When it is not available locally, they search the globe in their quest for the best organic, natural or artisan quality ingredients as reflected in their coffees, teas, and spirits.
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