
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

Apr 4, 2023 • 24min
Ep. 317 Margaret Coons, CEO at Nuts for Cheese
Delve into the journey of a CEO from vegetarian to vegan, challenges faced by vegans, promoting organic vegan products, impact in the food industry, company culture, leadership definition, importance of authenticity and perseverance in leadership

Apr 2, 2023 • 26min
Ep. 316 Maria Colacurcio, CEO at Syndio
Maria is the CEO of Syndio, a business leading the way in fair pay. Syndio is the only SaaS solution that offers companies a way to find pay issues based on race or gender (or any other category), fix those issues and stay in compliance over time. Although still an early stage startup, Syndio already has over 20 corporate customers including Match Group and Slack. Syndio is a distributed company with employees in New York, California and Washington.
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Mar 31, 2023 • 28min
Ep. 315 Pierre Vanderkelen, CEO at Fluitec
Pierre is the CEO of Fluitec. Fluitec is the innovator to Measure, Monitor, Decontaminate and Extend industrial fluids. Fluitec uses key technologies such as RULER, MPC, Boost AO, Boost VR, ESP, DECON, Stealth, Infinity Turbine Oils and more to transform Fluids into Assets! They’re a team of internationally recognized experts with a track record for delivering innovative solutions. Their expertise centers around increasing the reliability and profitability of manufacturing plants, rotating equipment and transportation industries. Fluitec's technologies also deliver environmental benefits to their customers. Fluitec provides high level, rapid return investments that allow their customers to merge economics with sustainability.
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Mar 29, 2023 • 24min
Ep. 314 Nicole Etchart, CEO at NESsT
Nicole is the CEO of NESsT. NESsT develops sustainable social enterprises that solve critical social problems in emerging market economies. They achieve their mission by providing financial capital, training and mentoring, and access to markets for a high-impact portfolio of social enterprises in emerging markets. They combine the tools and strategies of business leadership, entrepreneurship and investment with the mission and values of the social sector to enable our portfolio to: better plan, improve management capacity, grow, and increase their social impact.
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Mar 27, 2023 • 48min
Ep. 313 Sean Shea, President of Virtual Intelligence Briefings (ViB Tech)
Sean is the CEO of Virtual Intelligence Briefing. Their mission is to offer their community the professional development they seek and to offer their customers programs that drive awareness, improve lead generation, and deliver insights from market research. Their active global community of over 2 million professionals and decision makers makes them unique in the industry.
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Mar 25, 2023 • 37min
Ep. 312 Jonathan Quarles, Founder & CEO Quartz Water Source
Jonathan Quarles is the CEO of Quartz Water Source. Founded by Flint, Michigan natives inspired by the recent water crisis, Quartz provides clean water solutions of unprecedented quality and scale for those that need it the most. They are a ‘second line’ clean water solution, supplementing, not replacing, municipal water supply with Atmospheric Water Generation (AWG) technology.
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Mar 23, 2023 • 27min
Ep. 311 Jacob Pechenik CEO at Lettuce Grow
Jacob is the CEO of Lettuce Grow. They are on a mission to change the food system by empowering everyone to grow 20% of their own food at home. Their goal is to build a community of passionate growers deeply connected through good food and sustainable living.
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Mar 21, 2023 • 28min
Ep. 310 Gerhard Komenda CEO at Tree-Mendous
Gerhard is the CEO of Tree-Mendous, a Certified B Corporation. They design and build custom Aerial Attractions including Adventure Parks, Tree Houses, Zip Lines, Canopy Tours & Walks, Netted Attractions and more. They help get your business off the ground!
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Mar 19, 2023 • 25min
Ep. 309 Fran Benedito Co-founder & CEO at ClimateTrade
Fran is the CEO at Climate Trade. Climate Trade helps companies offset their carbon footprint and combat climate change in the most effective and economically efficient manner with their innovative digital solutions.
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Mar 17, 2023 • 26min
Ep. 308 Erik Zimmerman, CEO of Sitetech Solutions
Erik is the CEO at Sitetech Solutions. Sitetech is a leading provider of equipment in the construction industry. They keep worksites safe so workers can go home to their families safely each night. Sitetech operates on a scale that few others can match with more than 30 of Australia's top builders as customers and a reputation for quality and service, forged over a decade in the industry.
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