

We Live to Build
Sean Weisbrot
We Live to Build is the raw, no-fluff interview series for high-performance founders and CEOs who are scaling 5+ figure businesses and want to grow faster without burning out.Hosted by serial founder and angel investor Sean Weisbrot, each episode delivers tactical conversations with battle-tested operators, unpacking the mental models, systems, and automation strategies that drive sustainable success.If you're obsessed with scaling smart, optimizing for mental resilience, and building teams and products that don’t rely on your constant presence, these interviews were recorded for you.Expect honest talk about leadership, delegation, AI tools, cost reduction, psychology, and how to stop being the bottleneck in your business.We’re not here to inspire, we’re here to equip.Subscribe and upgrade how you build. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 28, 2022 • 1h 13min
Use webflow to develop your company website with Uros Mikic | WLTB Podcast #103
Uros Mikic is the Founder and CEO of Flow Ninja, a Serbian-based Webflow enterprise partner and development agency.00:00 - Introduction 02:40 - Why Webflow is Superior 08:16 - Transitioning from Wordpress to Webflow 11:25 - Fast-paced development with Webflow 15:25 - Webflow University and their hands-on community 18:12 - Is Webflow a no-code platform? 23:12 - Challenges of promoting Webflow 29:34 - Cost of building on Webflow 32:22 - Sean's idea to scale Webflow 36:15 - Helping your employees to grow 42:42 - Creating a Healthy Work Culture 52:23 - Benefits of Hiring More People 👀 Check out the company:https://flow.ninja✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 22, 2022 • 34min
Secure your company tech with Dr. Eduardo Rocha | WLTB Podcast #102
Dr. Eduardo Rocha is the Senior Sales Engineer and Security Analyst at GlobalDots, an independent cloud and performance optimization integration partner. 00:00 - Introduction 00:56 - GlobalDots 02:51 - What are Layer 7 attacks? 05:55 - What is a zero day exploit? 06:43 - What issues scare Dr. Rocha? 08:00 - Going Passwordless with Biometrics 11:36 - Using Blockchain for identity? 14:58 - How security breaches happen 15:36 - Pegasus scandal 17:01 - What’s exciting in cyber security? 18:09 - More about Log4j 19:30 - The threats of quantum computing 25:51 - How ready are we? 28:19 - A.I. in cyber security 32:22 - Follow up with Eduardo 👀 Check out the company:https://globaldots.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 7, 2022 • 45min
Stop group think in your startup with Dennis Lenard | WLTB Podcast #101
Dennis Lenard is the Managing Partner of Creative Navy, a design agency he as been running for 13.5 years which specializes in embedded GUI and web/mobile UX for the Medical, Marine, Industrial, and Automotive sectors. 00:00 - A little bit of update02:18 - Introduction05:37 - The hurdles when innovating08:02 - What is Group Think?15:16 - Building something scalable22:19 - How to avoid Group Thinking32:13 - Some ideas are just not good enough42:04 - Element of emotion44:00 - Follow up with Dennis👀 Check out the company:https://creativenavy.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 1, 2022 • 39min
Grow your $150M brand in 2 Years with Omri Shafran | WLTB Podcast #100
Omri Shafran is an Israeli serial entrepreneur based in the US who is currently the CEO of Texas Medical Technology, a company that produces personal protective equipment as well as physical machines that dispense the equipment safely. He’s also the CEO of iNitrile, the CEO of SureSpot, and owns and manages many different real estate properties. He’s also gone to Harvard Business school! 00:00 - Episode 100!01:58 - Introduction06:09 - How Omri started his PPE business12:03 - Innovation in the Medical Technology space16:01 - Is the public ready?18:26 - Patient advocate22:06 - How tech can help with healthcare25:06 - Building dispensers for PPE29:16 - Why Omri seeks data30:50 - Building a network around big companies33:37 - Building locally37:45 - Follow up with Omri👀 Check out the company:https://texasmedicaltechnology.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 24, 2022 • 39min
How to develop a group of companies with Irakli Litanishvili | WLTB Podcast #99
Irakli Litanishvili is the founder of the Aim of Emperor Group, which consists of 15 companies and over 250 employees across charter brokerage, international aircraft handling, aircraft/helicopter/yacht sales and acquisition, as well as travel and marketing divisions.00:00 - Introduction05:03 - How Irakli started his career06:02 - Private flights should be accessible to everyone09:16 - Opting to pay extra for private flights16:52 - How Irakli handles multiple companies20:57 - Learn how to cut your losses22:42 - Irakli’s process on funding new projects28:42 - Future of the aviation industry32:01 - Are we going to see electric planes?38:21 - Follow up with Irakli👀 Check out the company:https://miraipay.co✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 17, 2022 • 36min
Create strong employee partnerships with Ray Arata | WLTB Podcast #98
Ray Arata is the Co-Founder of the Better Man Movement based in San Francisco. His company helps organizations focus on going beyond establishing equity and equality between the men and women they employ by pursuing partnership that creates powerful synergies by leveraging the differing competencies of men and women. He’s recently written and published the book Showing Up: How Men Can Become Effective Allies in the Workplace.00:00 - Introduction04:31 - The majority and minority of men on equality07:00 - The older generation of men and their ideology10:08 - How Ray works with his clients12:47 - Being accused and knowing how to react16:24 - Abuse is experienced by all genders19:20 - Being vocal will help combatting the problems21:42 - Building a culture that is safe for everyone25:45 - How to handle groups that are still hesitant29:00 - Training your mind for change30:51 - Difference of male and female attitude and leadership32:45 - Important things that should be taught more35:15 - Follow up with Ray 👀 Check out the company:https://rayarata.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 10, 2022 • 40min
Become capable of change with Erika Andersen | WLTB Podcast #97
Erika Andersen is the founding partner of Proteus, a coaching, consulting, and training firm that she has been running for over 30 years. She is the author of Be Bad First, Leading So People Will Follow, Being Strategic, and Growing Great Employees, and the host of The Proteus Leader Show, a regular podcast on management and leadership. 00:00 - Introduction03:52 - Mindset shift about change08:08 - Being change capable16:50 - How travelling helps change your mindset21:56 - What makes Erika capable of guiding leaders22:51 - Propagating change mindset into the company33:56 - What might happen if you’re not good with change36:46 - Changing mindset is a lot of work but is possible39:10 - Follow up with Erika👀 Check out the company:https://proteus-international.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 3, 2022 • 40min
Your role as CEO will change over time with Rom Lakritz | WLTB Podcast #96
Rom Lakritz is the founder of Anchor, a platform that helps companies focus on being a business while they take care of your billing. He has founded multiple companies in different industries, raised tens of millions of dollars, and had very nice exits from several of the businesses. 00:00 - Introduction03:29 - Different stages of a company05:04 - How Anchor started06:40 - Going deeper into the idea stage10:31 - Customer discovery stage and pre-seed19:30 - Customer Validation Stage28:56 - Customer Creation Stage32:04 - How the role of the CEO evolves38:54 - Follow up with Rom👀 Check out the company:https://sayanchor.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 28, 2022 • 44min
Psychedelics will be legalized with Dr. Linda Strause | WLTB Podcast #95
Dr. Linda Strause, Ph.D has a doctorate in Neurophysiology and Biochemistry. She is currently the President of two companies and is using her talents to ensure the vision of creating synthetic psilocybin (PSLY.com) that can be used with therapy in Virtual Reality (EI.Ventures) comes to fruition. In this very interesting conversation, we discuss how the FDA works, how researchers conduct trials, how society is shifting it's attitude towards psychedelics, and why she believes in psilocybin (magic mushrooms) as a potential healer alongside therapy. 00:00 - Introduction04:57 - Why Linda chose to work in the psychedelic space07:52 - Is the psychedelic space going to take off soon?14:42 - What is the process before you can do clinical trial18:34 - How are they going to conduct testing in the future20:50 - Conventional medicine vs psychedelic treatment26:10 - Mushrooms are starting to get FDA approved28:16 - The benefits of microdosing31:30 - Our roots with hallucinogenic plants36:40 - Follow up with Dr. Linda37:22 - Food nutrition and its importance40:54 - Exercise and heathy diet work as a pair 👀 Check out the company:https://psly.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 20, 2022 • 36min
Save your planet with Yaron Ben Nun | WLTB Podcast #94
Yaron Ben Nun is the founder and CEO of Nostromo Energy, a publicly listed company in Israel that provides a unique energy storage system to commercial buildings based on freezing water. We talked about how he discovered his life's purpose was in clean tech, his journey in developing their product, and other opportunities in clean tech. 00:00 - Introduction05:48 - Breakouts on the clean tech space13:31 - Going public as a young company21:03 - Be visible and contribute positively for the common good25:48 - Investing on clean tech companies and innovations29:35 - Is it time to be optimistic or be realistic31:04 - Climate change is showing worse signs35:28 - Follow up with Yaron👀 Check out the company:https://nostromo.energy✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.