Grit Daily Startup Show

Hosted by Phillip Lanos, Jordan French

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Jun 2026

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Grit Daily Startup Show podcast explores the world of entrepreneurship, founders, and CEOs to talk scaleups and startups, from conception and funding to exits. Interviews run across all industries, with entrepreneurs sharing their best decisions, mistakes to avoid, and wildest entrepreneurial stories. With single-guest entrepreneur and multi-guest formats.

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June 2, 202628 min

Pierre Aurimond Wants Flexmode to Make Networking Feel Human Again

Pierre Aurimond, founder and CEO of FlexMode, is building a sports-based community platform designed to help professionals connect in the real world. In this episode, he explains why traditional networking is losing relevance, how Miami's wellness culture inspired FlexMode, and why shared experiences create stronger connections than social apps ever could. The conversation explores entrepreneurship, community building, and the growing demand for meaningful offline interaction in a digital-first world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 18, 202639 min

Janese Murray Is Helping Women of Color Stop Waiting to Be Noticed at Work

Janese Murray, founder of Inclusion Impact Consulting, breaks down why performance alone is not always enough for women of color navigating corporate spaces. She explores executive presence, personal brand, mentorship, sponsorship, perfectionism, and the pressure to code-switch without losing oneself. This conversation offers a grounded look at how professionals can build influence, manage the internal critic, and move through work with more strategy and self-belief.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 18, 202632 min

How Brian Fielkow Built Companies Where Safety Became a Competitive Advantage

Brian Fielkow, author of Make Safety Happen, explains why safety is much bigger than compliance and why strong defenses often create stronger growth. Drawing from leadership roles in trucking, logistics, and risk-intensive industries, he shares how culture, trust, and operational discipline can become competitive advantages. The conversation explores everything from acquisitions and employee retention to AI's changing role in coaching and workforce engagement.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 5, 202633 min

Anthony Vinci on Turning Uncertainty Into Decisions With AI Forecasting

Anthony Vinci, CEO of Vico, joins the podcast to explain how AI-powered forecasting can quantify uncertainty and help people make better decisions. Drawing from his background in intelligence and investing, he shares how predicting probabilities—not certainties—can shape everything from global policy to everyday life choices.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 4, 202640 min

Sid Dobrin on Why Consumers Need to Slow Down in the Age of AI

Sid Dobrin joins the podcast to discuss his book The Not So Perfect Machine and why artificial intelligence is already shaping daily consumer life in ways most people never see. He explains how AI influences shopping, media, scams, pricing, trust, and decision-making, while offering practical ways people can regain control.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 4, 202653 min

Louis Bélanger-Martin on Building the Future of Flight Before Passengers Know They Want It

In this episode of the Grit Daily Startup Show, host Phillip Lanos sits down with Canadian-born aviation technology pioneer and global business executive, Louis Bélanger-Martin. As a seasoned entrepreneur who spends nearly six months of the year in the air, Louis shares his three-decade journey of transforming the commercial passenger experience. From co-founding DTI Software to eventually leading acquisitions that formed Global Eagle Entertainment—a $650 million integration of media and satellite services—Louis has consistently shaped how the world stays entertained at 40,000 feet.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 27, 202634 min

Luke McEndarfer Is Rebuilding the Future of Choral Music One Young Voice at a Time

In this episode, Luke McEndarfer, president and CEO of The National Children’s Chorus, shares how a childhood love of singing grew into leading one of the country’s major youth choral organizations. The conversation explores music education, access, leadership, classical music’s need for renewed public connection, and programs like Project Unison at Compton High School. McEndarfer also reflects on building a national nonprofit from its earliest stages and why music remains one of the most powerful ways to bring young people back to themselves and each other.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 13, 202622 min

The MC Leo and AurCore Approach, Revolutionizing Data Centers for AI

MC Leo explains why the future of AI depends on the infrastructure most people never see. He shares how AurCore is helping data centers and enterprises modernize their networking systems for speed, control, and scalability. This episode looks at the real bottlenecks in AI growth and why open infrastructure may be the key to solving them. Host: Phillip Lanos | philliplanos.com | Strategic Media & AI Operations LeadSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

March 25, 202634 min

Why Munawar Karim Keeps Returning to the World’s Hardest Problems

Munawar Karim has spent decades working at the edge of physics, aviation design, and global infrastructure, tackling problems most have long set aside. In this episode, his work spans from a breakthrough approach to electron stability to aircraft innovation and energy proposals shaped as much by politics as by engineering. It’s a conversation about persistence, big ideas, and what it takes to keep moving forward when the world isn’t ready to listen. Host: Phillip Lanos | philliplanos.com | Strategic Media & AI Operations LeadSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

March 18, 202633 min

Mark Entner Built PSQ Productions on Trust, Scale, and the Power of Shared Experience

In this episode, Phillip Lanos speaks with PSQ Productions founder Mark Entner about building a large-scale events business that operates at the intersection of public partnership, private execution, and community experience. Entner shares how PSQ Productions grew from entrepreneurial ambition into a major live-events operation, managing venues, festivals, and concerts while navigating trust, logistics, and city relationships. The conversation explores why successful events are ultimately about more than production, they are about creating places where people can gather, celebrate, and feel connected. Host: Phillip Lanos | philliplanos.com | Strategic Media & AI Operations LeadSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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