(Ep 0) START HERE -> What is The Founder?
Hi! I’m Kallaway and I created The Founder, a weekly podcast that features entrepreneurs and their early stories of ingenuity, struggle and perseverance to get their companies off the ground.
I try to go in-depth with founders in straight talk, uncensored conversations to understand their thoughts, feelings and actions behind the big decisions that influenced the direction of their startup.
Each episode features 4 main sections:
The Origin Story - Where did the initial idea come from and why was the problem space/market compelling?
The Build - What has/hasn’t worked in scaling the business?
The Founder - What are the biggest lessons learned to optimize focus, productivity, wellness and happiness?
The Brainstorm - Founders share 1-2 other business ideas that interest them and we riff on how they’d bring them to market.
My goal is to share tactical advice to aspiring founders as well as give consumers a peek behind the curtain of their favorite brands.
You may be thinking, but what makes this podcast different than alllllll the other podcasts out there?
Touché. Imagine if Joe Rogan, Guy Raz, Shaan Puri and Sam Parr had a baby and named it Kallaway 👶 (that’s me - Kallaway is my alter ego, rapper and now podcast alias). Then Kallaway (yikes to third person) made a podcast and called it The Founder.
As I’ve grown the podcast and release each weekly episode (~60 mins), I realize that not all of our listeners have time every single week to finish the whole show. I get lots of messages that people love listening but get discouraged when they fall behind. That’s no bueno.
So here I am, starting a newsletter to complement the podcast and try to solve that problem.
Not another newsletter Kallaway….
Yes, I’m afraid so…it’s another newsletter.
But this one will be different I hope!
In each edition of the newsletter, I plan to summarize my key learnings from that week’s podcast and write about one thing that got me thinking. It will be a bite-sized, 5-minute read on Tuesday mornings and will link to the full episode and any discount codes from the company.
It’d mean a lot to me if you signed up for this. Let’s be honest, if you’re like me, you love deleting the 40-60 company emails in your inbox to start each morning…it’s therapeutic in a way.
But what if, occasionally, you opened one and it actually brought you value? Call me crazy, but what if you learned something new? Or laughed? Would that be worth me saying please…👇
If you’ve already subscribed and you’re ready to start reading or want to circle back to the episode you were already on, click here.
Grateful for all the support ✌️
Kallaway