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07 Nov 2022F'ing Up Trailer00:05:56

This recording is a trailer for the upcoming podcast, F'ing Up. The host, Deanne Rhynard, shares what to expect from the show, how it came to be, and an example of the content through sharing her own personal experience. 

Episodes will be released on Wednesdays every other week beginning in late January 2023. 

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25 Jan 2023F'ing Up with Amy Wilkinson00:53:47

Some of us only dream of walking by individuals like Idris Elba, Kristen Bell, Kevin Bacon, Padma Lakshmi, and Selena Gomez. Amy Wilkinson sits down with celebrities like these regularly. 

Amy has built her career on interviewing some of the hottest names in Hollywood and sharing those experiences through major publications like MTV News, Entertainment Weekly, Women's Health, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Vulture, and Entrepreneur.

While Amy has this access and success, she’s experienced moments of F’ing Up through her career. Amy shares stories of financial instability and scarcity, being stuck at the grocery store where all cards were declined. Amy felt hardship, yet it was part of the journey that brought her to her success today.


About Amy Wilkinson:
Amy Wilkinson is a Brooklyn-based freelance editor and writer with more than 15 years of experience in the field. 

She predominantly covers entertainment—from TV and books to streaming and podcasts—and has had the opportunity to interview dozens of bold-faced names, including 

  • Idris Elba, 
  • Kristen Bell, 
  • Kevin Bacon, 
  • Padma Lakshmi, 
  • Sutton Foster, 
  • Selena Gomez, 
  • and more. 

Over the years, Amy has held positions at MTV News and Entertainment Weekly, and her work has appeared in publications such as Women's Health, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Vulture, and Entrepreneur. 

Amy holds a master's of science degree in journalism (MSJ) from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and she is also a comprehensively trained Pilates instructor.

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01 Feb 2023F'ing Up with Sharon Cao00:46:49

Sharon Cao is co-founder and COO of Happied. Though her company made the Techstars 2021 list, she was listed in Forbes’ Next 1000 list, and she wears a C-suite and founder title of a tech startup, Sharon acknowledges F’ing Up along her career journey. She shares experiences where struggled with self identity, not knowing how to do her job, and navigating personal relationships in the workplace. Sharon is not afraid to be raw and share that success is a journey not a check box.


About Sharon Cao:
Sharon Cao is Co-founder and COO of Happied. Sharon co-founded Happied, a company that powers events at the world’s best companies, following her journey in obtaining a degree in Systems Engineering at University of Virginia , working as a Business Analyst, and a 4-year stint at a DMV high-growth startup, Alarm.com. 

By nature, Sharon is a builder, explorer and connector who believes that meaningful experiences and strong communities are the keys to happiness. She draws from her experience in the tech world and strong execution skills to lead the Happied team to build their platform, which uses data to more efficiently and effectively curate exceptionally meaningful (and enjoyable) events. She is an expert at operations, getting sh*t done, and balancing work, life and 2 cats. 

She currently wears multiple hats and manages HR, Operations, Product, Fulfillment and Supply chain. The part she loves the most about startup life is fostering a healthy company culture within Happied and hiring amazing team members who are also energized by Happied's mission to better the future of work.


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15 Feb 2023F'ing Up with Scott Callender00:55:44

There’s hardly anyone with more coffee knowledge and expertise than Scott Callender. He spent his entire career falling in love with the thing that most people consume everyday. His appreciation took him to find a career building and innovating machines to achieve the best in-home coffee experience. Though he’s reached success in his career in coffee, it hasn't all been easy or straightforward. F’ing Up moments popped up all throughout his career and he managed through it just as so many of us have.


About Scott Callender:

Scott Callender, a Dayton, Ohio native and West Coast transplant, has built a career combining his passion for coffee, building businesses and developing innovative and creative brands. 


After moving to California in 2006 Scott spent six years exploring elements of roasting, brewing, and serving coffee with respected coffee professional, Andrew Barnett. 


Scott moved to Milan to earn his MBA at SDA Bocconi. He focused on entrepreneurial and marketing studies while fully immersing himself in Italian culture. He’s in love with Italy!


In 2013, Scott was able to combine his love for business, coffee, and Italian design by joining the La Marzocco team as Director of La Marzocco Home. During his tenure, Scott helped develop the Linea Mini home espresso machine and led the creation and launch of La Marzocco Home, a new branch of the organization that promotes education and products for residential use.


After a successful run with La Marzocco Home, Scott joined the commercial team at LaMarzocco and collaborated on the launch of the KB90 and developed the popular barista competition, Crush the Rush.


Today, Scott is the Senior Vice President of Business Development for Spinn, where he is creating a disruptive brand in the consumer coffee market that aims to improve coffee in every home in America through a connected espresso maker that utilizes centrifugal force to mimic any style of coffee from espresso to drip to cold brew.


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01 Mar 2023F'ing Up with Mary Hendricks00:39:05

Mary Hendricks is a Stay At Home Mom (SAHM) and Social Media Influencer, A Very Mary Life, shares her career journey which right now means being a 24/7 in-home child caretaker and manager. Mary addresses the reality of being misunderstood and not taken seriously by some. She highlights that Imposter Syndrome doesn’t discriminate whether you have an in-office job or a job raising humans. She keeps things raw with the hope of creating community and rebuilding the village that society has lost.


About Mary Hendricks:

Mary Hendricks is Stay At Home Mom and Social Media Influencer, you may have seen her on Instagram as A Very Mary Life.


Mary always knew she wanted to be a mom, and likely in-home caring for them, as seen by the excellent example her mother provided. Until she had her own children, Mary worked hard to create a career she was passionate about.


She spent time in pharmaceutical marketing, the startup world, she refurbished and sold furniture, and went on to become a personal trainer. 

 

When Mary became a mom, the responsibility of having a career as a personal trainer as well as caring for children wasn’t something in which she found balance in and thus she chose the thing that gave her the ultimate career satisfaction - being a full time stay at home mom. 


After her second child was born, in 2020, Mary struggled with postpartum depression. Along with COVID, it was beyond overwhelming. She turned to Instagram to live her life out loud and find kinship in a community she knew would be supportive and likely had experienced similar circumstances.


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15 Mar 2023F'ing Up with Matt Tucker00:51:02

Matt Tucker, Senior Vice President of Squarespace and the Head of Tock, has ridden the technology wave. He’s had a lot of success riding in the Tube, but he’s also been in the Impact Zone more than anyone would care to experience. Matt shares stories of choosing between his career and being more available for his family, becoming experienced at conducting employee RIFs, and wondering how his transportation business would survive immediately following the impacts of September 11. It should come to no surprise that even someone as successful as Matt has experiences of F’ing Up.


About Matt Tucker

Matthew Tucker is a Senior Vice President of Squarespace and the Head of Tock, a leading provider of online reservations, table management, takeout, and events solutions to the hospitality industry. 


Prior to Squarespace, Matt was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Olo, a SaaS provider to the restaurant industry. During his almost nine years at Olo, he helped grow the company from 10 employees and approximately $2mm in revenue to a 700 person company doing nearly $200mm in revenue. In March 2021, Matt helped lead Olo's successful public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. 


Immediately prior to Olo, Matt was the Chief Operating Officer of Prove.com, the leading provider of identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions. Prior to that, Matt was the Founder and CEO of Rely Software and on the founding team of LendingTree. 


He has a MBA from Georgetown University and a BA from the University of Michigan. Matt is on the Board of 7shifts and Vita Mojo.


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29 Mar 2023F'ing Up with Tori Horton00:45:21

From a sales associate at Ann Taylor to CEO of Reset Your Nest, Tori Horton shares her stories related to when we felt she was F’ing Up along her career journey. Tori opens up about experiences such as never successfully getting hired following submitting an application and how she got back on her feet while simultaneously ending a career and facing the end of a marriage.

About Tori Horton:

Tori Horton is a startup veteran with over 20 years of experience working to launch early-stage companies, some of which were funded by major venture capitalist firms, including Andreessen Horowitz, Northgate Capital, Lightspeed Venture, and more. 


In her early career, Tori was part of founding teams for the USC center on public diplomacy. Zest finance and ampersand. Where she focused on helping each program launch and find market fit by delivering positive brand experiences that improve customer engagement, whether it was for online gaming, FinTech or fandom communities. 


Tori went on to work at PayPal as a Senior Product Manager and was responsible for women's economic empowerment as a member of the Global Social Innovation team. 


Today, Tori is CEO of Reset Your Nest. In her role and through her outside passions, Tori focuses on revaluing the care economy, financially empowering women, and supporting families with limited time to become intentional about how they want to live.



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12 Apr 2023F'ing Up with Emily Ellis00:45:30

Emily Ellis has worked at many cool-kid tech companies such as Living Social, 2U, Social Code and Lyft. Despite the appeal of those popular names, Emily, like us all, experienced F’ing Up along the way. She shares many stories including being thrown into management, managing a team that needed more than she had by way of experience, and dealing with the emotional journey of infertility while aiming to build on her career success.

About Emily Ellis:

Emily Ellis is a People and Operations enthusiast, a Mom of two, and a resident of the DC-area, where she has lived and worked in various start-up settings for 10+ years. She is currently the Head of People at DriveWealth, an innovative FinTech firm - this position represents a major pivot in both role and industry, which Emily dove into after reflecting on previous experiences and passions.


Prior to DriveWealth and a focus of People and Talent, Emily worked primarily in Operations. She was most recently at Lyft, where she led Market Operations for the Mid-Atlanic and was the GM for Washington, DC. Prior to that she worked in AdTech, EdTech and in the then-boomed daily deal space. All of these roles and experiences - good and ‘bad’ -  led her to where she is today, and inform her decision making on a daily basis. 


In addition to ‘day jobs’, Emily co-founded an app, Posy Fertility, to support women and families navigating fertility struggles. Posy was created and designed to remove some of the stressors and complexities that often go hand-in-hand with fertility treatment. 


In addition to work, Emily loves to read, be outside, eat amazing meals and spend time with her adorable but crazy kids. She is passionate about advocating for causes she cares about, going out for overpriced coffees and cocktails, and making situationally-appropriate playlists. 




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26 Apr 2023F'ing Up with Everette Fortner00:41:40

Everette Fortner is a leader in the career management field, spending a bulk of his career at the University of Virginia both on the main and Darden campus. Prior to his career in the Education Sector he spent a great deal of his career in Consumer Packaged Goods, having a lot of fun including increasing Oreo brand presence in Asia and managing the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile program. Though his success is obvious, Everette faced many of the hurdles that we face in our careers: accepting jobs that weren’t the best fit, moving for opportunities while sacrificing family comforts, and ultimately, not being as strategic about career as one learns only later in life.


About Everette Fortner:

Everette Fortner is a leader in the career management field. Today he serves as a career coach for college students and young adults, specializing in helping young people discover their possibilities and pursue meaningful lives. 


Everette received a B.E. from Vanderbilt University School and a Masters in Business from Darden in. From there, Everette nearly two decades in consumer products marketing and general management with companies like Frito-Lay, Kraft, and Nabisco.


Following that period, Everette landed at the University of Virginia, more specifically the Darden school of business where he served Executive Director of the Career Development Center and Executive Director of External Relations. 


Evertte contributed 19 years, and counting, of his career to the University of Virginia. Most recently he served as the Associate Vice President of Career and Professional Development and still serves as adjunct faculty member at UVA Darden Graduate School of Business. 


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10 May 2023F'ing Up with Christy Johnson01:02:38

Christy Johnson is an award winning educator and deeply experienced strategist, owning and operating her own firm. One interaction with her and you are immediately impressed by both her intellect and immense kindness. She is impossible not to like, her care for others speeps out and it’s no wonder she’s so accomplished. All that said, she’s had struggles and F’ing Up moments in her career. She doesn’t shy away from sharing about those experiences and knowing she’s come out better for them.


About Christy Johnson:

Christy Johnson is an entrepreneur, intrapreneur and educator. She is currently building her fourth start-up, Artemis Connection and facilitating courses at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also is adjunct faculty at the University of Washington where she teaches entrepreneurship and has built a women in entrepreneurial leadership program. Ultimately, she believes people are an organization’s most important asset and by having a diverse workforce, organizations will have the most innovative solutions and best strategies.  She has seven years of experience working in corporate strategy, including 3 ½ years at McKinsey & Co. Before this, Christy was an award-winning economics and mathematics teacher. In 2005, Junior Achievement recognized Christy as its National Teacher of the Year.  

Recently Christy successfully led the following efforts:

  • Served on McKinsey’s “Women Matter” and “Centered Leadership” research team. Synthesized findings and led leadership teams for women in the United States and Europe
  • Created a talent acquisition and development program for a $24B conglomerate that resulted in bringing in new, young leaders for a Silicon Valley company; resulted in strategic partnerships with top universities
  • Was VP at Flextronics, a $24B manufacturing company where she led a corporate strategy team’s turn around in order to yield more innovative strategies and pilot new initiatives
  • Held the VP role at a Warburg Pincus-backed company where she developed and piloted a sales strategy for a new segment and redesigned operations
  • Recently, Business Insider recognized Christy as a power player in consulting. 

Christy holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business with a certificate in public management. She led the personal side of leadership club, was involved with the center for social innovation and co-led the student admissions committee. She also has a Master’s in Education from Stanford’s School of Education. Her undergraduate degree is in Economics from Western Washington University. Christy resides in Mukilteo, Washington with her husband, daughter and her twin boys. 




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24 May 2023F'ing Up with Sarah Moses00:33:20

Sarah Moses rose to success quickly. She is in her dream job, at a dream company, working in partnership with an amazing CEO. However, Sarah nearly threw the opportunity in the garbage can when she first declined the opportunity. Listen to learn more about Sarah’s journey. 


About Sarah Moses:

Sarah Moses is the Chief Operating Officer at Prefect, a global leader in Dataflow Automation. Sarah oversees finance, operations, legal, and HR functions. She is responsible for scaling the organization from 10 to 80+ employees, in addition to instilling the company’s remote-first culture. 


Prior to Prefect, Sarah worked at ICONIQ Capital, as a de facto Chief of Staff for tech’s most prominent founders. 


Sarah graduated in 2013 from Colgate University with a B.S. in Political Science. 


While not working, Sarah rock climbs across the country.



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07 Jun 2023F'ing Up with Chris Efthymiou01:00:20

Chris Efthymiou is a successful business leader founding companies and rising up the way through insurance and tech. Despite the success, he fought uphill to find confidence in his career. Being introverted, nervous to speak in front of others and suffering from self-titled, RAPS (right arm perspiration syndrome) gave him plenty to overcome all while trying to take NYC by storm and encountering the effects of 9-11. 


About Chris Efthymiou

Chris Efthymiou has been a Founder, Co-Founder, and business leader over the past 27 years of various disruptive health insurance technology & brokerage companies. He was fortunate to have spent his early years at Oxford Health Plans in sales and account management and then served on the start-up teams at JPMorgan IBAS, HealthPlanOne, HealthInsuanceGeeks, and Navinsure. He’s served on the board of advisors and as an investor to disruptive technology companies including Maxwell Health, GoCo, Lively, Justworks, Foundershield, HireAthena, and Scalus. Chris has made and been a part of a few successful acquisitions and recapitalizations including HealthPlanOne’s many years ago, and most recently with the sale of Navinsure to Acrisure. Today Navinsure is a growth engine for Acrisure which is a top 6 Global Financial Servies & Technology company.

Chris is fortunate to have a wife of 27 years, Erika, and 4 kids ranging in ages from late teens to mid-twenties. When has spare time he spends it doing activities with his close knit family, including snowboarding, playing golf and tennis, and running around the beach.

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21 Jun 2023F'ing Up with Amy Wilkinson - Season 1 Relaunch00:54:32

Season 1, Episode 1 with Amy Wilkinson was originally released on January 24, 2023.

Some of us only dream of walking by individuals like Idris Elba, Kristen Bell, Kevin Bacon, Padma Lakshmi, and Selena Gomez. Amy Wilkinson sits down with celebrities like these regularly. 

Amy has built her career on interviewing some of the hottest names in Hollywood and sharing those experiences through major publications like MTV News, Entertainment Weekly, Women's Health, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Vulture, and Entrepreneur.

While Amy has this access and success, she’s experienced moments of F’ing Up through her career. Amy shares stories of financial instability and scarcity, being stuck at the grocery store where all cards were declined. Amy felt hardship, yet it was part of the journey that brought her to her success today.


About Amy Wilkinson:
Amy Wilkinson is a Brooklyn-based freelance editor and writer with more than 15 years of experience in the field. 

She predominantly covers entertainment—from TV and books to streaming and podcasts—and has had the opportunity to interview dozens of bold-faced names, including 

  • Idris Elba, 
  • Kristen Bell, 
  • Kevin Bacon, 
  • Padma Lakshmi, 
  • Sutton Foster, 
  • Selena Gomez, 
  • and more. 

Over the years, Amy has held positions at MTV News and Entertainment Weekly, and her work has appeared in publications such as Women's Health, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Vulture, and Entrepreneur. 

Amy holds a master's of science degree in journalism (MSJ) from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and she is also a comprehensively trained Pilates instructor.

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28 Jun 2023F'ing Up with Sharon Cao - Season 1 Relaunch00:47:47

Season 1, Episode 2 with Sharon Cao was originally released on February 1, 2023.


Sharon Cao is co-founder and COO of Happied. Though her company made the Techstars 2021 list, she was listed in Forbes’ Next 1000 list, and she wears a C-suite and founder title of a tech startup, Sharon acknowledges F’ing Up along her career journey. She shares experiences where struggled with self identity, not knowing how to do her job, and navigating personal relationships in the workplace. Sharon is not afraid to be raw and share that success is a journey not a check box.


About Sharon Cao:
Sharon Cao is Co-founder and COO of Happied. Sharon co-founded Happied, a company that powers events at the world’s best companies, following her journey in obtaining a degree in Systems Engineering at University of Virginia , working as a Business Analyst, and a 4-year stint at a DMV high-growth startup, Alarm.com. 

By nature, Sharon is a builder, explorer and connector who believes that meaningful experiences and strong communities are the keys to happiness. She draws from her experience in the tech world and strong execution skills to lead the Happied team to build their platform, which uses data to more efficiently and effectively curate exceptionally meaningful (and enjoyable) events. She is an expert at operations, getting sh*t done, and balancing work, life and 2 cats. 

She currently wears multiple hats and manages HR, Operations, Product, Fulfillment and Supply chain. The part she loves the most about startup life is fostering a healthy company culture within Happied and hiring amazing team members who are also energized by Happied's mission to better the future of work.


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12 Jul 2023F'ing Up with Scott Callender - Season 1 Relaunch00:56:26

Season 1, Episode 3 with Scott Callender was originally released on February 15, 2023.


There’s hardly anyone with more coffee knowledge and expertise than Scott Callender. He spent his entire career falling in love with the thing that most people consume everyday. His appreciation took him to find a career building and innovating machines to achieve the best in-home coffee experience. Though he’s reached success in his career in coffee, it hasn't all been easy or straightforward. F’ing Up moments popped up all throughout his career and he managed through it just as so many of us have.


About Scott Callender:

Scott Callender, a Dayton, Ohio native and West Coast transplant, has built a career combining his passion for coffee, building businesses and developing innovative and creative brands. 


After moving to California in 2006 Scott spent six years exploring elements of roasting, brewing, and serving coffee with respected coffee professional, Andrew Barnett. 


Scott moved to Milan to earn his MBA at SDA Bocconi. He focused on entrepreneurial and marketing studies while fully immersing himself in Italian culture. He’s in love with Italy!


In 2013, Scott was able to combine his love for business, coffee, and Italian design by joining the La Marzocco team as Director of La Marzocco Home. During his tenure, Scott helped develop the Linea Mini home espresso machine and led the creation and launch of La Marzocco Home, a new branch of the organization that promotes education and products for residential use.


After a successful run with La Marzocco Home, Scott joined the commercial team at LaMarzocco and collaborated on the launch of the KB90 and developed the popular barista competition, Crush the Rush.


Today, Scott is the Senior Vice President of Business Development for Spinn, where he is creating a disruptive brand in the consumer coffee market that aims to improve coffee in every home in America through a connected espresso maker that utilizes centrifugal force to mimic any style of coffee from espresso to drip to cold brew.



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19 Jul 2023F'ing Up with Mary Hendricks - Season 1 Relaunch00:39:33

Season 1, Episode 4 with Mary Hendricks was originally released on March 1, 2023.


Mary Hendricks is a Stay At Home Mom (SAHM) and Social Media Influencer, A Very Mary Life, shares her career journey which right now means being a 24/7 in-home child caretaker and manager. Mary addresses the reality of being misunderstood and not taken seriously by some. She highlights that Imposter Syndrome doesn’t discriminate whether you have an in-office job or a job raising humans. She keeps things raw with the hope of creating community and rebuilding the village that society has lost.


About Mary Hendricks:

Mary Hendricks is Stay At Home Mom and Social Media Influencer, you may have seen her on Instagram as A Very Mary Life.


Mary always knew she wanted to be a mom, and likely in-home caring for them, as seen by the excellent example her mother provided. Until she had her own children, Mary worked hard to create a career she was passionate about.


She spent time in pharmaceutical marketing, the startup world, she refurbished and sold furniture, and went on to become a personal trainer. 

 

When Mary became a mom, the responsibility of having a career as a personal trainer as well as caring for children wasn’t something in which she found balance in and thus she chose the thing that gave her the ultimate career satisfaction - being a full time stay at home mom. 


After her second child was born, in 2020, Mary struggled with postpartum depression. Along with COVID, it was beyond overwhelming. She turned to Instagram to live her life out loud and find kinship in a community she knew would be supportive and likely had experienced similar circumstances.

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26 Jul 2023F'ing Up with Matt Tucker - Season 1 Relaunch00:51:46

Season 1, Episode 5 with Matt Tucker was originally released on March 15, 2023.


Matt Tucker, Senior Vice President of Squarespace and the Head of Tock, has ridden the technology wave. He’s had a lot of success riding in the Tube, but he’s also been in the Impact Zone more than anyone would care to experience. Matt shares stories of choosing between his career and being more available for his family, becoming experienced at conducting employee RIFs, and wondering how his transportation business would survive immediately following the impacts of September 11. It should come to no surprise that even someone as successful as Matt has experiences of F’ing Up.


About Matt Tucker

Matthew Tucker is a Senior Vice President of Squarespace and the Head of Tock, a leading provider of online reservations, table management, takeout, and events solutions to the hospitality industry. 


Prior to Squarespace, Matt was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Olo, a SaaS provider to the restaurant industry. During his almost nine years at Olo, he helped grow the company from 10 employees and approximately $2mm in revenue to a 700 person company doing nearly $200mm in revenue. In March 2021, Matt helped lead Olo's successful public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. 


Immediately prior to Olo, Matt was the Chief Operating Officer of Prove.com, the leading provider of identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions. Prior to that, Matt was the Founder and CEO of Rely Software and on the founding team of LendingTree. 


He has a MBA from Georgetown University and a BA from the University of Michigan. Matt is on the Board of 7shifts and Vita Mojo.


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02 Aug 2023F'ing Up with Tori Horton - Season 1 Relaunch00:45:54

Season 1, Episode 6 with Tori Horton was originally released on March 29, 2023.


From a sales associate at Ann Taylor to CEO of Reset Your Nest, Tori Horton shares her stories related to when we felt she was F’ing Up along her career journey. Tori opens up about experiences such as never successfully getting hired following submitting an application and how she got back on her feet while simultaneously ending a career and facing the end of a marriage.

About Tori Horton:

Tori Horton is a startup veteran with over 20 years of experience working to launch early-stage companies, some of which were funded by major venture capitalist firms, including Andreessen Horowitz, Northgate Capital, Lightspeed Venture, and more. 


In her early career, Tori was part of founding teams for the USC center on public diplomacy. Zest finance and ampersand. Where she focused on helping each program launch and find market fit by delivering positive brand experiences that improve customer engagement, whether it was for online gaming, FinTech or fandom communities. 


Tori went on to work at PayPal as a Senior Product Manager and was responsible for women's economic empowerment as a member of the Global Social Innovation team. 


Today, Tori is CEO of Reset Your Nest. In her role and through her outside passions, Tori focuses on revaluing the care economy, financially empowering women, and supporting families with limited time to become intentional about how they want to live.

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09 Aug 2023F'ing Up with Emily Ellis - Season 1 Relaunch00:46:07

Season 1, Episode 7 with Emily Ellis was originally released on April 12, 2023.



Emily Ellis has worked at many cool-kid tech companies such as Living Social, 2U, Social Code and Lyft. Despite the appeal of those popular names, Emily, like us all, experienced F’ing Up along the way. She shares many stories including being thrown into management, managing a team that needed more than she had by way of experience, and dealing with the emotional journey of infertility while aiming to build on her career success.

About Emily Ellis:

Emily Ellis is a People and Operations enthusiast, a Mom of two, and a resident of the DC-area, where she has lived and worked in various start-up settings for 10+ years. She is currently the Head of People at DriveWealth, an innovative FinTech firm - this position represents a major pivot in both role and industry, which Emily dove into after reflecting on previous experiences and passions.


Prior to DriveWealth and a focus of People and Talent, Emily worked primarily in Operations. She was most recently at Lyft, where she led Market Operations for the Mid-Atlanic and was the GM for Washington, DC. Prior to that she worked in AdTech, EdTech and in the then-boomed daily deal space. All of these roles and experiences - good and ‘bad’ -  led her to where she is today, and inform her decision making on a daily basis. 


In addition to ‘day jobs’, Emily co-founded an app, Posy Fertility, to support women and families navigating fertility struggles. Posy was created and designed to remove some of the stressors and complexities that often go hand-in-hand with fertility treatment. 


In addition to work, Emily loves to read, be outside, eat amazing meals and spend time with her adorable but crazy kids. She is passionate about advocating for causes she cares about, going out for overpriced coffees and cocktails, and making situationally-appropriate playlists. 

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16 Aug 2023F'ing Up with Everette Fortner - Season 1 Relaunch00:42:37

Season 1, Episode 8 with Everette Fortner was originally released on April 26, 2023.


Everette Fortner is a leader in the career management field, spending a bulk of his career at the University of Virginia both on the main and Darden campus. Prior to his career in the Education Sector he spent a great deal of his career in Consumer Packaged Goods, having a lot of fun including increasing Oreo brand presence in Asia and managing the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile program. Though his success is obvious, Everette faced many of the hurdles that we face in our careers: accepting jobs that weren’t the best fit, moving for opportunities while sacrificing family comforts, and ultimately, not being as strategic about career as one learns only later in life.


About Everette Fortner:

Everette Fortner is a leader in the career management field. Today he serves as a career coach for college students and young adults, specializing in helping young people discover their possibilities and pursue meaningful lives. 


Everette received a B.E. from Vanderbilt University School and a Masters in Business from Darden in. From there, Everette nearly two decades in consumer products marketing and general management with companies like Frito-Lay, Kraft, and Nabisco.


Following that period, Everette landed at the University of Virginia, more specifically the Darden school of business where he served Executive Director of the Career Development Center and Executive Director of External Relations. 


Everette contributed 19 years, and counting, of his career to the University of Virginia. Most recently he served as the Associate Vice President of Career and Professional Development and still serves as adjunct faculty member at UVA Darden Graduate School of Business. 

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23 Aug 2023F'ing Up with Christy Johnson - Season 1 Relaunch01:03:37

Season 1, Episode 9 with Christy Johnson was originally released on May 10, 2023.


Christy Johnson is an award winning educator and deeply experienced strategist, owning and operating her own firm. One interaction with her and you are immediately impressed by both her intellect and immense kindness. She is impossible not to like, her care for others speeps out and it’s no wonder she’s so accomplished. All that said, she’s had struggles and F’ing Up moments in her career. She doesn’t shy away from sharing about those experiences and knowing she’s come out better for them.


About Christy Johnson:

Christy Johnson is an entrepreneur, intrapreneur and educator. She is currently building her fourth start-up, Artemis Connection and facilitating courses at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also is adjunct faculty at the University of Washington where she teaches entrepreneurship and has built a women in entrepreneurial leadership program. Ultimately, she believes people are an organization’s most important asset and by having a diverse workforce, organizations will have the most innovative solutions and best strategies.  She has seven years of experience working in corporate strategy, including 3 ½ years at McKinsey & Co. Before this, Christy was an award-winning economics and mathematics teacher. In 2005, Junior Achievement recognized Christy as its National Teacher of the Year.  

Recently Christy successfully led the following efforts:

  • Served on McKinsey’s “Women Matter” and “Centered Leadership” research team. Synthesized findings and led leadership teams for women in the United States and Europe
  • Created a talent acquisition and development program for a $24B conglomerate that resulted in bringing in new, young leaders for a Silicon Valley company; resulted in strategic partnerships with top universities
  • Was VP at Flextronics, a $24B manufacturing company where she led a corporate strategy team’s turn around in order to yield more innovative strategies and pilot new initiatives
  • Held the VP role at a Warburg Pincus-backed company where she developed and piloted a sales strategy for a new segment and redesigned operations
  • Recently, Business Insider recognized Christy as a power player in consulting. 

Christy holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business with a certificate in public management. She led the personal side of leadership club, was involved with the center for social innovation and co-led the student admissions committee. She also has a Master’s in Education from Stanford’s School of Education. Her undergraduate degree is in Economics from Western Washington University. Christy resides in Mukilteo, Washington with her husband, daughter and her twin boys. 

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30 Aug 2023F'ing Up with Sarah Moses - Season 1 Relaunch00:34:01

Season 1, Episode 10 with Sarah Moses was originally released on May 24, 2023.



Sarah Moses rose to success quickly. She is in her dream job, at a dream company, working in partnership with an amazing CEO. However, Sarah nearly threw the opportunity in the garbage can when she first declined the opportunity. Listen to learn more about Sarah’s journey.


About Sarah Moses:

Sarah Moses is the Chief Operating Officer at Prefect, a global leader in Dataflow Automation. Sarah oversees finance, operations, legal, and HR functions. She is responsible for scaling the organization from 10 to 80+ employees, in addition to instilling the company’s remote-first culture. 

Prior to Prefect, Sarah worked at ICONIQ Capital, as a de facto Chief of Staff for tech’s most prominent founders. 

Sarah graduated in 2013 from Colgate University with a B.S. in Political Science. 

While not working, Sarah rock climbs across the country.


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06 Sep 2023F'ing Up with Chris Efthymiou - Season 1 Relaunch01:01:01

Season 1, Episode 11 with Chris Efthymiou was originally released on June 7, 2023.



Chris Efthymiou is a successful business leader founding companies and rising up the way through insurance and tech. Despite the success, he fought uphill to find confidence in his career. Being introverted, nervous to speak in front of others and suffering from self-titled, RAPS (right arm perspiration syndrome) gave him plenty to overcome all while trying to take NYC by storm and encountering the effects of 9-11. 


About Chris Efthymiou

Chris Efthymiou has been a Founder, Co-Founder, and business leader over the past 27 years of various disruptive health insurance technology & brokerage companies. He was fortunate to have spent his early years at Oxford Health Plans in sales and account management and then served on the start-up teams at JPMorgan IBAS, HealthPlanOne, HealthInsuanceGeeks, and Navinsure. He’s served on the board of advisors and as an investor to disruptive technology companies including Maxwell Health, GoCo, Lively, Justworks, Foundershield, HireAthena, and Scalus. Chris has made and been a part of a few successful acquisitions and recapitalizations including HealthPlanOne’s many years ago, and most recently with the sale of Navinsure to Acrisure. Today Navinsure is a growth engine for Acrisure which is a top 6 Global Financial Servies & Technology company.

Chris is fortunate to have a wife of 27 years, Erika, and 4 kids ranging in ages from late teens to mid-twenties. When has spare time he spends it doing activities with his close knit family, including snowboarding, playing golf and tennis, and running around the beach.

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12 Sep 2023F'ing Up Season 2 Trailer00:02:36

This recording is a trailer for the second season of the F'ing Up Podcast. The host, Deanne Rhynard, shares what to expect from the show this season. 

Episodes will be released on Wednesdays every other week beginning on September 20, 2023.


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20 Sep 2023F'ing Up with Sarah Haggard - S2 E101:13:05

Sarah Haggard is Founder and CEO at Tribute. Though she has a track record of success, it’s been layered with personal complications along the way including assisting a parental figure through substance abuse struggles. Sarah took on the role of adult at a young age which she later discovered stunted her in many ways when it came to actually growing up and then having to navigate the workforce.



About Sarah Haggard

Sarah is an impact-driven entrepreneur focused on increasing access to education and economic opportunity. Prior to founding Tribute, Sarah spent over a decade working in Product at Microsoft where she spent her career as an intrapreneur successfully launching unicorn businesses at one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world. When not working, Sarah enjoys reading a great book, entertaining friends, and family, and sailing the Puget Sound with her husband and two sons.


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04 Oct 2023F'ing Up with Katy McFe - S2 E201:03:05

Katy McFee is the Founder and CEO of Insights to Action Coaching & Consulting. She spends time helping women become executives and thrive as senior leaders. Katy, in her own journey, struggled to get to the top tier of leadership. It seemed no matter how successful and results driven she was, that top layer was constantly just out of reach. Katy shares honestly about her experience and how she overcame the hurdles, ultimately becoming an ally to others who experience the same struggle(s).



About Katy McFee

Katy McFee is passionate about empowering women and helping to close the gender gap in senior leadership. 

As the Founder and Principal at Insights to Action Coaching and Consulting, she works with women to break through to executive leadership and become the successful and impactful executives they desire. 

Prior to this, Katy spent 18 years working in sales and leadership,holding senior leadership positions in Sales within the SaaS / Tech space. 

After becoming a successful executive, Katy saw that, like her, many others struggle with the transition to senior leadership and there are very few resources to help. She left her corporate role to launch Insights to Action, with the mission of helping other women make the successful leap into senior leadership and show up as the leaders they want to be, all without burning out. 




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18 Oct 2023F'ing Up with Toni Dada - S2 E300:55:17

Toni Dada witnessed the benefits of a career in consulting and immediately knew that’s what she would want to pursue. Toni worked tirelessly to combat “new girl” experiences and health challenges and rose to start her own successful growth and innovation studio. 



About Toni Dada

Toni Dada, is the founder of Enterscale, a growth and innovation studio that supports founders with strategy and growth execution.  

Toni is a data enthusiast and commercial leader with diverse experience. She started her career in management consulting and moved into shaping commercial strategies for brands in finance, retail, technology, media, and telecoms.

Her expertise has led her to support founders iterating towards product-market fit and work with marketing & product teams at scale-ups such as Flutterwave, Kuda, and Wicrypt. Toni holds a Bachelor's in Marketing from Babcock University and a Master's in Marketing and Strategy from Warwick Business School. She is also a PRINCE2 Practitioner and a Mixpanel implementation consultant.

In addition to her professional pursuits, Toni is passionate about supporting NGOs, particularly those focused on empowering and educating African girls.



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01 Nov 2023F'ing Up with Wen Hsu - S2 E401:06:15

About Wen Hsu

As an immigrant woman who spent 15+ years in the engineering leadership role in the tech industry, Wen Hsu knows intimately the challenge that immigrant women experience. She lost herself in the quest of climbing the corporate ladder, felt the need to show up in a certain way to gain the recognition she deserved, exhausted from the constant need to prove herself. As she continued advancing in her career, she felt a part of her being rejected and unfulfilled.

That’s why she turned inward to rediscover her authentic self, challenge the norms, and craft her own career path! Wen is now the best selling author of Inspiring Women Professionals Who BossUp, Founder of Wen Coaching.

Now, as a career and leadership coach, Wen is on a mission to empower other immigrant women leaders to be more confident, influential, and strategic in shattering the career ceiling as they let go of the cultural conditioning. As a result, these women get better titles, higher pay, and more importantly, a more fulfilling life!




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15 Nov 2023F'ing Up with Tessa Wolf - S2 E501:13:06

Tessa Wolf spent the first several years of her career unhappy in her work. She had the drive to make something special of her career yet, she couldn’t seem to land somewhere in a role that matched her. Desperate to find her footing, she found herself in startups and felt seen for the first time in her career. She gave everything to her work and ultimately risked her health by not understanding the importance of healthy boundaries.  


About Tessa Wolf

Tessa Wolf is a creative brand and merchandising leader. As the first employee at Framebridge, Tessa built the company's brand, merchandising strategy and assortment, site experience, and omnichannel retail programs. She developed and honed all consumer-facing touchpoints and recruited and grew teams to support them, incubating and scaling functions from single-person operations to 100+. 

With a total of seventeen years of design skill set development and leadership in in-house Creative, Marketing, Merchandising / Product Development, and Sales Strategy functions, Tessa's zone of genius sits in the strategic space between art and science.

Tessa is currently renovating her third house, a mid-century gem in the woods of Durham, North Carolina. She splits her time between there and The Wolf Academy, the 1803 schoolhouse she restored on Maryland's Eastern Shore.





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29 Nov 2023F'ing Up with Alex Poon - S2 E601:02:05

Alex Poon immigrated to the US during a pivotal time in his life, just in time for 8th grade. He encountered numerous challenges such as not knowing English, navigating cultural norms, and looking around and not seeing examples of himself. Alex pushed himself to work hard and overcome obstacles, but found himself struggling with the desire to always want more and finding it hard to be satiated. 


About Alex Poon

Alex Poon is a three-time VC-backed founder. Most recently he co-founded  CharmVerse, a web3 community operations platform. In the last 10 years, he co-founded AI startups x.ai and Visual Revenue, which were both acquired. 

Earlier in his career, Alex built software for unmanned aerial vehicles. 

Alex received his MBA from Columbia Business School. He also holds an MS and BS degree in Electrical Engineering. 

Alex is an organizational design nerd, constantly experimenting with new ways to power the future of work.




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13 Dec 2023F'ing Up with Rebekah Bastian - S2 E700:47:08

Rebekah Bastian's resume is impressive. She worked for companies like Microsoft and Zillow and authored a book, Blaze Your Own Trail, which led to her starting her own company, OwnTrail. Despite positive traction with OwnTrail, Rebekah was met with a challenging feat of raising capital in order to continue to grow OwnTrail. Ultimately, the raise was unsuccessful and she turned to finding a company to acquire OwnTrail, which meant Rebekah would no longer serve as CEO. Rebekah shares vulnerability about that experience as well as all the “No’s” she experienced throughout her career.


About Rebekah Bastian

Rebekah Bastian is a product leader, entrepreneur, writer and artist. She is currently SVP of product at Glowforge, helping people make amazing creations with 3D laser printers. Prior to that she founded social timeline platform, OwnTrail, which was acquired by Teal, and spent 15 years at Zillow, with roles including VP of Product and VP of Community & Culture.

Rebekah wrote the award-winning book, Blaze Your Own Trail and is a Forbes contributor. She serves on the board of Bellwether Housing, founded the AuthenTech and The Time is DAO communities, and is an investor and advisor to technology startups. She has been recognized in the Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40, the Inman 33 People Changing the Real Estate Industry and the Female Founders Alliance Champion Awards. Rebekah earned her Masters of Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.

You can view Rebekah Bastian’s Own Trail here.





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03 Jan 2024F'ing Up with Liam Darmody - S2 E800:58:00

Liam Darmody is the kind of employee you want on your team. He’s driven, passionate, and has an appetite to learn. Despite this, Liam has experienced some unexpected twists and turns in his career journey that will take you by surprise. Listeners will be relieved to hear just how normal he is and how he, too, has experienced trials and tribulations in the workplace.



About Liam Darmody

After nearly two decades scaling operations at startup and mid-market technology companies, Liam Darmody jumped head first into entrepreneurship by founding Liam's Brand Stand, a consultancy through which he helps founders & leaders build magnetic personal brands that attract clients, talent, and opportunity on Linkedin. 

Prior to hanging his own shingle, Liam held leadership positions such as 

  • Director of Employer Branding & Talent Marketing at WillowTree (acquired for $1.2B by Telus International), 
  • Director of Revenue Operations at Homesnap (acquired by CoStar Group for $250M), 
  • Director of Customer Experience & Product Operations at AddThis (acquired by Oracle for $300M), 
  • Market Manager at Getaround and Hired, 
  • Director of Sales Planning and Enablement at LivingSocial, where he was the 20th employee, 
  • Operations Manager at Revolution Health Group, and 
  • Recruiter at Ettain Group (his first job out of college), and waiter at Chef Geoff's during college (he swears everyone interested in business should wait tables in their lifetime at some point). 

In his free time, Liam can be found smoking bbq low n' slow, collecting craft hot sauce for his collection, and geeking out over the latest innovations in technology. 

He resides just outside of Raleigh, NC with his wife, Megan, and two kids. 


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17 Jan 2024F'ing Up with Carly DeFilippo - S2 E900:56:56

Carly DeFilippo has spent her career supporting companies through copywriting, marketing and brand strategy. Though she was fortunate enough to work for household names, Carly spent periods in her career where she felt stuck, not doing what she truly enjoyed, in unsupportive cultures.


About Carly DeFilippo

Carly DeFilippo is the co-founder of Cognoscenti Creative, a Denver-based branding and creative studio. Her career has spanned the fields of copywriting, marketing and brand strategy, with a particular focus on the food and hospitality sectors. 

After earning a Master’s degree in Paris—studying French culture and culinary criticism—she spent a decade in New York City, leading content marketing efforts for the Institute of Culinary Education and The Dinex Group (Chef Daniel Boulud). After several years immersed in the world of award-winning chefs, sommeliers and service professionals, she pivoted to an e-commerce start-up environment, leading B2C brand creative for food product design company W&P. 

In 2015, she co-founded Cognoscenti Creative (with her sister, Lauren, a graphic designer and photographer) with the goal of offering comprehensive branding and brand storytelling services at a scale more accessible to entrepreneurs.




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31 Jan 2024F'ing Up with Rita Cidre - S2 E1001:04:20

Rita Cidre’s resume is impressive, her career trending up and to the right. She steadily worked her way toward the top however, once there, she had an identity crisis. She found it hard to find the joy in herself and her every day work. Everything she wanted was in her lap yet she struggled to feel successful and satisfied. Listen to Rita’s F’ing Up story to hear the full details!



About Rita Cidre

Rita Cidre is a marketer, professor and entrepreneur. She has 15 years of experience working as a marketing leader for brands such as Zillow Group, Qualtrics, Time Inc and NPR. Currently, she's a marketing consultant and the chair of the Digital Marketing Department at Podium Education, where she develops and teaches courses to thousands of college students around the world. Rita is also a published author, founder of a super cool Puerto Rican ecommerce brand, developer of top-rated courses on Fiverr, and president of her children's bilingual daycare in Vienna, Austria, where she currently resides with her family.



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14 Feb 2024F'ing Up with Kit Campoy - S2 E1100:54:36

Kit Campoy has a successful career in retail, working for well known brands such as Anthropologie, Lucky Brand Jeans, Old Navy, and Tilly’s. She worked her guts out in each of her roles - dedicated to the core. With that level of dedication came a realization that working hard and long doesn’t always pay off. There were some tough realities she had to face in her journey.



About Kit Campoy

Kit Campoy spent 24 years leading teams in retail stores. In 2022, she threw her store keys in the safe and left the career she loved to write full-time. She now writes, reads, and talks about leadership daily. She advocates for frontline leaders on LinkedIn and through her newsletter, The Voice of the Frontline. Her book, The Retail Leader’s Field Guide - How to Run a Kick Ass Store Where Everyone Wants to Work, is available on Amazon.





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28 Feb 2024F'ing Up with Scott Landers - S2 E1200:58:37

Scott Landers grew up on a farm in Texas, forced to grow up quickly and tend to the needs of the farm. Some days that meant driving the tractor and some days that meant ditching the broken down tractor to walk 40 acres back home. This early education prepared Scott for hard work with grit and determination, but it didn’t come without its challenges as there was a learning curve when it came to working with others as opposed to always “cowboying it” on his own.



About Scott Landers

Scott Landers began his lifelong fascination with water and food in Northeast Texas, where he was born and raised on the sixth-generation Landers Family Farm. He has since worked as a civil engineer, product director, and independent consultant to water and food organizations.

Scott is Co-Founder and CEO at Figure 8. Since 2019, Figure 8 has worked with over 300 restaurants across the country to build more sustainable food delivery systems. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering from MIT and lives in New York City.




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13 Mar 2024F'ing Up with Arielle Kilroy - S2 E1300:57:31

Arielle Kilroy is a successful CEO, spending time growing her career at companies like Sierra Club, Mozilla and Small Improvements. Though she has achieved the ultimate title, she didn’t have an easy road getting there. She encountered many bumps which taught her hard lessons, shaking her belief system at times.



About Arielle Kilroy

Arielle Kilroy is a co-founder and CEO at Dado, an Employee Experience Management startup. Previous to founding Dado, Arielle has been a Webby Honoree Product Leader at a variety of different orgs from Epic Records to Sierra Club to Small Improvements. She's a conference speaker and mentor as well as a trainer at Practical Product.



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27 Mar 2024F'ing Up with Hunter Smith - S2 E1400:59:55

Hunter Smith has experienced rocket ship success, both in the world of music and craft beer. Most recently, he built a brewing company and hospitality group that soared, until COVID hit. He found himself holding the pieces of a wildly successful venture that suffered the effects of something unexpected. 



About Hunter Smith

Hunter Smith is the founder and former President of Champion Brewing Company and Champion Hospitality Group. 


Hunter attended Northeastern University for Music and performed as a musician in the north east before returning home to Virginia in 2009. 


Hunter completed a BS in Business Marketing from the University of Phoenix, as well as a Certificate of Brewing Technology from the Siebel Institute in Chicago and started Champion Brewing Company in downtown Charlottesville in 2012. Hunter has also become an active member in the Charlottesville community as a board member for the Music Resource Center, Piedmont Housing Alliance, New Hill Development Company, and in June of 2018 was appointed to the City of Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review by City Council. 


Hunter also works in an advisory role at his family's winery in Nelson County and as Co-Chair of Government Affairs for the Virginia Craft BrewersGuild. 


Hunter is often recognized as the grandson of C. Ray Smith, a long-tenured professor and interim dean of UVa's Darden School of Business. 




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10 Apr 2024F'ing Up with Laila Ghambari - S2 E1500:51:06

Laila Ghambari knows success. She worked her way up in the coffee world, from Barista to Executive, all without a college degree. She even competed in the US Barista Championship in 2014 and won. Though she worked her way to the top, her journey did not come without challenges, with experiences such as poor work culture and burnout. 


About Laila Ghambari

Laila Ghambari has nearly 20 years of specialty coffee experience. She won the prestigious title of United States Barista Champion in 2014 and was an elected member of the Executive Council for the Barista Guild from 2012-2016. Her expertise is in running multi unit retail operations, training and education, as well as team and organizational leadership. 

Most recently, she founded by Laila Ghambari, her coffee business consulting company that supports coffee companies with operations, education, growth, and profitability.


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24 Apr 2024F'ing Up with Luke Coan - S2 E1600:54:13

Luke Coan is an accomplished Chef, working for many successful restaurants including a James Beard Award winning restaurant, The Publican. His journey has been one of grit. He struggled to find his way and contimplated suicide on numerous occasions. The kitchen became his saving grace, enabling him to grow both professionally and personally.


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This episode discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is suicidal, please, contact your physician, go to your local ER, or call the suicide prevention hotline at 800-273-TALK (8255), or message the Crisis Text Line at 741741. Both programs provide free, confidential support 24/7.


About Luke Coan

Luke Coan is a former Chicago Chef with 10+ years experience opening and operating restaurants, including Sous Chef and Catering & Events Chef at the James Beard Award winning restaurant The Publican, Executive Sous-Chef for the opening team at Fisk & Co, and Culinary Director for Col Kitchen & Cafe in Colorado. 


Luke worked his way up from shucking oysters to running the catering for weddings and music festivals, and is now transitioning from working in restaurants into restaurant tech. 


In his spare time, Luke is an avid rock climber and hiker, having hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 2021.







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03 Jul 2024Austin Moore on F'ing Up - S301:12:14

Austin Moore is a sales and recruiting rockstar, having helped countless people find work. He built his own business and witnessed his net worth climb at a rapid rate. Though he experienced highs in the working world, he’s had no absence of struggle - managing through challenges such as getting fired, addiction, conflicts with a co-founder, and choosing to walk away from a wealth building business in order to choose mental health. Austin feels it’s important to share his struggles so others can understand they are not alone and to learn that there’s more to life than the low career experiences.


About Austin Moore

Austin Moore is the heart and mind behind Catalyst Crew. Austin's story isn't your typical success narrative; it's a raw, real journey through life's highs and lows. 

Austin battled severe alcoholism from 2012 to 2017, he emerged from this personal crisis with newfound resilience and sobriety. But the challenges didn't stop there. In 2021, Austin faced a pivotal moment atop his 8-figure business venture. It was then he realized he was chasing success in a realm that didn't resonate with his true self.

Making a bold, life-altering decision, Austin stepped away from it all to pursue a path aligned with his core values and purpose. Today, he leads a company that's not just a business but a true embodiment of his life's mission and principles. Austin's journey exemplifies the essence of learning, growing, and finding one's path through the unexpected twists of life.

His story is a testament to the fact that sometimes, the best way forward is to embrace the setbacks and allow them to guide you towards your true calling. 

In his spare time, he loves spending time with his beautiful daughter, his girlfriend, exercising, spending time in nature, and just loving the beauty of sober life. 





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17 Jul 2024Jane Boulware on F'ing Up - S300:48:04

Jane Boulware came from nothing. As one of five children, she was forced to grow up quickly and learn the importance of caring for herself. Not understanding what attending college really meant, she attended, setting the stage for her future. She rose quickly, creating a name for herself as a powerful leader in business. Eventually courted by Microsoft, she joined as one of very few female executives. While she earned her seat, she felt out of place from the start. Jane found herself trying to dress the part and struggled with a resurgence of a disorder. Jane desires to normalize learning from one another’s journeys all while lifting each other up in the process.


About Jane Boulware

From the cornfields of Iowa, Jane Boulware defied expectations to lead billion-dollar businesses and rise to a top Microsoft executive.   By 52, she'd launched three major ventures, navigated the US's largest merger, and left a trail of influential leaders behind her. Passionate about empowering others to recognize their worth, Jane now dedicates herself to mentoring, board service, speaking and cherished excursions with family.  All proceeds from her book WORTHY are donated to Boys & Girls Clubs for youth scholarships. Jane lives in Bellevue, Washington.


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31 Jul 2024Sara Mauskopf on F’ing Up - S300:58:53

Sara Mauskopf is an intelligent woman, successful especially in the realm of Tech. She’s worked for companies like Google, Twitter and has gone on to found her own company. Though she had a fantastic trajectory, it has come with extreme challenges, particularly in her personal life. She struggled with finding her footing and identity as a mother and shortly after having her first child, her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Sara shares openly about these struggles with Host, Deanne Rhynard.


About Sara Mauskopf
Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie, a leading marketplace for daycare and preschool helping millions of parents across the United States. Parents use Winnie to discover high-quality local daycares and preschools and learn all about their programs including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data and more. Child care providers use Winnie to get the tools and support to grow their business. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management and is also a mom of 3 young children.



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14 Aug 2024Dan Griffin on F’ing Up - S300:43:04

Dan Griffin spent a year jobless. After a successful tech trajectory, Dan was laid off by Microsoft. He battled a brutal job market and had to reshape life in many ways to ensure care for his family. Shame, lack of income, and terminated health benefits were a few of the effects he had to navigate. Dan shares his unvarnished truth in his episode of F’ing Up. 


ABOUT DAN GRIFFIN

Dan Griffin has over 15+ years in the Talent Acquisition space and has spent more than half of that supporting the largest tech companies in the world - Amazon, Google and Microsoft.  Dan has spent the last 5+ years in a leadership role supporting multi-billion dollar global businesses at Microsoft.  While many people look at his personal and professional career as a quick and rather linear trajectory, there are many instances where he feels he has really f'ed it up. 

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28 Aug 2024Natalie Ferguson on F'ing Up00:46:13

Natalie Ferguson is a serial entrepreneur, having founded multiple successful companies, enabling her to find “success” quickly. Her journey wasn’t without strife. Early on she navigated an abusive relationship, which started in the workplace. It took a toll on her emotionally, mentally, and financially. It took years for her to get beyond the grips of that hold. Listen to her share her story during her episode of F’ing Up.


About Natalie Ferguson

Natalie Ferguson caught the entrepreneurial bug at university, and at 19, she embarked on her first venture. Two decades on, Nat has experienced multiple successful exits, a few painful failures and everything in between. Before it was acquired in 2021, she grew her last startup Hatch, into a thriving investing platform with nearly 200,000 customers. Now, she’s immersed in launching Powrsuit, a leadership platform for women.




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11 Sep 2024Julia Arpag on F’ing Up00:39:42

In this episode of F'ing Up, Deanne Rhynard speaks with Julia Arpag, co-founder and CEO of Aligned Recruitment. Julia shares her journey from being laid off during maternity leave and navigating challenging work environments, to ultimately founding her own successful tech recruitment firm. She reflects on growing up as the oldest of seven children, her college experiences, and the unconventional career path that shaped her professional and personal life. Julia's story offers a candid look at the detours, mistakes, and perseverance behind her career success.



About Julia Arpag

Julia Arpag is the cofounder and CEO of Aligned Recruitment. Her company specializes in niche hiring in the tech industry. She has clients in software development, platform management, real estate investment, and security hardware. She is also a foster parent to two teen boys, a mom to two little boys, a wife, and a transplant to GA from NY. 



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23 Oct 2024Charlie Gray on F'ing Up00:54:53

Charlie Gray has held some remarkable titles for some of the most well known tech companies. He’s been doused with great success. However, what you don’t see, by just looking at his LinkedIn or resume, are all the stops and starts. Charlie has many tales of being hired to grow a company only to turn around and shrink it, often forced to RIF himself. 

In this episode, Charlie shares vulnerably about those stops and starts, including the story of his own company that was revered in the tech space, only to have to shut it down. It’s a story of immense pride, gratitude, and heartbreak.


ABOUT CHARLIE GRAY

Charlie Gray has led the people operations of technology, media and healthcare companies for over 25 years.  He was instrumental in managing the growth of the Google advertising sales team and helped to develop the company’s People Operations framework.

After providing HR and operations leadership at other start-ups, including RecycleBank and Patch, he founded and led Gray Scalable, NYC’s market-leading consultancy for growing tech start-ups, providing embedded recruiting (RPO), executive search, interim HR and compensation consulting to 200+ early- to-mid-stage companies.  Although he closed Gray Scalable in 2023, he continues to provide fractional and advisory consulting services to several clients.

He holds two degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, in Music Performance and English Literature, and enjoys skiing and tennis, good food, good company, music and travel. 




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13 Nov 2024Tyler Schmoker on F’ing Up01:01:35

Tyler Schmoker brings a wealth of experience in operations management and supply chain strategy, having developed his expertise through a progressive career in the military and paramilitary sectors. In this episode, Tyler candidly shares the challenges he's encountered throughout his journey, including navigating corporate landscapes, accepting that he may not always be the most popular figure, and managing the constant uncertainty of potential deployments looming ahead.


ABOUT Tyler Schmoker

Tyler Schmoker is a retired Army Combat Arms Senior Noncommissioned Officer, former Paramilitary Advisor, and Strategic Projects Consultant to Fortune 500 companies. Tyler has worked in Corporate Security, Strategy, Project and Program Management, and Tech. 

Tyler is an avid Alpine Climber and Endurance Athlete. 

Tyler is the Founder & Principal at Winsly LLC, a High-Performance Coaching, Consulting, and Advisory Services Firm. When the going gets tough, the tough choose Winsly. 




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04 Dec 2024Aimee Gindin on F’ing Up01:03:58

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In this episode, we unpack the complicated relationship between ambition, identity, and personal fulfillment. From workplace burnout to the challenges of navigating toxic cultures, and from grappling with misaligned goals to the pressures of leadership, this episode dives into the hard truths of career “success” and what it really means to thrive.


Episode Takeaways:

  • Burnout and the Cost of Overwork: The early-career grind can feel like a rite of passage, impacting personal life and well-being. 
  • Challenges with Acquisitions: The cultural mishaps that can follow after an acquisition.  
  • Advocating for Yourself in the Workplace: The risks of speaking up, the label of being “overeager,” and knowing when it’s time to move on.  
  • The Lonely Reality of Leadership: experiencing isolation in leadership. 


About Aimee:

Aimee Gindin is a leadership coach, keynote speaker and author of dozens of published business and lifestyle articles. With a background as both a former mental health clinician and a C-Suite executive, she combines her passion for personal growth with her business and leadership experience to create actionable steps for professionals looking to make positive changes in their lives and in their careers.


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