Welcome to The Complete Retreat Podcast, where we talk to retreat creators and retreat industry experts about what it takes to build a thriving retreat business. Join us as we explore how to navigate the rapidly growing retreat industry and create successful, abundant lifestyle businesses that change people's lives. Ian is the host of The Complete Retreat Podcast and cofounder of RetreatHelp.com, a marketing systems provider and business consultancy that specializes in helping retreat creato ...
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Learn from today’s global leaders building the organizations that will dominate the 21st century in fintech, business, and beyond.
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Host Danielle Vogel founded Glen's Garden Market in Dupont Circle on Earth Day of 2013, after working on Capitol Hill for a decade to pass comprehensive climate change legislation. She wanted to create a space where making climate change progress is easy, convenient, and delicious. On Everyday Enviro, she calls on her network of friends, business partners and allies in the environmental movement to share tricks and tips, empowering listeners to examine the way they eat, drink, shop and think ...
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The Financial Findings podcast discusses recent research on financial wellness, retirement, disability, and other key financial issues that American households face every day. Episodes contain interviews with researchers and evidence-based strategies that policy makers and practitioners can implement to strengthen financial well-being for individuals at all stages of life.
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This podcast is produced by the Spring Creek Project, an organization at Oregon State University that sponsors readings, lectures, conversations, residencies, and other events and programming on issues and themes of critical importance to the health of humans and nature. Our mission is to bring together the practical wisdom of environmental science, the clarity of philosophy, and the transformational power of the written word and the arts to envision and inspire just and joyous relations wit ...
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Welcome to Mavericks, the podcast that speaks to people who think differently. Join host Joey Garcia as he interviews some of the brightest minds across the crypto and blockchain space to understand what has enabled them to see the world differently, and what motivates them to push for change. Mavericks is a Folding Pocket production for Xapo Bank. For more information, visit https://www.xapo.com #ThisisMavericks brought to you by #XapoPrivateBank Connect with #XapoPrivateBank on: * Linkedin ...
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Chen Amit, Tipalti CEO - A $100 Billion Opportunity, Why 'Once-in-a-Decade' Crises Now Happen Every 6 Months, Achieving 99% Revenue Retention
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45:19Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Chen Amit, CEO and Co-Founder of Tipalti, a global fintech platform processing billions in payments and serving over 4,000 mid-market companies worldwide. By focusing on the underserved mid-sized companies, Tipalti has achieved 99% gross revenue retention over 15 years and secured licenses across 50+ jurisdic…
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Anré Williams, American Express – From Intern to Bank CEO, a 35-Year Journey at a Global Powerhouse
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42:26Send us a text Miguel Armaza sits down in NYC with Anré Williams, Senior Executive Advisor at American Express. Anré has spent over 35 years at Amex, rising from summer intern to, most recently, CEO of American Express National Bank (which represents ~60% of the company's revenues). Under his leadership, Amex transformed its banking business into a…
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Eduardo Chedid, CEO of PicPay: 60M Users, $1B Revenue, From Brazil’s Digital Wallet to a Banking Giant
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57:45Send us a text Miguel Armaza travels to Sao Paulo for an interview with Eduardo Chedid, CEO of PicPay, a Brazilian fintech giant that has quietly become one of the most important financial companies in Latin America. With 60 million customers and handling 11% of all Pix payments transactions in Brazil, PicPay has achieved profitability while mainta…
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Yoshi Yokokawa, CEO of Alpaca – 5 Million Accounts in 40 Countries, A Vision for Borderless Investing, Decision Frameworks & The API Sandwich Strategy
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36:15Send us a text Miguel Armaza stops by the New York Stock Exchange to interview Yoshi Yokokawa, CEO & Co-founder of Alpaca, an API-first brokerage infrastructure company that has raised over $100 million to serve more than 200 financial institutions across 40 countries, with 5 million brokerage accounts on their platform. In this episode, we discuss…
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Episode 11: Interview with Dr. Hyun Ju Kim- Who Will Benefit from the 2024 ABLE Age Adjustment Act?
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16:08Research: Who Will Benefit from the 2024 ABLE Age Adjustment Act?By UW-Madison
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Daniel Vogel, CEO of Bitso – Serving 12 Million Customers and Building a Crypto Giant Through Innovation, Transparency, and a Curious Mind
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50:10Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Daniel Vogel, CEO & Co-Founder of Bitso, one of Latin America's leading cryptocurrency platforms serving over 12 million customers across Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil. Bitso processes over 10% of the remittances flowing from the US to Mexico ($6 - $7 Billion), and is pioneering the use of stablecoi…
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Bam Azizi, CEO of Mesh Connect - From Credit Card Debt to $130M, Building the Rails for a $37T Market, Executing a Wild Pivot
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34:57Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Bam Azizi, Co-Founder and CEO of Mesh Connect, a fintech infrastructure company that has transformed from a consumer-focus to a fast-growing B2B platform serving hundreds of corporate clients including Revolut, and Coinbase. After raising nearly $130 million, including a Series B closed in just one month, Mes…
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From Religion to Radiance: Awakening Through Ayahuasca & Energy Work w/ Tiffany Greene
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1:00:39In this episode of The Complete Retreat Podcast, we sit down with the radiant Tiffany Greene — Reiki master, teacher, and retreat facilitator — to explore her transformational journey from religious deconstruction to becoming a powerful space holder for others. Tiffany shares her first life-changing experience with ayahuasca, how that ceremony awak…
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Johnny Ayers, CEO of Socure - Building a Giant that Protects Billions of Identities, and How to Turn a Crisis into an Advantage
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42:19Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Johnny Ayers, CEO and Co-Founder of Socure, a leader in digital identity verification that has transformed the industry using machine learning and graph databases. From surviving a major risk event in 2014 to becoming a trusted partner for the largest financial institutions, consumer businesses, and governmen…
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How to Build Authority & Run a Successful Retreat Center w/ Chris Kirkpatrick
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55:39Join me for an amazing conversation with Chris Kirkpatrick, who took a massive leap by purchasing a retreat center in the Dominican Republic jungle. Chris shares his journey of moving his family from a comfortable suburban life to running Zaria Retreat Center, and reveals powerful insights on building authority platforms that create genuine connect…
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Shensi Ding, Merge Co-Founder - Lessons for First-Time Founders, $75M to build API Infrastructure in an AI World, The Truth About Fundraising
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30:10Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Shensi Ding, Co-Founder of Merge, an integrations infrastructure platform that has quickly grown from serving early-stage startups to powering integration layers for some of the largest financial services companies in the world including Revolut, Airwallex, Ramp, Brex and many more. They have raised a total o…
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David Magerman, Differential Ventures - How to Fix the Internet, Risks of GenAI, Pioneering Quant Trading
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45:41Send us a text [Original air date, February 6, 2024] Miguel Armaza sits down with David Magerman, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Differential Ventures, an early-stage fund that invests in data-focused entrepreneurs building enterprise technology. In a past life, he spent 22 years in leadership roles at Renaissance Technologies (RenTech), a lege…
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Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma Co-Founder - Scaling to 140 Million Users, Turning Crisis into Opportunity, Leading Product Innovation From CTO to CPO
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43:35Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Ryan Graciano, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Credit Karma, one of the most successful fintech companies serving over 130 million customers. Credit Karma was bought by Intuit for $7.1bn in 2020, marking one of fintech’s largest acquisitions ever. Ryan began his journey as CTO after a brief stint at I…
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Jackie Reses, Lead Bank CEO - Lessons from Tech Titans, Why Regulators Might Finally Be Ready for AI, Building Modern Financial Rails
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41:59Send us a text Miguel Armaza welcomes back Jackie Reses, CEO and Co-Founder of Lead Bank, a pioneering bank reimagining modern financial infrastructure and fintech partnerships. Jackie previously held leadership roles at Square and Yahoo, and served on the board of Alibaba, working alongside visionaries like Jack Dorsey and Jack Ma. In this episode…
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Retreats for Psychedelic Practitioners: Education, Ethics & Business Growth w/ Danielle Nova
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57:24Learn how the psychedelic training and retreat industry is evolving with Danielle Nova, Executive Director of the San Francisco Psychedelic Society and co-founder of FlowState. In this episode we discuss growing demand for professional microdosing facilitation and how practitioners can build ethical, successful businesses in this emerging field. Da…
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John Waldmann, CEO of Homebase - Serving 3.8M SMB Workers, Why AI Will Create More Small Business Owners, Importance of High-Velocity Decision Making
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37:19Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews John Waldmann, Founder & CEO of Homebase, a company on a mission to help modernize local business teams in the US. Since launching in 2014, Homebase has grown to support over 150,000 businesses and 3.8 million workers, processing hundreds of millions of shifts annually. In this episode, we discuss: Why founde…
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Master Your Unconscious Mind to Transform Your Life & Business w/ TJ Fry
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1:11:30Discover how the unconscious mind dictates 90-95% of your daily decisions and behaviors, often without you realizing it. Mindset Coach TJ Fry reveals powerful techniques to identify and transform limiting beliefs that may be sabotaging your retreat business success. Learn why understanding your "mental operating system" is crucial for breakthrough …
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Howard Lindzon: The Rise of the Degenerate Economy, Why Markets Are Rigged, Web2 Failed, and It’s still a Great Time to Invest
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47:52Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Howard Lindzon, a seasoned investor, entrepreneur, and founder of StockTwits, the largest social network for investors and traders. Howard is also the founder of Social Leverage, a venture capital firm that has backed great companies like Robinhood and eToro. Often called "The Larry David of Finance" for his …
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Ali Hamed, Founder of Treville - From Cold Emails to $2B AUM, How Michael Ovitz Taught Ali to Move Mountains, Rejecting Work-Life Balance
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48:43Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Ali Hamed, Co-Founder of Treville (formerly CoVenture), a $2 Billion investment firm that's breaking traditional asset class boundaries. Hamed has built one of the most distinctive firms in the industry, combining venture capital, credit, and asset-backed strategies with a uniquely rigorous approach - all sta…
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Savneet Singh, CEO of PAR Technology - The $3B Turnaround: Transforming a Failing Company into a Tech Leader
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38:14Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Savneet Singh, CEO of PAR Technology (NYSE: PAR), a company he helped transform from a struggling legacy hardware with a small market cap into a thriving restaurant technology leader now worth nearly $3 billion in the public markets. When Savneet joined PAR's board in 2018, he found a company facing multiple …
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A Traveler's Guide to Living Your Best F***ing Life w/ Evan "The Bucket List Specialist" Jones
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55:59After a near-death experience at 27, Evan Jones discovered a profound truth: life is too precious to live inside a box of other people’s limitations. Now known as The Bucket List Specialist, Evan shares raw insights about transforming personal struggles into a mission of inspiring others. Explore why your mindset determines everything, how embracin…
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The Truth About Running an Ayahuasca Church w/ Courtney Close of Hummingbird Church
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1:13:23In this candid conversation, Courtney Close shares her unlikely journey from organizing underground ceremonies to founding one of the largest public ayahuasca churches in America. Learn how Hummingbird Church evolved from small gatherings to hosting thousands of participants, all while maintaining unwavering commitments to safety and indigenous tra…
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Best of 2024 - From the Leaders of Kaspi, Xero, dLocal, Addepar, QED, Zip, and Airwallex
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36:20Send us a text We bring you a compilation of some of the best and most popular episodes of 2024. The guests of this episode have either founded or held key leadership roles in companies with a $200 Billion combined market cap, including Capital One, Kaspi, Mercado Libre, and Xero. It was an amazing year for Fintech Leaders with 42 new guests from 1…
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Adam Nash, CEO of Daffy – The Future of Charitable Giving, Lessons for CEOs, & Staying Bullish on Consumer Fintech
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42:52Send us a text [Original air date, March 21, 2023] For this Christmas Eve episode, I revisit my 2023 interview with Adam Nash, Co-Founder and CEO of Daffy, a special fintech platform that encourages charitable giving. Giving to charity is a powerful way to create change; even a small contribution to the right cause can transform lives and it’s a ch…
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Serving & Scaling: Marketing Secrets for Conscious Entrepreneurs w/ John Daniels
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39:39Discover how to align spiritual growth with business success in this powerful conversation with marketing expert John Daniels. Learn the three crucial phases of scaling a conscious business: from mastering sales conversations to building systems that create freedom. John reveals why "doing good and making money" isn't just possible - it's essential…
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Daragh Murphy, CEO of Imprint - $200M to Disrupt Co-Branded Credit Cards with a Customer-First Approach
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38:35Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Daragh Murphy, CEO & Co-Founder of Imprint, a fast-growing and leading fintech in the co-branded credit card space that has raised $200 million from Thrive Capital, Ribbit, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Stripe, and a many more great investors. In this episode, we discuss: Challenges and lessons building I…
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Kamran Zaki, ICONIQ Growth Partner - From Building a $50Bn Global Payments Giant to Fintech Investor
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34:41Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Kamran Zaki, Partner at ICONIQ Growth and former COO of Adyen. ICONIQ growth is a multi-billion fund that has backed dozens of amazing companies, 27 of which have IPOd and together comprise a market cap of over $1.5T. Some of their fintech investments include Adyen, Chime, Ramp, Robinhood, Monzo and Bill.com.…
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The RetreatHelp Origin Story: From Corporate Burnout to Conscious Business Consulting
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1:03:25In this first episode of The Complete Retreat Podcast, I sit down with my co-founder Jarrod to share our story. We talk about how we went from burning out in corporate jobs to finding healing through retreats, and eventually creating RetreatHelp. If you're curious about the people behind RetreatHelp or wondering how two guys from completely differe…
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The Art of Reconnection: Daniela Naomi Molnar and Danielle Vogel
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1:07:22In the final episode of “The Art of Reconnection” series, co-host Daniela Naomi Molnar speaks with poet and ceremonialist Danielle Vogel about the scope, power, and possibility of language. Danielle is an experimental poet who is committed to an embodied, ceremonial approach to poetics and relies heavily on field research, cross-disciplinary studie…
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Josh Reeves, CEO of Gusto – Building a $9.6 Billion Company to Serve Small Businesses
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48:41Send us a text [Original air date, October 10, 2023] Miguel Armaza sits down with Josh Reeves, CEO & Co-Founder of Gusto, one of the largest HR & Payroll companies in the US, focused on serving small and medium-sized businesses. In addition to HR, payroll, and benefits, Gusto is a strong player of embedded fintech solutions and in 2023 announced a …
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Alan Patricof – Tech & VC Legend. 90-Years-Old: Fit, Focused and Closing Deals
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48:02Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Alan Patricof, Co-Founder of Primetime Partners, Greycroft, and Apax Partners. It’s hard to explain just how important Alan has been for tech and VC. He’s one of the true pioneers in venture capital worldwide, having started his first VC firm in the 1970s, Alan Patricof and Associates, which later became Apax…
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Nigel Morris, QED and Capital One Co-Founder - Transforming Financial Services for a Billion People
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47:11Send us a text Miguel Armaza travels to Alexandria, Virginia for an in-person interview with a fintech legend: Nigel Morris, Co-Founder of QED and Capital One. QED is a global fintech venture capital firm that has backed numerous amazing companies, including Credit Karma, Nubank, Avant, SoFi, and Klarna. They currently have over $4.0 billion in AUM…
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Howard Morgan - From Ham Radio to GenAI: A Remarkable Journey in Tech
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41:34Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Howard Morgan, Chair at B Capital, and also co-founder of Renaissance Technologies and First Round Capital. Howard and Miguel sat down live on stage at Barclays Rise in NYC for the Gilgamesh Ventures Summit, an annual meeting with over 150 Limited Partners, Founders, and Investors for a series of events and d…
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Jouk Pleiter, CEO of Backbase – Bootstrapping to €2.5 Billion, Scaling Worldwide, Simplifying Banking Technology
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41:31Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Jouk Pleiter, CEO & Founder of Backbase, a global fintech that’s modernizing software and infrastructure for banks around the world. Founded in 2003, Backbase was bootstrapped to €200M in annual revenue until they raised a single Private Equity round of €120M from Motive Partners in 2022, valuing the company …
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Benjamin Fernandes, CEO of NALA - From Africa to the World, The Power of Perseverance, From TV Host to Fintech Founder
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58:00Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Benjamin Fernandes, CEO & Founder of NALA, a global, cross-border payments company that helps customers send money in and out of Africa. Founded in 2018, NALA today is profitable and has raised over $50 million from Accel, Acrew, Amplo, Bessemer, DST, and NYCA. We discuss: Why NALA built their own infrastruct…
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The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Ben Goldfarb
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40:38In part three of “The Art of Reconnection,” series co-host Lee Running speaks with guest Ben Goldfarb to take us on an exploration of roads. Their conversation invites us to see these in-between places in new ways. Ben is a conservation journalist and award-winning author. His writing has appeared in many outlets, including The Atlantic, National G…
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Richie Serna, CEO of Finix - The Key to Great Products, Fundraising Stories, Building a Payments Powerhouse
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54:49Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Richie Serna, CEO & Co-Founder of Finix, a US full-stack payment processor and infrastructure provider that processes billions of dollars a year for software platforms, marketplaces, retail, and e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2015, Finix has raised over $135 million to date and is backed by ActOne Ventures…
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Episode 10: Interview with Dr. Vanessa Delgado—Young Latino/as Financial Support of Parents Who Are Undocumented
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20:14Research: "...Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults”By UW-Madison’s Retirement & Disability Research Center
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Pedro Arnt, CEO of dLocal – From MELI CFO to Leading a Multi-Billion Dollar Giant, Lessons from a Serial Builder
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45:50Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Pedro Arnt, CEO of dLocal (NASDAQ:DLO), a multi-billion dollar payments company that specializes in cross-border and local payments in emerging markets. Founded in Montevideo, Uruguay, dLocal today operates in 40 markets across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Pedro has an impressive background and you’ll lea…
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The Art of Reconnection: Daniela Naomi Molnar and Marcia Bjornerud
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58:10In part two of “The Art of Reconnection,” series co-host Daniela Naomi Molnar speaks with guest Marcia Bjornerud about the narratives, notions of time, and deep wisdom embedded within rocks. Marcia is a writer and a structural geologist whose scientific research, which focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building, has taken her aroun…
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David Fortunato, CEO of Wealthfront - $70Bn AUM & Climbing, From Engineer to CEO, Relentless Focus on Automation, The Future of Wealth Management
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39:30Send us a text Miguel Armaza travels to San Francisco for an interview with David Fortunato, CEO of Wealthfront, an asset management giant with $70+ billion in assets under management and over a million clients. Founded by Andy Rachleff almost 15 years ago, Wealthfront is now one of the most defining financial brands for millennials and Gen Zers. D…
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The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar
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54:35In part one of “The Art of Reconnection” our series hosts, Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar, engage in a rich conversation about the ways their place-based practices of artmaking have transformed the quality of attention they bring to a place and their appreciation for the deep memory that is carried by the botanical, animal, and mineral e…
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Abdon Nacif, Co-Founder of Nexu - Building a Profitable Fintech, The Power of Servant Leadership, Developing Mental Toughness
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38:29Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Abdon Nacif, Co-Founder of Nexu, the leading auto financing and dealership software platform in Mexico and one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in the Americas. Nexu is growing fast, approaching $50 million in net annual revenue, and has been profitable for nearly two years. They have raised just over…
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Welcome to “The Art of Reconnection,” a new podcast series produced by the Spring Creek Project, an initiative of the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University. The series was created in collaboration with The Arts Center in Corvallis, Oregon. During this four-part series, place-based artists Lee Running and Dani…
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Rujul Zaparde, CEO of Zip - Building a $1.5B SaaS, Velocity as a Core Value, How to Validate a Big Business Idea
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43:48Send us a text Miguel Armaza travels to SF for an interview with Rujul Zaparde, CEO & Co-Founder of Zip, a leading SaaS & Fintech platform recently valued at $1.5 Billion that’s focused on bringing smarter procurement and spending software for small and large enterprises. Founded in 2020, Zip today serves hundreds of clients, including giants like …
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Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure - From SoFi to Brex to Figure: Lessons from a Fintech Leader Who Knows Founder Mode
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41:38Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure, one of the largest US fintech platforms building infrastructure and embedded products. Founded in 2018 by Mike Cagney, also the founder of SoFi and past guest of the show, Figure is now the largest non-bank originator of Home Equity Lines of Credit in the US having done $11 …
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Episode 9: Interview with Dr. Erik Hembre--Housing Quality Trends for Low-Income Households Since the 1980s
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30:19Research: “A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s.”By UW-Madison’s Retirement & Disability Research Center
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Diya Jolly, CPO & CTO of Xero - $22Bn and Growing. Leading Product and Tech for a Global Fintech Giant
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37:17Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Diya Jolly, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero (XRO.AX), a $22Bn tech giant that offers accounting and CFO management services for small businesses worldwide. Xero is one of the largest fintechs in the world. Their latest total annual revenue was $1.6Bn and they’ve doubled in size over the last thre…
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Raimundo Morales, CEO of Yape - The SuperApp for 16 Million Peruvians Redefining Financial Inclusion
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45:57Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Raimundo Morales, CEO of Yape, the dominant fintech app in Peru and certainly one of the biggest consumer fintechs in the world. Yape has 16 million users in Peru, which represents 80% of the country’s total population. On average, they process 550+ million payments a month and are doubling in volume on a yea…
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Darian Shirazi from Gradient Ventures - Empathy, Curiosity, and the Immigrant Mindset
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40:04Send us a text Miguel Armaza interviews Darian Shirazi, General Partner at Gradient Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on AI and data-rich companies, with Google as its major LP. Prior to Gradient, Darian founded and sold Radius, a B2B Customer Data Platform. He is also an early investor in companies including Lyft, Udemy, Carbon Health,…
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