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Hear the stories, learn the proven methods, and accelerate your growth and future through entrepreneurship. Welcome to The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan. About the show: For over a decade, The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan has been a leading entrepreneurship podcast for open-book conversations with, by, and for founders. Whether you're starting, building, or dreaming about your business, The Foundr Podcast is where you can access experienced founders who've been in your shoes to learn th ...
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Alive & Well – Nervous System, Productivity, Time Management, Somatic Tools, Work-Life Balance, Burnout, Anxiety

Michelle Grosser – Inspired by Mel Robbins, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Ed Mylett

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On paper? You’re crushing it. But your body’s telling a different story: fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, and a burnout you just can’t seem to shake. Welcome to Alive & Well—the podcast for high-achieving women ready to burnout-proof their lives by rewiring their nervous system for clarity, energy, productivity, and ease. I’m your host, Michelle Grosser, Esq.—trial attorney turned nervous system strategist, wife, mom, and entrepreneur (x3). After burning out hard trying to do it all, I discovere ...
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Adam Ewart turned a £50 excess baggage fee into a global bootstrapped logistics company operating in 145 countries, generating over $250 million a year, and staying profitable for 15 straight years. In this interview, Adam breaks down how he built Send My Bag, the international luggage shipping service moving more than 250,000 bags annually with on…
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Every year I sit down with some of the world’s most fascinating founders — but this year’s interviews hit me harder than most. Reinvention, resilience, copycats, failure, loneliness after exits, scrappy launches, identity crises… these conversations changed the way I think about leadership and what it means to keep building when things get tough. I…
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Last year’s Christmas episode with Jacob Tierney! Because, well - he's on fire, and we're on holidays! xoxo --- Jacob Tierney, director of all 80 episodes of Letterkenny, and everyone's favourite southern(?) preacher ~ GLEN ~ joins Michelle and Evan for a very special episode of Spare Parts! That's right, it's Christmastime in the town of Letterken…
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Stress isn’t just something you think about. It’s something your body carries. Every interruption. Every transition. Every responsibility and unspoken emotional load. Your nervous system responds to all of it — and if stress never gets discharged, it doesn’t disappear. It settles. It accumulates. In this episode, we’re talking about why releasing s…
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Aliett Buttelman spent eight years grinding in the dark before a single viral moment with Taylor Swift turned Fazit into an overnight seven-figure brand. In this interview, Aliett breaks down the exact pivot that saved the company, how she identified product-market fit after years of plateauing at $20K per month, and the organic social strategy tha…
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“Why can’t I just feel happier… when my life is actually good?” If you’ve asked yourself some version of this question - it isn’t a gratitude problem, it’s not a mindset failure, and it’s not that you’re “bad at joy.” It's what's happening in your physiology. Chronically elevated cortisol can quietly shift your nervous system into survival mode — a…
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2025 has been one of the most eye-opening years of my founder journey — personally, professionally, and strategically. Instead of sharing a highlight reel, I want to share the real lessons that moved the needle for me. Some changed how I think about business. Others changed how I think about myself. In this episode, I break down the five biggest le…
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Nathan Dales is on the podcast today, it's a Christmas miracle! Nathan’s start as a snowboarder/theatre kid, the beginning days of YouTube sketches, playing the iconic Daryl on Letterkenny, and giving sound advice to our Spare Hearts question of the week! DON'T go home Daryl… we love ya. Send your questions for Spare HEARTS to [email protected]
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If you’ve ever been told you or your child has anxiety, ADHD, or both—but it never fully explained what was actually happening—this conversation will feel like a breath of fresh air. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Giancarlo Licata, director of Vital Brain Health, to unpack what’s really going on in the brain beneath these labels—and why underst…
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David Royce went from a broke college kid in a door-to-door pest control job to building and selling four service businesses for nine-figure exits by applying Silicon Valley systems to an unsexy blue-collar industry.In this interview, he breaks down exactly how he scaled Aptive Environmental to over $500M in revenue, created a training engine that …
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Emo music, enjoying T.V., Michelle's big Christmas party debrief and advice to a girl who wants her boots back! Send your questions for Spare HEARTS to [email protected] Follow Michelle! @michellemylett Follow Evan! @evanjstern Follow the show! @sparepartspodcast FULL VIDEO and EXCLUSIVE CONTENT https://www.patreon.com/cw/sparepartspodcast…
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If you’re dragging yourself toward the end of the year feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and mentally drained, you’re not alone. This is one of the toughest stretches for founders — you’re still running the business while everyone else is winding down, and the pressure can quietly compound into burnout. In this episode, I share the exact reset strate…
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If I were starting my career over today — with everything I now know about ambition, the nervous system, and sustainable success — I would do it very differently. Not because I regret being driven or capable. But because I misunderstood what actually creates long-term performance, clarity, and well-being. In this episode, I’m sharing the five shift…
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DIBS Beauty went from zero to one of America’s fastest-growing makeup brands in just four years, with founder Jeff Lee scaling the business into the mid–8 figures and landing a top spot on the Inc. 5000. In this interview, Jeff breaks down the strategy behind their explosive growth, the creator-led launch that built a 20,000-person waitlist, and ho…
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If you open your eyes and instantly feel mentally crowded, emotionally tense, or already behind, this 15-minute morning practice is going to change everything about how your day begins. In today’s episode, I’m sharing the exact 15-minute sequence I use on mornings when I wake up anxious, wired, or overwhelmed — and the neuroscience behind why it wo…
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Should you raise money or bootstrap your business? It’s one of the biggest questions every founder faces — and the wrong decision can shape the entire future of your company. In this episode, I share the lessons I’ve learned from speaking with hundreds of founders about funding, and what I’ve personally applied in building Foundr and my ecommerce b…
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You’re not overwhelmed because you’re doing too much — you’re overwhelmed because you’re committing to things that aren’t truly aligned. The 90% Rule is a deceptively simple framework that will help you stop overthinking, stop people-pleasing, and stop tolerating the 60–70% decisions that drain your bandwidth. When you learn to choose only what is …
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You know that moment where your kid says or does something, your nervous system spikes, and every parenting thing you’ve ever learned disappears from your brain… Today we’re talking about the huge gap between what we know about calm parenting and what actually comes out when we’re tired, stressed, and triggered. I’m joined by Dr. Alissa Jerud—clini…
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John Paul DeJoria went from being homeless twice to building two global billion-dollar brands, Paul Mitchell and Patrón Tequila, using nothing but resilience, sales mastery, and a refusal to quit.This interview breaks down how he launched Paul Mitchell with just $700 while living in his car, created the ultra-premium tequila category from scratch, …
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When you’re just starting out, the fastest way to grow isn’t automation, ads, or scaling systems — it’s doing things that don’t scale. In this episode, I share why the most successful founders — from billion-dollar startups to small ecommerce brands — all begin by leaning into the unscalable. From replying personally to every email, to sending hund…
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Michelle Mylett and Evan Stern interview Jacob Tierney about his new show Heated Rivalry. Currently airing on Crave and HBO, it's already become a massive success in its first week. Having worked with Jacob on Letterkenny since 2015, Michelle and Evan are giddy to celebrate his new project. They gab and giggle and do just about everything but condu…
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What if the real reason you’re exhausted isn’t your schedule… but the boundaries you don’t even realize you’re breaking? If you’ve been feeling overstimulated, stretched thin, reactive, or like you’re carrying more than your share (mentally, emotionally, logistically)… this episode is the missing piece. Because high-capacity women don’t burn out fr…
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What if the most powerful version of you isn’t the one who does more — but the one who gets crystal clear on what truly matters… and stops leaking energy on everything that doesn’t? Today’s episode is a grounded, science-backed reframe of overwhelm — not as a time problem, but as a capacity problem. When you understand what’s actually happening ins…
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From professional rugby player to successful entrepreneur, Damien Fitzpatrick built a sports recovery brand trusted by elite athletes around the world. In this interview, Damien shares how he went from the highs and lows of a professional sports career to creating Pillar Performance, a multimillion-dollar supplement company now used by Olympians an…
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When I first started Foundr, I made a lot of short-term decisions — and most of them hurt us more than they helped. It took years (and a few hard lessons) to understand that sustainable growth only comes when you play the long game. In this episode, I break down what it means to win deep, not shallow, and why short-term thinking keeps so many found…
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There are three things silently draining your energy this week — and they have nothing to do with your schedule. They’re happening inside your nervous system. And once you learn to spot them, you can interrupt them in seconds. Holiday overwhelm isn’t random. It’s patterned. In today’s episode, we’re breaking down the exact mechanisms behind each pa…
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Ever notice how you can know what you need… yet still feel unable to follow through? That gap — between what you know and what you do — is almost never a mindset problem. It’s a nervous system pattern. And as we head into the holidays — a time that amplifies emotional labor, invisible load, family dynamics, and patterned responsibility — your body’…
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Loren Castle turned a life-threatening cancer diagnosis at 22 into the spark that built Sweet Loren’s, a $120M-a-year clean food brand now sold in over 5,000 supermarkets nationwide. In this interview, Loren shares how she bootstrapped her way from baking cookies in a tiny New York apartment to landing Whole Foods without packaging, rebranding her …
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It’s not too late to win Black Friday. Even if you’re behind, there’s still time to drive serious results—if you focus on the right moves. In this episode, I share my final Black Friday checklist after 10 years of running campaigns for Foundr and other brands. You’ll learn exactly what the most successful ecommerce stores are doing one week out to …
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Most high-achieving women don’t burn out because they’re incapable… they burn out because they’ve been conditioned to ignore their human capacity. Today’s episode is a look at what happens when you live beyond your limits for too long — the subtle, everyday ways your nervous system tries to warn you, and the clarity that emerges when you finally st…
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If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, constantly “on,” or quietly resentful even while doing everything “right”… this episode is going to land. Because here’s the truth most high-capacity women were never taught: You can’t honor your energy without boundaries — and every time you override your limits, your nervous system pays the price. We’re dism…
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Tony Fernandes turned a failing airline into a billion-dollar business and built AirAsia into one of the most recognized brands in Asia.In this interview, Tony explains how he bought AirAsia for just 30 cents and $10M of debt, scaled it into the fourth largest airline in Asia, and created a culture that transformed 24,000 employees into a unified t…
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