Best Capital Workspaces Podcasts (2025)

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Milestones Matter: How to Prove Your Startup is a Smart Investment 19:21

4d ago19:21

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Investors invest in progress not ideas. When an investor is evaluating hundreds - even thousands of pitch decks, this critical piece could be just the thing that makes you stand out. An investor is more likely to fund a startup if it’s poised for growth and it clearly shows in the pitch deck. That’s where milestones come in - most founders miss thi…

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Before You Raise Capital Know Your Strengths and What You Really Want 18:22

11d ago18:22

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When most of us are starting our companies, we’re laser focused on the financial goals, finding investors and getting start-up capital. Yes we might be passionate about the product, but we don’t necessarily take the time to consider if this business actually aligns with our personal goals, and what we want our lives to look like. But I’ve learned f…

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How to Use Foundersuite to Get Your Startup Funded Faster w/ Nathan Beckord 42:54

18d ago42:54

42:54

Getting on an investor’s radar, perfecting your pitch, and ticking all the boxes to get funded feels like a tall order for early stage founders. You need to have a story that cuts through the noise of thousands of other startups. You need to build a network of potential investors who align with your business and industry. You need a competitive pit…

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Avoid Digital Chaos: Low-cost ways to stay digitally organized using Google Workspace w/ Adrienne Farrow 30:46

25d ago30:46

30:46

If you’re a startup founder, the last thing you need is a dumpster fire of a digital workplace. You can’t find critical documents. You’re missing important emails. You constantly find yourself double booked. A lack of digital organization isn’t just a minor annoyance, it can really slow your business down. How do you create a sense of digital peace…

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Interview with Founder of Freedom Brew, Veteran Owned, Veteran Operated 39:27

28d ago39:27

39:27

Send us a text Welcome back to Capital Workspaces The HUB Podcast! In our first heartfelt episode, we dive into the inspiring story of a man who found a unique way to give back to those who served. The founder of Freedom Brew is a passionate entrepreneur and proud military veteran, who turned his love for craft beer into a powerful mission. After w…

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Virtual Assistants: The Ultimate Time & Money Hack for Startup Founders 19:13

1M ago19:13

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Running a startup? I bet you feel like a human Swiss Army knife sometimes—doing everything from marketing to operations, while trying not to lose your mind in the process. But here’s the thing: doing it all yourself? That’s a fast track to burnout city. Enter: Virtual Assistants (VAs). These people can help lighten the load, but there’s an art to f…

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How to Build Resilience as an Entrepreneur w/ John A. Brink 53:01

1M ago53:01

53:01

In entrepreneurship, success isn’t a straight line. Even the most successful business owners have had to deal with losses, failures and pivots along the way. Building a business from the ground up is hard. Having what it takes to keep going when it gets tough is even harder. You might struggle to raise money, have to build your business in a recess…

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Live Pitch Deck Review: How to Make Every Slide Count 15:03

2M ago15:03

15:03

Creating the perfect pitch deck is probably one of the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs seeking funding. Investors see thousands of pitch decks, so how do you make sure yours actually stands out and gets your point across? How do you avoid getting dinged for formatting? How do you show the numbers while also telling a story? It’s A LOT to think…

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Customer Testimonials: The Shortcut to Hooking Investors 9:36

2M ago9:36

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A big part of nailing an investor pitch is making sure it’s not just about numbers. Metrics matter, but investors want to feel connected to your business on an emotional level, and customer feedback is key to that. Lately, I’ve been noticing that a lot of pitch decks are missing this crucial piece and honestly, it could make or break your pitch. Sh…

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Don't Make These Mistakes When Answering Investor Questions 7:26

2M ago7:26

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One of the hardest things about pitching to investors is keeping your cool when they ask questions. It’s really easy to get flustered and thrown off your game when they’re hitting you with really hard questions about your business. What if they ask you a question you don’t know the answer to? How do you avoid fumbling or rambling your answers? With…

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What To Do If You're Overthinking Sh** 9:35

2M ago9:35

9:35

The process of raising capital has so many moving pieces, even the most motivated entrepreneur can find themselves overthinking what they need to do. The challenge is: overthinking often leads to stalling and procrastination, which then makes us lose the precious momentum we’ve built along the way. Learning to push through our own overthinking is a…

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Shelf Appeal: How to Nail Packaging That Wins Investors and Retailers w/ Elizabeth Corbett 47:01

3M ago47:01

47:01

For consumer products, packaging plays a huge role in your ability to raise money and get onto shelves. Investors and retailers are looking for traction, so you need to have packaging buttoned up before you even approach them. But here’s the challenge: great packaging is expensive, and cheap packaging is very easy to spot and can tank your marketab…

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Investors vs. Bootstrapped: How to Choose the Right Path For Your Startup w/ Jim Semick 51:23

3M ago51:23

51:23

Getting investors or bootstrapping? That’s one of the hardest decisions founders have to make. On one hand, raising capital has many benefits - you have a longer runway, more resources, and more cash to hire people and pay them well. It provides enough cash to get through the competitive hurdles to bring your product to market. But outside capital …

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Startups, Sacrifice, and Salaries: Why Founders Should Pay Themselves First w/ Melissa Kwan 26:41

3M ago26:41

26:41

Should founders pay themselves? It’s probably the biggest debate in the startup world. Many entrepreneurs believe sacrificing and struggling is necessary to succeed; that we should put everything towards growth to our own detriment. Here’s the truth: being in survival mode isn’t the best state for a founder to be in. You can’t think, be creative or…

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How to Get Your Product Picked Up By a Retailer 44:08

4M ago44:08

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When you have a consumer product, getting picked up by a retailer is a HUGE win. There’s nothing better than a stack of juicy purchase orders and a stream of customers lining up to buy what you created! But here’s the challenge: there is a ton of competition for shelf space, and a lot of products clamoring for the attention of retailers. It takes a…

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Secrets to Secure Investors Even in a Cash-Strapped Market w/ Ed Kang 47:03

4M ago47:03

47:03

In today’s competitive, capital-strapped market, getting your business funded is a lot harder than it used to be. Entrepreneurs have access to a fraction of the funding that was easily available just a few years ago. Investors want a sure thing, so founders are jumping through a lot more hoops to get capital. It’s not enough to have an initial idea…

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How to Stay Motivated in Business 11:42

4M ago11:42

11:42

Entrepreneurship is not easy, and even the most motivated entrepreneurs find themselves feeling uninspired from time to time. Instead of driving hard towards something, we find ourselves stuck in the mud, spinning our wheels and wondering how to get back into momentum. Whether you’re trying to raise money or you’re experiencing a lull between big p…

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How to Build a Successful Startup Without Moving to Silicon Valley w/ Stefanie Monge 38:48

4M ago38:48

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A couple decades ago, being a startup founder meant packing up and moving to Silicon Valley. It was the only way to easily access customers, investors and advisors. Today, you can build a business from just about anywhere without sacrificing the vital resources you need to validate your idea and get funded. As a result, many entrepreneurship commun…

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How to Successfully Bring a Food Product to Market w/ Bruno Xavier 54:04

5M ago54:04

54:04

In the world of food entrepreneurship, having a product that tastes GOOD is only the tip of the iceberg. Going from your kitchen to a store shelf comes with a ton of considerations, steps and potential snags. The margins are razor thin. Safety and stability are critical factors that can affect the viability of the product. Getting investors, retail…

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How to Find and Pitch Your Business to Strategic Partners w/ Mathew Drazic 44:37

6M ago44:37

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For an early-stage entrepreneur, strategic partnerships are a critical lifeline and launchpad for growth. They allow you to amplify your mission, gain brand awareness and get input from investors and potential customers. In the world of purpose-driven consumer products, it can be hard to know where to find these collaborators, but it’s often as sim…

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5 Stages of Funding: How to Close The Deal 12:29

6M ago12:29

12:29

So you’ve pitched your idea, an investor loves it and wants to give you resources to grow your business. Well done! You’ve just secured a big piece of making your vision a reality - and that’s a huge feat. Now it’s time to close the deal and actually receive the funding you’ve been seeking. Remember, once you sign the dotted line and they wire the …

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What Angel Groups Want In a Pitch Deck w/ Jonathan Myers 40:58

6M ago40:58

40:58

When entrepreneurs send a pitch deck to angel groups, they don’t realize they have a short amount of time to grab the attention of investors. Angel groups are evaluating hundreds of pitch decks a week, so you have as little as 2 minutes to pique their interest and make them want to respond to you. There are some things entrepreneurs do that instant…

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5 Stages of Funding: Deal Structure 12:52

6M ago12:52

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Congratulations! You just found an investor who believes in you and wants to fund your business. Now comes the next hard part - structuring the deal and setting up your startup paperwork. For early stage entrepreneurs, the step can be confusing and overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, you can get it dialed in quickly with m…

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Before You Give Up On Your Entrepreneurial Dream, Do This w/ Shannah Game 40:01

6M ago40:01

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Coming up with a brilliant business idea and sharing it with the world. Raising money and getting investors to fund said brilliant idea. Getting your first customers and crossing the profitability line. These are all stops along the entrepreneurial journey. Each of them can be hard enough to make you want to throw in the towel and go back to corpor…

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5 Stages of Funding: How to Find and Pitch Investors 28:16

7M ago28:16

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In order to get funding for our businesses, we have to find and pitch to investors. Sounds easier said than done, right? This is one of the most nerve wracking and challenging steps you’ll take, but it is worth it. If you put yourself there and talk to enough people, you will get the funding you need. Even if you’re an introvert. Even if you hate n…

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Money Mindset: The Most Important Step in Preparing to Raise Capital w/ Jennifer Love 47:58

7M ago47:58

47:58

Before we can go out and raise money for our businesses, there are things we need to have dialed in. The idea, the numbers, our pitch and the investors we’re going after. This stuff is critical, but THE most important thing is the relationship we have with money. Trying to raise money without dialing in our money mindset is a recipe for burnout, di…

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Quit Your W2 Job or Run Your Business On the Side? How to Make the Right Choice w/ Matt Floyd & Craig Gerulski 42:31

7M ago42:31

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When you know that you’re an entrepreneur at heart but you’re still working your W2 job, when do you jump ship? It’s the age old question all aspiring business owners ask themselves. On one hand, we can burn the boats and go all in on the business. You’ll have way more time to dedicate to it and you can scale faster. Or you can get the business off…

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My Business is 3000 Miles Away From Me...Here's How I Run It w/ Avery Carl 33:41

7M ago33:41

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If you’re anything like me, being an entrepreneur appeals to you because you can design the life you want and enjoy a level of freedom you can’t get from a 9-5. The problem is: a lot of us build businesses that end up creating more stress and eat away at the freedom we got into it for. Finding a business that meets your lifestyle goals is ideal. Fo…

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Wired But Tired: How to Combat Burnout As An Entrepreneur w/ Christa Orecchio 46:34

8M ago46:34

46:34

For entrepreneurs, running fast and charging hard comes with the territory. But that could be doing nothing but running us into the ground. A lot of the things we think are “normal” parts of building and running businesses are actually signs of burnout. So many of us are stuck in that “wired and tired” mode and we don’t even know that we’re well ov…

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Familiarity and Founder Fit: The New Rules of Raising Money w/ Samuel Cummings 49:34

8M ago49:34

49:34

The playbook of raising money that people used to rely on has changed a lot over the last few years. Now that the market is more competitive and the pace of innovation is so much faster, what worked a decade ago won’t produce the same results today. Some of the best practices we were taught aren’t as entrepreneur-friendly as we think. A lot of foun…

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The Biggest Paperwork Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them w/ Darby Wong 39:14

8M ago39:14

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When you build a business, you aren’t just creating a product, you’re also setting up a legal entity. The legal side of things can be daunting (and expensive), especially when you intend to raise capital in the near or far future. Before you can even think of approaching investors, first-time founders have to make sure they have the legal ducks in …

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Fear is the Final Frontier: How to Move Past It w/ Aiden Chase 55:08

9M ago55:08

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Fear is something everyone struggles with - whether you’re trying to raise seed money or (believe it or not) a billionaire who has already had success. No wonder they call fear the final frontier! We often focus on the tangible aspects of entrepreneurship, but the mental and emotional stuff play a huge role in our success. In fact, if we don’t work…

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5 Stages of Funding: 8 Ways to Raise Seed Money 20:10

9M ago20:10

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In the journey of starting a company, realizing that you need to raise money is par for the course. Maybe you need to test your product’s viability, increase your stock, or grow your team…these steps require funding. Venture capital is the path many entrepreneurs take, but there are actually 7 other ways to get the funding you need. Each method has…

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To Raise Money or Not to Raise Money? How to Make the Right Decision w/ Ashley Chang 31:38

9M ago31:38

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Raising money through investors is the default for growing a company, but it might not be the right move for everyone. Taking the VC route is like walking through a one-way door - once you make that decision it sets you on a specific trajectory. That’s why more entrepreneurs are being thoughtful about the decision, and even opting out of raising mo…

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5 Stages of Funding: How to Make Your Mindset Unshakeable 34:44

9M ago34:44

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The process of raising money is as much a mental one as it is a financial one. Before we start finding and pitching to investors or even structuring our deals, there’s a step we can’t skip, working on our mindset. There’s no sugar-coating it - getting funded is one of the hardest things you’ll do. You’ll get told your idea doesn’t doesn’t work. You…

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Business is Equal Parts Art and Science: How to Trust Your Gut w/ Diana Wilson 51:34

9M ago51:34

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The process of building a company, getting funded and bringing a product to market isn’t just data-driven. It’s gut-driven too. The numbers matter, but when you’re building a product without market acceptance, you have to trust your intuition and persevere when you’re told it won’t work. In many ways, taking an entrepreneurial risk is a lot like ta…

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Why I Walked Away From The Company Mark Cuban Invested In 43:16

10M ago43:16

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Building a company, going on Shark Tank, raising $1 million dollars and working with Mark Cuban. Sounds like an entrepreneur’s dream, right? Well, that’s what I thought, until I walked away from it. It was the hardest decision I’ve ever made, but also the best one. When you build your own company, it becomes an extension of you, so stepping away is…

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Everything You Need to Prep For An Investor Meeting w/ Keir Dillon 53:10

10M ago53:10

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In the path to getting funding for your idea, meeting with investors is the most important checkpoint. You only have one shot at a first impression, so the more dialed in your presentation is, the more successful you’ll be. From pitch decks to financials, there’s a ton of work that goes into preparing for that face-to-face with a potential funding …

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Maria Leonard Olsen, Mother, Author, Attorney, Public Speaker, and Podcaster 45:44

10M ago45:44

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Send us a text Welcome back one of our most popular guests, Maria Leonard Olsen - a woman of many talents - lawyer, journalist, author, and a beacon of empowerment. In this episode, we dive into Maria’s journey of overcoming personal challenges and using them to fuel a life of service and inspiration. We’ll discuss her approach to turning life’s ob…

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SGAP Leaders, Leaders-In-Training (LIT) Interviews, Part 3: Tree Canopy and Pollinator Gardens 14:28

10M ago14:28

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Send us a text In this episode, we celebrate the efforts of two SGAP Leaders-in-training who are greening their community, one tree at a time. Join us as we follow journey, distributing saplings and seeds to neighbors, teaching the importance of urban forestry, and planting the foundations for a sustainable future. Their hands may be small, but the…

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Make “Boring” Cool: The Secret to Disrupting A Tired Category w/Josh Walker 46:59

10M ago46:59

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The best products disrupt tired categories and breathe new life into done-to-death ideas, but is it still possible? Every year, there are fewer categories to disrupt, especially in clothing-based niches. How can you compete when people can easily buy knock-offs, dupes and cheap goods all over the internet? By going premium, identifying an emerging …

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My Shark Tank Story (and How It Almost Didn't Happen) 27:17

10M ago27:17

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Years later, people still ask about this story. So here it is. Pitching to a group of influential investors is a nerve-wracking experience, and that’s even before you have to do it on national TV! It’s not just a business presentation - you have to be entertaining, compelling, relatable and likable. I found that out when I appeared on Shark Tank. A…

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Storytelling Is The Secret to Successful Seed Funding w/Dan Negroni 51:36

11M ago51:36

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The world of seed funding runs on two currencies - money and connection. Investors aren’t just paying attention to the financials, they are looking for a compelling story that makes them connect with us and then want to get on board. Crafting our story is a step we can’t skip in the early stages of our businesses. The more clarity we have on it, th…

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SGAP Leaders, Leaders-in-training (LIT) Interviews, Part 2: International Food Day 22:07

11M ago22:07

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Send us a text In this heartwarming episode, we take you behind the scenes of a remarkable event where students from SGAP (LITs) Leaders-in-training program came together to fight hunger. “International Food Day” is more than just a celebration of diverse cuisines; it’s a movement led by passionate students dedicated to ending hunger in their commu…

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Seed Money- What Blew My Mind About Early-Stage Funding 9:53

11M ago9:53

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Early-stage fundraising may be a stressful stage in business, but it can also be the most invigorating and exciting time. The determination, drive, conviction, and guts it takes to get seed money is a powerful life force. It’s not just an opportunity to get the resources we need. It’s a chance for investors to access your awesomeness, and absorb th…

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Seed Money Trailer 1:43

11M ago1:43

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Seed Money is where everyday people learn how to raise capital and get the funding you need to FINALLY turn your amazing idea into reality! Whatever your idea is.. product app real estate deal …or maybe you want to build or expand your small business… if you’re struggling to get people to believe in your vision and you don’t need a billion dollar d…

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SGAP Leaders, Leaders-in-training (LIT) Interviews, Part 1: Ending 'Period Poverty' 15:37

11M ago15:37

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Send us a text In partnership between Capital Workspaces and SGAP LEADERS, the next three episodes of THE HUB Podcast we got to interview youth leaders or LIT (Leaders-in-training) in the SGAP Leadership Program about their community projects. In these inspiring episodes, we spotlight the incredible initiatives led by the youth leaders or LIT (Lead…

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Heather Lane Chauney, Owner of Heather Lane Adventures 35:39

12M ago35:39

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Send us a text In this week’s episode, we delve BACK into the captivating world of travel design, and welcome back a very special guest: Heather Lane Chauney, owner of Heather Lane Adventures. Join us as we explore how meticulously crafted itineraries can transform a simple trip into an unforgettable adventure. We’ll discuss the latest trends in tr…

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Cathy Abramson, Painter & Featured Resident Artist at Capital Workspaces 31:26

1+ y ago31:26

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Send us a text www.cathyabramson.org Thanks for listening! Subscribe to hear more stories from local professionals, entrepreneurs, and businesses every week! Leave a comment, message us on social media, or contact us directly to share your thoughts on this weeks episode. If you would like to be guest on The HUB send us an email with your informatio…

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Patrick Smith, Owner of Spotless Auto Spa 17:28

1+ y ago17:28

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Send us a text This week's episode features Patrick Smith, owner of Spotless Auto Spa. Utilizing years of experience and expertise gained from working in automotive detailing and repairs, Patrick decided to start his own automotive detailing company. He also shares some stories of the strangest things he has encountered in his line of work; from a …

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