The Kickstart Podcast
The Kickstart Podcast
Preston Park
Interviews with founders, and other professionals to talk about how they KickStarted their amazing careers, businesses and teams We hope that their journey brings you insights on how you could implement their lessons to your career.
Ep 39: From Catering to Recruiting in Supply Chain and Logistics
In this episode, we talk with Domenic Maiani, Founder of Lazio Search Group, a Recruitment Firm that specializes in IT, Supply Chain and Logistics. We talk briefly about his experience starting a catering business, how he was able to leverage his experience as an athlete to find success and how he was able to scale fast in the first year. He shares alot of great insights and tips in this episode and we are excited to see where his business will go into the future! Check them out here! https://laziosearch.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Oct 10, 2023
51 min
Ep 38: From Airborne Ranger to Recruiting Entrepreneur
In this episode, we talk with Zack Frost, the Founder of Laboris Tech, a Tech focused Recruitment Agency out of Sweden. We talk about his semipro hockey career, his time as a Ranger and how both of these experiences helped him to find success with his growing recruitment business. Zack shares alot of great insights and tips in this episode and we are excited to see where his business will go into the future! Check them out here! https://laboristech.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Sep 13, 2023
57 min
Ep 37: From Marketing at Capital One to Founder of Fully Remote Growth Marketing Agency
In this episode, we talk with Jeanna Barrett, the founder and Chief Remote Officer at First Place Strategy, a global growth marketing agency that partners with product-led companies looking to achieve high-volume, sustainable growth. In this exciting episode, we talk about what her professional marketing experience was like at companies like Capital One and Kabbage, how she made the jump to work for herself, how she was able to scale and maintain a strong remote culture at First Place, why she firmly believes that remote work is here to stay and why she is excited about the future! Check them out here! https://www.firstpagestrategy.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
May 5, 2023
51 min
Ep 36: From Google to CoFounder to Dir of Engineering at Sustainable Finance Startup!!
In this episode, we talk with Steve Merritt, the Dir of Engineering at Tenet, a sustainable financial platform that is helping you lower your EV Payments. In this exciting episode, he shares his experience as a Software Engineer at Google, why he left that job to cofound his company, the biggest lessons he learned from being a founder, his take on a 4 day work week vs a 5 day work week and why he is excited about what he and his team are doing at Tenet! Check them out here! https://tenet.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Apr 30, 2023
53 min
Ep 35: From TripAdvisor to Wayfair to CTO of Travel Booking Platform for Bus and Trains!
In this episode, we talk with Arnaud Lucas, the CTO of Wanderu, a travel booking startup that offers the simplest way to book bus and train travel. In this episode we go over how he was inspired to pursue a career in engineering, what it was like working at companies like TripAdvisor and Wayfair, how he made the jump from a stable job at a large company to a small startup and why he is very excited about Wanderu's future! Check them out here! https://www.wanderu.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Apr 25, 2023
49 min
Ep 34: From Investment Banking and Management Consulting to transforming Mental Healthcare!!
In this episode, we talk with Chris Mitchell, the Co Founder and CEO of Float, a company that is building a platform that will transform the market for mental healthcare. In this episode we go over what inspired him to pursue a degree in Foreign Service and Chinese Studies, how he got a job at top investment banks and consulting firms and what he liked and disliked about both experience and how he came up with the idea of Float and why he is so excited about its future! Check them out here! https://www.floatfi.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Apr 16, 2023
34 min
Ep 33: How this CEO is trying to improve your health with Precision Nutrients
In this episode, we talk with Rachel Sanders, CEO and Co-Founder of Rootine, a startup that helps you understand what your body needs to perform optimally and then provide the solutions to help you get there through precision lab tests, nutrients, and guidance. In this exciting episode, we talked about her main takeaways from attending Harvard Business School, how to find the perfect balance between being an ambitious CEO and a mother, what inspired her to work in healthcare and why she believes Rootine is different compared to the competitors on the market Check them out here! https://rootine.co/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Apr 1, 2023
39 min
Ep 32: From Head of AI to Revolutionizing E-Commerce!
In this episode, we talk with Liam Kinney, the Co-Founder of Canal, a company that is on a mission to guide and empower digital merchandisers to activate and manage brand partnerships and capitalize on 3rd party merchandising opportunities. In this episode we talked about his experience pursuing a masters in AI and what he thinks the future of AI will be, his experience working both as a software engineer, machine learning engineer and a product marketer, what he focused on as a Head of AI to what inspired him to create Canal! Check them out here! https://shopcanal.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Mar 29, 2023
53 min
Ep 31: From Biotechnology to CEO of Premiere Learning and Development Platform
In this episode, we talk with Akhila Satish, the CEO of Meseekna, a metacognitive assessment and talent development platform that measures and trains “how” participants think. In this episode we talked about what first inspired her to pursue a degree in biotechnology, her thoughts on how companies can create and maintain stronger team engagement and lower turnover at the same, how Messekna's platform can maximize a workforce's potential by reducing bias and subjective judgement and why she is excited about the company's future! Check them out here! https://www.meseekna.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Mar 6, 2023
53 min
Ep 30: From Biochemistry Degree to Director of Design in Tech
In this episode, we talk with Jacob Esparza, the Dir of Design at BigEye, an industry-leading data observability platform that gives data engineering and science teams the tools they need to ensure their data is always fresh, accurate and reliable. In this episode, we talk about how he went from a degree in biochemistry to pursuing design, how he was able to work both as a product manager and product designer earlier in his career and how he was able to leverage the unique experience to find success in his career and how he was able to grow from a Product Designer to a Dir at BigEye and why he's personally excited for the company's future! Check them out here! https://www.bigeye.com/ Know someone who could be a guest on this podcast? Email me at thekickstartpodcast@gmail.com Need Help with Hiring or Looking for a Job? Go to https://www.kickstartfinder.com/
Feb 26, 2023
1 hr 3 min
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