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The Future Driven Show
Adam talks about the challenges and wins in business, with featured industry professionals, topics include business development, lead generation, leadership, culture, sales, and marketing.
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Welcome to episode 43 of Future Driven! This week, Adam Lejeunekopp spoke with Adam White, founder and CEO of Front Office Sports, a news platform that covers the intersection of sports and business. White started working on the now-named Front Office Sports as a passion project in college. He conducted hundreds of informational interviews and worked to grow a network before graduation. Front Office Sports is now a multimedia platform that keeps the modern sports enthusiast updated on sports and business news. Future Driven is hosted by Adam Lejeunekopp, CEO of the strategic marketing agency, Madak. In each episode, Adam talks to different entrepreneurs and industry leaders, discussing their careers, leadership styles, and goals for the future.
Welcome to episode 42 of Future Driven! This week, Adam spoke with Dave Bunce, CEO of Morphio, a digital marketing, monitoring, and alerts platform. Dave has a background in accounting and found his way into the world of marketing after realizing his desire to be more involved with clients. As the COO of his previous marketing agency, Dave helped create Morphio, which was built to connect ad platforms, Google Analytics, Shopify, eCommerce platforms, etc., to give marketers a holistic look at their campaigns. Morphio is all about accessible AI and allows people that aren’t data scientists to get the most out of their information.
Welcome to episode 41 of Future Driven! This week, Adam spoke with Jeremy Castro, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Brand Marinade, a managed ecommerce and screen printing business. After college, Jeremy was primarily involved in the internet and tech industry as he focused on software and encryption. After the dotcom bubble popped, he began teaching high school math, during which time he also started the high school’s rugby team. Jeremy wanted to do something more entrepreneurial in addition to his other jobs, so he jumped on the chance to start screen printing after his aunt and uncle gave him an old machine. He soon realized he found his passion, and the rest is history!
Welcome to episode 40 of Future Driven! This week, Adam spoke with Edgar Garcia, founder of Edgar Garcia Design Co.Edgar has a degree in graphic design and currently fills many different professional and creative roles. In addition to his more traditional position as a university Art Director, he has freelancing and teaching experience and is a business founder. Edgar is a big proponent of creating networks and communities and hopes to help brands grow while inspiring young creative minds to learn more about design.
Welcome to episode 39 of Future Driven! This week, Adam spoke with Kareem Mostafa, entrepreneur and co-founder of Chopcast.Kareem’s educational background is in marketing, but he had trouble finding a job after school. After a failed startup attempt, he landed a “dream” marketing position at HubSpot. The entrepreneurship bug never went away, and Kareem quit to create Chopcast with his brother, originally named Tribe Tactics. Chopcast provides content repurposing as a service; the idea is to make long-form content more accessible and digestible by chopping it up into shorter pieces of content.
Welcome to episode 38 of Future Driven! This week, Adam spoke with Casey Roloff, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Town Founder of Seabrook, a Washington beach town offering hundreds of homes for purchase or vacation rental. Casey’s impressive home-building skills and strong imagination have helped him create Seabrook and maintain all of the town’s sites.
Welcome to episode 37 of Future Driven! This week, Adam spoke with Bryan Clayton, co-founder and CEO of GreenPal, a mobile app and freelance platform. Bryan has extensive experience in landscaping, which inspired him to develop GreenPal.For the past decade, Bryan has been working on GreenPal and building the platform into what it is today. Before co-founding GreenPal, Bryan owned one of the largest landscaping businesses in the southeast and mowed yards for a living for 15 years. After selling the company, he began considering other avenues he could explore. After recruiting two co-founders, Bryan was able to focus on tech development for GreenPal.
Welcome to episode 36 of Future Driven! This week, Adam spoke with Shana Steigerwalt, CEO of Modern Driven Media. Shana has a knack for building strong connections with her team and clients, ensuring that Modern Driven Media runs smoothly. Her experience in marketing and communications has helped her make Modern Driven Media the success that it is today.
Here’s the harsh truth—it’s impossible to grow a business without marketing. That’s why many companies spend a pretty penny on marketing agencies and specialists to help them create and execute their marketing campaigns. Unfortunately, hiring an agency isn’t always a long-term solution to a business’s marketing needs. With this fact in mind, we created the Madak Guide to empower people to do their own marketing by teaching them the fundamentals.
At first glance, the words “compassionate” and “ruthless” may seem to be complete opposites of one another, but they are a masterfully balanced combination when viewed through the lens of leadership. Being completely ruthless as a leader comes with its benefits and drawbacks, as does being purely compassionate. When these two traits are put together, compassionate ruthless leadership is created, which often breeds success for both the business itself and for the team members that keep it running. Keep reading to learn about what compassionate ruthless leadership is and how it can help you be the most effective leader possible.