Guests

Meredith Hudson founded Sideline Bags to organize sports gear after her teen athlete's backpack became a mess. A former D1 athlete from Yale and a sports mom, she built the company into a trusted solution for over 18,000 female athletes nationwide.

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Ryan Hellriegel is the founder of RollFlex, a wellness company developing recovery tools for common injuries like tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, and shin splints. An entrepreneur and athlete from San Diego, his mission is to help people get back to doing what they love with less pain.

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Tom Hale is the founder, president and CEO of Backroads, the world's leading active travel company. Founded in 1979, Backroads now runs over 5,000 trips across all seven continents. Hale started the business in his 20s with a simple idea: why not take people on bike trips?

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Heather Thorkelson is a polar expedition entrepreneur and founder of Polar Tracks Expeditions and Minimal Impact Cruises. Based in Sweden, she has spent nearly two decades guiding travelers through the Arctic and Antarctic while championing sustainable, low-impact tourism.

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Jake DeLeon is the founder and CEO of Fila Manila, a company crafting award-winning Filipino-inspired sauces and spreads. A former Starbucks executive, he launched the brand in 2020 and later secured a Shark Tank investment.

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Ryan Burkhardt is the co-founder and co-owner of Kong Screen Printing, an Austin-based custom apparel company he started with Bruce Braden in 2011. With an MFA in fine arts, he built the business around a concierge-level customer service model serving brands like Coca-Cola and Topo Chico.

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Tariq Farid is the Founder of Edible Arrangements, the fruit arrangement franchise with 1,200+ stores worldwide. A Pakistani-American entrepreneur, he started his first business at 17 and grew Edible Arrangements into a global brand. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009.

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Natalie Gordon is the founder and CEO of Babylist, the leading universal baby registry. A former software engineer for Amazon, she launched Babylist in 2011 to simplify baby shopping. Based in Oakland, California, she leads the company.

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Breelyn Vanleeuwen, a physician assistant and mom of four, founded Daily Shade Sunscreen after 15 years in medicine. She spent four years developing a 100% non-nano zinc oxide formula that's reef-safe and ghost-face free.

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Niraj Shah is the co-founder, co-chairman, and CEO of Wayfair, the leading online retailer for home goods and furnishings. He launched the company in 2002 with Steve Conine, building it into a dominant e-commerce force by combining technology with a customer-first retail mindset.

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Tess Milholland founded HerHouse to create safe, free accommodations for solo women travelers after her own backpacking journey revealed the risks. A published author of Sherbet Skies, she lives near San Antonio with her family.

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Valerie Zweig is a chicken soup entrepreneur who co-founded Cookstix, Prescription Chicken, and Chix Soup Co. Based in Washington, DC, she turned a search for soup during illness into a thriving food business, creating instant chicken stock powders with bold flavors.

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