Podcasts by On The Heels of Innovation with Ted Zoller

Season 3, Episode 12 - An entrepreneur’s path to anti-racist education from 2020-12-07T05:18:09

With Ronda Taylor Bullock, co-founder and lead curator, we are

When Ronda Taylor Bullock enrolled in her doctoral program at the UNC School of Education in 2014, she planned to be an educ...

Season 3, Episode 11 - Global venture grind from 2020-11-16T08:48:46

With Niki Shamdasani (UNC-Chapel Hill alumna), co-founder and CEO of Sani; and Ritika Shamdasani (NC State student), co-founder of Sani

For two sisters who grew up in rural North Carolina...

Season 3, Episode 10 - On the edge of thriving from 2020-10-12T06:17:55

With Cecilia Polanco, founder and CEO, So Good Pupusas

After several  years of investing in her El Salvadorian-inspired, socially driven food  truck businesses, 2020 promis...

Season 3, Episode 9 - Identifying the entrepreneurial spark from 2020-09-28T04:43:31

With Sheri Smith, founder and CEO of the Indigo Project

What if you had more than an inkling of who is most poised to become an entrepreneur? What if there was a way to identify K-12 stud...

Season 3, Episode 8 - Social capital for all from 2020-08-28T04:24:23

With Patrick Sullivan, CEO of Bonsai; and Jake Rosenfeld, COO of Bonsai

For many, the scenario is familiar: You apply for a job, and 10 days later an email hits your inbox polite...

Season 3, Episode 7 - The Virtual Intern Life from 2020-07-30T23:30:25

With Zac Gonzalez, Carolina alumnus and former student intern at Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Entrepreneurship Center; and Asa Juhlin, Carolina student and summer virtual intern

In the...

Season 3, Episode 6 - The entrepreneurial pharmacist: Connecting clinic to community from 2020-06-25T22:22:46

With Franklin Roye, PharmD, president and co-founder of IndyCare; and Eshelman School of Pharmacy alumnus

Imagine  that you have the flu. But now you don’t have to visit your doctor ...

Season 3, Episode 5 - When the goal is going out of business from 2020-05-26T15:20:17

With Nick Black, co-founder and chairman of Stop Soldier  Suicide; CEO and founder of GoodUnited; MBA alumnus of Kenan-Flagler  Business School.

Army veteran Nick Black’s entrep...

Season 3, Episode 4 - Work Worth Doing from 2020-04-19T10:40:17

With Alex Brandwein, MBA student at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and founder of Brandwein Bagels

Like many entrepreneurs, Alex Brandwein found that when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he...

Season 3, Episode 3 - Can crowds solve wicked problems? from 2020-03-27T01:41:17

With Arvind Malhotra, H. Allen Andrew Professor of Entrepreneurial Education and Professor and Strategy of Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Wi...

Season 3, Episode 2 - Building Black Wall Street 2.0 from 2020-02-23T21:03:07

With Doug Speight, serial entrepreneur, former executive director of American Underground, and UNC-Chapel Hill MBA alumnus

Many people are familiar with the entrepreneurial renaissance th...

Season 3, Episode 1 - The Entrepreneurial Outliers from 2020-01-23T15:36:55

How Venture for America finds young college grads with uncommon traits to build companies and communities across the country

Featuring Amy Nelson, CEO of Venture for America

What &...

Season 2, Episode 12 - An Entrepreneur’s Resume: Passion and People from 2019-12-13T03:47:09

With serial social entrepreneur and founder Alec Guettel

Serial social entrepreneur and Carolina alumnus Alec Guettel has secret for UNC graduates who are polishing their resumes: he’s ne...

Season 2, Episode 11 - Global entrepreneurship rising from 2019-11-13T23:00:59

With Elmira Bayrasli global entrepreneurship author, CEO and co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted, and professor at Bard College

Picture an entrepreneur in your head, and you probably...

Season 2, Episode 10 - Gumption and Goals: Breakthrough Insights on Women Entrepreneurs from 2019-10-21T03:00

With New York Times Best-selling author, entrepreneur and innovation consultant Diana Kander

What makes successful women entrepreneurs tick? And what unique challenges do they face? Autho...

Season 2, Episode 9 - The unspoken entrepreneurial abyss from 2019-10-06T19:40:09

With serial entrepreneur, investor, writer and UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus Erik Severinghaus

In the movies, on TV shows and in our everyday conversations, we portray entrepreneurs...

Season 2, Episode 8 - Activate your individuality: From passion to perseverance from 2019-09-30T03:49:21

With entrepreneur, CEO, investor and author John Chisholm

When starting a venture, you might immediately begin to identify the traditional assets that your business needs to cult...

Season 2, Episode 7 - Startup success formulas from 2019-09-25T17:41:06

With Carolina student innovators Jordy Ascencio of Carolina Thrift and Aneesh Agarwal of Health Smart Technologies

Is there a common formula that students follow when they build successfu...

Season 2, Episode 6 - Entrepreneurs Within the Enterprise from 2019-09-19T19:00

With Christian Carlson, Director of State, Local and Provincial Government at Esri; MBA Alumnus, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Most entrepreneurs who launch startups acknowledge that ...

Season 2, Episode 5 - Six skills to build when launching your venture from 2019-09-19T17:00

With student founders Andrianna Dallis of Arkoudaki and Ashka Shah of SaniStation

Which skills are essential for students to develop and practice when they’re working to launch a venture?...

Season 2, Episode 4 - The Bridge from Profit to Positive Impact from 2019-09-16T20:46:49

With Susan Otten, founder, Indie Do Good

The more profit you make, the more good you can do. And the more good you do, the more profit you can make. It’s a dual-sided core belief that mot...

Season 2, Episode 3 - Intern insiders: Why start out at a startup from 2019-04-26T20:21:16

With Clare Droney and Christian Hansen, Thinkternship student participants at UNC-Chapel Hill

Everything you needed to know about business you learned in .... the classroom? Not for today...

Season 2, Episode 2 - Making a bigger difference with big ideas from 2019-04-10T01:09:02

With Lindsay Player, UNC-Chapel Hill alumna and former co-president of Musical Empowerment; Sha Chang, founder of EmpowerRT and professor at the UNC School of Medicine

What are the secret...

Season 2, Episode 1 - Entrepreneurs: All in, All the Time? from 2019-03-11T19:34:18

With Brent Comstock, founder and CEO of BCom Solutions; principal, Change Ventures

For entrepreneurs, what does it mean to be all in, all the time? As entrepreneur, rural economic develop...

Episode 15: Tech Venture Traction: Five Keys to a Successful Start from 2019-01-28T13:35:32

With Kimiko Suzuki and Jessime Kirk (CodeStories) and Rob Haisfield (Aloha)

If you’re looking for advice on how to start a venture, you might not immediately think of turning ...

Episode 14: Teaching Entrepreneurship - The Now and Next from 2019-01-14T03:39:13

With Rebecca White, Entrepreneurship and James W. Walter Distinguished Chair of Entrepreneurship; Director, Entrepreneurship Center; Professor; University of Tampa

Can you teach entrepren...

Episode 13: To Learn and Launch - Student Entrepreneurs Talk Passion, Skills and Tenacity from 2018-12-10T21:02:24

With Lucy Best and Emily Kian (Phyta) and Ana Soule (Phoenyx Project) Problem or solution? Which should you be more passionate about as a student entrepreneur? And what’s more critical: having the...

Episode 12: The Collision of Ethics and Entrepreneurship with Tom Byers from 2018-11-24T19:01:51

With Tom Byers, professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford University Data privacy concerns at Facebook. Fraud at Theranos. Sexual harassment controversies at Google. The news headlines are filled ...

Episode 11: Passion-Driven Entrepreneurship and Making with Ben Barras from 2018-10-29T15:23:45

with Ben Barras, president and chief operating officer at Indie Do Good Find what you love and do it. When Ben Barras emerged from a dispiriting part of his distinguished career in consumer produc...

Episode 10: In Perfect Alignment: UNC Dental Researcher Creates Braces of Future with 3D Printing from 2018-10-08T15:06:35

With Dr. Christina Jackson, instructor and former Masters Student at UNC School of Dentistry. Getting braces for straighter teeth is a rite of passage for many adolescents and an increasing number...

Episode 9: Baristas & Builders: How UNC Students Launched an On-Campus Coffee Shop from 2018-09-03T21:45:34

Interview with Lauren Eaves and Scott Diekema, Co-Founders of The Meantime Coffee Co. When a small group of UNC students team set out to launch a full-service, student-run coffee shop on campus, t...

Episode 8: Alexandra & Remmington of Coulture on what it takes to build a fashion magazine from 2018-08-01T00:13:09

Coulture Magazine, the premier fashion lifestyle publication at UNC-Chapel Hill, has taken the campus by storm. What began as a conversation over lunch between Alexandra Hehlen and Remington Remmel...

Episode 7: Jim Clifton & Sangeeta Badal on How Entrepreneurial Builders Can Energize the Economy from 2018-06-26T21:03:53

How is a builder different from an entrepreneur and an innovator? And how can you build something - a new business, nonprofit, social enterprise or initiative - that can make an economic and social...

Episode 6: Taylor Rhodes on Power of Building: Teams, Technology, and Work Ethic from 2018-05-14T10:12:24

This episode features entrepreneur Taylor Rhodes, class of 2002 alum of the UNC Kenan Flagler Business School MBA program and CEO of SMS assist, a company at the intersection of the cloud and facil...

Episode 4, How Basketball Fundamentals Can Inspire Your Entrepreneurial Playbook with Bill Aulet from 2018-03-21T04:52:22

Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Bill has degrees from Harvard and MIT, ...

Episode 3, On The Heels of Innovation with Ted Zoller: Drew Sechrist (3/3) from 2018-03-19T21:14:23

The very first episode of On The Heels of Innovation!

Episode 2, On the Heels of Innovation with Ted Zoller: Drew Sechrist (2/3) from 2018-03-19T21:13

The very first episode of On The Heels of Innovation!

Episode 1, On The Heels of Innovation with Ted Zoller: Drew Sechrist (1/3) from 2018-02-23T05:15:52

The very first episode of On The Heels of Innovation!