The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn

By Renita Kalhorn | Founder Coach

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This is the High-EQ Founder, a podcast about how emotional intelligence can help you evolve faster and level up as a leader. Through interviews with founders and solo shares, deep tech leadership coach Renita Kalhorn shares nuanced insights and practical strategies for making hard decisions, extracting more learning from your mistakes and maximizing your ”return on luck” — so you can evolve faster and lead better.

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Episode Date
Why a Growth Mindset Isn’t Enough in High-Stakes Deals
Dec 09, 2025
Why You Might Be Actually Be Able to Afford "Too Expensive" Talent, the Two Main Reasons Senior Hires Don’t Work Out, and What Separates Talent Investors From Talent Traders, With Raman Ramalingam
Oct 20, 2025
Hard Lessons Learned From Bootstrapping Three Startups, Why Purple Ocean Strategy Beats Blue Ocean Disruption and The Surprising Self-Sabotage Trap That Came With Success, With Melissa Kwan
Jul 02, 2025
Turning Environmental Impact Into Bottom-Line Wins, Navigating The Bleeding Edge Of Innovation, And Building Relationships That Trump Luck, With Nadine Cino
May 02, 2025
Tackling Food Waste In the $72B Cruise Industry, Overcoming the Odds of an “Incurable” Health Condition and The Mindset That Helps Him Consistently Create His Own Luck, With Robert E. Buchanan
Mar 21, 2025
Helping Deep Tech Startups Survive "Death Valley," The Painful Lesson He Learned From Overconfidence and the Unexpected Benefits of Bootstrapping a Biotech Startup, With Diogo Dutra
Jan 29, 2025
The top five EQ skills you need to win in 2025 [Audio Newsletter]
Jan 09, 2025
Stuck in overthinking? This one word changes everything. [Audio Newsletter]
Dec 16, 2024
Pivoting From Industrial Service to Impact Startup, Leading The Fight Against Microplastic Pollution and Investing in Scientific Research (When The Big Industry Players Wouldn’t), With Declan McAdams
Nov 12, 2024
Losing Three Co-Founders in the First 12 Months, The Mistake He Made Following The Silicon Valley Playbook and How He Turned Being Sued Into A Competitive Advantage
Oct 17, 2024
Democratizing Real Estate for the 99%, How To Take On Financial Regulators (and Win) and The Military Mantra That Makes Him Resilient, With Gary Woodhead
Sep 27, 2024
Revolutionizing Farming for Millions of Smallholder Farmers, Why He Decided to Bootstrap Rather Than Take VC Funding and How A Generosity Mindset Led To Meeting Former President Obama
Sep 12, 2024
Building One of Europe’s Best-Funded Quantum Computing Start-ups, Optimizing For Both People and Technical Leadership and How A Major Setback Can Accelerate Growth, With Kuan Yen Tan of IQM
Aug 30, 2024
Why PhD Students Make Great Founders, How To Get The Best Out of Your Board and Turning An Unexpected Rejection Into Something Much Better, With Riam Kanso
Mar 26, 2024
Building an AI Coach To Democratize Leadership Training, How To Avoid the Pitfalls of Groupthink and The Tiny Actions That Increase Your Luck Surface Area, With Darja Gutnick
Mar 07, 2024
Making Space Innovation Easier And Less Expensive, The Key to an Amicable Co-Founder Break-Up and Learning to Trust Your Gut, With Bianca Cefalo
Feb 26, 2024
How Navy SEALs Show Vulnerability Without Looking Weak, the Dangers of Authority Bias, How The Osama Bin Laden Mission Almost Didn't Happen (and The Key To Its Success), With Dave Cooper
Feb 10, 2024
Tackling Overfishing With Deep Tech Precision, the Importance of Transparency in Building a Team That Has Your Back, and Why They Collaborate With Com...
Dec 18, 2023
Using the Power of Intuition and Intentionality To Take The Right Risks, Make Tough Decisions and Create Your Own Luck, With Sophie Cahen
Nov 11, 2023
Engineering Serendipity to Two Exits and €140M In Funding, the Cash Management Lesson Learned From a €12M Mistake, and Why He Stepped Down As CEO Two ...
Oct 09, 2023