The Disruption Lab
By Kevin McGinnis
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Step into the world of innovation with The Disruption Lab live podcast, where groundbreaking ideas and strategic insights come to life. Hosted by Kevin McGinnis and filmed in front of a live studio audience at Keystone Sessions, each episode brings you face-to-face with the visionaries reshaping industries and pioneering new paths in entrepreneurship.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, innovator, or professional eager to fuel your growth and unlock strategic collaboration, The Disruption Lab delivers the tools, stories, and wisdom from top industry disruptors and founders. Join us as we explore the minds of industry leaders to inspire and equip the next wave of disruptors.
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Designed, Not Counted
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Ideas Are Cheap; This Is What Actually Builds a City
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Doing Well by Doing Good: The Lesson That Took 15 Years to Land
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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The Kids Who Never Got to Practice: How VR Is Teaching Social Skills Schools Forgot to Teach
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May 29, 2026 |
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The Hidden Influencers: What Analysts Know, What AI Just Changed, and What It Really Costs to Build Something Worth Stepping Away From
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May 22, 2026 |
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The Corporate Antibody: How Big Companies Kill Innovation (And What Actually Works)
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May 15, 2026 |
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The Quiet Revolution: Why Animal Health Is America's Overlooked Superpower
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May 08, 2026 |
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The Growth That Counts
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May 04, 2026 |
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They Were Wrong by 50% Every Time — Inside the Invisible Crisis Running America's Food Supply Chain
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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From the Capitol to the Startup: Why a State Senator Quit Politics to Fund Founders
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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The Mayor Who Refuses to Play Small: Rebuilding Trust in an Underestimated City
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Inside the Food Access Model Cities Are Getting Wrong: Corner Stores, Redlining, and Feeding a City
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Stop Calling It Charity. Affordable Housing Is Infrastructure.
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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The Money Isn’t the Problem
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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From Grammy Stages to Kansas City Creative Economy
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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The Bottleneck Is Never What You Think It Is
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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95% of It Goes Through China — And We Can't Do Anything About It
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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The #1 Bottleneck in Drug Development Isn’t Science
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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The Overlooked Mental Health Barrier No One Talks About: Pets, Trauma & A 100% Return-Home Solutionn
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Building in Public: How Radical Transparency Is Changing Real Estate, Cities, and Power
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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What Happens to Work When AI Knows Almost Everything? (And What That Means for You)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Building Autonomy and AI for National Security in Kansas City
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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If Your Team Isn’t Listening, It’s Not Them—It’s This One Leadership Mistake
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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The Truth About Gentrification: Can Development Help Without Displacement?
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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From Grants to Growth: How KC GIFT Is Rewriting the Rules of Economic Development
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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AI Isn’t Killing Us—We Are: How to Use Robots Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Community)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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The Power of People: How Benny Lee Built Global Companies—and a Legacy of Giving
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Smart Cities 101: How Tech, Safety & Equity Are Redefining Urban Life
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Inside the Nation’s First Wellness Court - From Punishment to Possibility
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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The Viral Razor from Shark Tank: How Go Nuts Is Changing Men’s Grooming Forever
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Turning 381 Million Tons of Plastic Waste Into Fashion: The Salubata Story
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Future of Voting: Can Civic Tech and AI Save Democracy?
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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From Wall Street Dreams to Regenerating Cities: How Capital Can Heal Communities and the Planet
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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The Startup Taking On the Autism Resource Crisis (And Winning)
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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How a Streetcar, a Park, and a Crazy Idea Changed a Whole City
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The Startup Fix No One Talks About: Why Community Beats Capital
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Why These Founders Are Betting on Startups to Fix Their Countries (Inside the global shift toward entrepreneurship)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Why the $1.8T Construction Industry Is Finally Ready for Disruption (and How AI Will Lead It)
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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You’re Not Failing—You’re Just the First One to Try: What Founders Get Wrong About Doubt
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Why 76% of OTs Want to Be Entrepreneurs (And What’s Broken in Clinical Care That’s Pushing Them There)
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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She Turned Her Wedding Returns Into a High Growth Venture (And It’s Genius)
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Why Building Something That Last Feels So Messy (And What That Actually Means)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Why Innovation in Government Feels Impossible — And What Actually Works
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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How One Scientist Is Turning a $20B Pollution Problem Into a Climate Solution
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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The Biggest Lie in Entrepreneurship—and The Brutal Truth About Starting a Business
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May 31, 2025 |
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How a Small Bank is Quietly Disrupting Big Finance
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May 22, 2025 |
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Businesses that heal: How Social Ventures Can Rebuild Divided Communities
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May 15, 2025 |
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Solving Healthcare’s Billion-Dollar Problem: Meet the Founder Changing Medical Injections Forever
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May 08, 2025 |
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$11 Million Mistake to Startup Success: How DevStride's Founder is Fixing Project Management
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May 01, 2025 |
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Can Journalism Survive? Inside the Fight to Rebuild Trust & Save Local News
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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This AI Skeptic Built One of America's Fastest-Growing Tech Communities: How to Use AI Without Losing Your Humanity
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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"Why Traditional Crime Prevention Is Failing — And What Actually Works, According to People Who’ve Lived It"
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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He Rode With Truckers to Fix a Broken $18B Industry—Here’s What He Learned
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Are We Failing the Future? What Students Really Need to Succeed Today
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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He Built a $100M Business from ‘Lost’ Packages—Here’s How
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Why Building in Public is the Ultimate Growth Hack (Even If It’s Uncomfortable)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Can Cities Build for Both Creatives and Communities? A look at Arts & Housing
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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The Truth About Inclusive Innovation: Why Most Innovation Ecosystems Fail & How to Fix It
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The Future is on Us: AI, Jobs & The Choice to Build a Better World
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Why Most Buildings Are Built to Fail – The Code to Sustainable Housing
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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From Paralyzed to POWERHOUSE: The Hidden Crisis No One Talks About
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Why You Don’t Really Own Your Medical Records (And How The Healthcare System Failed This Founder's Son)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Can This Nonprofit Solve Tech’s Biggest Problem?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The Untold Story of Google Voice: How Curiosity Fuels Disruptive Innovation
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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How Filmmaking Can Reduce Gun Violence and Unite Communities
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Why Most Startups Fail—and How Cypher Beat the Odds to Scale Fast
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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From Smart Roads to Smarter Startups: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurial Resilience
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Why This Founder Thinks Kansas City Needs to Step Up Its Game
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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This Entrepreneur Took on the DMV… and Won: Lessons from a GovTech Founder
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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How Music Education Transforms Communities, Brain Development, & The Economy
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Why Entrepreneurship is a Public Issue – The Economic Benefits Explained
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Oct 31, 2024 |