From Founder To CEO

By Todd Uterstaedt

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If you are a Founder who loves the company you started, and you want to be the CEO that pilots it to sustained success, you’re in the right place! Hear from dynamic, inspiring, and successful Founders as they share their insightful stories and practical tips that make becoming the CEO more fun, stress free, and easier to build and scale the company and life of your dreams. Your guide, Todd Uterstaedt, is super passionate about Startup CEO success and wants to help boost your leadership capabilities, confidence, and mindset so that you can: 1) Build, scale, and lead your company commensurate with your dreams and aspirations 2) Maintain control of your company 3) Enhance your company’s valuation for possible succession or a profitable exit. It’s leadership development for the busy Founder and CEO.

Episode Date
Co-Founder of #1 Catholic App: Surrender
Jun 11, 2022
Founder of Spartan Races: "The Obstacle Is The Way" & His New CNBC TV Show
Feb 07, 2022
Why Relinquish The Role Of CEO? - Award Winning Founder Tells His Story
Dec 26, 2021
How this Founder powered back from a $100,000 lawsuit that nearly destroyed his business
Dec 01, 2021
25 Years As Founder Of #1 Blinds.com: Jay Steinfeld - "Be As Generous As You Can"
Nov 14, 2021
What to do when you make a BIG BAD decision
Sep 07, 2021
BIG 400TH INTERVIEW: Jason Fried discusses his controversial decision & its fallout
Aug 31, 2021
What To Do When You Need To Exit 2 Co-Founders
Aug 30, 2021
Shark Tank Founder: Deciding If You Want To Be CEO?
Aug 10, 2021
BIG EcoTech Founder: Use your "breakdown" as your "breakthrough"
Jul 27, 2021
"Unicorn" Founder/CEO: Growth Requires Defining New Team Member Scope
Jul 03, 2021
Elias Guerra: Even a patient Founder needs more patience
Jun 08, 2021
The Courage To Share The Truth...When It Is Needed Most
May 25, 2021
The 22 Talk SHIFTs that will change your leadership...and life
May 18, 2021
Tara: Here is what I did when I was not delegating effectively
May 11, 2021
FOCUS: It's hard to do when you are like THIS Founder
May 04, 2021
The powerful combination of founder vulnerability & accountability
Apr 27, 2021
BONUS: The 5 Steps To An Undefeated Marketing System
Apr 21, 2021
Giving Up Sales To Scale The Company: True Story Of Growth
Apr 20, 2021
Friday Founder Fundraising Forum: Lucas - Know WIIFM for each investor
Apr 16, 2021
How to overcome the Founder "all or nothing" fitness pitfall
Apr 15, 2021
Setting Expectations Nearly Lost Him Investment $, Setting Objectives Got It Back
Apr 13, 2021
The merits of being a "lazy" co-founder? Yes.
Apr 06, 2021
What to do if a Co-founder isn't a fit any more
Mar 30, 2021
EXIT: His reasons for selling (and what you might consider)
Mar 23, 2021
Battling Cancer (Twice) & Shady Characters Made Her Stronger & Changed Her Business Model
Mar 16, 2021
Are You Backable? - Listen to what YOU can do to get the capital you need
Mar 14, 2021
Founder Fundraising Myth #3: Your Power (Crucial Connections)
Mar 12, 2021
Founder Fundraising Myth #2: Your Pitch (Crucial Connections)
Mar 11, 2021
Founder Fundraising Myth #1: Your Persistence (Crucial Connections)
Mar 10, 2021
Sponsorships For Capital: From Two Emmy Award Winning Co-Founders
Mar 09, 2021
Overcoming The Discomfort Of Raising Capital
Mar 08, 2021
How To Recover From A Failed Financial Projection To Your Investors & Team Members
Mar 02, 2021
How to be a Great Founder/Team Leader When YOU are a HIGH Achieving Person
Feb 23, 2021
Shae Bynes: Are You Moving Away From Something Or Toward Something?
Feb 16, 2021
Founder Habits: He mastered them and he tells you how YOU can too
Feb 09, 2021
Sequoia Capital Backed Founder: Create Hiring Processes That Scale
Feb 02, 2021
What to do when your passions get the better of you
Jan 26, 2021
Founder: Winning At Work/Life Boundaries
Jan 19, 2021
FINTECH Unicorn ($2.42B) Co-Founder/CEO: Don't shelter the team from bad news
Jan 12, 2021
Former SONIC CEO: Founders As "Masters Of None"
Jan 05, 2021
Are you letting your failures obscure your genius?
Dec 31, 2020
Mario: You don't need to hire people that you don't want to spend time with
Dec 29, 2020
BONUS: Dr Choi - How To Use Neuroscience To Improve Your Performance
Dec 28, 2020
Being Friendly VS Being Friends, With Team Members
Dec 22, 2020
How This Founder Overcame The Intimidation Factor
Dec 15, 2020
23 Year Old Founder: Compromising With Dev Team Led To More Success
Dec 08, 2020
Berkshire Hathaway Bought His Companies, After He Learned To "Loosen His Grip"
Dec 01, 2020
BONUS: How focusing on simplicity for his customer & for his business, generated MORE success
Nov 30, 2020
When Co-Founders Part Ways: What Dan Learned About Himself
Nov 24, 2020
BONUS: Zac Mason - The 4 Limiting Belief/Myths Of Founder Fitness
Nov 19, 2020
The Consequences Of Hiring People Just Like You
Nov 17, 2020
The Founder of The Factual Discovered He Wasn't A Good Product Manager
Nov 10, 2020
BONUS: Being A Couple & Co-Founders: How to make this unique relationship work
Nov 06, 2020
BONUS: Former NAVY SEAL, Errol Doebler: Great leaders foster psychological safety
Nov 05, 2020
The tension between our aspirations and the realities of entrepreneurship
Nov 03, 2020
65,000 Barbers Use His App, But This One Thing Is Hard For Him To Give Up
Oct 27, 2020
Founder of Beachbody talks about building an "off ramp"
Oct 20, 2020
Dunkin' Donuts CEO Shares The Story When Hubris Got The Better Of Him
Oct 13, 2020
Kara Goldin: The Legendary Founder Of Hint Water On Her Biggest Challenge As A Leader
Oct 06, 2020
Even THIS Founder Doesn't Get Hiring Right ALL The Time
Sep 29, 2020
Think ALL Investor Money Is Good Money? Think Again. Johanan Explains Why
Sep 22, 2020
The LinkedIn Ads Guru On Switching Focus To The Team
Sep 15, 2020
Selling to Carvana And Now Working On Auto Loans: Can Cause Stress
Sep 08, 2020
Twice The Struggle - How She Succeeds & Overcomes Racism As An African-American Founder
Sep 01, 2020
BONUS: Queen City Angels: 4 Mistakes Founders Make Pitching Angel Investors
Aug 29, 2020
MarTech Founder shares some unique insights about who should attend "feature" meetings
Aug 25, 2020
Data Science & Bras: Heidi Zak innovates AND gets commitment on tough decisions
Aug 18, 2020
Ben Chestnut on receiving and acting on personally critiquing feedback
Aug 11, 2020
Conquering conflict avoidance helped fuel 50% annual growth for the past 2 years
Aug 04, 2020
Learning to say no in order to grow
Jul 28, 2020
BONUS: 4 Founders Just Talk About It
Jul 23, 2020
COVID-19 Exploded Growth...Now He Had An Inventory Problem
Jul 21, 2020
How This Founder Overcame Self-Confidence Issues And How You Can Too
Jul 14, 2020
Jake Checked His Ego And That Created More Growth
Jul 07, 2020
Why Silicon Valley Culture Did Not Work For His Company
Jun 30, 2020
The BIG shift this Founder made that created explosive growth
Jun 23, 2020
The One Question This Lawyer/Co-Founder Uses To Reveal Culture Fit
Jun 16, 2020
Why Do Celebrities Like Kelly Clarkson, Usher, and Tony Robbins Flock To This Founder/Doctor?
Jun 09, 2020
COVID-19 Turned This Founder Into A "War-Time" Leader
Jun 05, 2020
Co-Founder of Netflix: When Reed Hastings said he is losing faith in me as CEO
Jun 02, 2020
4 Actions To Successfully Lead Through Crisis
May 26, 2020
BONUS: 11 Components Of Your New Coronavirus Job Description
May 21, 2020
Battling COVID-19 With Great Tech While Transitioning From Founder To CEO
May 18, 2020
Conquer Perfectionism & Launch With This Founder's Advice
May 12, 2020
BONUS: Bombed NAVY Ship Commander - How Founders Can Lead During COVID-19 Crisis
May 07, 2020
2008 Taught This Founder How To Win In 2020
May 05, 2020
BONUS: The 3 NEW Messages Converting Customers in the Coronavirus Economy
Apr 30, 2020
He received feedback that prompted him to change...so he did
Apr 28, 2020
BONUS: Jenny Kay - Founder Crisis Communication Tips During Covid-19
Apr 22, 2020
He Sold His First Company To Kellogg's: Focus On One Fire At A Time
Apr 21, 2020
BONUS: KC Royals Pitcher, Author, & Speaker On Embracing "Sweaty Palms" During Crisis Leadership
Apr 15, 2020
Are You Tapping Into The Collective Wisdom Of Your Team?
Apr 14, 2020
BONUS: How This Army Veteran & Founder Uses *V-U-C-A* To Lead Through The Covid-19 Crisis
Apr 09, 2020
BONUS: 2 Todds W/ Podcasts: Our 5 Year Anniversary & His Successful Launch
Apr 08, 2020
Regional Airline CEO On A Key Lesson Of Remote Leadership
Apr 07, 2020
She had to let 98% of her 600 team members go: Here's how she did it
Mar 31, 2020
He wants to make you a Sales Hero, and Learned How NOT to be A Hero CEO
Mar 24, 2020
Are you surrounded by people who contribute or contaminate?
Mar 17, 2020
Evan Carmichael Has Over 2 Mill YouTube Subscribers And One BIG Fear
Mar 10, 2020