Scaling a startup will challenge your identity just as much as your systems.

Charles Wayn knows that firsthand. As the co-founder of Galxe, the largest onchain distribution platform in web3, he’s helped millions of users engage with blockchain in a way that actually makes sense.

But behind the numbers is a founder who’s had to navigate what it really means to evolve: as a leader, a builder, and a human being.

In this episode, we’ll talk about what most scaling conversations miss:

→ ⁠⁠Delegation Without Disconnection: How Founders Can Scale by Trusting the Right People

→ Systems That Serve, Not Suffocate: Creating Operational Clarity That Actually Works

→ Growth Isn’t Linear: What It Takes to Evolve Through the Stages of Scaling

From leading DLive to acquisition, to building Galxe with backing from Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures, and Dragonfly Capital, Charles brings real insight into what it takes to level up, without burning out.

Join us live on Sep 9th

Tuesday at 8PM EST

What happens when the business works, but it stops working for you?

That’s the question Alanna Levenson helps leaders face head-on.

Alanna is a Peak Profits Builder and Lifestyle Architect who’s coached hundreds of high-performing founders, CEOs, and leadership teams to break through hidden barriers and build businesses that actually align with the lives they want.

She’s direct, intuitive, and outcome-focused, and she’s not here to give you fluff or frameworks that sound good but stall out in practice.

In this episode, we talked about what it really looks like to step back and reevaluate, without blowing up everything you’ve built.

Alanna shared why most founders hit a wall after they’ve “made it,” and how to create space for clarity before the burnout sneaks in.

We talked about the fear that shows up when freedom becomes an option, and the tension between staying in control vs. letting go in order to grow.

You don’t have to blow up your business to realign.

You just need to lead it differently.

➜ Discussion Topics

• When Success Stops Feeling Like Success

• Freedom, Fulfillment, and the Fear of Letting Go

• Reclaiming Direction Without Burning It All Down

If your growth goals are clashing with your lifestyle, or if success hasn’t felt how you thought it would, this one will hit home.

No performance, just perspective.

Tune in live Tuesday, August 26 at 8PM EST.

Bring your questions. Join the chat.

Scaling revenue without overhiring.

Building a sales motion that doesn’t feel like manipulation.

Leading with clarity when the pressure to perform never slows down.

That’s what Joey Gilkey has been doing and doing well.

Joey is the Founder and CEO of TitanX, a revenue tech company that’s transforming how sales teams connect, convert, and scale.

Instead of adding more reps, he built a platform that helps teams 4x their connect rates and 10x their output, with fewer calls, better targeting, and bold guarantees to back it up.

But this episode goes deeper than sales strategy or SaaS metrics.

It’s a look at what it takes to bootstrap a B2B company from $0 to $5M ARR in a year, stay sane while doing it, and build a lean team that outperforms without burning out.

Joey is sharp, direct, and deeply human in how he leads, and he’s not here to sell hype.

➜ Discussion Topics:

• $0 to $5M ARR in 12 Months: What Bootstrapping Looks Like Behind the Scenes

• Outbound Without Burnout: Rebuilding Sales Around Humans, Not Scripts

• Scaling Without the Bloat: How to Build a Team That Hits Harder With Less

If you’re navigating product-market fit, GTM strategy, outbound sales, or early-stage hiring, this is the kind of founder-to-founder conversation we don’t get enough of.

Tune in live Tuesday, August 12 at 8PM EST.

Ask questions. Join the chat. Bring your real challenges.

See what a more human approach to growth can look like.

Change doesn’t wait for clarity. And neither does leadership.On this episode of the Warm-Blooded Founders Show, I’m joined by Jessica Powers, Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Joyful Development Group, a strategic powerhouse who helps legacy-driven brands turn relationships into leverage, and purpose into sustainable growth.Jessica’s approach to leadership is deeply human and refreshingly honest. She’s built her life and business around values most founders don’t stop to name, accessibility, advocacy, and long-term alignment and she brings that clarity into every partnership she helps build.This conversation will hit especially hard for those of you in a season of pivot, pressure, or quiet recalibration.➜ Topics we’ll cover:→ Adapt or Erode: What Founders Need to Know About Navigating Change Without Losing Clarity→ Leadership Is Lonely: The Real Cost of Isolation and How to Reconnect→ Sustainable Vision: How to Hold the Long-Term in a Short-Term WorldIf you’ve been moving fast and questioning what still feels true, this conversation might meet you where you are.Jessica speaks from the kind of experience you don’t learn in a book, real-world resilience, tested through change. You’ll feel that in every word.Join us live → July 22 at 8PM EST.Add it to your calendar and come through warm-blooded.

Matt Fogarty didn’t set out to be a founder. He was on track for a career in sports, until his senior year of college, when he found out he was going to be a father.

That moment forced a shift in priorities, from chasing passion to building stability.

Sales came first. Then purpose.

Today, Matt leads Cherry Willow Apparel, a brand reshaping how people think about homelessness, beauty, and belonging.

Profits fund tech tools that connect unhoused individuals with nonprofits and services. It’s apparel with a mission but the brand is just the beginning.

Matt also supports small businesses as a digital strategist at Hibu, and teaches financial literacy as a licensed agent with WFG Transamerica.

Across every role, the throughline is service: to family, to community, and to a better version of work.

In this episode, we’ll unpack:

→ Finding Peace in the Chaos: How to Build a Mission-Driven Startup Without Burning Out

→ Your Body Is a Business Asset: Why Founders Can’t Afford to Ignore Physical Fitness

→ Align or Implode: How Founders Can Integrate Purpose, Passion, and Practicality

Building something meaningful rarely follows a straight path. It takes clarity, resilience, and a deep connection to the why behind your work.

This episode dives into that reality, what it looks like to build with intention, stay aligned through change, and carry both purpose and pressure at the same time.

We talk a lot about culture, resilience, and stakeholder alignment.

But how often do we stop to ask: who’s still being left out?

A Warm-Blooded Founders Live Event Featuring, Dr. Kirk Adams, Managing Director of Innovative Impact LLC, will shift your lens.

Kirk brings decades of leadership in disability employment, policy, and systems change, helping both Fortune 500s and federal agencies move from mission statements to measurable progress.

We’ll unpack what most companies are missing when it comes to inclusive hiring and what founders can learn from the lived experiences of people with disabilities.

From building truly adaptive cultures to aligning stakeholders across sectors, Kirk shares what it really takes to lead with purpose and performance.

We talk about:

→⁠ ⁠From Mission to Movement: How Inclusive Hiring Fuels Culture and Competitive Advantage

→ ⁠Resilience, Bias, and Adaptation: What Founders Can Learn from Lived Disability Experience

→ ⁠Building Bridges, Not Silos: What It Really Takes to Align Stakeholders Across Sectors

This goes beyond surface-level DEI.

It’s a conversation about designing businesses where inclusion drives real impact, culturally and commercially.

June 24th 2025 at 8PM EST

If you’re serious about building a company that reflects the world we live in and performs because of it, don’t miss this.

This one’s got range.

Juan Luis Betancourt has led global brands like Puma and Decathlon, built one of the top executive search firms in the country, and now runs Humantelligence, an AI company focused on making work more human. What makes this conversation stand out is the depth of insight he brings from all those experiences.

We get into what it means to lead across industries and life chapters while staying grounded in purpose. Juan shares how 15+ years of plant medicine shaped his view of leadership, decision-making, and what it means to live well, on your own terms.

We talk about:

→ AI That Enhances, Not Replaces

→⁠ ⁠⁠15 Years of Plant Medicine: Lessons in Life, Work, and Self

→ ⁠⁠The Startup CEO Journey: Lessons from the Trenches

Juan’s life has been built around connection. He’s lived in 8 countries, speaks 5 languages, and has maintained relationships across the globe for decades, not out of strategy, but because he deeply values human connection. That same approach shows up in how he builds companies, leads teams, and raises his kids.

This conversation went deeper than most. It pulled together personal growth, leadership, and consciousness in a way that challenged how I think about leading, both in business and in life.

What happens when a founder stops trying to do it all?

Chris sits down with DJ Kim, a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold three companies in just two years, to unpack what it really takes to delegate well, build lean systems, and avoid the burnout loop so many founders get stuck in.

DJ shares the behind-the-scenes of his speed-run journey:

- Growing RevGenius from 0 to 30,000 members in under a year

- Scaling and selling Dataghost in 6 months

- Building and exiting multiple businesses across tech, e-commerce, and local services

- And why offshore talent became his unfair advantage

This episode is for founders who are tired of being the bottleneck.

It’s a real talk on how to get your time back without letting the business fall apart.

Expect honesty, frameworks, and the hard truths about control, speed, and trust.

Topics we will cover:

⁠→⁠ ⁠Delegate Without Losing Your Damn Mind

⁠→⁠ ⁠Building Systems That Don’t Suck the Life Out of You

⁠→⁠ When to Use AI vs Human In the Loop

If you’ve ever said, “It’ll be faster if I just do it myself,” this one’s for you.