

Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future
The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future
The old ways of doing business—bro marketing, manipulative persuasion tactics, and chasing success at any cost—are breaking down. The Business Growth Architect Show is for those who are here to build what comes next.
Hosted by Beate Chelette, this show is for the Founders of the Future—the ones who have heard the call, felt the activation, and know it’s time to lead differently. You’re not just here to make money. You want to use your skill set to make a difference. You’re building a business around your purpose, your experience, and your desire to impact others. You’re a conscious leader who believes that alignment, resonance, and integrity matter just as much as systems, scale, and strategy.
In each episode, we speak with the people who are building the future we actually want to live in—innovators, business architects, thought leaders, and disruptors who share the mindset, methods, frameworks, and tools to build scalable, purpose-driven businesses. You’ll learn how to shape your intellectual property into a clear business model, how to grow without burning out, and how to lead with vision while staying grounded in what really matters.
If you’re done with outdated formulas and ready to build something real, sustainable, and rooted in who you truly are—this is your show.
Contributors

Guests

Matt Gerlach
Matt is uniquely positioned as a trusted guru for entrepreneurs, with a proven track record of helping dozens of startups scale to 7, 8, and 9 figures over the past 15 years. His expertise is complemented by a deep understanding of the struggles many entrepreneurs face. After launching his first business, Matt encountered debilitating anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. By investing over $200k and 10,000 hours in personal healing and growth, he emerged as a beacon of transformation. Confronting and healing his past gave Matt the confidence and strength to scale his own business, earning himself an impressive $1M/year.
Today, Matt hosts a weekly podcast and is writing a book about his journey. He works closely with entrepreneurs and executives grappling with self-doubt and anxiety, guiding them to lead their businesses—and lives—to maximum profit, freedom, and impact.
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Nathan Newberry
A serial entrepreneur and family man, I've transformed my experiences from pastoral leadership to marketing agency ownership into the AI Freedom Method—a powerful approach helping ambitious coaches break through revenue plateaus. With a track record of leading sales teams generating over $1M monthly and a 16-week program that has helped clients like Victoria secure $2,500 in recurring revenue and Ryan scale past $1M annually, I specialize in creating sustainable business growth through AI automation and strategic team building. As a husband and father of three, I'm passionate about helping founders build businesses they're proud of while protecting what matters most: time with family.
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Norman Wolfe
Norman Wolfe is the Founder and CEO of Quantum Leaders, Inc., a strategy execution consulting firm focused on transforming businesses to unlock the power of the human spirit. With over 30 years of experience, Norman is a pioneer in leadership and organizational performance, known for guiding companies through significant transitions to achieve extraordinary results. A former executive at Hewlett-Packard and board member of multiple organizations, Norman is also the author of The Living Organization, a groundbreaking book on creating high-performing companies. He is passionate about shifting business paradigms and helping leaders foster dynamic, living organizations.
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Aidan Uttinger
Aidan has created multiple global brands as an entrepreneur and has now turned his creativity and focus towards solving some of the worlds most pressing problems, specifically alleviating poverty and suffering in some of the worlds poorest communities. He believes to find solutions to these problems we need to take an entrepreneurial mindset and start thinking way outside of the box!
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Andrea Johnson
Andrea Johnson empowers executives and founders to lead authentically with conviction and confidence. By uncovering their Core Values, she enables clients to become impactful leaders. Her passion is equipping female leaders to define a new culture by trusting their own ability to think critically, create imaginatively and lead effectively.
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Aurora Winter
Aurora Winter, MBA, is a successful entrepreneur, bestselling author, TV writer-producer, and the founder of www.SamePagePublishing.com. Her award-winning books include "Turn Words Into Wealth" and “Magic, Mystery, and the Multiverse.” Using her expertise in film and neuroscience, she helps people tell memorable stories that build brands, books, and businesses.
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Bill Heinrich
Success isn't always what it seems from the outside. I speak from experience; I found success at a very young age. I was living in one of the most beautiful places on earth and from the outside everything looks perfect, but something was always missing. Surrounded by material success, with everything in place by normal standards, I found myself dissatisfied and nothing seemed to fill the emptiness inside.
No matter how much money I made or how successful I was I never felt whole. Painfully aware that something was lacking, I continued to try to fill the empty space I fell inside. Over the course of time, this feeling got worse, never better, no matter what I did.
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Brad Martineau
Yo. I'm Brad. Welcome to my bio. :) I've been married for 23 years, I have 5 kids, 1 son-in-law and a grand daughter. I love fitted hats and playing and coaching basketball. On the business side of things, I help entrepreneurs dial in their CRM and their automation so they can build a Smooth Scaling™ business.
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Carol Kabaale
Carol Kabaale is a Meta-certified Ads Strategist who helps online business coaches grow their impact through purpose-driven Facebook ad campaigns. With over 8 years of experience, Carol specializes in attracting high-quality leads and driving measurable results.
The pod discusses alignment of spirituality and strategy.:
In my work, I align strategy and spirituality by helping purpose-driven coaches expand their reach authentically, so they can impact lives meaningfully. I believe that aligning one’s values with business goals is essential to creating sustainable growth and joy.
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Dagna Bieda:
Engineer turned Coach & Author of Brain Refactor 📚 My book helps you overcome imposter syndrome, deal with burnout, figure out other people, and debug your self-marketing skills.
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Dan Grech
Dan Grech is the founder and CEO of BizHack Academy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former journalist, and a digital marketing expert dedicated to helping small businesses grow through storytelling and AI-powered marketing. With a background in NPR and PBS, Dan brings a deep passion for education and empowerment, having trained over 10,000 businesses globally. His mission is to democratize access to cutting-edge marketing tools, especially for minority- and women-owned businesses, through practical, hands-on learning.
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Danielle Hendon
Danielle Hendon is the founder and owner of 4 Corners CFO, a firm offering financial advisory services to small business owners on a scale that fits their company and budget. Coupling her decade of experience in corporate finance and accounting with her passion for small business owners, Danielle brings the benefit of “big business” financial analysis to entrepreneurs. Now, instead of helping corporations increase share price, Danielle gets to help business owners increase their personal livelihoods so they can leave a legacy and lasting impact on their community.
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Devin Sizemore
Devin Sizemore is the author of Connection Expansion: You Are One Connection Away From Massive Success In Your Life And Business. Devin is driven by a passion for meaningful experiences, both personally and professionally, he has spent his career building and growing businesses that align with his values. From launching his first marketing agency right out of college to creating innovative consulting practices and a cat cafe, his journey has been defined by a commitment to "adding value" and making a positive impact. As a firm believer in the power of connections, he is dedicated to helping others succeed through the art of building relationships. The next chapter of his life is focused on fostering a community where one million connections can create lasting, transformative change.
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Dr. Jennifer Nash
Dr. Jennifer Nash is a leadership consultant and author of the award-winning and bestselling book Be Human, Lead Human. She helps high achieving leaders drive financial performance by strengthening communication and connection skills.
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Franco Lofranco
A Disruptor in the SALES AND Technology space, Cav. Franco Lofranco has for over 3 decades now, led the way in different sectors to bring greater value to customers through technology. From building one of the first broadband internet companies, to leadership development, and most recently disrupting the Health Care Industry. He has been featured on many podcasts, Success Magazine 6 times, newspapers, and magazines. He was also knighted by the President of Italy as a Sir or Cavaliere for his business accomplishments. A serial entrepreneur at heart, his true passion lies in helping companies and organizations be more profitable, more productive and more valuable.
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Hanna Bier
Money Coach Hanna Bier works with ambitious women from around the world to recreate their relationship with money from the inside out and step into a world of financial overflow.
Known as the founder of Money Bliss and author of her new book, Wealth From Within, Hanna has led tens of thousands of private and group sessions and has helped hundreds upon hundreds of clients join her in living blissfully and abundantly.
She spent seven years trying to answer the question: Is it possible to create wealth without compromising our health, wellness and/or happiness. Can we actually create abundant lives while living a life of joy?
Happily, the answer is a resounding YES. And this is the work she now does with clients.
When she’s not performing her variety of magic, Hanna enjoys the balance of motherhood, living throughout Europe and spending time with her young daughter. Baking brings her joy. So does eating ;)
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Jeff D Standridge
Dr. Jeff D. Standridge helps organizations and their leaders generate sustained results in the areas of innovation, strategy, profit growth, organizational transformation and leadership.
Formerly a Vice President for Acxiom Corporation, he has led established and startup business units in North & South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Jeff serves as Managing Director for the Conductor, as well as for Innovation Junkie (InnovationJunkie.com). He is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Cadron Capital Partners (www.CadronCapital.com), and teaches in the College of Business at the University of Central Arkansas (www.UCA.edu)
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Mark Collins
Mark is the founder of Freedom For Life, LLC and author of the transformational leadership book, “LIFE MASTERY: Living life by design, not by default.”
He has seen hundreds of lives transformed through his Life Mastery suite of courses and has a singular passion to see people live from their created value and unleash their “HERO in hiding” in their business, relationships and life.
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Mitchell Levy
Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy is a 2x TEDx speaker (including the 28th most popular in 2021), an international bestselling author of over 60 books, a Certified Stakeholder Centered Coach, and an executive coach at Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches.
As an Executive Coach, Mitchell is a sounding board, a thinking partner, and someone who can hold the mirror to generate insights for personal change. This impact has earned him a place among the world’s Top 200 Leadership Voices by LeadersHum (#16 in 2023), and as the #1 Thought Leader in Ecosystems and Top 100 Thought Leader Overall by Thinkers360.
He’s an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 750 books. He’s provided strategic consulting to hundreds of companies and has been the chairman of a board of a NASDAQ-listed company.
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Robin Waite
Robin is the Founder of Fearless Business, regular speaker at various business events and bestselling author of several books, including Online Business Startup, Marketing Machine and the recent popular release Take Your Shot.
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Ron Macklin
I believe in the creative capacity of connected humans. I am a son, husband, father, friend, creator, guide, owner, and continuous learner. People are miracles.
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Scarlette Joyce Rojas
Scarlette Joyce Rojas, founder of Money Mindset Wealth Management and best-selling author of ’31 Badass Money Mindset Affirmations’ is here to revolutionize the investment industry by challenging traditional financial narratives and focusing on money mindset. As a Latina from humble beginnings, she has a powerful back story that inspires and empowers Latinos and minorities everywhere.
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Serin Silva
Serin Silva is a dynamic force bridging the corporate and spiritual realms, with over 20 years of experience that includes taking Williams-Sonoma to half a billion in sales and launching Hearst Corporation's first digital arm. As a successful intuitive coach, Serin combines her Fortune 500 executive experience with her spiritual gifts to empower high-achieving women, helping them level up their careers, navigate transitions, and thrive through uncertainty. Her unique approach, blending corporate acumen with intuitive wisdom, has led to quantum leaps for her clients, who have ascended to CEO roles and doubled their earnings potential at companies such as Patreon, Discord, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and Genentech.

Seth Greene
Seth Greene is the nation’s foremost authority on cutting edge direct response marketing.
Seth is the co-host of the Sharkpreneur podcast with Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington which was named the number 6 business podcast to listen to.
Seth is a 9 time best selling author who has been interviewed on NBC news, CBS news, Forbes, Inc, CBS Moneywatch and many more.
Seth is the only person in history to be nominated three years in a row for the prestigious Magnetic Marketing Marketer of the Year award from Dan Kennedy and Russell Brunson..
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Siamon Emery
Siamon Emery is a mentor specializing in trauma recovery, nervous system regulation, and leadership growth for high-performing entrepreneurs. Drawing from lived experience, spiritual practice, and scientific study, he helps clients rewire subconscious patterns that lead to fear, burnout, and self-sabotage. With a background in Yogic Sciences and neuropsychology, Siamon blends ancient wisdom with modern neuroscience to create transformative change.
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Steve Wallace
Steve Wallace's journey from bartender to business trailblazer is a testament to his relentless hustle, ambition, and thirst for knowledge. After earning a degree in small business management, he spent over a decade excelling in insurance and financial services before joining MaverickApp, where he helped develop innovative prospecting processes. Anchored by his faith, Steve now thrives in both his professional and personal life, embracing change and growth alongside his wife and kids.
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Tiana Sanchez
Tiana Sanchez is a best-selling author, dynamic corporate trainer, and sought-after executive coach who has energized audiences with over 100 impactful presentations across diverse industries for more than 13 years. As the driving force behind Tiana Sanchez International, she is dedicated to helping organizations tackle complex people challenges, reducing turnover and boosting retention. Tiana’s passion lies in empowering teams to thrive in today’s fast-paced business landscape.

Zack Zeller
Zack Zeller helps service-based entrepreneurs package their expertise into short, high-impact books that attract ideal clients and build trust—without resorting to gimmicky marketing tactics. By combining strategic positioning with authentic content, he helps business owners escape the endless content treadmill, create meaningful connections, and generate consistent leads through book-driven marketing and email funnels.
Zack helps entrepreneurs align their marketing with their purpose by turning their expertise into a book that attracts clients authentically. His approach blends strategic execution—using books and email funnels for client acquisition—with spiritual alignment, ensuring business owners create meaningful connections instead of chasing trends.