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Grow Good tells the story of purpose-driven leaders who grow their businesses while staying true to mission and values.
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Governance, Growth, and Who Gets Control: Heather Terry, Founder and CEO of GoodSAM Foods (opens the original)
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Who gets a seat at the table? Heather shares how one of the most consequential growth decisions a founder can make happens before the growth itself: deciding how the company will be governed. After experiencing the consequences of taking misaligned capital with her first company, Heather built Good Sam as a public benefit corporation, using its governance structure to protect the company’s mission and narrow the pool of investors she is willing to work with. Heather and Anne also explore how Goo
From Activities to Outcomes: A New Approach to Non-Profit Impact : Johnmark Oudersluys, CEO of CityLink Center (opens the original)
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EPISODE SUMMARY Johnmark Oudersluys, executive director of Cincinnati's CityLink Center, joins Anne to unpack a different approach to economic mobility: instead of adding more programs, CityLink redesigned how people access and move through the existing system. The organization brings services together under one roof, assigns each client a navigator, and uses data to understand which interventions actually improve outcomes. Johnmark explains how CityLink developed the Client Progression Index to
How SIMPLi Grows More Nutritious Food: Matt Cohen, Co-Founder of SIMPLi (opens the original)
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SIMPLi began with one quinoa product sourced from Peru and has grown into a business spanning roughly 70 products, food service and retail, and supply chains across 13 countries. Matt Cohen, co-founder of SIMPLi, joins Anne Oudersluys to unpack how a food company can scale while protecting the farmers and the product that's at the core of it's mission The conversation gets into the operating decisions behind that growth: why SIMPLi owns more of its supply chain, how it evaluates new products fro
Growing Big, Reluctantly: Lessons from Hog Island Oyster Co. | John Finger, Founder and CEO of Hog Island Oyster Company (opens the original)
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John Finger, co-founder and CEO of Hog Island Oyster Company, never set out to build one of America's best-known oyster businesses. He simply wanted to grow exceptional oysters. More than 40 years later, his company spans multiple farms, restaurants, a hatchery, wholesale distribution, and direct-to-consumer sales—but every stage of growth has been guided by one question: Does this make us stronger? In this conversation, John shares why he deliberately slowed growth to protect culture, how refus
MadTree's Long Play: Building for Decades, Not Quarters: Rhiannon Howeler, Madtree CEO and Brady Duncan, Madtree Co-Founder (opens the original)
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EPISODE SUMMARY Brady Duncan, co-founder of MadTree Brewing, and newly appointed CEO Rhiannon Hoeweler unpack how the company evolved from a local craft brewery into a broader hospitality platform with restaurants, family-focused experiences, and a canned cocktail brand. At the center of the conversation is a question many growth-stage companies face: how do you scale without diluting what made the business meaningful in the first place? Brady and Rhiannon explain how MadTree uses long-term goal
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