Episodes

March 28, 2024

#160: Kyle Maggard (Over Easy)

Kyle Maggard , Founder & CEO of Over Easy. Kyle started OverEasy in the fall of 2018, reflecting on his time as a former college athlete at Westpoint and as an Army Captain where living a healthy and active life …

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March 21, 2024

#159: Azadeh Hardiman (Level20 — Progressive Insurance)

Azadeh Hardiman — Business Leader of Level20, the new business incubator of Progressive Insurance, one of the largest insurance carriers in the US (which was founded and still headquartered here in Cleveland)! As the new busi...

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March 14, 2024

#158: Nick Dadas (University Tees, SISU Lifestyle, Acton Academy Lake…

Nick Dadas — Co-Founder of University Tees, SISU Lifestyle, Acton Academy Lakeside, ISI, and MasterPlan Coach. In 2003, still a sophomore at Miami University, Nick co-founded University Tees after trying to organize a t-shirt...

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March 7, 2024

#157: Reilly Berk (Berk Enterprises)

Reilly Berk , CEO of Berk Enterprises. Founded back in 1946 by her grandparents, Suzanne and Harold Berk, Berk Enterprises boasts a diverse history that began with the creation of the "QuicKill" insecticide and the subsequent...

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Feb. 29, 2024

#156: Mary Cowan (NCS Credit)

Mary Cowan , the President of NCS Credit, based here in the greater Cleveland area. The story of NCS Credit is one of family, growth, and success anchored in a belief of uncompromising excellence and ever-advancing technology...

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Feb. 22, 2024

#155: Ethan Holmes (Holmes Mouthwatering)

Ethan Holmes — founder and CEO of Holmes Mouthwatering , a Cleveland-based manufacturer of all-natural applesauce, made with Ohio-grown apples, pears, and local apple cider. To date, over 50,000 customers have purchased and c...

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Feb. 15, 2024

#154: Mohamed Kamara (InovCares)

Mohamed Kamara , founder and CEO of InovCares. Grounded in a sobering reality: The United States has the highest rates of maternal mortality in the industrialized world. In May 2017, having lost both his sister and aunt to pr...

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Feb. 8, 2024

#153: David Tirpak (Miracle K9 Training)

David Tirpak , founder of Miracle K9 Training — Since founding the company in 2019, David has grown Miracle K9 Training to a thriving 15-person organization, a multi-million-dollar top-line revenue business, and one of the mo...

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Feb. 1, 2024

#152: Jim Pshock (Bravo Wellness)

Jim Pshock , Founder of Bravo Wellness, which he successfully exited to Medical Mutual in 2020. After 20 years working in the insurance industry, Jim observed a need and a niche for employee wellness incentives, as health cla...

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Jan. 25, 2024

#151: Kaleb Dumot (Integrity Power Search)

Kaleb Dumot — founder of Integrity Power Search here in Cleveland, a boutique search firm for technology companies all across the US and Canada. Since starting Integrity Power Search out of his parent’s basement in 2012, Kale...

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Jan. 18, 2024

#150: Jeffrey Stern on Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Investin…

Every 50th episode on Lay of The Land thus far, I’ve tried to honor the request I occasionally get, that from time to time, listeners would like to hear more of my own thoughts and flip the proverbial script from …

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Jan. 11, 2024

#149: Andrew Maurer (Rise)

Andrew Maurer is the co-founder and CTO of Rise Works , an all-in-one compliance and payment platform designed for companies with global workforces. Rise, which is based in Pepper Pike and has raised $3.8 million in seed fund...

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Jan. 4, 2024

#148: Patrick Ghilani (MRI Software)

Patrick Ghilani, CEO of MRI Software. Founded in 1971 & based in Solon, Ohio — MRI Software has been a leading provider of real estate software and has been a trailblazer in the PropTech industry for over five decades, servin...

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Dec. 21, 2023

#147: Erin Singh (Options Naturopathic)

Erin Holston Singh, founder of Options Naturapathic, the Ohio Association of Naturopathic Doctors (OHNDA), and in private practice since 1999. She had her first encounter with natural medicine at 15 years old when her mother ...

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Dec. 14, 2023

#146: Megan Mayhugh (People Architects)

Meg Mayhugh, Founder and Managing Partner at People Architects as well as the Head of Talent & people at Ninety.io the leading cloud-based business operating system and only officially licensed software for EOS (the Entrepren...

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Dec. 7, 2023

#145: Brian Krusz (Sgt. Clean Car Wash)

Brian Krusz is the Founder & Managing Partner at Sgt. Clean Car Wash — a premier express carwash organization proudly serving Northeast Ohio since 2013 with over a dozen locations throughout the region. Under Brian’s leaders...

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Nov. 30, 2023

#144: T.J. Gliha (Journey Wealth)

TJ Gliha, Co-Founder of Journey Wealth. Established in 2021, Journey Wealth is a full-service wealth planning firm that helps entrepreneurs explore the world of opportunities availed by their success, by addressing their need...

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Nov. 23, 2023

[REWIND] #21: Tom Lix (Cleveland Whiskey)

Our conversation this week is with Tom Lix — founder & CEO of Cleveland Whiskey — on pushing the boundaries of convention while building on tradition to artfully blend science with craft to create unique award-winning Whiskey...

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Nov. 16, 2023

#143: Todd Goldstein (Whoa Dough)

Todd Goldstein — Founder & CEO of Whoa Dough In 2008, Todd co-founded LaunchHouse with the mission to invest, develop, and foster promising idea-stage startups in Northeast, OH through Community, Education, Coworking, and Inv...

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Nov. 9, 2023

#142: Gerald Hetrick Part II (Docket (formerly Bezlio) & EOS)

Gerald Hetrick (CEO of Docket (formerly Bezlio) & Professional EOS Implementer) Gerald has been on the show once before; those of you who’ve been with Lay of The Land from the beginning may recall Gerald as one of the first …

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Nov. 2, 2023

[Bonus] Jack Greco (ACV Auctions) — building a multi-billion-dollar c…

Jack Greco, co-founder and former CFO and COO of ACV Auctions, a Buffalo-based wholesale online marketplace for cars (ACV Auctions went public in 2021 and is currently valued at approximately $3 billion dollars) Now an active...

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Oct. 26, 2023

#140: Tracy Strobel (Cuyahoga County Public Library)

Tracy Strobel — CEO of the Cuyahoga County Public Library (CCPL) Tracy Strobel was appointed Chief Executive Officer of CCPL in July 2019 after serving in the Deputy Director role for nearly 15 years. CCPL has 27 branches tha...

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Oct. 19, 2023

#139: Ethan Karp (MAGNET)

Ethan Karp — President and CEO of MAGNET: The Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network which, founded in 1984, has been dedicated to fostering local manufacturing and supporting local manufacturing businesses across technolo...

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Oct. 12, 2023

#138: Mike Maczuzak (SmartShape Design + Walking Across the U.S. & Wo…

Mike Maczuzak — a product designer, early-stage investor, and founder of SmartShape Design — an innovative product development and industrial design firm he started here in Cleveland back in 1989. SmartShape's beginnings were...

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