Actually, I Can.

There are few pieces of career advice more damaging than the idea that success requires sacrifice. For Sam Yarbrough, that message came during a job interview. When she explained that she was committed to both her...

When Kristi Candela started building BeeCene, she thought she already knew the first step. Find a technical co-founder. It wasn't just advice she heard once. It was embedded in startup culture. Investors asked about it...

When Leslie Venetz decided to leave a successful corporate sales career and start her own business, she expected people to have opinions. She didn't expect so many of those opinions to sound exactly the same. If you're...

<p>When Leslie Venetz decided to leave a successful corporate sales career and start her own business, she expected people to have opinions.</p><p>She didn't expect so many of those opinions to sound exactly the...

<p>Stella Garber has been told her whole life that she is too direct. Too bossy. Too aggressive. She heard it as a kid. She heard it as a young manager. She’s heard it her entire career. And she’s spent years wondering...

<p>Joy Hoover invented a lipstick with a panic button in the base and a drink-testing strip in the cap. She built a national nonprofit from nothing over 12 years that landed in the top 10% in the country. She won Top...

<p>Scott Leese’s first sales manager pulled him into his office, looked him dead in the eye, and told him to stop caring so much about his people. Stop going to lunch with them. Stop being their friend. Draw a harder...

<p>During COVID, Brooke Sellas posted something honest on Instagram - two words: “I am so tired.” She wasn’t complaining. She was being human. The mentor she’d hired to help her build her personal brand told her it was...

<p>Katie Robbert has been told to stay quiet, stay in her lane, and let someone else be the face of the company. She heard it from a mentor she respected. She heard it from investors. She heard it so many times she...

<p>Ted Harrison has heard the advice a hundred times: negotiate everything, ask for the friends and family discount, don’t spend what you don’t have to. He heard it from other agency founders. From coaches. From people...

<p>Nomiki Petrolla gets told to think smaller. A venture contact - someone who didn’t know her well enough - looked at her vision for Theanna and decided the problem she’s solving is probably just a “lifestyle...

<p>Alina Vandenberghe gets asked constantly: "Why don't you seek an exit?" In CEO communities, at events, from advisors, the assumption is always that a $3 billion exit is the ultimate goal every founder should pursue...

<p>Actually, I Can is a show for founders who are tired of being told how they’re supposed to bring their vision to life.</p><p>Every episode focuses on guidance the guest received that turned out to be terrible advice...

<p>What does it look like to build something that companies aren't ready for? Justin Clifford is the CEO of Bereave, a company helping organizations navigate death, bereavement, and grief support in the workplace...

<p>What if the path you’re on isn’t the one you’re meant to stay on? Fabian Rodriguez opens up about the power of letting go of outdated definitions of success, the invisible toll of constantly trying to “prove”...