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Hosted by Jack Payne · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 11 episodes
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Every Friday, The Friday Sponge sits down with the entrepreneurs, founders, and community builders shaping the world around us. Real conversations. Real stories. Real business. No fluff - just the unfiltered journeys of the people actually doing the work. New episodes drop weekly. Features by invitation only. SOAK IT UP
Jack Payne hosts The Friday Sponge, a business show with 11 episodes published.
Viet Anh — or V, as everyone calls her — was running operations inside major hospitals in Vietnam. Then she moved to Canada as an international student and watched every credential she had earned get dismissed overnight.
Description: Sammy grew up on a farm in Ecuador — stepping on passion fruit, breathing in fresh grass, eating real food straight from the ground. Then she moved to New York. Her body told her something was wrong before h
Somya Gupta didn't come to New York to build a startup ecosystem. He came to go to class, pass his exams, and live a comfortable life. Two and a half years later, he's thrown 75+ founder events, shut down his own company
Most people wait until they have time to start a business. Mike and Jimmy never had time. Full-time police officers, fathers, husbands — and somehow, owners of a thriving martial arts franchise in Short Hills, NJ. In thi
She moved from Belarus, got a computer science degree in her second language, and watched doctors get crushed by insurance chaos from the inside. So she built an AI company to fix it. Stefaniya Barabanava is the co-found
What started as a dinner party conversation is now one of Canada’s fastest-growing butter brands. Akshay, co-founder of Whipdd Butter out of Toronto, joins us this week to share how a single evening with his co-founder a
Most arts organizations with their funding model would have closed by year five. Mile Square Theater just hit year 23. This week, we sit down with Elizabeth DiCandillo and Chris Cragin-Day — two leaders who could have ta
John Maguire didn’t pick an easy time to start a business. Launching the day before 9/11, he built International Voyager from a basement in Montclair, NJ — credit cards maxed, employees sleeping under his roof, and a tra
From Oracle and Microsoft to building a thriving services company - Khurram Khalimi’s journey is anything but ordinary. In this episode, we sit down with Khurram, co-founder and COO of Vinn Corp, a full-service digital a
Nick Morgan Jones couldn't find a hearing aid he wasn't embarrassed to wear — so he built Overtone, a designer hearing aid brand doing to audiology what Warby Parker did to glasses. In this week's episode, Nick opens up
Alex Jeremijenko grew up in Australia where wellness was a way of life - accessible, communal, and built into the culture. When he moved to New York City, he found the opposite: saunas, cold plunges, and recovery spaces
John Maguire
Head · Bishop’s Stortford College
1 appearance on this show
Mike
short hills martial arts
1 appearance on this show
Stefaniya Barabanava
Sphere
1 appearance on this show
Akshay Kalekar
Whipdd
1 appearance on this show
Khurram Kalimi
Vinn Corp
1 appearance on this show
Nick Morgan Jones
Overtone
1 appearance on this show
Alex Jeremijenko
Kove Studios
1 appearance on this show
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The Friday Sponge is hosted by Jack Payne. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 11 episodes.
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