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The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn

Hosted by Renita Kalhorn | Founder Coach · business · EN · 30 episodes

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This is the High-EQ Founder, a podcast about how emotional intelligence can help you evolve faster and level up as a leader. Through interviews with founders and solo shares, deep tech leadership coach Renita Kalhorn shares nuanced insights and practical strategies for making hard decisions, extracting more learning from your mistakes and maximizing your ”return on luck” — so you can evolve faster and lead better. renitakalhorn.substack.com

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This is the High-EQ Founder, a podcast about how emotional intelligence can help you evolve faster and level up as a leader.

Who hosts The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn?

The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn is hosted by Renita Kalhorn | Founder Coach. The show has published 30 episodes to date.

What has The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Mapping the Five Deep Tech Founder Archetypes, The Power of Radical Honesty to Accelerate Growth, and Why Self-Forgiveness Might Turn Out to Be Your Competitive Advantage, With Chris Reichhelm" (7 April 2026, 38 minutes), "What a Green Beret can teach you about empathy" (26 March 2026, 8 minutes), and "How the best founders give feedback" (4 March 2026, 9 minutes).

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The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 30 episodes.

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Renita Kalhorn | Founder Coach hosts The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn, a business show with 30 episodes published.

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  • The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn

    Mapping the Five Deep Tech Founder Archetypes, The Power of Radical Honesty to Accelerate Growth, and Why Self-Forgiveness Might Turn Out to Be Your Competitive Advantage, With Chris Reichhelm

    Apr 7, 202638 minS0

    <p>Deep tech now accounts for 25% of new unicorn startups — but building a sustainable deep tech business is one of the hardest things you can do. So what separates the founders who go the distance from those who burn...

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    What a Green Beret can teach you about empathy

    Mar 26, 20268 minS0

    <p>Most people don't associate empathy with the Special Forces. But in this episode, a Green Beret Captain shows us exactly what strategic empathy looks like in practice — and why it might be the most powerful...

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    How the best founders give feedback

    Mar 4, 20269 minS0

    <p>In this episode, I break down two reframes that will change how you think about giving feedback. You'll learn why most feedback creates resistance instead of change, what continuous feedback actually looks like in...

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    The Battery Recycling Startup Closing the Loop on Lithium, How First Principles Thinking Led to a Counterintuitive Pricing Strategy, and Avoiding the Trap of Hidden Assumptions, With Sarah Fleischer

    Feb 11, 202630 minS0

    <p>In this episode, I’m speaking with Sarah Fleischer, co-founder and CEO of battery recycling startup tozero. With global lithium demand set to quadruple by 2030, Sarah and her team are on a mission to recover critical...

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    Lessons from Failing His Way to Building 10+ Businesses, The Sweet Spot For Finding Co-Founders, And The Software Flops That Positioned Him for the AI Revolution, With Deepak Shukla

    Jan 27, 202628 minS0

    <p>Today, I’m speaking with Deepak Shukla, serial entrepreneur and CEO at Pearl Lemon Group, a diverse portfolio of 10+ companies, some of them very brick and mortar, like pet transport and event catering.</p><p>We...

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    The three levels of self-awareness

    Jan 13, 20268 minS0

    <p>In an age of AI, self-awareness will be a meta-skill. In this episode I zoom out and take a broader look — not as a fluffy “nice-to-have,” but as a practical operating system for how you lead, make decisions, and...

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    Why a Growth Mindset Isn’t Enough in High-Stakes Deals

    Dec 9, 20251h 6mS0

    <p>What if the key to game-changing partnerships isn’t strategy but emotional mastery?</p><p>Too many founders enter negotiations armed with data and ambition but unprepared for emotional dynamics that make or break...

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    Why You Might Actually Be Able to Afford "Too Expensive" Talent, the Two Main Reasons Senior Hires Don’t Work Out, and What Separates Talent Investors From Talent Traders, With Raman Ramalingam

    Oct 20, 202531 minS0

    <p>Today, I’m speaking with Raman Ramalingan, a Partner at TalentX,who helps tech founders and their leadership teams hire the right people at the right time so they can scale through critical growth phases — the more...

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    Hard Lessons Learned From Bootstrapping Three Startups, Why Purple Ocean Strategy Beats Blue Ocean Disruption and The Surprising Self-Sabotage Trap That Came With Success, With Melissa Kwan

    Jul 2, 202536 minS0

    <p>There's a lot of hype around disruption and building a "blue ocean" business:</p><p>Where you create new, uncontested market space rather than competing head-to-head in existing markets.</p><p>But here’s a reality...

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    Turning Environmental Impact Into Bottom-Line Wins, Navigating The Bleeding Edge Of Innovation, And Building Relationships That Trump Luck, With Nadine Cino

    May 2, 202524 minS0

    <p>Did you know companies 'lose' 10-15% of their physical assets every year? </p><p>That's thousands of chairs, computers, mobile devices and specialized equipment that just get moved around or disappear. </p><p>So what...

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    Tackling Food Waste In the $72B Cruise Industry, Overcoming the Odds of an “Incurable” Health Condition and The Mindset That Helps Him Consistently Create His Own Luck, With Robert E. Buchanan

    Mar 21, 202533 minS0

    <p>Ever been on a cruise? If not, no doubt you know someone who has.</p><p>Because the global cruise industry is big business and growing steadily: There are about 323 cruise ships out there right now, and each one is...

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    Helping Deep Tech Startups Survive "Death Valley," The Painful Lesson He Learned From Overconfidence and the Unexpected Benefits of Bootstrapping a Biotech Startup, With Diogo Dutra

    Jan 29, 202526 minS0

    <p>Most of the news you hear about startups is about how much VC funding they raised.</p><p>But what if VC rejection is exactly what your startup needs to succeed?</p><p>That’s what happened to one of the biotech...

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    The top five EQ skills you need to win in 2025 [Audio Newsletter]

    Jan 9, 20255 minS0

    <p>The next cohort of The High-EQ Founder will be starting soon. If you’re ready to level up your leadership skills, sign up for the waitlist here. </p><p>Want to find out your Founder EQ? Take the 3-minute assessment...

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    Stuck in overthinking? This one word changes everything. [Audio Newsletter]

    Dec 16, 20244 minS0

    <p>The audio version of The High-EQ Founder newsletter.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The High-EQ Founder by Renita Kalhorn at renitakalhorn.substack.com/subscribe

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    Pivoting From Industrial Service to Impact Startup, Leading The Fight Against Microplastic Pollution and Investing in Scientific Research (When The Big Industry Players Wouldn’t), With Declan McAdams

    Nov 12, 202427 minS0

    <p>Here’s something you probably didn’t know:</p><p>Nearly 2 million tons of microplastic end up in our oceans every year. Not from bottles or bags—from paint.</p><p>Think about it: Every massive structure in the...

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    Losing Three Co-Founders in the First 12 Months, The Mistake He Made Following The Silicon Valley Playbook and How He Turned Being Sued Into A Competitive Advantage

    Oct 17, 202427 minS0

    <p>Today, I'm speaking with San Kim, CEO and founder of Swing, the largest shared micromobility operator in Asia - and that’s saying a lot because Asia is one of the world's largest shared micromobility markets...

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    Democratizing Real Estate for the 99%, How To Take On Financial Regulators (and Win) and The Military Mantra That Makes Him Resilient, With Gary Woodhead

    Sep 27, 202432 minS0

    <p>Property development has long been a lucrative vehicle for investment.</p><p>But it’s an exclusive club, traditionally accessible only to institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals.</p><p>As a hobbyist...

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    Revolutionizing Farming for Millions of Smallholder Farmers, Why He Decided to Bootstrap Rather Than Take VC Funding and How A Generosity Mindset Led To Meeting Former President Obama

    Sep 12, 202427 minS0

    <p>Jehiel Oliver is changing the lives of smallholder farmers in 18 countries.</p><p>It started 10 years ago in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 60% of crops are plowed by hand.</p><p>That means there’s a 90% gap between what...

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    Building One of Europe’s Best-Funded Quantum Computing Start-ups, Optimizing For Both People and Technical Leadership and How A Major Setback Can Accelerate Growth, With Kuan Yen Tan of IQM

    Aug 30, 202430 minS0

    <p>Kuan Yen Tan has a high tolerance for risk.</p><p>Back in 2017, he was working as a senior research scientist at Microsoft and quantum computing was barely attracting VC attention. But, despite having a young...

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    Why PhD Students Make Great Founders, How To Get The Best Out of Your Board and Turning An Unexpected Rejection Into Something Much Better, With Riam Kanso

    Mar 26, 202420 minS0

    <p>Europe is often cited for its world-class scientific talent and research universities.</p><br/><p>And yet, so much potential for innovation remains untapped due to IP ownership rules that can make spinout companies...

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