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What happens when a mother of seven and a fearless serial entrepreneur—someone who has built 11 companies, and lived life in constant forward motion—suddenly finds herself on her own deathbed for 70 days?

In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, Holly Porter reveals the 70-day battle that dismantled her identity and rebuilt her purpose from the inside out. Intubated twice, stripped of all five senses, and suspended between life and whatever lies beyond it, Holly experienced near-death visions and spiritual directives that changed the course of her life and business.

She shares the moment her ancestors appeared urging her to fight, the unmistakable voice of her mother telling her it wasn’t her time, and the clarity that ultimately led her to create Retreat R&R and her nonprofit Adventure Bucket Wish.

Life may decide when you break. But only you decide what you become afterward. Hear what Holly brought back with her — and why it might change the way you navigate your own turning point.

If you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, or questioning the direction of your life or business, you want to check out Holly’s SHIFT framework to help you navigate your life changes.
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Most leaders don’t struggle with ideas.
They struggle with articulating them.

Because how can you be heard if you can’t find the right words?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I talk with Shelley Goldstein, founder of Remarkable Speaking, about why so many experts choke at the podium, get caught in a rabbit hole, or hide behind a fully written out script when it’s time to communicate from the heart what matters now.

Shelley breaks down the internal blocks that keep people from expressing their vision clearly and why audiences can immediately feel when you’re performing instead of speaking from the inner core of conviction.

Shelley breaks down her 4-minute drill — a fast, practical way to get clear on what you’re trying to say before the fear or self-editing takes over.

If your message feels stuck, scattered, or overly “polished,” this conversation will show you how to unlock your real voice and use it to lead.

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You’ve followed the “right” steps and things are not where you’d like them to be.
This is a time of massive transformation, systems are breaking, hustle culture is broken, nobody wants to wait until some point in the future to be happy. If you are questioning your path, your identity, or your place in this rapidly shifting world — this episode is designed for you.

In this very personal 200th episode of The Business Growth Architect Show, I’m going solo and sharing the real story behind what happened after I lost everything in the fire — not the Instagram version, not the polished TED Talk version, but the raw, human truth. It’s not pretty. It’s confusing, painful, and too big to handle on my own.

I talk about the initial shock, the brutal reality of a piece of yourself missing, living in survival mode, figuring out how to turn aging into wisdom, my fear of feeling obsolete, trying to attempt reinvention at 60. All leading to the moment I realized I had to rebuild my life and business from the inside out. I’m also sharing the transformation into versin 3.0 and how this experience led me to create something entirely new — a future-focused business model, a SaaS, and even an AI twin.

If you’ve looking to make sense of what you are experiencing or, or quietly hoping something forces you to change… this episode will help you to understand some of the underlying forces.

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We’re living through a trust crisis.
Audiences recognize even the best hidden pitch from a mile away, customers tune out, and “ethical marketing” has become a buzzword hiding high-pressure sales tactics.

So what is ethical persuasion — and does it influence without manipulation?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I sit down with Patrick van der Burght, founder of Ethical Persuasion Training & Consulting, to pull back the curtain on what truly makes persuasion ethical. A touchy subject for me as I believe the term has been misused so many times. But, I had to know what it means and how to use it the right way.

Patrick shares the 3-question test that tells you whether your message builds trust or breaks it. He also gives us the science behind how your audience’s brain functions before they get to a “yes.”

It’s a struggle to use persuasion methods when selling without feeling pushy. Today’s conversation will shift how you think about influence, psychology, and integrity when it comes to selling in your business.

🎯 Watch now and discover how to turn persuasion into a partnership with your client and get your customers who say yes because they want to, not because they feel pressured.

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What happens when life strips away everything — your home, your art, your sense of self?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I speak with Christopher Wesley, a storyteller and transformation coach who lost everything in the Altadena fire. But instead of letting tragedy define him, he used it to rebuild his identity and purpose from the ground up.

If you have had an event where you felt as if your world was falling apart, this conversation will give you ideas to reframe what “loss” really means—and how to find freedom in what’s left. Christopher shares his storytelling blueprint and how he is transforming this catastrophe into his future opportunity.

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We’re mastering business, money, and personal growth — but why does business success often mean that high-achievers feel empty in love?

We live in a world that glorifies hustle and independence. Myself included, many of us believe there is a reward for doing everything on our own. Meet Suzanne Raja, co-founder of WarriorSage, who looks at what happens when success comes at the cost of our connection to ourselves and our partner and family.

In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, Suzanne explores what it means to be powerful and feminine — to lead without losing softness, to love without surrendering yourself, and to rediscover the intimacy that gets buried under achievement.

On whether or not you or your partner is the more successful one, success often means friction in our relationships. This conversation will open your eyes to what’s really missing.

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Why are healthcare costs skyrocketing for small businesses—while coverage keeps getting worse? 🤯 Benefits are important incentives for businesses to provide to their employees. And then you find out how your “advisor” really gets paid.

In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I sit down with Donovan Pyle, a former benefits broker who was fired for calling out the lack of fiduciary duty to their insurance clients. He uncovered how brokers profit from rising costs instead of saving clients money and that’s when he had to do something about it.

Donovan exposes the truth and explains how a founder and small business owner can get a lot more coverage for a lot less. This conversation dives deep into ethics, courage, and what it really takes to build systems that serve people—not profits.

If you’ve been taken advantage of by consistently rising premiums and bad coverage this one will hit close to home.

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Why do we keep trusting the loudest person in the room instead of the most capable one? We seem drawn to the tall, bold, confident, and the loud, but not always to the wise. I invited Maria Brinck, founder of Zynergy International, and author of The Leadership We Need, to help me unpack this uncomfortable truth.

Maria argues we have accepted being led by bullies and that our subconscious bias toward dominance keeps toxic, outdated leadership patterns alive. We explore what happens when masculine energy takes over the world, why empathy is often mistaken for weakness, and what it really takes to build the kind of leadership the future demands

🎙️ This is a powerful, eye-opening conversation for anyone who feels frustrated with the way leaders are chosen today — and who wants to be part of creating change.

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