Board of Advisors Podcast

Points, miles, and punch cards look powerful on paper, but most people never get to the payoff. That gap is exactly what we explore with Paul Mattimoe, the founder behind Shopr Rewards, a fintech platform built around a simple promise: instant cashback inside a mobile wallet, designed to work at enterprise scale. Paul joins us from our Board of Advisors quarterly event near Dallas, where dealmaking, partnerships, and growth plans are moving fast. We talk through why traditional loyalty...

Paid ads are getting more expensive, attention is harder to buy, and customers are smarter than ever about spotting a pitch. So what do you do if you’re a founder who still needs leads, trust, and growth? We sit down with Remy Davenport of KingsMedia to talk about the organic content strategy that helps CEOs and founders go viral, build real credibility, and create marketing that doesn’t disappear the second you turn off spend. We dig into what changed when platforms like TikTok rewired dist...

A $3,000 legal lead calls once, and the next few minutes decide whether a law firm signs a case or loses it to the next Google result. From a hotel in Las Colinas outside Dallas, we talk with Dave Lucado, founder of Rapid Sign Now, about the systems and human skills it takes to turn high-stakes intake calls into signed clients while keeping the experience personal, calm, and real. Dave walks us through his unlikely path from selling insurance across Georgia to becoming an investigator for a ...

Booking a flight should never feel like a leap of faith, but private aviation still has too many gaps where fraud and illegal charters can slip through. We talk with Jacob Baumler from Coach Air FinTech AI about the moment that pushed him into this space: a private trip that turned out to be an illegal charter, paired with aircraft issues serious enough to spark real fear. That experience became a mission to build public-safety-grade infrastructure for private aviation booking and the next wa...

Scaling gets celebrated, but it also gets companies killed. Dylan England sits down with Cruz Galboa, CEO of Ascend Growth Ventures and the mind behind ScalingCFO.io, to unpack why “we need to scale” is often a dangerous misunderstanding. We get specific about the gap between chasing revenue and building a business that actually produces profit and cash flow, especially when margins are thin and working capital is quietly tightening the noose. Cruz breaks down the difference between growth v...

A PR career can look glamorous from the outside, but the real story is usually built out of sharp pivots, hard boundaries, and a lot of grit. From the BAQ2 convention near Dallas, we sit down with Cheryl Snap Connor, founder of SnapConnor PR, to unpack how a love of writing turns into a front-row seat in tech, then into a 20-year run building communications for startups and growth companies. Along the way, she shares the moment she leaves a corporate role and triples her income overnight, plu...