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Pull the Chute podcast features Michael Cerdá, EVP, Chief Product & Technology Officer and Builder.

Michael Cerdá is a seasoned product and technology leader with over 25 years of experience. From building world-class fintech (Marcus, Apple Card) and streaming platforms (Disney+, ViX), to driving culture-first leadership, he is recognized for scaling high-impact digital businesses and authoring Build Something, sharing his ethos on building products, teams, and sustainable cultures.

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Pull the Chute podcast features Nathan Whittacre, Founder and CEO of Stimulus Technologies, Technology Expert, Business Consultant.

Nathan Whittacre is one of the founders of Stimulus Technologies, a fast growing managed service provider based in Las Vegas, NV. Stimulus Technologies is focused on providing technology that just works to businesses, including IT services, Internet and VoIP.

Nathan has always been an entrepreneur, starting with selling candy, soda and baseball cards out of his house at the age of 11. He learned valuable lessons, including money management and inventory control. His passion has always been technology. He developed and ran a bulletin board system (BBS) from his home and assisted in the development of Internet services for his high school.

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Pull the Chute podcast features Kim Rogne, Business Coach for Moms, Helping moms find financial success, sustainable balance, and joy in all areas of life.

Kim Rogne is the owner and CEO of For the Love Of and a dedicated business coach for moms. As a mompreneur herself, she understands the challenges of balancing business, family, and self-care. Through group and 1:1 coaching, she helps moms create systems that work, simplify their lives, and build businesses they’re proud of—without burnout.

Kim is also a keynote speaker and the author of the bestselling For the Love Of Self Journal, created to help busy moms reconnect with themselves and stay inspired. Her mission is to empower women to dream big, live intentionally, and build a business that fits their life—not the other way around.

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Pull the Chute podcast features Kris Forrest, Co-Founder and CEO of C&D Tools USA, Business Development, Tech Enthusiast, Book Hoarder and Future Homesteader.

Kris Forrest brings together leadership from military, diplomatic, and manufacturing realms to champion American-made craftsmanship. As CEO of C & D Tools, he combines resilience, thoughtful design, and a practical definition of innovation to breathe new life into a legacy American industry.

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Pull the Chute podcast features Jodi Hume, On-Call Decision Support for Founders & Entrepreneurs navigating Growth & Acquisition. Confidential, Objective, and Neuroscience-based.

Jodi Hume is the Founder & CEO of At The Core, specializing in on‑call decision support for founders and entrepreneurs navigating growth and acquisition. Over the past decade, she’s worked confidentially with more than 100 C‑suite leaders across seed-stage startups to $200 M+ ARR ventures, helping them make smarter decisions grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and business pragmatism.

A third-generation entrepreneur, Jodi spent 15 years as COO of an architecture firm growing from 8 to 50 people, then earned credentials in psychology (Loyola University), facilitation (Johns Hopkins), co-active coaching, and the MIT Sloan Neuroscience of Business program.

Her method is objective, confidential, and neuroscience-based: she provides a trusted, real-time sounding board to help founders separate emotion from strategy, recharge cognitively, and arrive at clarity amid complexity The NEW ROI: Return on Individuals.

Off the clock, Jodi co-hosts the So, Here’s My Story… podcast, leads monthly entrepreneurial roundtables, and is the lead singer of her band The Wafflers. She even once took first place in a truck pull.

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Pull the Chute podcast features Rob Gallaher, CEO at ProfitX, Gallaher Company, 1 Hour Drain, Hotshot Restoration and Extreme Express Carwash.

Robert “Rob” Gallaher is a seasoned entrepreneur and family man based in San Jose, California. He currently serves as CEO across multiple businesses, including ProfitX, Gallaher Company (a general contractor), 1 Hour Drain (specialized plumbing services), Hotshot Restoration, and Extreme Express Carwash.

Originally rooted in construction and maintenance through Gallaher Company, Rob has leveraged his extensive project management experience to successfully diversify into plumbing and restoration. More recently, he entered the car wash space with Extreme Express, inspired by a desire to venture into new industries and provide fast, quality service—prioritizing family values and community focus; he’s described as “a dedicated husband and father” .

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Pull the Chute podcast features Glenn Poulos, LinkedIn Top Voice, Driving Automation with AI, Award-Winning Author of Never Sit in the Lobby, Coach to Entrepreneurs, Public Speaker, Empowering Sales people & Driving 10x Business Growth.

Founded mmwave Technologies Inc. in 1991, my first entrepreneurial venture.
Served as President of Anritsu Electronics Ltd. for 9 years, honing leadership and strategic vision.
Founded Gap Wireless in 2007 and, after 15 years, sold to Grain Management-owned NWS.

Passionate about sales strategy, understanding consumer behaviour, and what drives decisions at the core emotional level.

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Pull the Chute podcast features John Martinka, Co-founder at Nokomis Advisory Services, CEO & Founder of Martinka Consulting, Business Buyer Advocate, Creating Large Exits for Small Businesses, Mergers and Acquisitions, Growth strategies.

John Martinka is known as The Escape Artist® because of the work he does in three areas:

1. Helping executives escape the corporate world by buying the right business the right way
2. Creating large exits for small businesses so the owner can exit with style, grace and more money
3. Accelerating businesses so they escape their plateau, with a speciality of using Growth by Acquisition

John is the author of five books, including, Exit with Style, Grace, and More Money, If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can't You Sell Your Business (For What You Want)?, and Buying a Business That Makes You Rich. John’s specialty is working with family owned companies (typically with sales of $3-25MM annually) and with people who would like to buy a business.

He works with numerous non-profits and twice was a Rotary Club President. In 2005 he started a Rotary project in conjunction with the Bellevue School district to install computer labs in schools. Over 10,000 computers have been donated and installed in Slovakia, Turkey and, since 2008, Antigua and Barbuda.

John is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting and the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club as part of Rotary International and agrees to comply with their codes of ethics and conduct without qualification or reservation.