Episodes
Who Are You Without the Business? Finding Your Next Chapter with Mark Griffin
Who Are You Without the Business? Finding Your Next Chapter with Mark Griffin

Who are you beyond the business you’ve built? Mark Griffin of PurposeFused joins Hannah Sandmeyer to explore founder identity, succession, and preparing for a meaningful next chapter long before an exit.

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Episodes
Who Are You Without the Business? Finding Your Next Chapter with Mark Griffin
Who Are You Without the Business? Finding Your Next Chapter with Mark Griffin

Who are you beyond the business you’ve built? Mark Griffin of PurposeFused joins Hannah Sandmeyer to explore founder identity, succession, and preparing for a meaningful next chapter long before an exit.

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Taking Your Name Off the Door
Taking Your Name Off the Door

Jacqueline Radebaugh and Jason Wiener share the ownership transition behind CurrentShift Legal, from handing over real authority to taking the founder’s name off the door, with a lively debate about why shared ownership is hard to scale when trust takes time.

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Rethinking Ownership with Katie & Brian Boland
Rethinking Ownership with Katie & Brian Boland

What does real ownership actually look like?

Katie and Brian Boland join Ethical Exits to unpack equity washing, employee ownership, governance, stewardship, and a simple framework for looking past the label:

Who owns? Who benefits? Who decides?

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Funding What Matters: Ethical Tech and Youth Well-Being
Funding What Matters: Ethical Tech and Youth Well-Being

Juliette Blake, Founder and CEO of Moxies, joins Ethical Exits to talk about safe tech for Gen Alpha girls, aligned capital, and what it means to build a company around trust instead of attention extraction. This conversation explores how founders can fund, scale, recapitalize, or exit companies that actually mean something to society without breaking the purpose they were built to protect.

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Recent Episodes

New to the pod? Not sure where to start?

Thinking about what comes next for your business? Start with a conversation that meets you where you are.

How do I prepare to sell?
Molly McCartan explores the part of selling no one prepares you for.

Can acquisition help a purpose-driven company grow?
Peter Georgariou discusses the B Corp founder as buyer.

Can selling to an employee-owned buyer create a different future?
Chris Fredericks explains the ESOP holding-company model.

What does meaningful ownership actually look like?
Katie and Brian Boland explore who owns, who benefits, and who decides.

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Join host Hannah Sandmeyer for conversations with owners, buyers, and practitioners exploring how M&A can become a force for good.

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