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On the Choose Courage Inc. Podcast
If you've ever sat in the silence between sending a proposal and hearing back, wondering if you did something wrong, this episode is for you. Vivianne sits down with Ray Knickmeyer, a former corporate leader with 20 years at places like Verizon and Capital One, now running their own consulting business, to unpack what three months of B2B procurement actually felt like from the inside and how to hold your terms without turning rigid.
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Ray spent twenty years inside corporate, most of it at companies the size of small cities, before they went independent. The deal we talk about in this episode was their first with a client that big on the other side...
Michael J.A. Davis spent seventeen years building a design career before he left it to found Tinycup Coffee, and he's now building a second act as a brand strategist for other food and beverage founders. This post pulls from our...
This post is built from a conversation with Nate, a member of the Choose Courage Inc. entrepreneurship cohort, recorded about ninety days after he left his director-level corporate role. We talk through the actual math of his exit, the $40,000 hiring...
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