When last we met on the podcast in 2022, Aaron Zagha, CMO at Newton Baby, was selling some amazing baby mattresses through DTC. 4 years later, and a lot has changed - they’ve gone full omnichannel, expanded their product portfolio, and built a community of parents that ...

Crypto promised immutable ownership. Real-world law has other ideas. In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, Jamil Hasan sits down with Faisal Al Monai and Christopher Kelly of droppRWA to explore one of the biggest unresolved tensions inside tokenization and rea...

Crypto promised freedom. Then speculation consumed the signal. In this solo episode, I explain why I walked away from “corporate crypto” interviews and why The Lost Message became necessary to write. This is not about price charts, tribalism, or recycled narratives. It ...

Most people never see the ugliest part of cross-border payments. Builders do. In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, I sit down with Ran Grushkowsky of MassPay to explore the hidden infrastructure behind global payouts, remittances, compliance, settlement fricti...

Uncharted Moments: How Love Survives Life’s Hardships (S3 -E4 ) Host : Kathryn Lancioni Guest : Jeff Ton Episode Overview: What happens when the world changes overnight—and every single day after? In Season 3, Episode 4 of Gut Punch, host Kathryn Lancioni reconnects wit...

By the time he landed at his current Private Equity-led company, Matt Kreuger had 15 years under his belt building out ecommerce from scratch, growing global operations, and learning what it takes to drive growth across all different routes to the consumer. But as he sa...

Privacy in blockchain exists… until it doesn’t. In this episode, Jamil Hasan speaks with Varun Kabra of Concordium about the tension between privacy, identity, compliance, and scalability in modern blockchain systems. Rather than treating identity as the enemy of decent...

What happens when gameplay becomes economic infrastructure? In this conversation with Luke Barwikowski, founder of Pixels, we explore AI-driven rewards, decentralization, digital ownership, and the tension between ideals and practical system design inside Web3 gaming. B...

From Cop to Defendant How My Arrest Changed Everything (S3 -E3 ) Host : Kathryn Lancioni Guest : Dr. Kareem Puranda Episode Overview: In this compelling episode of Gut Punch, Kathryn Lancioni sits down with Dr. Kareem Puranda-a former police officer, football player, an...