Starting Small is hosted by young entrepreneur Cameron Nagle and spotlights founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs building companies from the ground up. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform to pitch guests with credible origin stories and measurable growth, especially those operating in consumer, wellness, finance-enabled models, or modern fundraising/impact businesses.
Episodes: 268, Frequency: Weekly, Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k, Gender skew: Neutral, Location: USA
YouTube: 1.1k subscribers, Instagram: 10.0k followers
30s Ad: 38 - 46, 60s Ad: 45 - 53, CPM Category: Business
Cameron Nagle - Young entrepreneur and host of Starting Small. Leads conversations with CEOs, founders, and entrepreneurs about how their organizations were created from the ground up, with an emphasis on the prac...
Typical Credentials:
CEOs, founders, or senior executives with a clear startup/origin story; ideally measurable traction (revenue, scale, fundraising impact, or growth metrics) and a differentiated approach (business model innovation, community-based growth, transparency/quality focus, or R&D-driven product development).
Required Achievements:
Scaled company growth (e.g., multi-hundred % or 1000% growth), Meaningful revenue or distribution milestones, Significant fundraising impact for nonprofits or community-driven campaigns, Product-line expansion driven by R&D and trust-building, Demonstrated leadership transition from prior industries into entrepreneurship
Shahab Elmi - Building And Scaling A Wellness/supplement Brand With An Emphasis On Transparency And Rebuilding Trust; How An Origin Idea Became A Scaled Product Line
Sandra Powers Murphy - Identifying A Real-world Problem, Building A Brand Through R&d, And Growing With Direct-to-consumer Traction And Repeat Customers
Mary Hagen - Modernizing Fundraising Through Digital Competitions And Community Participation; Leadership Approach And Building A Purpose-driven Growth Model
Entrepreneurship, Founder Stories, Scaling, Leadership, Company Building, Fundraising, Impact, Consumer Brands, Innovation, Business Models
Here's the recent few episodes on
Starting Small
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Cymbiotika: Shahab Elmi
April 16, 2026
Shahab Elmi didn’t come from the wellness industry. He came from building and exiting companies — from telecom retail to media — before turning his focus to something much bigger: fixing a broken supplement industry.
In 2019, he stepped into Cymbiotika with a simple idea — people shouldn’t have to guess what they’re putting into their bodies.
What followed was one of the fastest rises in modern wellness. Cymbiotika went from a single product to a full line of liposomal supplements, generating...
Scarlett Chase: Sandra Powers Murphy
April 10, 2026
Sandra Powers Murphy spent decades building a career in finance — running her own firm, working with institutional clients, and raising six kids along the way. She wasn’t planning to start a footwear company. Then one night in New York, caught in the rain trying to make a train, she had to take off her heels and run ten blocks barefoot just to get there. That moment stuck with her. After years of traveling, networking, and watching her male colleagues move through long days comfortably while ...
Colossal: Mary Hagen
April 03, 2026
Mary Hagen knew early she wanted to build something — launching her first business at 20. Today, she’s the CEO of Colossal, a company that’s quietly reshaped how fundraising works. Since joining, Mary has scaled Colossal by over 1000%, helping generate more than $207 million for nonprofits like the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Baby2Baby, PAWS, and the James Beard Foundation. But the real shift is how that money gets raised. Instead of relying on a few major donors, Colossal built a mode...