What Fuels You

Shauna Swerland

Booking Overview

Shauna Swerland (Fuel Talent CEO) interviews accomplished leaders and founders about the decisions, setbacks, and resilience behind their success. It’s a strong pitch venue for speakers who can share both career substance and personal “what fueled me” narratives.

Metrics

Episodes: 245, Frequency: Irregular, Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k, Gender skew: Neutral, Location: USA
Instagram: 826 followers
30s Ad: 47 - 57, 60s Ad: 55 - 65, CPM Category: Business

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Description

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Shauna Swerland - CEO of Fuel Talent and host of What Fuels You, where she sits down with influential leaders to explore the choices, challenges, failures, and perseverance that shaped their careers and entrepreneur...

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Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Influential leaders such as founders/CEOs of growth-stage startups, general partners/investors in emerging growth funds, and domain experts with credible track records and compelling personal career arcs (including lessons from hardship or failure). Often tech/innovation-adjacent (AI, biotech) and/or values-led consumer business leadership.
Required Achievements:  
CEO/co-founder leadership of a venture or scaling company, Fund leadership as general partner/co-founder (growth investing), Notable prior industry leadership roles, Advanced academic credentials (common but not required for all guests)

Recent Guest Discussions

Ardie Sameti - AI Platform For Real-time Actionable Intelligence; Enterprise Operations; Career Path From Accolade Leadership Into Entrepreneurship. Amanda Schutzbank - Early-stage Growth Investing For Values-led Consumer Brands; Valuation And Capitalization Approach; Building Successful Companies. Deborah Benton - Early-stage Growth Investing For Values-led Consumer Brands; Scaling Strategy And Capital Discipline. Evan Zhao - Biotechnology Applied To Consumer Products; Founder Career Trajectory; Transitions Across Science And Entrepreneurship.

Recent Topics

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Career, Resilience, Startups, Venture Capital, Innovation, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
What Fuels You
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Greg Davidson - Co-Founder and CEO of Lalo

May 05, 2026

 Greg Davidson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lalo, a modern baby and toddler brand built around the idea that new parents deserve better: better design, better guidance, and products that actually grow with their kids. Greg's path to founding a baby brand is not what you'd expect. He came up through a series of fast-growing startups in sales and go-to-market roles at Elastic, Krossover, WayUp, and Artsy before co-founding Lalo in 2017 with his former WayUp colleague, Michael Wieder. Neith...

Ross Goodhart - Founder and Co-CEO of Jupiter

April 21, 2026

Ross Goodhart is Co-CEO and a Founder of Jupiter—the new standard in dandruff care,delivering clean, elevated, and seriously effective dandruff care products. He was born andraised in Hawaii, and received his B.B.A from the University of Michigan School of Business in2002, with an emphasis in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship.From 2002 to 2015, Ross worked in investment banking at Peter J. Solomon Company andthen private equity at Siguler Guff & Company, managing funds focuse...

Jennifer Worthington - Co-Founder and President of Two Dice

April 07, 2026

 Jennifer Worthington is the Co-Founder and President of Two Dice, a new live experience company she's building with George Kliavkoff, with whom she shares a belief in the power of live experiences to create connection and lasting memories.  She started her career at Jerry Bruckheimer Films, where she rose to senior vice president at age 23, working on some of the biggest films of that era: Armageddon, The Rock, Black Hawk Down, Pirates of the Caribbean. Then she walked away from Hollywo...

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