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What Fuels You

Shauna Swerland

Booking Overview

This is a leadership and entrepreneurship interview show featuring influential founders, CEOs, and business leaders who discuss their career journeys, setbacks, resilience, and choices. PR agencies could credibly pitch startup founders, senior executives, operators, and experts with substantial achievements and compelling personal stories; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally hold senior leadership roles but are not necessarily household-name celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 251

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 829 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Shauna Swerland - Shauna Swerland is the CEO of Fuel Talent and the host of a podcast focused on the personal stories, career choices, hardships, and resilience of successful leaders.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Founders, CEOs, senior executives, and accomplished business leaders with meaningful operating experience, notable company-building backgrounds, or expertise connected to entrepreneurship and career development.
Required Achievements:  
Founded or led a recognized company, Held senior operating or technology roles at prominent companies, Built products or businesses that address meaningful real-world problems, Demonstrated resilience through significant personal or professional challenges

Recent Guest Discussions

Kavian Mojabe - Building An Artificial Intelligence Company, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare Technology, And Creating A Business From Personal Experience.

Ian Wong - Using Data And Artificial Intelligence To Create Meaningful Change, Startup Leadership, And Building Technology Companies.

Victoria Thain Gioia - Entrepreneurship, Women's Healthcare, Prenatal Nutrition, And Turning A Personal Challenge Into A Company.

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
What Fuels You
:

Prem Kumar - Co-Founder and CEO of Humanly

September 15, 2026

 Prem Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Humanly, a Bellevue-based hiring technology company built to fix something he saw up close: two people interviewing for the exact same job with the exact same panel getting treated completely differently. Before Humanly, Prem spent about a decade at Microsoft and led product and design at TinyPulse. Humanly went through Y Combinator and has raised roughly $52 million to date—most recently a $25 million Series B.See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

Francois Ajenstat - Founder and CEO of Golden Analytics

September 01, 2026

Francois Ajenstat is the  Founder and CEO of Golden Analytics, an AI-native business intelligence platform. He launched the company from stealth in April 2026 after nearly three decades building other people's analytics products. He was CPO at Tableau from the early startup days through its IPO and Salesforce acquisition, then CPO at Amplitude. Now he's founder and CEO of Golden Analytics. Francois believes the best products are love letters to the people who use them. He's been in the indust...

Mike Kropp - Founder & CEO of Iridius

August 04, 2026

Mike Kropp is the Founder and CEO of Iridius,  a Seattle-based company building compliance-ready AI infrastructure for highly regulated industries like pharma and biotech. A technology executive with over 25 years of leading engineering teams at Microsoft and AWS, Mike has played a crucial role in developing innovative products and expanding their global business adoption. Mike uses a collaborative, working backward approach to deliver products that help customers innovate and create high-imp...

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