We talk a lot about culture, resilience, and stakeholder alignment.

But how often do we stop to ask: who’s still being left out?

A Warm-Blooded Founders Live Event Featuring, Dr. Kirk Adams, Managing Director of Innovative Impact LLC, will shift your lens.

Kirk brings decades of leadership in disability employment, policy, and systems change, helping both Fortune 500s and federal agencies move from mission statements to measurable progress.

We’ll unpack what most companies are missing when it comes to inclusive hiring and what founders can learn from the lived experiences of people with disabilities.

From building truly adaptive cultures to aligning stakeholders across sectors, Kirk shares what it really takes to lead with purpose and performance.

We talk about:

→⁠ ⁠From Mission to Movement: How Inclusive Hiring Fuels Culture and Competitive Advantage

→ ⁠Resilience, Bias, and Adaptation: What Founders Can Learn from Lived Disability Experience

→ ⁠Building Bridges, Not Silos: What It Really Takes to Align Stakeholders Across Sectors

This goes beyond surface-level DEI.

It’s a conversation about designing businesses where inclusion drives real impact, culturally and commercially.

June 24th 2025 at 8PM EST

If you’re serious about building a company that reflects the world we live in and performs because of it, don’t miss this.

This one’s got range.

Juan Luis Betancourt has led global brands like Puma and Decathlon, built one of the top executive search firms in the country, and now runs Humantelligence, an AI company focused on making work more human. What makes this conversation stand out is the depth of insight he brings from all those experiences.

We get into what it means to lead across industries and life chapters while staying grounded in purpose. Juan shares how 15+ years of plant medicine shaped his view of leadership, decision-making, and what it means to live well, on your own terms.

We talk about:

→ AI That Enhances, Not Replaces

→⁠ ⁠⁠15 Years of Plant Medicine: Lessons in Life, Work, and Self

→ ⁠⁠The Startup CEO Journey: Lessons from the Trenches

Juan’s life has been built around connection. He’s lived in 8 countries, speaks 5 languages, and has maintained relationships across the globe for decades, not out of strategy, but because he deeply values human connection. That same approach shows up in how he builds companies, leads teams, and raises his kids.

This conversation went deeper than most. It pulled together personal growth, leadership, and consciousness in a way that challenged how I think about leading, both in business and in life.

What happens when a founder stops trying to do it all?

Chris sits down with DJ Kim, a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold three companies in just two years, to unpack what it really takes to delegate well, build lean systems, and avoid the burnout loop so many founders get stuck in.

DJ shares the behind-the-scenes of his speed-run journey:

- Growing RevGenius from 0 to 30,000 members in under a year

- Scaling and selling Dataghost in 6 months

- Building and exiting multiple businesses across tech, e-commerce, and local services

- And why offshore talent became his unfair advantage

This episode is for founders who are tired of being the bottleneck.

It’s a real talk on how to get your time back without letting the business fall apart.

Expect honesty, frameworks, and the hard truths about control, speed, and trust.

Topics we will cover:

⁠→⁠ ⁠Delegate Without Losing Your Damn Mind

⁠→⁠ ⁠Building Systems That Don’t Suck the Life Out of You

⁠→⁠ When to Use AI vs Human In the Loop

If you’ve ever said, “It’ll be faster if I just do it myself,” this one’s for you.