{"podcast":{"title":"The Reluctant Entrepreneur Podcast","slug":"the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244","podcast_index_feed_id":7049244,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6346062/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.mikekonrad.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/0c0e18f8fee88bf987c05cd6e1532a66.jpg","author":"Mike Konrad","episode_count":127,"summary":"I’m your host, Mike Konrad, the author of The Reluctant Entrepreneur - Anatomy of a Business Start-Up - From Uncertainty to Unstoppable, available on Amazon as a paperback, e-book, and an audible book, and I’m excited to share real stories that reveal the many paths people take to build their own businesses. Whether you stumbled into entrepreneurship or you’ve always known it was your calling, this podcast is for you. Let’s start with what it means to be a reluctant entrepreneur. Many entrepreneurs don’t set out with a grand plan to build a business. Maybe you worked for a company that didn’t value your vision, and one day you thought, “I could do this myself”, that was my story. Or maybe life pushed you in an unexpected direction—losing a job, facing a personal crisis, or discovering a passion that grew into a business. Reluctant entrepreneurs often find themselves starting a business not because they always dreamed of it, but because it was the best—or only—option available. And then there are intentional entrepreneurs. These are the people who’ve known from the start that they were meant to create something of their own. They may have planned meticulously, crafted their vision,…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T16:18:29.568615+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244"},"episode":{"title":"From Filmmaker to Al Founder: Jason Sherman on Reinvention and Resilience","slug":"from-filmmaker-to-al-founder-jason-sherman-on-reinvention-and-resilience","published_at":"2026-07-15T07:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244/from-filmmaker-to-al-founder-jason-sherman-on-reinvention-and-resilience","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-filmmaker-to-al-founder-jason-sherman-on-reinvention-and-resilience--72567328","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72567328/re_js2_final_01.mp3","summary":"Most entrepreneurs do not fail because they lack ideas. They fail because they fall in love with the idea before they prove there’s a market, a customer, and a path to revenue. My guest today is Jason Sherman, and he has spent much of his career helping founders avoid exactly that trap. Jason is a technology entrepreneur, author, filmmaker, startup advisor, and AI founder. He is the author of Strap on Your Boots, a practical startup guide built around the lessons founders need most: validating ideas, understanding target markets, building MVPs, making data-driven decisions, and turning a concept into a real business. But Jason’s story is not just about startups. It is about reinvention. He has worked as a filmmaker, journalist, author, podcaster, teacher, software developer, and entrepreneur. Today, he is also connected to the world of artificial intelligence through Vengo AI as their co-founder & CEO, where the focus is helping businesses use AI to engage customers, search company knowledge, and create more effective sales conversations. In this episode, we will talk about Jason’s own entrepreneurial journey, the mistakes he sees founders make again and again, how storytelling shapes business success, and how entrepreneurs can use AI without losing sight of the human problem they are trying to solve. VENGO AI https://vengoai.com SPINNR https://spinnr.app Strap on Your Boots https://tinyurl.com/bdh3s79z JASON SHERMAN's Website https://jasonsherman.org","meta_description":"Most entrepreneurs do not fail because they lack ideas. They fail because they fall in love with the idea before they prove there’s a market, a customer,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3039,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244/episodes/from-filmmaker-to-al-founder-jason-sherman-on-reinvention-and-resilience/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244/from-filmmaker-to-al-founder-jason-sherman-on-reinvention-and-resilience.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}