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Episode 126: How Companies Do Not Need to Sacrifice Great Customer Experience for Profit

February 24th, 2023  |  Season 6  |  28 mins 19 secs

customer experience, disruptor, kasten spethmann, profit, venture capital

In this episode, Sean sits down with Kasten Spethmann, business strategist and fractional executive. She is a retired professional windsurfer, recovering Venture Capitalist, non-conforming, near death surviving, adventure seeking, lifelong learning, and nomad entrepreneur. Kasten now coaches founders with tactical advice, tough love, and experiential insight. She hopes to inspire others to break societal expectations, stop sacrificing their true identity/calling and live by their own rules as they build exceptional businesses. They go deeper into her experiences and how over automation led to a downfall in doing right by customers. Kasten gives some great insights how to sustainably, scale companies while doing right by people. She even gives more insight how she co-built a company in a predatory industry and disrupted it. Her tone gives off a passionate, yet very good disruptive tone knowledge about creating wealth AND still doing right by people. She states that she is a sophisticated rebel. Kasten gets deep on how she was treated throughout her life and stuck to her who she has been to help others.
More About Kasten. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kastenspethmann/