Real Talk with Nashville Business Leaders
Short, honest conversations with the founders and executives building companies in Nashville.
Hosted by Jonathan Barnes. Each episode is about 15 minutes and centers on one question that actually matters. Leadership, growth, and what it feels like to run the company when the model and Monday morning do not match.
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Real Talk with Nashville Business Leaders is a Work Heartily podcast featuring quick, honest conversations with the founders and executives building and leading some of Nashville’s most exciting businesses.
Hosted by Work Heartily Founder Jonathan Barnes, each episode spends just 15 focused minutes asking one big question, giving listeners real-world insights on leadership, growth, and the challenges behind building successful businesses.
Whether you’re a founder, executive, or business leader yourself, you’ll walk away with practical perspectives from the people shaping Nashville’s business community.
Samantha Lane is a TEDx speaker and time management coach who helps high-performing teams become more present in life and productive in their days.
The conversation covers the myth of hustle culture, the value of time as a finite resource, the importance of mindset and habits, the significance of prioritizing, planning, and protecting time, and the role of long-term vision and consistency in time management.
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About Work Heartily
Work Heartily embeds experienced fractional executives into founder-led companies. We do not drop in. We plug in. Ops, marketing, technology, and related seats for companies that already have a real payroll and more complexity than one person should hold alone.
If a leadership seat is open on your team, I would be glad to talk.
Our approach https://www.workheartily.com/our-approach/
Meet the team https://www.workheartily.com/our-executives/