Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business

As entrepreneurs, we're constantly feeding data into AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, but have you ever stopped to ask: where does that data go, and who really owns it? In this eye-opening episode, we sit down with Joshua Rhines, a fourth-generation Montanan and the founder of CubCloud AI. Joshua is on a mission to bring AI infrastructure back to a local level, championing the concept of "Sovereign AI" to ensure your data stays yours. This conversation is a must-listen for any entrepreneur who wants to leverage the incredible power of AI without sacrificing security, privacy, or control. Joshua breaks down the complex world of AI infrastructure, data centers, and workflow automation into practical insights you can apply to make your business more efficient and secure.
💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business
🔐 Why "Sovereign AI" is crucial for protecting your sensitive business data and trade secrets from Big Tech.
⚙️ The real-world impact of AI infrastructure and why localized data centers are becoming a competitive advantage.
🚀 How to audit your business to identify repetitive tasks and automate 10-20 hours of work per week.
🤖 A non-technical founder's guide to understanding key AI concepts like RAG, agentic agents, and private LLMs.
📈 How AI can increase your team’s capacity and utility, allowing you to hire more people and scale faster, not replace them.
💡 How to get your business "AI-ready" by cleaning up and consolidating your data for maximum impact.
⚡️ Why the future of software development is about orchestrating AI agents, and how you can leverage it even without being a coder.
📝 About Joshua Rhines
Joshua Rhines is a fourth-generation Montanan whose career uniquely blends music, business, and technology. As the founder of CubCloud AI, he is dedicated to a powerful conviction: your data should stay yours. Drawing from his background as a musician, recording engineer, MBA graduate, and commercial real estate investor, Joshua brings a multifaceted perspective to the tech world. He is pioneering the development of local, sovereign AI infrastructure in Montana to empower businesses, ensure data privacy, and build a competitive edge for his community in the AI-driven economy.
🎯 Joshua’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs
"Be adaptable. In this industry right now, things are changing very quick... Integrate AI into your workflow as much as possible."
📢 Memorable Quotes
“The mom and pop shop of the Montanas, of the Idahos, of the Californians, of the Floridas, they can all benefit from workflow automation.” – Joshua Rhines
“Nobody is really trying to get rid of anybody. Everybody's just overworked, and may not have an extra $50,000 lying around to hire another employee. So I'm really seeing a ton of benefit for AI in Montana here.” – Joshua Rhines
“Entrepreneurship is a hard road and nobody's pushing your company forward but you. Try to surround yourself with good people, a good team, and do your best every day.” – Joshua Rhines
🔗 Links & Resources
Visit CubCloud AI’s website
Connect with Joshua on LinkedIn
Follow CubCloud AI on LinkedIn

In a world saturated with social media, how do you create a space for genuine connection and memory? Dr. Leslie Hemedes, a clinical psychologist turned tech founder, joins the show to share how she is answering that question. She details her journey from private practice to co-founding KeepsaiQ, a platform designed to preserve not just photos and videos, but the rich context, stories, and emotions behind them. This episode is a masterclass in leveraging your unique professional background to solve a deeply human problem. For any wantrepreneur or entrepreneur, Dr. Hemedes’ story is a powerful reminder that the most impactful businesses are often born from a desire to connect with what truly matters.
💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business
🚀 How to leverage your unique professional background to create a disruptive business idea that stands out.
🔒 The strategy behind building a private, community-focused platform in an era of social media fatigue and data mistrust.
🛠️ A founder's real-time perspective on building an MVP and why embracing user feedback is more important than perfection.
💡 How to turn a deep personal pain point—like preserving family stories—into a scalable and meaningful tech solution.
🧠 Why anchoring your business in a powerful "why" is the ultimate fuel for navigating the uncertainties of entrepreneurship.
🎮 The art of creating a "low-effort, high-engagement" user experience to ensure your product becomes a beloved habit.
📝 About Dr. Leslie Hemedes
Dr. Leslie Hemedes brings over a decade of experience as a clinical psychologist, supporting individuals and families through their most vulnerable moments. Guided by the belief that people grow when they truly understand themselves, she noticed a critical gap in how we preserve our digital lives—the meaning behind the moments was getting lost. This realization led her to found KeepsaiQ, a family-centered digital platform. Dr. Hemedes is now bridging the worlds of psychology and technology, building tools that help people stay connected to their stories, their families, and what matters most.
🎯 Leslie’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs
Connect with your 'why' to stay grounded, and connect with communities so you don't have to go it alone—people want to help you succeed.
📢 Memorable Quotes
“When people feel seen, when they feel understood and they feel held... you tend to see folks have the ability to kind of transform, to change, to heal and to kind of grow.” – Dr. Leslie Hemedes
“Being able to connect with your why is something that I think is so essential... to feel grounded and anchored in noting, why am I doing this.” – Dr. Leslie Hemedes
“What I'm trying to create is something that is tangible, it's something that's concrete, and it's something that's easy to use, and doesn't take a lot from users, but allows you to kind of share your story, provide the context to maintain the meaning.” – Dr. Leslie Hemedes
🔗 Links & Resources
Visit KeepsaiQ’s website
Connect with Leslie on LinkedIn
Follow KeepsaiQ on LinkedIn

After two years in the making, this interview with Joey Boyer delivers a masterclass on aligning your inner truth with your outer execution. Joey, founder of Legendary Affinity, dives deep into the intersection of mindset and mechanics, revealing why so many entrepreneurs get stuck in a cycle of burnout and overwhelm. This episode is a must-listen for any entrepreneur who feels disconnected from their work, is chasing empty metrics, or struggles to build a business that is both impactful and sustainable. Joey provides the frameworks to bridge the gap between a powerful vision and the practical systems needed to bring it to life, ensuring you build a business that truly matters.
💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business
🧠 The True Meaning of Entrepreneurship: Discover why being an entrepreneur is more like being an artist than a merchant, and how this reframe can change your entire approach to business.
⚖️ The Three Pillars of Sustainable Success: Learn why you must balance Impact, Fulfillment, and Prosperity to avoid burnout and build a business that energizes you for the long haul.
🗺️ Why Vision is More Powerful Than KPIs: Understand the critical difference between a business vision and empty goals, and learn how to uncover the "why" that will guide every strategic decision you make.
🛠️ The "Be, Become, Build" Framework: Get Joey's powerful three-step cycle for aligning your state of being with the person you need to become and the systems you need to build for success.
🚫 The Hidden Cost of Skipping the Inner Work: Uncover how avoiding the deep work of finding your vision inevitably leads to burnout, failed ventures, and misaligned strategies.
🤖 Using AI as a Mindful Accelerant: Learn how to leverage AI not just for productivity, but for deeper self-reflection and clarity, ensuring technology serves your ultimate vision.
🌊 How to Be Like Water, Not a Rock: Embrace the concept of "the way" to navigate the ever-changing entrepreneurial landscape with flow and adaptability instead of force and resistance.
📝 About Joey Boyer 
Joey Boyer is the founder of Legendary Affinity, where he guides visionaries and purpose-driven leaders to turn their ambitious ideas into scalable, impactful realities. Blending transformational coaching with expert brand strategy, marketing, and systems design, Joey’s work sits at the unique intersection of mindset and mechanics. He has a rare talent for helping entrepreneurs get crystal clear on their core vision and then equipping them with the practical structure and systems needed to build a business that is both prosperous and fulfilling, without the burnout.
🎯 Joey’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs 
Take the time to get truly curious about what you genuinely want to create and bring into the world. Go deep, explore the layers of your "why," and understand that you are worthy of building that vision.
📢 Memorable Quotes
"Your vision is vital and your vision is the way. It's not about a destination... it is a constant way of being." – Joey Boyer
"Where we go wrong is thinking that [impact, fulfillment, and prosperity] are somehow separate. And they're not." – Joey Boyer
"You're gonna do this work either on your deathbed or you do it now. What's really gonna matter?" – Joey Boyer
🔗 Links & Resources
Visit Legendary Affinity’s website
Connect with Joey on LinkedIn
Follow Joey on Instagram
Follow Joey on YouTube

In this episode, Brian sits down with Luis Voloch, a true innovator at the intersection of AI and healthcare. As the CEO and co-founder of Jimini and the co-founder of the billion-dollar biotech company Immunai, Luis shares his vision for a future where artificial intelligence collaborates with, rather than replaces, human expertise. He breaks down how Jimini is revolutionizing mental healthcare by creating AI tools that act as supervised members of a clinical team, enhancing care and expanding a clinician's potential. This episode is a masterclass for any entrepreneur looking to build a defensible, high-impact business in the AI space, revealing why a multidisciplinary team and a people-first approach are the ultimate keys to success.
💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business
🧠 The Collaborative AI Model: Discover how to position AI as a powerful partner that amplifies human expertise, rather than a threat that replaces it.
🚀 How a $1B Founder Thinks: Learn the key lesson Luis took from building a billion-dollar company and how he applies it to his new venture.
🤝 Why Your Team is Your Greatest Asset: Understand why focusing on who you work with—from co-founders to early employees and investors—is more critical than your initial product idea.
💡 Building a Defensible AI Moat: Uncover the strategy of creating complex, valuable workflows around existing AI models to build a successful business without needing to train a model from scratch.
⏰ The Founder's Productivity Hack: Learn how Luis structures his day to protect his "deep thinking" time, a crucial practice for any CEO navigating a fast-paced industry.
🔒 Context is King in AI: See how providing deep, industry-specific context to AI can transform a generic tool into a highly specialized and valuable service.
📝 About Luis Voloch
Luis Voloch is the CEO and co-founder of Jimini, a company pioneering the collaboration between AI and clinicians in mental healthcare. Before Jimini, Luis co-founded Immunai, an AI-driven cancer immunotherapy biotech company now valued at over one billion dollars. With a background in mathematics and computer science from MIT, where he won the best thesis award, and experience as faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Luis brings a uniquely analytical and human-centric perspective to building world-changing technology companies.
🎯 Luis’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs
"The most important part of the entrepreneurial journey is who you're working with. That is way more important than the specific product that you think you may be building in the beginning because these things always change and it's really the people you are working with."
📢 Memorable Quotes
“The much more powerful versions of AIs are not AIs that work as standalone products, but at AIs that can collaborate with human clinicians in delivering care.” – Luis Voloch
"As a founder, one of the hardest things is managing our time... really guarding your time and making sure that you're spending time in the optimal way and that you're determining how the time gets spent... is really important." – Luis Voloch
“Do not compromise on the people you are working with and this includes both folks on the founding team but also early employees... everyone around you is going to play a really significant role in the company's success.” – Luis Voloch
🔗 Links & Resources
Visit Jimini’s website
Connect with Luis on LinkedIn
Follow Jimini on LinkedIn

Marc Roberts, a leader with over 40 years of experience in building and scaling global organizations, joins the show to deliver a masterclass in creating businesses that last. He breaks down the true meaning of "strategy," moving it from a vague buzzword to a concrete roadmap centered on your business's "North Star." This episode is a must-listen for any entrepreneur feeling stuck on a growth plateau or looking to build a company with real, lasting value that's attractive for a future acquisition. Marc reveals why value is built through people and decisive execution, not just spreadsheets, and shares the foundational principles to achieve strategic clarity and operational excellence.
💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business
🚀 How to define your business's "North Star" to create a constant, guiding vision for your entire team.
📈 The "Y=X³ Curve" concept: Identify if your business is stuck on a growth plateau and what strategic steps to take to break through to the next level.
🤝 Why involving your team in strategy creation is the non-negotiable secret to successful execution (and how to do it right).
💰 The 5 key ingredients private equity firms and acquirers look for in a business before they invest or buy.
⛓️ How to build a resilient supply chain strategy with primary and secondary options to navigate modern economic disruptions.
🎯 The critical difference between strategy (the roadmap) and tactics (the steps), and why you need both to succeed.
⚙️ Why a robust financial system that provides foresight—not just hindsight—is a game-changer for making real-time business decisions.
📝 About Marc Roberts 
Marc Roberts brings over 40 years of leadership experience across engineering, operations, M&A, and executive management. He is the founder of Roberts Value Partners, where he works directly with owners, boards, and CEOs to deliver strategic clarity and executional excellence. Having led global organizations and partnered with founders and investors, Marc’s philosophy is that real, lasting value is built through people, strong relationships, and decisive execution. His unique perspective is shaped by a career dedicated to optimizing complex operations and helping businesses scale with confidence.
🎯 Marc’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs 
"You need to make sure you truly understand the soul of your business so that you can convey that to the people that you're looking to engage."
📢 Memorable Quotes
“Strategy is the fundamental foundation that every business needs if it's looking to be successful and not just happenstance.” – Marc Roberts
“Oftentimes people will want to come in and come up to the plate and they want to hit a home run every time. And that's not what this is about. This is about taking little pieces and taking little steps... and compound that to ultimately achieving what you need to do.” – Marc Roberts
“Failure is the biggest opportunity of learning. So you can't look at it as a roadblock. You got to be able to go through that process in order to really punch through.” – Marc Roberts
🔗 Links & Resources
Visit Roberts Value Partners’ website
Connect with Marc on LinkedIn
Follow Roberts Value Partners on LinkedIn