OnlyFounders

About OnlyFounders

OnlyFounders shares the honestly HUMAN side of founding something meaningful. Hosted by provocative speaker and truth disruptor Anne Gillaspie, OnlyFounders goes beyond surface level stories to reveal what it actually feels like to exist in our humanity. We have radically honest conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, leaders, creators and cycle breakers about entrepreneurship, relationships, mental health, founder burnout, identity, fear, failure, leadership, parenting, ambition, authenticity, personal growth and reinvention. If you crave honest founder stories, uncomfortable conversations, human connection and the truth behind entrepreneurship, you're home. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, founder stories, founder podcast, human side of entrepreneurship, founder mental health, relationships, human connection, authenticity, vulnerability, radical honesty, truth telling, founder burnout, fear and imposter syndrome, identity, personal growth, breaking cycles, authentic leadership.

Publisher

Anne Gillaspie

Category

business · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

11 Aug 2025

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

41 of 92 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The CULTure of Ai series with Anne & Sayre Blake

   Host Anne Gillaspie interviews Sayre Blake, CEO and Technical Founder of SkillSaige, exploring the human-driven risks and cultural impact of artificial intelligence.

2. 

   20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Real Work of Building and Scaling Consumer Businesses | OnlyFounders

   Host Anne Gillaspie interviews multi-brand entrepreneur Danniele Fernino about the strategic, behind-the-scenes work essential for building and scaling consumer businesses.

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   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Every Founder Needs a Space to Be Themselves | OnlyFounders

   Host Anne Gillaspie shares the origin story of her Truth Tribe Coffee Club, revealing how founders can build authentic communities by embracing vulnerability.

Inside a recent episode

The CULTure of Ai series with Anne & Sayre Blake

Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So that's really exciting. The other side of it, the AI side is that's what these companies decided to build with it. You don't have to build some kind of AI product with the LLM. We treat it as a processor. We call it a semiotic processor and we use it like a processor. You run a thing through it and it's done. And that's actually how it works under the hood. They decided to take that and chain it together infinitely and call it an intelligence. That was their choice. That's a product choice. That is the choice of people. And so when you see their marketing departments and their PR departments and all of them talking about these, all these ways it's going to end the world, you just have to remember they looked at a new kind of processor and decided to To give it an infinite amount of power and let it chain itself on repeat. […]

Who has been a guest on OnlyFounders

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• Sayre Blake
• Danniele Fernino
• Brett Weinstein
• Geoff Eliason
• Alyssa Burns

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

72 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

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