Sweet Takes

About Sweet Takes

Catch a ride with leaders, creators, and curious minds as they share their freshest takes on work, life, and growth. Tired of impersonal, formal business interviews? Sweet Takes is the bi-weekly podcast that brings you honest, behind-the-scenes looks at the complex business landscape, one beverage run at a time. Hosted by Big Leap leaders like Coby Bush and Dan Posner, each episode is filmed during a quick drink run to a local treat vendor. We invite our guests into the car to share their sweet takes. Hop in for a casual, unfiltered, and highly valuable conversation. Let's go get a sweet!

Publisher

Big Leap

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jan 2026

Latest episode

5 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Nov 2026

   Disobey Average: Ben Kjar’s Simple Formula for Standing Out

   What if living a standout life really just comes down to the choices you make a little more intentionally every day? Dan Posner takes Ben Kjar, a speaker and entrepreneur whose award-winning film Standout: The Ben Kjar Story is now streaming on Amazon Prime, and his daughter, Rowan, through the Costa Vida drive-thru for a conversation about what it means to “disobey average.” Born with Crouzon Syndrome, a rare craniofacial condition, Ben was told he would live a different kind of life, and he chose to prove them right. His message is that it rarely takes anything grand. It takes seconds, like writing a quick note for your kid on the way out the door, a moment of attention when your phone is competing for it, or just doing a few extra push-ups. Even an errand becomes a memory when you’re intentional about doing something extra to make it a little more magical. Dan plays devil’s advocate. What about the seasons when you’re in survival mode and can’t do the extra every day? Ben’s answer is that you don’t have to. Plan it. All those magical moments give us all something to look forward to. Make them happen, however you can. Ben also looks back on what it took to become a state champion, the first All-American in UVU history, and a Hall of Famer. It’s all the result of showing up for many small moments over his whole life, not just one season. 🚗 Ride along and hear how Ben defines a standout life. 🎧 New episodes of Sweet Takes drop every other Thursday. Follow, review, and share to join the conversation.

2. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Why You Haven’t Started Your Business Yet | Adam Lancaster

   Dan Posner hits the road with Adam Lancaster, co-owner of Lehi real estate brokerage Lancaster & Co., for a gas station run and conversation about the boogeymen that keep us stuck. After earning an MBA and working at Intel and Adobe, Adam quit corporate with no business plan and no industry picked out. His team went on to rank second in North America at a multinational brokerage before breaking off to build its own. Adam walks through how he got there. It started at age 13, when he heard his cousin say “real estate broker” and he knew that’s what he wanted to do. Years of real estate classes, home flips, and crazy corporate jobs followed, each one picked to build a new skill. He shares why his instinct to analyze everything nearly held him back, why revenue today is all that matters, and why your logo, LLC, and business name can wait. He also opens up about how the constant pings of client communication wrecked him in his first two years, and what changed. Along the way, they get into the fun stuff: the recipe for the “Lancaster Special,” why Adam can’t pass a gas station, and a brutally honest rating of Dots. Adam shares how his wife Becky made finding a business partner a condition of leaving corporate, and how he spent two and a half years searching before meeting Tyler. They also talk about why agents started calling to join without ever being recruited, and why Adam only needs 20 clients out of 40,000 transactions. Every time he took a big risk, the doubters came out, but Becky stayed in his corner and cheered him on every step of the way. Then Adam lays out the phrase he lives by: take massive imperfect action. Stop waiting for X to happen, and go do something about it. Starting a business shouldn’t have to wait for a perfect plan. So why do so many of us keep waiting? 🥤 Grab a dirty soda and tune in! 🎧 New episodes of Sweet Takes drop every other Thursday. Follow, review, and share to join the conversation.

3. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Healthy Eating Without the Deprivation: Lessons From Founding Blue Unicorn

   Healthy eating shouldn’t feel like a punishment. So why does it so often feel like one? Dan Posner hits the road with Jason and Meradith Christensen, co-founders of Blue Unicorn, to talk about building a protein bar that doesn’t taste like a protein bar. It has 7g of fiber, 3g of sugar, and 100% real chocolate. Jason, who built and sold NorthStar and now teaches entrepreneurship at BYU, and Meradith, a self-described foodie, explain why they believe the choice between healthy and delicious is a false one. Jason and Meradith walk through how the bar came to be. It started with a pantry drawer they called the “protein bar graveyard,” where half-eaten bars went to die. Then Jason brought home samples from Luke Tolley, a chemist and real-life Willy Wonka, and their kids started asking for them every day. They also share how Jason’s health journey at 25 shaped their mission of bringing joy to healthy living, and why deprivation never lasts. Along the way, they get into the fun stuff: how an alpaca with a unicorn horn became their mascot (their daughter raises alpacas, and they show up in local parades), why real chocolate matters more than a “chocolate coating,” and the morning habit of reading customer reviews, including one about how the bar fits into her health journey. They also open up about what it’s like to build a company with your spouse after 20 years of marriage, and why there’s no such thing as a finish line in entrepreneurship. Then Jason and Meradith lay out their litmus test for everything they make: the “unicorn zone.” Would you love it even if you didn’t know it was healthy? 🍫 Grab a protein bar and tune in! 🎧 New episodes of Sweet Takes drop every other Thursday. Follow, review, and share to join the conversation.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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