Startups can go global faster than ever, but their financial operations often struggle to keep pace. Anna Tobin, Business Development Lead at Performa, joins Phillip Lanos to explore how fragmented bank accounts, digital wallets, stablecoins, cross-border payments, reconciliation, and reporting create costly friction as companies scale. Drawing on 15 years across fintech, startups, payments, and digital assets, Anna explains how Performa is bringing fiat and Web3 financial workflows into a unified infrastructure designed for globally distributed businesses.

Startups can go global faster than ever, but their financial operations often struggle to keep pace. Anna Tobin, Business Development Lead at Performa, joins Phillip Lanos to explore how fragmented bank accounts, digital wallets, stablecoins, cross-border payments, reconciliation, and reporting create costly friction as companies scale. Drawing on 15 years across fintech, startups, payments, and digital assets, Anna explains how Performa is bringing fiat and Web3 financial workflows into a unified infrastructure designed for globally distributed businesses.

Grit Daily Startup Show podcast explores the world of entrepreneurship, founders, and CEOs to talk scaleups and startups, from conception and funding to exits. Interviews run across all industries, with entrepreneurs sharing their best decisions, mistakes to avoid, and wildest entrepreneurial stories. With single-guest entrepreneur and multi-guest formats.

Grit Daily Startup Show podcast explores the world of entrepreneurship, founders, and CEOs to talk scaleups and startups, from conception and funding to exits. Interviews run across all industries, with entrepreneurs sharing their best decisions, mistakes to avoid, and wildest entrepreneurial stories. With single-guest entrepreneur and multi-guest formats.

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Anna Tobin on Building the Financial Infrastructure for Global Startups

After the sudden loss of her husband, Laila France found herself navigating grief while simultaneously confronting financial accounts, legal paperwork, business ownership, probate, and decisions she never expected to make alone. Now, as creator and host of The Laila France Show, she is turning that experience into practical guidance for other women. Laila joins Phillip Lanos to discuss why families need to have difficult conversations before a crisis, the importance of understanding household finances and estate plans, rebuilding an identity after loss, and why preparation is ultimately about empowerment rather than fear.

After the sudden loss of her husband, Laila France found herself navigating grief while simultaneously confronting financial accounts, legal paperwork, business ownership, probate, and decisions she never expected to make alone. Now, as creator and host of The Laila France Show, she is turning that experience into practical guidance for other women. Laila joins Phillip Lanos to discuss why families need to have difficult conversations before a crisis, the importance of understanding household finances and estate plans, rebuilding an identity after loss, and why preparation is ultimately about empowerment rather than fear.

Laila France on Preparing for Life’s Hardest Moments Before They Happen

Entrepreneur and The Jersey Sound executive producer Randy Dominguez spent 55 years in finance before entering documentary filmmaking and music storytelling. He explains how financial discipline, careful planning, and the right collaborators helped turn a creative vision into a finished film and a growing platform dedicated to preserving music history.

Entrepreneur and The Jersey Sound executive producer Randy Dominguez spent 55 years in finance before entering documentary filmmaking and music storytelling. He explains how financial discipline, careful planning, and the right collaborators helped turn a creative vision into a finished film and a growing platform dedicated to preserving music history.

Randy Dominguez on Why Creative Ambition Needs a Business Plan

Leadership coach and consultant Dr. Leigh Byers explains why strategy can break down when leaders focus on tasks while overlooking the people responsible for carrying them out. She shares how self-awareness, collaboration, recognition, and her Seventh Level Leadership framework can help leaders build organizations that function without depending on constant intervention from the top.

Leadership coach and consultant Dr. Leigh Byers explains why strategy can break down when leaders focus on tasks while overlooking the people responsible for carrying them out. She shares how self-awareness, collaboration, recognition, and her Seventh Level Leadership framework can help leaders build organizations that function without depending on constant intervention from the top.

Anna Tobin on Building the Financial Infrastructure for Global Startups

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