Ceramics artist and business owner Gina DeSantis has built a career around handmade work while navigating wholesale, retail, staffing, pricing, and production limits. She explains why creative businesses often need a different definition of scale, one that protects craftsmanship while still creating room for sustainable growth.

Ceramics artist and business owner Gina DeSantis has built a career around handmade work while navigating wholesale, retail, staffing, pricing, and production limits. She explains why creative businesses often need a different definition of scale, one that protects craftsmanship while still creating room for sustainable growth.

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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Gina DeSantis on Building a Creative Business Without Scaling Away the Craft

Eywa Biotech founder and CEO Victoria Costa Paz explains why bringing psychedelic medicine into mainstream mental health care requires far more than producing pharmaceutical-grade psilocybin. She shares how Eywa is combining biosynthesis, patient tracking, professional education, and treatment infrastructure to build a system around a new model of mental health care.

Eywa Biotech founder and CEO Victoria Costa Paz explains why bringing psychedelic medicine into mainstream mental health care requires far more than producing pharmaceutical-grade psilocybin. She shares how Eywa is combining biosynthesis, patient tracking, professional education, and treatment infrastructure to build a system around a new model of mental health care.

Victoria Costa Paz on Why Psychedelic Medicine Needs an Infrastructure, Not Just a Drug

Real Motors co-founder Trent Dingman explains how the company is building “Future Machines,” beginning with Project : ARES, an electric Neo Cafe Racer designed around its Electric Analogue philosophy. He also discusses why Real Motors is rethinking manufacturing alongside the machines themselves, and how the company plans to use engineering, smaller-scale production, and shared industrial capabilities as it raises capital for projects beyond ARES.

Real Motors co-founder Trent Dingman explains how the company is building &ldquo;Future Machines,&rdquo; beginning with Project : ARES, an electric Neo Cafe Racer designed around its Electric Analogue philosophy. He also discusses why Real Motors is rethinking manufacturing alongside the machines themselves, and how the company plans to use engineering, smaller-scale production, and shared industrial capabilities as it raises capital for projects beyond ARES.

Trent Dingman on Building Future Machines Beyond the Traditional Factory

Hooman Tavakolian has built a career spanning Wall Street, wrestling, sports diplomacy, and international humanitarian work. He explains why the discipline that helped him rise from poverty also led him to reconsider the idea of being “self-made,” recognizing the coaches, strangers, colleagues, and small acts of kindness that shaped his path.

Hooman Tavakolian has built a career spanning Wall Street, wrestling, sports diplomacy, and international humanitarian work. He explains why the discipline that helped him rise from poverty also led him to reconsider the idea of being &ldquo;self-made,&rdquo; recognizing the coaches, strangers, colleagues, and small acts of kindness that shaped his path.

Gina DeSantis on Building a Creative Business Without Scaling Away the Craft

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