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The Keri Croft Show
The Keri Croft Show is a podcast for people building something BADASS. A business. A dream. A life that actually feels like yours.
Hosted by Keri Croft, this podcast explores the real stories behind the build, what it takes to start, and more importantly, the Mental Athleticism™ it takes to stay in it when the excitement fades and the work gets real.
The Keri Croft Show features conversations with founders, creatives, musicians and people in the middle of building something meaningful, without the highlight reel.
🎙 New episodes drop every Thursday.
Episodes
211 episodes
Little Legends Lemonade Ep 05: Why Better Treatments for Kids Can't Wait
Your child has a fever, you get told it’s probably nothing, and then one morning everything changes. John and Renee join us to tell the story of their son Will’s diagnosis with stage four Wilms tumor, a rare pediatric kidney cancer, and the bru...
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Little Legends Lemonade Ep 04: When a Mother's Instinct Changed Everything
A kid goes from running everywhere to barely being able to walk, and the first answers don’t point to cancer at all. That is the gut punch at the center of our conversation with Kim and her son, Max, as they walk us through the real timeline fr...
Little Legends Lemonade Ep 03: How Small Donations Can Fuel Major Cancer Breakthroughs
Pediatric cancer is a gut punch most people can’t look at for long, and that discomfort has a cost. We sit down with Dr Dean Lee, Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, to talk about why kids’ c...
Little Legends Lemonade Ep 02: Why Childhood Cancer Research Needs Us
Only 8% of cancer research funding goes to pediatric cancer and that single number explains a lot about why families still face limited options, harsher treatments, and too much uncertainty. I’m joined by Drew Dollmatsch, managing director for ...
Little Legends Lemonade Ep 01: How One Mom Sparked a Movement for Kids With Cancer
It's that time of year again, ya'll. The Little Legends Lemonade stand is back and better than ever, baby!For the third year, The Keri Croft show & Little Legends Lemonade are teaming up to bring kids, families, local businesses, an...
Donatos CEO Kevin King on Leading With Heart.
Kevin King is the CEO of Donatos, but the first thing you should probably know about him is that he really loves his wife.Leslie has challenged him, sharpened him, expanded his taste in music, and spent more than three decades helping hi...
Business, Motherhood, and Getting Your Pink Back with Meleka Jolliff, Founder of MMJ Events and Aiden & Grace.
I sat down with Meleka Jolliff, one of the seven incredible women who helped bring our very first IRL experience to life. Meleka was not only a generous sponsor, but she and her team played such a huge role in making the entire space feel beaut...
Kelsey Lensman on Faith, Fear, and Expanding Your Limits.
In this episode, I sit down with Kelsey Lensman for a conversation about faith, fear, identity, trauma, and what happens when life forces you to stop white-knuckling the wheel.Kelsey shares the moments that cracked her open and rebuilt ...
BONUS Episode! Joe DeLoss on Ego, Service, and Modern Masculinity
After we wrapped my conversation with Joe DeLoss, we kept talking.What started as a conversation about marriage turned into something much bigger: masculinity, ego, service, leadership, and why so many men seem to be struggling to find t...
The Founder Who Sold His Hot Chicken Restaurant and Walked Into the Woods with Joe DeLoss
Joe DeLoss is best known as the founder of Hot Chicken Takeover, one of Columbus’s most recognizable restaurant stories. But this conversation is not really about chicken.Joe talks with Keri about the rise of Hot Chicken Takeover, the eg...
How to Build a Bigger Life Without Shrinking Yourself with Elizabeth McCormick
Elizabeth Blount McCormick doesn't think women should play small.As CEO of Uniglobe Travel Designers, she helped navigate one of the most challenging periods in modern business history when COVID brought the travel industry to a standsti...
Why Most Entrepreneurs Never Actually Start with Nick Braun
Most people talk about ideas. Very few actually write the check and start.Nick Braun went from building a pet insurance comparison company to scaling a water filtration business doing millions in revenue. But this conversation is really...
Shark Tank, Building Brave & Redefining Success with Megan Pando
Sixty seconds of total silence doesn’t sound that long… until you’re standing on a Persian rug making eye contact with some of the most famous investors in America.This week, Megan Pando joins me to talk about what Shark Tank actuall...
Community Over Competition: Motherhood, Mental Health & Movement Haven with Libby Welch.
Hello, my friend, hello...This week, Libby Welch joins me for a conversation that starts with wedding songs, curly hair, and dance moms… and somehow lands in grief, postpartum anxiety, mental health, identity, and building a business tha...
You'll Support Women...Until They Make You Uncomfortable. (We Can Do So Much Better.)
The internet loves to scream “women supporting women”… right up until a woman makes a choice they wouldn’t make themselves.This episode starts with the backlash around Lisa Oxenham’s British Vogue essay about becoming a mom at 49—and spi...
How to Build a Luxury Design Business With Your Spouse with Paul + Jo Studios
They create some of the most recognizable homes in Columbus, Ohio. But behind the aesthetic is pressure, conflict, obsession, and nonstop work.This conversation with Stacy and Tracy from Paul + Jo Studios gets into what it actually takes...
Can We Love Our Kids AND Still Want Our Own Identity?
By 8 a.m., some of us feel like we’ve already lived a full day.We’re up early trying to work out, get kids fed, get everyone out the door—and still show up like we’ve got it together. Meanwhile our nervous system is already buzzing from ...
It Started as One Lemonade Stand Fundraiser… Now the Goal Is 500
It's back and bigger than ever... that's right we're talking about Little Legends Lemonade Stand Fundraiser 2026. What started as a simple lemonade stand now has a goal of 500 stands nationwide.Keri sits down with the team be...
How Pilates Builds Strength For Real Life with Sara Ortlip Pilates
Most people think they’re doing Pilates. They’re not.Sara Ortlip built one of the most respected Pilates studios in Columbus by doing it differently and actually doing it right.We get into what Pilates really is vs. what’s being s...
How to Build a Tight Knit, Lasting Community in Today's World. Reflections on my First LIVE Show.
What happens when you actually do the thing that scares you?In this solocast, I’m recapping the very first In Her Badass Era IRL event—and honestly, I’m still processing it. What started as an idea in my head turned into a room full of ...
Our First LIVE Show! In Her Badass Era
I pushed myself into a new level with this one.For the first time ever, The Keri Croft Show went live with an IRL experience called “In Her Badass Era.”I sat down with a room full of female entrepreneurs who are actually building ...
What Happens When Life Doesn’t Go According to Plan with Jessica Stanley
Jessica didn’t set out to build a nonprofit.She was living her life. Raising kids, building her career, doing all the normal things and then everything shifted. A diagnosis. A timeline no one was ready for. And a version of life she neve...
The Cost Of Your Comfort Zone
Your comfort zone isn’t harmless.It looks like safety. It feels like routine. It even disguises itself as “being responsible.”But underneath that? It can quietly drain your energy, cap your identity, and delay the future you keep sa...
From Food Truck to North Market: Rick Harrison Wolfe on Reinvention, Risk, and Building in Columbus
Rick Harrison is the Executive Director of North Market, but that’s not really the story. The story is how he got there. Fashion career in LA. Job ends. Starts a food truck having no idea what he’s doing. And somehow that path leads him back to...