The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn

This is the High-EQ Founder, a podcast about how emotional intelligence can help you evolve faster and level up as a leader. Through interviews with founders and solo shares, deep tech leadership coach Renita Kalhorn shares nuanced insights and practical strategies for making hard decisions, extracting more learning from your mistakes and maximizing your ”return on luck” — so you can evolve faster and lead better. renitakalhorn.substack.com

The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn is a business podcast hosted by Renita Kalhorn | Founder Coach, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Renita Kalhorn | Founder Coach hosts The High-EQ Founder With Renita Kalhorn, a business show with 29 episodes published.

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  Mapping the Five Deep Tech Founder Archetypes, The Power of Radical Honesty to Accelerate Growth, and Why Self-Forgiveness Might Turn Out to Be Your Competitive Advantage, With Chris Reichhelm

  Apr 7, 202638 minS0

  <p>Deep tech now accounts for 25% of new unicorn startups — but building a sustainable deep tech business is one of the hardest things you can do. So what separates the founders who go the distance from those who burn out?</p><p>In this episode, I’m speaking with Chris Reichhelm, founder of Deep Tech Leaders, who’s spent 30 years in executive search working with the most ambitious companies on the planet — from advanced materials spinouts to quantum computing pioneers.</p><p>We talked about:</p><p>* the five founder CEO archetypes in deep tech — and the specific risk factors hiding ins...

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  What a Green Beret can teach you about empathy

  Mar 26, 20268 minS0

  <p>Most people don't associate empathy with the Special Forces. But in this episode, a Green Beret Captain shows us exactly what strategic empathy looks like in practice — and why it might be the most powerful leadership tool you're not using. </p><p>Learn what it actually means to have empathy and three moves you can start using today — in your 1:1s, town halls, and board meetings.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The High-EQ Founder by Renita Kalhorn at renitakalhorn.substack.com/subscribe

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  How the best founders give feedback

  Mar 4, 20269 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I break down two reframes that will change how you think about giving feedback. You'll learn why most feedback creates resistance instead of change, what continuous feedback actually looks like in practice, and how to give critical feedback without triggering a defensive reaction. Plus, real examples from founders who've made the shift.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The High-EQ Founder by Renita Kalhorn at renitakalhorn.substack.com/subscribe

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  The Battery Recycling Startup Closing the Loop on Lithium, How First Principles Thinking Led to a Counterintuitive Pricing Strategy, and Avoiding the Trap of Hidden Assumptions, With Sarah Fleischer

  Feb 11, 202630 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I’m speaking with Sarah Fleischer, co-founder and CEO of battery recycling startup tozero. With global lithium demand set to quadruple by 2030, Sarah and her team are on a mission to recover critical raw materials from lithium-ion batteries and reintroduce fresh raw materials back into the supply chain.</p><p>Sarah and I talked about: </p><p>* making fast decisions based on first principles thinking — and why she’s willing to do a complete 180 when new data changes her worldview </p><p>* the counterintuitive pricing move that defied industry norms and customers loved</p><p>* her two fa...

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  Lessons from Failing His Way to Building 10+ Businesses, The Sweet Spot For Finding Co-Founders, And The Software Flops That Positioned Him for the AI Revolution, With Deepak Shukla

  Jan 27, 202628 minS0

  <p>Today, I’m speaking with Deepak Shukla, serial entrepreneur and CEO at Pearl Lemon Group, a diverse portfolio of 10+ companies, some of them very brick and mortar, like pet transport and event catering.</p><p>We talked about:</p><p>* why going into business with old friends often doesn’t work</p><p>* what the sweet spot for finding business partners and co-founders actually is, and how to align expectations upfront to prevent painful breakdowns later</p><p>* how a string of software company failures actually turned out to be good luck</p><p>* how persistence, even with two year...

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