The Next Mountain Podcast

The Next Mountain Podcast brings you real, unfiltered conversations with exited founders, leaders, investors and expert who are redefining success in a quickly changing world. Hosted by the team behind Next Mountain, each episode explores what happens after the exit and how accomplished individuals can turn transitions into clarity, purpose, and impact. From achievement to alignment. From success to stewardship. From solo hustle to collective impact.

The Next Mountain Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Next Mountain, with 21 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.

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  Patrick Lor on Investing in What Matters

  Jun 17, 202651 minS0

  <p>What if the most important investment you'll ever make isn't in a business plan — it's in people?</p><p></p><p>In this episode of The Next Mountain Podcast, Patrick Lor, co-founder of iStockPhoto and Managing Partner of Panache Ventures, shares his journey from bootstrapped entrepreneur to seasoned investor and mentor. We explore how leaving a company behind opened the door to something more meaningful: learning to truly connect with people. From building trust fast to understanding why most mentoring conversations fail, Patrick shows how showing up with genuine curiosity changes everything.</p><p></p><p>✨ Key Themes</p>Why...

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  Patrick Lor on Investing in What Matters

  Jun 17, 202651 min

  What if the most important investment you'll ever make isn't in a business plan — it's in people? In this episode of The Next Mountain Podcast, Patrick Lor, co-founder of iStockPhoto and Managing Partner of Panache Ventures, shares his journey from bootstrapped entrepreneur to seasoned investor and mentor. We explore how leaving a company behind opened the door to something more meaningful: learning to truly connect with people. From building trust fast to understanding why most mentoring conversations fail, Patrick shows how showing up with genuine curiosity changes everything. ✨ Key Themes Why the best investments are built on relationships, not business plans How ego gets in the way of real connection and how to dissolve it The art of having conversations that create trust in minutes Why great mentors listen more than they advise Building a community of entrepreneurs a decade before they're ready to pitch Learn more about Patrick Lor Patrick Lor on Linkedin Panache Ventures Website

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  Your Aligned Next Chapter — Dr. Anne-Marie King on Finding Freedom After Achievement

  Jun 10, 202652 minS0

  <p>What if everything you've built was powered by a belief that's now needs to be reexamined?<br /></p><p>In this episode of The Next Mountain Podcast, Dr. Anne-Marie King, UK-based performance psychologist and former psychiatrist, unpacks why high achievers feel lost after their biggest wins. We explore the unconscious belief she calls conditional worth, how to move through the emotional aftermath of an exit, and what it actually takes to build a life that feels as good as it looks.</p><p></p><p>✨ Key Themes</p>Why high achievers tie their identity and worth to their outputThe em...

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  Natasha Freidus on Re-Imagining Business for Good

  May 21, 202645 minS0

  <p>Natasha Freidus calls herself an "accidental founder." While volunteering with refugees in France around 2015, she went looking for a simple tool to match needs with offers in real time, and when she couldn't find one, she used a wedding registry instead. That improvised fix became the proof of concept for Needslist, a software company that went on to match millions of dollars in aid through crises from Hurricane Dorian to the fall of Kabul to the war in Ukraine, before she exited on New Year's Eve, 2024.</p><p></p><p>In this conversation, Tasha reimagines what business for good...

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  The Midas Loop: Colin Beavan on the Success Trap and the Art of Being Fully Alive

  May 12, 202656 minS0

  <p>Colin Beavan is an executive coach, writer, Zen teacher, and self-described "professional quitter." He spent years building a successful PR business in London, then walked away from it on a motorcycle trip he was terrified to take. He went on to write the bestselling No Impact Man, run a nonprofit, and now coaches founders, philanthropists, and leaders through the question that brought him to Zen practice in the first place: how do you actually live?</p><p></p><p>In this episode, we discuss what Colin calls the Midas Loop, when success stops feeling alive. We chase one success...

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