Where resilience meets the real stories of successful entrepreneurs and startup founders.
Hosted by Sonia Couto, a 2x tech founder, startup mentor, and breast cancer survivor.
Tenacity with Sonia C. dives into the mindset, leadership, and grit needed to build, scale, and exit thriving businesses.
In each episode, you’ll hear from accomplished founders who’ve built multi-million dollar companies and come back stronger from failures, pivots, and setbacks. These are raw, honest conversations filled with behind-the-scenes lessons from startup exits, failure and comebacks, real talk on funding, scaling, and founder mental health, expert insights on building legacy, leading teams, and staying resilient, and tactical strategies for growing a business and evolving as a leader.
If you’re a builder, not just a dreamer, this podcast is your go-to for growth, inspiration, and real-world advice.
Tune in. Level up. Stay tenacious.
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Where resilience meets the real stories of successful entrepreneurs and startup founders.
Hosted by Sonia Couto, a 2x tech founder, startup mentor, and breast cancer survivor.
Tenacity with Sonia C. dives into the mindset, leadership, and grit needed to build, scale, and exit thriving businesses.
In each episode, you’ll hear from accomplished founders who’ve built multi-million dollar companies and come back stronger from failures, pivots, and setbacks. These are raw, honest conversations filled with behind-the-scenes lessons from startup exits, failure and comebacks, real talk on funding, scaling, and founder mental health, expert insights on building legacy, leading teams, and staying resilient, and tactical strategies for growing a business and evolving as a leader.
If you’re a builder, not just a dreamer, this podcast is your go-to for growth, inspiration, and real-world advice.
Tune in. Level up. Stay tenacious.
A Founder’s Fight to Grow During the Ukraine Invasion with Oleksandr Buratynskyi
Tenacity with Sonia C.
45 minutes
1 month ago
A Founder’s Fight to Grow During the Ukraine Invasion with Oleksandr Buratynskyi
What does it take to build and scale a tech startup while your country is under attack?
In this episode of Tenacity with Sonia C, Ukrainian founder Oleksandr (“Alex”) Buratynskyi, co-founder of T-Travel, shares the raw, unfiltered truth about growing a startup during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with no outside funding, constant uncertainty, and the pressure to keep his team motivated while the world around him shifted overnight.
Alex opens up about:
-The hackathon spark that pushed him from QA testing into entrepreneurship
-Bootstrapping T-Travel through wartime conditions when investors disappeared
-How the invasion changed everything, from funding to timelines to team morale
-The biggest mistake he made as a founder (and how it cost years of time and money)
-Why overbuilding early nearly crushed the company
-How he scaled to 37,000+ users without VC dollars
-The mindset tools he used to stay steady while leading through crisis
-His philosophy from his book Systematic Adaptiveness, and how founders can apply it in their own moments of chaos
This conversation serves as a blueprint for fostering founder resilience, resourcefulness, and psychological endurance.
If you’re navigating failure, rebuilding after a setback, or fighting to keep your dream alive, Alex’s story will remind you that tenacity is a strategy, not just a trait.
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Tenacity with Sonia C.
Where resilience meets the real stories of successful entrepreneurs and startup founders.
Hosted by Sonia Couto, a 2x tech founder, startup mentor, and breast cancer survivor.
Tenacity with Sonia C. dives into the mindset, leadership, and grit needed to build, scale, and exit thriving businesses.
In each episode, you’ll hear from accomplished founders who’ve built multi-million dollar companies and come back stronger from failures, pivots, and setbacks. These are raw, honest conversations filled with behind-the-scenes lessons from startup exits, failure and comebacks, real talk on funding, scaling, and founder mental health, expert insights on building legacy, leading teams, and staying resilient, and tactical strategies for growing a business and evolving as a leader.
If you’re a builder, not just a dreamer, this podcast is your go-to for growth, inspiration, and real-world advice.
Tune in. Level up. Stay tenacious.
