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.
Debt, Failure, Bitcoin: Rebuilt From Rock Bottom with Aleksandar Svetski
Tenacity with Sonia C.
38 minutes
1 month ago
Debt, Failure, Bitcoin: Rebuilt From Rock Bottom with Aleksandar Svetski
At just 20 years old, Aleksandar Svetski lost everything, $200,000 in debt, wiped out by the stock market, living on a friend’s floor, and selling door-to-door to afford a can of tuna. That rock-bottom moment didn’t break him; it built him.
In this raw and unapologetic conversation, Sonia sits down with Alex to unpack the failures, pivots, and rebuilds that shaped his unconventional path from debt to becoming a leading voice in the Bitcoin space. From early entrepreneurial mistakes to launching the world’s first Bitcoin-only savings app to stepping away when regulation and burnout crushed his joy. Alex shares the truth behind resilience that most founders rarely discuss.
In this episode, we dive into:
-Losing $200K and rebuilding from zero
-The life-changing lessons of door-to-door rejection
-Why his early startup failed and how that led to Bitcoin
-Battling regulators while trying to innovate
-Knowing when persistence becomes self-destruction
-How to avoid “founder Frankenstein” product mistakes
-What the next generation of Bitcoin adoption will really look like
If you’re a founder facing uncertainty, burnout, or the fear of letting go, this episode will challenge how you think about resilience and what it truly means to rebuild.
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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.
