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The Value Creators Podcast Episode #61. Democratizing Alternative Investments Through Innovation, Liquidity, and Design: A Conversation with Kim Flynn

April 28, 2025 /0 Comments/in /by

In this episode of the Value Creators Podcast, Hunter Hastings talks with Kim Flynn, President of XA Investments, about how financial markets are evolving to make alternative investments—traditionally reserved for financial elites—more accessible to everyday investors. Kim shares how her firm is innovating fund structures, focusing on customer-centric product design, and promoting investor education to open up access to private markets. Key topics include demand-driven product development, balancing liquidity with long-term investing through structures like interval and tender offer funds, and the role of creativity and empathy in financial innovation. Whether you’re an investor or a product builder, this episode offers a roadmap for democratizing high-yield investment opportunities.

Embrace The Chaos: Why Businesses Must Rethink Strategy in a Quantum World

April 23, 2025 /0 Comments/in /by

The world of physics has undergone a seismic paradigm shift. Gone is the clockwork universe of Newton, where everything moved predictably according to fixed laws. In its place, we have quantum physics and complex adaptive systems—a reality defined by uncertainty, fluidity, and sudden leaps to new possibilities. As Werner Heisenberg once said, this requires “a […]

The Value Creators Podcast Episode #60. How to Master Entrepreneurship Through Imagination, Value Creation, and Market Disruption: A Conversation with Per Bylund

April 17, 2025 /0 Comments/in /by

How does entrepreneurship truly drive economic growth, and why is it often ignored in mainstream economic models? What role does imagination play in creating market-changing value?

In this episode of the Value Creators Podcast, Hunter Hastings is joined by Per Bylund, professor, author, and one of the leading voices in Austrian economics. Per introduces a radically dynamic model of entrepreneurship based on his new book, Entrepreneurship and Evolutionary Economics.

Key insights include:

Why modern economics has pushed entrepreneurship to the margins—and why that’s a mistake.

The difference between creating knowledge and creating value.

Why entrepreneurial success depends on imagination, empathy, and experimentation.

How the infeasibility zone traps safe innovators—and how to leap past it.

Bylund’s three models of entrepreneurship, culminating in Model 3, where entrepreneurs reshape markets.

The importance of institutional support—and the dangers of policy overreach.

This episode redefines entrepreneurship not as a function of business plans or investment capital, but as an imaginative, value-creating force that reshapes the economy from within. If you want to understand how real economic growth happens, this conversation is essential.

Organizing for emergence.

April 3, 2025 /0 Comments/in /by

Increasingly, companies are finding that traditional organizational structures are a poor fit with the new constraints of the business ecosystem. The new design alternative is the Kinetic Flow State Organization (https://hunterhastings.substack.com/p/the-need-for-a-new-organizational?r=2efcw&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true). In this two-part series, we look first at the new theory and second at the new practices of the new form of business organization

The Value Creators Podcast Episode #59. How to Build a Self-Managed Organization: A Conversation with Doug Kirkpatrick

March 25, 2025 /0 Comments/in /by

Can companies operate effectively without bosses, titles, or hierarchies? How can organizations empower employees to take full ownership of their roles while maintaining accountability and productivity?

In this episode of the Value Creators Podcast, Hunter Hastings speaks with Doug Kirkpatrick, author of The No Limits Enterprise and a pioneer of self-management. Doug shares his experience implementing self-management at The Morning Star Company, a firm that scaled successfully without traditional managers or management.

The Value Creators Podcast Episode #58. How to Recognize and Overcome Selfish Leadership: A Conversation with Josefine Campbell

March 14, 2025 /0 Comments/in /by

What if the traditional view of leadership—an individual who is assertively bold, visionary, and all-powerful—was actually harmful? What if leadership is not about commanding authority but interpersonal relationships, collaboration, self-awareness, and authenticity? In this episode of the Value Creators Podcast, Hunter Hastings speaks with Josefine Campbell, international business coach and author of 12 Tools for Managing […]