What do delivering blood in Rwanda and your Chipotle order have in common?

Zipline - the largest automated delivery system on Earth! And they do it with drones, not trucks!

You may or may not have heard of this company… but with a $7 Billion valuation, you will soon! I had the honor of interviewing founder/CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton on The Business of Joy show!

Here are some of my favorite parts:

1. From a walk-in refrigerator to a $7 Billion Valuation:

Six bucks an hour. A heavy down jacket in 120-degree Phoenix heat. That's where Keller learned more than he did in four years of high school.

2. Rwanda's blood network to your Chipotle burrito:

Same technology. Same objective. "A teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it."

3. The curiosity factor:

Curiosity is innate… “the challenge is how do you not stamp it out?”

Joie de vivre. It's a French phrase that translates to "the joy of life."

And when I sat down with John Dillon, CEO of La Madeleine, it was clear that joy isn't just a concept for this brand. The brand has been carrying joy in its DNA for 43 years. John's gift was seeing it and turning it up a notch.

When John took over as CEO, one of the first things he did was create “Spark Joy Sessions” - conversations with frontline employees to figure out the pain points that actually impacted them on a daily basis.

And when he went back a year later to report what had changed because of their feedback? He was surprised… they'd done more than he even realized!

That's leadership.

That’s a wrap for Season 7 - Hard to believe! Season 8 sneak peek will be coming soon!

Most executives don’t put the word "joy" in their personal brand statement.

John Goss does!

As President of Sally Beauty, a global brand with over 2,400 stores in the US and Canada, John has built his career around the idea that joy and culture aren’t separate from results - it produces them.

In this conversation, we talked about what it really means to lead with joy. Not as a feel-good concept, but as a deliberate strategy. Joy attracts the right people, builds real trust, and drives everything else.

We also got into the stuff that doesn't always make it into leadership conversations:

• growing up as the new kid across eight schools
• graduating high school in Singapore
• and the early career moments that taught him exactly the kind of leader he never wanted to be