NoFilterFounders Is Coming Late May — And Here’s Why It Took Me This Long

I’ve been sitting on an idea for a little over a year — and if you’ve ever done that with something you actually believed in, you already know exactly what that feels like.

I knew what it was. I could feel the shape of it — the name, the energy, the kind of conversations I wanted to have. But knowing what something is and actually doing something about it are two completely different things, and for a long time I let the distance between those two things be my excuse.

I told myself I wasn’t ready. That I needed more credibility, more followers, a cleaner story. That I should wait until things were more settled before adding something new. And so the idea just lived there — in a note on my phone, in the back of my mind during the quiet moments — waiting for me to stop overthinking it.

Then one day I mentioned it to a colleague. Casually. Not a pitch, not a plan — just a conversation. I was finally saying out loud what I’d been keeping to myself, and something shifted the moment I did.

He came back to me and said he wanted to help bring it to life.

That’s how NoFilterFounders went from an idea I was protecting to something that is actually happening.

We’re launching late May, and I want you to be among the first to know. NoFilterFounders is a podcast built for entrepreneurs who are still in the thick of it — not the ones looking back from the finish line, but the ones building in real time, navigating setbacks, pivoting mid-stream, and doing it without a perfectly curated story to show for it. We’re talking about the real stuff — the pivots nobody posts about, the seasons where revenue is slow and belief has to carry you, the moments where you almost quit and didn’t. No filter. Just honest conversation between founders who are living it.

I’ve been documenting this journey — the nail business, the tech spaces, the infrastructure work that hasn’t always been pretty — because I believe the messy middle is where the most useful conversations happen. This podcast is an extension of that. And I want the right voices in the room.

If you’re a founder with a story worth telling, or you’ve been quietly sitting on an idea the way I was sitting on this — this is your sign. Reply to this post. Let’s talk.

The idea is not going to feel less scary with time. But sometimes all it takes is saying it out loud to the right person.

More details dropping soon. I’m so ready for this one.

Until next Monday, Michele Alexandria

P.S. — Know a founder who needs to hear this? Share this post. The right people find each other when we stop keeping things to ourselves.

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