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        <itunes:author>Protagonist &amp; Top Floor Mentoring</itunes:author>
        <itunes:summary>Adam Kobler is a leadership geek who speaks in systems and pop-culture metaphors. Laura Lorenz has 35 years of telling entrepreneurs the hard truth with a warm handshake. Together, they dissect the messy middle of running a business team: how to lead when nobody taught you how, why your culture is leaking, and what operations actually looks like when the playbook runs out. Transition Point is where curiosity meets accountability.</itunes:summary>
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