Episode 73

Building Healthybud: Kyle Feigenbaum on Gut Health, Resilience & Scaling With Purpose

57 min

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Kyle Feigenbaum

57 min
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Episode summary

In this episode of The People-Driven CEO Podcast, Shane sits down with Kyle Feigenbaum, Co-Founder and CEO of Healthybud, to talk about health, entrepreneurship and the realities of building a fast-growing pet wellness brand. Kyle shares how his own experience with Crohn’s disease forced him to rethink his lifestyle, nutrition and career. Not long after, the sudden loss of his dog to cancer pushed him to question what people were feeding their pets. Those experiences eventually became the foundation for Healthybud and its gut-first approach to dog nutrition.

The conversation goes deep into the founder journey: leaving finance, learning ecommerce from scratch, surviving cash-flow pressure, scaling into retail and understanding how ambition can coexist with being present for the people you love.

Kyle and Shane also talk about AI, personal growth, founder resilience and why building something meaningful should never come at the cost of your relationships.

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Kyle Feigenbaum

Kyle Feigenbaum, CFA, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Healthybud, a Montreal-based pet wellness company creating functional, research-backed nutrition for dogs.

Before entering the pet industry, Kyle spent more than five years in finance and private-client asset management. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business with distinction and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Under Kyle’s leadership, Healthybud has grown from an emerging direct-to-consumer company into a North American pet wellness brand with more than 20 products and distribution across more than 1,500 retail locations. The company also closed a $1.5 million strategic financing round led by Investissement Québec and continues to expand its retail and distribution footprint across Canada and the United States.

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