Category: Podcast Season 2
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Sell It Before Your Build It with Mike Wiston
Landing an industry giant as your first client sounds like an entrepreneur’s dream, but for our guest today, that dream turned into a crisis when that single client – representing eighty percent of his total revenue – was acquired and paused all spending overnight. Faced with a massive burn rate and employees to pay, he…
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Stop Overthinking Business with Rael Bricker
What if you built a million-dollar consulting firm only to have your pipeline vanish overnight, leaving you with zero revenue and a family to support? Our guest today faced that exact reality, and later, a life-threatening crisis in his own office that forced him to choose between folding or finding a radical way to scale.…
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Your Business Owns You with Maria Gallucci
At just twelve years old, today’s guest was already acting as a professional bridge between two different worlds, helping her parents navigate the high-stakes purchase of their first home. Decades later, she hit a common wall where her own success became a cage, leaving her working harder without actually making progress or finding balance. Instead…
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Growth Nearly Killed Us with Aaron Jensen
What if you reached the top three in your industry globally, generating nearly a million dollars a month, only to realize your biggest success was actually your biggest vulnerability? Our guest today saw his primary market vanish almost overnight while his fulfillment costs were spiraling out of control. Instead of watching the business he built…
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Growth Isn’t an Accident with Jon Morris
What if you lost your largest client – representing forty percent of your entire revenue – almost overnight? Most founders would panic and start mass layoffs, but our guest today chose a different path. He asked his entire team to take a pay cut so he could keep the talent together, and then he made…
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Upstream Profit with Steve Barton
What if the very hard work you’re putting into your business is actually the thing keeping you stuck? Our guest today led a third-generation company through 10x growth from a six figure plateau to over two million in revenue, only to discover that massive growth can sometimes mask a complete lack of profit. He was…
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Scale or Die is WRONG with Joel Miller
What if you could grow revenue every year for 18 years — with no employees, no outside investment, and a business that shuts off at 5pm? Our guest today built exactly that. But it didn’t start that way. He spent the early years of his agency doing 80-hour weeks, arguing with clients over hourly estimates,…
