Episodes
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How to keep my name off LLC ownership? — Michael Wedaa
Michael Wedaa of Augmentus Business Solutions explains how trusts and LLCs keep your name off your assets, so you are a less tempting lawsuit target. Michael is back for a third visit to talk about his new book, Business Rogue.
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How Do You Keep AI From Making Mistakes? — Glenn Broder
Glenn Broder of Human Judgment in the Age of AI shows small-business owners how to keep a human in charge of AI, so you get better results and fewer confident mistakes. Here is the plain-English version.
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Stuart Faught (Mini Horse): 90?Day $100K SaaS Flip
Stuart Faught, founder of Mini Horse, reveals how he builds tiny SaaS companies, hits $100K ARR in 90 days, and sells them for half?a?million, plus his playbook for first?time founders to acquire and scale software assets. He walks through the "mini?horse" concept, the power of reputation?software…
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Terence Leclere (Metaforyou): Immersive Guest Engagement Secrets
Terence Leclere, founder of Metaforyou, reveals how immersive experiences and human interactive touch points can dramatically boost guest engagement at live events. He walks us through his journey from actor to experiential consultant, explains the secret sauce behind "hits" – the organic moments…
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Matthew DuBoise (Carolina Coops) From Craigslist Hustle to National Brand
Every business has a story, and Carolina Coops has a great one. Matthew DuBoise From childhood memories of hatching chicks to selling his first homemade coop on Craigslist in under half an hour, Matthew Duboise traces his wild entrepreneurial ride—through moments of personal struggle, lessons in…
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Injury Law Secrets
Jason DeSouza - DeSouza Injury Lawyers On the Good, Bad and Shady in the Injury Law World: "There are lots of very, very good, very aggressive injury lawyers that know how to treat clients properly. Unfortunately, there's a lot of mills that do everything they can do to just get as many clients…
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Advertise in the Right Spots
Travis Spicer - Spotbookr On Sneaky, and a Bit Creepy But Effective, Advertising: "And then now you're seeing it and you're like, oh, how convenient. And then we get to turn you into this zombie to go and buy something." Where should you advertise your business? You have a great product or…
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Mergers and Acquisitions
Mark Hartmann - Mergers and Acquisitions On the Value of Purpose: "Either you'll exit it vertically, maybe on your own terms, or you'll exit horizontally, maybe not on your own terms. You will exit your business, right?" What happens when a psychotherapist, a negotiator, and a business dealmaker...
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Helping Abuse Victims
Felica Ray Diny - Felicia's Donation Closet On the Value of Purpose: "We're not just bringing a kitchen table, we're bringing it so she can sit down with her children to have a meal together." Sometimes people need a little help, and sometimes people need a lot. Imagine being an abused woman…
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PR through Press Releases
Mickie Kennedy - eReleases On Good PR: "Every time you're getting ready to issue a press release that you feel is meaningful to you, think about how can I make it meaningful for that audience person, making them want to read it, make it easier for a journalist to say, yeah, I think my audience...
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Her Sovereign Way
Morrighan Lynne - Her Sovereign Way On the Learning to Break the Chains of No: "So there's this feeling of my value is tied to them liking me, and if I say no to them, they may not like me anymore." When a woman starts a business and/ or becomes successful, often she does this with pain that has...
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From Passion to Fashion – Max Retail
Melodie van der Baan - Max Retail On the Success Secret: "You have to be so obsessed with the problem you're solving because it is going to be so freaking hard that you must have the wherewithal to continue going when it gets tough, when you hit dead ends." Melodie van der Baan has seen some...
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Hunting and Travel
Kurt Belding - Western Obsessions TV On the Ar: "How fast can I calm down, slow my breathing, slow my heart rate to make a good shot?" Building a business around your passion is a dream of most entrepreneurs. Kurt Belding has done it with Western Obsessions TV. By combining his love of hunting…
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Building a Junk Removal Empire
DJ Neuville - Haul It All On the Best Skill an Employee Can Have: "The biggest asset in this job is, can you show up? Can you show up? Can you show up on time?." Discover Hidden Savings in Commercial Real Estate Everyone has junk. Whether the stuff that collects as we live our lives and store…
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How to Use Cost Segregation
Tom Brodie - CSSI Cost Segregation On Using Bonus Depreciation on Buildings of All Sizes: "So people that own smaller buildings like that, they can actually get a reasonable return on this as well." Discover Hidden Savings in Commercial Real Estate In this week’s episode, we dive into the world…
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Data Driven Real Estate Investing
Neal Bawa - Grocapitus and MultifamilyU On Using the Right Tools to Make Good Decisions: "I said, I'm going to mine as much data as possible and try to get insights from that data." Many investors use real estate investing as an investment vehicle in their portfolio. Most of those investors are...
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IV Bars to Reenergize
Shahayra Majumder and Jonathan Chizever - Hydrate IV Bar Madison, WI On Focusing on What Really Matters: "They're passionate about their health, which is your only wealth at the end of the day." What good is money if you're spending your time hurting and not able to enjoy this great gift of life...
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The Power of PR
Ronica Cleary - Cleary Strategies On Trying DIY PR: "You don't know what makes you newsworthy. You don't know what lands. You don't know what's a really good pitch and what's not." Every business wants, well actually, needs customers. How do you get customers? You get noticed and you get your...
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Breaking Barriers to Literacy
Rowan Childs - Madison Reading Project On Building Up Youth: "We want to make sure every kid is excited and sees themselves on the cover or as the main character." Often we take the skills we have for granted. We want this and that, but rarely take the time to have gratitude for all that we have....
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How to Own a Campground
Rachel LaCasse-Ford - Lake Road Campground On the Best Plan for Business: "It's very important when you're thinking about purchasing a business or starting a business that you know the beginning, middle, and end, like, you know all the pieces, you know how you're going to get in, how you're going...
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Helping Entrepreneurs Buy Homes
Shane Perkins - Ultimate Strategy On the Reality Banks Overlook: "If you have that kind of equity and you've worked and you've saved that down payment, then there's nothing telling me that you're not going to make your payments." When you have a job with a W-2, you fit in the traditional bucket....
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Navigating Insurance Pitfalls
Fred Fisher - Fisher Consulting On the Unrealistic Expectations We Have in the Insurance World: "You have to know more about your insurance needs than the guy selling it, the guy who has to take continuing education classes." Insurance is basically paying for a promise you hope you will not need…
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What is Thai Massage
Nuttha Goutier - Sabai Thai Massage On the Passion to Succeed: "I said I have the dream, I have the vision, I have the belief and I am young and full of energy. I think the vision that I have, people will like it and people will love it." We've probably all been told to relax more than a few…
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How to Stage a Home
Alisa Sparks - Linden Creek On Realizing Your Own Success: "I kind of had this moment where I paused and realized I had accidentally worked myself out of a job, and that should be a good thing. My team had it covered, my clients were happy, things were rolling well, and I kind of scratched my…
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How to Get a Ketubah
Michael Shapiro - Ketubah.com On How the Artist Gets Inspired for the Ketubah: "There would be a discussion of the couple's values, maybe how they met, maybe where they met, and the artist would be listening for things that were important to them, including things between the lines, maybe that…
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Expand Your Biz Internationally
Rihab Abouzaki - This N That Communications On What She Does: "We are a gateway to the US market. As a company, we take the international brand and help them find distributors or help them directly sell in the US market, advertise in the US market." Often we get a little cozy with success....
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Learn How to Play Golf Better
Todd Graves - Graves Golf On Understanding Your Value: "Your customer is going to feed on your clarity of what you have to offer. And without clarity, you're just going to be a commodity." Some things just go hand in hand with business. Things like marketing, closing a deal over a beer, meeting…
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How to Invest in Notes
Eddie Speed - Note School On Timing the Market: "What's the best time to be in the note business? I said, there's two things. Either it's inflationary times or disruptive times. Right now we have both." It is always best to have an attorney before you need one, especially in business. Often, to...
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Real Stories of Legal Struggles and Successes
Jane Muir - J. Muir & Associates P.A. On the Bold Truth: "But long story short, litigation has to be part of your comprehensive business plan." It is always best to have an attorney before you need one, especially in business. Jane Muir is a business attorney that has seen almost everything. She...
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Mind and Body Wellness
Annie - The Garden Mind Body On the Figuring Out That it is All Connected: ""I was so skeptical because I was like, how is working with my mind going to change what my body's doing?" Pain seems to be everywhere. In our bodies, often we have the aches or headaches that seem to have no real reason...
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Gio’s Garden – Respite, Therapy and Resources for Families with Special Needs Children
Hilary Berning - Gio's Garden On the Unrealistic Timelines of Insurance Companies: "It's a 6 to 9 month process just to get a wheelchair. I really need some way to get my son from point A to point B." Families with special needs children already have some challenges. These families need help and...
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Building Your Personal Brand
Jake Isham - Creative Minds On Knowing Who You Are Competing Against For Views: "You're not competing with your competitors anymore. You're not competing with this podcast right here. You're not competing with other entrepreneurial podcasts. You're competing with Netflix. You're competing with...
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Disneyfy Your Business for Success
Vance Morris - Deliver Service Now Institute On the Customer Experience: "Every detail in your business is either enhancing or detracting from the experience. There is no middle ground." Many businesses focus on customer acquisition, but not all businesses focus on customer retention. Some...
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Understanding Health Insurance
Taylor Bowker - Mindful Insurance Agency On Common Mistakes in Medical Billing: "She ended up getting a bill for $14,000 for a pee test." Health insurance in the United States is a pain. We all know that. As business owners, we often get stuck needing to shop for our own insurance. Only during...
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Unlocking Hidden Revenue
Doug Brown - CEO Sales Strategies On Knowing What to Look For: "Number one, we help companies find revenue, hidden revenue that they already paid for but they haven't collected in their bank." There's a funny thing about business, and that is that your entrepreneurial journey will take you places...
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Timeclock Software
Dean Mathews - On the Clock On Watching Your Numbers: "They just realized that their sister in law who's been working for them for 10 years has been adding 10 hours onto every pay run for the last 10 years." Dean Mathews, CEO of On The Clock, shares his journey as an entrepreneur and the…
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Be a Podcast Guest
Tom Schwab - Interview Valet On Standing Out: "What's amazing now is AI is indexing all of these. So if you just say, I'm a coach, it's saying, well, do I recommend James or the other million people that identify as a coach?." Podcasts are everywhere these days. They are the current neato thing…
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Why a Virtual CFO May Be Just What You Need
Jody Grunden - Anders CPA On Working Together: "It's only going to help everybody if we can all learn how to get better and faster." Every business owner needs to watch their money. You watch it come in, go out and hopefully end up with some leftover to make sure you are doing more than just…
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Become a Authority by Becoming an Author
Henry DeVries - Indie Books International On Marketing With Authority: "The book is more than a calling card. The book is the greatest brochure." There are a few things you can do to make yourself important in the eyes of the people you meet. One of the best ways is to be the author of a book.…
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Spanish Immersion Daycare and Preschool
Heather Reekie - Casa de Corazón On Working With the SBA: "Getting the SBA loan was literally the hardest thing I've ever done. And I've given birth twice, naturally." We all wish we were smarter. As we get older, it becomes more difficult to learn new things. What if children could learn new...
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Marry Money and Opportunity with Real Estate
Mike Zlotnik - Tempo Funding On Investment Advice: "At the end of the day the best risk mitigation strategy is prudent diversification." Investing in real estate is often thought to be a great place to grow your wealth. But often investors have other things going on and they don't want to deal…
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The Business of Micro Greens
Jessi Ricci - New Life Greens On Being Present: "It's definitely life changing when you put your phone down for a meal." In the mad rush that is our world, we often take for granted some important things. Some of those things are nutrition, flavor, time spent with friends enjoying a great meal....
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Fed Up Foods
Carrie Stevens - Fed Up Foods On the Knowing What it Takes to be Successful: "When you're setting up your business, you want to make it convenient for the customer, but also it needs to be convenient for us because if we can't maintain it then we're going to get burnt out and we can't sustain…
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Learn to See, Learn to Paint
Kevin Murphy - Evolve Artist On the Value of Learning Art Beyond Making Art: "As an artist, you require more data. And so an education trains your subconscious mind to feed the data that you need to draw and paint, rather than just the stuff you need for survival." The power of art goes well…
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Property Investing Insights
Cody Wiseman - Wiseman Capital On the Caring for Your Investments: "I don't want to be driving by that in 15 years and seeing it's a dump." Investing in real estate has many benefits, but not all investors are created equal. Cody Wiseman started investing in real estate a few years ago. Through…
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The Financial Backend of Property Investing
Jacob Walter - VP of Finance - Patriot Properties On the Property Management Conundrum: "We look really good when everybody's making money. You know, we're always the problem when they're not." The thing about investing is that the financial part is the important part. It's all fun and games…
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How to Make a Living With Your Art
Tim Packer - Tim Packer Art Academy On the Truth: "I mean the universities and colleges are failing them just miserably." We all remember being kids and making art of some kind. Water colors, macaroni pictures, maybe even some Play-Doh creatures. But did you ever think you could make a living…
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How to Be An Electrician
Cole McCloskey - The Electrician, Inc. On the Appreciating the People: "I don't know that it's necessarily a bad thing that we, as a society, in business, are adopting a culture of being appreciative and valuing people for more than just what they produce." Flip a switch, the lights come on. Plug...
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Solving Veterinary Clinic Chaos: Inside the World of Vet Receptionist Remote Call Services
Isabelle Blaser - Vet Receptionists On the State of the Veterinary Field: "I think it's just a nationwide thing. That vet hospitals are understaffed and overworked and they always need an extra set of hands." Pets are like family to a great majority of our population. As living creatures, these...
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How to Update Your Kitchen Cabinets
Allen Curran - Curran Cabinetry and Design On the Knowing Your Users: "So if you have teenagers at home, it might come in really handy to be able to slow that down so they don't have the opportunity to slam things shut." We all live in homes with a few of the same types of rooms. We all have...
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