PODCAST · business
Scratch Entrepreneur
by Shine Insurance Agency
Starting a new business from scratch is an adventure. On the Scratch Entrepreneur podcast we dig deep into the systems, secrets, and stories of remarkable people who dropped everything to start a healthy profitable business.
Episodes
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Guiding Principles of Switchyard Brewing Company
Kurtis Cummings founded Switchyard Brewing Company in his garage and then spent 7 years developing the business plan before opening his doors. In this episode, he breaks down the 8 guiding principles that he developed to get there. We're glad you joined us! Topics covered include: Starting the...
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Chuck Surack on Online Retail
Chuck Surack founded Sweetwater Sound in his VW Bus. Now he's closing in on a billion dollars annual revenue. Topics discussed include: Resources (5:00) Getting started in a VW Bus (12:30) Old tech vs new tech (16:00) Advantages and disadvantages of audio tech (18:45) How the Kurzweil K250…
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Dhar Mann on the Power of Influencer Marketing
Dhar Mann grew LiveGlam from a small business to a booming multimillion dollar success through influencer marketing. Topics: Resources (5:30) Origins (8:45) Growth (15:00) Dhar’s mantra (19:50) Which ideas to pursue (21:00) Learning from failure (24:30) Influencer marketing (32:45) Influencer...
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Pat East - 5 Steps to a Healthy Profitable Business
Pat East, founder of Hanapin Marketing and director of The Dimension Mill, knows the five things it takes to create a healthy profitable business. Do you? Hit play to find out. Mentions: The Tim Ferris Show The 4-Hour Work Week Breakthrough Strategy Siri QuickBooks Digital Marketing Blog Hero...
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Abby Gitlitz - Don't Play With Glass
You’ve been warned since you were small not to play with glass. It’s sharp, it’s fragile, and you’ll get hurt if it breaks. Abby Gitlitz, founder of The Bloomington Creative Glass Center (BCGC), agrees. You’ll get hurt if it breaks, and you can count on it breaking if you blow glass. You’ll get...
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Pete Yonkman - Walking Billboard for Cook Medical
Medical conversations are usually one of two things: confusing, bad news (or both). Join me and Pete Yonkman as we talk medical equipment shop in a way you, your five year old, or your great grandmother would understand. Learn how medical devices changed the face of healthcare forever, how Bill…
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Matt Ellenwood - How to Turn Problems into Opportunities
Have you ever met someone who had their whole life figured out before they’d learned how to tie their shoes? Most of us have no idea what we want to be when we grow up. Or we think we do, but with age and gray hairs realize pro baseball probably isn’t going to happen... Others stumble purely by...
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Margaret Fette – How to build a business based on sewing
We all dream of taking the thing we love to do and growing it into a healthy profitable business. Well our guest today has done just that. Since she was a little girl sewing was a curiosity, then a pastime, then a college major, and then a career. Now Margaret is the owner of a sewing and…
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Crossroads: Ownership Conversations with Chris Chasteen of Content Cucumber and Silicone Depot
Today’s show is the fourth in our series of on-air coaching sessions between veteran executive coach David Quick and an entrepreneur who sits at a crossroads. A big decision point in his or her business. Our guest today has built a painless way for your business to share your expertise with the...
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Reflections & Projections with Jeremy
Jeremy walks you through his thoughts on reflecting and projecting for the coming year. He address the year that was and new things that are coming up.
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Jay Baer – How to explode your word of mouth marketing with Talk Triggers
When McKenzie and I started Shine Insurance I had very little knowledge of how to run a business and even less about how to sell something. I had been a teacher for 13 years. People brought their kids to my classroom and if I boomed, the immediate consequences were limited. I also knew that…
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The Price of A Good Laugh with Mat Alano Martin
The great thing about entrepreneurs is that they come in all categories. On almost any topic you could name business owners across the entire scale. Lets start with money – Jeff Bezos is a pretty rich dude and on the other end, a homeless person on a street corner is doing the best they can with...
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Adjusting Medicine with Dr Karin Drummond
There is no one value more important to running a healthy profitable business than being yourself. Maybe that wasn’t true 50 years ago, maybe molding to the established norms was how you succeeded. But not today. Today, authenticity is everything. You don’t have to be polished or perfect, but you...
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Get Local with BTown LowDown
The best towns, just like the best businesses, have a story. There’s a simple reason why. Because every single one of us is wired to connect with a great story. We connect with the characters, love their simple flaws that remind us of our own, yell at the bad guys in a way we probably couldn’t in...
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Crossroads: Budgeting for Your Launch with Ellie Symes
While I don’t have a traditional tech start up, I have a kind of love love relationship with the tech world. Maybe it’s because Tech is the new American Dream. To have an idea that solves a pain point in the world, build a model, have a bunch of tech stuff happen, and voula, you’re a millionaire....
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Tim Alison says Screw the Naysayers
I think about my business probably 70% of my waking hours. I’m, not 100% proud of that actually. There’s certainly mental space that needs to be freed for more about family, and fun, and nature, and playing tennis, and riding my bike. But I obsess about the details, the upcoming decisions…
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Be Golden is Empowering Women
We talk a lot on this podcast about building tribes, groups of customers that love your product, love your company, and feel like they are a part of something special because, well, they are. The tribal metaphor has always worked in my mind for two primary reasons. If you have a community of…
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Selling Cities with Mike McAfee
All of us have aspirations. From Elan Musk, who wants to dig tunnels and colonize Mars, to a homeless kid sitting in school and trying to look normal. We all have aspirations. The cool thing about being human is that there are as many visions of a better future as there are people. Everyone’s is...
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How to Get Your First 200 Customers with Penji co-founder; Johnathan Grzybowski
Standing on the edge of a new venture as a budding entrepreneur is equally exhilarating and bone chilling. To truly do this you have to strap into the harness of friends and family that believe in you, lean out over the abyss that is no longer having a salary or benefits, and jump. Think about…
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Crossroads - Scaling Your Business
Today's episode starts a new series of one air coaching session between business owners and executive coach David Quick. We start with ourselves, Jeremy & McKenzie Goodrich owners of Shine Insurance. Our crossroads is How Do We Strategically Scale? The Crossroads episodes of Scratch Entrepreneur...
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The Perfect Iteration of You with Simone & Malcolm Collins
Simone & Malcolm Collins are venture capitalists, marketing gurus, entrepreneurs, and authors. They're on a personal and professional journey towards the perfect iteration of themselves. We talk about that, their opinion about where most start up pitches go wrong, and why they feel Latin America…
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Property Investor Extraordinaire Whitney Nicely
Every entrepreneur who’s every read a business book has heard you need to exude confidence, never give up, work hard, use this magical system that some dude with a shabby website invented and will happily share with you for $1997. Everyone wants to tell you how it works. But what they’re usually...
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Real Estate Rock Star Donald Griffin
Have you ever bought a house? I remember the first time I did. It was a really beat up old bungalow with great old bones. I fell in love immediately even though I probably shouldn’t have. The one thing I didn’t do, that I really should have, is hire a realtor. They probably would have noted that...
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David Quick is Helping Bulls Thrive in China Shops
There are a lot of terms that could define entrepreneurship: Risky, busy, confusing, overwhelming, fun, inspiring, and on and on. Starting and growing your own business is one of the most challenging adventures a person can go on. But there’s another word used a lot to describe owning a business...
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Gather Shoppe Brings Artists Together
Our guest today is a hero in the Bloomington, Indiana community of artists. Armored with her hand crafted leather notebooks, she started by venturing out and attempting to make a living as an artist. As so many heroes do, she experienced perils, hardship, and moments of doubt. Then she realized...
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Josh Smith Talks Clutch Fabrication
If you own a business, it reflects you, whether you mean for it to or not. Every system, every product, every experience, has you embedded in it. Any business owner that isn’t comfortable with that should run for the hills. The “owning a business is like having a child” metaphor may be over used...
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The Story of Green Funeral Pioneer Esmerelda Kent
There are some jobs it seems like no one would ever want. Who wants to pump a septic tank, why on earth would you ever work in a restaurant dish tank, who in the world would ever deal with dead people? Us humans are infatuated with rationalizing our place in the world by comparing it with those…
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Armin Vit & Bryony Gomez-Palacio are Under Consideration
Today’s guests are world renowned in the field of Graphic Design. They’ve worked for some of the biggest design agencies, advised some of the best companies, studied under legends in their field, spoken in front of huge audiences, and built a following of other graphic designers. They themselves...
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Writer & Director Paul Shoulberg
There are jobs you simply do, that’s what most of us have, and there are creative passions that turn out to make you a few bucks, which very few are lucky enough to succeed at. One way to gauge the difference is the perception of children. If, as a child you heard of an occupation and immediately...
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The Uptown Cafe – Michael Cassady’s 40 year Painting
There are some businesses that are integral in the fabric and story of a community. Think about the town you live in. If someone asks, "What are some things I HAVE to do when I visit?" you immediately think of them. Maybe the dive bar in that back alley, an ice cream shop that has handmade...
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Secretly Canadian
Many of our favorite businesses were built out of someone loving something and then figuring out how to make it better. Yvon Chouinard created Patagonia because he loved rock climbing, hiking, and being outdoors. Everything else stemmed from that. Ben & Jerry loved ice cream, Jake Carpenter of...
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Rock Paper Scissors: Telling Your Brand Story to The World
Us humans, we have all these labels for people, right. Us humans, we have all these labels for people, right. Some are mean like calling someone a nerd or a moron. Some are self-applied like goth or grunge. Some clearly state a specific spiritual philosophy like Christian or Pagan. Some are about...
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Loren Wood Builders
Our guest today builds houses. Really beautiful houses Hardwood floors with deep velvety purple finishes, huge windows full of afternoon sun. Each home is unique and, like any good builder, his finished pieces have a stunning signature to them. Loren Wood and his team of builders drop their heart...
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BeeCorp: Saving Honey One Queen Bee at a TIme
Our guest today has perhaps one of the smartest solutions to a specific problem that's plagued beekeepers for centuries. Her and the Beecorp team are taking on some of the key issues around a dying community of animals that we actually really need. Ellie Symes shares her story, how BeeCorp is...
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The Story of Lil Bub’s Dad Mike
Have you ever dreamed of going viral, schmoozing with the stars, swimming in piles of virtual likes and shares, retweets and smiley faces? I mean who doesn’t want fan mail, right? Our guest today is fortunate enough to have experienced all of that but here’s the thing, he wasn’t really dreaming…
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The Inkwell
Do you love the town you live in or do you long to move somewhere else? Have you ever thought about why you feel whatever way you do? I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. I’ve lived in Bloomington Indiana for most of the last 25 years and the more people I meet, the more stories build the...
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DeveloperTown with Michael Kelly
Have you ever had a good idea? One that was so obvious, so helpful, so ingenious that you couldn’t believe it didn’t already exist? You searched the web and couldn’t find anytime about it, you researched the patent list and it just wasn’t there. You sat in a darkroom late at night thinking “what…
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Cheddar & Sproutbox with Mike Trotzke
So you’ve got a million dollars that your looking to invest right? It’s just sitting around in your side table or stuffed into the cushions on your couch but you know it should be invested somewhere so it can grow into two or three million. You could invest in the stock market or real estate but...
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Hugs, Quarters & Baked Goods (MCHA)
We’ve all seen those sad animal commercials, right? Underserved, scrawny, abused pups that need your help. On this episode, we sit down with someone who decided to address the problem head on. Not by donating a few bucks but by dedicating her life’s work to serving these animals. Who is this...
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One World Enterprises (Lennies, Pizza X, BBC, & More)
On today’s show we chat with small business icon Jeff Mease who took the work ethic he learned from an early age and built a pizza shop that sprouted a restaurant which naturally needed a brewery. Once all of that was humming, he created a community commissary where other small food businesses...
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RCV Roofing
Today we chat with RCV Roofing owner Jay Nelson about all things roofing. Learn how he grew from zero to one of the largest midwestern roofing contractors in less than 5 years. We’ll talk bad roofs, the tension between roofers and insurance companies, how to pick a good roofer, and more. We’re…
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7 Steps to Marketing Nirvana
On today's show, Jeremy sits down with the owner of Felt Creative Agency and Marketing Guru AJ O’Reilly. We’ll lay out the 7 specific steps to the perfect marketing approach. Get these steps right and the biggest issue your business will have is how to keep up.
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Bloom Magazine
On today’s episode of Scratch Entrepreneur we explore a real life example of someone who left his perfect apartment in lower Manhattan, a swanky job as a magazine fixer, a high rise office overlooking Times Square and moved to a small midwestern town with no real plan. What came next was the…
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Wehrloom Honey
On today’s episode of Scratch entrepreneur, how Jessica & Aaron Wehr, owners of Wehrloom Honey, took a Christmas present and turned it into a booming agricultural business. We’re glad you joined us.
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Upland Brewing Co
On today’s show how Doug Dayhoff and the Upland team grew a small town brewery and pub into a multimillion dollar business known internationally for their lineup of traditional craft beers and their innovation around brewing wood aged sour beers. We’re glad you joined us.
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Tribeswell
What does it mean to create content to build your brand? On today’s episode Colin Clark, owner of Tribeswell, and Jeremy dig deep into our of their favorite topics: Authentic Content Marketing Creating great content (videos, blog posts, podcasts, etc) is far from new, people have been doing it…
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Ugo Bar
“Where will Ugo Today?” On today’s episode an incredible look into one of Bloomington Indiana’s rising food star’s Rebecca Walters. Rebecca is an entrepreneur who truly took an idea and built it into a healthy profitable business. Her idea solved a problem she had. She was hungry. She needed...
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Transformation Coach Adam Schaeuble
Have you ever just felt stuck, like your life or your business isn’t where you want it to be? Meet transformation coach Adam Schaeuble.
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The Green Nursery
On this episode we chat with Scott & Abby Noroozi, owners of the Green Nursery. The Green Nursery is a baby boutique with a brick and mortar shop in downtown Bloomington, Indiana and a national renowned online store. What began as a natural herb remedy shop in 2007 has morphed into a baby store...
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CoWork Bloomington
Want a Google-like work environment without working for a huge corporation? Coworking is your answer. In this episode Tyler Henke, founder of Cowork Bloomington, gives us a peek into this membership-based community. We’ll explore why collaborative workspaces exist, how Cowork Bloomington got...
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Starting a new business from scratch is an adventure. On the Scratch Entrepreneur podcast we dig deep into the systems, secrets, and stories of remarkable people who dropped everything to start a healthy profitable business.
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