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The Vince Perri Podcast
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Hosted by Vince Perri, this podcast is a direct, practical conversation for business owners, operators, and investors who want to build companies that are durable, disciplined, and ultimately sellable.Each episode sits at the intersection of mindset, operations, and enterprise value. Vince breaks down how owners must think differently once they decide to build an asset instead of buying themselves a job. This includes owner psychology, decision-making under pressure, long-term thinking, and the mental shift required to let go of control and build real leverage.On the operational side, the show goes deep into the mechanics that buyers care about most: profit quality, clean financials, systems, SOPs, leadership structure, and execution discipline. Vince explains how buyers evaluate businesses using EBITDA and SDE, why operational chaos destroys valuation, and how strong processes and teams reduce risk and increase multiples.You will hear clear frameworks, real-world examples, and acti
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Why Your Ads Get Ignored and How to Fix Them Courtney Schawl
A $3 cost per lead on Meta ads? Courtney Schawl, founder of One Day Songwriter and Social Script and co-founder of Biggs Bass Academy, shares how she gets it. A former music therapist turned marketing expert, she breaks down Meta MCP, instant forms, and why the creative decides everything. She…
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Normal Labs, Still Sick A Doctor Explains Why You Feel Terrible Dr. Sam and Mariana Mikhail
Your labs look normal. Your doctor says you're fine. So why do you still feel terrible? Dr. Sam Mikhail, an emergency and internal medicine physician with over 22 years in medicine and Chief Medical Officer of Triunity Wellness, and Mariana Mikhail, co-founders of Triunity Wellness in Tampa, sit...
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How They Built a Renovation Business for House Flippers Alex Miranda & Shastine Pavao
Design. Build. Sell. Alex Miranda (CEO and General Contractor) and Shastine Pavao (COO and designer) of Belle Style Designs run a turnkey rehab company built for real estate investors, getting projects done in about 6 weeks instead of 12. In this episode they sit down with Vince to show how a...
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Why Selling Businesses Is Hard: Alessandro Antezza on the Real Reason Deals Fall Apart
Alessandro Antezza is a fellow business broker in Tampa Bay, and an Italian immigrant who built his own version of the American Dream here before helping hundreds of others do the same. In this episode he and Vince talk shop: why selling a business is so much harder than selling real estate, and...
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How AI Automates Customer Reviews Chirag Patel and Kelly Walters on Turning Reviews Into Revenue
Anthony Haddad didn't get into AI because it was trendy, he got into it out of desperation and survivability. While running four companies with VCs watching, he broke his back in a car accident on top of a torn ACL, MCL, and meniscus, and a long history of major surgery. In this episode he breaks...
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AI Outsmarted My Injury How Anthony Haddad Built an AI Empire From a Hospital Bed
Anthony Haddad didn't get into AI because it was trendy, he got into it out of desperation and survivability. While running four companies with VCs watching, he broke his back in a car accident on top of a torn ACL, MCL, and meniscus, and a long history of major surgery. In this episode he breaks...
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Stop Chasing More Clients - How Jake Alexander Learned Less Is More the Hard Way
Jake Alexander didn't set out to be an accountant. He did a few tax returns for friends by accident, forgot about it, and came back the next year to a waiting room. Ten years and three acquisitions later, he's the CEO of Action Accounting in Tampa Bay, and he's got the scars to prove growth on...
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The Power of Tiny Challenges - How Richmond Dinh Closes $15K Deals Without a Funnel
Richmond Dinh lost $1.2 million before he found the model that built his multi-seven-figure coaching company. He's an international speaker at Funnel Hacking Live, the creator of the Tiny Challenge methodology, and the author of the book behind it. In this episode we get into: - The psychological...
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Chasing the American Dream - How Giacomo Sanvitale Built 800K Followers Before He Could Earn a Dollar
Giacomo Sanvitale landed in the United States at 19 years old with a suitcase, no family, no network, and no safety net. He built over 800,000 followers across platforms before his visa even allowed him to earn a single dollar from any of it. Giacomo is a content strategist at Undercurrent, a...
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Build a Powerful Brand - How Trey Strong Turned Strong Roofing Into a Local Empire
Trey Strong didn't set out to be a roofer. Now he owns Strong Roofing, one of the most recognized roofing brands in Sarasota and Tampa, with billboards, wrapped trucks, and a name people search for by name. In this episode we get into: - The mindset shift that took him from five years of just...
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The Real Estate Tax Loophole That Saved Me $1,000,000 (And Built a $100M Empire) Elliott Caldwell
Elliott Caldwell made $3.5 million in 2025. Without the strategy in this episode, he would have paid over $1 million in taxes. Instead, his bill was $160,000. Elliott is the CEO and co-founder of The Rise Collective, 13 businesses built starting from a single Airbnb tax loophole he found on…
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How a High School Dropout Built a $2M Business (No Degree Needed)
Daniel Lackey dropped out of high school, worked the oil fields in North Dakota, and was homeless at 18. Today he owns CMD Claim Consultants, a public adjusting firm he scaled to almost 2 million dollars, and he just launched a general contracting company, RCF and Associates, with his...
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Stop Glorifying Hustle Culture Sofia Kasuli on Building a Business Without Burning Out
Sofia Kasuli spent ten years building sales teams before she ever started her own company, and less than a year into running SoFluential Society, she is already helping women build sales skills, travel the world, and get out of their own way on camera. We get into what actually surprised her…
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Spend Money As An Insurance Policy Kevin Sullivan on Building a Law Firm the Right Way
Kevin Sullivan has represented close to 1,500 accident victims and recovered more than $40 million as a personal injury attorney and shareholder at LeavenLaw in Tampa Bay, and he built most of it through social media and word of mouth rather than the billboard ads everyone else runs. We get into...
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The Sport That Saves Lives: How Micha Seal Built a 5-Location Empire
Micha Seal's mother started teaching swim lessons out of a backyard pool in Tampa in 1979. Today Micha runs Watermelon Swim, a five location swim school teaching around 7,000 kids a week, and her mission is building a community of safer swimmers. We get into what happened when 40 percent…
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He Works 5 Hours a Week and Makes 7 Figures Graham Cochrane on Building a Business You Love
The way to win in business is to stay in business long enough to win. And the way to stay in business long enough to win is to love what you are doing and have a sustainable, repeatable model. Graham Cochrane is a USA Today bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and multi-seven-figure entrepreneur who...
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She Made $600,000 in 5 Months After Quitting Apple Vivian Yip on Mid-Term Rentals
She was launching the iPhone 12 during the pandemic. Supply chain chaos across multiple countries, 16 to 18 hour days, and an enormous amount of stress. Then she lost her hair. All of it. In eight weeks. That was the moment Vivian Yip decided to bet on herself. Five months after quitting Apple…
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You Should Not Pay to Get Paid — Bobby Poole and Clay Weger on Killing Credit Card Fees
You should not pay to get paid. That is the premise behind PaymXnts and once you hear it, you cannot unhear it. Bobby Poole and Clay Weger are serial entrepreneurs who between them have owned paintball parks, international jellyball distribution, and now a payment processing company built by...
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She Built and Sold 7 Businesses Ann Carden on Pricing, Positioning and the Premium Market
She Built and Sold 7 Businesses Ann Carden on Pricing, Positioning and the Premium Market by The Vince Perri Podcast
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Be Profitable With Morals and Ethics Jack Hanks on the Future of Public Adjusting
We are for-profit. State Farm is for-profit. I want them to be profitable. I just want them to be profitable with morals and ethics at the same time. Jack Hanks is the president of VPA Claims, a public adjusting firm operating in 44 states with 57 employees. Last year they did $248 million in...
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Thoughts Are Energy Nathan Hoffman on Purpose, Faith and Freedom in Israel
In this episode, we talk about the dream about death that started everything, what it actually means to design your days instead of reacting to them, why thoughts are energy and why that changes how you show up as an entrepreneur, and the GPT-powered My Why framework Nathan uses with his clients...
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Building 16 Businesses Without Losing Your Marriage (or Your Mind) | Ryan and Chantel
What happens when you and your spouse decide to build not one, not five, but 16 businesses together—and actually make it work? Ryan and Chantel Finch sit down to share the raw, unfiltered truth about entrepreneurship, marriage, and what it really takes to scale multiple companies without burning...
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The Hidden Asset Destroying (or Doubling) Your Business Exit Value | Jason Bush
In this insightful episode, host Vince Perry, Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) and Business Broker, sits down with strategic advisor Jason Bush of Linville Team Partners to break down one of the most overlooked components of business exits: commercial real estate. Jason is a CEPA who…
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Building Winning Teams: How Culture and Leadership Drive Business Success
What separates companies that scale smoothly from those stuck in constant firefighting mode? Hector Sanchez, founder of PCK Partners with 18 years leading supply chain and procurement teams at GE Healthcare and major aerospace manufacturers, reveals it's not the processes—it's the people, and…
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I Sold $2 Billion in Businesses: Your Exit Strategy is WRONG | Scott Bushkie
Scott Bushkie has facilitated over $2 billion in business sales—and he's seen it all. From founders accepting lowball offers to sellers leaving millions on the table because they didn't prepare, Scott breaks down exactly what it takes to maximize your exit. In this episode, we cover: ✅ Why most...
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Helping Insurance Start Ups Scale | David Gritz
In this episode, I sit down with David Gritz, Co-Founder of InsureTech New York, to break down what it really takes to build, scale, and commercialize an insurance startup. David works at the intersection of technology, venture capital, and insurance, helping founders go from idea → first policy…
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How to scale your YouTube Offer | Tony Bakes
In this episode, Vince sits down with YouTube strategist Tony Guerrieri to break down how YouTube actually works in 2026—and why most creators and business owners grow the wrong way. Tony reveals the truth about going viral, building the right audience, and turning long-form videos into real...
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How to go from Sales Rep to Business Owner | Ian Kofford
In today’s episode, Vince Perri sits down with Ian Kofford — founder of Rep2Owner — to break down one of the biggest shifts a sales rep can ever make: the transition from “high-earning rep” to true business owner. Ian shares his unbelievable journey from selling buckets of dirt as a kid… to…
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He sold his boring business TWICE | Jason Hendren
This episode features an in-depth conversation with business advisor and author Jason Hendren about his extraordinary exit journey. Jason shares the raw, real-life experiences behind his book, detailing how he scaled his energy-efficient lighting company, ILP, from a small venture to a highly...
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Emotional Dependency Is Ruining Your Relationships AND Your Business
In this powerful interview, Vince Perri sits down with María Carmen Ruiz, founder of Psicología María Carmen, to unpack her journey from traditional psychologist to global online coach serving hundreds of thousands. María Carmen shares how she built a 430,000-follower platform, scaled her…
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Checklists That Save Lives. Use Them To Scale Your Company Faster
Every high-performing business has one thing in common: reliability. Hospitals cannot afford mistakes. Neither can you. In this episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits with Anay Moscu, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP, ACRP-CP, Director of Pharmacy for Outpatient Infusion Centers at Moffitt Cancer…
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Async Care: The Future of Health Freedom | Dr. Moe on Remote Medicine & AI
Async care is redefining healthcare. Dr. Moe explains how lifestyle medicine, virtual care, and AI-driven systems give high achievers true health freedom and sustainable performance. Meet Dr. Maureen “Dr. Moe” Gibbons — a board-certified physician who left the ER to build a remote-first…
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How to Raise Startup Capital as a Non-Technical Founder | $8M Immigrant Success Story
Learn how immigrant founder Jonathan Lamer raised $8M, built 5 startups, and scaled across borders without any tech background. Jonathan Lamer’s story proves that you don’t need a Silicon Valley background to build something big. From Quebec to Miami, he’s raised over $8 million, built five...
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Avoid These Contracting Pitfalls That Are Killing Your Growth with Brandon Smith
If you're a contractor or home service pro tired of wearing every hat in your business, this episode is for you. In this week’s Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits down with Brandon Smith, CEO of New Vision Projects and host of The Open Concept Podcast. Brandon reveals how he turned a small...
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Roofing Business Broker Reveals Exit Secrets _ Valuation, Deal Killers, Second Bite
Welcome back to Beyond the Claim with host Vince Perri, your business broker and exit strategist. Today’s guest is Claudio Vilas, a roofing business broker and owner of The Roofing Biz Broker. We break down exactly how to sell a roofing company for maximum value, what really drives roofing...
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From Call Center to CEO: Katie Nelson's Journey in Sales Mastery
Join Vince Perri and Katie Nelson in this engaging discussion, sharing their combined experience and offering valuable business tips. Learn how to sell effectively and implement winning sales strategies, drawing from their 16 years of entrepreneurship. Get ready for actionable business advice and...
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How to Build a Virtual Assistant (Ultimate Guide) with Cole Kline
How to Build a Virtual Assistant (Ultimate Guide) with Cole Kline Are you interested in learning how to build a virtual assistant business from scratch, even with no experience? This ultimate guide will walk you through the entire process, from getting started to providing top-notch virtual...
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How This 25-Year-Old Built a $600KMonth Business with Cold Emails
Christian Bonnier reveals how he built ListKit into a $600K/month lead generation business using cold email, personal branding, and viral content. If you’ve ever wondered how to get consistent B2B leads, scale a coaching business, or grow your personal brand online, this episode is packed with...
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Why Real Connection Still Matters Today - Brady Lowe
Restaurant margins are razor thin, often just 3 to 4 percent. In this episode, Brady Lowe of Taste Network reveals why most restaurants fail, how to design unforgettable customer experiences, and how AI in hospitality must evolve without losing human connection. Brady has spent more than 20 years...
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The Shocking Truth About AI in Marketing That Small Business Owners Need to Know - Victoria Shepherd
The Shocking Truth About AI in Marketing That Small Business Owners Need to Know - Beyond The Claim with Victoria Shepherd AI is rewriting the rules of marketing and most small business owners have no idea what just happened. In this episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits down with…
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Secrets to Growing a Business Fast in 2025 with Tyler Graves
Beyond The Claim Podcast #024 - Featuring Tyler Graves Secrets to growing a business fast in 2025 with Tyler Graves, Founder of Ready Stays. Learn how he scaled 4X in 24 months using stoic discipline, sales systems, and relationship-driven growth. In this episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri...
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How to Build a Business That Runs Without You with Kelsey Daingerfield
Beyond The Claim Podcast #023 - Featuring Kelsey Daingerfield In this episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits down with Kelsey Daingerfield, founder of The Virtual Integrator and The Pocket COO, to break down how to get out of daily chaos and build a scalable, freedom-first business. Kelsey...
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From Wrestling Rings to Business Wins with Domino and Nikki Blackheart
Beyond The Claim Podcast #022 - Featuring Domino and Nikki Blackheart In this episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits down with professional wrestling champions and entrepreneurs Domino and Nikki Blackheart to uncover the surprising parallels between wrestling, branding, marketing, and...
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Think Like a Billionaire, Invest with Purpose w Mikey Lucas
Beyond The Claim Podcast #021 - Featuring Mikey Lucas In this episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits down with Mikey Lucas, a door-to-door sales veteran turned private equity entrepreneur. Mikey built and exited a multimillion dollar solar company and went on to drive over 180 million...
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Mental Health Hacks Every Entrepreneur Needs with Kelly Crowe
Beyond The Claim Podcast #020 - Featuring Kelly Crowe In this episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits down with Kelly Crowe, LMHC, founder of Pathways of Florida and a licensed mental health counselor with over 20 years of experience helping people move through trauma, burnout, and…
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Escaping the Owner Prison: How to Rebuild from Nothing to Profit with Richard Walsh
Beyond The Claim Podcast #019 - Featuring Richard Walsh In this episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits down with Richard Walsh, founder of Sharpen the Spear Coaching and author of Escape the Owner Prison. Richard is a U.S. Marine, former champion boxer, black belt, and world-class steel...
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Focus on YOU: From Rock Bottom to 97% Margins with Robert Syfert
Beyond The Claim Podcast #018 - Featuring Robert Syfert In this powerful episode of Beyond The Claim, Vince Perri sits down with Robert Syfert, a serial entrepreneur, author of Focus on You, and founder of The YOU Foundation. Robert built and sold multiple companies in real estate and software…
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How Financial Clarity Can 5X Your Business Growth w/ Austin McMillan
Beyond The Claim Podcast #017 - Featuring Austin McMillan If you're serious about scaling your business, you need to know one thing: Profit is the fuel that powers everything. In this episode, Vince talks with Austin McMillan, owner of Flywheel Financial, a fractional CFO firm that helps...
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How Patrick Carr Turned Foreclosure Into a $5M Media Empire w Patrick Carr
Beyond The Claim Podcast #016 – Featuring Patrick Carr Patrick Carr, founder of Blue Collar Media Group, built a multi-million dollar media company from scratch—starting with just a cell phone, zero experience, and a mountain of debt. In this raw and real conversation, we talk about the dark side...
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Why Your Business Isn’t Scaling (And How a Fractional CMO Can Fix It) w/Allison Michels
Beyond The Claim Podcast #015 – Featuring Allison Michels What if your marketing didn’t feel like chaos? This week on the Beyond The Claim Podcast, Vince sits down with Allison Michels, CEO & Founder of LAUNCH and a Fractional CMO who helps service-based businesses scale with clarity, strategy…
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Hosted by Vince Perri, this podcast is a direct, practical conversation for business owners, operators, and investors who want to build companies that are durable, disciplined, and ultimately sellable.Each episode sits at the intersection of mindset, operations, and enterprise value. Vince breaks down how owners must think differently once they decide to build an asset instead of buying themselves a job. This includes owner psychology, decision-making under pressure, long-term thinking, and the mental shift required to let go of control and build real leverage.On the operational side, the show goes deep into the mechanics that buyers care about most: profit quality, clean financials, systems, SOPs, leadership structure, and execution discipline. Vince explains how buyers evaluate businesses using EBITDA and SDE, why operational chaos destroys valuation, and how strong processes and teams reduce risk and increase multiples.You will hear clear frameworks, real-world examples, and acti
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