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Franchise Empires — 120 episodes

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S10 E6: From 0 to 350: The Rapid, Explosive Growth of Koala Insulation
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S10 E5: How F45 Training's Unique Fitness Concept Became a Global Phenomenon
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S10 E4: Watch Out Crumbl— Because THIS is Dessert’s Next Big Franchise
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S10 E3: Beyond the Headset: The Sandbox VR Journey
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S10 E2: The 3 Most Interesting Franchises of 2024
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S10 E1: Navigating Motherhood: How New Mom School Prepares Moms for Postpartum Life, with Alexandra Spitz
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Tips from the Top: Expert Franchise Insights
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Tips from the Top: Franchising’s Best Advice
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S9 E10: How Slick City Became an Adventure Park on Steroids
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S9 E9: 130 Units in 60 Months: Inside Soccer Stars’ Booming Franchise Model
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S9 E8: Unpacking beem Light Sauna’s Formula to Success
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S9 E7: How Checkers & Dave’s Hot Chicken Became a National Cult Obsession
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S9 E6: How Dinesh Goswami Acquired 125+ Pizza Huts, Popeye’s, and Taco Bells
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S9 E5: Mobile Station Mogul: Gas Biz Guy on the Future of the Gas Industry
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S9 E4: The Visionary Leader Behind Pearle Vision's Eyewear Empire, with Bill Noble
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S9 E3: Deb Merrill’s Jimmy Johns Journey
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S9 E2: The King of Chicken and Beef: How Drew Gressett Opened 80+ Zaxby’s and Hat Creek Locations
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S9 E1: How Adam Saxton Turned McAlister’s Deli Into an Unstoppable Franchise Beast
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S8 E10: Listener Mailbag: Negotiating Franchise Agreements, Back Office Solutions, & the Nashville Chicken Wars
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S8 E9: How Lucas Mitchell Bought 20 Five Guy’s With Just $700k
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S8 E8: Stretching the Limits: The Rise of StretchLab, with Steve Hitzemann
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S8 E7: A Bundt Cake Franchise With ~$300k In Profits?!
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S8 E5: Listener Mailbag: Your Hottest Franchising Questions Answered
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S8 E4: The Hand and Stone Massage Franchise Who Has Built a $80m/year Empire
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S8 E3: When a Fad Turns into Failure: How to Defeat the Franchise Hype Cycle, with Dru Capenito
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S8 E2: AMA with The Wolf of Franchises
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S8 E1: The Family Who Owns 78+ McDonald’s
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S7 E12: A Look Back at 2023's Greatest Moments
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S7 E11: The Portfolio Franchise Company Dominating the Home Services Industry & Building a Home Services Empire
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S7 E10: From College to Business Partners - Lessons from 5 Territory Owner Group of Ace Handyman Service
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S7 E9: From Motherhood to Magnolia: The Inspiring Journey of Magen Bynum, Founder of Magnolia Soap
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S7 E8: Rolling Suds’ Squeaky-Clean Saga Towards Franchise Success, with Aaron Harper
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S7 E7: Creating a Differentiated Franchise - Carmelo Marsala, Founder of Spray-Net
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S7 E6: From Delivery Boy To Domino’s Franchisee (And Mahana Fresh Founder) - Dave Wood’s Journey
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S7 E5: Franchising’s Hottest Takes, with Erik van Horn of “The Franchise Secrets Podcast”
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S7 E4: How Hoppin’ Became America’s First Self-Serve Bar Franchise, with Rich Moyer
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S7 E3: The Only Pharmaceutical Franchise— With Multi-Unit Owner, Jim Kodman
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10 of the Most Fascinating Franchise Facts
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S7 E1: How Pickleball Became America’s Hottest New Franchise Opportunity, with Joe Sexton
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S6 E14: From 12 to 140+ Locations: The Franchisee Who Skyrocketed Orangetheory to Fame
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S6 E13: Transforming the Tanning Industry, with Lauren Rampello Becotte of Pure Glow
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S6 E12: King of Franchises: The Man Who Owns 2400+ Fast Food Locations
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S6 E11: Ron Holt on Fun, Franchising, and Disrupting the Moving Industry
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S6 E10: How Top Rail Became the Fastest-Growing Fencing Franchise in the US
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S6 E9: Building a Dessert Empire - Meet Dan Reese of Milkshake Factory
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S6 Ep8: 6 Brands, 1 Vision: Inside Jeff Dudan's Home Front Revolution
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The #1 Software Platform for Building Your Future Franchise (Solo Edition)
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S6 Ep6: Helping People, Helping Pets— Scenthound’s Membership-Based Grooming Empire
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S6 Ep5: Sweetgreen - From A College Project to Billion Dollar IPO
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S6 Ep4: How Peter Taunton Built a 9-Figure Franchise (And Why He’s Doing It Again)
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S6 Ep3: The Secret Reason Why College H.U.N.K.S. Became the Largest Moving Company in the US
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S6 E2: The Founder That’s Disrupting McDonald’s, Burger King, and “Big Food”

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S6 Ep1: How Buzz Franchise Brands is Building Companies that Get People Talking

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S5 Ep13: The Fast Food Style Laundry Chain Disrupting the Way We Wash Clothes

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S5 Ep12: From Boston Consulting Group To Multi-Unit Pet Franchise Owner

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S5 Ep11: The Early Crumbl Franchisee Who’s Now Building Shaq’s Brand

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S5 Ep10: Building vs. Operating Franchise Stores, with Alex Yeater

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S5 Ep9: How Biscuit Belly Took the Boring Out of Breakfast

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S5 Ep8: The Ben & Jerry's Franchisee Who Also Owns...A Starbucks?

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S5 Ep7: Building a Consumer-Facing Coffee Brand, with Jacob Jaber

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S5 Ep6: How Shelly Sun Built a $639 Million Dollar Franchise

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S5 Ep5: How Chris Kenny Raised $300M To Invest in The Biggest Franchises of Tomorrow

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S5 Ep4: Turning Thrift Store Shopping into Franchise Gold with BaseCamp CEOs Zach and Tyler Gordon

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S5 Ep3: Always Have a Playbook for Scaling, with Voda CEO Dan Claps and Zach Nolte

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S5 Ep2: Using Life Obstacles to Fuel Your Franchise, with Cynthia May

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S5 Ep1: Cookies And Cream: How To Open A Multi-Brand Desserts Franchise

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S4 Ep12: The Franchise Growth Expert Turned Pub Franchise Owner, With Brent Dowling

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S4 Ep11: How To Become A Multi-Brand Franchise Owner, With Andrew Garcia.

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S4 Ep10: Hawaii Fluid Art: The Unique Franchise Celebs Can’t Get Enough Of

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S4 Ep9: How a Drive-Thru Coffee Upstart Is Taking on Franchise Giants

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S4 Ep8: How A Side Hustle Led To 300+ Restaurants, Hotels and Hardware Stores.

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S4 Ep7: How To Choose The Right Franchise And Play The Long Game

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S4 Ep6: Blo Blow Dry Bar: How To Open 100+ Units Sustainably

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S4 Ep5: BODY20: The Health Franchise CEO Who Fixed His Own Problems

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S4 Ep4: How Central Bark is Taking Its Share Of The $100 Billion Pet Industry

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S4 Ep3: How To Launch A Cookie Franchise When You Don’t Bake

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S4 Ep2: OHM Fitness: How To Build A Fitness Empire In A Crowded Market Place

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S4 Ep1: The Secret To Owning More Than 100 Wingstops and Little Caesars

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S3 Ep12: The #1 OrangeTheory Owner Just Launched His Own Franchise

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S3 Ep11: GoDog: The Father-And-Son Behind The Pet Daycare Franchise

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S3 Ep10: Greg Flynn - Meet America’s Multi Billion Dollar Restaurant Franchisee

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S3 Ep9: Dogdrop: The Dog Day Care Franchise Solving Owner Problems

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Level 5 Capital Partners: Unlocking The Secrets Behind Franchise Investment

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S3 E8: Toastique: How Brianna Keefe Swapped Burnout For Gourmet Fast Food

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S3 E7: Hank Horkoff’s Secret Sauce to Creating Franchise Revenue

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S3 E6: How Brian Scudamore Built a Customer Service Empire With People At Its Heart

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S3 E5: How Brittany Driscoll Built A Massage Empire And Disrupted The Industry

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S3 E4: Crumbl Cookies Franchise: How Jason McGowan Is Building a Sweet Toothed Empire

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S3 E3: How In N Out Burger Created a Cult Following

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S3 E2: How to Build a Sports Franchise Empire That Impacts 1,000,000 + Kids

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S3 E1: Koala Insulation: Meet The Bootstrapped Founder Who Went From 0 to 350 Franchises in 2 Years

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S2 E15: Twitter Spaces Special: Success Strategies That Work Across ALL Franchise Models

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S2 E14: How Chick-Fil-A Franchises Found Success

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S2 E13: Ben Little, the #1 Zaxby's Franchise Owner

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S2 E12: Massage Envy: How Stephen Vereb and Henry Kim Are Building an Empire and Closing The Recruitment Circle.

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S2 E11: The Learning Experience: How an Educator Turned Multiple Franchise Owner And Community Builder

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S2 E10: Amazing Athletes: Why Building Healthy Communities Can Equate to Financial Success

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S2 E9: How McDonald's said Kon'nichiwa to Japan

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S2 E8: Donatos: The Fintech Professional Turned Multiple Franchise Owner

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S2 E7: Sylvan Learning: How Mike Kelley Ditched Corporate And Became a Multiple Franchise Owner

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S2 E6: Go Mini Storage: Meet The Entrepreneur at The Start of His Franchise Journey

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S2 E5: Wingstop Franchise: Everything Michael Horowitz Knows About Owning 20 Franchise Units

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S2 E4: Why the Mayweather Boxing Franchise is Landing Punches

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S2 E3: The Mathnasium Franchise: How One Couple Went All In

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S2 E2: The Secret to Owning 29 Midas Franchises With Brian Beers

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S2 E1: How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Burning Out

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Franchise Empires: Season 2 Trailer

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S1 E12: How Combining Franchises is Helping Build an Empire

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S1 E11: Using A Low Cost Franchise Strategy To Open 39 Franchises

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S1 E10: Is This The Most Successful Franchise Owner You’ll Ever Meet?

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S1 E9: Why You Don’t Have to Give Up Your Day Job to Run a Franchise

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S1 E8: Meet the Biggest Phone Franchise in Bermuda

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S1 E7: How to Turn Your Anytime Fitness Franchise Into a Family Business

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S1 E6: How FranShares is Lowering the Barriers to Franchise Ownership

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S1 E5: How to Scale Your Five Guys Franchise Empire

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S1 E4: Why Cross Selling is The Secret Sauce for Franchisees Like Meineke

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S1 E3: The Secret to Growing Your F45 Gym Franchise

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S1 E2: How to Create a Dunkin' Donuts Empire

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S1 E1: Why Catering is Your Next, Best Franchise with Nick Panos, Mellow Mushroom

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Franchise Empires: Season 1 Trailer