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The Owner Seat — 98 episodes
Why Your Kid's Coach Might Be Wrong About Heat | Melissa Fortenberry | The Owner Seat
iCRYO Co-Founder Kyle Jones: What Franchisors and Franchisees Get Wrong | Kyle Jones
Millions Are About to Come Off GLP-1s: Is Your Studio Ready for What Walks Back In? | Lekha Vyas | The Owner Seat
From Restore Hyper Wellness to Humanaut Health | Jim Donnelly | The Owner Seat
How to Tell If You Are Wasting Your Marketing Budget | Jessica Yarmey | The Owner Seat
Why Your Peptide Vendor Cannot Show You the Study | Elias Arjan | The Owner Seat
Three Leaders, One Wellness Business: Who Actually Owns the P&L? | The Fix Wellness Lounge | The Owner Seat
Empty Class Spots Are Killing Your Margin: Why Won't Your Software Tell You? | Laura Munkholm | The Owner Seat
Reputation Is an Asset: How PR Compounds Like Capital? | Natalie Trice | The Owner Seat
He Sold His Business to Bet on His Wife's: The Lawless Pilates Expansion Playbook | Landon French
Clean Numbers, Cracked Leadership: Why Do Scaling Founders Break? | Dr. Alyssa Webb-McCune
The Drip Bar CEO Explains Why This Business Model Works | Ben Crosbie
The Wellness Robot Is In The U.S.: Meet RoboSculptor | Elena Kormilina | The Owner Seat
He Built Brands for L'Oréal and Honda, Then Bet on His Own | Jonathan Singer | The Owner Seat
How InLife Wellness Makes Sure Your Margin Doesn't Disappear | Scott Caplelin | The Owner Seat
From One Studio to an Eight-Figure Exit: What I Learned Building, Scaling, & Selling a Business
Is Your Business Ready for NEOPlex? | Felipe Apablaza | The Owner Seat
The Truth About Scaling Fitness & Beauty Chains with Julian Barnes | The Owner Seat
[solidcore] and Boutique Fitness Survival | Nate Scott | The Owner Seat
From Car Crash To iCryo Franchisee | Matt Magnuson | The Owner Seat
Striking While It's Hot with STRIKECOACH | Jason Eller | The Owner Seat Podcast
GameChanger Fitness: Lessons From Private Equity | Joe Meglio | The Owner Seat Podcast
Fitura Brands: The New 3-Concept Franchise Everyone Is Talking About | James Hurlock | The Owner Seat
Orangetheory Fitness is BACK! 28 Studios, 3 States | Stephanie Altenburger | The Owner Seat
Studio Grow's Formula: How to Scale From 1 Location to 10 | Conor McGarry | The Owner Seat
The 30 Day Membership Debate: Marecelo Aller vs Albert Ramos | The Owner Seat
Behind The Scenes of the BEST Massage Envy | Nataliya Kisseleva | The Owner Seat
Lindora's Bet: The Gym Era Is Over and How Metabolic Health Franchise Is Replacing It | Andrew Marlow
She Turned Around a Struggling Studio and Cut Churn in Half with Rachel Whitlock
EOS for Gym Owners to Scale Without Chaos Using Simple Weekly Systems with Fernando Delgado
FlexWerk Fitness: From Idea To Reality | Steve Pirt | The Owner Seat
From F45 to The Yard: How Chris Skeates Built a Scalable Gym Through Systems, Strength Training, and Resilience
Why This Tech Exec Traded Silicon Valley for Float Tanks & Cold Plunges | Justin Kennington
Introducing FITUAL: The New Fitness Economy | Pawel Kielkowski | The Owner Seat
Managers Failing After Promotion? It's an EQ Problem | Lindsay Vastola | The Owner Seat
The Franchise Grind Nobody Posts About: Club Pilates | Kory Angelin | The Owner Seat
Your Members Think Your Supplements Work | They Actually Don't | Sonia Gonzales | The Owner Seat
The Halotherapy Mistake Fitness Owners Keep Making | Michael Parrish | The Owner Seat
10x Health's Jeff Zwiefel on the Fitness Industry's Biggest Blind Spot | The Owner Seat
Founder Bottleneck? Here's When You Become the Problem | Kip Knippel | The Owner Seat
Who Is THE Fractional CFO For The Fitness & Wellness Industry? | Albert Ramos | The Owner Seat
Your Numbers Don't Match Your Bank Account — Here's Why | Chris Reilly | The Owner Seat
Why Most Franchisees Get Their Exit Wrong: Anytime Fitness | Anna & Bobby Hines | The Owner Seat
Your Fitness Business Model Is Obsolete: ABC Fitness | Mo Iqbal | The Owner Seat
BODYBAR Pilates Buildout in Progress: What The Gov Taught Her About Franchising | Christine Garcia
Quality of Earnings: The Number That Determines Your Sale Price | Michael Iannuzzi | The Owner Seat
STRIDE Fitness Is Entering Franchising: Why I'm Betting On Them | Anthony Badalian | The Owner Seat
GLP-1 Retention Strategy Owners Get Wrong | Bob Thomas | The Owner Seat
The #1 Reason Studios Can't Scale: Bad Financial Infrastructure | Bill Dillmeier | The Owner Seat
Recovery Modalities: Which Ones Actually Convert to Repeat Usage? | Lisa Semerly | The Owner Seat
AI Agents + Security: What's Real vs. Hype for Fitness | Garrett Marshall | The Owner Seat
Profit Leaks Are Killing Your Studio | A CPA Breaks Down Where | Paul Roch CPA | The Owner Seat
The Accountability Gap Destroying Fitness Business Growth: OHM Fitness | Ben Ludwig | The Owner Seat
Coach360 vs. FittInsider vs. AthleTech vs HFA: Who's Being Honest? | Elisa Edelstein |The Owner Seat
AI Tokenization Costs Are Eroding Your Margins: SpendPilot | Catherine Neuman | The Owner Seat
From Stressed Corporate HR to Full-Time Kettlebell Coach | Don LaTorre | The Owner Seat
The Unit Economics Test That Kills Fitness Deals: Integrity Squares | Pete Moore| | The Owner Seat
Utilization, Margins, & the Anxiety That Never Stops: Founder Reality at The Yard | Joe Cicero
Corporate Executive Walks Away: Building StretchLab in Florida | David Ramos | The Owner Seat
The Truth About Franchising: Perspire Sauna Studio | Tanner Holmes | The Owner Seat
Before You Buy A Fitness Franchise: The Financial Blind Spots Nobody Warns You About | Ali Orleski
The Independent Sponsor Model That's Reshaping M&A | Casey Minshew | The Owner Seat
The Untold Reason Gym Retention Is About to Explode | Devon Vicari | The Owner Seat
How Women Are Reshaping the Boutique Fitness Industry: True Movement | Beth Potter | The Owner Seat
From Paramount CCO to a Flatline: What a Near-Death Taught Me About Scaling | Travis Pomposello
The $100M Opportunity in Fitness Nobody's Talking About | Alan Thompson | The Owner Seat
The Fitness Rollup Nobody Saw Coming: AI + Agencies + Scale | Benji Donhardt | The Owner Seat
#24: Your Tech Stack Is Strangling You — How To Turns AI Agents into Profit - with Ryan Seifert
#23: From WeWork to Preql: Why Finance Has a Logic Problem - with Leah Weiss
#22: Inside the $4.2B Resort: Why Finance Transformation Starts with People, Not Platforms - with Val Correa
#21 - Why the Best CFOs Are Leaning Into AI and Winning — Chris Ortega Explains
Special Edition: Inside Coach360: How Kathleen Ferguson Is Revolutionizing The Future of Fitness
#20 - Why Carl Seidman Says Static Spreadsheets Are Dead (and What Comes Next)
The Alchemize House $4M Seed Round Capital Raise - with Rave Reid (Co-Founder)
#19 - From Voice Commands to Boardroom Decisions – AI-Powered FP&A Has Arrived - with Kendra Mathias
#18 - Technology Won’t Save You: Why Broken Processes Always Break AI - with Kristy Barber
#17 - If Your FP&A Isn’t AI-Powered Yet, You’re Already Behind - with Bryan Lapidus
#16 - How to Build a Sustainable CFO Practice (Without a Full-Time Job) - with Tom Schultz
#15 - Scaling Internationally? Here’s How CFOs Lose Margin Without Noticing — with Alice Fu
Special Edition: Beyond The Ledger: The Real Reason Your Studio Isn’t Scaling? - Trey Moser
#14 - Most Forecasts Fail Where It Matters Most - And How AI Can Help - with Marco Villarreal
#13 - Learn to Influence, Not Just Analyze – How CFOs Can Lead with Impact, with Wassia Kamon
Special Edition: Beyond the Ledger: This Is What Fitness CEOs Keep Getting Wrong About Innovation - Justin Campbell
#12 - Why Storytelling Is Now a Non-Negotiable for Finance Leaders with Soufyan Hamid
#11 - Most Controllers Will Fail in a CFO Role – Unless They Do This - Duke Heninger
#10 - Agentic Workflows and the Next Evolution of Finance – with Glenn Hopper
Special Edition: Beyond the Ledger – Men’s Mental Health, Hormonal Health, and High-Performance Leadership with Angelica Jackson
#9 - The 5 Elements® Every SMB Needs to Understand — Ed Patton’s Framework for Financial Intelligence
#8 - Why Most CFOs Fail the Business Test – David Strong on AI Strategy, Cash Flow, and Leading Like an Owner
#7 - The Death of Legacy Finance – Julia Kozlov on Agentic AI and the Rise of the Systems-Built CFO
Special Edition: Beyond the Ledger – Why Modern Leaders Fail Without EQ, Clarity, and Career Ownership – with Sean Barnes
#6 –Static Finance Is Dead – Brian Kalish on Agentic AI and the Strategic Evolution of FP&A
#5 - Your Pricing Model Is Broken – Irene-Marie Seelig on Winning Premium Clients with Value-Based Proposals
#4 - The New CFO Playbook: AI Strategy, ESG Pressure, and Talent Wars – with Stefan Boehmer
#3 - From Experiment to Execution: How CFOs Can Build AI-Ready Finance Teams – with Anna Tiomina
Special Edition: Beyond the Ledger – How a Cancer Survivor Turned Founder Is Using AI to Reshape Healthcare Staffing
#2 - Rebranding Accounting: How CFOs Can Win the Talent War and Build the Next-Gen Finance Brand – with Lukas Sundahl
#1 - Why 90% of FP&A Pros Are Getting Left Behind – Paul Barnhurst Reveals the Future