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The Owner Seat — 77 episodes

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GameChanger Fitness: Lessons From Private Equity | Joe Meglio | The Owner Seat Podcast

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Fitura Brands: The New 3-Concept Franchise Everyone Is Talking About | James Hurlock | The Owner Seat

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Orangetheory Fitness is BACK! 28 Studios, 3 States | Stephanie Altenburger | The Owner Seat

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Studio Grow's Formula: How to Scale From 1 Location to 10 | Conor McGarry | The Owner Seat

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The 30 Day Membership Debate: Marecelo Aller vs Albert Ramos | The Owner Seat

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Behind The Scenes of the BEST Massage Envy | Nataliya Kisseleva | The Owner Seat

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Lindora's Bet: The Gym Era Is Over and How Metabolic Health Franchise Is Replacing It | Andrew Marlow

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She Turned Around a Struggling Studio and Cut Churn in Half with Rachel Whitlock

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EOS for Gym Owners to Scale Without Chaos Using Simple Weekly Systems with Fernando Delgado

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FlexWerk Fitness: From Idea To Reality | Steve Pirt | The Owner Seat

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From F45 to The Yard: How Chris Skeates Built a Scalable Gym Through Systems, Strength Training, and Resilience

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Why This Tech Exec Traded Silicon Valley for Float Tanks & Cold Plunges | Justin Kennington

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Introducing FITUAL: The New Fitness Economy | Pawel Kielkowski | The Owner Seat

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Managers Failing After Promotion? It's an EQ Problem | Lindsay Vastola | The Owner Seat

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The Franchise Grind Nobody Posts About: Club Pilates | Kory Angelin | The Owner Seat

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Your Members Think Your Supplements Work | They Actually Don't | Sonia Gonzales | The Owner Seat

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The Halotherapy Mistake Fitness Owners Keep Making | Michael Parrish | The Owner Seat

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10x Health's Jeff Zwiefel on the Fitness Industry's Biggest Blind Spot | The Owner Seat

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Founder Bottleneck? Here's When You Become the Problem | Kip Knippel | The Owner Seat

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Who Is THE Fractional CFO For The Fitness & Wellness Industry? | Albert Ramos | The Owner Seat

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Your Numbers Don't Match Your Bank Account — Here's Why | Chris Reilly | The Owner Seat

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Why Most Franchisees Get Their Exit Wrong: Anytime Fitness | Anna & Bobby Hines | The Owner Seat

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Your Fitness Business Model Is Obsolete: ABC Fitness | Mo Iqbal | The Owner Seat

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BODYBAR Pilates Buildout in Progress: What The Gov Taught Her About Franchising | Christine Garcia

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Quality of Earnings: The Number That Determines Your Sale Price | Michael Iannuzzi | The Owner Seat

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STRIDE Fitness Is Entering Franchising: Why I'm Betting On Them | Anthony Badalian | The Owner Seat

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GLP-1 Retention Strategy Owners Get Wrong | Bob Thomas | The Owner Seat

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The #1 Reason Studios Can't Scale: Bad Financial Infrastructure | Bill Dillmeier | The Owner Seat

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Recovery Modalities: Which Ones Actually Convert to Repeat Usage? | Lisa Semerly | The Owner Seat

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AI Agents + Security: What's Real vs. Hype for Fitness | Garrett Marshall | The Owner Seat

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Profit Leaks Are Killing Your Studio | A CPA Breaks Down Where | Paul Roch CPA | The Owner Seat

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The Accountability Gap Destroying Fitness Business Growth: OHM Fitness | Ben Ludwig | The Owner Seat

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Coach360 vs. FittInsider vs. AthleTech vs HFA: Who's Being Honest? | Elisa Edelstein |The Owner Seat

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AI Tokenization Costs Are Eroding Your Margins: SpendPilot | Catherine Neuman | The Owner Seat

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From Stressed Corporate HR to Full-Time Kettlebell Coach | Don LaTorre | The Owner Seat

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The Unit Economics Test That Kills Fitness Deals: Integrity Squares | Pete Moore| | The Owner Seat

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Utilization, Margins, & the Anxiety That Never Stops: Founder Reality at The Yard | Joe Cicero

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Corporate Executive Walks Away: Building StretchLab in Florida | David Ramos | The Owner Seat

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The Truth About Franchising: Perspire Sauna Studio | Tanner Holmes | The Owner Seat

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Before You Buy A Fitness Franchise: The Financial Blind Spots Nobody Warns You About | Ali Orleski

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The Independent Sponsor Model That's Reshaping M&A | Casey Minshew | The Owner Seat

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The Untold Reason Gym Retention Is About to Explode | Devon Vicari | The Owner Seat

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How Women Are Reshaping the Boutique Fitness Industry: True Movement | Beth Potter | The Owner Seat

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From Paramount CCO to a Flatline: What a Near-Death Taught Me About Scaling | Travis Pomposello

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The $100M Opportunity in Fitness Nobody's Talking About | Alan Thompson | The Owner Seat

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The Fitness Rollup Nobody Saw Coming: AI + Agencies + Scale | Benji Donhardt | The Owner Seat

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#24: Your Tech Stack Is Strangling You — How To Turns AI Agents into Profit - with Ryan Seifert

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#23: From WeWork to Preql: Why Finance Has a Logic Problem - with Leah Weiss

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#22: Inside the $4.2B Resort: Why Finance Transformation Starts with People, Not Platforms - with Val Correa

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#21 - Why the Best CFOs Are Leaning Into AI and Winning — Chris Ortega Explains

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Special Edition: Inside Coach360: How Kathleen Ferguson Is Revolutionizing The Future of Fitness

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#20 - Why Carl Seidman Says Static Spreadsheets Are Dead (and What Comes Next)

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The Alchemize House $4M Seed Round Capital Raise - with Rave Reid (Co-Founder)

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#19 - From Voice Commands to Boardroom Decisions – AI-Powered FP&A Has Arrived - with Kendra Mathias

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#18 - Technology Won’t Save You: Why Broken Processes Always Break AI - with Kristy Barber

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#17 - If Your FP&A Isn’t AI-Powered Yet, You’re Already Behind - with Bryan Lapidus

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#16 - How to Build a Sustainable CFO Practice (Without a Full-Time Job) - with Tom Schultz

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#15 - Scaling Internationally? Here’s How CFOs Lose Margin Without Noticing — with Alice Fu

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Special Edition: Beyond The Ledger: The Real Reason Your Studio Isn’t Scaling? - Trey Moser

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#14 - Most Forecasts Fail Where It Matters Most - And How AI Can Help - with Marco Villarreal

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#13 - Learn to Influence, Not Just Analyze – How CFOs Can Lead with Impact, with Wassia Kamon

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Special Edition: Beyond the Ledger: This Is What Fitness CEOs Keep Getting Wrong About Innovation - Justin Campbell

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#12 - Why Storytelling Is Now a Non-Negotiable for Finance Leaders with Soufyan Hamid

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#11 - Most Controllers Will Fail in a CFO Role – Unless They Do This - Duke Heninger

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#10 - Agentic Workflows and the Next Evolution of Finance – with Glenn Hopper

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Special Edition: Beyond the Ledger – Men’s Mental Health, Hormonal Health, and High-Performance Leadership with Angelica Jackson

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#9 - The 5 Elements® Every SMB Needs to Understand — Ed Patton’s Framework for Financial Intelligence

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#8 - Why Most CFOs Fail the Business Test – David Strong on AI Strategy, Cash Flow, and Leading Like an Owner

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#7 - The Death of Legacy Finance – Julia Kozlov on Agentic AI and the Rise of the Systems-Built CFO

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Special Edition: Beyond the Ledger – Why Modern Leaders Fail Without EQ, Clarity, and Career Ownership – with Sean Barnes

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#6 –Static Finance Is Dead – Brian Kalish on Agentic AI and the Strategic Evolution of FP&A

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#5 - Your Pricing Model Is Broken – Irene-Marie Seelig on Winning Premium Clients with Value-Based Proposals

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#4 - The New CFO Playbook: AI Strategy, ESG Pressure, and Talent Wars – with Stefan Boehmer

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#3 - From Experiment to Execution: How CFOs Can Build AI-Ready Finance Teams – with Anna Tiomina

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Special Edition: Beyond the Ledger – How a Cancer Survivor Turned Founder Is Using AI to Reshape Healthcare Staffing

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#2 - Rebranding Accounting: How CFOs Can Win the Talent War and Build the Next-Gen Finance Brand – with Lukas Sundahl

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#1 - Why 90% of FP&A Pros Are Getting Left Behind – Paul Barnhurst Reveals the Future