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The Think Small Podcast — 191 episodes · page 1 of 2
Keeping Your Business Out of Trouble: Export Compliance, Cybersecurity & Risk Management (James Black, Partner & General Counsel, Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP )
Visibility Over Volume: How a 25-Person Med Device Company Competes Against The Giants (Stephanie Kent, President and CEO, Carbon Medical Technologies)
From Sports Psychology to Cybersecurity: Building a Business Through Adaptation (Bryant Wallace, Founder/CEO, WallScott Solutions)
Building a Mission-Driven Franchise: Lessons from ScentHound’s Growth (Tim Vogel, CEO and co-founder, ScentHound)
Helping Business Owners Navigate Legal Challenges with Confidence (Brian Calhoun (Managing Partner) & Blake Brownshadel (Partner), Calhoun Bhella LLP)
Scaling a Cleaning Business with Virtual Assistants: Building Freedom Through Systems (Kyle Dusi, Founder & Owner, Cool Cat Cleaning)
Block by Block: How Adam Duininck Rebuilt Downtown Minneapolis' Growth (Adam Duininck, President and CEO, Minneapolis Downtown Council/Downtown Improvement District)
Building the Future: Leadership, Workforce Development & Growth in Construction (Marissa Bankert, President & CEO, Associated Builders and Contractors Eastern Pennsylvania (ABC Eastern PA))
Beyond the Boardroom: Why Your Best Business Decisions Come From Outside Your Industry (Gene Bohensky (CEO, Archers Contact Solutions / TAB Advisor) & Cheryl Marks-Young (Managing Director, eWomen Network New Jersey / Former Vistage Chair)
Building a Safer Workforce with AI and Smart Hiring (Ken Monroe, CEO, BCHEX)
The Branding Strategy That Turned an Underdog Into an Industry Giant (Mat Zucker, Chief Marketing Officer, Prophet)
The $100 Gift Card That Sparked a Multi-Million Dollar Entrepreneurial Journey (Inaas Arabi, President and CEO, Block & Associates Realty)
Why Great Businesses Still Fail: The Hidden Gaps Every Founder Misses (Adam Tartt, President & CEO, CAP3)
From 2 Employees to 20: The Leadership Shift That Fueled 400% Growth (Ben Bertram, Owner & President, Fiberglass Solutions, LLC)
How Thinking 3 Years Ahead Built a $300M Company (Eugene Holtzman, Founder & CEO, Mitchell Martin Inc.)
Don't Wait for a Lawsuit: The Legal Strategy Every Growing Business Needs (Damien H. Weinstein, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Weinstein + Klein)
Private Equity, Global Delivery, and Healthcare Reinvented: How Greg Cathcart Is Scaling Innovation Across Borders (Greg Cathcart, SVP NNIT Inc - CEO, Excellis Health Solutions)
Leading Global Healthcare Innovation Through People, Purpose, and Transformation (Anamaria Roxana Simion, Senior Director, Eli Lilly and Company)
Built to Be Investable: How a Medical Device CEO Made PE Happen by Changing First (Chris Becker, CEO, Bionix)
Say No to Everything: How the Woman Who Built D.C.'s Health Insurance Marketplace from Scratch Made the Deadline that Nearly Every Other State Missed (Mila Kofman, Executive Director, DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority & DC Health Link))
Shadow AI, Smarter Workflows, and Better Outcomes: Why Technology Needs a Job Description (Anthony Buonaspina, CEO and Founder, LiTech Advisors)
The Female Rock of Medical Billing: How Petria McKelvey Built a 31-Year Revenue Cycle Powerhouse (Petria McKelvey, Founder and CEO, Precision Medical Billing)
From AI Search to Patient Care: The Growth Playbook Transforming Senior Living Providers (Melissa Brown, COO, Gravity Consulting)
Why Relationships Still Win in the Age of AI: Lessons from a $1.2 Billion Advisory Firm (Maddi Keegan, Chief Operating Officer, Frazier Financial Advisors, LLC)
From Theater Stages to Tech Stacks: How Better Systems Create Better Businesses (Mark Richman, CEO & Founder, Skeleton Key)
Beyond Rates: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Freight Forwarding (Chris Condon, CEO and founder, Aircon AI)
From Comic Books to Capital Markets: How Creativity Is Reshaping the Future of Wealth Management (Stefano Marrone, Creative Strategist and Director, Siebert Financial)
Building for the Future While the Ground Is Still Moving: What 1.2 Million Small Businesses Are Teaching Us About Adaptability, Resilience, and the Innovation Habit ( Sheree Anne Kelly, President and CEO, ACCE)
From HTML to AI: Jennifer Shaheen on Building Smarter Businesses Through Technology (Jennifer Shaheen, Founder and President, Technology Therapy Group)
Baby Bottles, Captive Insurers, and 120,000 Fans: Inside the 108-Year-Old Brand That the Carolinas Can't Live Without (Tommy Page, CFO, Cheerwine)
500 Films, Six Pivots, and One Sharknado: How The Asylum Turned Crazy Into a Business Model (Paul Bales, Chief Operating Officer, The Asylum)
Challenges Accepted: How a Firmware Engineer Became CEO and Set a 30-Year-Old Engineering Firm on a Mission to Triple (Lindsey Dotson, CEO & President, Sigma Design)
From One Sub at HUD to 50 States: How a Veteran Built a Government Contracting Firm That Protects the People Who Protect Us(Michael V. Sanders, CEO, Interactive Government Holdings, Inc.)
Policy Is Made by the People Who Show Up: What Four Cities Taught One Economic Developer About Winning the Talent and Investment Competition (Jason Ball, President and CEO, Lincoln Chamber of Commerce)
Safety Is Personal: How One CEO Turned an 80-Year-Old Family Business Into America's Most Comprehensive Workplace Protection Partner (Julie Copeland, CEO, Arbill)
Winter's Competitive Advantage: How This Resort CEO Made January More Valuable Than July in Northern Minnesota (Abby Oxborough, CEO & Owner, Sugar Lake Lodge)
Lead with Both Hands: How to Protect Mission and Margin (Tara Good-Young, Chief Executive Officer, Pediatric Dental Initiative)
Management Accounting to Digital Success: How Shaina Redefined Her Career as a VA
Building Trust and Growth: A Virtual Assistant’s Guide to Long-Term Client Success
From High School Grad to Executive Assistant: Julian Kurt Dela Cruz’s VA Journey
Why On-Site VAs are Better for Clients and Employees
Inside Archers Contact Solution: How In-Office VAs Boost Performance
From Homelessness to Hope: Kidney Transplant Survivor Launches Libre Academy
Lessons from a Veteran VA: Sheila So on 15 Years in the Industry
Overcoming Fear - Transitioning from BPO to the VA World
From VA to CEO - Hire Local or Outsource Abroad?
How to Pay Taxes as a Filipino Virtual Assistant
Bringing Filipino VAs to the U.S. | What Employers MUST Know
Working with Indian and Filipino VAs
From BPO to VA Agency
Filipino VAs - Learn to Sell or Find a New Job
How It All Began
Let's lay the foundation
Never Say No: Jessica Kolb on Building Apogee's Go-to-Market Engine (Jessica Kolb, Executive Director of Operations, APOGEE Development LLC)
Phillip Shoemaker, Executive Director / CEO, Identity.Org & Persona Shield
Jennifer Morehead, CEO, Flex HR
"Don’t Be Afraid to Take a Big Risk and See What Happens: When the Largest Chamber in Wisconsin Bets the House on Small Business” (Becky Bartoszek, President / CEO, Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce)
"Sheer Will Is Not the Only Way: What 25 Years of Building Law Firm Infrastructure Teaches You About Leading When Growth Moves Faster Than the Playbook" (Michelle Doran, Chief Operating Officer, Shipman & Goodwin LLP)
"Right Here, Right Now: How a Bootstrapped Founder Walked Away From a Profitable Dietary Supplement to Build an FDA-Regulated Medicine That Will Improve Millions of Lives." (Jack Oswald, CEO, CTO and Co-Founder, ISOThrive Inc)
From Factory Floor to CEO: How One CEO Built a 70-Year Old Manufacturer Into a Medical Device Company by Listening to the Market (Keith Smith, President and CEO, Vonco)
Patrik Barr, Co-Founder & Director of Sales, Bright Pharma Caps
"The Bottleneck nobody Talks About: How One Company Is Using Software to Fix the Healthcare Workforce Crisis." (Kunal Vaishnav, Co-founder & COO, Exxat)
"Marketing is An Investment, Not a Cost Center: How One CMO Built the Engine That Helped Sell A Company for $465M" (Larry Kaiser, Chief Marketing Officer, Optimum Healthcare IT)
All Communities Are Big Enough: What 25 Years of Building in DC Teaches You About Legacy, Federal Contracting, and What You Owe the Neighborhood That Made You (Victor P. Holt, founder, president, and CEO, VTech Solutions)
"Everything Is Going to Fall Apart and It Will Be Okay Anyway: How Merry Pin Built a Community Before It Built a Business" (Madeleine Odendahl, Co-founder of Merry Pin)
Geoffrey Easterling, Chief Executive Officer, A-R-T & Associates
Michael Hoffman, Chief Operating Officer, Adeptus
Benny Calderone, President, The Zoomies Group
Mark Holland, Chief Executive Officer, CoVerica Insurance
Alan Ellahham, Chief Operating Officer, Strong Landscaping
Leigh Feldman, Chief Executive Officer, Young Chefs Academy
Rene Rodriguez, President and CEO, Speaking Roses
Bill Groener, Co-Founder, Carabiner Consulting
Dena Strehlow, Senior Director, Threotech
Joe Garber, Founder, CEO & CTO, Cyberiad AI
Bruce Currin, CEO, SunriseITsolutionsGroup,LLC
Betsy Frost, CEO, Q Mixers
Ameen Nassiri, Founder & CEO, SPS Worldwide LLC
Chris Bradley, Chief Marketing Officer, VERITIV
Alexander Tuttle, Founding Partner, Tuttle Yick LLP
Bill Sowell, Founder & CEO, Sowell Management
Doug Niemeyer, President & General Manager, TEKLYNX Americas
"45 Years of Betting On Himself: How a Radio Shack Francise Owner Built a Nationwide IT Deployment Company from Albuquerque." - (Ron Rydeski, CEO, Voltage IT)
Dr Giacomo Vacca, President & CEO, Kinetic River
Stephen Demaayer, CEO, Novatech
From the Bedside to the Boardroom: 21 Years of Building the Healthcare Safety Net That Sumter County Didn't Know It Needed (Annie Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Tandem Health)
"The Document That's Failing 80% of Patients and the Doctor Who Built the Fix" - Dr. Ferdinando Mirarchi, CEO and Chief Medical Officer, MIDEO Health
Richard Strauss, CEO, Teakdecking Systems, Inc.
The 25-Year Overnight Success: How a Freight Tech Company That Survived Everything Finally Had to Learn How to Grow (Josh Asbury, Chief Operating Officer, BrokerPro)
Michelle Howard, Owner & CEO, Southern Hospitality Home
Joe Terry, CEO, Culture Partners
100th Episode
"America's Outdoor Downtown: How San Diego's Most Unlikely CEO Turned a Nonprofit into a National Model — and a For-Profit Company" (Betsy Brennan, President & CEO, Downtown San Diego)
From Shark Documentaries to the Shop Floor: How a 100-Year-Old Family Business Built the Data Layer Manufacturing Was Missing.(Chris Moore, Vice President, Caddis Systems)
Your Benefits Are Not a Black Box: What a 30-Year UHC Healthcare Insider Wants Every Small Business Owner to Know (Charles Carter, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Central and South Texas)
Andrew Salazar, President and Managing Partner, Patriot Freight Group
25 Years, No VC, and a Missing $5M: The Resilient Scientist (Divyen Patel, CEO/Founder, Genome Explorations Inc.)
The Risk You Can't See: What Every Amazon Seller Needs to Know About IP ( Michael Poropat, Co-Founder, Stockman & Poropat, PLLC | Intellectual Property & Business Law Firm)
AI Can Re-Build The Middle Class: If You Have a Little Patience and a Little Grit (Audrey Bell-Kearney, President, Gwinnett Women's Chamber of Commerce)
Marc Sanders, Executive Director, Assisted Home Health and Hospice