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What We Need to Grow. — 65 episodes

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Ep. 065 | Pioneering World-Class Experiences Through a Pop-Up Gelato Cart | Michael Franano

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Ep. 064 | Showing Up in AI Search Takes More Than an SEO Checklist | Jesse McFarland

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Ep. 063 | How a Nonprofit Scales Without Relying on Donations | Miriam Chickering

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Ep. 062 | The Brand Architect Behind Beyoncé, Destiny's Child, and More | Mathew Knowles

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Ep. 061 | Why Canada Has a Family Doctor Shortage When Care Is Free | Julie Wilson

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Ep. 060 | Why AI Recommends Airbnb Instead of Your Rental Business | Nathan Harwell

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Ep. 059 | What Brands Actually Buy in a Sports Sponsorship | Scott Gwartz

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Ep. 058 | How Allied Health Providers Build a Private Practice | Andrea Plitz

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Ep. 057 | Why Firefighters Train in VR Before Real Fires | Evan Sitler-Bates

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Ep. 056 | How People in Recovery Build a Career After Treatment | Stephen Deason

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Ep. 055 | Why AI Has Not Reduced Misdiagnosis in Primary Care | Paul Battle

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Ep. 054 | Social Enterprise to Combat Human Trafficking | Dawn Manske

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Ep. 053 | What Happens to Future Leaders When AI Takes Entry-Level Jobs | Chris Berta

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Ep. 052 | How Buyers Earn the Trust of a Retiring Business Owner | Shawn Heeren

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Ep. 051 | Why AI Recommends One Competitor Over Another | Nico Photos

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Ep. 050 | Why a Downturn Is the Right Time to Start a Business | Matt Remuzzi

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Ep. 049 | Why the STEM Talent Pipeline Starts With 8th Grade Algebra | Adrian Mims

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Ep. 048 | Why B2B Podcasts Are Brand, Not Performance | Corey Coates

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Ep. 047 | How Artists Can Lead Community Transformation | Patty Bowman Kingsley

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Ep. 046 | How a Ramen Shop Became a North American Grocery Brand | Jared Ferrall

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Ep. 045 | Hardware Emulation vs Digital Twins for Defense Teams | Peter Brady

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Ep. 044 | How Professional Service Firms Win and Keep Clients | Hilary Fordwich | Founder Talk

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Ep. 043 | How to Measure the Mental Side of Athletic Performance | Ryan Schachtner

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Ep. 042 | Why Clean Tech Startups Need PR to Raise Capital and Scale | Kari Kylo

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Ep. 041 | What Happens When a Founder Leaves the Company to His Employees | Paige Mejia

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Ep. 040 | Why an Independent Mortgage Broker Advises on the Whole Market | Deren Hasip

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Ep. 039 | How to Make a Startup Investment Ready Before You Raise | Gabriel Osamor

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Ep. 038 | How to Manufacture in the US Without Raising Money | Adam Baker

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Ep. 037 | Why Projects Keep Failing When You Only Treat the Symptoms | Mounir Ajam

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Ep. 036 | Why Chronic Symptoms Get Chased Instead of Traced | Martin Pytela

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Ep. 035 | Why This VC Runs Fourteen Small Funds Instead of One Big One | Andrew Batey

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Ep. 034 | How 3D Bioprinting Replaces Animal Testing in Drug Discovery | Stephanie Willerth

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Ep. 033 | How to Buy and Run a Manufacturer Through a Tariff Shock | Liohn Sherer

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Ep. 032 | How Many Real Decisions a Leader Actually Makes in a Year | Derek Wilder

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Ep. 031 | Why Booking a Speaker Is a Behaviour Change Problem | Martin Perelmuter

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Ep. 030 | Why Meetings Are the Work, and How to Fix Them | Mark Barbir

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Ep. 029 | How to Decide Which Growth Work Deserves to Be Done | Laura Patterson

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Ep. 028 | What Survived the Clean Tech Collapse | Ben Klepacki

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Ep. 027 | What Combat Sports Teach Founders About Emotional Control | Max Reck

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Ep. 026 | How Lenders Actually Assess Small Business Risk | Juana Attieh

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Ep. 025 | How Class Action Settlements Actually Reach People | Scott Hardy

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Ep. 024 | How Bitcoin Fits Into Generational Wealth Planning | Brandon Karpeles

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Ep. 023 | How to Keep AI-Generated Content Sounding Human | Matt Blumberg

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Ep. 022 | How a Physical Product Startup Gets Into Retail | Sean Rana

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Ep. 021 | How to Turn Professional Services Into a Repeatable Pipeline | Dave Anderson

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Ep. 010 | Why Soil Is the Infrastructure of a Local Food System | Josh Blank

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Ep. 016 | Why Your Organization Behaves Like Weather, Not a Machine | Derek Wilder

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Ep. 017 | How Veterans Navigate Systems That Were Built to Help Them | Ryan Hawley

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Ep. 019 | Why Scaling an Impact Business Can Undo the Impact | Sam Hasty

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Ep. 020 | How Canadian Farmers Get Paid to Produce Nature | Bryan Gilvesy

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Ep. 018 | Five Estate Documents Every Family Needs | Bryan Walley

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Ep. 015 | How to Scale a Company Without Losing the Culture | Ramon Estrada

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Ep. 014 | Why Automating Your Sales Relationships Backfires | Craig Klein

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Ep. 013 | How Much Growth Is Enough for a Small Business | Daniel Biro

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Ep. 012 | How Measuring Neck Strength Prevents Concussions | Kim Brouzes

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Ep. 011 | Why Agentic AI Still Runs on Human Trust | Graeme Barlow

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Ep. 009 Compounding Math of AI Visibility — Brand Authority, Machine Layers, and the Cost of Waiting

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Ep. 008 | What It Takes to Scale a Brand in Agentic Search | Steve Ward

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Ep. 007 | How to Build Brand Authority for AI Search

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Ep. 006 | How Systems Thinking Explains Tariffs and Growth

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Ep. 005 | How to Tell If Your Motivation Can Sustain Your Goals

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Ep. 004 | How Founder Energy Compounds Into Business Results

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Ep. 003 | Why Founder Purpose Shapes What Gets Built

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Ep. 002 | Why Pressure Is What Produces Clarity

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Ep. 001 | When Niching Down Is the Wrong Advice