Business Episodes

Reed Nyffeler on Entrepreneurship and Purpose Driven Business | 1,592 Reed Nyffeler believes business is at its best when it creates opportunity, develops people, and serves a purpose beyond profit. A lifelong entrepreneur, Reed has dedicated his career to building companies that empower others to lead, grow, and make a meaningful impact. As the founder and CEO of Signal, an international security services franchise, he has helped create a business centered on giving people peace of mind so they can focus on what matters most. His entrepreneurial vision extends beyond one company. Reed also founded Filtergo, a commercial air care franchise, and Framebrand, a technology and analytics company that helps franchise organizations scale with greater clarity and efficiency. Across every venture, his focus remains the same: equipping entrepreneurs with the tools, systems, and leadership they need to build businesses that strengthen their communities. As the author of Transform Thr…

Julia Hurley on Single Mom Success and Overcoming Adversity | 1,590 Julia Hurley believes your circumstances may shape your beginning, but they never have to define your future. A nationally recognized real estate broker, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and former elected official, Julia has built a career defined by resilience, leadership, and reinvention. Becoming a single mother at just 15 years old, she learned early that success is not determined by where you start, but by the choices you make along the way. Through determination and relentless perseverance, Julia earned a college degree, built award winning businesses, achieved national recognition in real estate, and became a trusted voice in entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal growth. Along the way, she has continued to launch new ventures, mentor others, and inspire people to pursue bigger possibilities for their lives. More than her accomplishments, it is Julia's journey that resonates. She has turned adver…

Amy K Nunn on Leadership Development and Self Awareness | 1,586 Amy K. Nunn believes leadership is not about having the answers. It is about creating the conditions for others to thrive. A leadership consultant, executive coach, and creator of the Next to Nunn Diagnostic Method, Amy helps organizations uncover the hidden patterns that quietly limit performance. Drawing from years of leading large teams across churches, ministries, and community organizations, she understands that the greatest leadership challenges are rarely strategic. They are human. Amy's work was shaped as much by her own mistakes as her successes. Having experienced both poor leadership and her own leadership blind spots, she learned that lasting influence begins with self awareness. Today, she helps leaders recognize the patterns that hold them back, strengthen communication, develop healthier teams, and build cultures where people take genuine ownership. Rather than offering quick fixes, Amy equips l…

Dr Tim Newman on Public Speaking and Communication Skills | 1,584 Dr. Tim Newman believes great opportunities rarely go to the best ideas. They go to the people who communicate them best. A communication coach, podcast host, and self described recovering college professor, Dr. Newman has spent more than 20 years helping professionals speak with greater confidence, clarity, and influence. His practical approach removes the mystery from public speaking, replacing fear with simple, repeatable systems that help people connect with any audience. Creator of The Formula for Public Speaking and the Confident Connection Formula, Tim equips leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals with the tools to deliver memorable presentations, craft compelling elevator pitches, and communicate in ways that inspire action. As the host of the Speaking with Confidence Podcast, he continues to share practical strategies that help people stand out in business and life. Beyond communication, Tim brin…

Dr Chidimma Abuka on Shared Leadership and Team Success | 1,583 Dr. Chidimma A. Abuka is rethinking one of leadership's oldest assumptions: that every organization needs just one person at the top. An author, researcher, and leadership consultant, Dr. Abuka is the Executive Director of Global Co-Leadership Development and Change Management at Polymathes Consulting. Through her doctoral research at Pepperdine University, she developed the Dualis Co-Leadership System™, a research informed framework designed to help organizations lead through intentional partnership rather than individual authority. As the author of Co-Leadership: One Role. Two Leaders. and The Workbook for Co-Leaders, she equips executives, organizations, and leadership teams with practical strategies for building trust, strengthening shared accountability, and creating collaborative leadership cultures that thrive in today's complex world. Dr. Abuka's work challenges conventional leadership models with a po…

Rita Rai on Business Strategy and Operational Excellence | 1,582 Rita Rai has spent her career solving the complex challenges that keep organizations from reaching their full potential. A senior executive and strategic advisor, Rita has led high impact transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 companies, helping executive teams navigate growth, operational complexity, and organizational change. Her expertise spans strategic planning, operational excellence, process optimization, technology strategy, program leadership, and change management. Known for her ability to connect big picture vision with practical execution, Rita helps organizations improve performance, streamline operations, reduce costs, and create better experiences for both customers and teams. At the heart of her work is a simple belief: sustainable success comes from aligning strategy, people, and execution. Through thoughtful leadership and a talent for solving complex problems, Rita helps organizations m…

Lonna Gibson on Turning Vision Into Lasting Impact | 1,555 Lonna Gibson knows what it means to carry a mission forward when everything is on the line. At just 26 years old, she became the first employee of Challenge Air, a groundbreaking nonprofit founded by a Vietnam veteran determined to show children with disabilities that their limitations did not define them. When the organization's founder passed away only months later, Lonna was faced with a decision that would shape the rest of her career: step away or step up. She stepped up. Over the following years, she transformed Challenge Air from a small regional effort into a nationally recognized organization operating in 38 states, building partnerships with major brands including Southwest Airlines, Boeing, Xerox, and Pillsbury. Along the way, she learned firsthand how to lead through uncertainty, scale a vision, build sustainable systems, and honor a mission larger than herself. Today, as the founder of Seven & Assoc…

Matthew Fornaro on Avoiding Costly Business Mistakes | 1,530 Matthew Fornaro helps business owners navigate legal challenges before they become costly problems. With more than two decades of experience serving businesses throughout South Florida, Matthew has built a reputation for providing clear, practical legal counsel in areas where entrepreneurs often need it most, contracts, disputes, negotiations, risk management, and business growth. Rather than overwhelming clients with legal jargon, he focuses on helping business owners make confident, informed decisions that protect what they have built and position them for long term success. Whether advising startups taking their first steps or established companies managing complex business issues, Matthew brings a strategic mindset that balances legal protection with real world business objectives. His philosophy is straightforward: the best legal strategy is not just about solving problems. It is about helping businesses …

Chris McManus on Building a Business from the Ground Up | 1,504 Chris McManus built GC Landscaping Inc. from the ground up with grit, loyalty, and a vision bigger than landscaping. What started as mowing lawns at 19 years old has grown into a trusted hometown company transforming backyards into places where families gather, memories are made, and life happens outdoors. Born and raised in Morganton, North Carolina, Chris leads with the same values he was raised on: hard work, honesty, creativity, and treating people right. From custom pools and outdoor kitchens to patios and full property transformations, GC Landscaping is known for bringing big ideas to life with craftsmanship, heart, and a team that takes pride in every single project. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.gclandscapinginc.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier …

Kristopher Grey on Simplifying Business Complexity | 1,495 Kristopher Grey is a project management expert and the founder of Creatapult, where he helps companies bring structure, clarity, and consistency to how work gets done. With more than 20 years of experience, Kris focuses on solving a common problem inside growing businesses. Too much reliance on individual effort and not enough systemized execution. His approach simplifies complexity into a clear framework of who is responsible, what needs to be done, and when it needs to happen. By building repeatable systems, he helps organizations protect their margins, reduce risk, and operate with greater predictability. The result is a business that no longer depends on last minute heroics, but runs on structure that can scale. Kris works with teams that are ready to move from reactive to intentional, creating a foundation that supports sustainable growth and long term performance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? S…

Troy Perkins on Smart Investing in Gold and Diamonds | 1,496 Troy Perkins is a premier estate jewelry expert and entrepreneur known for bringing clarity and transparency to an industry often built on confusion. With over 20 years of experience handling millions in estate jewelry, diamonds, and precious metals, Troy has seen every side of the market, from rare heirlooms to costly mistakes. His work is centered on one mission. Give people the truth so they can make smarter, more confident decisions. While many in the industry benefit from information gaps, Troy built his business on the opposite approach. Education, honesty, and full transparency. He breaks down what dealers do not say, where hidden markups exist, and how buyers can avoid overpaying on everything from engagement rings to gold investments. Beyond consumer education, Troy brings a powerful entrepreneurial perspective. Starting with no background in jewelry, he built a seven figure business by doing what most w…

Cat Markel is the founder of Cat Markel Creatives, a boutique brand and web studio focused on helping women build businesses that feel aligned, sustainable, and real. After building a successful career in marketing and reaching director level roles, Cat made the decision to step away from corporate life in search of more freedom. What she discovered was a different kind of pressure, one that many women face while balancing family, income, and the desire to create something meaningful of their own. That experience now shapes her work. Cat partners with coaches and small business owners to simplify what they are building, clarify their message, and bring their brand to life through thoughtful strategy, content, and design. Her approach is grounded and practical, helping women create businesses that support their lives instead of competing with them. Through coaching, courses, and hands on creative work, she helps clients move out of overwhelm and into clarity, building someth…

1,450 | From F16 Pilot to CEO Anthony Bourke’s Story Anthony “AB” Bourke is a highly experienced F-16 fighter pilot who has flown tactical missions in countries all over the world. He has accumulated more than 3,000 hours of flight time in numerous high-performance aircraft and was one of the first pilots to fly his F-16 over New York City in the homeland defense efforts on September 11th. Following his impressive military career, “AB” took the tools and techniques that made him one of our nation’s premier fighter pilots and applied those to the competitive world of business. He ascended early in his career to become the top-producing mortgage banker in the Western US for a prominent lending institution. His success in the mortgage industry led to a new opportunity at a California-based start-up company where his team of 40 professionals dramatically grew revenue from $500,000 to $65M in three years. Following these two endeavors, “AB” partnered with two other fighter pilots …

1,440 | Matt Smith on Ethical AI and Business Growth Matt Smith is a serial entrepreneur known for building valuable companies by identifying emerging trends early. Today, he is focused on the agetech space, with a strong emphasis on ethical AI and how it can be responsibly integrated into growing businesses. With extensive experience as a founder, Matt brings practical insight into what it takes to build, scale, and sustain a company. He works with entrepreneurs on navigating common pitfalls, managing finances, and making strategic decisions that support long term success. His recent work centers on helping startups adopt AI in a way that is both innovative and ethical, ensuring technology enhances growth without compromising integrity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.speak2family.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-ti…

1,439 | How Henry Bowles Builds Resilient High Performing Leaders Henry Bowles, PhD, is a communication expert, keynote speaker, and advisor with doctorates from Harvard and Oxford. With decades of experience, he equips leaders, teams, and organizations to build resilience, sharpen mindset, and perform at the highest level. He is the creator of the REV: Respond, Expand, Venture framework, a practical system designed to help individuals navigate pressure, adapt quickly, and take decisive action in complex environments. A Fulbright Fellow and Harvard Horizons Scholar, Henry has taught extensively at Harvard and Oxford, trained in journalism at Northwestern’s Medill School, and presented his research around the world. He also completed the full improv curriculum at Second City, bringing a dynamic, real world edge to his communication and leadership work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: [LINK] 🎬 Need stunning videos, clea…

1,438 | Phillip Lanier on Hard Work Faith and Business Growth Phillip Lanier’s journey began in Fort Mill, South Carolina, raised by a teenage single mother without financial stability or a safety net. School was a struggle. He failed English, missed his high school graduation, and at 18 was sleeping in a tent while working multiple low wage jobs just to get by. Everything changed when he entered the construction industry. With no formal training and no money, Phillip started at the bottom digging ditches and learning every part of the business through hard work and persistence. Over the next 20 years, he built a company that grew to 115 employees before successfully exiting and retiring at 47. Today, Phillip leads Your Money Essentials, where he mentors individuals who feel stuck and are searching for a clear path forward. His message is grounded and powerful: with grit, faith, and the right guidance, it is possible to change your future. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love ou…

1,432 | Dylan Bost on Building a Business Without Burnout Dylan Bost is the founder of Sunny HQ and author of *The 7 Mirrors*, a framework for building a business and life rooted in alignment rather than urgency. With 30 years of experience in design, architecture, and entrepreneurship, Dylan’s path includes a full professional collapse that led him to rebuild from the inside out. Today, he helps founders simplify their systems, reclaim their time, and lead with clarity. His work connects business strategy with personal growth, guiding leaders to respond instead of react, design with intention, and build companies that support their lives rather than consume them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://dylanclaytonbost.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coache…

1,424 | Build a Self Running Business with David Salerno David Salerno is a serial entrepreneur, author, and Vice Chair of the Montreal Economic Institute, Canada’s leading free market think tank. Over more than twenty years, he founded and scaled Solpak Packaging Solutions to eight figure revenues, serving over 530 clients across Canada before executing a successful exit. His book, *Built For Freedom*, introduces the Sherpa Method, a nine step framework for building businesses that operate independently of their founders. A three time Mercuriades finalist and Forbes Business Council member, David now leads Entrepreneur Sherpa, where he helps growth stage entrepreneurs across North America build scalable, self sustaining companies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.davidsalerno.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tie…

1,411 | Benjamin Smith on High Performance Without Burnout Benjamin Smith is the founder of Inner Life of Sport, a performance coaching practice that supports elite athletes, coaches, and executives who may be succeeding externally while struggling internally. A former athlete himself, Benjamin has spent more than a decade helping high performers build what he calls the inner foundation for sustainable excellence. His work blends performance science, contemplative practice, and deep self awareness to help individuals perform at a high level without losing themselves in the process. Benjamin has worked with professional athletes, championship coaches, C suite executives, and organizations across sport, business, and healthcare. His core belief is simple: high performance and wholeness are not opposites. They are partners. Learn more at innerlifeofsport.com. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.innerlifeofsport.co…

1,410 | Alex Sydnor Reveals Keys to Value-Based Care Success Alex Sydnor is a strategist, advisor, and executive with more than 30 years of experience leading strategy, growth, and transformation across hospitals, health systems, and mission-driven organizations. He works with executive teams and founders to align strategy, structure, and human behavior so organizations can accelerate growth and execute with clarity. Alex previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at MaineGeneral Health and Beebe Healthcare, where he led large-scale planning, business development, and value-based care initiatives. Originally from Cupertino, California, the hometown of Apple, Alex now lives in Maine where he enjoys the state’s many outdoor activities. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://shiftgroupconsulting.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro…

1,398 | Bianca B. King on Turning $700 Into $280M in Revenue With nearly 30 years in business and more than 1.6 billion dollars in transactions, Bianca B. King has built a career defined by resilience. That strength was forged early when she left home at 13 to escape instability and create a future on her own terms. She spent over a decade in commercial real estate on a team that closed 1.4 billion dollars in deals. In 2008, she launched Seven5 Seven3 Marketing Group with just 700 dollars. Seventeen years later, that decision has generated more than 280 million dollars in client revenue. Along the way, Bianca realized that the same strategies that build sustainable wealth can also cultivate sustainable joy. She founded Pretty Damn Ambitious®, a global collective for ambitious women entrepreneurs in expert based service businesses. Through her Joyful Ambition™ framework, she helps leaders build profitable companies while aligning success with personal values and fulfillment. …

1,374 | Meghan Higney Reveals What It Takes to Build a Business That Lasts Meghan Higney is the founder of Message, a business builder, and mother of two who believes the hardest parts of entrepreneurship are not strategic but personal. She has led a consumer brand through uncertainty, pressure, and growth while learning that resilience and integrity matter more than bravado. In 2024, Meghan moved her family to central Mexico, redefining how she leads, measures success, and sustains balance in life and business. With a background in finance, investment, and leadership, she brings both emotional depth and practical insight to conversations about money, responsibility, and building with purpose. Her work centers on thoughtful leadership, honest communication, and creating businesses that last. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.wearmessage.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Ch…

1,347 | Brad Smith on Scaling Businesses With Insight, Strategy, and Intuition Brad Smith is the founder and CEO of Stellar Insight Inc., a business growth consulting and coaching firm dedicated to helping ambitious CEOs and organizations achieve extraordinary results. With over 29 years of experience spanning analytical chemistry, production design, business management, and executive coaching, Brad brings a rare blend of technical precision and human insight to every client engagement. He has guided leaders across industries to scale their companies, strengthen culture, and add consistent “extra zeros” to their revenue. A lifelong student of human development and mysticism, Brad also teaches a Master Class for Deep Intuition—a program for CEOs and R&D teams that bridges intuition and strategy to unlock breakthrough innovation. His guiding principle: “Everything is a theory until you experience it and can consciously repeat the experiment.” Through Stellar Insight Inc.,…

1,338 | George Pesansky on Operational Excellence Where Performance Meets Empathy George Pesansky is a global leader in Operational Excellence with over 30 years of experience in performance optimization, executive coaching, and systematic improvement. He has trained and coached more than 10,000 professionals across six continents, helping Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits achieve measurable, lasting results. As the founder of Capacity2Care, a nonprofit that inspires Superperformers to donate their talent—not just their time—George is redefining how business leaders give back to their communities. Known for his clarity, candor, and hands-on approach, George is the author of Superperformance and a member of both the Forbes Coaches Council and the Fast Company Executive Board. His mission is to help people and organizations perform at their highest capacity—where excellence meets empathy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s …