Business Episodes

Lonna Gibson on Turning Vision Into Lasting Impact | 1,555Lonna 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 | 1,530Matthew 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 | 1,504Chris 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 | 1,495Kristopher 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 | 1,496Troy 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 StoryAnthony “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 GrowthMatt 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 LeadersHenry 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 GrowthPhillip 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 BurnoutDylan 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 SalernoDavid 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 BurnoutBenjamin 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 SuccessAlex 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 RevenueWith 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 LastsMeghan 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 IntuitionBrad 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 EmpathyGeorge 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 …

1,328 | Merry Korn on Scaling, Exiting, and Building Businesses That MatterMerry Korn is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, author, and advisor best known as the visionary founder of Pearl Interactive Network, Inc., one of the world’s most successful for-profit social enterprises.For over two decades, Merry led Pearl Interactive Network with a people-first philosophy—creating over 1,300 jobs across 30 states for disabled veterans, military spouses, people with disabilities, and individuals in underserved communities. Her leadership proved that when employees feel valued, they deliver excellence, innovation, and lasting impact.After scaling and successfully exiting Pearl Interactive Network, Merry now empowers others through speaking, advisory services, and thought leadership—helping business owners grow with purpose and professionals break free from career stagnation.Her achievements have been recognized by Ernst & Young, NPR, and The United States Business Leadership Net…

1,250 | Jennifer Gligoric on Turning Adversity Into Astronomical AchievementJennifer Gligoric is an entrepreneur, certified business coach, and fractional consultant. She dedicates her time to reviving businesses, empowering leaders, and helping business owners reclaim their vision while unlocking their full potential. She's on of the hosts of the Super Clinic Project Podcast and empowers service-based business & clinic owners to harness the power of technology to repair, grow, and sustain thriving businesses.Her work is rooted in providing real, actionable insights and help to clinic & service-based business owners navigating the complexities of business and life, with a strong emphasis on ethical entrepreneurship. Beyond her consulting work, she is a passionate and outspoken advocate for the peaceful, non-militarized exploration of space for humanity and was elected to the government cabinet as the Minister of Equity and Resources for the world's first digital nation. …

1,188 | How Rich Kozak Helps Entrepreneurs Create Impact-Driven BrandsRich Kozak is The Voice of Impact Driven Branding. After decades of shaping and launching global brands, he founded RichBrands to serve heart-centered entrepreneurs and professionals who are ready to elevate their unique gifts and make lasting impacts with clarity, longevity, and divine purpose.At RichBrands, Rich personally guides individuals through the 7 Steps of Impact Driven Branding, helping them define and grow brands that are aligned with who they truly are and the difference they are meant to make. With 47 years of deep branding expertise and a reputation for straight talk you can trust, Rich is known as the most connecting, deeply listening, and caring branding expert you will ever meet.Beyond guiding brands, Rich also mentors clients in creating, writing, and publishing books that amplify their message and move their brand forward. His wisdom is simple yet transformative: Clarity for the impac…

1,187 | Chris Logan Reveals How to Start Virtual Wholesaling and Make $20K in 90 DaysChris Logan is the visionary founder of Virtual Wholesaling Made Simple, a breakthrough community and coaching program that empowers everyday people to launch profitable wholesaling businesses. His proven system shows you how to earn $20K in just 90 days, even if you have no experience, no team, and are juggling a full-time job.With over a decade of experience and more than 600 successful deals, Chris knows one truth: the best opportunities are never limited to your backyard. Your next deal and your financial freedom could be just a phone call away.Now he is on a mission to help aspiring wholesalers escape the rat race, build wealth on their terms, and create the life they have always dreamed of.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love!👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.virtualwholesalingmadesimple.com/🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping de…

1,172 | Corey Dissin Reveals How to Build a Knockout LifeCorey Dissin has built his career, his businesses, and his reputation one disciplined step at a time. No shortcuts. No gimmicks. No handouts. Just structure, consistency, and an unwavering commitment to showing up and doing the work. Today, Corey is a Knockout Life and High-Performance Coach, brand strategist, and the creator of Knockout Life and High-Performance Coaching — a personal development system that empowers individuals to stop spinning their wheels andstart making sustainable progress.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love!👉 Check out today’s guest: https://coreydissin.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, coaches, and brands ready to level up.👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for…

1,170 | Dr. Angelo Valenti Reveals How to Find Your Easy Way to Enjoy LifeDr. Angelo Valenti grew up in Cleveland (Shaker Heights, to be exact) and graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a degree in psychology. He earned an MS and PhD in social psychology from the University of Georgia. He taught psychology at Oklahoma City University and served as a consultant with RHR International before starting his own practice. Dr. Valenti is a consulting psychologist in Nashville. His firm, The Company Psychologist, assesses talent for businesses in a variety of industries and is passionate about helping companies find the right individuals to fit their unique cultures. He strongly believes that “Companies hire for skills but fire for attitude.” He coaches leaders and those who want to be leaders, both in how to increase their effectiveness as leaders and how to become the best versions of themselves. He says, “People are capable of dramatic change and growth. Sometimes they…