The Business Owner's Journey No NEW episode of The Business Owner's Journey this week... But I do have TWO new articles and a couple of resources you can use to make your time more valuable. We'll be back on schedule with a new episode next week. (And if you haven't finished it, you've got time to catch up on the unique strategy we used to build our holdco.) [NEW Article] How Business Leaders Develop Mental Athleticism Using Six Leadership Muscles to Move Fast and Win A framework to help...
10 days ago • 2 min read
The Business Owner's Journey [NEW Episode] Bradley Hamner: How to Go From Rainmaker to Architect of Your Business 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Bradley Hamner Profile There’s working in your business.There’s working on your business.But is there a third dimension… above it? I talked with Bradley Hamner recently about exactly that. Bradley was running team meetings during a family vacation at Disney World. Laptop open, captioning his Instagram photo, “Better never stops—even on vacation.”...
17 days ago • 2 min read
The Business Owner's Journey [NEW Episode] Nick Berry: Bespoke Partnerships, Owning a Job, Building to Sell 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Nick Berry Profile Businesses get “sold” every day. But there’s a difference between a successful sale and just getting out. The phrase ‘successful exit’ gets used a lot. No shade. I use it too. This week is a special episode - where I’M the guest being interviewed. 😲 I talk about my four successful exits - as well as the others. And I break down how I...
24 days ago • 2 min read
The Business Owner's Journey [NEW Episode] Jessica Rhodes: How and Why Businesses Should Be Leveraging Podcasts to Cut Through the Noise 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Jessica Rhodes Guest Profile Ok, not every business needs their own podcast. (I’ve changed my mind.)But if you’re thinking about podcasts only in terms of audience reach, it’s a mistake. While most business owners are chasing impressions,there is a tidal wave of others figuring out how to use the same medium to refine their...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
The Business Owner's Journey [NEW Episode] Chase Murdock: Growing a HoldCo, Attracting and Retaining Great Leaders 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Chase Murdock's Guest Profile In 2007, my partner and I started building a holding company. I would describe our strategy at the beginning as ‘Just go’… I spent the next 15+ years starting, acquiring, growing, and selling businesses. Several dozen of them, holding as many as eight operating brands at once. Recognized for growth, culture, and client...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
The Business Owner's Journey Season 2 is here! And it's going to be a good one! S2 opens with Anne McGinty, host of How I Built My Small Business, one of the fastest-growing entrepreneurship podcasts. The lineup also includes Chase Murdock (CEO, Decada Group), Jessica Rhodes (Founder, Interview Connections), Joe Daniels (Founder, Niche Builder), and Executive Coach Arielle Lechner, among others. One highlight of the new season is a special guest-hosted episode, where Jessica Rhodes flips the...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
The Business Owner's Journey I hope you're having a great first full week of 2025. 😃 Now let's talk growth. If you’re still setting goals without refining how you think, you're carrying last year’s limitations into this year. That’s one of several reflections I had on season 1 of The Business Owner’s Journey. Here are a few more: 💡 Resilience doesn’t mean "tough it out". It means mastering how you respond to the inevitable setbacks. 💡 Every connection I made with guests had value because I...
4 months ago • 2 min read
The Business Owner's Journey Week of 1/1/25: Happy New Year! Happy New Year!! With Season 1 in the books and Season 2 beginning at the end of January, you might have guessed that there's no episode this week. Instead, I'm going to take the opportunity to share a few tBOJ updates I think you'll find interesting. And I'm preparing a 'Season 1 Reflections and Looking Forward' episode for next week. 😉 We've Added Playlists We are now organizing all episodes into playlists so you can listen to...
4 months ago • 2 min read
The Business Owner's Journey We're wrapping up Season 1 with the '12 Days of Business' mini-series 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁11 days down, only #12 to go! 👇🏻 🎁12 Days of Business🎁 mini-series Day 12: Dana Farber: How to Use Customer Insight Mapping to Reveal Misconceptions Sabotaging Your Marketing Dana takes Nick through a customer insight mapping exercise, sharing misconceptions that limit our marketing. 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Dana Farber's Guest Profile Day 11: Romi Wallach & Nicole Mastrangelo:...
4 months ago • 3 min read