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...
14 days 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...
21 days 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...
3 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...
3 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:...
3 months ago • 3 min read
The Business Owner's Journey We're wrapping up Season 1 with the '12 Days of Business' mini-series 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁10 days down, ONLY 2 to go. Here's #11 👇🏻 We're in the home stretch: Day 11: Romi Wallach & Nicole Mastrangelo: Empathy, Understanding, and Truly Connecting with Your Customers Romi and Nicole share how they've developed a very clear and thorough understanding of the Daily Drip's clients and the problem DD is solving for them. 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Romi's Profile 🔗Nicole's...
3 months ago • 3 min read
The Business Owner's Journey We're wrapping up Season 1 with the '12 Days of Business' mini-series 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁9 days down, 3 to go. Here's #🔟 👇🏻 We're in the home stretch: Day 10: Anthony Milia’s Business Journey: 5 Inflection Points That Shaped His Leadership Anthony shares 5 key inflection points that shaped his leadership and fueled Milia Marketing’s success. 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Anthony Milia's Guest Profile Day 9: Vivien Hudson Shares Tips for Business Owners to Prioritize Health...
3 months ago • 3 min read
The Business Owner's Journey We're wrapping up Season 1 with the '12 Days of Business' mini-series 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁8 days down. Here's #9️⃣ 👇🏻 We're in the home stretch: Day 9: Vivien Hudson Shares Tips for Business Owners to Prioritize Health and Manage Stress in 2025 Vivien joins Nick to share some tips for business owners to gain more control over their health and stress levels. 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Vivien Hudson's Guest Profile Day 8: Shireen Hilal's Top 3 Trends in Business for 2025...
3 months ago • 3 min read
The Business Owner's Journey We're wrapping up Season 1 with the '12 Days of Business' mini-series 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁7 days down. Here's #!🎱 👇🏻 Here we go: Day 8: Shireen Hilal's Top 3 Trends in Business for 2025 and How to Take Advantage of Them Shireen joins Nick and shares 3 key trends she's seeing and advice for businesses to get ahead of them. 🎧Listen here 📺Watch on Youtube 🔗Brett Bartholomew's Guest Profile Day 7: Brett Bartholomew Explains the Skill Behind Building Trust, Resolving Conflict, and...
3 months ago • 3 min read