Elite Business Advice Podcast
The Elite Business Advice Podcast's goal is to help educate business owners in all areas of business and life. We want to help entrepreneurs both personally and professionally to make sure they have a healthy balance of how their business is serving their life!
We cover very tactical topics like morning routines, marketing & tax strategies, and systems to have in place for your business, as well as big picture items like designing your life, planning out your business each year, and how to grow your leadership.
While the niche our company serves is focused on the painting industry and painting contractors, the advice shared in this show will translate across all of the trades and home service industries as well as many other business categories.
Episodes
203 episodes
Having an Elite Mindset for Success
Did you know that you can have every system and process in place for your business perfectly, the right people in the right seats and still have a disaster of a business? If your mindset about life, your business, your people and your clients i...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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40:10
Job Costing and Organization in Your Painting Company
One of the best things you can do for your business and your mental health is to be organized in your business. Another top thing is to have real time data to cost out your jobs! In this episode, Bracken Anderson of BusyBusy joins us to b...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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34:37
Offering Benefits to Attract and Retain Talent
If you’ve ever thought about offering benefits to your employees, but have been worried about the added cost to your overhead, this is the perfect episode for you! Alex Alvarado with Working Class Benefits joins us to share what options are ava...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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32:11
Episode 200!! Having a High Level of Emotional Intelligence in Running a Business
In this 200th episode of the Elite Business Advice podcast, Chris and a panel of friends: Matt and Maggie Kuyper of Harpeth Painting, Juan Vasquez of Illusions Inc., Corrie Leister with Inspired By U, and Shane Fast of Renew Painting of the Car...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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50:30
Using Your Painting Company as a Financial Vehicle
How far ahead are you thinking about your business? Do you have an exit strategy? Is your business existing for a bigger purpose? In this episode, we dive in deep to talk about thinking bigger about your business, reverse engineering the life y...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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23:10
Ask Us Anything: Crew Leader Meetings, Job Minimums and Social Media Usage
In this Ask Us Anything episode we answer 4 common questions that we get asked:Should you have a $ minimum for jobs?Should you connect with your customers on social media?What frequency should you meet with your cr...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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22:15
S-Corporations: When to Switch and How is it Different?
It’s tax time! Which means you’re probably thinking about how to ensure that 2025 is different and better than 2024. In this episode, we share one potentially impactful tax strategy: electing to file as an S-Corporation. We cover when you shoul...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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22:55
Selling Through Value, Relationship and Needs
There are a lot of sales strategies and systems out there that work well. But we’re a fan of keeping it simple. Make a friend, Find a need, Transfer a feeling! People will buy from who they know like and trust. If you pair that with...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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27:12
The 4-Step Recruiting System You Need in Place
As the weather is mostly warming up, lead flow is picking up, and you are thinking ahead to the growth for spring and summer, you’re probably thinking about hiring more painters. How does that thought make you feel? Dreadful? Excited? Anxious? ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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25:23
Who’s In Your Tribe?
In this episode of the Elite Business Advice Podcast, we reflect on 2 key takeaways from the recent PCA Expo: focusing on the power of community and meaningful connections. We dive into the importance of identifying your biggest suppor...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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24:12
What to Do if Business is Slow
We’re hearing a lot of mixed reviews on how the year has started out. For some they’re having record breaking months and for others it’s slower than ever. In this episode, we share some of the trends we see across all of our clients throughout ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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30:29
Why Organic Social Media Posting Works For Your Business
What is your view on social media? How are you using it in your business? What’s keeping you from using it in your business? Do you know how you should be using it? These are some questions that we dive into on today’s episode to he...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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25:20
A Morning Routine That Works For You
What if you had a morning routine that worked for you and not against you? If you catch yourself running frantically in the mornings, skidding into work, and then everything seems unorganized, this episode is for you! And if you feel like you h...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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30:00
Maggie Kuyper: Unlocking Employee Passion – Live From the Winter Retreat
Have you ever wondered how to build a culture that your employees can thrive in? We all know that employee satisfaction helps your business both from a customer satisfaction perspective and productivity perspective. In today’s episode we interv...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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28:41
Matt Kuyper: Navigating Illness and Entrepreneurship – Live From the Winter Retreat!
Entrepreneurship is hard in itself, beating cancer is even harder, but imagine blending both of those worlds together and the challenges that come with it. In today’s episode we interview Matt Kuyper with Harpeth Painting to share his story on ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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15:41
Accountability In Your Life
Did you know you’re 42% more likely to achieve a goal if you share it with someone you trust? I bet if you currently have someone in your life holding you accountable, you weren’t shocked by that stat. And if you don’t, you just found out the s...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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19:43
6 Decisions to Kick Off 2025 Right
How do we make sure that we are living our life with intentionality and purposefully? It all starts with having goals laid out and a plan in place to stay on course for our desired life! In this final episode of Season 4, we share 6 things, bot...
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Season 4
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Episode 53
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29:25
Hope in Your Business and Life
How do we keep hope at the center of everything we do, without relying on it solely to carry us where we want to go? Hope is the first step of anything we want, but often times it requires a plan and action behind it. In today’s episode we’re g...
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Season 4
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Episode 52
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27:50
Tax Write-offs to Consider by Year End
With the end of the year right around the corner, it’s important to know what tax strategies need to be implemented by December 31st in order to benefit from it when you file your taxes in Spring of 2025. Listen in to make sure you’re taking al...
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Season 4
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Episode 51
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29:09
Developing Your People
How do you invest into your people? We have a lot of clients that want a great culture and want to develop their people and invest into their growth, but what does the practical side of this look like? In today’s episode we’re going to leave yo...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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25:13
Creating a Winning Strategy for 2025
As you start looking ahead to 2025 it’s important to know if your goal for the year is to grow your business, systematize it and build up money in the bank, or a little bit of both! In today’s episode, we’re going to dive deep into the things y...
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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29:32
Getting TRACTION in Your Business Series – Part 3
In the final episode of our 3-part series, we’re covering the People and Processes portion of your business plan. While many times people will associate the word Profit here for the 3 P’s of business, it’s the people and processes that drive th...
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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32:44
Getting TRACTION in Your Business Series – Part 3
In the final episode of our 3-part series, we’re covering the People and Processes portion of your business plan. While many times people will associate the word Profit here for the 3 P’s of business, it’s the people and processes that drive th...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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32:48
Getting TRACTION in Your Business Series – Part 1
If you aren’t familiar with the book Traction by Gino Wickman, we HIGHLY suggest you get it and read/listen to it and implement everything he shares!While we are not an EOS expert or certified in this content by his team, we couldn’t let...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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32:36
Micha McLain - Successful Digital Marketing Strategies
What in the heck is SEO? How should we navigate ad spend for digital marketing? What are the things we can do to help us organically in the google rankings? Are these questions you’ve ever had? If so, we’ve got the perfect episode lined up for ...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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43:55