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The Business Savage
The Business Savage Podcast: Untamed Business & Mindset Strategies to Help Entrepreneurs Build + Discover a Deeper connection to themselves. A Healthy business, begins with a healthy mindset.
Welcome to The Business Savage Podcast—your essential resource for entrepreneurs seeking to grow and build a business that truly thrives. If you're searching for unfiltered, high-impact strategies for business growth and personal development, you’ve come to the right place. This podcast is packed with savage insights that most won’t talk about, helping ambitious business owners like you discover your authentic voice, find your drive, and overcome challenges to reach new levels of success and hear from inspiring world class industry leaders sharing their stories from struggle to success.
Dive into our unique, no-nonsense approach to topics like developing a powerful CEO mindset, taking action, cultivating a strong mindset, creating discipline, building confidence, enhancing productivity, implementing effective branding and marketing strategies, balancing masculine and feminine energy, and time management skills. Here, you'll be challenged and inspired to take control, level up, and design a sustainable business without burnout.
Hosted by a 7-figure entrepreneur with multiple thriving businesses, The Business Savage Podcast offers real-world advice to empower you with the confidence, structure, and tools you need. Follow us on Instagram @the.business.savage for updates and daily inspiration. This is more than a podcast—it’s a movement for entrepreneurs who are ready to rise, reclaim their power, and unleash the wild entrepreneur within.
The Business Savage
108. Building a Coffee Shop Franchise using Seller Financing with Ellie Hugdahl
☕ What does it take to turn a single coffee shop into a thriving franchise without massive upfront capital? In this episode, Cassandra sits down with Ellie Hugdahl, founder and CEO of Unity Coffee to uncover how she built her successful drive-thru coffee business and expanded through seller financing.
Ellie shares her inspiring journey from buying her first shop to growing a profitable franchise model, all while using creative financing strategies to make it happen. You’ll learn:
- How Ellie bought her first coffee shop using seller financing
- The key steps to scaling from one location to a franchise
- The mindset and leadership skills required to grow a brick-and-mortar business
- How to build strong local brand loyalty and operational systems that last
- Lessons learned from over 10 years of entrepreneurship in the coffee industry
Whether you’re dreaming of starting your own coffee shop, looking to expand your business, or curious about alternative financing strategies, this episode is packed with real talk, practical tips, and entrepreneurial inspiration.
👉 Tune in to hear how Ellie turned bold vision into a thriving coffee franchise empire
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