Pull the Chute - Grow your People, Grow your Company Podcast
The goal of this podcast is to interview business owners and/or C-level executives to get an understanding of how they built their culture, what worked, what failed, and what tips can they give new and upcoming business owners. Our goal over the next ten years is to help as many small to medium-sized businesses get to the next level by growing their people, which will grow their company. Through coaching and transformational leadership, Pull the Chute can guide company leaders to invest time to get to know their people and understand their roles, goals, and challenges to provide learning & growth opportunities - ultimately helping their people be the best they can be.
Pull the Chute - Grow your People, Grow your Company Podcast
Business Sale Secrets: What You MUST Fix Before Selling!
Pull the Chute podcast features John Martinka, Co-founder at Nokomis Advisory Services, CEO & Founder of Martinka Consulting, Business Buyer Advocate, Creating Large Exits for Small Businesses, Mergers and Acquisitions, Growth strategies.
John Martinka is known as The Escape Artist® because of the work he does in three areas:
1. Helping executives escape the corporate world by buying the right business the right way
2. Creating large exits for small businesses so the owner can exit with style, grace and more money
3. Accelerating businesses so they escape their plateau, with a speciality of using Growth by Acquisition
John is the author of five books, including, Exit with Style, Grace, and More Money, If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can't You Sell Your Business (For What You Want)?, and Buying a Business That Makes You Rich. John’s specialty is working with family owned companies (typically with sales of $3-25MM annually) and with people who would like to buy a business.
He works with numerous non-profits and twice was a Rotary Club President. In 2005 he started a Rotary project in conjunction with the Bellevue School district to install computer labs in schools. Over 10,000 computers have been donated and installed in Slovakia, Turkey and, since 2008, Antigua and Barbuda.
John is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting and the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club as part of Rotary International and agrees to comply with their codes of ethics and conduct without qualification or reservation.
