Scaling With People
Tired of spinning your startup wheels but never gaining traction? Buckle up, founders and CEOs, because this podcast is your rocket fuel to profitability! Every week, we ignite explosive conversations with bold-faced founders, brainy experts, and even a few out-of-this-world vendors. Get ready to crack the code on growth, master employee engagement, and blast through your scaling goals. We’re talking real-world strategies, actionable tips, and perspectives that’ll make your business do a cosmic dance. So, strap in and prepare for lift-off!
Episodes
133 episodes
Premium Clients Don’t Buy Hype. They Buy Certainty with Esther Stewart
Most founders think they need more leads. What they actually need is more certainty.Premium buyers don’t choose the loudest brand. They choose the clearest one. And when your positioning, messaging, or offer structure creates confusion, ...
Revenue Isn’t Your Problem. AI Is Exposing Your Broken Systems with Ali Manki
If you think revenue is your problem, you’re already behind.This is what happens to most companies: the pipeline finally clicks, deals start closing, and then everything behind the scenes begins to crack. Delivery slips. Hiring lags. Sys...
Your Growth Isn’t Broken. Your Marketing Is the Bottleneck with Tim Padgett
Founder-led growth works… until it doesn’t.Pipeline gets unpredictable. Hiring slows down. And suddenly, everything depends on the founder — their relationships, their credibility, their time. That’s not scale. That’s a bottleneck.
Your Team Isn’t the Problem. Your Leadership Is. with David Miller
The fastest way to stall a growing company isn’t bad strategy. It’s treating people like “soft stuff” and trusting the numbers to tell the whole story.In this episode, David Miller breaks down what actually compounds in small business gr...
Your Business Isn’t Worth What You Think with Gregory Kovsky
You can build a great company and still leave millions on the table when it’s time to sell.In this episode, I sit down with Gregory Kovsky, President and CEO of International Businesas Associates, who has personally closed 300+ transact...
AI Won’t Fix Your Messy Company. It Will Expose It Faster with Karen Zeigler
Most founders think AI will make their company faster.It will.But if your systems are messy, your workflows are unclear, and your team is running on workarounds, AI won’t fix that.It will amplify it.In this ep...
Merchandise Your Value with Joe Frankie III
Your leadership can be strong and still go unnoticed if you don’t know how to position it. That’s the battlefield we step into with Joe Frankie III, a former U.S. Army commander turned executive advisor who’s helped hundreds of executives, vete...
Lean Marketing Wins with Mark Donnigan
If marketing feels like a never-ending list of things to do while sales still feels harder than it should, this is why. Most founders don’t have a marketing problem—they have a focus problem.In this episode, we break down how small, focu...
How To Build Trust With Benefits That Fit Your People with Oksana Lukash
Ping pong tables do not build trust and wellness stipends do not fix a broken culture. We get real about the messy intersection of employee benefits, wellness, culture, and retention, and why the “perks” playbook fails when it is copied from co...
Growth Without Breaking: Scaling Smarter With AI And People with Adnan Eddie Bin-mahfouz
Growth doesn’t stall because you need “more sales.” It stalls because your systems are fuzzy, your budget isn’t built for a ramp, and your hires are sized for the wrong game. We sit down with Adnan Eddie Bin Mahfouz—former CEO of a five‑company...
Scale Faster With Intentional Systems with Matt Granados
Growth gets noisy when speed outruns structure. We invited Matt Granados, CEO of Life Pulse, to show how to turn that noise into a rhythm teams can sustain. Instead of glorifying grind, Matt reframes productivity as alignment: purpose tied to g...
Hiring Across Borders Without Losing Momentum with Matthew Hellrung
Compliance doesn’t have to slow you down. We sat with immigration attorney and founder Matthew Hellrung to map out how smart teams turn visas, I‑9s, and global mobility into a talent advantage while staying out of audit crosshairs. If you’re re...
Jet Fuel For Smarter Growth with Kathryn Strachan
Growth isn’t a mystery; it’s a system. We sit down with award-winning fractional CMO and bestselling author Kathryn Strachan to unpack the moves that turn scattered marketing efforts into a commercial engine that compounds. From the mindset shi...
Reading Signals In A Noisy Market with Daniel Nikic
Markets aren’t just noisy; they’re rewiring in real time. We sit down with global investment researcher Daniel Nikic to decode what founders should actually track, how to turn headlines into decisions, and why the most resilient companies pick ...
Motivation That Sticks with Tara Landes
Want to stop pushing people and start pulling results? We brought in Tara Landes, a certified Cialdini influence trainer who’s advised 300+ leaders, to unpack why most managers overestimate their people skills—and what to do differently when th...
Scaling Without Breaking Culture with Ryan Hogan
What if the difference between stalling at $8M and exiting at $55M wasn’t luck, but a set of repeatable choices about people, process, and stage-fit hiring? That’s the jump Ryan Hogan made, and we unpack exactly how he did it—from the hard less...
AI Recruiting That Actually Works with Ben Johnson
AI can sift resumes, flag cheaters, and surface real talent—but only if you pair it with clear roles, smart assessments, and disciplined communication. That’s the system Ben Johnson, CEO of Particle 41, walks us through as we compare notes on h...
From Burnout To Brilliance with Nelly Gal
Growth shouldn’t require sacrificing your sanity. We sit down with first‑gen founder and medical professional Nelly to unpack how she turned a survival hustle into a sustainable business by aligning purpose, hormone health, and a team she can t...
Crowdfunding Signals, Smarter Capital with Sherwood Neiss
Fundraising doesn’t have to be a black box or a waiting game. We sit down with Woodie, co-founder of Crowdfund Capital Advisors and a key architect behind the JOBS Act crowdfunding rules, to map a founder-first path that fuses data, community, ...
People Power To Enterprise Value with John Martinka
Buyers don’t pay top dollar for a founder’s heroics; they pay for a business that runs without the founder. We sit down with M&A advisor John Martinka to map the moves that turn people power into enterprise value, from reducing owner depend...
People, Power & the Algorithm with Nahed Khairallah
Want the truth about RTO, hybrid, and remote without the noise? We cut straight to the work: define how value is created, then choose the model that best serves it. With guest Nahed Khairallah, a veteran HR and scaling leader who’s supported 15...
Decide Early, Scale Smarter with John Marvin
What if the biggest threat to your growth isn’t competition or cash, but hesitation? We sat down with John Marvin, president and CEO of Texas State Optical, to pull back the curtain on how decisive leaders hire earlier, set cleaner guardrails, ...
Stop Selling, Start Listening with Todd Schuchart
What if the fastest way to grow isn’t a new channel, but a new mindset? We sit down with founder Todd Schuchart for a candid masterclass on turning chaos into compounding growth by optimizing the only two things you fully control: your conversa...