Behind Their Success: Advice For Entrepreneurs
You are not alone, building a business is hard. This is a podcast to hear from those who have done it before you so you can become the healthy, wealthy and wise entrepreneur you want to be.
My name is Paden Squires, and I started out of college working in finance at a Fortune 500 company and hated it- I was bored out of my mind. So I wanted to change my life. I started studying for the CPA exam, listening to podcasts six hours a day; and I took four exams in eight months. I even started my business in my living room with zero public accounting experiences and taxes. At this point, I had never done a tax return before, but I didn’t let that stop me.
In 2014, I launched my business Squires CPA, and opened up an office in 2016. My business has grown ever since through trials, lessons, networking, and planting the right seeds. Since then I have had a lot of success in other business ventures including real estate, and property management and more. Now I want to help inspire you to achieve your potential and dreams in business and break from the corporate mold.
So let’s learn from the stories and hard lessons of successful entrepreneurs so you can become wealthier and wiser today.
Behind Their Success: Advice For Entrepreneurs
84: How to Scale Your Business Without Going Broke
You can scale fast—and still go broke. This episode is your real-talk guide to building smart, not just big. We sit down with 26-year-old entrepreneur Roggen Frick, who turned a dirt-bike hobby and a welding side hustle into a nationwide manufacturing company. We’re talking about what it really takes to scale a business, dodge financial landmines, and grow into your CEO role without losing your mind.
In this episode of Behind Their Success, Paden Squires talks with Roggen Frick, founder of Bear Iron Works, about the evolution of his business—from fixing bikes in college to leading a full-scale manufacturing team. Ragan drops honest, hard-won insights into the reality of entrepreneurship: the chaos, the cash flow crises, and how shifting from “do-it-all” founder to strategic operator changed the game.
🔑 What You’ll Learn:
- How to scale smart: Why fast growth can be fatal if you ignore cash flow
- Business growth tips: Moving from solopreneur to systemized leader
- How to build from what you know: Why Ragan’s hands-on upbringing gave him an edge
- Transitioning roles: Why you need to stop doing everything—and how to hand off the right work
- The power of simplicity: From product offerings to systems, Ragan explains why less is more
- Why e-commerce changed the game: And how to use it to fix your cash flow
- Humility + learning = longevity: Staying curious and grounded as you scale
📚 Resources Mentioned:
- Book: Who Not How by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- Book: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Website: Bear Iron Works
📍 Where to Find Roggen:
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