The BodyShop Leaders Podcast
The BodyShop Leaders Podcast brings you real conversations with the people shaping the future of collision repair — shop owners, vendors, and innovators who lead with purpose.
Hosted by Daniel Burkholder of BodyShop Marketing, each episode dives into the lessons, mindsets, and breakthroughs that drive top-performing shops and the leaders behind them.
No fluff. Just authentic stories and practical insights to help you grow, lead, and build a smarter, stronger shop.
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The BodyShop Leaders Podcast
Latest Episodes
How a Firing Started a 40-Employee Shop | Kena Dacus
Kena Dacus never planned to own a body shop. She had an accounting degree, a career in banking, and a husband with a dream.Then Chris asked his boss — a shop owner in his late seventies — about buying the business someday. The next morni...
Doug Higgins on What Your Shop Is Actually Worth
"I'm sorry to tell you, the business is worth whatever somebody is willing to pay for it." Doug Higgins has watched shop owners fixate on a multiple they heard at a conference and then make bad decisions for years because of it.In this e...
Brian von Tress: "We Burned the Ships and Said We're Doing This"
At 53 years old, Brian von Tress cashed in his retirement, walked away from a COO role at a 19-shop chain, and opened his first body shop with no private equity and no safety net. "We burned the ships and said we're doing this."In this e...
Brad Green: You Come Second
What does it take to grow a single family shop into a 14-location MSO spanning two Canadian provinces in just seven years? According to Brad Green, Director of Operations at Raydar Collision Group — it starts with recognizing that as a leader, ...
From Bankrupt to Bluebird Cafe to Body Shop Legend — David Luehr's Story
David Luehr started his first collision shop with a $100 bill and a borrowed paint gun. Two years later he had 13 employees and was doing over a million dollars a year — and then he lost all of it.In this episode of The BodyShop Leaders ...