Small Business Survival Conversations
Small Business Survival Conversations is the weekly podcast designed to empower entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small business owners who are fighting every day to build, grow, and sustain their businesses in a noisy and unpredictable world.
Hosted by Anna Steinfest, business strategist, entrepreneur, and founder with decades of experience helping small businesses thrive, this show delivers practical wisdom, mindset fuel, and real-world strategies that small business owners can actually use.
What to Expect Every Week
Monday Morning Motivation
Kickstart your week with a powerful story—drawn from timeless fables, real business lessons, or classic wisdom—paired with three actionable steps you can apply immediately. Each episode is crafted to help you regain focus, protect your momentum, and make better decisions as a small business owner.
These episodes are short, energizing, and packed with practical insight. Think of it as your weekly dose of clarity, courage, and direction.
Occasional Expert Interviews
Throughout the season, Anna welcomes entrepreneurs, industry experts, and community leaders who share their experiences, failures, wins, and lessons learned. Whether you’re looking to scale, pivot, or simply survive another day of running a business, these conversations offer the guidance and encouragement you need.
Who This Podcast Is For
This show is built for:
• Small business owners
• Solopreneurs
• Startup founders
• Women-owned businesses
• Community-based and service-based entrepreneurs
• Anyone navigating growth with limited time, resources, and support
If you’re building a business from the ground up—and learning as you go—you’re in the right place.
Why Listeners Love This Podcast
• Practical, real-world strategies (no fluff)
• Story-driven insights that stick
• Weekly motivation designed specifically for small business owners
• Action steps in every episode
• Honest conversations about what it really takes to survive and grow
• Encouragement without sugarcoating
Running a small business is not easy — but you don’t have to do it alone.
Subscribe now and start your week with inspiration, direction, and the tools to keep moving forward.
Small Business Survival Conversations
Your journey. Your grit. Your growth.
Small Business Survival Conversations
Episode 4: Productivity Tools Every Business Owner Needs
Nowadays business owners need diverse hats to perform their responsibilities: an HR hat when hiring and managing employees; a financial hat when projecting revenue; and other hats for working with clients, generating new ideas and navigating legal issues. Every small business owner dreams of getting more work done every single day. Our ABC Podcast Tip of the Week is how to incorporate the productivity tools every business owner needs. Organize productive tools to augment team output!
Productivity tools every business owner needs. Here’s how to:
1. enhance each work-hour yield with time management and project management
2. identify low-cost or free productivity tools to improve team throughput
3. customize to optimize specific tools for a particular team including delegating & communicating
Are these your questions: How does a business achieve this goal? How do you choose the right tools or implement rules to succeed? How do you know which tools are right for your business and the tasks you wish to accomplish?
ABC Tip: Learn how to assign priority to tasks and maintain control while avoiding distractions.
Once again, rely on Dr. Michael Troyer and Anna Steinfest as they review valuable solutions to these strategic ideas and more in our ABC Podcast Lessons in Success, Episode 4: Productivity Tools Every Business Owner Needs.