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Building a Business You Can Walk Away From | Brandon Moon, TD Pine Advisors
100% of business owners will exit their business someday. Brandon Moon of TD Pine Advisors joined Jeremy Rivera to talk about building a transferable asset, engineering culture that survives the founder, and why pride is the glass ceiling most owners won’t name.
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Dave Gulas on Customer Service, Entrepreneurship & E-commerce Logistics
Dave Gulas co-founded EZDC 3PL after 20 years in pharmaceutical sales — spotting a massive complacency gap in the logistics industry. This episode covers the graduation point when e-commerce brands need a 3PL, the butterfly principle for bootstrapping, and why personal brand matters more than ever in B2B.
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Mason McCumber on AI Agents, Agentic Workflows & Building Smarter Business Systems
Show notes for the Mason McCumber episode — AI expert at buildwithmm.com on agentic workflows, long-term AI memory, automation vs. AI, and why project management is the highest-leverage use case for any business with a team.
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Kate Hendrickson: Authentic Marketing in a Tech-Driven World
🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast Authentic Marketing in a Tech-Driven World with Kate Hendrickson Consultant, author, and founder of The Strategy Lane on face-to-face marketing, the Waymo analogy for AI, finding the creative spark in boring niches, and why pizza doesn’t replace wages. ▶ Listen to the Episode Host: Jeremy Rivera | Unscripted Small Business…
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Christopher Papin: 168 Hours, Business Clarity & Knowing When to Walk Away
Christopher Papin is a CPA, attorney, and author who runs three different operations simultaneously — and he credits it all to systems. In this episode he introduces the 168-hour framework, explains why weekly rhythms beat daily and monthly planning, and shares how the framework helps small business owners decide both when to push harder and…
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Dave Gulas on Customer Service, Entrepreneurship & E-commerce Logistics
Dave Gulas co-founded EZDC 3PL after 20 years in pharmaceutical sales — spotting a massive complacency gap in the logistics industry. This episode covers the graduation point when e-commerce brands need a 3PL, the butterfly principle for bootstrapping, and why personal brand matters more than ever in B2B.
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Melinda Martin: Exploding Your Knowledge of the Book Publishing Industry
Melinda Martin has spent 15 years guiding authors through one of the most emotionally charged and predatory industries in small business: book publishing. In this episode she breaks down the real cost of quality, how self-publishing now rivals traditional publishers, and why the AI debate in content is really a publishing industry crisis in slow…
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Grinding Out Success: Tyler Mumford from Corporate Sales to Stump Grinding
Tyler Mumford left corporate software sales to grind stumps — and made $9,000 in his first month. In this episode he explains how B2B SaaS sales skills apply directly to a niche trades business, why specialized equipment creates a real moat, and how he negotiated his exit to fund the transition without the panic of…
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Lynn Colepaugh: Transforming Creators into Business Leaders
Lynn Colepaugh has spent her career helping creators make the leap from artist to business owner. In this episode she digs into why that mindset shift is the hardest part, why human chemistry is a durable competitive advantage AI can’t replicate, and the one-channel consistency principle that actually works for small business marketing.
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Interview with Conrad Coe: Operations, AI, and the Evolution of Automotive Wrapping
Conrad Coe manages operations at one of the nation’s longest-running automotive wrapping shops. In this episode he shares how AI is creating sameness in their industry — and how they’re using that to stand out, why they call themselves a “client experience shop,” and what 20 years of trades work teaches you about building systems…