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| Guest | Company | Episode | What it’s about |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jorge Chavez | Topaz Sales Consulting | The Status Quo Is Your Biggest Competitor — Jorge Chavez on Selling Without Selling | Topaz Sales Consulting’s Jorge Chavez on why the status quo is every seller’s real competitor, why you don’t have to ask for the order, empathetic listening, and… |
| Ameera Virani | The Designed Life | Design Your Life on Purpose — Ameera Virani on Habits, Visibility & Wealth | Life-design coach Ameera Virani of The Designed Life on why designing your life is a responsibility, the internal thermostat that pulls founders back, work-life… |
| Julika Novkova | Jules Psychology | Julika Novkova on the Human Side of Small Business | Business psychologist Julika Novkova on why rigidity blocks creativity, the freeze response in business, authenticity as alignment, and why ‘without action,… |
| George Rivera | Founder Dad Tables | George Rivera on Building a Business You Can Step Away From | Founder Dad Tables creator George Rivera on the deathbed sentence that changed everything, why founder dads have a dependency problem (not a time problem), and… |
| Jared Harman | One Group Agency | Jared Harman on Running a Full-Service Agency in the AI Era | One Group Agency founder Jared Harman on where AI actually adds value, why human connection is the differentiator, and the messy truth that marketing has no… |
| Txldian The Destroyer | Independent artist (aka Sham Beasy) | Txldian The Destroyer on the Smoke and Mirrors of the Music Business | Independent artist Txldian The Destroyer on leaving a Sony deal to go fully independent, treating music as a business, AI in creative work, and why ‘the real… |
| Brad Poulos | — | Brad Poulos on Building a Business That Runs Without You | Entrepreneurship educator Brad Poulos on lean startups, delegating outcomes instead of tasks, funding paths beyond VC, and the ‘Barbados test’ for whether you… |
| Matt Tyner | Bone Dry Roofing | Matt Tyner on Why Marketing Makes the Promise and Operations Keeps It | Bone Dry Roofing CMO Matt Tyner on the only constant in 15 years of marketing, why home services over-rotated to digital, and a week-one action list to start… |
| Cecily North | Traveling North Agency | Cecily North on Building a Travel Agency — and Why AI Can’t Replace a Human Agent | Traveling North Agency founder Cecily North on the question that launched her business, why friends and family make the worst first clients, and the one thing… |
| Jessica Malnik | The Remote Work Tribe | Jessica Malnik on Remote Work, AI & Beating Commodity Content | Remote-work and product-marketing expert Jessica Malnik on why hybrid is the hardest model, who maintains your vibe-coded tools once their builder leaves, and… |
| Mark Pearson | Agent Buyable AI | Mark Pearson on Getting Found, Chosen, and Paid by AI Agents — Agentic Commerce Comes to Small Business | AI consultant Mark Pearson breaks down agentic commerce and AEO for small business — how AI agents now have a wallet, why backlinks still matter, and how to get… |
| Paul Pape | Gamify Business | Paul Pape: How Gamifying Business Makes Entrepreneurs Finally Get It | What if the reason your clients can’t understand your process is that you’re explaining it wrong — not because they’re incapable, but because the format itself… |
| Cameron Tope | Emerson Property Management | Cameron Tope: Building a Property Management Company With Integrity | Cameron Tope of Emerson Property Management shares how he built a Houston property management company from 30 doors to a full-service asset management firm —… |
| Knight Lancaster | Lancaster Firm CPA | Knight Lancaster: Navigating Finances, Marketing & Law in Tennessee | Knight Lancaster — attorney and CPA — breaks down the cash flow models, marketing attribution strategies, and legal frameworks helping Tennessee small businesses… |
| Meaghan Wall | The Hot Girl CFO | Cash Flow Is Queen — and It’s Also Baby | Meaghan Wall of The Hot Girl CFO | Jeremy Rivera sits down with Meaghan Wall, founder of The Hot Girl CFO — a boutique accounting agency specializing in fractional CFO services, bookkeeping, and… |
| Brandon Moon | TD Pine Advisors | 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,… |
| Dave Gulas | EZDC 3PL | 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… |
| Mason McCumber | — | 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… |
| Kate Hendrickson | The Strategy Lane | 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… |
| Christopher Papin | — | 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… |
| Sara Nay | Duct Tape Marketing | Strategy First: Why Small Business Marketing Fails Without Foundation | Sara Nay has spent 15 years at Duct Tape Marketing, rising from intern to CEO. In this episode she breaks down why strategy has to come before tactics, how to… |
| Melinda Martin | — | 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… |
| Tyler Mumford | Grind Time Stump Grinding | 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… |
| Lynn Colepaugh | Cyber PR Army | 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… |
| Conrad Coe | Exotic Vehicle Wraps | 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… |
| Scott Curry | — | From Failed Ventures to Financial Freedom & Faith with Scott Curry | Scott Curry spent 15 years failing at businesses before a COVID pivot to YouTube replaced his six-figure income in three months. In this episode he shares what… |
| Tianna Mamalick | SMB Marketing School | The Human Element in SEO for SMBs: A Conversation with Tianna Mamalick | Tianna Mamalick has spent 12 years doing SEO exclusively for small businesses. In this episode she cuts through the noise on AI content, service pages, sales… |
| Bill Kasko | Frontline Source Group | The Costanza Theory: How Doing the Opposite Drives Success for Bill Kasko | Bill Kasko built Frontline Source Group over 21 years by doing the opposite of everything his industry told him to do. In this episode he shares the… |
| Rachel Minion | Rockstarr & Moon | Breaking the Consultant Hustle Cycle with Rachel Minion | Rachel Minion built her consulting practice around one core insight: the feast-or-famine cycle isn’t inevitable — it’s a systems problem. In this episode she… |
| Bruce Ashford | The Ashford Agency | What a Nonprofit Consultant Taught Me About Why Your Marketing Isn’t Working | Bruce Ashford of The Ashford Agency joined the Unscripted Small Business Podcast to break down why most small business marketing fails — and it’s not a tactics… |
| Marc Pitts | DiscountVapePen.com | Marc Pitts of DiscountVapePen.com on SEO Survival in a Regulated Industry | 🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast Marc Pitts of DiscountVapePen.com on SEO Survival in a Regulated Industry The founder who had to become an SEO practitioner… |
| Mark Gilliland | Kyoto Botanicals | Running a Botanical Wellness Brand: What One Founder Learned About Products, Regulations, and Building a Business Without a Playbook | 🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast Running a Botanical Wellness Brand: Products, Regulations & Building Without a Playbook Mark Gilliland of Kyoto Botanicals… |
| Denise Dubois | — | Building a Spa Empire: Denise Dubois on Beauty, Wellness & Sustainable Business Growth | 🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast Building a Spa Empire: Denise Dubois on Beauty, Wellness & Sustainable Business Growth The founder who opened her first spa… |
| H&H Construction | Home remodeling (Cookeville, TN) | Dominating Cookeville Home Renovation, Additions & Remodeling : H&H Construction | 🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast Dominating Cookeville Home Renovation, Additions & Remodeling: H&H Construction The husband-and-wife team behind H&H… |
| Chad T. Jenkins | SeedSpark | The Collaboration Formula That Beats Working Hard (VCR = Vision + Capability × Reach) | 🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast The Collaboration Formula That Beats Working Hard — Chad T. Jenkins & the VCR Formula Founder of SeedSpark on Vision +… |
| Andrew Poles | — | The Entrepreneur Mindset With Andrew Poles | 🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast The Entrepreneur Mindset With Andrew Poles Executive coach and ultra marathon mountain biker on why founder growth and… |
| Terrence Irving | Wedding photography | Building a Wedding Photography Business: Terrence Irving’s Story | 🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast Building a Wedding Photography Business: Terrence Irving’s Story How a landscape photo seller on Etsy became a sought-after… |
| Justin Stehr | MetaFlex® | Unscripted Small Business Podcast: Interview with Justin Stehr | 🎙️ Unscripted Small Business Podcast From Business Operations to Medical Innovation with Justin Stehr of MetaFlex® The Certified Hand Therapist at Vanderbilt… |