Episode 67 - Jon Ohliger | VEEPIO
In this episode, Brian has a beer with Jon Ohilger, the founder and CEO of VEEPIO, a content optimization tool for athletes. Listen in while Brian and Jon discuss Jon’s journey to this point in his business career. You’ll enjoy hearing Jon’s insightful stories.
Episode 66 - Anthony Raibick | Your Mosquito Pros
In this episode Brian has a beer with Anthony Raibick, the owner of Your Mosquito Pros in Parsippany, NJ. Listen along while Anthony shares his entrepreneurial journey. You’ll appreciate hearing the touching story of how Anthony came up with the idea for Your Mosquito Pros. It’s clear that family plays an important role in Anthony’s life, and his business.
Episode 65 - Howie Zales | HJZ Productions & Viridity Entertainment Services
Brian and Howie take a look at how the consumption of media today is changing the world of sports. Howie also discusses his longtime relationship with John Gonzalez. You’ll hear about Howie’s TV Sports Course, and so much more, which explains why Howie is so good at what he does.
Episode 64 - Dr. Chris Paolino | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Listen in while Dr. Paolino shares his interest in oral surgery. He explains the extensive training he went through to become a board-certified specialist. You’ll love his incredible trauma stories from the emergency room.
Episode 63 - Eric Starrett | Starrett Design Build
In this episode, Eric shares the journey of how he and his wife, Rachel, started and grew the business all while raising two children, and how sobriety created a positive change for both of them. Brian and Eric also discuss how analytics plays a key role in their process and how their process separates them from their competition.
Episode 62 - Elorm Ahiamadjie | Delaware Limo
Brian unpacks Elorm’s journey from starting with one vehicle to providing transportation for Biden’s inauguration and somehow maintaining a 5 star Google review after over 13K trips. Want to know how he does it, or how he grew 1500 times from 2019 to 2020? Listen today!
Episode 61 - Michael Ermann | Amber Book
In this episode Brian has a beer with tenured Professor at Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture Design - Michael Ermann. Michael is also the founder of Amber Book - a review course to help anyone pass the architecture licensing course.
Michael shares his incredible journey - from bootstrapping a business idea while maintaining a full time job, to hiring investment bankers to help sell what he had created.
Episode 60 - Jeannie Stith | Color Guru
Color Guru is an online service that analyzes people's hair, skin and eye color to provide them with an ideal color palette for their personal wardrobe.
Jeannie shares how a life changing experience led her to creating a process that has simplified the lives of people in 26 countries around the world.
Episode 59 - Stefan Debois | Pointerpro
Pointerpro is an assessment software platform that helps professional service companies automate their advisory process. Stefan shares how it actually started from creating a quiz app for his daughter’s birthday, back when the iPad was first introduced.
Listen in to hear how Stefan’s consulting background helps him as a business owner and how he grew his business to $3 million of recurring revenue.
Episode 58 - Regis de Ramel | Fly Advanced & flyGateway
Interested in learning how to fly, buy, or work on a plane? In this episode, Brian has a beer with Regis de Ramel, the President and CEO of FlyAdvanced, an aircraft management, maintenance, charter and flight training company. With five locations and over 50 million dollars in revenue, Regis shares his lowest moments, which change the trajectory of his career.
Episode 57 - Matt Reiner | Benjamin
Brian and Mat discuss the challenge of communicating the vision of the solution to an engineer. You’ll be inspired by Matt’s core mission of wanting every person in the country to have access to a real financial advisor, fintech, his books and more.
Episode 56 - Mike Pesce & Aaron Wygonik | School of Rock
Mike and Aaron walk us through their initial struggles, opening up just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, how they eventually were able to secure financial government assistance, why they decided to buy-in to The School of Rock franchise, and the reasons why they didn’t throw in the towel.
Episode 55 - Mark Edelson | Iron Hill Brewery
Mark Edelson, co-founder and owner of Iron Hill Brewery, shares his entrepreneurial journey, and how it all started with his friend, and eventual partner, home brewing beer in 1989 as a hobby.
From working for “the man” to becoming The Man, Mark walks us through the highs and lows of being a restaurant owner during the pandemic, with over 1600 employees to under 200 employees in 10 days.
Episode 54 - Thom Harvey | Harvey, Hanna & Associates
Brian and Thom talk about the history of how his father started a trash business as a kid during the great depression with a wagon, and how Thom then grew his company from 2.4 million to 4.5 million to 6.5 million in a 30 day period, and then to 15 million over the next 15 years which set the course for the rest of his career.
Episode 53 - David Gates | Gates and Company
In this episode, Brian has an insightful conversation with David Gates, President & Managing Director of Gates & Company. Started in 1999 as a management consulting firm, David shares how his company has evolved into a business-sale preparation & execution firm, working strictly with technology-driven businesses.
Episode 52 - Ginger Moxam | Curated by Ginger
Ginger enjoyed working from a very young age, and having access to technology as many millennials did, she went on to start her own business offering a marketing team for small businesses who can’t afford to employ an in-house marketing team.
Episode 51 - David Marvin | Marvin & Palmer Associates, Inc.
Growing up poor in the Chicago suburbs, David Marvin paid his way through college and graduate school playing and teaching the organ (all while in the army reserves). By the time he was 33, David was running the largest mutual fund in the country, and then came Black Monday - the stock crash of 1987.
Episode 50 - Jo Norris & Nick Martin | Carbon Reform
With a mission of clean air for people and the planet - Jo Norris and Nick Martin share their journey on how they co-founded a “clean tech/health tech” hybrid company called Carbon Reform. They break down the process of decarbonizing a built environment by directly capturing and sequestering co2 from indoor air - basically - cleaning air and making it better.
Episode 49 - Phillip Koontz | Former Navy Seal & Entrepreneur
In this episode Brian has a great conversation with Phil Koontz, a former navy seal and Pastor who is now a motivational speaker, author and proud owner of Karambit Tactical Knives.
Episode 48 - Brian Pannuzzo | The Success Lift
In this episode Brian shares a beer with Brian Pannuzzo, a certified Nutrition Coach who specializes in working with men whose professional success has cost them their health, marriage and relationships.