Podcast Episodes

Dashboard: Gene Marks Has an Ambitious Plan to Do Less

This week, Gene tells us that he’s been spending too much time doing and not enough time thinking. So he’s made a plan to free up some time to focus …

1 year, 5 months ago

Most People Don’t Have the Stomach for This

Episode 232

This week, in episode 232, Paul Downs tells Shawn Busse and Jay Goltz why he isn’t sleeping and why he has stopped paying himself. After having his b…

1 year, 5 months ago

Dashboard: A Warning for Small Businesses

This week, having long encouraged small business owners to support President Trump’s pro-business agenda, Gene Marks says those policies are likely t…

1 year, 5 months ago

The Tricky Business of Selling Small Businesses

Episode 231

This week, in episode 231, special guest David Barnett, who started helping owners buy and sell businesses in 2008, offers some guidance on an often-…

1 year, 5 months ago

Dashboard: Is Small Business Optimism Eroding?

This week, John Arensmeyer—CEO of Small Business Majority and our man in Washington—stops by to talk about the Trump administration's first week and …

1 year, 5 months ago

I Think We’re Ready for the Tariffs

Episode 230

This week, in episode 230, Liz Picarazzi tells Paul Downs and Sarah Segal that after a year of anxiety, she’s eager to find out what Donald Trump is …

1 year, 6 months ago

Dashboard: How Do I Get ChatGPT to Notice Me?

Last week on Dashboard, Shawn Busse said he thinks that trying to make your business discoverable on AI bots is “a fool’s errand.” So, this week, I i…

1 year, 6 months ago

The Power of a Fresh Set of Eyes

Episode 229

This week, in episode 229, Jay Goltz, Jaci Russo, and William Vanderbloemen discuss their experiences bringing in outside consultants to review their…

1 year, 6 months ago

Dashboard: You Have to Make Your Own Weather

For business owners, the challenges of digital marketing seem to just get bigger. PIck a platform, any platform: the odds of success have gotten smal…

1 year, 6 months ago

We’re Not Saving Lives. We’re Saving Livelihoods

In this week’s bonus episode, David Billstrom and Matt Raker, two business leaders who have played important roles in Western North Carolina’s attemp…

1 year, 6 months ago