The Vince Perri Podcast

A $3 cost per lead on Meta ads? Courtney Schawl, founder of One Day Songwriter and Social Script and co-founder of Biggs Bass Academy, shares how she gets it. A former music therapist turned marketing expert, she breaks down Meta MCP, instant forms, and why the creative decides everything. She and Vince also get into why anxiety keeps entrepreneurs stuck, and her Fibonacci method for compounding y...

Your labs look normal. Your doctor says you're fine. So why do you still feel terrible? Dr. Sam Mikhail, an emergency and internal medicine physician with over 22 years in medicine and Chief Medical Officer of Triunity Wellness, and Mariana Mikhail, co-founders of Triunity Wellness in Tampa, sit down with Vince to talk preventive health, deep-dive lab work, and why every patient can improve someth...

Design. Build. Sell. Alex Miranda (CEO and General Contractor) and Shastine Pavao (COO and designer) of Belle Style Designs run a turnkey rehab company built for real estate investors, getting projects done in about 6 weeks instead of 12. In this episode they sit down with Vince to show how a contractor and a designer built it. In this episode: - Why investor work means tighter margins, and how su...

Alessandro Antezza is a fellow business broker in Tampa Bay, and an Italian immigrant who built his own version of the American Dream here before helping hundreds of others do the same. In this episode he and Vince talk shop: why selling a business is so much harder than selling real estate, and what it actually takes for someone abroad to buy a US business. In this episode we get into: - Why it's...

Anthony Haddad didn't get into AI because it was trendy, he got into it out of desperation and survivability. While running four companies with VCs watching, he broke his back in a car accident on top of a torn ACL, MCL, and meniscus, and a long history of major surgery. In this episode he breaks down how AI became the thing that kept his businesses alive, and how he's built an entire operating sy...

Anthony Haddad didn't get into AI because it was trendy, he got into it out of desperation and survivability. While running four companies with VCs watching, he broke his back in a car accident on top of a torn ACL, MCL, and meniscus, and a long history of major surgery. In this episode he breaks down how AI became the thing that kept his businesses alive, and how he's built an entire operating sy...

Jake Alexander didn't set out to be an accountant. He did a few tax returns for friends by accident, forgot about it, and came back the next year to a waiting room. Ten years and three acquisitions later, he's the CEO of Action Accounting in Tampa Bay, and he's got the scars to prove growth on paper isn't the same as growth your systems can actually hold. In this episode we get into: - The acciden...

Richmond Dinh lost $1.2 million before he found the model that built his multi-seven-figure coaching company. He's an international speaker at Funnel Hacking Live, the creator of the Tiny Challenge methodology, and the author of the book behind it. In this episode we get into: - The psychological pattern the $1.2 million loss forced him to break - Proximity is power: why the most important decisio...

Giacomo Sanvitale landed in the United States at 19 years old with a suitcase, no family, no network, and no safety net. He built over 800,000 followers across platforms before his visa even allowed him to earn a single dollar from any of it. Giacomo is a content strategist at Undercurrent, a retired professional soccer player, and one of the most original thinkers I've had on this show. In this e...

Trey Strong didn't set out to be a roofer. Now he owns Strong Roofing, one of the most recognized roofing brands in Sarasota and Tampa, with billboards, wrapped trucks, and a name people search for by name. In this episode we get into: - The mindset shift that took him from five years of just chucking shingles to building a real company - The 3 free marketing moves he tells every new roofer to sta...

Elliott Caldwell made $3.5 million in 2025. Without the strategy in this episode, he would have paid over $1 million in taxes. Instead, his bill was $160,000. Elliott is the CEO and co-founder of The Rise Collective, 13 businesses built starting from a single Airbnb tax loophole he found on YouTube in 2019. From BNB Turnkey (a done-for-you Airbnb investment service with a negative customer acquisi...

Daniel Lackey dropped out of high school, worked the oil fields in North Dakota, and was homeless at 18. Today he owns CMD Claim Consultants, a public adjusting firm he scaled to almost 2 million dollars, and he just launched a general contracting company, RCF and Associates, with his father-in-law. In this episode we get into how he built his own firm in six months by giving an experienced adjust...

Sofia Kasuli spent ten years building sales teams before she ever started her own company, and less than a year into running SoFluential Society, she is already helping women build sales skills, travel the world, and get out of their own way on camera. We get into what actually surprised her about the cost of starting a business, why she believes busyness itself is the thing burning people out, an...

Kevin Sullivan has represented close to 1,500 accident victims and recovered more than $40 million as a personal injury attorney and shareholder at LeavenLaw in Tampa Bay, and he built most of it through social media and word of mouth rather than the billboard ads everyone else runs. We get into why he looks at running a business the same way I do, build the value first, put in the systems and the...

Micha Seal's mother started teaching swim lessons out of a backyard pool in Tampa in 1979. Today Micha runs Watermelon Swim, a five location swim school teaching around 7,000 kids a week, and her mission is building a community of safer swimmers. We get into what happened when 40 percent enrollment growth almost broke her business, why her rule is if it isn't written down it doesn't exist, and the...

The way to win in business is to stay in business long enough to win. And the way to stay in business long enough to win is to love what you are doing and have a sustainable, repeatable model. Graham Cochrane is a USA Today bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and multi-seven-figure entrepreneur who runs his entire business working less than 5 hours per week. He helps coaches, consultants, and solopr...

She was launching the iPhone 12 during the pandemic. Supply chain chaos across multiple countries, 16 to 18 hour days, and an enormous amount of stress. Then she lost her hair. All of it. In eight weeks. That was the moment Vivian Yip decided to bet on herself. Five months after quitting Apple, she made $600,000 on a single real estate deal. Today she runs Crew Homes and Hestia 360, a property man...

You should not pay to get paid. That is the premise behind PaymXnts and once you hear it, you cannot unhear it. Bobby Poole and Clay Weger are serial entrepreneurs who between them have owned paintball parks, international jellyball distribution, and now a payment processing company built by business owners for business owners. When they found out they were paying $30,000 a year in credit card pro...

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We are for-profit. State Farm is for-profit. I want them to be profitable. I just want them to be profitable with morals and ethics at the same time. Jack Hanks is the president of VPA Claims, a public adjusting firm operating in 44 states with 57 employees. Last year they did $248 million in claims. This year they are projecting close to $400 million. He is also the second guest I ever had on thi...

In this episode, we talk about the dream about death that started everything, what it actually means to design your days instead of reacting to them, why thoughts are energy and why that changes how you show up as an entrepreneur, and the GPT-powered My Why framework Nathan uses with his clients and shared with our mastermind.

What happens when you and your spouse decide to build not one, not five, but 16 businesses together—and actually make it work? Ryan and Chantel Finch sit down to share the raw, unfiltered truth about entrepreneurship, marriage, and what it really takes to scale multiple companies without burning out or breaking up. From the harsh reality that only 1% of entrepreneurs become millionaires, to why mo...

In this insightful episode, host Vince Perry, Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) and Business Broker, sits down with strategic advisor Jason Bush of Linville Team Partners to break down one of the most overlooked components of business exits: commercial real estate. Jason is a CEPA who operates at the intersection of M&A, commercial real estate (CRE), and exit planning. In this conversation, h...

What separates companies that scale smoothly from those stuck in constant firefighting mode? Hector Sanchez, founder of PCK Partners with 18 years leading supply chain and procurement teams at GE Healthcare and major aerospace manufacturers, reveals it's not the processes—it's the people, and more specifically, how you lead them. In this conversation with Vince Perry, Hector breaks down how he sla...

Scott Bushkie has facilitated over $2 billion in business sales—and he's seen it all. From founders accepting lowball offers to sellers leaving millions on the table because they didn't prepare, Scott breaks down exactly what it takes to maximize your exit. In this episode, we cover: ✅ Why most business owners are worth 30-40% LESS than they think ✅ The "$500K mistake" that could have been avoid...