Authentic Business Adventures Podcast

Glenn Broder of Human Judgment in the Age of AI shows small-business owners how to keep a human in charge of AI, so you get better results and fewer confident mistakes. Here is the plain-English version.

Stuart Faught, founder of Mini Horse, reveals how he builds tiny SaaS companies, hits $100K ARR in 90 days, and sells them for half?a?million, plus his playbook for first?time founders to acquire and scale software assets. He walks through the "mini?horse" concept, the power of reputation?software…

Terence Leclere, founder of Metaforyou, reveals how immersive experiences and human interactive touch points can dramatically boost guest engagement at live events. He walks us through his journey from actor to experiential consultant, explains the secret sauce behind "hits" – the organic moments…

Every business has a story, and Carolina Coops has a great one. Matthew DuBoise From childhood memories of hatching chicks to selling his first homemade coop on Craigslist in under half an hour, Matthew Duboise traces his wild entrepreneurial ride—through moments of personal struggle, lessons in…

Jason DeSouza - DeSouza Injury Lawyers On the Good, Bad and Shady in the Injury Law World: "There are lots of very, very good, very aggressive injury lawyers that know how to treat clients properly. Unfortunately, there's a lot of mills that do everything they can do to just get as many clients as possible. Stick them through the apple press, get whatever juice they can, and move on to the next on...

Travis Spicer - Spotbookr On Sneaky, and a Bit Creepy But Effective, Advertising: "And then now you're seeing it and you're like, oh, how convenient. And then we get to turn you into this zombie to go and buy something." Where should you advertise your business?  You have a great product or service and you need to get the word out to the masses.  But how?  Where do you spend your marketing dollars...

Mark Hartmann - Mergers and Acquisitions On the Value of Purpose: "Either you'll exit it vertically, maybe on your own terms, or you'll exit horizontally, maybe not on your own terms. You will exit your business, right?" What happens when a psychotherapist, a negotiator, and a business dealmaker all walk into the same room—and they're all the same person?  Mark Hartmann of Hartmann Rhodes, a speci...

Felica Ray Diny - Felicia's Donation Closet On the Value of Purpose: "We're not just bringing a kitchen table, we're bringing it so she can sit down with her children to have a meal together." Sometimes people need a little help, and sometimes people need a lot.  Imagine being an abused woman, with children, trying to escape an abusive relationship with very little, if any, money, and the need to...

Mickie Kennedy - eReleases On Good PR: "Every time you're getting ready to issue a press release that you feel is meaningful to you, think about how can I make it meaningful for that audience person, making them want to read it, make it easier for a journalist to say, yeah, I think my audience would love to hear that." When a woman starts a business and/ or becomes successful, often she does this...

Morrighan Lynne - Her Sovereign Way On the Learning to Break the Chains of No: "So there's this feeling of my value is tied to them liking me, and if I say no to them, they may not like me anymore." When a woman starts a business and/ or becomes successful, often she does this with pain that has been quelling in her for years.  As an entrepreneur, we push through pain, but eventually it may be tim...

Melodie van der Baan - Max Retail On the Success Secret: "You have to be so obsessed with the problem you're solving because it is going to be so freaking hard that you must have the wherewithal to continue going when it gets tough, when you hit dead ends." Melodie van der Baan has seen some things.  As an experienced entrepreneur in the clothing and retail space, she has learned what to do, what...

Kurt  Belding - Western Obsessions TV On the Ar: "How fast can I calm down, slow my breathing, slow my heart rate to make a good shot?" Building a business around your passion is a dream of most entrepreneurs.  Kurt Belding has done it with Western Obsessions TV. By combining his love of hunting and travel, Kurt can bring real life dramatic hunts to hunting enthusiasts and armchair travelers acros...

DJ Neuville - Haul It All On the Best Skill an Employee Can Have: "The biggest asset in this job is, can you show up? Can you show up? Can you show up on time?." Discover Hidden Savings in Commercial Real Estate Everyone has junk.  Whether the stuff that collects as we live our lives and store stuff in a someday pile, or a house move that brings the option of either moving it and storing it again...

Tom Brodie - CSSI Cost Segregation On Using Bonus Depreciation on Buildings of All Sizes: "So people that own smaller buildings like that, they can actually get a reasonable return on this as well." Discover Hidden Savings in Commercial Real Estate In this week’s episode, we dive into the world of cost segregation and tax strategy with Tom Brodie—better known as “The Found Money Guy.” If you own c...

Neal Bawa - Grocapitus and MultifamilyU On Using the Right Tools to Make Good Decisions: "I said, I'm going to mine as much data as possible and try to get insights from that data." Many investors use real estate investing as an investment vehicle in their portfolio.  Most of those investors are looking at their local real estate market and trying to find deals that can pump out the returns they w...

Shahayra Majumder and Jonathan Chizever - Hydrate IV Bar Madison, WI On Focusing on What Really Matters: "They're passionate about their health, which is your only wealth at the end of the day." What good is money if you're spending your time hurting and not able to enjoy this great gift of life that we have all been given?  Health is arguably the most important thing to focus on, to make sure you...

Ronica Cleary - Cleary Strategies On Trying DIY PR: "You don't know what makes you newsworthy. You don't know what lands. You don't know what's a really good pitch and what's not." Every business wants, well actually, needs customers.  How do you get customers?  You get noticed and you get your business in front of potential customers.  How do you grow this awareness?  You can shout from the stree...

Rowan Childs - Madison Reading Project On Building Up Youth: "We want to make sure every kid is excited and sees themselves on the cover or as the main character." Often we take the skills we have for granted.  We want this and that, but rarely take the time to have gratitude for all that we have.  I'm not talking material things, I am speaking of opportunities and education.  As business owners,...

Rachel LaCasse-Ford - Lake Road Campground On the Best Plan for Business: "It's very important when you're thinking about purchasing a business or starting a business that you know the beginning, middle, and end, like, you know all the pieces, you know how you're going to get in, how you're going to manage it, and how you're going to get out if things don't go well, or if things go well and you wa...

Shane Perkins - Ultimate Strategy On the Reality Banks Overlook: "If you have that kind of equity and you've worked and you've saved that down payment, then there's nothing telling me that you're not going to make your payments." When you have a job with a W-2, you fit in the traditional bucket.  Traditional things for people with traditional jobs are fine.  They are simple, and easy and everyone...

Fred Fisher  - Fisher Consulting On the Unrealistic Expectations We Have in the Insurance World: "You have to know more about your insurance needs than the guy selling it, the guy who has to take continuing education classes." Insurance is basically paying for a promise you hope you will not need to ask to be kept.  To avoid great financial loss, or to have the support of a team of lawyers, insura...

Nuttha Goutier  - Sabai Thai Massage On the Passion to Succeed: "I said I have the dream, I have the vision, I have the belief and I am young and full of energy. I think the vision that I have, people will like it and people will love it." We've probably all been told to relax more than a few times.  The hustle of business can take it's toll on both the body and the mind. How do you unwind, or rec...

Alisa Sparks  - Linden Creek On Realizing Your Own Success: "I kind of had this moment where I paused and realized I had accidentally worked myself out of a job, and that should be a good thing. My team had it covered, my clients were happy, things were rolling well, and I kind of scratched my head and went, what do I do next?" As business owners we often have one speed: Go.  We run relentlessly,...

Michael Shapiro  - Ketubah.com On How the Artist Gets Inspired for the Ketubah: "There would be a discussion of the couple's values, maybe how they met, maybe where they met, and the artist would be listening for things that were important to them, including things between the lines, maybe that they weren't speaking about, but that they got a sense of" Business owners that become business owners b...

Rihab Abouzaki  - This N That Communications On What She Does: "We are a gateway to the US market. As a company, we take the international brand and help them find distributors or help them directly sell in the US market, advertise in the US market." Often we get a little cozy with success.  Sometimes even a bit complacent, and we slow down our businesses growth. But what if you could expand your...