Leverage for Growth Podcast

Free up 8-10 hours per week -> Join the Free Up Founder challenge: https://www.skool.com/freeupfounder/about   Gabi Krawczyk freed up five hours a week in her first week of the Free Up Founder challenge, and most of those hours came out of reactive work.   That reactive work looked like good service from the inside. Gabi runs an agency and, by her own description, has people pleasing tendencies: s...

Build the same leverage into your agency. Free up 8-10 hours per week -> Join the Free Up Founder challenge:  https://www.skool.com/freeupfounder     Alex Zinni spent a decade as the bottleneck in his own seven-figure agency. In four months inside the Leverage for Growth method, he built the systems to step out of it.   Alex is the founder of Alpha Key Digital, an agency serving plastic surgeons,...

Daisy Raudales spent 25 days in Europe and her PR agency did not fall apart. She went a little viral for saying so.   Daisy, founder of DRPR, spent her first four years in business as the bottleneck, working 12 to 15 hour days and convinced the whole thing would collapse if she stepped away. In this conversation with Jesse Gilmore, she traces how operational foundation changed that: a time log tha...

Shari Gannon has spent over a decade running brand projects, and the most challenging one she has ever led was rebranding the company that coaches her own company: Niche in Control.   Shari, founder and creative director of Krave Branding, walks Jesse Gilmore through what it took to run the largest, fastest-timeline, multi-team rebrand of her career, a project where she was not the boss but the br...

Warren Thompson scaled Ollo Metrics from 3 people to 25 without ever changing the one-week offer he started with.   Warren was Jesse Gilmore's first Leverage for Growth client, back in August 2020, when Ollo Metrics was a three-person shop doing about $15,000 a month. Post-COVID demand hit fast, and the thing that kept the business from breaking was not more leads. It was leverage: a time audit th...

Stop being the bottleneck in your agency. Start with the Scalable Agency Accelerator: https://nicheincontrol.com/services/scalable-agency-accelerator Susan Fernandez gave Jesse Gilmore six months to turn her agency around or she was shutting it down. She did not shut it down.   Susan was a niche-focused founder with competent people and a strong position in the built-environment market, and the bu...

Stop being the bottleneck in your agency. Start with the Scalable Agency Accelerator: https://nicheincontrol.com/services/scalable-agency-accelerator   The problem is not lead generation. It is what breaks when the leads actually show up.   Adam O'Leary builds referral-partnership systems that drive consistent, high-quality clients to agencies, which means he sees the exact moment a business gets...

Stop being the bottleneck in your agency. Start with the Scalable Agency Accelerator: https://nicheincontrol.com/services/scalable-agency-accelerator   Laura Williams almost closed InSync Media. Here is the structural turnaround that changed her mind.   After years of six-figure months, InSync Media lost its two biggest clients in a single quarter and spent nearly two years just breaking even. Lau...

Ready to scale your agency without it running through you? The Scalable Agency Accelerator is a 14-day program to build the operating leverage that frees you from the day-to-day: https://nicheincontrol.com/services/scalable-agency-accelerator   Robert Bradley set an 18-month profit goal and hit it in three. Here is the structural change that made it possible.   Robert's agency, Korus GTM, was buil...

Start building leverage into your agency with the Scalable Agency Accelerator: https://nicheincontrol.com/services/scalable-agency-accelerator If you stopped working tomorrow, would your agency keep running? Leverage for Growth is the podcast for marketing agency owners who are done being the bottleneck in their own business. Host Jesse P. Gilmore is the founder of Niche in Control and has coached...

Most podcasts don't fail because of audio quality. They fail because they didn't have what was needed to succeed in the first place. In this episode of The Leverage for Growth Podcast, Jesse P. Gilmore sits down with Vince Quinn, co-founder of SBX Productions, to break down who podcasting actually works for, who it doesn't, and why so many business podcasts burn out fast. Vince shares his journey...

In this episode of Leverage for Growth, Jesse P. Gilmore sits down with Eric Ritter, Founder and CEO of Digital Neighbor & Host of The Search Bar Podcast to break down the real skills agency owners need to scale—delegation, documentation, and operational discipline. Eric shares how he grew his digital marketing agency by moving from "saying yes to everything" to building repeatable processes, clea...

In this episode of Leverage for Growth, Jesse Gilmore sits down with Sharon Toerek, Founder and CEO of Legal & Creative - Toerek Law, to uncover the legal blindspots most creative agencies ignore. You'll learn: ✅ The most common legal mistakes agencies make (and how to avoid them) ✅ What should (and shouldn't) be in your client contracts and freelancer agreements ✅ How to protect your creative...

🎙️ In this episode of the Leverage for Growth Podcast, Jesse P. Gilmore sits down with Laura Szczes, founder of Double Z Media and host of the Paid Media Playbook. Laura shares how she left a 20+ year career in agency life to launch her own firm in early 2020 — right as the world shut down — and built a values-driven business that prioritizes work-life balance, culture, and results. Laura opens up...

Thinking about selling your agency? Don't make a move until you hear this. In this episode of Leverage for Growth, Jesse Gilmore sits down with mergers and acquisitions veteran David Blois, founder of M&A Advisory, who brings 30+ years of experience helping agencies around the world navigate mergers and acquisitions. You'll learn: ✅ The 3 must-haves every agency needs before selling ✅ What buyer...

🎙️ In this episode of Leverage for Growth, Jesse Gilmore sits down with James Lincoln—founder of Goodly—to unpack the real metric that matters: freedom. 🚀 What started as a side hustle during James's MBA turned into a thriving agency doing $40K+ months. But what truly drove him wasn't money—it was the desire for time freedom, autonomy, and a business that supported the life he actually wanted. 👉...

What does it take to transform a legacy agency into a modern growth engine? In this episode of Leverage for Growth, Jesse Gilmore sits down with Chad Bauer, CEO of one of Baltimore's oldest advertising firms, SR&B Advertising, to unpack how he transitioned from inheriting a 60-year-old agency to leading it into a new era of innovation, culture, and brand-driven growth. Chad shares hard-won lessons...

Struggling to make sense of your agency's numbers? In this episode of the Leverage for Growth Podcast, Jesse Gilmore sits down with Hayden Cox—Partner & Chief Product Officer at CleverProfits—to break down how simplified financial frameworks can give agency owners the clarity they need to scale with confidence. You'll discover: ✅ Why most agency owners misread their numbers ✅ The 3 metrics that...

What if the biggest bottleneck in your agency… is you? In this episode of the Leverage for Growth Podcast, Jesse Gilmore sits down with Dr. William Attaway — leadership coach, author, third-generation entrepreneur and the Founder of Catalytic Leadership LLC — to uncover why most agency owners unknowingly cap their growth by clinging to control. Discover how Cape Syndrome keeps you addicted to fire...

The key to happy clients? In this episode of the Leverage for Growth Podcast, Jesse P Gilmore chats with Ari Pirutinsky, the Founder & CEO of Steady Growth Partners . Ari breaks down how Steady Growth Partners squashes client uncertainty by setting clear expectations, delivering frequent updates, and ensuring they feel secure every step of the way. You'll learn: ✅ Why clients feel left in the dar...

Are operational bottlenecks holding your agency back from scaling? In this episode of the Leverage for Growth Podcast, host Jesse P Gilmore sits down with Brett Linnenkohl, founder of Evergreen Strategic Systems, to uncover the hidden challenges agencies face when trying to grow—and how to fix them with streamlined systems.

If you're an agency owner drowning in work, feeling like you're stuck owning a job instead of running a business, this episode is for you. Jesse P. Gilmore sits down with Nick Deck, founder of Heroes and Sidekicks, to tackle the biggest challenge entrepreneurs face: escaping the founder's time trap . They break down: ✅ The key warning signs that you're working in your business instead of on it ✅...

In this episode, Jesse Gilmore interviews Tudor Dimitrescu, founder of TANDA Digital, a business development agency specializing in sustainable growth through outbound systems on LinkedIn and cold email. Learn how Tudor scaled his agency from consulting to a service-based model and achieved explosive growth by refining processes, training teams, and creating scalable systems.

In this exciting episode of the Leverage for Growth Podcast, Jesse speaks with the Owner of The Frequent Speaker, Cam Beaudoin! Cam shares his personal journey from tech specialist to empowering mission-driven speakers. Learn how he turned the challenges of crafting speaker demo reels into a thriving business and discover the key steps to elevate your speaking career and land more paid gigs. 🎤 If...

In this episode, Jesse interviews Rachel Woods, founder of DiviUp Agency, an expert in AI operations for marketing agencies. Discover how AI can revolutionize your agency operations, improve efficiency, and scale your business. We also discuss the essential systems every agency should have to integrate AI strategies and achieve business growth. If you're a marketing agency owner looking to leverag...