Businessing with Pat Miller

Your power pitch is broken and Lisa Raebel is here to fix it. The founder of Rebel Girl Marketing joins Businessing to break down why nobody cares about your certifications and how to talk about the fear and emotion behind what you do instead. Plus: someone screenshotted a business owner's pricing and called them expensive on Facebook — Pat explains why that's actually a compliment. ChatGPT finall...

On today's Businessing, Pat connected two seemingly unrelated news stories to unlock a competitive advantage hiding in plain sight. Story one: airline CEOs are begging Congress to reopen DHS after 50,000 TSA agents went unpaid and security lines ballooned past two hours at some airports, right as 171 million people prepare to fly this spring. Story two: new research shows customers aren't just exp...

On this St. Patrick’s Day episode, Pat Miller connects the holiday’s theme of luck to something small business owners can actually control. Drawing from Sahil Bloom’s keynote at the 2025 SBOC conference, Pat breaks down the concept of luck surface area and how daily actions put you in position for your next big break. He debuts the Sale Team app, a free tool that gamifies daily sales habits with s...

Your rates aren't stuck because of imposter syndrome. They're stuck because you don't have enough people in line wanting what you sell. On today's show, Pat breaks down why raising your rates is a demand problem, not a pricing problem. He walks through the exact playbook for heating up demand: mining your CRM, asking for referrals, running webinars, and using Claude Cowork to generate a scored lea...

Pat Miller wraps the week with an interactive lead segment that stops the scroll and starts the mirror. Using the viral diamond mine meme as a launching point, Pat walks the audience step by step through a goal clarity exercise: write down your goal with a measurable number, document how long you’ve been at it, list the resources you’ve invested, and answer honestly — have you been giving it your...

CNN ran a story this morning claiming the Iran war is "squeezing" US small businesses through gas prices. The headline was written before the first interview ever happened. As a 22-year broadcast veteran who's supervised newsrooms and sat in assignment meetings, Pat Miller knows exactly how this works — and he's done being quiet about it. But the gas price math isn't even the real story here. The...

Two massive announcements on today’s show: the 2026 SBOC Conference waitlist is officially open (only 125 tickets at $399), and Pat launches AI Installation Groups — a six-month program to help you actually implement AI in your business. Plus: Microsoft is partnering with Anthropic to bring Claude inside Microsoft 365, Ticketmaster gets slapped with a $280M antitrust settlement, the DHS shutdown i...

Pat’s back from a week off with three big stories: the war in Iran claims a seventh US casualty, daylight saving time wrecks his entire tech stack, and Anthropic drops an AI labor study that changes how you should think about opportunity. The lead story breaks down a graph showing the massive gap between what AI CAN do in your industry and what businesses are ACTUALLY doing. Pat argues that gap is...

Pat finally reveals the full Fridays Off framework — the six pillars that took him from a five-day grind to a three-day weekend every single week since July 2025. Three pillars are personal (strategic quitting, delegation & automation, mindset & boundaries) and three are business execution (offer & audience clarity, lead generation, and asking for money every day). This isn't theory. T...

Your best clients already trust you. They already pay you. So why are you out chasing new ones when you could be making more from the people who already love what you do? Today Pat walks through a thought exercise that changes the camera angle on what you sell — inspired by a Stanford breakthrough that reimagined how vaccines work. Instead of optimizing the same deliverable, you identify WHY your...

$650 billion is being poured into AI development this year — more than a billion dollars a day. Nobody knows where it’s going, but everybody’s betting on it. Pat breaks down what he heard called the "Jump Ball Economy" and what it means for small business owners who need to move now or get left behind. Plus: GenHead president Nikki Lee calls in live to talk about AI adoption, Pat demos building so...

What happens when things actually go right in your business? Most of us panic. We get imposter syndrome. We retreat into turtle shell mode instead of celebrating the win. Pat’s dealing with it himself on a major proposal right now, and he’s breaking down the “Say It, Play It” framework—a simple way to handle success instead of sabotaging it. In this episode: The framework that stops you from self-...

Raise your rates. Today. Pat makes the case that every service-based business owner is undercharging — and the window is wide open to fix it. Top lawyers now bill $3,400/hour, which means your mental ceiling just got blown off. Plus: a bipartisan bill to break up credit card swipe fees could put 3% back in your pocket, Viagra might prevent Alzheimer’s (yes, really), and two Idea Slams tackle summe...

Lead magnets are dead. Or at least dying. Today Pat breaks down why the old playbook — trade an email for a PDF, drip on them for weeks, then sell — is falling apart as AI makes education essentially free. The new trust equation? Stop teaching and start DOING. Give people a tangible result before you ever ask for money. Plus: Zuckerberg in court over social media addiction, a hiring crisis where 7...

Today's theme: MONEY. How to keep more of it. Business insurance is at an 8-year high — local insurance expert Tom Gaumond from G2 Insurance explains why and what you can do about it. Then Pat walks through 6 practical ways any business owner can cut 10% of their expenses starting today: domain hoarding, credit card interest, ACH payments, ad spend audits, software bloat, and the simple phone call...

Is SEO dead? Taylor Cusick Holman from Enji joins the show to set the record straight - spoiler: it's not dead, it's evolving. Learn the free tools and checklist approach any business owner can use to get found online. Plus: Valentine's Day spending hit $29.1 billion (35% of us bought gifts for our PETS), small business owners lose 33 work days a year to tax stress, and Simon Cowell is now Team Fr...

You got into this for freedom. Today we're making sure the people around you aren't stealing it. Pat walks through an interactive audit of every business relationship in your life — seven questions that will tell you exactly who's dragging you down, who's pulling you forward, and which rooms you need to leave. No sugarcoating. You have permission. Plus: a stat that proves you're probably doing bet...

Claude Cowork is now available for Windows - and this changes everything. On today's Businessing, Pat breaks down the difference between AI chatbots and AI agents, why every small business owner will have an agent swarm within 90 days, and what a viral 31-million-view article reveals about the future of screen-based work. Plus: The jobs report comes in HOT (130K jobs vs 75K expected), the El Paso...

59% of small businesses experienced a cyber attack last year. That's not a typo. And if you think you're too small to be a target, you're exactly who they're after. On today's Businessing, Pat breaks down what hackers actually want from your business (spoiler: it's not just your bank account—it's your CRM full of customer data), and exactly what to do about it: backups, 2FA, password managers, and...

$8 million for 30 seconds. That's what Super Bowl ads cost. And one company absolutely fumbled the opportunity. On today's Super Bowl Monday edition of Businessing, Pat breaks down the ads that worked, the ads that didn't, and the one ad so bad it made him mad. (Spoiler: It's Slack and Salesforce with Mr. Beast, and the execution failures are a masterclass in what NOT to do.) Plus: Breezy Johnson'...

It is Thursday, February 5th — the last day of the work week if your Fridays off. We're opening with the stat that'll stop you cold: 99.9% of all businesses in America are small. That's 36.2 million of you. US small business employs 45.9% of all private sector workers. So why do small business owners feel so alone? Then we're diving into the consumer confidence paradox. Confidence is down 10 point...

One in three Americans want to start a business this year. Half of them will fail. Today I'm sharing four things I wish someone told me before I started—lessons I learned the hard way so you don't have to. Rule 1: You're not in the product business. You're in the sales business. Your success is directly proportional to how often you ask for money. Rule 2: Start lean. The study says you need $12K....

The lead story hits on differentiation. James Caan's quote "Observe the masses and do the opposite" sparked a guided exercise: What's the hot trend everyone's following? What best practice drives you crazy? What do you wish people would stop doing? Those visceral reactions aren't immaturity—they're your gut talking. Your negotiator helps you fit in. Your gut helps you stand out. The first live Ide...

This is the first episode of Businessing as a daily show—Monday through Thursday at 11am Central. Pat opens with a challenge: We're one month into 2026. Is your business still Groundhog Day? Or did you actually do something about those promises you made to yourself? The lead story explains why this show exists. This is not a business show—it's a show for people who RUN a business. That's different...

This episode delivers a wake-up call for small business owners: AI agents are no longer a future promise—they're working right now. Pat reveals his new morning workflow where a 3-minute briefing with an AI agent results in half his administrative work completed by the time he returns from the gym. The FreshBooks State of Small Business survey dropped this morning showing 76% of businesses are doin...