Entrepreneurs United

What if your best salesperson never took a day off? On the Entrepreneurs United Podcast, hosts John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann talk with book strategist Jill Clair, co-founder of Erin Marie Books, about why a book is a 24/7 credibility asset and one of the most powerful sales tools an entrepreneur, expert, or business owner will ever create. Jill explains how to rise above the crowded everyone h...

What if your money problems were never about money? Doug Lynam has had three careers: Marine, Benedictine monk, and financial advisor. That path led him to one insight most financial professionals never arrive at. Your Enneagram personality type has been driving your financial decisions since childhood. He calls these patterns Money Monsters, and every one of us has them. In this episode, Doug wal...

What would it look like if every leader in your business actually had clarity? In this episode, John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann do something different: they build a clarity checklist live on air, with no script and no prep. What comes out of it is a set of principles any entrepreneur or leadership team can use immediately to pressure-test where clarity actually exists in their business and where...

What if your AI could function like a team of specialists who already know everything about your business? Jason Van Orden has spent two decades helping coaches and consultants turn their expertise into scalable businesses. In this episode, he joins John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann to break down how he builds custom AI systems using Claude that function like a real team. A system that knows your...

Do you actually know what your business is worth? Most entrepreneurs think they do. Eric Coonrod is a 22-year investment banker and author of The Preparation Principle. He specializes in helping business owners get the maximum value from their exits. In this episode, he breaks down the pattern he sees most often: owners who go to market underprepared, find out their financials don't match thei...

Are you actually holding people accountable, or are you just making them nervous? In this milestone 300th episode of Entrepreneurs United, co-hosts John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann go deep on one of the most misunderstood leadership skills: accountability. Rich has been coaching leaders and entrepreneurs on this for years, and what he finds is consistent: most leaders have inherited a definition...

What if you could detect Alzheimer's years before any symptoms appeared and stop it? Dr. Yogesh Shah is a Board-Certified Geriatrician and Mayo Clinic-trained memory specialist who has spent 25 years focused entirely on the early detection and prevention of dementia. In this episode, he makes a case that every entrepreneur in their 40s and 50s needs to hear: the window to protect your brain is...

Are you building a business or building yourself a job? Cliff Nonnenmacher is the founder of Franocity, a franchise consulting firm that has spent 25 years helping investors and displaced executives identify scalable franchise brands with real liquidity and exit potential. His core message is simple: the owner who still works in the business after year one almost never builds an empire. In this ep...

Most entrepreneurs are great at making money. Keeping it is where things fall apart. Tom Malesic is the founder and CEO of EZSolution, EZMarketing, and EZComputer, three businesses built at the intersection of digital marketing, IT support, and operational systems. He is also a certified EOS implementer who came to EOS after struggling with profitability in his own companies and realizing that gen...

Q1 is over. Do you know if you hit your numbers? Most entrepreneurs set goals in January, forget about them by March, and don't look again until mid-year when the damage is already done. In this episode of Entrepreneurs United, hosts John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann break down the single most underrated discipline in business: the 90-day checkpoint. They walk through every format, from a simp...

Why are you closing 20% when you could be closing 90%? Bryan McDonald has spent 25+ years in sales and has a simple rule: don't make an offer unless you're 90% sure it's getting accepted. As a partner at onPurpose Growth, he helps coaches, consultants, and experts who came from corporate America build businesses that focus on leverage, not volume. In this episode, Bryan breaks down why...

Are you planning to sell your business someday but have no idea what it is actually worth or whether it is ready? Jessica Fialkovich has been inside more than 2,000 business exits across 75 industries. She is the author of Exit Factor: Increased Value and Profits for Your Business and the founder of a 52-location exit planning franchise. She also sold her own company before it was ready, paid too...

What is the difference between water that is just hot and water that produces real power? One degree. Sam Parker, author of the bestselling book 212 the extra degree, joins John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann to talk about the concept that has shaped how thousands of leaders build teams, set culture, and show up every single day. Over a million copies sold, and Sam recently brought the rights back a...

Do you actually know why your best people leave? Most leaders think they do. Most are wrong. Rich Hoffmann was asked recently if he thinks people leave companies. His answer stopped the conversation cold: they don’t leave companies. They lose hope. Hope in the career path, in the culture, in the relationship with the person they report to. And once that hope is gone, no raise brings it back. In th...

What if the greatest disruption in the history of marketing is not coming for your job but for your customer? Mark Schaefer is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and a top marketing strategist. In this episode he discusses his book Audacious and explains why competence alone now makes people and businesses vulnerable and ignorable in an AI-driven world. He walks through how ChatGPT's launch sp...

Are your marketing dollars quietly disappearing with nothing to show for it? Most entrepreneurs aren't losing because of bad strategy. They're losing because of confusion they can't see. Brand strategist Charlie Sells calls it "random acts of marketing" and after 15 years helping businesses untangle complexity, he's seen it destroy brands that had every reason to succeed....

What if you could only work one hour a day? In this episode, Ari Meisel, founder of Less Doing, shares the mindset and systems that helped him rethink productivity, build a more replaceable role as a founder, and create dramatically more output without doing everything himself. After a Crohn’s disease diagnosis forced him to conserve energy, Ari began asking a better question: What actually needs...

10 Macro Sales Moves to Double Your Revenue in the Next 2 Years If you’re an entrepreneur who wants aggressive growth in 2026 and beyond , this episode is for you. Too many business owners say they want to grow… but they’re relying on hope instead of strategy. In this conversation, we break down 10 practical sales moves that can help you grow your business 50%–100% over the next two years. We talk...

If you’re building a business right now, you’ve probably felt it, marketing is shifting fast. In this episode, serial entrepreneur and author Gary Nealon joins us to break down what AI, GPTs, and changing search behavior really mean for small businesses. We talk about why traditional SEO is no longer enough, how brands can show up inside AI-generated answers, and why platforms like Reddit are beco...

What makes someone sound like a leader, even before they have the title? In this episode of Entrepreneurs United, John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann sit down with communication expert Karen Laos to unpack the subtle shifts that instantly elevate your presence, credibility, and influence. Karen shares why the first person to speak is often perceived as the leader, how your “focus face” may be workin...

What if the most powerful skill in your business is not pitching, persuading, or presenting… but listening? In this episode, John and Rich break down why elite entrepreneurs and coaches treat listening as a strategic advantage. From boardrooms to client calls to personal relationships, the ability to truly hear what is being said, and what is not being said, can change everything. They share pract...

Ben Albert, founder of Grow Getters Only, joins John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann to explore what it really means to build authentic relationships in business. From overcoming personal adversity to building communities that grow together, Ben shares tactical insights on moving beyond parasocial connections to create meaningful impact. This episode dives into the "Plus, Minus, Equals" mod...

In this episode of Entrepreneurs United Podcast, hosts John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann are joined by Ben Johnson, founder and CEO of Particle 41, to discuss the transformative power of AI and data in modern businesses. They explore the challenges of AI integration, the importance of understanding business metrics, and strategies for improving operational efficiency. Ben emphasizes the necessity...

💼❤️ Can business strategies save your relationship? Absolutely. In this episode of Entrepreneurs United , hosts John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann sit down with Dr. Robin Buckley, top couples coach and author of Marriage, Inc. , to explore how high-performing entrepreneurs can apply proven business tools to build stronger, more fulfilling personal relationships. Dr. Buckley breaks down how to: Cre...

What if the fastest path to growth is not adding more, but cutting the clutter? In this episode, John St. Pierre and Rich Hoffmann sit down with Liz Chism, a coach who helps contractors scale without the chaos. Liz shares her unlikely path from growing up in a third-generation construction family to running a craft brewery that taught her the hard lesson of being trapped in a business. That experi...