Experience Leadership - The Small Business Podcast

Why Your Marketing Isn’t Working — And How to Fix It with Sacha Awwa Is your small business wasting money on marketing that is not generating consistent leads, customers, or revenue? In this episode of Experience Leadership, Marc sits down with Sacha Awwa, Marketing Strategy Expert, founder of Sacha Awwa Marketing Group, co-founder of My Marketer Mentors, and host of the Uncomplicate It podcast. A...

Manager Mistakes That Kill Team Trust with Paul Leon New managers don’t usually set out to become toxic. They don’t wake up, sip their coffee, and say, “Today, I shall destroy team morale before lunch.” But it happens. In this episode of Experience Leadership, Marc sits down with Paul Leon, host of The Manager’s Mic Podcast, to explore the accidental habits that kill rapport between managers and t...

How Leaders Can Spark Initiative Without Burnout with Allan Moore Most organizations are sitting on a gold mine of untapped talent—and they don’t even know it. Employees feel boxed in. Managers are overwhelmed. HR can’t possibly uncover every hidden skill, curiosity, or ambition inside the building. The result? Motivated people slowly disengage… not because they lack drive, but because they don’t...

Why Leaders Must Rethink Talent Development in the Age of AI with Melissa Jenner Most organizations don’t have a retention problem… they have a misdirected growth problem. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, we tackle one of the most misunderstood—and expensive—leadership challenges in business today: why the wrong people leave, and the wrong people stay. Thrive HR on 12 May at 2pm MT a webinar on...

You Didn't Hire the Wrong People. You're Just Destroying the Right Ones with Allison Al-Khemia Most leaders don’t have a hiring problem. They have a clarity problem. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I sit down with Allison Al-Khemia, Executive Advisor and creator of the Holographic Model of Leadership™, to unpack why team underperformance, disengagement, slow decision-making, and even revenue p...

Why Systems Matter More Than Talent in Business Growth with Scott Abbott Most businesses don’t fail overnight—they slowly drift into inconsistency, misalignment, and stalled growth. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, Marc sits down with Scott Abbott, founder, CEO, executive coach, and 4X best-selling author, to unpack how leaders can build, run, and scale a great company—while still living a fulf...

Episode 296: Why Your Business Stopped Growing (And You Didn’t Notice) with Kevin Lawrence Most businesses don’t fail because they make one big mistake. They fail because they slowly drift. One quarter looks okay. Then another. Then suddenly—growth stalls, momentum disappears, and nobody can quite explain why.  In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I sit down with Growth Advisor Kevin Lawrence to un...

PR for Small Business: What Actually Works with Steve Turner Most businesses think PR means getting featured in the media. And that misunderstanding is costing them thousands. In this episode of Experience Leadership, Marc sits down with public relations expert Steve Turner to unpack the real role of PR—and why most companies get it completely wrong. If you’ve ever invested in publicity, hired a P...

How Great Leaders Build the Next Version of Their Business with Ash Seddeek Most leaders are stuck… not because they lack talent, but because they’re too busy managing today to design tomorrow. They’re optimizing processes, tweaking systems, and sitting in back-to-back meetings—while the future of their business quietly drifts further out of reach. 🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, we tackle o...

The Knowledge Drain: What Happens When Senior Employees Retire with Dr. Andi Simon Every business leader knows people eventually retire. What most leaders don’t realize is that when someone walks out the door… they take decades of experience, relationships, judgment, and cultural memory with them. And most organizations aren’t ready for that moment. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I sit down w...

How Leaders Can Fix Hybrid Before It Breaks Your Culture with Ranya Nehmeh Hybrid work was supposed to be the silver bullet. Instead, it turned into a rubber band—stretching teams thin, snapping collaboration, and leaving leaders holding the pieces. While organizations rushed into “flexibility,” they forgot to redesign the one thing holding their culture together: the office. 🛎 In this episode of...

Command, Communicate, Carry Out: The Crisis Leadership Formula with Patrick Hardy What happens when disaster strikes your business? Flood. Cyberattack. System failure. Security threat. Most organizations believe they’re prepared because they have a disaster plan.  But when a real emergency happens, something unexpected occurs: people freeze. This phenomenon—known as the bystander effect—can paraly...

How to Become Ridiculously Easy to Do Business with David Avrin Why do customers leave—even when they say they’re satisfied? Here’s the uncomfortable truth: satisfaction isn’t loyalty. And in today’s marketplace, frustration isn’t a surprise anymore… it’s expected. In this episode of Experience Leadership, I sit down with globally recognized customer experience expert David Avrin, author of Ridicu...

Courageous Leadership with Rick Denley Struggling to retain top talent?  In this episode of Marc Haine Live, Growth Leader Rick Denley reveals why courageous leadership is the missing piece in attracting, engaging, and retaining high-performing teams. Only 44% of employees are fully engaged at work. That means most teams are underperforming — and many leaders don’t even realize it. In this convers...

How Leaders Accidentally Become the Bottleneck with Brad Poulos Most business owners are exhausted—not because they’re lazy, but because they’re trying to carry a business that was never designed to support them. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, Canada’s Small Business Professor Brad Poulos explains why many of the problems owners obsess over aren’t real problems at all—and why stepping back ca...

The Hidden Signals That Shape Leadership Impact with Dr. Scott Hutcheson Most leaders think their impact comes from intelligence, experience, or authority. And that belief is quietly costing them trust, momentum, and results. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I’m joined by Dr. Scott Hutcheson, professor and author of Biohacking Leadership, to challenge one of leadership’s most dangerous myths: t...

Why Working Harder Isn’t Fixing Your Business Bottleneck with Camilla Bignell Hard work isn’t broken—but it won’t fix a broken bottleneck.  In this episode of Marc Haine Live, Business Bottleneck & Flow Expert Camilla Bignell reveals why businesses stall even when teams are working flat out. We explore how unclear ownership, messy handoffs, and inconsistent decision-making quietly drain time,...

Building Predictable Growth with Skip Wilson Marketing is officially broken — and it’s costing businesses tens of thousands of dollars they don’t even know they’re wasting. If your customer acquisition costs have skyrocketed, your SEO traffic has tanked, your Meta ads cost more than your last vacation, and your team is drowning in a dozen disconnected tactics… you’re not alone. And — spoiler alert...

The Silent Reason Sales Conversations Fail with Jake Stahl Most leaders don’t lose deals because they say the wrong thing. They lose them because they misread the room. 🛎  In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I sit down with communication strategist Jake Stahl, the creator of Neurostrategy, to unpack why conversations stall, follow-ups die, and meetings that feel “great” somehow go nowhere. Get Jak...

Your Money Story Is Costing You More Than You Think with Bill Cates Most business owners don’t have a revenue problem. They have a money story problem. They work harder. Sell more. Grind longer. Yet profits feel slippery, savings are “someday,” and financial stress hums quietly in the background—like a fridge that never stops buzzing. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, host Marc Haine sits down w...

The Three Dimensions of Trust Explained with Dr. Michelle Reina and Dr. Dennis Reina Most leaders don’t realize trust is leaking from their organization until everything slows down. Decisions take longer. Meetings feel heavier. People stop speaking up. Collaboration quietly collapses. And suddenly, even the best strategy in the world can’t get traction. In this powerful episode of Marc Haine Live,...

Breaking the Invisible Handbrake by Stopping Self-Sabotage with Victoria Shakoor Is there an invisible handbrake on your business growth?  Most entrepreneurs don’t realize how their subconscious and “superconscious” programming limit their decisions—on pricing, hiring, partnerships, scaling—and quietly drain energy, revenue, and joy. 🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I chat with Victoria Shako...

Cash Flow vs. Profit: What Really Keeps Your Business Alive with Avi Pinksy Most business owners think they know their numbers… until their bank balance says otherwise. Running your business by gut instinct might feel natural, but it’s costing you time, profit, and peace of mind. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, we’re diagnosing the silent killer of small business success: financial blindness....

Why Your Hiring Problem Is Really a Retention Problem with Ryan Englin In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I’m joined by Ryan Englin—Founder & CEO of Core Matters, bestselling author, and creator of the Core Fit Blueprint—to expose the truth: Most business owners think they have a hiring problem… but what they really have is a retention problem. About Ryan Ryan Englin is the Founder and CEO of...

Boost Retention and Loyalty with Culture Branding with Nader Safinya Marketing isn’t your biggest problem. Operations aren’t either. The real troublemaker—the one quietly bleeding your business dry—is the gap between what your company says… and what it actually does. In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I sit down with Nader Safinya—The Culture Branding Guy™—to explore a confronting but necessary q...