Franchise Masters

Tyler Seman shares how he transitioned from the world of finance and private equity-backed consolidator to building a mission-driven senior care business. Joining Dru Carpenito, he looks back on how this path took him through Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (ETA) before ultimately launching a Hallmark Homecare franchise. Tyler also gets candid about why he chose the senior care space, what su...

In this episode of Franchise Masters, Dru Carpenito chats with a dynamic entrepreneur who owns and operates nine Crumbl franchise locations. Get ready for a deep dive into the rollercoaster journey of scaling a high-growth, fast-paced franchise in the booming cookie industry. Shideler Bennett shares behind-the-scenes stories about the challenges of rapid expansion, from managing supply chain disru...

What does it take to scale a $30M+ home service business? Ron Weatherly shares his journey and lessons learned from scaling his foundation repair and crawlspace encapsulation company and exiting to a private-equity-backed company rolling up operators. This candid conversation delves into the strategies, challenges, and key decisions that fueled Ron’s growth and success. From navigating the complex...

Connor Groce is a multi-brand, multi-unit franchisee in his twenties running a multimillion-dollar operation and gives us the goods on how he saves $100K+ per year by outsourcing his back office to offshore talent (e.g. HR, AR/AP, bookkeeping, marketing, etc.) We get into why he believes it’s more effective to do it this way (besides saving a ton of money). Connor walks us through his systems, sof...

The dream of franchise ownership is freedom and financial success. But how do you turn a single home service franchise location into an eight-figure powerhouse? It takes strategic planning, operational excellence, and leveraging the power of the franchise system. In this episode, Caleb Brunz shares his story and journey of scaling his Paul Davis Restoration franchise into a monster business. Caleb...

Adam Wasch, Founding Partner of The Franchise Firm, shares insights any emerging franchise company and franchise buyer should hear. Adam has extensive experience advising franchisors and new franchisees on the legal ins and outs to be aware of. He covers a lot in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the surprising elements of a successful franchise system is the power of the franchisee community. In this episode, Tim Morris shares secrets about tapping into the collective mindshare of franchisees to develop high-performing franchise owners. Tim has spent many years helping franchise brands grow throughout the world. He’s an expert in franchising and a skillful facilitator. Tim offers s...

Ryan Muhlbauer got into the pet boom before it was booming. He opened his first Dogtopia in 2017 and has since grown to a second location. Interestingly, he owns the real estate on his second Dogtopia location. Ryan talks with us about how he pulled off owning the dirt and why owning the real estate is an important part of his scaling strategy. He also shares secrets he’s used to scale his multi-u...

Alicia Miller, an author, joins the podcast to walk us through insights about private equity in franchising (at both the franchisor and franchisee level). Alicia has analyzed private equity’s extensive involvement in franchising and offers a candid under-the-hood perspective that hasn’t been very public before. Alicia has deep ties within the private equity and franchising world. She’s also just r...

Cole Simpson launched his Mighty Dog Roofing franchise and started cranking from day one. His company and team signed close to $1M in revenue during his first three months and planned to do $3M this year (his company’s first full calendar year in business). In the long term, Cole sees a path to build a $10M business. And he’s only five months into his business! We talked through how he’s scaled so...

Mathis Young left the banking world in 2008 to launch his Aussie Pet Mobile franchise. He had no experience grooming dogs. He didn’t know the financial crisis was about to paralyze the world’s banking system and economy. But he didn’t really care. Perseverance and ambition pushed him forward. Today, he’s scaled his business to 24 mobile grooming vans on the road. He’s built his own training center...

When Scott Tobin joined one of the early Burn Boot Camp locations as a trainer, he never dreamed that one day he would own 12 locations. Scott joins Dru Carpenito to walk us through his journey and how he has built a fitness empire with over 4,000 members and 200 employees. He also shares how he plans to grow to 20 locations. Through the highs of adding more locations under his belt to the lows br...

Connor Groce is a multi-brand multi-unit franchise owner with Smash My Trash and Shine, who is growing through acquisition with plans to roll up franchises.  Connor takes us through his journey starting his first franchise while still an undergrad at UNC during COVID, building it to a manager-run level, moving halfway across the country to acquire his first Smash My Trash unit, and how he’s growin...

The Wolf of Franchises joins Dru Carpenito, and they get real and raw about the realities of what it takes to succeed as both a franchisee and franchisor.  What does semi-absentee really mean, and what do prospective franchise owners need to beware of when they hear this word? Why do the minority of franchisors share profitability metrics in their Item 19? Why do only the small majority of franchi...