Happy Half Hour with an Entrepreneur

In this episode Brian has a beer with David Weaver, a franchising expert who focuses on teaching clients the secrets of starting, growing and exiting a profitable franchise business. David walks Brian through the counseling and coaching process he takes with each candidate. Having relationships with over 200 different brands, David explains how he is able to help his clients decide which brand is...

This is Brian’s first live podcast and it was broadcast from his home state of Delaware on July 14, 2022. In this episode Brian does what he loves to do — have beers with entrepreneurs and learn the ups and downs of their journey to owning and running a successful business. Brian talks with Michael Stiglitz (Stigz), Michael Contreras (Mike), and Bob Barrar about their company - 2SP. The guys chat...

On today's episode of Happy (half) Hour with an Entrepreneur, Brian shares a beer with Casey Jacox - an author, speaker, podcast host, and business owner. Casey runs a leadership and sales development coaching business, working with some of the biggest companies in the United States such as Stryker, Keller Williams and Taylor Made. Casey shares what he thinks are the common traits of great leaders...

In 1989, Cheryl Ecton started working as a receptionist for a group of building owners, and she quickly realized what tenants complained about most - the temperature and cleanliness of the building. Thirty three years later, Cheryl is the CEO/President of Elite Building Services, a commercial cleaning and building maintenance company which employs over 700 people in 19 states, servicing over 14 in...

In this episode Brian has a great conversation with entrepreneur Robert Wittig. Robert is the owner and founder of Diamond State Management - a brokerage, development, construction, and property management company. Brian & Robert discuss topics like Robert’s 50/50 paradigm when it comes to buying property and how he builds on relationships. They also get into how COVID affected Robert’s business,...

Brian welcomes back John Boykin of BHI Insurance for a follow up episode to share the highs and lows of having his business acquired by Assured Partners. In this episode, John explains why running his business like he was going to sell it one day eventually paid off and what it felt like when that wire hit his bank account, becoming financially independent at the age of 39. John’s journey from mak...

In this episode Brian speaks with his first engaged entrepreneurial couple - Lovell Kosh & Raychel Shannon. They own and operate 3&D Sports Performance, a strength and conditioning business for athletes of all levels, based out of Wilmington, DE. At 3&D Sports Performance, Lovell & Raychel offer sports specific group training, team training, infinite athlete (adult) small group strength sessions,...

Episode 39 - Natasha Miller | Entire Productions Have you ever loved your life so much you don't really want to go on vacation? Maybe if you were the CEO of a San Francisco event and entertainment company that serves companies like Google, Salesforce, Apple, and Linkedin - like Natasha Miller, you would. In this episode Brian has a candid conversation with Natasha about her childhood upbringing an...

You may have already heard Brian’s next guest on a tv, radio or online commercial. Besty Ciconte is a one woman show selling her voice as a voiceover professional known as Betsy Speaks. Like many of Brian’s guests, Betsy didn’t seek out to become a voiceover professional. Betsy shares the personal story of how she first tried voiceover work in 2007. It may not have been her big break back then, bu...

Brian and Greg take you back to the inception of Carvertise and how it evolved into a multimillion dollar business. Have you seen cars on the road that are wrapped with advertisements? Greg Star, founder and partner of Carvertise, and his partner Mac pioneered the space for placing ads on Uber, lyft, GRUBHUB, DOORDASH, and Amazon Flex drivers. It's a great way for drivers to make easy passive inco...

Brian welcomes his first franchise owner to the show, Katie Loizeaus of Viamark Advertising in Wilmington, Delaware. Before jumping into this venture, Katie spent 7 years making many cold calls, selling radio ads in Poughkeepsie, NY for K104. Today, Katie’s business is a full-service design and advertising company working with medium-sized local companies, and making it happen by leveraging a shar...

In this episode Lauren Owens, founder and owner of Tiny Onion Chef Services, brings the restaurant experience into your home. When Lauren was 14 she was mixing tuna, slicing pickles and washing dishes. Today, she is a successful in-home personal chef, working for herself by going into homes, teaching cooking classes and preparing delicious, healthy meals. It was long hours, hard work and no longer...

Brian shares a beer with Australian angel investor and entrepreneur James Giancotti cofounder of Oddup - a data company which rates startups and crypto. After graduating law school and then consulting for tech companies, James decided to move to Hong Kong for investment banking and worked for big firms like for JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs until he decided to go off on his own. He traveled around t...

There are so many great nuggets to takeaway from this episode as Brian shares a beer with Mitch Russo, who has created businesses with Chet Holmes, Kevin Harrington and Tony Robbins, and is a two time Amazon bestseller. Before Mitch became an author and started businesses with the big names in the industry, he started a software company with the purpose of one day having financial freedom. At the...

In this episode Brian has a beer with David Newman - speaker, author and co-founder of Do it Marketing, a sales acceleration company for solo experts. Working with leaders and entrepreneurs, David and his team at Do It! Marketing help individuals get an entirely different take on the sales process, the sales attitude, and the sales methodology that they need to be successful as a solo consultant....

There’s nothing like checking in at the front desk of a hotel just to confirm the credit card payment that you already confirmed online. We all just want to be able to walk into our hotel room and bypass the front desk altogether without any human interaction. That is what Luca Zambello set out to do with his company Jurny. Featured in Forbes, Bloomberg and Entrepreneur magazine, Luca’s mission is...

Co-founder of WasteMasters, Steve Masterson shares a beer with Brian and explains how his story is a lot like Forrest Gump. After serving in the Air Force, Steve worked for the largest waste management company in the world, and then broke his back and legs as a fireman for the El Paso Fire Department. From his first entrepreneurial experience mowing lawns as a kid, to salvaging aircraft parts, Ste...

In this episode Brian has a beer with Rob Herrerra of The Mill, a co-working space in Delaware. Always wanting to be an architect since he was 10 years old, Rob landed a position at a big firm and was fortunate enough to have a front row seat to working through the ups and downs of a new startup - at the time, called WeWork. Today, WeWork is recognized as the industry standard for co-working space...

In 1981 David Curtis was introduced to Leon Weiner by his professor while he was in graduate school - fast forward 40 years later and David is now the Co-Managing Partner of a company that has over 7000 units, of mainly affordable multifamily housing with a few hotels, in over 10 states. “Doing good and doing well is a great thing,” David explains. Helping people have an opportunity that they othe...

Episode 27 - Jarrod Haning | Mindset Performance Tap into a different way of thinking about solving a problem with Brian’s most interesting show yet! In this episode, Brian shares a drink with Jarrod Haning of Mindset Performance while discussing his Nobel-nominated process that teaches you how to think at a higher level. Get into the “Mindset Gym” and get ready to start working out! It is not for...

Listen into this episode for some incredible takeaways as Brian shares beers with Jared and Bill - co-founders and co-owners of Duckett Ladd, a CPA and Advisory firm based out of Springfield, MO. Brian likes to say that some accounts are really good at forensics but this duo is much more. Answering some hard questions, Jared and Bill open up and discuss their darkest issues before starting Duckett...

From starting her career as a TV producer to opening her own business that led her to being featured in Boston Magazine, Travel and Leisure and the New York Times - Nikki Dalrymple of Acquire Interior Design out of Boston, MA and Brian have a great conversation about entrepreneurship. Interior design wasn't on Nikki’s radar when she started a career in television (surprise!), but after traveling a...

Episode 24 - Ed Wallace | Human Capital, AchieveNEXT In this episode, Brian is asked by Managing Director of Human Capital, AchieveNEXT, Ed Wallace - “What made you guys successful?” As a best selling author of 4 books, Ed consults with and speaks for corporations and associations across the globe, and explains to Brian that “people don’t love to be sold but they love to buy stuff.” As a matter of...

This episode is unlike all previous episodes Brian has had to date - Brian has a drink with Edrees Siddiqi of The South Jersey Group. What makes Edrees Siddiqi's story so unique? Well for starters he fled Kabul, Afghanistan with his mother when he was 3 years old to Pakistan, then into India and then the United States. Fast forward 19 years and Edrees voluntarily goes back to Afghanistan as a Pash...

In this episode Brian shares a beer with the founder of Lexicon Content Development and competitive bodybuilder, Olivia Luper. Being a good writer, and wanting to get back into it after her son was born, Olivia took the advice of her mother-in-law, who suggested that she look into content writing for financial advisors - and that was the beginning of her deep dive into finance and economics. Olivi...