Honest Wealth Builders

Abi Asija sits down with Steve Austin, founder of Revitalization Unlimited, a private equity management firm operating across 2 distinct strategies: historic commercial real estate preservation and an industrial manufacturing roll-up through its portfolio company, Manufacturing Corporation of America. Steve completed 6 acquisitions in under 2 years, growing the manufacturing portfolio to $8,500,00...

Abi Asija sits down with Dr. Danny Brassell, co-founder of Well-Crafted Story, a presentation strategy firm he built alongside a Broadway actor and a practicing attorney. Together, they work with entrepreneurs, executives, and business owners who struggle to connect with their audiences and convert them into paying clients. The company generated $1,500,000 in revenue last year and is targeting $7,...

Abi Asija sits down with Martin Hills, founder of Frontline Intelligence, to explore how his SaaS platform helps businesses optimize customer engagement and uncover hidden opportunities on their websites. Martin’s company is focused on addressing a common challenge for growing businesses: awareness and understanding how users interact with digital platforms. Key Insight: Many companies struggle be...

Abi Asija sits down with Rion Westfall, founder of Own Your Revenue, to explore the strategies that help business owners identify revenue patterns and scale beyond their current limits. Rion works with six- to eight-figure businesses, helping operators pull the right levers for growth within 6 to 12 months. The core problem they tackle is one every growth-minded entrepreneur faces: how do you stop...

Abi Asija sits down with Joe Toscano, founder of Service Stories, to explore how he helps service-based businesses turn their day-to-day work into content that drives leads, rankings, and growth. Joe’s platform pulls metadata from repair tickets, job orders, and CRM systems and transforms it into blog posts, social media content, and multi-platform campaigns, all optimized for AI search and custom...

Abi Asija sits down with Keri Doan, founder of Waiting on West, to explore how she helps businesses clarify their messaging, educate clients, and scale effectively behind the scenes. Keri has spent almost 15 years supporting businesses on the back end, and she shares insights on how to position offers, communicate value, and create deeper connections with clients who might not initially understand...

Abi Asija sits down with Jim Boad, founder of Group Home Accelerator, to uncover how he helps entrepreneurs start and scale sober living homes. Jim’s business bridges the gap between inpatient drug treatment and independent living, providing safe, structured environments that support long-term recovery. The core challenge explored in this episode is one every growth-minded operator faces: how to s...

Abi Asija sits down with Tony Berardo, founder of Human Dad and owner of a growing content agency, to break down what it really takes to build a human-first brand in the age of AI. Tony shares how he built a multi-revenue content business through UGC videos, social media management, YouTube monetization, and creator partnerships while helping local businesses grow through authentic content that AI...

Abi Asija sits down with Chris Majer, founder of Human Potential Project, a business development and organizational training company that has worked with Fortune 500 clients, including AT&T, Allianz, and Cargill. After decades of delivering large-scale live training programs to groups of 200 to 2,000 people, COVID wiped out the core of his business overnight. With revenue now sitting under $1...

Abi Asija sits down with Mike DeJong, franchise owner and business growth coach, to unpack two very different businesses and the strategies connecting them. Mike owns a Nothing Bundt Cakes location in Kirkland, Washington, which he took from negative year-over-year sales to a projected $1,000,000 in revenue, and he is now building a coaching and keynote speaking business aimed at hitting $5,000,00...

Abi Asija sits down with Rob Broadhead, a consultant with more than 25 years of experience helping businesses avoid costly technology mistakes. The conversation focuses on one of the biggest challenges facing service-based businesses today: converting interested prospects into qualified paying clients while navigating the rapid rise of AI adoption. Rob explains how companies are rushing into AI pr...

Abi Asija sits down with Jay Jacobson, founder of Jacobson Professional Staffing and a longtime funeral industry leader, to break down how deep expertise can be transformed into a scalable, high-profit business. With nearly 45 years in funeral service, Jay built a respected authority in staffing, leadership, and training, but like many experienced operators, he faced the challenge of balancing a s...

Abi Asija sits down with Phil Ganz, President of Next Wave Mortgage, to break down one of the most counterintuitive problems a growing business can face: generating more leads than the business can convert. With over 1,500 leads coming in every month across Florida, Texas, Colorado, and Massachusetts, and a conversion rate sitting below 5%, Phil walks through exactly what broke down inside his sal...

Abi Asija sits down with executive coach Steve Barton to break down why most coaching businesses struggle to grow even when the coach delivers real results. Steve shares his transition from building a successful floral retail company from $200,000 to $2,000,000 in annual sales into coaching entrepreneurs, executives, and business owners through his “Game of 10” framework. The conversation focuses...

Abi Asija sits down with Leslie A.M. Smith, a communications and community relations strategist who helps nonprofits, consultants, and service-based businesses improve their marketing, branding, and visibility. The conversation breaks down why many experienced professionals struggle to scale, even when they consistently deliver strong client results. Leslie shares how she built a referral-driven b...

Abi Asija sits down with Joshua Krafchick from 369 Financial to break down the real challenges of growing a modern wealth management business. The conversation goes deep into client acquisition, financial consulting funnels, high-net-worth relationship building, custom investment strategies, and why most financial advisors struggle to stand out in an overcrowded market. Joshua explains how he grew...

Abi Asija sits down with Aleks Krylov to break down how a local roofing and gutter company can escape the commodity trap, increase customer lifetime value, and build a scalable service business. The conversation focuses on operational bottlenecks, pricing mistakes, offer design, recurring-revenue opportunities, customer-retention systems, and hiring challenges that limit growth for service-based c...

Abi Asija sits down with entrepreneur and investor Jairek Robbins to break down how AI agents are changing the future of business operations, leadership, and scalability. Jairek explains how founders making between $2,000,000 and $10,000,000 per year often become the bottleneck in their own company and how AI systems can help reclaim time, improve decision making, and create a more scalable busine...

Abi Asija sits down with Chris Shurian, founder of Bootstraps and Battle Scars, to break down the realities of building a coaching and mastermind business for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs. The conversation centers around a major challenge many coaches face when scaling beyond referrals: defining the right ideal customer profile, positioning a differentiated offer, and creating a business that...

Abi Asija sits down with Sreedhar Kaluva, founder of MyWorkBelt, a SaaS ERP platform built to bring enterprise-level systems into small service-based businesses. The conversation unpacks the gap between complex enterprise software and how small businesses actually operate today, often relying on Excel, paper workflows, and disconnected tools. The core challenge discussed is not just building softw...

Abi Asija sits down with Rafeek Nassief, a credit repair and financial strategy operator, to break down how credit repair, debt settlement, and funding all connect inside one system. The conversation explores how credit inaccuracies are challenged at scale, how debt is negotiated after charge-offs, and how clients move from financial stress to funding readiness through structured processes. Key In...

Abi Asija sits down with Salim Omar, CPA, owner of a 30-year CPA firm generating around $2,000,000 in annual revenue with a team of 24 and clients across the country. The firm offers bundled services including bookkeeping, tax planning, compliance, and CFO advisory. The core challenge discussed is not lead generation but how to scale efficiently when 95 percent of demand is already coming from SEO...

Abi Asija speaks with Michael Podolny, a nonprofit founder behind Theodora Africa, a virtual assistant company with a social impact mission in Ghana, focused on helping women transition out of exploitation while serving clients in the United States. The core challenge discussed is not operations or service quality, but consistent lead generation and how to scale beyond founder-led growth. Key Insi...

Abi Asija sits down with Chloe Bollier and Evan Bollier, founders of a land investing business focused on buying and selling vacant land across Florida. The conversation centers on a core constraint many founders face: limited time and bandwidth. While most operators try to scale by adding people, Chloe and Evan explore a different path by replacing operational load with systems, automation, and A...

Abi Asija interviews Bryan Baker, a fractional COO who helps founder-led businesses remove bottlenecks, fix broken systems, and scale without chaos. They dive straight into the real problem most founders face: not enough leads, and why the solution is not what you think. Key takeaway: Most founders say they need more leads, but the real issue is weak systems, unclear processes, and a lack of accou...