NIX Your Excuses

Mediocrity does not usually destroy a business overnight. It does it slowly, through tolerated excuses, unclear expectations, emotional decisions, and leaders who would rather keep the peace than tell the truth. In this episode, Greg Gillepsie, third-generation owner of Dixie Nutrition, gets honest about what it actually takes to build with family, buy and sell businesses, and make decisions that...

Most contractors want the growth. Few are willing to live through what it takes to get there. In this episode of NIX Your Excuses, we sit down with Sam, co-owner of Rio Roofing, to talk about how she and her husband built a multi-7-figure roofing company in under four years while doubling revenue year over year, maintaining outstanding customer satisfaction, and building a team people actually wan...

This is the conversation most founders are too polished to have publicly. We sit down and rip the armor off, the title, the corporate stability, the optics of success, and talk about what happens when the resume looks perfect and the life underneath it feels empty. The moment “I made it” stops being a finish line and starts being a cage. We do not soften any of it. We sit down with James Martin, o...

Growth can be the loudest lie in business. Peppermint Cabinets was bringing in around $2.8M in revenue, had a full team, and looked like it was winning from the outside, yet payroll felt like a recurring crisis and vendor balances piled up fast. We get brutally honest about what that kind of cash flow chaos does to your leadership, your decision-making, and your life at home when you’re carrying t...