One Shot Growth

Daniel and Derek are on the road to Lubbock for the Damage Prevention Council of Texas Excavation Safety Summit, where they are giving two talks: Mindset Matters and a new one, Closing the Loop. This episode is the conversation underneath both. In oil and gas and the skilled trades, mental health gets treated as a soft topic. It is not. It is an operational and safety issue. The person running the...

Most companies are not dealing with a culture gap. They are dealing with a communication gap. And most of the time, nobody has named it yet. In this episode, Daniel Radabaugh and Derek Boyd get into what lack culture actually looks like from the inside, why people leave for a 25-cent raise when it was never really about the money, and what it looks like to build an environment where people speak u...

Most energy tech is built in a lab, then handed off cold. The result: slow adoption, commoditized pricing, and value getting stripped the moment it hits the market. Kailey Euceda has spent her career inside that gap, and she left Baker Hughes to build something different. In this episode, Daniel Radabaugh and Derek Boyd sit down with Kailey to talk about why "putting people first" is not a soft id...

OTC Recap: Relationship-First Networking, Service, and Playing to Your Team’s Strengths | One Shot Growth Daniel Radabaugh and Derek Boyd recap their week after OTC, explaining how their business model and internal operating system let Daniel focus on networking while Derek supports operations and research from behind the scenes. They discuss the cost and ROI pressure of big conferences and why pr...

One Shot Growth Podcast - Episode 7: Build a Business That Runs by Design Hosts: Daniel Radabaugh & Derrick Boyd Episode Summary After six weeks focused on the inner game - mental health, personal growth, and not being your own bottleneck - Daniel and Derrick pivot to the external operating system. Because internal wellness alone won't move the needle if there's no framework to plug it into. In th...

One Shot Growth Podcast - Episode 6: Lost in the Sauce Hosts: Daniel Ratibaugh & Derrick Boyd Episode Summary In a world that glorifies the grind, it's easy to lose yourself in the constant doing - chasing certifications, validation, and the next rung on the ladder. In this episode, Daniel and Derrick get real about the difference between being a human being and a human doing. Recorded outdoors at...

One Shot Growth Podcast - Episode 5: Taking it Outside Hosts: Daniel Radabaugh & Derrick Boyd Episode Summary Daniel and Derrick called an audible. Instead of sitting down for another scheduled studio session, they hit the road, pulled off I-20 on their way to the TCU Global Energy Symposium, and recorded this one on a hiking trail at the brand-new Palo Pinto State Park. After last week's conversa...

One Shot Growth Podcast - Episode 4: Burnout Psychology Hosts: Daniel Ratibaugh & Derrick Boyd Episode Summary Daniel is back from a week off - fishing, campfires, handpan guitar, and 8 days of real time with his 75-year-old uncle in Brenham, Texas. No laptop. Barely any phone. And the perspective shift that came with it is the whole point of this episode. Daniel and Derrick get honest about the e...