Stronger Business Podcast

Eric Dunavant found himself facing an apparently insurmountable set of obstacles for his business when he launched it – right before the country plunged into the recession. Now today, Paradiem has overcome those hurdles to become a company that guides families and businesses to discover how their resources can provide a comfortable living now AND impact the future. In this episode, Eric shares wit...

How would you scale your business if it blew up overnight without warning? This was the question that Sunna Van Kampen had to answer when he woke up one morning to see that his company, Tonic Health, was unexpectedly featured in the cover article of Telegraph, one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent newspapers. And immediately following that feature, Tonic Health sold 10x more in one week than...

Have you ever had a star team member hand in their resignation? Did that moment make you want to sag back into your chair in despair? In this conversation with Cindi, we talk about how your people are your company’s greatest resource, as she breaks down the ways you can intentionally support your employees, making your business more attractive to your team and more profitable as a result. So if yo...

Taxes, deductions, expenses, fees… The financial world can be overwhelming for all of us. In this special episode, Chad gives you five unexpected things that you might be able to legally deduct from your taxes and five crazy things that people have been able to deduct in the past. This episode will entertain, educate, and give you ideas for how you could also find new things that qualify for a tax...

Chris Michael Harris began his entrepreneurial adventure with an explosion of success, taking his very first startup company from $0 – $1.3 million in 24 months. But as his business grew, his identity became more and more wrapped up in the need to be a successful startup entrepreneur. And after a health crisis, a legal crisis, and a financial crisis all crashed into his life all in a short period...

Last week we heard about Brandon Checketts’ journey from sno-cone dealer to Amazon seller, this week we hear how he saw an opportunity within his own Amazon business to create new and better systems so he could scale and grow more efficiently. He then took the solution he had created for his own problem and built a company around it, eventually creating the highly successful company Seller Labs, a...

From the moment he started his sno-cone business as a child in school, to his computer repair store in high school, to starting his first of many digitally-based businesses while working full-time at a truck stop, to selling on Amazon, to being the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer for his company Seller Labs and now founding his newest company, RoundSphere, Brandon Checketts has always had the...

When you approach an impossible situation, do you look for ‘the power to inspire?’ Or do you immediately accept the impossibility presented to you? In this episode with the former mayor of Augusta, Deke Copenhaver, Josh and Chad discuss the impossible circumstances Deke faced when he first decided to run for mayor. We all face impossible or difficult situations that we’d much rather avoid than mee...

Is ‘working harder until you get a breakthrough’ really the key to success as an entrepreneur? In this episode, Josh and Chad interview Brett Trembly, founder of Trembly Law and Get Staffed Up. Both businesses are successful and growing; Trembly Law has been named to the Inc 5000 list and Get Staffed is expected to also join the ranks of those top 5000 fastest growing US businesses in 2021. Brett’...

When you decided to become an entrepreneur, how long did you wait before you started acting on your ideas? In this episode with Hannah Patten we talk about how one of the most important steps to being a successful entrepreneur is your willingness to just start. So whether you’ve started your business but you have a new idea or process to dive into or you’re still in the planning phase, this episod...

Does working a 9-5 job mean that you can’t have the lifestyle freedom that you desire? Or does running a successful business mean that your life can only consist of things that keep that business going? In this episode with Maurice Philogene, we explore how five personal freedoms allow you to have the lifestyle you want, whether that is inside or outside an entrepreneurial context. So if you’re re...

How do you approach client relationships? Or business relationships in general? In this interview with Paul Cramer of The Classic Center, a top-of-the-line event venue in Athens, GA, Paul explains how an attitude and atmosphere of hospitality in your organization makes all the difference, and how you can have systems in place to make sure every staff member is equipped to go above and beyond for e...

Do you consider your full-time job a blessing or a burden to your entrepreneurial journey? This week’s guest, Antonio Neves, climbed the corporate ladder for over 10 years, working as a correspondent in New York City with top television networks, including NBC, PBS and BET Networks, before deciding to pursue a career as a success coach and leadership speaker. After launching that business, he then...

If you’ve ever read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, you know the potential of investing as a passive income source. But how many of us have read that book and thought something along the lines of, “I have no money, I can’t do that yet.” In this episode with Hayden Crabtree, we hear the story of a young college student who believed in himself enough to take the leap, even without any financial resources to mak...

Does the looming tax season fill you with apprehension or uncertainty? It shouldn’t! In this special edition with the Serial CFO, Chad unpacks valuable tips and insights on how you can leverage the tax laws to benefit your business finances, whether you’re a from-home contractor or a seven figure small-business. This special series with Chad’s Serial CFO tips will air once a month through 2021, so...

When you are looking for your next business investment opportunity, are you looking for a person or a product? In this episode, Reign Streiter walks us through his process for picking his next best investment, whether that is partnering to purchase a sewage truck or investing in an apartment complex. If you are an investor looking to make smart investments or a business owner looking to form solid...

In this episode released from the 2020 Stronger Business Summit sessions, Jesse Itzler will electrify you and inspire you to approach life with a new level of strength and mental toughness. This episode is a must-hear for anyone who is looking for clarity and focus in their mindset, WHY you do things, and WHY you should have a sense of urgency to push and challenge yourself to new and greater heig...

Every new year we set goals and resolutions for ourselves and every new year we either follow through or fail to finish. In this episode, Josh and Chad discuss the tactics they have used to have successful goal completion and to create bigger wins for themselves. So whether you’re looking for a community of other winners to challenge your new goals or you’re just needing some inspiration and tacti...

When catastrophe hit and everything shut down, did your stomach drop through the floor? In this episode, husband and wife team Andy and Brittany talk about how they rode out the storm with their international PR company, See Spark Go, and are ending out the year 2020 with higher revenue than they had in 2021. Whether you thrived through a national shutdown or had to deal with a local or personal c...

Have you sworn off partnerships? Or maybe you’re trying to figure out how to begin a new partnership or fix an existing one? In part two of this two-part episode, Chad and Josh break down the things they have learned through equal partnerships with each other, and from their many varied partnerships with other people! You’ll learn how to distinguish a healthy partnership from an unhealthy one, inc...

Have you sworn off partnerships? Or maybe you're trying to figure out how to begin a new partnership or fix an existing one? In part one of this two-part episode, Chad and Josh share stories and insights from a few of their successful and failed experiences with partnerships... all before they decided to merge their cleaning companies and become equal partners with each other. So if you need a res...

After her 17 year old daughter was taken by sex traffickers and Chanda Santana was forced to fight and advocate to get her daughter rescued before she became a legal adult and untouchable by the justice system, Chanda realized that the vision she had to start a recovery center needed to become reality. Over the past three years she has bootstrapped DIVAS Who Win Freedom Center to bring it to the p...

Dana Spinola left her high-paying corporate career to build the fashion empire she'd dreamed about. But it took a lot of hard work and passionate pursuit to go from her first fab'rik store opening to having 40 locations. And now her attention and passion is focused in a new direction, her non-profit free fab'rik. Here, they host free shopping sprees every week for victims of sex trafficking, domes...

Brandy Anderson is the founder and CEO of Acceptance Recovery Center in Athens, GA. In this episode, week 2 of our World Changing Women, Non-Profit Entrepreneurs series, Brandy takes us through the journey and the challenges she faced founding this life-changing non-profit and bringing it to the place it is today. Although the ups and downs of her adventure may have been more extreme than yours, B...

Laura Whitaker has been captaining the ESP Inc. ship as their Executive Director since she was nineteen and today they are recognized as the leading resource for families with differently abled children. This episode is the first in our special series, World Changing Women, Non-Profit Entrepreneurs. Whether you are involved in the non-profit world or the for-profit world, Laura's unflagging vision...