The Franchise Academy Podcast

From foxholes and war to adventure and chasing dreams, #Smart is a team of ambitious individuals striving to improve the lives of those around them every day.

Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Whatever you choose, your choices always come down to uncertainty, and unhappiness. Choose uncertainty. 2. There’s no way to get past fear. The only way is to embrace it and understand the ramification. 3. Don’t go into something that has zero market, unless you have lots of money and lots of time. Get into something where there’s a niche, but not something that has never bee...

Opening a coaching or consulting business presents unseen challenges. David Shriner-Cahn offers tips to overcome the challenges.

Learn about how to evaluate a franchise from the attorney's perspective.

Learn how to Maximize your ROL (Return On Luck) with Simon Severino. Simon is the Author of "Strategy Sprints" & "Habits of Success" He is the CEO of global consultancy "Strategy Sprints.”

oach business owners through any challenge at any stage of their business,” Keziah helps small business CEOs navigate the operational and existential challenges of scaling up, pivoting, and/or selling a business they’ve put their blood sweat and tears into.

Private Equity investors have found franchising as a great addition to portfolios. How does it affect a franchise company and the franchise owners? Alicia Miller, Co-founder and Managing Director of Catalyst Insight Group a boutique investment bank and strategic advisory firm focused on franchising, gives insights to these questions and more.

Angela Paules is the Chief Marketing Officer for Buzz Franchise Brands, the parent company for service brands Pool Scouts, Home Clean Heroes, and British Swim School, and founding franchisor for Mosquito Joe.

John Neral helps mid-career professionals prepare, position, and promote who they are and what they do so they can SHOW UP to find a job they love or love the job they have.

CorpNet is a company of experts that provide the easiest and most reliable platform to help you incorporate a business , form an LLC , or maintain compliance for an existing business. Learn the ins and outs of forming an enity and it’s importance with Nellie Akalp, CEO and Co-Founder at CorpNet.

Are your customer-facing employees creating exceptional customer experiences? Are they fully aligned to your brand story? If you can’t answer with a resounding YES!, then our guest today, Chris Wallace, Co-Founder & President of InnerView, has a solution for you. InnerView is a marketing consulting firm established to help companies reach and influence their most critical audiences – the people an...

Roger Khoury is an expert in Market Forecasting and has developed an innovation he calls "Market Vulnerability Analysis" which enables market participants to achieve consistent and sustainable performance results.

Ian Bower is the owner of Graphic Rhythm as well as other businesses that revolve around design, copywriting and Amazon marketplace selling. Ian is revolutionizing the way businesses obtain graphic design services by allowing them to obtain high-quality, on demand design assets without the hassle of hiring individual freelancers.

EnterpriseAlumni, the market-leading Alumni and Retiree Engagement Platform. Their software powers the corporate alumni networks of both medium-sized businesses and the world’s largest companies, including Google, LinkedIn, Citi, and Coca-Cola, leveraging a vast untapped pool of people for talent, sales, marketing, and community.

Deborah shares the differences between an LLC and a corporation and the reasons why a “C” corporation is needed when a retirement plan is used for financing. In addition, we speak about why someone needs an entity for their business.

Demystify credit and FICO scores. There is so much misinformation about the topic. Learn from Jennifer Hammond who has been helping people for 20 years to raise their scores.

Jennifer J. Hammond is a high-energy and versatile woman who not only serves as a real estate executive; but also as a satellite radio talk show host, a best-selling author, and is a member of The Happiness Hall of Fame! As a Vice President of TTR Sotheby’s - one of the country’s leading real estate companies - she has helped hundreds of clients attain their dreams in real estate for over 20 years...

There are solutions other than bankruptcy for businesses that are suffering financially.

Giuseppe Grammatico is a franchise veteran, coach, author, speaker & consultant who simplifies the process of franchising and excels at guiding his candidates to the business model that best suits their desired lifestyle. His greatest joy is helping people realize the American dream and sharing the freedom that comes from franchising. Giuseppe is the author of Franchise Freedom: A New Manifesto Fo...

Dr. Joni Carley, author of "The Alchemy of Power, speaks about values-driven leadership and cultural development. Dr. Carley shares how franchises can work toward a robust bottom line and add to Prosperity, People, Planet, Partnership, and Peace.

Loral Langemeier is one of today’s most innovative money experts. She accelerates the conversation about money, sharing how to, not just survive this tough economic climate, but how to succeed and thrive.

Gary Occhiogrosso is the Founder of Franchise Growth Solutions, which is a co-operative based franchise development and sales firm. Their “Coach, Mentor & Grow Program” focuses on helping Franchisors with their franchise development, strategic planning, advertising, selling franchises, and guiding franchisors in raising growth capital. Gary started his career in franchising as a franchisee of Dunk...

Scott Greenberg helps companies and franchise brands boost unit-level performance. For more than two decades he’s worked full-time as a speaker, consultant, and coach, giving presentations in all 50 states and throughout the world with franchise clients that include McDonald’s, Great Clips, Anytime Fitness, Wyndham Hotel Group, RE/MAX, Smoothie King and countless other emerging, mid-sized and larg...

Throughout Jeff’s 25+ year career in franchising, he has helped hundreds of individuals realize their dream of business ownership. He began his career in franchising directly out of college in 1992 as a franchise sales assistant and after several years and promotions, he ended his career there as the Director of Franchise Development for the Americas. Jeff was recruited away from The Athlete’s Foo...

The abundance mindset to be successful at anything including business.