The KeyHire Small Business Podcast

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/  Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment   What if every customer call was answered instantly, every lead was qualified accurately, and your sales team spent 100% of their time closing instead of chasing?  In this episode of The KeyHire Small B...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/   Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment   Welcome to 2026 and the first episode of the year for The KeyHire Small Business Podcast . Host Corey Harlock starts the year by tackling a challenge that never seems to go away for small business own...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/   Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment  2025 was a year of transformation for business owners and leaders everywhere, and The KeyHire Small Business Podcast was right there with them. In this special year-end wrap-up episode, we’re revisitin...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Conflict. It’s one of those things every small business owner deals with—but few know how to handle well. In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast , host Corey Harlock sits down with Yvette Durazo, workplace strategist, international speaker, and author of In the Heels of a Smart Negotiator . Yvette has spent more than 14 years he...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/   Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment    Inflation, tariffs, and rising costs—three words that can send any small business owner into a tailspin. In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast , host Corey Harlock breaks down what’s...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/  Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment  If you are a small business owner who has ever wondered how to get more time back, reduce missed calls, capture more leads, or simply stop juggling tasks from the golf course or the job site, this episo...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/  Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment  Vote for KeyHire: https://thebestofsmallbusinessawards.awardsplatform.com If you employ anyone who works under an Employment Authorization Document (EAD), this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podc...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/   Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment  How do you give honest, critical feedback without losing your best people? That’s the question we tackle in this week’s episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast , as host Corey Harlock sits down w...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/  Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment  The economy is sending mixed signals. Reports say it is strong, but the markets and hiring data tell a different story. Many small business owners are facing what I call “The Great Hiring Freeze.”   In...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/  Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment  If you’ve ever stared at your social media feed wondering why it isn’t bringing in business, this episode will change the way you think about Instagram. Host Corey Harlock sits down with Tara Wagner, an...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/  Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment  Training doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. In this episode, Corey Harlock talks with Chris Dundy, CEO of Flagship LMS, about how small business owners can create simple, effective, and tracka...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect with Us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/ Take the Key Owner Stage Assessment: www.keyhire.solutions/assessment In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast, host Corey Harlock sits down with Aaron Christy, founder of Indy Roof and Restoration, to explore how small business owners can use AI to create repe...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Connect on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyharlock/ This week, The KeyHire Small Business Podcast breaks new ground with our first-ever Expert Roundtable —and it’s one you don’t want to miss. Host Corey Harlock brings together three powerhouse guests, each known for driving real results inside growing companies: Kurt Uhlir , CMO of...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Follow Corey on LinkedIn @Corey Harlock    Bryan, whose company has been called “the Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur Magazine, shares how AI helped him transform GreenPal’s operations from reactive problem-solving to proactive customer experience design. His insights reveal how even small businesses can use AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Being a business owner can feel like you’re out there on your own, grinding away with no one to bounce ideas off of and no community to lean on. In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast, host Corey Harlock is joined by LaGina Harris, Founder and CXO of The Us Space , to explore why community is one of the most powerful resources a...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast , host Corey Harlock sits down with Brian Samson, CEO & Chairman of Plugg Technologies, to explore the power of nearshoring as a strategy for growth-minded business owners.  For years, small business leaders have wrestled with the complexities of outsourcing and offshoring—drawn to the...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Sales is the engine that drives every small business, but in uncertain economic times, the pressure to “just sell more” can leave owners spinning their wheels. On this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast, host Corey Harlock sits down with Melinda Emerson , widely known as “The Small Biz Lady” and recognized as America’s #1 Small Busi...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Welcome to the fourth and final installment of our Key Owner Stages series on The KeyHire Podcast. So far, we’ve walked through the stages of the Overwhelmed , Unsure , and Curious business owner. In this episode, we turn our attention to the Growing Business Owner —an exciting but challenging stage where your business starts gaining momentum,...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. What does culture really mean for small businesses? And why does it matter so much for growth and sustainability?  In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast, I sit down with Janneh Wright, the founder and CEO of PRIMUS Business Management. For more than two decades, Janneh and his team have helped small businesses and non-profits “...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. Welcome back to The KeyHire Small Business Podcast ! This week we continue our Key Owner Stages series with Stage Three: The Curious Business Owner .  If you’ve been following this series, you know that we’ve already covered the Overwhelmed Owner (the car with no wheels) and the Unsure Owner (the car with wobbly wheels). In this episode, we mo...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. On this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast , we sit down with Justin Abrams, CEO of ARYO Consulting Group, to unpack a growth strategy that many business owners hear about—but few truly understand: growth through acquisition . With over 350 clients under his belt and a refreshingly straightforward approach to strategy, Justin helps...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. AI doesn’t have to be overwhelming—and it definitely doesn’t have to be expensive.  In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast , I’m joined by Paul Malott, CEO and Founder of Automations24, to talk about one of the most practical—and accessible—ways small businesses can start using AI: no-code automations.  We know that AI is everyw...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast , host Corey Harlock sits down with Charles Fry , Founder and CEO of Codexitos , to tackle one of the most challenging transitions for small business owners: moving from founder-driven sales to building a professional sales organization.  Charles has been in technology since before the inte...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. If you’ve ever looked at your business and thought, “I know something’s wrong here, but I can’t figure out what it is… or how to fix it,” this episode is for you. I call this stage The Unsure Business Owner —the second stop in our Key Owner Stages Series . Last time, we covered the Overwhelmed Owner, where the wheels fall off. The Unsure stage...

Text us your comments or topic ideas for future shows. As a small business owner, there’s a moment when you realize that being in control of everything is no longer helping your business—it’s holding it back. You’re wearing too many hats, every process runs through you, and your team can’t make a move without your approval. Sound familiar? In this episode of The KeyHire Small Business Podcast, hos...