American Audacity

#23: Matt Smith - Owner of Fat Matt Roofing Talks the Marketing Strategy Behind "Fat" In His Company Name as Skinny Guy; How He Picked His First Employee Hire; Different Advertising Mediums; Scaling Up; How Yard Signs are Great Advertising Even in the Digital Age; Books He's Read to Expand; and Most Importantly, We Drink Craft Beers During this Episode!

#22: Jennifer Elliott and Katie Parnell - Accountants (CPA and Enrolled Agent) Talk Best Practices and Tips for Small Businesses for Taxes, Strategy, Crypto Taxes and the Future, Biggest Accounting Mistakes Clients Make, S Corp Pros and Cons, Value of a CPA versus Turbotax, Red Flags that Will raise your Risk of being Audited by IRS. Jennifer Elliott is an Accountant - Enrolled Agent in Abilene. S...

#21: Blaise Regan - Gun Control and Charging Parents for Gun Violence; Abortion Debate; Check Your Sources; Great Points from Last Two Interviews: Personal Guarantees, Business Plans and How to Overcome Being an Introvert as  Business Owner. Blaise Regan is a Texas business and estate law attorney focusing on startups, mergers, buyouts, and business growth, and he is the Founder of Six Brothers Br...

#20: Jason Valdez - Senior VP of First Bank Texas - We Discuss How Business Owners Should Approach Getting a Loan; The Value of A Business Plan; Where to Get Financials For Projected Revenue for a New Business; Biggest Mistakes Business Owners Make on Business Plans; Importance of Knowing your Business Books; Line of Credit versus Credit Cards versus Loans; Crypto in the Banking World

#19: Jonathan Spencer - On Changing the Name of Your Business Midstream; How He Overcame his Introverted Self to Network for His Business; When Facebook Doesn't Like Your Business Name;  The Fear of 9-5 Job Being Motivation; How He Markets and Advertises; When He Felt His Business Had Finally Reached a Level of Success to Breathe; Importance of Vacation; How a Minor League Hockey Team Could B...

#18: Blaise Regan - Tips on Mental Health; Real Estate Commissions; Getting Involved in Your Community Via Boards

#17: Maegan Brest - Real Estate Agent Discusses the Real Estate Market through the Pandemic and Now; Future of Real Estate Purchases Online or in Person; Crypto in Buying Houses; Importance of House Inspections; Where She Sees Future Growth in Abilene Maegan Brest is a real estate agent with Keller Williams in Abilene in Abilene for the past ten years and has dealt with residential properties and...

#16: Brian Poynor - Police Officer with APD, on the Community Response Team, Focused on Proactively Helping Those With Mental Illnesses before They Commit Crime or Hurt Themselves/Others; What an Emergency Detention Order is; Telling the Difference Between Meth and Mental Illness; Why the CRT is Composed of a Police Officer, Fire, and Mental Professional; How Abilene is the Lead on this Program in...

#15: Blaise Regan - Talks about Trip to DC for the Military Affairs Committee, Importance of B1 Bomber and Hypersonic Missiles, Congressional Discussions on Changing the Step Up Basis and Estate Tax/Death Tax, How the Estate Tax affects Farmers and Ranchers, Business Tips

#14: Judge Downing Bolls - Discusses how the Mental Commitment Hearings Work; How the Mental Cases affect our City and Businesses; How Things Need to be Fixed for Gun Violence to Decrease; How Unfunded Mandates from The State Legislature Affect the Taxpayer

#13: Blaise Regan - Recaps the Best Tips from the Last Four Guests; On the Pitfall of Buying a Home with your Boyfriend/Girlfriend; On the Pros and Cons a Series LLC; On the Importance of Having a Will if you Own a Ranch, Farm, or Business; On Picking a Good Contractors; Keeping Track of Inventory from Day One

#12: Landon Couch - On Real Estate, Homebuilding, and Rental Properties from the perspective of a Builder and Rental Property Owner; Secrets to Picking a Good Contractor for Your Home;  Managing the Business Partner Relationship; How He Built a Custom Building Business and a Rental Properties Business. Landon Couch is the owner, along with his business partner Josh, of Crosswise Custom Homes and J...

#11: Phil Crowley - Assistant District Attorney Running for Taylor County Judge, On the Mental Health System Issues, On the Meth Problem and Solutions, on the Mask Mandate and Reopening, on Fire and EMS in the County Phil Crowley is an Assistant District Attorney handling felony cases and is running for Taylor County Judge.

#10: Karson Tutt - On Opening a Business at Age 23, How She Builds Her Business Through Social Media, Her Hiring Questions and How She Trains her Staff, If A Formal Education is Necessary to Run a Business, Her Weakness as a Business Owner. Karson Tutt owns Karson's and The Commons, both downtown Abilene. Karson's is a women's boutique store she started a year and half ago and The C...

#9: Jack Hurd - Discussion on Crypto Currency and how Small Business Owners Should View It, What are NFTs and their Future Applications and the Future of Art, Crypto as a Currency , as a Blockchain Technology, and as an Investment, Where to Start and What to Follow to Learn Crypto, How your Insurance Policy Protects you as a Small Business Owner in an Accident, How a Business can Better Protect It...

#8: Blaise Regan - 30 Minute Episode  - Recapping Tips Learned from Previous Guests: Read your Operating Agreement, How Key Membership Insurance Works, How to get Feedback, What is your Ideal Customer, Eliminate Misunderstanding, Volunteer at Charities to Learn Leadership by Persuasion. Blaise Regan is the host of the show and in the episode reviews the tips the previous six guests on the show hav...

#7: Katie Howe-Trevino - Starting a Shared Work Space Business, How to Find Advisors and Honest Feedback, Encouraging Negative Feedback and Steeling Yourself, What Abilene and The Chamber Can Do to Encourage New Startups. Katie Howe-Trevino is the Owner of the Domain, a shared office workspace in Abilene, where new business owners and entrepreneurs can work in daily or monthly office spaces with n...

#6: Col. Michael Bob Starr - Insights as a Bomber and Base Commander into Our Afghanistan Withdrawal, Dealing with the Taliban, The Polarity of Politics, How to Transition from Military to Business/Non-Profit Leadership, How to Make the Fundraising Ask.  Col. Michael Bob Starr (ret.) was the  Commander of Dyess Air Force Base, Commander of the 7th Bomb Wing, Ran for Congress 2016 for Abilene'...

#5: Alex Russell - Part 2 of 2 - How to Start and Run a Restaurant, Gun Rights, China Tariffs and Supply Chain Issues, and of course Tacos. Alex Russell is the owner of The Local, a Taco restaurant in downtown Abilene, Co-owner of JAR Land & Investments, co-owner of JAR Construction, President of the Board for the Center for Contemporary Arts, and serves on the Board for Work Again West Texas.

#5: Alex Russell - How to Start and Run a Restaurant, Gun Rights, China Tariffs and Supply Chain Issues, and of course Tacos. Alex Russell is the owner of The Local, a Taco restaurant in downtown Abilene, Co-owner of JAR Land & Investments, co-owner of JAR Construction, President of the Board for the Center for Contemporary Arts, and serves on the Board for Work Again West Texas.

#2: Tim Smith - How to Run a Venue as a Business, The Importance of a Business Plan and Persistent Pitching, Best Tips on Dealing with the City and Permits Process,  The Future of South of Downtown Abilene. Tim Smith is the owner of SoDA District Courtyard, KAO Lounge, Matera Gardens, Oak Street Arbor and is the driving force behind the Revitalization of South of Downtown Abilene (SoDA). He's...

#3: Kelli Watts - Practical Tips on your Elevator Pitch in Email Form, Growing a Business out of Your Kitchen into Multiple Stores, Supply Chain Issues in the Pandemic, How to Approach Marketing and Manufacturing Locally. Kelli Watts is the Founder and CEO of Savor Patisserie, a macaron company with stores in Dallas, McKinney, and Fort Worth.

Jeff Bell - Advice to new brewers, Building a business without prior business experience, How to build systems to step back, And the value of being involved in Local Politics. Jeff Bell is the brewmaster and one of the owners of Pappy Slokum Brewery, the oldest brewery in Abilene, Texas.

With his background as an attorney focusing on Business law and Estate Planning, Blaise Regan talks about the common mistakes LLC business owners make and why business owners are so involved in local politics-because their bottom line depends on it.