Authentic Business Adventures Podcast
181 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe business podcast designed for entrepreneurs and small business owners to be inspired by, listen to, enjoy and take some action from.
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David Aloa.co
August 05, 2022 21:44 - 58 minutes - 59.4 MBDavid Pawlan - Aloa.co Software is great. It can do all sorts of magical things, most of the time. But what if you want software built for your business? In the past you would do one of three things, 1) Learn ot code yourself, 2) Hire a coder as an employee, or 3) Outsource the coding to a subcontractor person or company. As an entrepreneur, writing your own code can be fulfilling, but extremely time consuming. Especially if you need to learn how to code, before you actually write any cod...
Zeb Anderson – LegalQ
July 28, 2022 19:43 - 59 minutes - 62.9 MBZeb Anderson - LegalQ Every business will eventually need the help of an attorney. Whether working with an attorney to create a client contract, or to go over a lease that took a forest to print, legal jargon surrounds the business world. But how can a business owner find the right attorney? Many attorneys may be great on paper, but the attorney/client relationship is typically very important to making sure things get done and are understood by all parties. Utilizing an attorney that you ...
Kayla Storlid – Nature Nanny
July 22, 2022 20:55 - 50 minutes - 54.7 MBKayla Storlid - Nature Nanny It seems we are all just busy doing what we do, and sometimes we forget to take a moment to enjoy the nature that surrounds us. The nature that deep down inside, we are actually a part of. Being in nature, surrounded by trees and plants and breathing the air that doesn't have the tinge of industrial progress, has been scientifically proven to be beneficial. Nature never intended us to stare at screens, Whether for work or to kill zombies. But where do you go, a...
Veterinary Clinic – Dr Marty Greer – Checkout Veterinary – 1 Year Later
July 15, 2022 17:11 - 51 minutes - 65.5 MBDr. Marty Greer - Checkout Veterinary Dr. Marty Greer returns after our first interview with her almost one year ago, when she first started Checkout Veterinary Clinic in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The worlds first drive-thru veterinary clinic. We met with Dr. Greer today to find out how this new concept has been working and what has changed with her veterinary business in the past year. The pandemic subsided, new pets were housed all over the country, creating more demand for veterinarians. ...
Hallie Ringland – New U
July 01, 2022 18:20 - 45 minutes - 47.3 MBHallie Ringland - New U Your overall wellness is extremely important. Your health, both physical and mental, lays the foundation for how you are able to enjoy your life. But we don't always know how to achieve the highest level of wellness, and often we know what we should do, we just don't do it. It is these times when it makes the most sense to connect with someone to help guide you. Hallie Ringland is the owner of New U, a company that helps individuals and businesses achieve the wellne...
Ashao Freesky – Double Your Time Off
June 24, 2022 16:42 - 48 minutes - 49.5 MBAshao Freesky - Double Your Time Off It seems that almost every business owner is after two things, 1) Freedom and 2) Money to enjoy that freedom. It also seems that almost every entrepreneur starts out with these in mind, then gets caught up in the prison they built. They work at all hours, not always getting anything to grow the business done. They get stuck in the cycle of spinning plates, with no end in sight. Ashao Freesky knows how this works first hand, and he has devised plans to h...
Sarah Noel Block – Content Marketing
June 10, 2022 21:35 - 46 minutes - 49.5 MBSarah Noel Block - Tiny Marketing Marketing has changed over the past few years. We've gone from a few channels to market on to thousands of opportunities. With the advent of social media, you can have an audience that can actually engage with your marketing. But just because you can or it is easy (ish), doesn't mean you don't need help, guidance or just to outsource it altogether. But how do you know if you're doing it well? How do you find the best marketing company for your business? L...
Jermome Myers – Multifamily Real Estate Investing
May 26, 2022 17:26 - 47 minutes - 46.1 MBJerome Myers - Dreamcatchers and The Myers Development Group Like many real estate investment professionals, Jerome found himself at a crossroads. Should he keep going down the corporate path, or venture off into something more, or different, such as real estate investing? Like many people, he had to weight the pros and cons of each. Luckily for us, Jerome chose the red pill, to live the risk and venture out into the real estate investing world, specifically into multifamily units. Listen ...
Boss Nation – Dog and Cat Food and Products
May 09, 2022 16:36 - 53 minutes - 52 MBBasel Nassar - Boss Nation Brands The dog and cat food and product market is hot. More people entered the market as customers with pets over the past few years than at any other time in the recent past. All of these customers need food, leashes, treats and an endless array of products to show care and affection for their pets. Basel Nassar is an entrepreneur at heart. He has lived the startup life a few times and helped get Boss Nation Brands started and growing. Boss Dog, Boss Cat and a ...
Starting a Food Business – Ember Foods
April 29, 2022 21:25 - 51 minutes - 61.2 MBYakub Kazi - Ember Foods Yakub Kazi is a well traveled man that loves sharing his cooking with the world. Lucky for us, he has his food available in the Madison, Wisconsin area. Yakub has taken his food business, based mainly on Indian cuisine, and listened to the people to give them what they want. He also helps introduce new flavors and dishes to broaden the food horizon and give people something a bit different and extremely delicious. Listen as Yakub takes us on his journey from all ov...
How to Start a Mobile Bartending Business
April 21, 2022 19:01 - 42 minutes - 47.2 MBChinaMoon Cromwell - Bartender 608 Who doesn't love to party? But a funny thing happens with a party, or a celebration, or really anytime people get together. People want to be in on the fun, not running around serving their guests. Enter the genius of ChinaMoon Cromwell and her business, Bartender 608, a superior mobile bartender service in the Madison, Wisconsin and surrounding area. What puts Bartender 608 a step above other mobile bartenders is the higher level of service and the system...
Where Are Mortgage Rates Going
April 13, 2022 21:08 - 55 minutes - 66.8 MBBill Quigley - Amerifirst Home Mortgage The real estate market is crazy now. What better time to bring on the mortgage expert, Bill Quigley of Amerifirst Home Mortgage, right? Bill explains what is happening in the real estate market, where he believes it will go and what moves you, as a buyer or seller, can do to make the best moves for you and your money. Enjoy! Visit Bill at: https://www.amerifirst.com/bill-quigley
Retail Gift Business – 200th Episode
March 26, 2022 16:05 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBAmy Moore - Little Luxuries Madison Retail businesses that make a community more than just restaurants and bars and a few cross streets are needed to bring character and culture to a place. They can make a locale a destination, as well as give it an interesting vibe. Independent brick and mortar businesses bring life to a community that otherwise would look like any other town, in any other place. Stores like these make memories and give a unique character to a place to make it special. B...
Dog Therapy Business
March 22, 2022 17:57 - 48 minutes - 59 MBCindy Brosig - Operation H.E.E.L. Dogs make people smile. You can't help it. When a kind dog comes to you with their tail wagging, you cannot help but forget your troubles, even if for a moment. Add that to the fact that almost all of us want to help people. But not all of us have the empathy or passion to make a business out of it. Veteran Cindy Brosig, one of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting, has created a place to treat humans with the help of dogs. Dog Therap...
How To Grow your Business With Marketing
March 10, 2022 15:52 - 53 minutes - 54.7 MBPat Miller - The Idea Coach As business owners we rock at our skills. Whether that is being a great painter, accountant, massager or seller of crystals, we do what we do very well. But what happens when no one knows that you and your business exist? Without awareness, you have no business. At least, not for very long. That is where Pat Miller, the Idea Coach, comes in. With his marketing experience in all forms of media, along with his Premium Incubator Group, designed to build small bus...
Life Coaching For Grieving Women
March 02, 2022 20:21 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBMichelle Vande Hey - Light of Love Coaching When you experience a dramatic event, it can be life changing. Sometimes for the better, though often these are tragedies. The truth is that sometimes, we just need some help to get back on our feet and live the life we were gifted with. But how do you get back on your feet? Who do you turn to for help and guidance? Michelle Vande Hey started her life coaching practice, specifically for grieving women, and has helped women that were suffering fr...
How to Start a Graphic Design Company
February 21, 2022 16:55 - 48 minutes - 56.1 MBIbrahim Harun - IH Concepts Sometimes, when you find yourself doing what you love but doing it at a place you may not love, it is time to move on. And some of those times, the time is right to start your own business. That is how Ibrahim Harun got started with his graphic design company. Wit a little patience, skill and drive, along with a pinch of luck, Ibrahim has built his design company to what it is today. Listen as Ibrahim tells the story of how he started his graphic design business...
How to Start an IT Company
February 14, 2022 18:52 - 54 minutes - 65.3 MBKevin Peterson - Peterson Technology Starting an IT company can be tough. You need the knowledge, the customer service skills and the clients that want to use you. Kevin Peterson started Peterson Technology Group years ago and shares his tremendous insight about how he started his business and what he has learned throughout the years. Listen as Kevin details his entrepreneurial journey and learn a bit about what it takes to start an IT company. Enjoy! Visit Kevin at: https://petersontechgr...
How to Start a Gym
February 07, 2022 15:19 - 52 minutes - 59.1 MBMark and Sonya - Twisted Fitness Gym When you have a passion for an industry, sometimes you are just drawn to entrepreneurship in that industry. Mark and Sonya started Twisted Fitness in 2007 in a 500 square foot facility that doubled as an apartment as they worked to build up their enterprise. Today, they are in a brand new, 18,000 square foot facility that dwarves where they started. Listen as Mark and Sonya describe how they started their gym, how Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai were t...
How to Start a Chiropractic Practice
January 21, 2022 22:35 - 51 minutes - 59.4 MBDr. Eric Johnson - Functional Wellness Chiropractic Center Starting any business can be challenging. Starting a health related business is no different. Dr. Eric Johnson hit the books and graduated as a doctor of chiropractic medicine. Then he took the leap and started his own practice. Listen as Eric explains how he did it and some of the challenges he overcame as he built his chiropractic practice. Enjoy! Visit Eric at: fwchiro.com
The Life of a Salesperson
January 17, 2022 16:38 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBTom Johnson - Account Executive for Fearing's Audio/Video/Security In this episode we take a different approach and interview a seasoned sales professional. Tom Johnson has worked in a myriad of positions. One thing remains the same, he is in the sales game. He has sold everything from kitchen equipment to newspaper ads and almost everything in between. Listen as Tom explains what it takes to be a great sales person and to keep the revenue pipeline flowing. Because we all know that in bus...
The Power of Virtual Assistants
January 03, 2022 20:22 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBMelissa Smith - ThePVA - Association of Virtual Assistants Business professionals typically have a million things to do and about eighty hours shy of enough time to get it all done. But the to-do list isn't filled with frivolous things. All of the work needs to get done to keep the business machine running and the cash rolling in. So what is a savvy business pro to do? Hiring a virtual assistant is a great way to get your to-do list knocked out. The best part is, you aren't the one spend...
Duplicate Yourself With Webinars
December 17, 2021 16:31 - 56 minutes - 57.5 MBMelissa Kwan - eWebinar We've all the experience of attending webinars, and many of us have created countless webinars. We, as business owners in a small, connected world, need to be able to educate, pitch and market our wares to our target audience at any time. But giving presentation after presentation of the same information can be time consuming and can really take away from the goal of freedom that most business owners strive for. This is the problem that Melissa Kwan has targeted, an...
Invest In Land – Get Dirt Rich
December 09, 2021 19:26 - 45 minutes - 45.7 MBMark Podolsky - The Land Geek We have all heard of the different ways to invest in real estate to build wealth, often with little time investment. The problem with a lot of real estate is that it can have problems, typically with the buildings on the property. Tenants, termites, broken pipes, non-paying renters and the like have all plagued more than a few people going down the real estate investing game. But what if you invested in distressed properties that were only made of dirt? Listen ...
Master Passive Income With Real Estate Investing
November 18, 2021 19:02 - 53 minutes - 55.1 MBDustin Heiner - Master Passive Income Trading time for money has always been what the true entrepreneur is working to avoid. Time is a limited resource, and you want to keep as much time available for your freedom as possible, right? One of the ways to get to the true point of freedom is to have passive income. That is money coming in that you really don't have to work much for. Sounds sweet, doesn't it? Investing in rental real estate is a great way to earn that passive income stream, ga...
Remote Real Estate Investing With the Fearless Millionaire
November 12, 2021 20:19 - 59 minutes - 61.5 MBNathan Amaral - Fearless Millionaire How to invest in real estate is a popular topic these days. Real estate is typically a great investment, but where do you start? Nathan Amaral has taken his real estate investing into another level, by investing in properties he never sees. Properties that are often in other countries! Listen as Nathan shares some of his secrets to investing in real estate and how you can get into investing in real estate. Enjoy! Visit Nathan at: fearless-millionaire.c...
Succeed Through Speaking
November 05, 2021 21:55 - 52 minutes - 55.2 MBTom Bailey - Succeed Through Speaking Did you know that some entrepreneurs are introverts? I had a tough time believing that, but Tom Bailey has helped me understand that you can be an introvert and still get out and be the pro you are to help you accomplish your goals. With his business, succeed through Speaking Tom Bailey helps those introverts geared towards success to get in front of the crowds you need to as the professional, so the crowd takes notice. Listen as Tom gives some great a...
Carrying the Fire
October 20, 2021 20:47 - 34 minutes - 34.5 MBShane Whelan - Carrying the Fire Every entrepreneur has ideas. Some ideas you run with, others you tuck back into the back of your mind. Shane Whelan is an entrepreneur with ideas that stemmed from his experience starting his dog containment fence business. He started as a one person show and built his business to be a profitable, well-positioned company. Then he helped create software to connect customers with other dog containment systems. Another idea, another business and another succ...
The Virtual Foundry
October 15, 2021 16:58 - 52 minutes - 63.5 MBTricia and Brad - The Virtual Foundry Creating something new is always a challenging task. First, you need the idea, that part is easy. The challenging part comes in the execution. Enter 3D Printing. With 3D Printing, you could affordably create three dimensional shapes and creations to test your ideas. But the 3D printing was plastic, leading to some different limitations. Things changed when Brad, founder of The Virtual Foundry came up with and patented the idea to be able to print met...
Business Insurance – Ep183
October 08, 2021 21:28 - 52 minutes - 56.8 MBJason Stendalen - C4 Insurance So you started a business. You made a plan, put some money into it and are working on dotting i's and crossing t's. One of those i's is insurance. You know, the promise you pay for that you hope the company you pay doesn't have to be asked to keep? Commercial or Business Insurance is a tough nut to crack, especially for the typical business owner. How is an entrepreneur supposed to know what they need, what's worth paying for and what is a waste of money. L...
Drive Through Veterinary Clinic – EP 182
September 23, 2021 18:34 - 38 minutes - 47.9 MBDr. Marty Greer - Checkout Veterinary Entrepreneurs always seem to have a plethora of ideas racing through their head. Seemingly without notice you'll just get an idea and you come to a crossroads. Do you pursue this idea, or do you let it lie? This happens so often that you must say no to most ideas. Already a big name in the veterinary world, Dr. Marty Greer came up with an idea for a drive-through veterinary clinic. It would remove some basic time-wasting tasks for patients and doctor...
How To Heal – Ep181
September 17, 2021 18:05 - 47 minutes - 51.8 MBJordann Hartzheim - traumApothecary We all have some ailment of one kind or another. Sometimes it is stress, other times it may be a physical injury. There are different ways to go about healing these ailments, but how do you know which may work the best to both heal and help prevent further injury? With the use of different practices, Jordann is able to help those that may have not had the greatest success with more typical healing options. Listen as Jordann Hartzheim of traumApothecary e...
Do It All – Ep180
September 09, 2021 18:01 - 54 minutes - 75.8 MBBarbara Zabawa, JD, MPH - Entrepreneur, Author and Attorney Just when I think I am accomplishing a lot, I meet someone like Barbara Zabawa. Not only is she a full time educator at the University of Milwaukee, she runs her own law practice, the Center for Health and Wellness Law, LLC and is the founder of Pursesuitz, a clothing brand designed to eliminate purses by including pockets in women's clothing. She also has authored Tug: Finding purpose and joy through entrepreneurship as Rule the...
How To Be A Great Boss – Ep179
September 03, 2021 19:59 - 59 minutes - 63.8 MBTalmar Anderson - Boss Actions What is a company, if not a collection of employees doing great things. If it isn't a collection of employees, it's a job, and if the employees aren't doing great things, well, it isn't much of a business either. One of the biggest problems entrepreneurs, managers and leaders of all types run into is keeping their employees engaged, trained, happy and loyal. With help wanted signs littering the landscape more than lite beer cans, your employees clearly have o...
How To Get A Reply – Ep178
August 26, 2021 15:26 - 1 hour - 78 MBSam George - Author of Dyscommunication It has happened to all of us, which probably means that we have all done it. We send a communication out and get no response. All we hear are crickets. This is the most challenging part of communication today. We have essentially limitless channels to communicate, yet people still are fin not utilizing them. Text someone a quick message, get no response. What does no response mean? Were they hit by a bus, did their battery die, are they stuck on a...
Prepare to Sell Your Business – Ep177
August 13, 2021 14:37 - 55 minutes - 89.7 MBMartha Sullivan - Provenance Hill Consulting Starting a business is a conundrum in balance. First, you need to work hard, fast and long just to get the business off the ground. Then you need to push more to add employees, expand on new ideas and keep the momentum going. Then a funny thing happens. You will continually come to forks in the road. One way allows you to continue with the risk, pleasure and pain for running a successful company. The other is a path that guides you to remove ...
Be A Better Leader – Ep 176
August 06, 2021 19:08 - 54 minutes - 63.4 MBCraig Lemasters - CEO of GXG It is not too often that we meet people that leave a lucrative corporate career to start their own gig and all the risk it entails. It also isn't too often that you meet people like Craig Lemasters. Craig is one of the leader builders in the entrepreneurial world. He helps C level executives and business owners build their leadership skills to help them grow their businesses. He has written the book Unstuck, a book on how to break yourself out of the pitfalls a...
The Business of Racing – Ep175
July 29, 2021 20:03 - 47 minutes - 72.8 MBVictoria Thomas - Kelly-Moss Road and Race When someone tells you that money can't buy happiness, understand that they probably are not looking in the right places. For many people, myself included, going around a race track is a lot of fun. The adage for racing goes, "Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go." Which is a very long way to say that Kelly-Moss Road and Race is in the fun business. But it is a business first, so they need to know how the numbers all work. Victoria Tho...
How To Build Your Window Tint Business – Ep174
July 22, 2021 19:42 - 47 minutes - 50.4 MBPam and Paul - Tintwork Pam and Paul of Tintwork are automotive window tint experts. They also happen to be marketing and software experts as well. This is a great combination, since many people that want to start window tinting companies are struggling with brining in clients. So what is an automotive window tint entrepreneur supposed to do in order to bring business in the door, or even on-site? Enter Tintwork. With Tintwork, jobs come to the entrepreneur without lifting a finger. They...
How To Build Your Construction Business – Ep173
July 15, 2021 21:49 - 51 minutes - 57 MBAdam Frydenlund - AF Construction The challenges of starting any business can be tough. Starting a construction or remodeling company adds it's own challenges. From needing the skills with the hammer as well as the skills to give quotes and estimates accurately can make the barrier to entry a little taller. At least, if you want to make money doing it. Add in the challenges with labor, the hidden places behind walls that make your estimate a little low and the customers that are not fans ...
How To Build Your Business Sell – Ep172
July 08, 2021 21:36 - 54 minutes - 56.7 MBJohn Warrilow - Built To Sell Just about every business owner I have ever spoken to, when asked why they started their business, has the word 'freedom' somewhere in their answer. Scheduling freedom, income freedom and the freedom to do what you want, when you want. Fast forward to the reality for many business owners and they are free to be at work as much as they can, their wallet hopes everything they need is free and they are free to do whatever they want - as long as that is going to ru...
How To Market Your Business Online – Ep171
July 01, 2021 17:46 - 38 minutes - 39.4 MBHoward Tiersky - From , The Digital Transformation Company Every business that is interested in growing needs to know how to market. This includes the small businesses as well as the Fortune 500 companies. Nothing gets done until a sale is made, and if buyers don't know you exist, it is tough to get them to buy from you. Howard Tiersky, author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Winning Digital Customers, outlines the steps necessary to build your brand online. Online is where almost ev...
How To Make Time – Ep170
June 24, 2021 17:23 - 57 minutes - 69.8 MBVivian Probst - Author, Linguist and Business Consultant Like most entrepreneurs, Vivian Probst is busy. She consults for many clients on affordable housing, is a linguist with her WEnglish forms of English that works to remove the male dominance in the English language. On top of all of that, she has written many books, some in both versions of English! Also like most entrepreneurs, Vivian had some challenges. For example, Vivian explains how she was making good money and spending it fas...
Helping to Automate Industrial Workflows – Ep169
June 17, 2021 17:13 - 53 minutes - 61.3 MBMatt Moseman - Node U Design and Develop LLC Manufacturing has come a long way since the dawn of stone tools and hammers. The machines that are building the products we all use need to be ever improving in their efficiency and quality control. But as a manufacturing company, how do you make that happen? Enter Matt Moseman, owner of Node U Design. Matt has developed sophisticated, tiny circuit boards, or nodes, that can be programmed and installed throughout the manufacturing plant to keep...
Building An Insurance Agency – Ep168
June 11, 2021 20:45 - 52 minutes - 58.6 MBRobert Zabbia - Zabbia Agency The insurance world is an often competitive and misunderstood world. We as drivers, homeowners, business owners and the like are essentially paying for promises we hope we do not have to ask our insurance company to keep. So how do you grow an insurance agency when, in order to do so, you may need to have some difficult conversations with potential clients? Asking someone to pay you to cover them in case they smash up their car, or worse, can lead to some toug...
Connect and Profit – Ep 167
June 03, 2021 20:05 - 50 minutes - 51.6 MBYakov Smart - Connect and Profit Marketing is a funny thing. As business owners, we know that we need to market. On the flip side, who has the time to really invest in doing all that we should, or need, to do in order to get our name out there? Nevermind that most business owners just don't know where they should be marketing their business. What is a business owner to do? Yakov Smart has a marketing system that just may work for businesses that can benefit from getting influencers in th...
Gilda’s Club of Madison -Ep166
May 27, 2021 19:53 - 54 minutes - 63.3 MBLannia Stenz - Gilda's Club of Madison A funny thing happened in 2020. Well, not so much funny as forcibly life altering. Especially if you run a non-profit that helps victims of cancer. Lannia Stenz is the CEO of Gilda's Club of Madison. Listen as she tells us how Gilda's Club has made it through challenge after challenge, from floods to pandemics, and still come out with the strength, resolve and willingness to help cancer patients. Lannia has some great stories about overcoming obstac...
The World of Financial Planning – Ep165
May 20, 2021 18:59 - 56 minutes - 61.2 MBCarrie Waters-Schmidt - Equanimity Wealth Planning and Investing The world of investing is filled with noise and confusion. There are so many ways to invest, from stocks and bonds to mutual funds to ETF's, to REIT's and onto strange things that combine all manner of groups of investments. Spread the risk, do all you can to keep your upside is all fine and good until you realize that the markets have only gotten more volatile as more people get into the markets and more emotion goes into bu...
How To Make Money As An Author – Ep 164
May 13, 2021 18:22 - 56 minutes - 58 MBMark Leslie Lefebvre - Author, Speaker, Consultant Here's the thing about most authors, they don't make much, if any, money. Why? There are a few reasons. Certainly the barrier to becoming a published author has been lowered. Also, authors are not typically marketers. So what is an aspiring author to do? Play the game as it was meant to be played. You know the rules, you know the crowd you want to attract and you know the big players already in the game. Mark Leslie Lefebvre has been in...
How To Build Wealth – Ep163
May 06, 2021 18:22 - 49 minutes - 53.7 MBJoshua Rhodes - Rhodes to Wealth We have been taught to work for our money. But did you know that your money can also work for you? This seems to be the semi-well kept secret of the people that rise above the people scraping by. Save as much as you can and make sure that the money you have saved is chugging away earning interest and growing in value. We're not talking about the current savings account rates of zero point zero (too low to care). We're talking about wealth building strateg...