Honest conversations with people who built calm, profitable small businesses. New episode every other Tuesday.
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Why our guest waited six years before expanding.
Bakers, bookkeepers, designers and shop owners — every episode, newest first.
32 minRosa Delgado is back: why she waited six years to open a second Tidepool Tea — and what she would do differently.
32 minHow three owners raised their prices, kept their regulars and finally paid themselves.
28 minMarcus Lee ended every sale at Hollow Oak Candles. What happened to revenue, and to his regulars.
30 minNina Brooks on the job post, the interview and the first ninety days with her first hire at Willow Street Books.
35 minChris Walker on the year his studio had to grow fast — and how they slowed down again afterward.
32 minLauren Ellis runs a one-person bookkeeping firm with 60 clients. The tools and limits that keep it small on purpose.
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