Starting a small business is like making the perfect sandwich. You need quality ingredients, a good recipe, and someone to put it all together.

On today's episode, Chris talk's with Mike Finsilver about making a business out of making sandwiches, finding inspiration, taking breaks, and adding a little bit of good taste to a revitalized neighborhood.

• Tall Trees Cafe
• Meals for Everyone
• Saturday Farmstand (product/vendor inquiries) - [email protected]

Hustle Culture (or Rise and Grind) hit the scene somewhere around 2015-2019. Or did it?

On today's episode, Chris talks to Christopher Gill- a man so throughly devoted to the job that he worked a double shift on Christmas and was investigated for working too much overtime. And in his spare time, he and his partner started a business.

• Diversified Wireless Electrical Service

Chris is stumped. How does an interior design business make money, bill, and work overall? Jill stops by to answer all the questions- and Chris finds out that he's an aesthete.

• rsminteriors.com

Stacy Dumas is one of a handful of Rust Belt Market OG's, with her in-market shop Tooth and Nail. Listen in as Chris and Stacy discuss converting Stacy's artistic vision into a thriving Rust Belt anchor, as well as her own free-standing store in Ferndale.

• Tooth and Nail on Instagram

Secret Bakery in Ferndale is the kind of place (and story) that Best Practices was built for. Chris has a chat with owner Maxwell Leonard about the unusual and behind the scenes beginnings of the once underground bakery that is quickly becoming a local institution.

• Secret Bakery
• Secret Bakery on Instagram

Host Chris Best sits down with William Corfield from Nude Salon to discuss his unlikely journey into hair styling. We also take a tour of the work in progress, which will become Nude's new location in Birmingham, MI.

• Nude Salon

Chris Best and BC talk cleaning taps, starting a business from scratch, and working until the job is done at Red Tap .

• ⁠Red Tap

Chris Best sits down with Steve Selvaggio to talk about the humble beginnings of Ferndale's Western Market.

• Western Market
• The book Steve mentions, Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill

Chris has Tiffany in the studio for the first show and unpacks the struggles behind starting their business, The Rust Belt Market.

The program Tiffany attended is Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses.

Host Chris Best and Producer Jeremy Olstyn take a brief look at the concept of this podcast and on-board you in short order.

After this brief listen, you can jump right in on any episode and enjoy!