As we approach the end of 2023, we’re rounding out our season of remastered episodes. Our latest trip to our podcasting vault leads us to a guest on the other side of the world – India to be exact, with special guest Aman Agarwal.

Aman is a former engineer and B2B salesman who built SANPRAM Transnational in response to a growing crisis he noticed while working in Silicon Valley – the widening technical fluency gap between leaders and technologists.

If accounting is the language of business, then technology is the language of scale. As founders and leaders of our businesses, we must be fluent in both.

In this remastered episode, Aman shares more about why he, as a technologist, chose to start an education company to close technical fluency gaps so that non-tech businesses can understand how to translate their strategic growth goals into language that technologists use.

He also shares the business infrastructure he and his small, but mighty team are building to ensure they build a solid foundation that will allow them to successfully scale in a slow and intentional, yet highly effective and profitable way.

You’ll also discover how Aman developed an equation for scaling his company and how you can also figure out a similar equation based on your company’s unique formula for success.

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We’re getting close to the end of our season of remastered episodes. These are previous episodes that were popular. We’ve taken them off the shelf of our podcasting vault and revived them with the quality you’re used to hearing now on our show! 

Up next from our vault is our episode with Lynn Bonner. She’s working double duty as the CEO of her firm, Action Leadership Lab, as well as a VP at U.S. Bank.

How does she successfully manage this?

Well, as she says, it takes energy, leadership, and action to get things done. In this remastered episode, Lynn defines what it means for a company to be agile and shares how she applies both agile and digital transformation principles from her corporate experience to build the business infrastructure required to scale her clients’ companies. 

Discover why the key to building, scaling, and sustaining your company’s operations may lie in taking action in short, incremental steps.

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We’ve selected our next episode to remaster and you’re in for a treat!

Why?

Because this episode is all about podcasting – that is, the actual business of podcasting. It features Doug Sandler, someone we refer to as a podcasting “O.G.” Not only is the co-host of the wildly successful Nice Guys on Business podcast, but he also is the co-founder of Turnkey Podcast Productions.

Like entrepreneurship, podcasting is not for the faint of heart. It requires patience, commitment, and consistency – all of which is challenging since it takes a while before you know who your audience is. In this remastered episode, Doug reveals the business infrastructure required for a successful podcast. He also shares the types of podcasts that tend to do really well and how you can monetize them.

Learn the significance of knowing your market, offer, and message and how that winning combination can make podcasting a viable revenue source for you or your business.

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Our continued search through our podcasting vault has led us to the next episode to remaster. Who was selected? None other than Shellye Archambeau.

As a master planner and strategist, Shellye knows how to create roadmaps to accomplish just about anything she sets her mind to. This is what led her to attend a top-ranked university, moving up the ranks at IBM, and ultimately becoming a CEO by the time she turned 40.

In this remastered episode, we use her book, Unapologetically Ambitious, to anchor our conversation. Shellye shares her journey in becoming one of the first black women to lead a high-tech Silicon Valley company. Specifically, she reveals how she builds and empowers teams to build business infrastructure to support rapid, sustainable growth.

Along the way, she also shares her predictions for remote working, how to delegate effectively, and why falling in love with your market is essential for scaling your business.

Discover why she says you deserve to be ambitious and to do so unapologetically.

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We’re back inside our podcasting vault in search of the next episode to remaster. This time we’ve selected Jeff Wald, a serial entrepreneur, investor, and bestselling author.

Jeff previously left our podcast listeners on the edge of their seats as he took us on his journey of starting, building, growing, scaling, and ultimately selling not just one but two small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. 

In this remastered episode, you’ll have the benefit of listening to Jeff’s story guided by narration as he shares how he did a brief stint working as an auxiliary officer for the NYPD and ultimately left behind a career at an investment banking firm to start his first company.

Though that company failed, he learned some valuable lessons, dusted himself off, and in true entrepreneur fashion, started another company. And then another one. When he founded WorkMarket, he knew that scaling from 8 to 8,000 salespeople required business infrastructure. Eventually, Jeff sold those two companies to ADP and Salesforce.

How did he do it? Listen now to discover this and much more!

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What’s next as we continue searching through our podcasting vault?

None other than Jennifer Wang.  

Her original interview took place during the pandemic and resulted in an outpouring of love not only from our listeners but also from many of Jennifer’s clients who saw the episode promoted across different platforms. So, it’s no surprise that this is our next episode selected for remastering.  

Jennifer began her career with a major advantage. Being Chinese American, speaking fluent Japanese, and having lived in multiple countries as a child afforded her an appreciation for cultural differences. Now, as an entrepreneur, she imbues this with every project.

In this episode, Jennifer speaks openly about how she became a preeminent event designer and event planner and explains the difference between the two roles. She also gives us a peek behind the curtain of her processes for creating film and television events that offer a seamless experience for clients.

A huge part of her success is in the business infrastructure she’s built over the past 20 years, which includes an all-star team. Take note of how her relentless work ethic and attention to detail help her company land clients like Netflix and NBCUniversal.

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Our next search through our podcasting vault leads us to this classic episode that generated quite the buzz when it originally aired. In fact, it stayed in our top ten most downloaded episodes for nearly two years!

Who does it feature?

None other than filmpreneur, Forrest Tuff. A former basketball athlete, he’s now an award-winning public speaker, author, founder and CEO of One Vision Productions, and a philanthropist with a focus on financial literacy.

Whether on the basketball court or in the shark-filled waters of business, Forrest plays any game to win. In fact, he’s found a clever way to blend all of his skills and experiences into what he’s coined, “The One Vision Productions Way” – a philosophy that serves as the compass for growing his film production company rooted in quality, consistency, and innovation.

In this remastered episode, he describes the two specific actions he took to reduce overhead that radically transformed his business model.  Find out how this transformation also solidified his company’s business infrastructure and increased their operating capacity as well as competitive advantage leading to greater agility, revenue, and profitability.

Discover what Forrest means when he says, “When you call yourself the CEO, you have to make hard decisions.” Listen now and heed his advice!

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The search through our podcasting vault for “oldies but goodies” continues!

Our next episode selected for remastering features future of work strategist, Diana Wu David. As a serial entrepreneur who’s also a former Financial Times executive with a background in economics, she’s well-versed in pricing.

The price you charge for your product or service directly reflects its perceived value and is one of the quickest ways to increase profitability. Yet, some of us find it difficult to raise prices. 

In this candid interview, Diana addresses the fear of raising your prices and explains her formulaic process for testing different pricing strategies. Those strategies include developing a minimum viable product, segmenting customers, and performing A/B testing.  She also talks about why trouble usually brews where pricing and process intersect and how you can avoid it.

Take advantage of her years of experimenting with pricing through the lens of futureproofing and breakthrough the psychological factors preventing you from greater profitability. Listen now!

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We’re continuing to search our vault for older episodes that previously went viral. We are putting them through the rigor of our new show’s format.

On this remastered episode you get to meet Ron Carucci, serial bestselling author, managing partner at Navalent, and prolific contributor to the Harvard Business Review. He has a 30-year track record helping organizations articulate and execute strategies that lead to accelerated growth.   

In this episode, Ron shares two examples that demonstrate how he uses organization design to encourage clarity-driven innovation.  He also discusses the three ways to organize work and explains why your company’s business infrastructure (i.e., your work, your people, and your technologies) must be integrated to stay ahead.

When it comes to innovation, discover what Ron means when he says, “Fail fast doesn’t mean pray and spray,” and heed his warning for founders and executives who suffer from “EBITDA addiction” and rush to market without due diligence. 

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Welcome to Season 21 of the Business Infrastructure podcast!

This season we’ve searched our vault for some “oldies but goodies” episodes that we think deserve to be put through the rigor of our new show format. That’s why we're referring to the theme as Remastered.” 

The first remastered episode features Liz Kislik – a Bloomberg contributor and seasoned change management and corporate communications expert. She’s spent the past 30 years helping leaders work through change in fast-growth environments.

As you lead your company through growth spurts, you may realize that it’s time to “level up” your business infrastructure. But how you communicate the need to upgrade people, processes, and tools is just as important as the upgrade itself. Change is difficult, even in a faster-paced small business environment, and you can unknowingly create more chaos if you deliver news about change improperly.

In this episode, Liz dons her conflict resolution hat to share best practices in delivering difficult news. One of the tools she recommends might surprise you - it’s something you likely use every day.

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