Businessing with Pat Miller

Mark Zuckerberg said something that should stop you in your tracks. Social media used to be your friends and family. Now half the content is creators. We went from a group chat to cable TV in our pocket, and we didn't even notice.

On today's Businessing, Pat connects this shift with a restaurant remodeling boom...warm interiors, communal spaces, staff that talks to you...because the human connection got stripped everywhere else. For business owners, the question is simple. What are you doing to bring your people together?

Plus: Artemis 2 is headed around the dark side of the moon. March jobs numbers tripled what economists predicted (178K added). Chinese employees are sabotaging their AI job reports AND writing up their colleagues' jobs. Stephanie Kern launches the Sticker of the Month Club. The AI Installation Group kicks off Thursday. And the sixth annual SBOC Conference theme just dropped: Find Your People.

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Pat brings Friday Energy to Open Line Thursday. An unexpectedly emotional Artemis II launch story taps into Gen X Challenger memories. Stephanie Kern from Vander Bloom Creative joins live to announce the sticker club Pat bullied her into, featuring the "WTF Claude" sticker. Pat shares his own WTF Claude moment building the live check-in map. Plus the AI story of the day: Perplexity sued for sharing your chat data with Meta and Google. And Pat's biggest insight: why only A-players are adopting AI.

Segments: Artemis II launch + Gen X Challenger trauma, Stephanie Kern sticker club launch (WTF Claude, Avoid the Rabbit Hole), Perplexity privacy lawsuit, why A-players adopt AI first, AI Installation Group kickoff next week, DHS funding stalled, COVID Cicada variant, Retro Weather Channel viral moment, LinkedIn not suppressing AI video, SBOC Conference waitlist

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Pat kicks off April Fools with an AI-translated Mandarin video intro, then demonstrates just how easy video generation has become with a live Grok Imagine demo. He generates Steve Jobs walking on stage as the SBOC keynote speaker and animates last year's conference photos into moving video...all while broadcasting live.

The lead story compares owning a Culver's franchise to building your own business. Culver's locations average $4.14 million in revenue, but the franchisee takes home $250-350K after a $3 million investment and managing dozens of employees. Meanwhile, service-based business owners can reach similar numbers with a fraction of the cost and hassle.

Plus: a MIT study reveals 95% of enterprise AI installs aren't meeting goals (and why employee self-interest is the real bottleneck), Google finally lets you change your Gmail username, and the AI Installation Group launches next week.

Businessing with Pat Miller is small business's daily live show. Solving problems so you can be more profitable, less stressed, and running a modern business. Live weekdays at 11am CT.

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In today's episode: Pat launches the Businessing Daily Check-In — an interactive map where you can see who's watching, connect on LinkedIn, and keep your streak alive. We dig into disposable vs. necessary income and why it matters right now. The Trump administration makes a tone-deaf King Charles move during "No Kings" protests (business lesson: get a second opinion). Tyler Perry gets blocked from doing something good for TSA workers. Apple signs a billion-dollar deal to bring Google Gemini to Siri — and it might be the biggest AI on-ramp yet. Plus the story of a German tourist who sued a taco place for hot salsa, and what it teaches us about creating extreme, talkable offers in your business. And a 10-pound chocolate bunny that requires a hammer.

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OpenAI killed Sora last week. A million dollars a day in computing costs, fewer than 500,000 users, and they walked away from a billion-dollar Disney deal... all to refocus on the core business.

Today we're talking about focus. The thing we all need more of and most of us hate doing. I walk you through a quick exercise to find your one thing and de-emphasize the stuff that's competing with it. You'll know you picked right when it hurts a little.

Plus: Google just dropped a free AI training suite for small business owners. Text "ready" to 20202 for the Department of Labor's free AI course. And the Idea Slam tackles the big question... with all this tech change, where does small business fit right now?

The answer? Unlimited opportunity. Computer. Credit card. Focused task list. Sprinkle of risk. Let's go.

In the news: Iran war day 30, Tiger Woods arrested after rollover crash, NASA Artemis II launching Wednesday, UConn's buzzer-beater sets the Final Four, and new research on erythritol that might make you rethink your sugar substitutes.

Solving small business problems so you can be more profitable, with less stress, and run a modern small business. Real conversations about hiring, marketing, time, AI, and whatever you're working on right now.

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Solving small business problems so you can be more profitable, with less stress, and run a modern small business.In this episode, Pat celebrates the wins that actually matter—and they're real. Four entrepreneurs share breakthrough moments: Talmar Anderson discusses a client breakthrough that changed everything at Boss HQ. Lynn Razzi reveals how she hit #1 bestseller status while running fractional CFO work. Jennifer Buol from Excel & Flourish captured 50% of her annual revenue in just two weeks using Copilot—showing what's possible when you leverage AI right. Nikki Lee shares the weight and joy of making her first hire at GenHead.The AI conversation goes deeper with Michael Cohen using Claude to handle tax complexity and Brad Herda building presentation tools and wage calculators that solve real problems. Pat highlights Make America AI Ready—a free government-backed AI course you can access by text.News hits MLB Opening Day, March Madness, and a Stanford study proving movement extends lifespan. Health Talk anchors Pat's operating system idea: you're the software and the hardware. Two Idea Slam rounds dig into referring outside your expertise and why anti-hustle culture isn't the enemy of real work.The closing question lingers: In an AI world where everyone's got access to information, what becomes the real commodity?

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Learn the three-part framework that makes your products genuinely irresistible—and discover why Google Gemini is now changing how small business owners manage their days.

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

1. The Flea Filter: Value + Timeliness + Fun (inspired by Red Hot Chili Peppers)
2. Google Gemini Personal Intelligence demo and free access
3. Idea Slam: Friends getting weird when you start making money
4. Idea Slam: Knowing it's time to close your business
5. SBOC community moment + AI Installation Group launch

SHOW DESCRIPTION

You got into this for freedom. The ability to choose how you work, when you rest, how it all gets done. But then the to-do list took over, the stress crept in, and now you're doing the whole thing by yourself. Businessing is the daily live show for small business owners who want their business to actually work for their life. We talk about what's real: making more money without burning out, getting the right stuff done without losing your mind, and running a business built for 2026, not 2006.

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Businessing with Pat Miller is a podcast for small business owners who want to get smarter about running their company without the corporate jargon. We cover real strategies, live demos, and honest conversations about what it actually takes to build something that works.

In this episode: How to take vacation as a small business owner (time IS compensation), a live demo of Claude's Computer Use that saved six hours of work in real-time, and how to identify whether your client is actually an "adult" worth working with. Plus news, idea slam, and community updates.

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The Strait of Hormuz deadline just got pushed to Friday and the markets went absolutely vertical. Dow up over 1,000, crude oil crashed 8.62%, and business owners are watching gas prices hit $3.91 wondering what happens next. Pat breaks it all down.

Then the main story: a viewer compliment sparks a conversation about the hardest part of owning your differentiator... actually believing it. Pat walks through a dead-simple act-and-track system that turns tiny daily actions into real confidence. Evidence leads to inevitability. If you've ever felt like a fraud proclaiming you're the best at what you do, this one's for you.

The AI story of the day is a viral video you have to see. A woman who'd never written a line of code built a $25,000 website in six hours with Claude. Her reaction? "WTF Claude." That's the moment waiting for every business owner who finally dives into AI.

Two Idea Slams today: how to close sales without making people feel pressured (hint: your discovery calls need work), and how to get referrals from clients without begging (hint: maybe you need to be better first). Plus, United Airlines just handed down sky justice on the worst people in the world... the ones who watch TikTok on airplanes without headphones.

Solving small business problems so you can be more profitable, with less stress, and run a modern small business.

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Your power pitch is broken and Lisa Raebel is here to fix it. The founder of Rebel Girl Marketing joins Businessing to break down why nobody cares about your certifications and how to talk about the fear and emotion behind what you do instead. Plus: someone screenshotted a business owner's pricing and called them expensive on Facebook — Pat explains why that's actually a compliment. ChatGPT finally gets write actions (welcome to 2026, buddy), Pat discovers Claude Code and becomes the world's best "boop" operator, and a sweat equity deal that might be a golden opportunity or a total trap. All that plus the Idea Slam, news, and community love on today's Businessing with Pat Miller.

Businessing is the daily live show for small business owners who want their business to actually work for their life. We talk about what's real: making more money without burning out, getting the right stuff done without losing your mind, and running a business built for 2026, not 2006.

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