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Scaling a business shouldn’t feel like guesswork. If you’re tired of relying on referrals or one-off wins that can’t be repeated, this episode will show you a better way.

I’m joined by Don Traxler, leading growth strategist and founder of RevSpark Media, where he helps medical clinics, wellness brands, and franchise owners achieve seven- and eight-figure growth through predictable growth systems. Don’s expertise spans men’s health, regenerative medicine, weight loss clinics, telehealth, and franchising.

In this conversation, Don shares why cheap leads and AI automation alone create bottlenecks, why referrals are like “building on sand,” and how franchise operators can replicate scalable marketing systems across every location. We unpack how to move from unpredictable, random results into data-driven, high-intent client acquisition that fuels sustainable growth.

If you’re ready to replace chance with clarity, and growth with systems you can trust, this episode is for you.

• Getting Things Done by David Allen
  
  
• The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
  
  
  

Connect with Don at revsparkmedia.com or on LinkedIn. His book, The Franchise Advertising Excellence Playbook, is available now on Amazon.

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Scaling past seven figures shouldn’t mean sacrificing your health, family, or freedom. Yet too many agency owners find themselves buried in broken systems, unclear handoffs, or team bottlenecks that steal time and drain margins.

That’s why I invited John Henao, Founder & CEO of Go Staffy and eWiser, who scaled his own digital agency to seven figures with a fully remote Colombian team. In this episode, John and I unpack how agency freedom comes not from chasing revenue, but from building sustainable systems, leveraging AI-ready teams, and making the right next hire at the right time.

You’ll hear how he grew from $15k MRR to seven figures in just over two years, why profit without freedom is a trap, and how to redesign operations so they stop breaking every time you hit a new revenue level. If you’ve been searching for practical strategies to reduce burnout, delegate smarter, and scale profitably, this episode gives you the blueprint.

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• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  
  
• Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven
  
  
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
  
  
• The Bible
  
  

Connect with John Henao on Instagram or Facebook at John Henao, or visit GoStaffy.com to explore how his team can help your agency scale sustainably. Keep an eye out for his upcoming book The Freedom Agency and his new podcast Go Accomplish More.

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Scaling your agency shouldn’t cost you peace, clarity, or capacity. If growth feels like a bottleneck — more clients, more chaos, and too many hats — this episode will help shift that.

I sat down with Brent Weaver, serial entrepreneur and now CEO of E2M Solutions, a white-label services platform supporting over 300 digital agencies worldwide. Brent built, scaled, and exited his own agency, then led UGURUS inside Cloudways (a $100M division of Digital Ocean) before stepping in to help agency owners like you remove the operational ceiling.

We talk about the systems behind sustainable white label agency growth, embedding external teams into your ops stack, automating proposals, leveraging AI for service delivery, and how to build with discipline — not burnout.

This isn’t theory. It’s proven strategy you can plug in now.

📚 Books Mentioned

• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
  
  

If you're an agency owner exploring white label partnerships, or simply want to connect, Brent would love to hear from you. Reach him directly at [email protected] or visit e2msolutions.com

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Feeling overworked, under-inspired, or stuck rewriting the same proposals on repeat? You’re not lacking time — you may be underleveraging your creative edge.

In this episode, I’m joined by Brad Ball, co-founder of Ardent Creative, Verity Software, and Committed Mastermind, to reframe creativity as a business advantage — especially when combined with AI for agency owners.

Brad shares how his team used AI to shrink 60 hours of proposal work down to 1 hour, while improving personalization, speed, and accuracy. But the real insight? Creativity isn’t just for designers — it’s a mindset. A muscle. And every entrepreneur scaling past 7 figures needs it firing on all cylinders.

We’ll explore the four-part framework from his book Art of Entrepreneurs, how automation enhances—not replaces—creativity, and why agency owners must shift from overworking to orchestrating.

If you’ve ever thought, “I’m just not creative,” this one’s for you.

📚 Books Mentioned

• Art of Entrepreneurs by Brad Ball
  
  
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
  
  

You can grab Brad’s book, Art of Entrepreneurs, wherever books are sold — I highly recommend it. To explore more of his creative and entrepreneurial work, visit https://www.ardentcreative.com or search for his art online.

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Scaling an agency beyond seven figures demands more than hard work — it requires clarity, leverage, and systems that don’t break under pressure. In this episode, I’m joined by Richard Levy, Founder and CEO of Sophera Marketing, who brings decades of global marketing and leadership experience. We talk about how to use AI for agency growth in ways that actually move the numbers your C-suite cares about, how to prove marketing ROI without guesswork, and how to lead distributed teams across time zones without losing momentum. Richard shares practical ways to eliminate bottlenecks, align marketing strategy with revenue, and harness AI for smarter decisions — not just faster ones. If you want to scale with focus, protect your energy, and elevate your team’s performance, you’ll find clear, actionable strategies here you can put to work right away.


📚 Books Mentioned

• Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin
  
  
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
  
  
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
  
  

You can connect with Richard on LinkedIn or email him at [email protected]. He shares regular insights on marketing, leadership, and business strategy, and he’s always open to a good conversation, even if you see things differently.

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If you’re scaling fast but still stuck in every decision, system, and Slack thread, this episode is for you.

I sat down with Flynn Zaiger, CEO of Online Optimism, a 13-year digital creative agency recently named one of Inc.’s Best Places to Work. Flynn started his agency six months out of college with no outside funding — and now leads a nationally distributed team that runs with clarity, ownership, and initiative.

We talk about the systems and culture shifts that made that possible — including how Flynn built layers of leadership, used internal AI tools without losing humanity, and developed onboarding systems that reduce churn and increase trust. This is a real-world, founder-level conversation about scaling agency leadership without becoming the bottleneck, losing your people, or burning out.

Whether you’re wrestling with client handoffs, team autonomy, or sustainable agency growth, Flynn’s insights will help you move from controlling everything to empowering excellence.

📚 Books Mentioned
The Power Broker by Robert Caro

Want to connect with Flynn? You can find him on LinkedIn at Flynn Zaiger, or reach out to his team at Online Optimism. And yes — they really did take away his social media passwords. You’ll hear why.

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You’ve scaled your agency — but now you’re carrying too much, spinning too many plates, and wondering how to grow without grinding harder.

In this episode, I’m joined by Lindsey Busfield, VP at Optimize My Firm and host of The Personal Injury Marketing Minute. Lindsey is a leading voice in legal SEO — but what makes this conversation essential for high-performing agency leaders isn’t SEO strategy... it’s how she built a sustainable agency growth model by stepping back from burnout, clarifying her strengths, and structuring a team around what actually works.

We talk about team design that fuels performance, how to stop being the bottleneck, and the systems she used to scale from a small operation to a nationally respected SEO firm — all without selling her soul to the hustle.

If you’re ready to build with clarity, create capacity without chaos, and grow in a way that lasts, this conversation is your blueprint.

📚 Books Mentioned

• Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
  
  
• Pete the Cat by James Dean and Eric Litwin
  
  
• InvestiGators by John Patrick Green

To learn more about Lindsey and her work, visit OptimizeMyFirm.com or connect with her directly at [email protected]. You can also check out her podcast, The Personal Injury Marketing Minute, recognized by Attorney at Law Magazine as one of the best legal podcasts of 2025.

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If your marketing feels scattered, your team’s unclear on what’s working, and the KPIs don’t connect to revenue, this episode was built for you.

I sat down with Josh Ramsey, fractional CMO, founder of JRCMO and a full-stack marketing agency, and the strategist behind more than 80,000 campaigns. We talk about what happens when marketing becomes too tactical, and how to rebuild from a systems-level perspective.

Josh shares why clarity in messaging, positioning, and internal operations matters more than chasing the next trend, especially for digital agency owners scaling past 7 figures. He breaks down how he uses personalized KPIs, 30-day diagnostic audits, and team alignment frameworks to fix the real problems under the hood. This episode explores blind spots, strategic navigation, and how a fractional CMO can help you scale without wasting time, money, or team energy.

📚 Books Mentioned

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  
  
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
  
  
• The Silva Mind Control Method by José Silva 
  
  

To learn more about how Josh helps companies solve what others miss, visit jrcmo.com or Google "Josh Ramsey Marketing." As he says — “I'm pretty easy to find online.”

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When your team starts to grow, things shift — and not always in the way you expect. Bottlenecks show up where trust should be. Communication breaks down just when clarity matters most. If you're leading a digital agency that's scaling fast, the pressure isn’t just in performance — it’s in holding the culture together while everything accelerates.

This week, I’m joined by Brittany Hansen — a tech entrepreneur, co-founder of a bootstrapped SaaS company built without venture capital. Her platform solves for one of the biggest blind spots in business today: how to deliver the right message in the right way to a global, multilingual, multicultural audience.

We unpack the systems she uses to build trust, the decision to scale without outside capital, and how values-driven leadership creates teams that don’t just perform — they stay aligned under pressure. If you’ve ever wondered how to scale your team without losing your voice, your mission, or your momentum… this one’s for you.

📚 Books Mentioned

• Radical Candor by Kim Scott
  
  
• The 6MX Solution by Chase Hughes
  
  
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
  
  
• Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards
  
  
  

You can connect with Brittany directly on LinkedIn — she welcomes conversation and is generous with her time. If her insights sparked a question or idea, reach out. She’d love to hear it.

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Team tension rarely starts loud—but left unaddressed, it will quietly stall momentum, drain energy, and cost you real money. I’ve seen it happen in fast-scaling digital agencies more times than I can count. In this episode, I’m joined by Greg Stephens—executive coach, bestselling author, and founder of Alignment Resources—who’s spent 25+ years helping leaders master the one thing most avoid: hard conversations.

Greg shares how leadership conflict resolution isn’t about theory—it’s a repeatable system that transforms how your team performs, how you lead under pressure, and how you recover trust when it's been eroded. If you’re scaling past 7-figures and noticing communication breakdowns, bottlenecks, or culture cracks, this is the system worth learning.

You’ll hear real-world breakthroughs—from executive teams and plant managers to family businesses—and walk away with actionable insight to lead better conversations, faster decisions, and stronger alignment.

📚 Books Mentioned

• Awareness by Anthony de Mello
  
  
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
  
  
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
  
  
• 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Warner Klemp
  
  
• Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
  
  
• Crucial Accountability by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
  
  
• Crucial Influence by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
  
  
• Do You Take Your Own Advice? by Anidio Mahal
  
  
  

To learn more from Greg or explore his leadership conflict resolution programs, visit alignment-resources.com or connect with him directly at [email protected]. Check out his book, Build New Bridges, and his upcoming podcast A Spiritual Peace.

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