Lindsay Howerton calls herself a scalpel. Some operators are machetes. Some fall somewhere in the middle. She's the one you hand a stalled business to when sales can't keep up with operations, or operations can't keep up with sales, or the leader just knows something is off and can't name it. In this conversation she walks through how she learned to read people and process early, why she almost didn't want to be tied to her Missouri hometown, and how she and her husband now buy and rehab blighted houses there on purpose.