Bruce and Steven sit down for a hosts-only episode to reflect on the first half of the year and build a real plan for Q4 — the quarter that makes or breaks the year for most shops. They break down the "one more order a day" math behind hitting growth targets, why AI-generated graphics are starting to make every shop's marketing look the same, when it's actually worth hiring a brand agency, and the "clone yourself" hire that could be the highest-leverage role in your business.

Lee Stuart (Rogue Lab / Rogue Transfers) joins Bruce and Steven for an update on scaling a 6-person screen print shop into a 60,000+ sq ft, multi-business operation — plus his systemization playbook, his AI tech stack, and the moment being "the best printer in the world" almost broke his business.

SanMar just pulled Bella+Canvas exclusively in-house — 37 days after telling the market nothing would change. Bruce and Steven break down the timeline, why S&S Activewear's private-equity playbook just got disrupted, and whether Gildan is circling S&S next.

Matt Marcotte (Free Gang Sheet Maker, ScreenPrintGPT.com) joins Steven Farag solo (Bruce is out — he just welcomed a baby girl 👶) to talk about what's actually stopping print shop employees from adopting AI — and it's not laziness. They get into the psychology of resistance, how to find and empower an "AI champion" in your shop, and real numbers from tools Matt's built that are being used by thousands of shops.

Most print shops have untapped revenue sitting in their current customer list —  and the person to unlock it is already on your payroll. Steven sits down with  Kevin Baumgart (Sales Ink, fractional VP of Sales at Campus Ink) to break down  exactly how to 

Eduardo Carbia built a screen printing shop in Puerto Rico from the ground up — two automatics, 12 employees, a 50/50 partnership. Then COVID hit, the partnership split, and he started over. Now he runs Puro Print as a one-man operation, subcontracting everything — and he's earning 3–4x what he made before with a fraction of the overhead and a fraction of the stress.

Dan Frank of Silver Screen Printing is back — and a LOT has changed since his last appearance on the show. Dan went from a $2.7M print shop to projecting $23M this year with 110 employees, 60,000 sq ft, and facilities that essentially never close. Along the way: a full company restructure, two managers who had to move on, 15% raises across the leadership team, and a deliberate shift from being an operator to being a coach.

Running 210 people, 12 automatic presses, three shifts, and 30,000+ units per day isn't a hustle story — it's a manufacturing story. Rodney McDonald of US ColorWorks built one of the most operationally sophisticated contract decorating shops in the country by bringing private equity turnaround discipline to the apparel industry.

Brett Bowden of Made Lab and Printed Threads joins Steven to talk about the Make Ready open house event happening June 12th in Fort Worth, TX — and what the print industry needs to understand about AI right now.

Coltin Handrahan started Stay Golden Custom in his high school student council office on Prince Edward Island — Canada's smallest province — and he's been proving that geography is no excuse ever since. Fourteen years in, he runs a 12-person operation with a second location now open in Halifax and a third potentially on the way.