Printavo PrintHustlers Podcast

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Printavo PrintHustlers Podcast episodes

May 20 The Biggest Free Event in Screen Printing Is Happening at Made Lab | Brett Bowden
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.
41 min
May 13 How a Shop in Canada's Smallest Province Is Outbuilding Most Shops in the US
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.
47 min
May 06 Slow Months, Cash Flow Issues, and Redesigning the Shop (with Jonathan Ornelas)
Jonathan Ornelas from Success Print Shop has been in the industry long enough to have big revenue years — and still wonder where the money went. In this honest, wide-open conversation, Jonathan walks us through a brutal March 2026, what he's doing differently in April, and the mental toll of riding the shop roller coaster while balancing a young family.
48 min
April 29 How This Screen Printing Shop Built Custom AI Tools (Without Hiring a Dev Team)
Alex Meiners is the co-founder of Family Industries, one of the most innovative shops in the decorated apparel industry. Based in LA, Family Industries does it all — from live printing experiences at the US Open and Apple Store events to bulk custom orders — and their secret weapon isn't a bigger press or a better supplier. It's the custom technology they've built in-house.
48 min
April 22 How to Double Your Print Shop Revenue in One Year (+ Inside the March Madness Hot Market Rush)
What would you do if you had to double your company in one year — without working more hours?
In this episode, Steven and Bruce break down exactly how they'd approach doubling a print shop's revenue, and Steven shares the wild behind-the-scenes story of Campus Ink's March Madness hot market printing run — from chasing final four teams across the country to pulling 15-20K in sales out of a trailer in 3 hours.
51 min
April 15 The Do's & Don'ts to Hit $5M in Print Shop Sales | Dom Answers 10 Shop Owner Questions
Dom from Superior Ink is back for Part 2. In this episode, he answers 10 real questions from shop owners — covering what it actually took to grow to $5M in sales, the risks that nearly broke the business, why they turned off $10-15K/month in marketing spend, and how they built a production system that runs without the owner on the floor.
54 min
April 08 The Print Shop Owner Who Stopped Chasing Revenue | Dom Rosacci
Dominic Rosacci of Superior Ink is back — and this time, the conversation goes deep. After relocating his entire manufacturing operation 90 miles from Denver to Fountain, Colorado, rehiring from scratch, and opening a satellite office to keep the culture intact, Dom sits down with Bruce and Steven to break down what's actually working, what he got wrong, and what he's still figuring out.
1 hr 2 min
April 01 How to Build a Print Shop That Doesn't Depend on You | Jordan Tollakson Pt. 2
Jordan of Fast Threads is back for Part 2, and this one goes deep. After last week's episode on multi-location expansion and the Four Burners Theory, Bruce and Steven invited Jordan back to pull the curtain back even further — on how he actually runs the business day to day, where the gaps are, and what it would take to get to the next level.
52 min
March 25 Management Offsites, Remote Sales Expansion & the Four Burners Theory
Jordan Tollakson built Fast Threads in Montevideo, Minnesota — a town of 6,000 people — and has since expanded to three locations across rural Minnesota and South Dakota. In this episode, he sits down with Bruce and Steven to share how he blew past the ceiling that most small-town shop owners run into, and what it actually took to get there.
52 min
March 11 How This Print Shop Finally Took a Real Vacation (And What They Learned)
After 15+ years of running In the Zone Inc, Deanna and Josh Smith finally did what most print shop owners only dream about — they took a real two-week vacation. No day trips, no long weekends. Two full weeks away from the shop, exploring Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and glaciers. And it changed everything.
54 min