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Kurtis Cummings founded Switchyard Brewing Company in his garage and then spent 7 years developing the business plan before opening his doors.  In this episode, he breaks down the 8 guiding principles that he developed to get there.  

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Topics covered include:

• Starting the business (5:00)
• Serving great beer (16:00)
• Creating a great place to hang out (20:30)
• Open book management (26:00)
• A great place to work (37:00)
• A place to learn (41:00)
• Giving back to the community (44:00)

Special thanks to Kurtis Cummings for taking the time to share the Switchyard Brewing story with us

Contributors to this episode include:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Music - Mark Vinten
• Editing - Christopher Lang

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Chuck Surack founded Sweetwater Sound in his VW Bus. Now he's closing in on a billion dollars annual revenue.

Topics discussed include:

• Resources (5:00)
• Getting started in a VW Bus (12:30)
• Old tech vs new tech (16:00)
• Advantages and disadvantages of audio tech (18:45)
• How the Kurzweil K250 changed everything (20:00)
• Customer service and sales training (29:00)
• Trends in audio (33:00)
• The NAMM Show (35:30)
• The Amazon threat? (37:45)
• Acquiring businesses (46:00)
• Where’s Sweetwater 10 years from now? (54:55)

Mentions:

• Business Schooled Podcast
• Tower of Power
• NAMM

Special thanks to Chuck Surack for sharing Sweetwater's story

Contributors to this episode include:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Music Production - Mark Vinten
• Audio Editing - Christopher Lang
• Copy Editing - Talia Chakraborty

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Dhar Mann grew LiveGlam from a small business to a booming multimillion dollar success through influencer marketing.

Topics:

• Resources (5:30)
• Origins (8:45)
• Growth (15:00)
• Dhar’s mantra (19:50)
• Which ideas to pursue (21:00)
• Learning from failure (24:30)
• Influencer marketing (32:45)
• Influencer responsibilities (39:20)
• How to become an influencer (42:00)
• Dhar's 5 year plan (45:45)

Mentions:

Gary Vaynerchuk

Measure What Matters

Project Management Tool - Monday

Special thanks to Dhar Mann for sharing LiveGlam's story

Contributors to this episode include:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Music Production - Mark Vinten
• Audio Editing - Christopher Lang
• Copy Editing - Talia Chakraborty

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Pat East, founder of Hanapin Marketing and director of The Dimension Mill, knows the five things it takes to create a healthy profitable business.

Do you?

Hit play to find out.

Mentions:

• The Tim Ferris Show
• The 4-Hour Work Week
• Breakthrough Strategy
• Siri
• QuickBooks
• Digital Marketing Blog
• Hero Conference
• Showers Brothers Furniture Factory
• StoryBrand
• Clayton Christianson

Special thanks to Pat East for sharing his story with us

Contributors:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Music Production - Mark Vinten
• Audio Editing - Christopher Lang
• Copy Editing - Talia Chakraborty

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You’ve been warned since you were small not to play with glass. It’s sharp, it’s fragile, and you’ll get hurt if it breaks. Abby Gitlitz, founder of The Bloomington Creative Glass Center (BCGC), agrees. You’ll get hurt if it breaks, and you can count on it breaking if you blow glass. You’ll get burnt too. But it won’t be a big hurt, and you’ll learn to make art using the medium you’ve been scared of since before you can remember.

Hit play if you want to hear about:

• magical realism
• apocalyptic literature and art
• glass pumpkins
• the science of blown glass, and more.

Some Mentions:

• Shine Insurance
• Station Eleven
• Welcome to Night Vale
• The NeverEnding Story
• Great Glass Pumpkin Patch
• Bay Area Glass Institute
• The MIT Glass Lab
• Monroe County Public Library (MCPL)
• Switchyard Park

Special thanks to Abby Gitlitz for sharing her story with us

Contributors:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Music Production - Mark Vinten
• Audio Editing - Christopher Lang
• Copy Editing - Talia Chakraborty

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Medical conversations are usually one of two things: confusing, bad news (or both). Join me and Pete Yonkman as we talk medical equipment shop in a way you, your five year old, or your great grandmother would understand. Learn how medical devices changed the face of healthcare forever, how Bill and Gayle Cook went on the entrepreneurial venture of a lifetime, and how Cook President Pete Yonkman once kidnapped a scooter.

Along the way, you’ll gain insight into how to create a positive company culture, how to give back to your community, and how the American healthcare system compares to others around the world.

Still wondering why this episode is titled “walking billboard for cook medical"? Hit play to find out.

Mentions:

• Cook Medical
• Cook Group
• Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin
• The Dimension Mill

Special thanks to Pete Yonkman for sharing his story with us

Contributors:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Music Production - Mark Vinten
• Audio Editing - Christopher Lang
• Copy Editing - Talia Chakraborty

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Thanks for listening and as always, Shine on!

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Have you ever met someone who had their whole life figured out before they’d learned how to tie their shoes? Most of us have no idea what we want to be when we grow up. Or we think we do, but with age and gray hairs realize pro baseball probably isn’t going to happen...

Others stumble purely by chance into dream careers, never looking back. Enter Matt Ellenwood of Matte Black Architecture.

Join us as he begins his professional journey in the sixth grade on Career Day. Follow him as he builds a flourishing career out of small beginnings in Muncie, larger than life skyscrapers in Seattle, and finally a beautiful mix of modern and traditional in our beloved Bloomington.

If you’re curious to learn how:

• architecture is the perfect mix of art, math, and problems (time and money);
• the healthiest, most profitable businesses find a balance between making money and helping people; and
• everything comes full circle when Matt talks entrepreneurship with his son’s fourth grade class,

go ahead and hit play.

Mentions:

• Matte Black Architecture
• Radiolab
• 99% Invisible
• A Very Fatal Murder
• Cardinal Spirits
• The Dimension Mill
• The Wilds Venue

Special thanks to Matt Ellenwood for sharing his story with us

Contributors:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Music Production - Mark Vinten
• Audio Editing - Christopher Lang
• Copy Editing - Talia Chakraborty

If you enjoyed this episode, stick around:

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Thanks for listening and as always, Shine on!

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We all dream of taking the thing we love to do and growing it into a healthy profitable business.  Well our guest today has done just that.  Since she was a little girl sewing was a curiosity, then a pastime, then a college major, and then a career.  Now Margaret is the owner of a sewing and tailoring shop called The Tailored Fit.  In this episode she shares about working on Broadway, how to pick the right sewing machine, and what it takes to build a business from scratch.

We're glad you joined us!

Topics discussed include:

• Podcasts we’re listening to (1:00)
• How Margaret got in to sewing (3:45)
• Going from Quilting to Costuming on Broadway (18:00)
• Starting her own business (30:30)
• What makes a bad sewing machine (32:00)
• Recommended sewing machines (34:00)
• The Tailored Fit five years from now (47:30)

Mentioned in the episode:

The Tailored Fit

The Entre Leadership Podcast

Threads Magazine Podcast

Association of Sewing and Design Professionals

Special thanks to Margaret Fette for taking the time to share her story with us

Contributors to this episode include:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Music - Mark Vinten
• Editing - Christopher Lang

If you enjoyed this podcast, there’s a couple of things we need you to do right now: 

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• SHARE with friends
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Today’s show is the fourth in our series of on-air coaching sessions between veteran executive coach David Quick and an entrepreneur who sits at a crossroads.  A big decision point in his or her business.

Our guest today has built a painless way for your business to share your expertise with the world.  His team includes rock star writers, street-wise marketing gurus, and analytics obsessed techies.  When you put that all together, Content Cucumber has created a one stop shop for building your brand and sharing your perspective with the world.  Our guest today is co-founder Chris Chasteen who started as a financial investor in the project but then felt so connected with it he up his connection to a full-fledged member of the founding team.  

Topics discussed include:

• Podcasts we’re listening to (4:30)
• Chris’ Crossroad (7:30)
• With money out of the equation, which business would Chris choose? (11:30)
• The steps to making Content Cucumber profitable (17:30)
• Dave’s tip #1: Setting milestones and the steps to achieve them (26:00)
• Dave’s tip #2: Prepping for the ownership conversation (32:00)
• Dave’s tip #3: Create a laundry list of loose ends, if the conversation goes well (35:30)

Mentioned in the episode:

• BeeCorp
• Enrollment Fuel
• Shine Insurance
• How I built This
• Scratch Entrepreneur
• BTown LowDown
• Up & Vanished

Special thanks to Chris Chasteen for taking the time to share his crossroads with us

Contributors to this episode include:

• Host - Jeremy Goodrich
• Co-host - David Quick
• Music - Mark Vinten
• Editing - Christopher Lang

If you enjoyed this podcast, there’s a couple of things we need you to do right now: 

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Jeremy walks you through his thoughts on reflecting and projecting for the coming year. 

He address the year that was and new things that are coming up.