Small Business Miracles Podcast

On this week’s episode, we’re featuring Paul Whitten, Founder of Nashville Adventures. His path took him from Army service to the Peace Corps to being a UK Parliamentary Fellow — and then to his entrepreneurial journey with Nashville Adventures. We’re talking about service marketing, community partnerships, working with your competitors… and somehow at the same time we’re talking about ghosts, hot chicken, distilleries, pub crawls, corporate tours — and let’s not forget about that hassle-free bachelorette party. Caution: You just might learn some history in the process.

When you build a business with the mindset to solve problems for customers and franchisees, you’re headed down the right path. We sit down with Alisa Sparks, Founder & CEO of Linden Creek to learn about her journey to transform a startup, solo business to a scalable, service-driven brand.

Quality pet supplements require quality controls from start to finish. We think science rules, and Alan Mattox agrees. Alan is the Director of Quality Assurance at Bimini Pet Health, where they contract manufacture pet supplements with human-grade ingredients. Alan walks us through what that looks like at Bimini, start to finish.

EAG recently acquired Ink Inc Public Relations, giving us even more power in our public relations offering. We’re skating to where the puck is going to be in AI-powered search engine optimization (yes, those two things are related) — and making sure small business brands get the media attention they deserve. Listen in on a conversation with EAG’s first Chief Public Relations Officer, Ryan Gerding!

When you’re ready to let your expertise shine, one great strategy is to appear on other people’s podcasts. In what may be the most meta (lowercase m) episode for us yet, we catch up with Carrolee Moore, CEO & Founder of the Podcast Pitching Society to learn about the power of appearing on other people’s podcasts, how to leverage that placement so it continues working for you, and gives us a look at her small business miracle. Plus, she has an offer for our listeners! Tune in to learn more then sign up here.

From concept to succession, KCSourceLink provides resources for entrepreneurs. Their signature event each year is Global Entrepreneurship Week — and Global Entrepreneurship Week Kansas City (GEWKC.com) is where entrepreneurs find their community and level up, locally. We caught up with Becca Castro, Senior Director and Network Builder at KCSourceLink as she gears up for the 2025 event at Union Station Nov. 17-21, 2025.

Jon Morris, Founder & CEO of Fiscal Advocate joins the show to talk about intentionality. Business owners should be intentional about their strategic planning and the importance of having (and sticking to) an ideal client profile. Listen in to hear his growth story, and Jon’s advice for business owners.

But not if you follow it in your entrepreneur journey! Today we’re joined by Maliha Khan, the CEO and Founder of Khanect the Dots to learn about the consultancy she has built, what fuels her, and which popular soda brand re-fuels her along the way.

The Kansas City Economic Development Corporation serves Kansas City business owners with solutions and resources in business and real estate development, job creation, and community investment, with resources and connections to help grow Kansas City. Business Development Officer Jenna Scott rejoins the podcast to talk about how the KC EDC can help entrepreneurs in Kansas City. Listen in!

This may be one of the most challenging times in history to be a nonprofit organization. Nonprofit expert Sidney Smith understood the assignment and has created The Nonprofit Guild to bridge business gaps for nonprofit organizations of all kinds and help them move forward.