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What happens when a business scales faster than the person leading it can sustainably carry?

In this episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey sits down with JR Burgess, entrepreneur, author, healthcare business leader, and consultant, to talk about growth, burnout, leadership, systems, and what it takes to build a business that supports the life of the founder, not the other way around.

JR shares lessons from two decades in the business of medicine, including scaling a clinic, helping replicate an integrated care model across more than 100 locations, and building multiple businesses.

He also talks about the personal cost of operating at an unsustainable pace and the shift that followed when he began paying more attention to health, energy, family, and alignment.

Jen and JR discuss the importance of personal “pillars,” building complementary teams, using core values to guide leadership, addressing problems directly, and creating repeatable processes that allow a company to scale without depending on one person to hold everything together.

They also explore investing, real estate, healthcare ventures, and choosing opportunities that fit long-term values rather than simply saying yes to every possibility.

KEY TOPICS

• Scaling a healthcare business and replicating a model across multiple locations

• Burnout and the hidden cost of constant high performance

• Building a business around personal priorities, health, and family

• JR’s framework for personal pillars and energy management

• Hiring people with complementary strengths

• Core values, team engagement, and direct communication

• Creating repeatable systems and core processes

• Balancing creativity with operational structure

• Learning when to say no to opportunities that are out of alignment

• Real estate, healthcare investments, and values-based capital allocation

• Building a company that can grow without consuming the founder

ABOUT JR BURGESS

JR Burgess has spent two decades in the business of medicine. As CEO of Rejuv Medical from 2009 to 2019, he helped build a practice whose integrated model of care was later replicated across more than 100 clinics. He is a three-time #1 bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and consultant. Today, he serves as CEO of HealthOvators, working with doctors and healthcare leaders on business, leadership, practice growth, and personal transformation.

CONNECT WITH JR BURGESS

JR Burgess Consulting: https://www.jrburgessconsulting.com/

HealthOvators: https://www.healthovators.com/

RedVive Health: https://www.redvivehealth.org/

MD Business Advisors: https://mdbusinessadvisors.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jr.burgess.56

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/burgess.jr/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-jr-burgess-36908846

Free Books, Cash Practice Success & The Influential Doctor: https://jrburgessconsulting.com/resources

Cash Practice Success, Direct Free Copy: https://healthovators.com/cash-practice-success

Note: This episode includes personal wellness experiences discussed by the guest. These perspectives are presented as part of the conversation and are not medical advice or a substitute for professional healthcare.

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What if the next level of business growth has less to do with another strategy, and more to do with the person leading the company?

In this episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey sits down with Michele Laine, Founder & CEO of Michele Laine Coaching, to talk about leadership, nervous system regulation, business growth, and the internal patterns that can shape how high-performing entrepreneurs make decisions.

Michele shares her journey from decades of building businesses with her husband into creating a coaching business focused on helping purpose-driven leaders expand their income, influence, and impact without sacrificing their well-being.

Jen and Michele discuss grounding, breathwork, play, nature, journaling, CEO days, time blocking, and becoming more intentional about how energy, attention, time, and money are used.

They also explore the business side of growth: building a cohesive offer suite instead of constantly creating new offers, watching for operational and financial “leaks,” knowing your numbers, allocating profits with intention, and treating the business like a real business rather than an experiment.

KEY TOPICS

• Moving from constant responsibility into intentional leadership

• Michele’s approach to nervous system regulation and grounding

• Breathwork, play, nature, movement, and journaling as support practices

• CEO days, time blocking, and protecting focused work

• Identifying time, energy, and money leaks inside the business

• The difference between “throwing spaghetti at the wall” and building a cohesive offer suite

• One-on-one coaching, retreats, group programs, and proximity-based offers

• Looking at the numbers and treating the business like a business

• Profit allocation, reinvestment, and preparing to invest outside the business

• Building for freedom, longevity, purpose, and the next chapter of leadership

ABOUT MICHELE LAINE

Michele Laine is the Founder & CEO of Michele Laine Coaching. After more than two decades of building businesses and later developing her own coaching practice, Michele now works with high-performing entrepreneurs and purpose-driven leaders who want to expand their income, influence, and impact while creating more space for well-being, freedom, and intentional leadership.

Her work draws on business experience alongside mindset, nervous system awareness, and personal-development practices.

CONNECT WITH MICHELE LAINE

Website: https://www.michelelaine.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michele.laine.7/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachmichelelaine_/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJLu5sloBqIZR6YfgzqmPw

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-laine-66154a2b

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How do you turn speaking into a real business, and get paid for your expertise without needing celebrity status?

In this episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey sits down with James Malinchak, motivational speaker, business coach, and Founder of BigMoneySpeaker.com, to break down the business model behind professional speaking and the strategy that helped him build a long-running speaking and coaching business.

James explains the difference between public-event speaking and fee-paid speaking, why those two markets require different positioning, and how speakers can monetize through either offers or speaking fees.

He also shares why understanding who controls the budget matters as much as crafting the message itself, and why strong marketing can determine whether a great speaker ever gets booked.

Jen and James also discuss paid visibility, using credibility strategically, intimate events versus large seminars, profitability, client trust, coaching offers, and designing a business model that creates both strong margins and deeper connection.

KEY TOPICS

• The difference between public-event speaking and fee-paid speaking

• How speakers can monetize their expertise without celebrity status

• Positioning a topic for the market that is actually paying

• Why the buyer, budget holder, and event organizer matter

• “Speak and offer” versus getting paid a speaking fee

• When paid visibility can be strategically useful

• Building trust through smaller, more intimate events

• Creating high-value coaching offers around live experiences

• Profitability, overhead, and James’s “gator mouth” business philosophy

• Why marketing the message matters as much as mastering the message

• Building funnels that support a speaking business without requiring the founder to be involved all day

ABOUT JAMES MALINCHAK

James Malinchak is a motivational speaker, business coach, and Founder of BigMoneySpeaker.com. After beginning his career as a stockbroker, he moved into professional speaking and built a business around teaching others how to get booked, position their expertise, and monetize their message. In the episode, James shares lessons from decades of speaking, live events, coaching, and building educational products for speakers and entrepreneurs.

CONNECT WITH JAMES MALINCHAK

Website: http://bigmoneyspeaker.com

Speak at Colleges: https://www.speakatcolleges.com/

Paid to Speak Now: https://www.paidtospeaknow.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamesmalinchakbigmoneyspeaker

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesmalinchaks/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmalinchak/

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How do high performers keep growing without burning through the energy that got them there?

In this episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey sits down with Maria Abramovich, Founder & CEO of Supramere and a healing and intuition practitioner, to explore Maria’s framework for energetic optimization, presence, and high performance.

Maria shares how she moved from an academic and professional background into work centered on intuition, energy healing, and what she describes as the layer beneath strategy, psychology, biology, and training.

Jen and Maria discuss burnout, nervous system regulation, routines that stop working as a founder evolves, and Maria’s belief that greater presence can help high performers operate with less strain.

The conversation also explores Maria’s concepts of the biofield, energetic density, energetic “pathogens,” and reclaiming attention from rumination, urgency, fear, and over-identification with outcomes.

Maria offers practical practices she uses with clients, including journaling, breathing, acupressure, reducing digital noise, movement, and creating more intentional morning and evening routines.KEY TOPICS• Maria’s approach to energetic optimization for high performers

• Burnout, routines, and the cost of operating on autopilot

• Presence, attention, and nervous system support

• Maria’s framework around the biofield and energetic density

• Her concept of energetic “pathogens” and reclaiming attention

• The difference between focused ambition and obsessive striving

• Morning and evening routines designed to reduce noise

• Journaling, breathing, acupressure, movement, and other grounding practices

• Scaling a business while protecting vitality and reducing unnecessary strain

• High performance, intuition, and the human layer beneath strategyABOUT MARIA ABRAMOVICH

Maria Abramovich works with athletes, founders, executives, creatives, medical professionals, and other high performers who want support beyond conventional strategy and performance systems. Her work draws on psychological training, a background in music psychotherapy, study of anatomy and physiology, and years of one-to-one practice. She focuses on what she describes as the unseen human layer beneath performance, with an emphasis on discretion, presence, and individualized support.CONNECT WITH MARIA ABRAMOVICH

Website: https://www.mariaxabramovich.com/

Note: This episode includes personal experiences, spiritual frameworks, and wellness practices discussed by the guest. These perspectives are presented as part of the conversation and are not medical advice or a substitute for professional healthcare.

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What happens when the person building the business is running on empty?

In this episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey sits down with Shannon Salge, Founder & CEO of The Wellness Paradigm, to talk about why health can become a critical business issue for founders and high-performing entrepreneurs, and why generic “do all the things” wellness advice often misses the individual behind the symptoms.

Shannon shares her path from professional dance and fitness into functional health coaching, including the health challenges that pushed her to look beyond the approaches she had already tried.

Jen and Shannon discuss Shannon’s work with women around gut health, hormones, metabolism, nervous system support, nutrition, and bioresonance testing, as well as the importance of individualized support and working alongside appropriate medical care.

They also move into the business side: hiring before you feel fully ready, buying back the founder’s time, learning when a team member is no longer the right fit, protecting client trust, and adapting services as the market changes.

KEY TOPICS

• Why founder health can affect business performance and sustainability

• Shannon’s transition from fitness into functional health coaching

• Gut health, hormones, metabolism, and nervous system support

• Shannon’s approach to bioresonance testing and personalized protocols

• Why one-size-fits-all supplements and wellness trends can miss the mark

• The importance of medical oversight when discussing treatments such as peptides

• Hiring support to buy back the founder’s time

• Building a client-support team without losing trust or quality

• Knowing when to make a difficult team change

• Creating a business around a clear problem and a specific client need

ABOUT SHANNON SALGEShannon Salge is a functional health expert, bioenergetic practitioner, podcast host, and Founder & CEO of The Wellness Paradigm.

Her work focuses on helping women explore the patterns behind concerns such as fatigue, hormone imbalance, gut issues, and stubborn weight through personalized nutrition, nervous system support, bioenergetic testing, and other wellness strategies.

CONNECT WITH SHANNON SALGE

Website: https://www.thewellnessparadigm.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shannon.salge/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannon.salge/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-salge

Free Facebook Community: https://bit.ly/TWP_Free_Group

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wellness-paradigm/id1809268079

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6WX8zpmuOWzA08LtJGO8BA?si=9cfe84ecbb234739

Metabolic Health & Hormonal Harmony Quiz: https://thewellnessparadigm.com/metabolic-health-hormone-harmony-quiz

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What happens when success looks good on the outside, but no longer feels aligned on the inside?

In this episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey sits downwith Katie Moriarty, Founder of Full Spectrum FEMME Retreats, to explore what it can look like to move from high-performance hustle into a more sustainable,embodied way of leading and building a business.

Katie shares how a 13-year career in real estate, includingyears as a high-performing agent, eventually led her to rethink the way she was working, achieving, and defining success. Jen and Katie talk about identity, burnout, the constant feeling of “not enough,” and Katie’s approach to feminine energetics, embodiment, somatic work, and balancing masculine structure with feminine intuition.

They also explore how high-achieving founders can createmore space for rest, self-trust, authenticity, visibility, and impact, without abandoning ambition, strategy, or growth.

KEY TOPICS

• Moving from high-performance hustle into a moresustainable way of leading

• Identity, self-concept, and the “not enough” pattern

• Katie’s approach to feminine energetics, embodiment, andsomatic work

• Balancing masculine structure with feminine intuition inbusiness

• Building a mission that is driven by impact—not onlyrevenue

• Supporting high-achieving women through growth,visibility, and change

• Letting go of constant control and learning to receive

• Handling judgment and increased visibility as a founder

• Retreats, mentorship, and Katie’s vision for expanding herwork into larger organizations

ABOUT KATIE MORIARTY

Katie Moriarty is the Founder of Full Spectrum FEMMERetreats and a feminine energetics and embodiment mentor. After a 13-year career in real estate, Katie transitioned into mentorship for high-achieving women who want to reconnect with their identity, wholeness, feminine power, anddeeper sense of purpose. Through retreats, group programs, and one-to-one mentorship, her work blends personal development, embodiment, energetics, andleadership.

CONNECT WITH KATIE MORIARTY

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katie.moriarty.467254

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefullspectrumfemme/

Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/dz/podcast/the-full-spectrum-femme/id1713500547?l=ar

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-moriarty-455471316/

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What does it take to lead a multigenerational family business from seven figures to eight figures, without giving up the culture that made it successful?

In this episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey sits down with Amanda Root, CEO of Tri-City Home Solutions, to talk about stepping into leadership, scaling a family-owned home services company, and building the financial literacy required to grow with intention.

Amanda shares how she navigated the transition from General Manager to CEO, expanded the business into new trades through acquisitions, protected a strong family-centered team culture, and shifted her focus from top-line revenue to profitability, cash flow, and the balance sheet.

Jen and Amanda also discuss reinvesting profits, understanding tax strategy instead of outsourcing it blindly, managing cash more effectively, diversifying into real estate, and making growth decisions without sacrificing autonomy.

For founders and CEOs growing established businesses, this conversation offers a practical look at what changes when leadership, money, systems, and legacy all start operating at a bigger scale.

KEY TOPICS

• Transitioning from operator to CEO in a family business

• Scaling through acquisitions and new service lines

• Protecting culture while the company grows

• Revenue vs. gross profit, net profit, and cash flow

• Financial literacy and cash-management discipline

• Reinvesting profits and understanding tax strategy

• Real estate, diversification, and long-term wealth

• Private equity, autonomy, and choosing the right growth path

• Building a business legacy that serves the community

ABOUT AMANDA ROOT

Amanda Root is the CEO of Tri-City Home Solutions and co-founder of Sea No Evil. She leads a multi-million-dollar home services business and focuses on strategic growth, operational excellence, team culture, and customer experience.

Amanda is also a business and manifestation mentor for women who are building and scaling their companies, blending practical business strategy with mindset, vision, and intentional leadership.

CONNECT WITH AMANDA ROOTWebsite provided by Amanda: https://www.tricityappliance.com/

Tri-City Home Solutions site listed in pipeline: https://www.tricityhomesolutions.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriCityCT/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tricityhomesolutions/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-root-a0aa4a111

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You hit the number you once thought would change everything, and almost immediately started chasing the next one. In this solo episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey explains why that feeling is not necessarily burnout or ingratitude. It can be a structural problem: revenue increased, but ownership and independence did not.

Jen breaks down the difference between revenue, profit, and wealth; why a founder-dependent business can still function like a high-paying job; and how concentration, idle cash, and constant reinvestment can leave successful operators with impressive numbers but little real diversification.

She also shares the moment a small cash-flowing asset changed the structure of her life, not because the payment was huge, but because the income arrived without requiring another hour of her labor.

KEY TOPICS

• Why revenue, profit, and wealth are three different things
• The hidden pressure behind ever-larger revenue goals
• How founder dependence can turn a business into a job you own
• Concentration risk when most of your net worth sits in one operating company
• Why idle business cash is still a capital-allocation decision
• How to evaluate whether reinvested capital is actually producing a return
• The importance of converting active income into ownership
• Why one recurring bill can be a better first target than a giant net-worth goal
• Two practical questions founders can use to audit their current capital position

ABOUT JEN CONKEY

Jen Conkey is an entrepreneur and investor who has built three companies to seven, eight, and nine figures and deployed capital into a nine-figure commercial real estate portfolio. Through THE Capital CEO, she focuses on the mechanics of scaling businesses, allocating capital strategically, and turning business success into long-term ownership and wealth.

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ABOUT THE CAPITAL CEO

THE Capital CEO features candid conversations with entrepreneurs who have built six-, seven-, and eight-figure businesses by solving real problems and learning how to monetize them.

Host Jen Conkey explores the journey behind the growth, where successful founders invest their profits, and how they think about capital, opportunity, and what comes next.

This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and is not financial, tax, legal, or investment advice.

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A paycheck can feel like security, until the day it disappears. In this solo episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey shares the story behind the question that changed the way she thought about income, ownership, and freedom.

After being laid off in 2001, Jen returned to corporate America, but she went back differently. She began buying and flipping real estate on the side, eventually becoming highly productive at it, only to realize that she had built herself a second job. The turning point came at her kitchen table when she asked one simple question: “How can I own a property for every bill that I have?”

Jen walks through how that question shifted her focus from earning more to owning more, why one cash-flowing duplex mattered more than its size suggested, and how years of unglamorous asset-building eventually made her corporate paycheck optional.

KEY TOPICS

• Why a regular paycheck is not the same thing as financial security
• Jen’s 2001 layoff and the decision to return to corporate America with a different plan

• How flipping houses created income—but not freedom
• The 11-word question that changed Jen’s capital strategy
• The “one bill, one asset” approach to building ownership
• Why the first cash-flowing property mattered even though the numbers were modest
• How long-term ownership gave Jen the option to leave corporate on her own terms
• Why the real exit happens before the resignation letter

ABOUT JEN CONKEY

Jen Conkey is an entrepreneur and investor who has built three companies to seven, eight, and nine figures and deployed capital into a nine-figure commercial real estate portfolio. Through THE Capital CEO, she focuses on the mechanics of scaling businesses, allocating capital strategically, and turning business success into long-term ownership and wealth.

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ABOUT THE CAPITAL CEO

THE Capital CEO features candid conversations with entrepreneurs who have built six-, seven-, and eight-figure businesses by solving real problems and learning how to monetize them. Host Jen Conkey explores the journey behind the growth, where successful founders invest their profits, and how they think about capital, opportunity, and what comes next.

This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and is not financial, tax, legal, or investment advice.

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Making more money does not automatically make you wealthy. In this opening solo episode of THE Capital CEO, Jen Conkey breaks down the three-stage framework she wishes more successful entrepreneurs understood: make it, keep it, grow it.

Jen explains why revenue is only the beginning, why profit and retention matter more than vanity numbers, and why ownership is the bridge between high income and lasting wealth. She also walks through the signals that show whether you have actually completed each stage, and the traps that keep even successful founders stuck in step one.

KEY TOPICS

• The difference between revenue, profit, and wealth
• Jen’s “Make It. Keep It. Grow It.” framework
• Why lifestyle creep can erase the freedom that higher income was supposed to create
• What “keeping it” really means: structure, taxes, entity decisions, compensation, and deliberate capital management
• Why founders need to convert active income into ownership
• How cash-flowing assets can begin replacing recurring personal expenses
• The question every operator should ask: Which step am I actually on?

ABOUT JEN CONKEY

Jen Conkey is an entrepreneur and investor who has built three companies to seven, eight, and nine figures and deployed capital into a nine-figure commercial real estate portfolio. Through THE Capital CEO, she focuses on the mechanics of scaling businesses, allocating capital strategically, and turning business success into long-term ownership and wealth.

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ABOUT THE CAPITAL CEO

THE Capital CEO features candid conversations with entrepreneurs who have built six-, seven-, and eight-figure businesses by solving real problems and learning how to monetize them. Host Jen Conkey explores the journey behind the growth, where successful founders invest their profits, and how they think about capital, opportunity, and what comes next.

This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and is not financial, tax, legal, or investment advice.

#TheCapitalCEO #Entrepreneurship #WealthBuilding #CapitalAllocation #BusinessGrowth