Choosing the right 3PL partner can make or break your e-commerce business.

In this episode of Vision Pros Live, host Jackson Calame sits down with Dave Gulas to uncover what most brands get wrong when selecting a 3PL partner and how those mistakes quietly impact growth, customer experience, and profitability.

As e-commerce brands scale, many assume fulfillment is just an operational decision. But the truth is, your 3PL plays a critical role in your ability to grow, compete, and deliver consistently.

In this conversation, we explore:

• What most e-commerce brands overlook when choosing a 3PL partner

• The hidden ways a poor 3PL decision can slow or damage growth

• How to evaluate a 3PL beyond pricing and basic capabilities

• Why the people behind the company make the difference

• How agile small businesses can outperform complacent big box competitors

• What scaling brands must understand before outsourcing fulfillment

If you're building or scaling an e-commerce business, this conversation will give you a clearer framework to make smarter operational decisions.

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Many founders assume their business isn’t growing because of marketing, sales, or team performance. But what if the real issue lies somewhere deeper?

In this episode of Vision Pros Live, host Jackson Calame sits down with Kathie Feng, founder of Signal Growth, to break down the “Winning Triangle” for revenue growth, a powerful framework that helps leaders diagnose whether their growth challenges come from their product, market, or offer.

If you’re a founder, entrepreneur, or business leader feeling stuck between urgent projects, unclear priorities, and stalled growth, this conversation will help you uncover what’s really holding your business back.

In this conversation we explore:

• The Winning Triangle for Revenue Growth (most founders miss this)

• How to diagnose product, market, and offer alignment

• The Growth Illusion: why most companies fix the wrong problem

• Why businesses often blame marketing when the real issue is elsewhere

• How to prioritize when everything feels urgent

• Why repeatable systems look different for pre-seed, growth-stage, and enterprise brands

Join us for a powerful discussion on leadership, strategy, and building businesses that grow intentionally.

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Most entrepreneurs start by building a business.

The problem is… many realize later that the business they built now controls their life.

What if the real leadership move is to design your life first, and then build the business that supports it?

In this live episode of Vision Pros Live, Mike Deaton joins us for a powerful conversation about intentional leadership, disciplined systems, and building a life that aligns with your values, relationships, health, and long-term vision.

Because the truth many entrepreneurs learn late is this:

The business you build often becomes the life you live.

We’ll explore how leaders can move from reactive growth to intentional design, creating businesses that generate sustainable revenue while protecting what matters most: time, focus, and personal freedom.

This conversation will also touch on an important truth about entrepreneurship:

It’s not a sprint. It’s an ultramarathon.

Success comes from pacing, discipline, resilience through setbacks, and raising your personal standards over time.

📌 What We’ll Cover

– Designing your life before designing your business

– Building systems that support freedom, not burnout

– Moving from reactive growth to intentional leadership

– Entrepreneurship as an ultramarathon: discipline and endurance

– Creating sustainable revenue without sacrificing what matters most

If you're building a business and want it to support the life you actually want to live, this conversation will challenge how you think about leadership, success, and freedom.

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What does it take to go from the NFL to $8.25/hour, and then rise again? In this episode of Vision Pros Live, Marques Ogden, former NFL player, 5-time bestselling author, keynote speaker for 90+ Fortune 500 companies, and host of the top 1% global podcast Get Authentic with Marques Ogden , shares his raw story of losing an 8-figure construction company, hitting rock bottom, and rebuilding from scratch. A powerful conversation about aspirational leadership, the battle against your own mind, and why words cast spells.

Connect with Marques Ogden:

🌐 Website: https://marquesogden.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marquesogden

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marquesogden/

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GetAuthenticwithMarquesOgden

📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarquesOgdenSpeaker

🎙️ Podcast: Get Authentic with Marques Ogden

Vision Pros Live Resources:

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Behind the scenes: podcast growth secrets

2:12 - Giving guests shareable assets to boost distribution

3:33 - Welcome: Who is Marques Ogden?

5:01 - The vision: building an AI-powered accountability coaching app

6:19 - 3 corporations interested in licensing the app

8:29 - Athletes as business owners in a different uniform

9:40 - The transition: why ex-athletes feel like "dumb jocks"

10:53 - 12.5 years of content transformed into 8 courses with AI

14:34 - Rock bottom: losing an 8-figure company, fired twice in one week

15:32 - Working as a janitor for $8.25/hour, the spoiled milk moment 1

6:31 - 2.5 years speaking for free before the first paid gig

17:18 - Meeting Mel Robbins and learning to be inspirational, not motivational

19:33 - Aspirational leaders vs. expectations: the mindset shift

20:09 - Final wisdom: words cast spells, choose them wisely

21:29 - Closing thoughts

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Great teams don’t usually fail because of talent.

They fail because of communication gaps that quietly grow between leaders, managers, and teams.

When expectations aren’t clear, strategy gets lost, execution slows down, and frustration spreads across the organization.

In this live episode of Vision Pros Live, Greg Kaiser joins us to explore the hidden communication breakdowns that disrupt even strong teams, and the practical systems great leaders use to fix them.

Greg has developed an innovative management framework that helps leaders build consistency across their teams without sacrificing flexibility.

This conversation will focus on practical communication systems that eliminate confusion and frustration at work, helping leaders translate strategy into action across every level of the organization.

📌 What We’ll Cover

– Introduction

– The hidden communication gap that disrupts great teams

– Practical communication systems that reduce confusion at work

– Turning business strategy into clear execution across teams

– A proven management framework for consistent leadership

– Helping managers lead with clarity without losing flexibility

If you lead people, manage teams, or want strategy to actually turn into results, this conversation will give you a practical new lens on communication and leadership.

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Sales has changed.

Yet many sales teams are still using playbooks built for a very different market.

So why do so many teams struggle to consistently close deals today?

In this live episode of Vision Pros Live, Bob Chonka joins us to unpack what separates struggling sales teams from high-performing ones, and why even great products don’t automatically translate into great sales results.

We’ll explore what today’s best sales leaders do to win more deals, and why the difference often comes down to leadership, alignment, and strategy rather than effort alone.

In this conversation we’ll also dive into:

• From stalled deals to real growth: the new rules of sales leadership

• Why great products don’t always sell (and how leaders fix it)

• The hidden drivers behind high-performing sales teams

• What modern buyers expect from sales conversations today

If your team has great offerings but inconsistent sales results, this episode will challenge how you think about sales leadership and performance.

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Some businesses scale faster than others.

But it’s not because they work harder, spend more, or chase every new tactic.

So what’s really behind sustainable growth?

In this live episode of Vision Pros Live, James Colistra joins us to unpack the hidden drivers behind scalable businesses and why many growth strategies fail to deliver the results leaders expect.

If growth has felt harder than it should, this conversation may challenge what you think is required to scale.

In this episode we explore:

• Why some companies accelerate while others stall

• The hidden leverage points that drive sustainable growth

• What leaders often misunderstand about scaling

• How to move from effort-driven growth to strategic growth

If you're building a business and want growth that actually compounds, this conversation will give you a new lens on what drives scale.

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Elite teams aren’t lucky.

There’s a science behind high-performance cultures.

In this live episode of Vision Pros Live, we go inside elite teams with Dr. Kevin Lewis to uncover the hidden drivers that separate average teams from extraordinary ones.

High-performance cultures don’t happen by chance, and they’re not built with motivation alone.

In this conversation, we’ll explore the patterns, leadership behaviors, and cultural dynamics that consistently show up inside elite teams.

You’ll discover:

• Why high-performance cultures are engineered, not accidental

• The repeatable patterns that elite teams share

• What leaders do differently to sustain performance over time

• Why building elite teams requires more than just a blueprint

We’ll also explore an exciting evolution in how leaders think about success, culture, and long-term team performance.

If you lead a team, build organizations, or want to unlock higher levels of performance, this conversation will give you a new lens on what truly drives elite results.

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From Mixed Messages to Market Confidence: The Leadership Shift Behind Strong Brands

Why do some brands inspire trust instantly while others struggle to be understood?

In this live episode of Vision Pros Live, brand strategist Jason Clark joins us to explore how leaders create clarity that builds confidence, inside their teams and across their markets.

This conversation goes beyond branding tactics and into the leadership decisions that shape perception, alignment, and growth.

You’ll learn:

• Why unclear messaging creates hesitation

• How alignment strengthens brand credibility

• What leaders must shift to build market confidence

• Practical insights for communicating value with clarity

If you want a brand people understand, trust, and choose, this conversation is for you.

In this episode of Vision Pros Live, we sit down with Scott Simson to explore how AI Content Systems are transforming the way businesses create, distribute, and scale content.

This is not about random AI tools or shortcuts. It’s about building strategic, repeatable systems that drive measurable growth, improve efficiency, and turn content into a true business asset.

We’ll cover:

How to design AI-powered content systems that actually perform

The difference between automation and strategy

Turning content into scalable revenue engines

Avoiding common AI implementation mistakes

What the future holds for AI-driven business growth

If you're a founder, marketer, or growth leader looking to move beyond content chaos and into structured, scalable systems, this conversation is for you.