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Why So Many Small Business Owners Are Failing Right Now (w/ Jethro Hopkins)
Jason Sisneros talks with Jethro Hopkins, who founded No Coast Business Advisors. Jethro is also a top Built To Exit advisor. Small business owners often get little help when their firms are worth $750,000 to $5 million. Jethro explains why business owners must plan well before they sell. He and Jason cover messy books, owner freedom, and plans for who will take over. They warn that selling without a plan can leave a business owner broke, bored, or trapped afterward.
Why Your Business Hasn't Created Your Personal Vision Yet (w/ Scott Snider)
In this conversation, Jason Sisneros and Scott Snider, President of the Exit Planning Institute, break down why owners need to stop thinking only like operators and start thinking like value creators. From Scott’s first business at 17, to building and selling his landscape and snow removal company, to growing the Exit Planning Institute with his father, this episode is about what it really takes to build a company that is valuable, transferable, and aligned with the owner’s life.
If your business is your family's lifeboat, watch this (w/ Rena Striegel)
In this conversation, Jason Sisneros and Rena Striegel break down what it really takes to get a business ready for transition or sale before you are already at the closing table. From family business dynamics to emotional decision-making, succession planning, wrong-team risk, and the difference between owning a company and being trapped inside one, this episode is about preparing the owner, the team, and the business for what comes next.
America is in a Blue Collar Crisis (w/ Kory and Ali Anderson)
This conversation between Jason Sisneros, Kory Anderson, and Ali Anderson breaks down one of the biggest threats most business owners are not paying attention to: America’s skilled trades crisis. Foundries are closing. Generational knowledge is disappearing. Young people are not replacing the tradesmen retiring out. And the same industries we depend on for defense, infrastructure, energy, transportation, manufacturing, and national security are running out of people who can actually build, repair, cast, weld, machine, and produce. Kory and Ali Anderson are on the front lines of that fight. Through Anderson Industries, Dakota Foundry, Muncie Castings, and Iron Warrior Academy, they are working to preserve American manufacturing, rebuild the skilled trades pipeline, acquire and strengthen foundry operations, and inspire the next generation to step into work that actually keeps the country running
Exiting Doesn't Fix Everything (w/ Kip Knippel)
Kip Knippel built Kip Search into a national C-suite recruiting firm by doing the opposite of what everyone else does — he never posts jobs. This conversation between Jason Sisneros and Kip Knippel gets into what it actually takes to place the right leader in the right seat, why 93% of businesses that go to market never close, and what founders do to blow the deal before they get to close.
