Category: Podcast

Plenty of people daydream about buying a small business. Chris Edwards actually did it: quit his corporate job in October 2020, ran a self-funded search, and in February 2021 closed on a fifteen-year-old flooring store in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in an industry where he had…

Accurate Door has served the Chicagoland area since 1972, passed down through three generations of the same family: from the founders, to their son and his wife, to their grandson Ernie, who took over in 2008. When Ernie passed away in 2020 after a battle…

Matt Green built Greens Lawn Care and Property Services from $1,800 and a dead-broke start to more than a million dollars in five years. Then he walked away from nearly all of it. On a recent episode of Everyday Excellence with host Todd Baldwin of…

Every seasonal business owner knows the math. Matthew Efird’s outdoor pest control company, a Mosquito Joe franchise outside Atlanta, ran hard from spring through early fall, then faced twelve to thirteen weeks of winter downtime. His expenses did not take the winter off, and neither…

For years, Bayside Sod handed its competitors a gift. After installing a new lawn, the team would tell homeowners to protect their investment by hiring a company to maintain it, then refer that work out. Two different lawn care companies eventually admitted something remarkable: they…

Ask Zane Fonseca what he learned from twelve years of owning his own plumbing company, and he does not hesitate: “Culture is gonna eat strategy for breakfast every single day.” It is the line that anchors his entire approach to HVAC company growth, and on…

When Todd Baldwin asked Jeremiah Wallace what made him get into business, the answer came back without hesitation: “Because I’m insane.” It might be one of the most honest entrepreneurial answers ever given on the Everyday Excellence podcast, and it sets the tone for a…

Chris Black spent 35 years in IT, cybersecurity, and enterprise sales before retiring. His financial planner was managing his savings. His future was sitting in the market. One conversation changed the trajectory: he told his planner he thought he could make more money with his…

Mitch Smedley has been a plumber for 25 years. In January 2020, he decided to start his own company. He opened Smedley Plumbing on August 1 of that year, directly into COVID-level uncertainty. Five years later, he sold 90 percent of the business and retained…

Jason Nemus was sleeping on a friend’s living room floor with a trash bag of clothes when he first got started in network marketing. Over the next decade, he built a career that put him on stages in front of 26,000 people. When the company…