The Millionaire Mind

Brian Kabat's stores grew 25% after he stopped working in them. His words: "I quit suffocating it." Brian has been in business since he was five, selling doubled-up baseball cards off a card table at the end of a dirt road in northern Michigan. He sold one. Decades later he was running a group of Ace Hardware stores with 160 people on the team, and he'd taken one store from about $125K a year to roughly $960K. Here's what you'll walk away with: What "working on the business" actually meant fo...

Your business is a tool. It isn't your life. Todd Clarke, founder of Ensign Partners, built a firm where legal, tax, insurance, financial and coaching advisors work as one team so owners can stop quarterbacking and start growing. We cover the A/B/C player rule, the 5 Ps of profit, hiring and firing on core values, and why his first client meeting always includes the spouse. Connect with Todd: ensignpartners.com Take the Pipeline Power Score: capitallystpro.com/pipeline-power Connect with Dall...

My guest today bought a fourplex that should've been demolished, put eight rental properties on credit cards, and lost the whole thing before Google even existed. That's not the interesting part. Mike Stohler is a retired Navy pilot and airline captain who rebuilt that first failure into 1,500 rental doors, then sold the whole portfolio to a group that closed the deal on a napkin at IHOP. That sale sent him into hotels — and then into Spain, where a partner showed him a four-star, 19-room bou...

A grown man once told a room full of strangers that a single moment fetching the wrong wrench for his dad convinced him, for the next 30 years, that he wasn't good enough. My guest this week, Marc Doig, tells that story to explain why the blind spots that run a business are almost never about strategy — they're personal, and they run deep. Marc is a Professional EOS Implementer with Integrity Momentum Group, helping leadership teams get clear, get aligned, and get traction using the Entrepreneu

I thought I knew who was winning with AI right now. I was wrong. In this episode I sit down with Dan Kite, founder of Workuity and the Center for AI Excellence in Phoenix, and this one changed how I think about the AI conversation entirely. Dan's built eight businesses — from Blockbuster video stores to co-working spaces — and for a while, he was convinced AI was going to crush small business owners like the ones who fill his space every day. Then something shifted. We get into why the people...

Ben Lawson was 29, about six months off a bodybuilding show, and roughly as healthy as a person gets. Then he went to the ER because something felt off, and a doctor walked in and told him he had acute myeloid leukemia. Eight days later, most of what he'd spent twelve years building was gone. Ben founded Lift & Lead Co, and he's been on this show before. This time he came back with a different business and a much better reason for running it. We got into why he walked away from coaching entire