Your Best Friends in Business | Podcast Guru

Detaylar

What happens when two best friends who’ve built multiple businesses together decide to stop keeping the good stuff to themselves? Join co-founders Stacie Staub and Madie Linder — the team behind West and Main Homes and a growing roster of businesses they’ve built from scratch — for the kind of conversations most founders only have behind closed doors. Each episode opens with a real-time business update (the wins, the chaos, the things that are very much still in progress), then brings in a founder who’s building for the long game for an honest, unfiltered conversation about the decisions that actually shaped their company. Part strategy, part survival guide, and entirely the kind of conversation most business owners desperately need, Your Best Friends in Business blends candid interviews, opinionated debates about what works and what definitely doesn’t, and the kind of practical takeaways that only come from people who are still in it. No TED Talk polish. No highlight reel. Just real founders, real decisions, and real talk. Come for the strategies. Stay for the honesty. Leave with a reminder that there’s no perfect way to build a business so just build it!

Yeni Bölümler

Teaching Money to Generations with Mike Michalowicz

By 35, Mike Michalowicz had built and sold two multimillion-dollar companies. He became an angel investor with his winnings—and lost everything. Out of that collapse came Profit First, one of the most widely used small business money systems in the world, followed by a string of bestsellers (The Pumpkin Plan, Clockwork, Fix This Next, Get Different). His newest book, The Money Habit, takes that same thinking and points it at personal finances instead of business ones. Stacie Staub and Madie Linder talk with Mike about "entrepreneurial poverty," the behavioral trick that fixed his own money habits, why every business has one weak link worth finding, and the mindset shift behind teaching what you most need to learn. In this episode (00:00) Show Intro & Meet Your Hosts (Group Chat Catch Up) (03:00) Guest Intro: Mike Michalowicz (12:00) Broke as a Joke: The Origin of Profit First (24:00) Founder to Founder: What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Money (26:00) Entrepreneurial Poverty & The Money Mirror (33:00) Weekly Mantra Show Notes: Mike Michalowicz Follow Mike Michalowicz on Instagram Your Best Friends in Business is produced by West + Main Homes in partnership with Pod People Stay Connected: Follow ⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠ on Instagram Follow ⁠Stacie and Madie⁠ on Instagram ⁠⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠⁠⁠ Don't miss an episode! Subscribe NOW @Your Best Friends in Business

38 DAK

Building It, Growing It, and Letting It Go with Jen Jasinski

Jen Jasinski trained under Wolfgang Puck, opened Rioja in Denver's Larimer Square in 2004, and spent the next 20 years building a five-concept restaurant group with business partner Beth Gruitch. This led to them earning a James Beard Award and a Top Chef Masters title along the way. Then, right as Rioja established itself as a staple the same year it turned 20, she and Beth did something founders rarely do: they stepped back. Stacie Staub and Madie Linder sit down with Jen to talk about building a 26-year business partnership, the real economics of running a restaurant right now, and why she never wanted a luxurious expansion plan when having to walk away from two of her own restaurants. In this episode (00:00) — Show intro & hosts introduce the podcast (01:00) — Group chat catch-up: a year of construction at their coffee-shop-turned-restaurant (03:30) — Guest intro: Jen's path from the CIA to Wolfgang Puck to Rioja (08:00) — From Wolfgang Puck to Founding Rioja (13:30) — Meeting husband Max, and why they've never opened a restaurant together (20:30) — Founder to founder: what she'd do the same, what she'd do differently (26:00) — Founder therapy: the pandemic, laying off 500 employees, and deciding to scale back (31:00) — Mantra of the week: "I can't pay you to give a shit" Show Notes: Jen Jasinski Follow Jen Jasinski on Instagram Follow Rioja on Instagram Your Best Friends in Business is produced by West + Main Homes in partnership with Pod People Stay Connected: Follow ⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠ on Instagram Follow ⁠Stacie and Madie⁠ on Instagram ⁠⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠⁠⁠ Don't miss an episode! Subscribe NOW @Your Best Friends in Business

34 DAK

The Accidental Celebrity Who Reinvented Real Estate with Marguerite Martin

Marguerite Martin has sold homes in Tacoma since 2005, but in 2015 she started a side project (a blog and podcast called Move to Tacoma) just to give people an honest, neighborhood-level look at a city most outsiders didn't know much about. That side project turned her into a local celebrity (and, at times, the accidental face of Tacoma's gentrification debate), and it changed how she thought about her own job. Instead of trying to do every deal herself, she became a matchmaker — connecting buyers and sellers with the right agent for their goals. Stacie Staub and Madie Linder talk with Marguerite about identifying (and saying no to) your ideal client, why AI search is the new SEO, and the mindset shift behind building a business that supports your life instead of running it. In this episode (00:00) A Podcast Without TED Talk (00:50) Group Chat Catch Up (03:16) Meet Marguerite Martin (04:54) Referral Only Real Estate (18:03) Adorable Clients And Business Changing Niches (20:30) Sponsor Break - Westway Lending (29:00) Weekly Mantra Show Notes: Marguerite Martin Follow Marguerite Martin on Instagram Your Best Friends in Business is produced by West + Main Homes in partnership with Pod People Stay Connected: Follow ⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠ on Instagram Follow ⁠Stacie and Madie⁠ on Instagram ⁠⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠⁠⁠ Don't miss an episode! Subscribe NOW @Your Best Friends in Business

32 DAK

Everybody Deserves Something Beautiful with Sarah Ortega

Sarah Ortega grew up behind the counter at her mother's Albuquerque jewelry boutique, watching her mom sell out of a literal shoebox at swim meets. She opened her own small shop on Tennyson Street in Denver in 2006 with $800 and no inventory budget, and has since built Sarah O. Jewelry into two showrooms, a global online community, and a brand built on the idea that everyone deserves to feel seen. Stacie Staub and Madie Linder sit down with Sarah to talk about the hard decision to close her first store to focus on what she really loved, watching Tennyson Street change around her, and the moment one of her pieces landed on the red carpet at the Oscars. In this episode (00:00) Show Intro (00:52) Coffee Shop to Restaurant Chaos (02:59) Meet Jen Jasinski and Rioja Origins (12:13) Partnership Lanes and Smart Growth (19:05) Euclid Hall Memories (20:42) Founder Lessons and Denver Economics (27:09) Scaling Back and Staying Curious (32:32) Mantra of the week Show Notes: Follow Sarah O. Jewelry on Instagram Sarah O. Jewelry Your Best Friends in Business is produced by West + Main Homes in partnership with Pod People Stay Connected: Follow ⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠ on Instagram Follow ⁠Stacie and Madie⁠ on Instagram ⁠⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠⁠⁠

44 DAK

3,000 Women and The One Question That Started It All with Mercy Tucker

Mercy Tucker co-founded Project I See You in 2009 with a counselor's instinct and a farmer's work ethic. Seventeen years later, the organization has supported thousands of women in the Dominican Republic and Denver, launching the Shared Power Initiative to help women become first-time homeowners and business owners. Stacie Staub and Madie Linder sit down with Mercy, the only nonprofit founder featured in Season One, to talk about what happens when you stop asking "how can I help" and start asking "what do you need," how the organization's grants work with almost no red tape, and why she believes real change means sharing power, not just handing out checks. In this episode (00:00) Show intro & hosts introduce the podcast (01:00) Group chat catch-up: a Vegas realtor conference and a color-drenched restaurant reveal (03:00) Mercy Tucker intro: growing up on a farm in Eden, Idaho (05:00) Studying psychology at Pepperdine, backpacking through India, and meeting Mother Teresa (06:00) Getting a master's in counseling in Colorado, and how that set up everything that came next (07:00) Moving to the Dominican Republic for four years with her husband and two kids (08:00) How listening to local women shaped Project I See You's approach to economic development (10:00) The kinds of businesses women are building in La Victoria, from furniture-making to catering (12:00) Meeting the West & Main team, and how the Shared Power Initiative partnership came together (14:00) How the grant process actually works, from application to closing (16:00) Why there's no bureaucracy or red tape, and how that builds trust (19:00) The history behind why women couldn't own property without a man's signature until 1974 (21:00) Founder to founder: how to support a cause without turning it into a marketing moment (23:00) Her family: four kids, one adopted from the Dominican Republic, and watching generational change in real time (27:00) Looking five years ahead: expanding Shared Power to other cities (32:00) The basic requirements to apply for a Shared Power grant (36:00) What it feels like to hand someone the keys to a home they didn't think was possible (39:00) How to support Project I See You: captains, giving, expertise, and the annual Boots & Bling event (41:00) Mantra of the week: "It's all within you" Show Notes: ⁠Project I See You Follow Project I See You on Instagram Don't miss an episode! Subscribe or Follow @ Your Best Friends in Business: Your Best Friends in Business is produced by West + Main Homes in partnership with Pod People Stay Connected: Follow Your Best Friends In Business on Instagram Follow Stacie and Madie on Instagram ⁠Your Best Friends In Business⁠⁠

44 DAK