194: How a 25-Year-Old Built a $25M Hospitality Empire from Nothing w/ Sava Lelcaj – 8FE
She didn’t have a plan. No investors. Not even a laptop. At 25, Sava Lelcaj had 60 days to figure out her next move after losing the lease on her 10-table café. Most people would’ve played it safe. She didn’t. Instead, she convinced investors, who’d just lost money on the space, to hand her the […]
193: Billion-Dollar Founder Shares His Secret Weapon From the Swiss Army – 8FE
What could a Swiss Army officer possibly teach you about building and selling companies worth hundreds of millions? Turns out – everything. Today’s guest, Sam Goodner, took the discipline and precision he learned in the Swiss Army and applied it to entrepreneurship. He founded Catapult Systems, scaled it through two major recessions, and eventually sold […]
192: Why Passion Alone Can’t Save a Failing Business with Randy Cohen – 8FE
Have you ever thought saving a dying business might be a fun challenge—or even a legacy move? Randy Cohen did. After building TicketCity into a $100M+ company from just $1,200, he figured reviving Z’Tejas (a beloved Tex-Mex chain in Austin) would be a way to give back and preserve something special. It wasn’t. In this […]
191: Founder Brands, AI Chaos & Content That Converts with Mike Koenigs – 8FE
Is all that content you’re putting out actually doing anything or just adding to the noise? Mike Koenigs has been creating content that converts longer than most of us have been online. He’s a five-time founder with multiple exits, 19 books (including a WSJ bestseller), and decades of helping entrepreneurs turn attention into revenue. And […]
190: The Lean Way to Double Your Sales with Allan Dib – 8FE
What if all the new marketing tools you’re chasing are actually slowing your growth? Today’s guest, Allan Dib, bestselling author of The 1-Page Marketing Plan (over 1 million copies sold) and Lean Marketing, reveals why entrepreneurs waste time on shiny objects instead of mastering the fundamentals. Allan’s helped thousands of businesses strip away complexity, focus […]
189: He Escaped Bankruptcy—Then Built a System That Changed Everything with Michael Erath – 8FE
What if the framework you’re using to grow your business is the very thing holding it back? Today’s guest, Michael Erath, founder of Next Level Growth, reveals why systems like EOS and Scaling Up, while helpful, often become a cage for elite entrepreneurs. Michael grew a $45M company, lost it all to fraud and a […]
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