Marc Haine
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Small business owners and entrepreneurs often get so stuck working IN their business, they can’t work ON their business. Add to that... they are subject matter experts about their business, but lack skills in HR, Marketing and Finance. Experience Leadership aims to help leaders have a better experience leading while building experiences in their business.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mark Hain turns workplace culture and leadership advice into concrete questions about hiring, feedback, retention and small-business growth.
Mark Hain keeps Experience Leadership trained on the operating problems that become leadership problems inside a small business. His guest conversations move from recruiting and onboarding to employee engagement, workplace culture, feedback and stalled growth.
A promotion without onboarding turns your congratulations card into a warning label.
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Kindness is framed as a practical way to surface what people are not saying.
This episode treats kindness as a workable business habit, not a soft extra. Mark Hain and Michael G. Neese connect it to curiosity, open questions, and the discipline of naming missing pieces instead of guessing at them until resentment grows.
A practical take on scaling past a growth ceiling without losing leadership focus.
Mark Hain and Mike Schoenenberger focus on a simple problem: businesses hit a growth ceiling, then stall when the push to scale starts to crowd out freedom or power.
SharePoint is framed as a practical answer to version chaos and scattered systems.
Experience Leadership frames the familiar small-business tangle of Dropbox files, Teams chats, Zoom meetings, and competing spreadsheet versions as a process problem rather than a software problem. Mark Hain and Thurman Trotman, also known as Mr.
This episode says leadership gets lighter when founders get support and stop forcing themselves against their natural way of working.
This episode looks at business leaders who are stuck in the weeds, with growth stalled and every decision still landing back on them. Mark Hain frames the shift from doing the work to leading in a way that lets other people grow, while Peter Kovacs makes the case for practical…
A useful reset for owners who confuse constant answers with leadership.
Brad Poulos and Mark Hain center the episode on a problem many owners notice only after it has done damage: the habit of jumping in and answering everything themselves.
When paperwork and tax treatment no longer line up, risk shows up fast.
Mark Hain and attorney-CPA Chris Papin center a familiar but consequential problem: a business can appear protected on paper and still be exposed by one bad filing.
A tight look at how marketing can fail when the system behind it is off.
The discussion lands on a simple complaint: marketing can feel like paying more and getting less, and the real break may be in the system behind the ads. Mark Hain and Skip Wilson keep it grounded with plain examples.
Financial clarity is part of leadership, not an afterthought.
Experienced Leadership asks a plain but useful question: do small-business owners actually understand what their numbers are telling them? Mark Hain and A.V.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Mark Hain hosts Dr.
One bad day can expose everything.
Mark Hain's Experience Leadership Podcast features Bill Cates, exponential growth coach and bestselling author, discussing how broken money stories sabotage business growth and wealth building.
Mark Hain introduces Avi Penske, CPA, MBT, as a “business finance doctor” who helps owners understand what their numbers are really telling them.
Mark Hain frames this episode of Experience Leadership around a “silent profit killer”: the gap between what leaders say and what people actually experience.
Mark Hain and Thurman Trotman, also called "Mr.
Mark Hain opens with a warning that frustration can quietly drain profits, push people away, and send customers to competitors.
Mark Hain talks with Peter Kovacs about the strain small-business owners feel when hard work stops moving the business forward.
Jake Stahl teaches business leaders how to read resistance in rooms before deals die.
Chip Higgins makes a blunt case for momentum.
Old marketing is fraying.
Mark Hain opens by arguing that the real threat to a business is not always competitors, inflation, or the labor market.
What if your best people have already quit?
Hiring looks expensive, slow, and weirdly leaky.
Mark Hain hosts Shane Kawalilek on Experience Leadership to focus on everyday cybersecurity risks that can cripple small and medium businesses.
Mark Hain opens Experience Leadership with mental performance strategist Darci Ecker-Pope, also called Darci E-Pops, to examine why leaders burn out under pressure.
Mark Hain and John Edward McGraw center the episode on a specific workplace risk: multicultural teams losing good people because leaders read silence, eye contact, or directness through the wrong cultural lens.
Mark Hain interviews Reuven Shelef, founder and CEO of Out of the Box Consulting, about why business chaos often comes from symptoms, not root causes.
Something invisible can stall growth.
Mark Hain interviews Stephen Shapiro, author of Pivotal: Creating Stability in an Uncertain World, about why businesses should stop chasing every disruption and start identifying what should not change.
Mark Hain talks with Dr.
Experience Leadership host Mark Hain speaks with Jordanna Iyer, founder of the spiral growth system, about why “scaling through pressure” can look like progress while actually increasing burnout.
Mark Hain asks a blunt question: are businesses training Gen Z to lead, or training them to leave.
Mark Hain speaks with business bottleneck and flow expert Camilla Bignall about why pushing harder does not fix a business that feels heavy, slow, and fragile.
Trust is the bottleneck here.
Mark Hain interviews Carl Holden (RankBot CEO) on how AI is reshaping search visibility and SEO strategy.
Experience Leadership focuses on David Miller, who says trust is a combination of earning and giving, not a simple yes-or-no trait.
Mike Schoenenberger, CEO of 25-year-old Sunco Communications, discusses how to identify and break through growth ceilings that plague small businesses.
Business owners may be answering too much.
Carolee Moore, CEO of the Podcast Pitching Society, tells Mark Hain that podcast guesting can help experts build trust faster, attract qualified leads, and turn one interview into a content engine.
Customer experience expert Mark Hain discusses why customer frustration is a hidden business risk and how to reduce friction.
Host Mark Hain interviews Dr.
Host Mark Hain interviews Dr.
Host Mark Hain interviews leadership disruptor Ted Santos about using intentional disruption to spark growth in small businesses.
Mark Hain interviews team revivalist Twyla Ondurka about hidden culture killers that drive away top employees and customers.
Host Mark Hain interviews executive coach Dr.
Leadership coach Mark Hain discusses how ignoring emotional well-being in teams stifles creativity and costs businesses more than dollars.
This episode discusses the epidemic of burnout among leaders and teams, exploring its causes and impacts, and how compassionate leadership can transform the crisis.
Host Mark Hain interviews workplace culture expert Michael Kerr about the hidden costs of disengaged culture and strategies to transform workplace environment.
This episode explores why talented employees leave and how leadership can improve retention to build a thriving team.