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Our weekly 30 minute podcast helps you, a small business owner with 5 to 30 team members, take your company to the next level. The Grow A Small Business community, weekly cast, blog and leadership email supports leaders get through the pain of growth. With insights, lessons learned, books and tools as well as habits these experienced small business owners suggest you develop, our interviews unearth tremendous value for anyone wanting to grow their business with less stress.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Owner interviews turn growth stories into concrete lessons about funding, staffing, systems, margins, and operational tradeoffs.
Grow A Small Business Podcast makes company growth concrete by having Troy Truen question owners about revenue, staffing, funding, operational constraints, and what they would change.
Troy Truen makes room for a $50,000 rent problem before you call every pivot visionary.
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A practical founder story about turning a personal problem into a growing, mostly self-funded business.
Daniel McDonnell's story has a clean founder arc with enough grit to feel lived in: gut issues during professional Ironman and triathlon racing in 2023, some research, and then a gut-friendly maple gel that moved from home packing to 125 stockists around Australia and some in…
A grounded service-business story about systems, cash control, and staying close to the customer.
It frames a practical rise from being fired to building a service business, with the emphasis on systems, customer experience, and tight control of marketing and the checkbook.
A founder story about building value, cleaning up a business, and selling well.
Mitch's story gives the episode its pull: a yoga studio in New Jersey, sold six years later for five times the purchase price, followed by a second act helping boutique fitness owners clean up their businesses for sale and close the deal.
A lawyer's pivot becomes a steady lesson in bootstrapping, discipline, and building a business around a career-change audience.
Casey Berman's arc is plain and effective: a law degree in 1999, five years in practice, then a move into management consulting before blogging started bringing in coaching clients who wanted the same career shift.
A grounded founder story about scale, mentorship, and staying steady through change.
Marvin's story is a solid look at how an optical retail franchise scaled from 100 locations to around 130 and about $130 million in annual revenue without turning the head office into a giant machine.
A plainspoken founder story about resilience, profit, and the long game.
Andrew Griffiths tells a straightforward founder story: rough childhood, buying a dive shop at 17 in 1983, then a long run of mistakes and lessons about profit.
A practical pivot story about athlete data, tighter focus, and real numbers.
Ryan Rotman's Athlete Agent is framed as a database for athletes, with earnings, stats, and other details wrapped around subscription access for brands, marketers, and advisors chasing endorsement deals.
A plainspoken growth story with useful numbers, practical sales instincts, and a real leadership shift.
The episode follows Selling Style as a clean founder story with real traction behind it. It moves from a 10-year corporate career to house flipping, then into a service business that grew from 46 jobs in year one to 1,400 last year.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Matthew Stafford says Build Grow Scale focuses on the website journey from landing page to payment, not traffic, and he says that “CRO plus” approach is built on data, analytics, and clearer copywriting, product images, and layout.
A family business starts with $1,500, and the story stays nicely grounded from there.
Brian Proctor says his father, Bob Proctor, gave him a lifelong education in self-development, starting with Think and Grow Rich in October 1961 and a house where “keep talking to me” was normal.
Maya Khoweiss, owner of Hairport One hair and beauty salon in Melbourne, shares her journey from starting solo in 2016 with a week earning only $35 to scaling through COVID lockdowns, acquiring a second salon, and leading a team of 12.
Phil Risher says Flash Consulting grew from a one-person consulting setup to $2 million in revenue and 18 full-time equivalent team members by focusing on home-service businesses, especially HVAC companies above $1 million in revenue.
Gail Eaton-Briggs of Every When Solutions defines "conscious grit" as a deliberate shift away from exhausting "unconscious grit," and she ties that change to a doctor telling her, "it is time to go and get a lawyer." She describes working with small business owners through coaching, the I4 NeuroLeader model, and multi-month programs rather than one-off sessions.
Sacha Awwa says she was laid off at the start of COVID after 18 years in marketing, then launched Sasha Awar Marketing Group in 2020 from scratch.
Troy sits down with Mitch, whose path starts with buying a yoga studio in New Jersey and ends with selling it for five times what he and his wife paid.
Alicia Henley says A Dose of Insight started from a happy-hour conversation in March 2020, when a woman asked for help and became her first client.
Nevada Matthews of Cube Loans says the business grew from 16 team members and $86 million in settlements in 2021 to 18 team members and $300 million in the last 12 months.
Andrew Griffiths traces a long founder run.
A founder traces the move from community services into a gutter guard side hustle that grew into a business peaking at around half a million Australian dollars a year.
Vance Morris traces a long service-business climb.
Daniel McDonnell traces the business back to a personal problem.
Ryan Rotman describes Athlete Agent as the IMDB for athletes.
Andy Gwynn joins Troy Truen to talk about his move from business coaching into helping small business owners with LinkedIn marketing.
Casey Berman traces the jump from law into a business built for people in law who wanted something different.
Troy Truan talks with Sam Carpenter about the long arc from a troubled local call center to a scaled small business.
The guest tells the story of a long run in optical retail.
Host Troy Truen interviews Dr.
March 2022 is where Blind Barrels starts.
Sarah Williams of Leading Culture explains how small and mid-sized businesses can improve performance by treating culture, communication, and numbers as connected rather than separate.
Taylor Victoria, founder of Level Up Outsourcing and host of She's Making Millions, says she built her first business at 22 after applying for around 60 jobs in Australia and hearing that she lacked experience.
Dylan Partridge-DeGreen, a founder and director at Bold Wealth, describes a financial advice business built around client goals rather than product talk.
Nando Barnett traces Selling Style from flipping houses with his wife, Sarah, into a fast growing business.
Natalee Leach says The Payroll Collective grew from 52K in FY23 to a projected $3 million in FY26 after starting as a side hustle in late 2022.
Behavioral economist Etinosa Agbonlahor explains how principles from behavioral economics can transform business pricing strategies, boost revenue, and improve customer retention.
Gail Kasper says she went from a bad manager in a medical research company to a professional speaker and trainer in Philadelphia charging $25,000 per speech and signing multi-year contracts over $600,000.
Andrew Griffiths, author of Someone Has to Be the Most Expensive, Why Not You?, joins Grow A Small Business Podcast in Hobart, Tasmania, to argue that premium pricing can improve revenue, customer quality, and business resilience.
Interview with a BPO founder discussing business growth, outsourcing, and adapting to change.
An interview with a leadership consultant discussing how to align people, purpose, and performance to solve common small business pain points.
Interview with Dmitry Perigudov, founder of Gift Baskets Overseas, discussing his entrepreneurial journey and business growth from $2 million to $11 million.
Interview with Peter Lekovic from Sales Institute of Australia about growing a small business through sales improvement and mindset shifts.
Interview with Stephen Skash, founder of a digital marketing agency and AICMO, discussing empathetic marketing and building emotional connections.
Host Troy Truen interviews Nellie, owner of a wellness and aesthetics clinic, about her business journey and growth strategies.
Interview with Tom Schwab, founder of Interview Valet, discussing his journey from engineer to entrepreneur and how his agency helps thought leaders use podcast interviews for marketing.
Interview with Joey Coleman on designing the first 100 days for a new business initiative to create momentum, clarity, and joy.
An interview with Dean Matthews, founder of On The Clock, discussing his journey from a solo developer to a 23-person company serving 170,000 users, and the importance of consistency in business growth.
A small business podcast host interviews a lawyer about psychosocial safety in the workplace for small business owners.