Tax advice is framed as part of strategy, not just compliance.
Leadership is treated as practical work here: know the numbers, lean on a CPA as an adviser, and use tax choices to support growth instead of stopping at the return.

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Successful business owners are good leaders. Running a business is all about leadership. How do you become a better leader? Learn from successful entrepreneurs and business owners how to lead your organization more effectively. That’s why we created Leadership LIVE @ 8:05!—Talking Small Business to help you succeed. Host, Andrew Frazier, The Business Growth Pro and CFO is Founder of The Small Business Pro University and has worked with over 1000 business owners and taught tens of thousands of people how to grow their businesses. Learn more at www.SBProU.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Leadership LIVE @ 8:05! makes small business leadership practical through conversations about sales, AI use, customer focus, and owner-to-CEO decisions.
Leadership LIVE @ 8:05! Podcast - Talking Small Business belongs in Business & Finance because it treats small business ownership as a leadership job, not just a daily grind.
You want the business coach who asks about target markets before touching the motivational confetti.
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Tax advice is framed as part of strategy, not just compliance.
Leadership is treated as practical work here: know the numbers, lean on a CPA as an adviser, and use tax choices to support growth instead of stopping at the return.
Capacity is the constraint that decides whether growth stays profitable.
The episode treats capacity as the real test of profitable growth. A manufacturing story shows demand running ahead of production, which leads to longer shifts, six-day schedules, outsourcing, and finally a new plant to ease the bottleneck.
Practical small-business advice on growth, reach, and financing, with a clear business-first angle.
This Leadership Live at 8:05 episode ties branding, partnerships, and financing into one practical small-business discussion about growing revenue, protecting profitability, and keeping capital decisions aligned with direction.
Clear advice on standing out, building relationships, and speaking plainly about growth.
Leadership Live at 8.05 treats small-business growth as a question of leadership and clear positioning. Andrew Frazier presses on what makes a business distinct, and the warning is plain: without that answer, it can drift into a me-too offer.
A practical listen about reactivation, consistency, and turning learning into action.
Leadership Live at 8.05, Talking Small Business keeps its focus on the revenue habits business owners often let slide, especially reactivation, follow-up, and the discipline of learning before applying.
The conversation is strongest when it narrows in on the customer and the sale.
The episode keeps its advice practical. It comes back to the basics of knowing the customer, naming the target market, and keeping sales distinct from marketing.
Leadership is treated as the daily work of managing time, capacity, planning, and the shift from operator to CEO.
Andrew Frazier keeps the episode on practical small-business leadership. It stays close to time, capacity, planning, learning, and the move from doing everything by hand to thinking like a CEO.
A blunt, practical case for focus, delegation, and leadership before scaling.
This episode treats leadership as the engine behind growth, profit, and access to financing. It also makes a plain argument: once a founder adds more businesses, the work can turn messy fast unless the first one is already strong enough to carry the load.

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.
Andrew Frazier and Arthur Jones spend the episode on AI coaching, with Jones saying AI can now coach effectively at the level of a human coach with 500 hours of training.
Andrew Frazier and Jerome Hutchinson center this Leadership Live @ 8:05!
Change starts with awareness.
Host Andrew Frazier discusses business success during uncertain times, sharing insights from the Small Business Pro Power Conference.
Host Andrew Frazier interviews Scott Springer, former VP of Operations at Vital Proteins, about scaling a business by managing capacity.
Host Andrew Frazier interviews sales expert Doug C.
Andrew Frazier opens by framing leadership as central to business growth.
Andrew Frazier opens the show by framing leadership as the driver of business growth.
Andrew Frazier opens the show by welcoming listeners back to Leadership Live and setting up a conversation about business growth and leadership.
Andrew Frazier opens the show by tying leadership to revenue, profitability, and growth.
Andrew Frazier opens by framing sales as one of the most important jobs for a business owner.
Andrew Frazier opens with the show's familiar small-business framing.
Andrew Frazier opens the show with a welcome back on Leadership Live at 8.05, Talking Small Business.
Andrew Frazier opens with a warm welcome and a clear promise to help business owners grow.
Andrew Frazier opens with the show’s familiar small-business frame.
Andrew Frazier opens the show with a welcome and a straightforward small-business frame.
Leadership Live at 8:05 opens by framing small-business leadership as a path to revenue, profitability, and financing.
Andrew Frazier hosts Nikki Barua on Leadership Live at 8:05!
Andrew Frazier opens Leadership Live at 8.05, Talking Small Business with Barry Cohen, who frames the topic as “Message Right, or Not at All” for business owners.
Leadership LIVE @ 8:05!
Andrew Frazier opens with a direct conversation about leadership, growth, and what it takes to keep a business moving.
Andrew Frazier frames this Leadership Live at 8:05 episode around business basics for private practices and introduces Anne Bartolucci, a clinical psychologist who built a behavioral sleep medicine niche.
Andrew Frazier frames "Real Estate 101 for Small Business Owners" around the risk of signing a lease or purchase without understanding commercial terms, and guest Larry Dickstein says many owners get into a bad position by handling real estate the wrong way.
Andrew Frazier and guest Guy Dunn focus on “Contacts plus Opportunity equals Success,” with Frazier saying networking is a key sales-and-marketing skill and that buyers often need 7 to 12 touches before they purchase.
Andrew Frazier opens Leadership Live at 8.05 around revenues, profitability, and financing, then brings on Nicholas Darveau-Garneau to discuss his book Be a Sequoia, Not a Bonsai.
Andrew Frazier uses Leadership Live at 8:05!
Andrew Frazier hosts Candice Rodarte on Leadership Live @ 8:05!
Andrew Frazier frames Leadership Live @ 8:05!
Andrew Frazier frames Leadership Live at 8.05!
Andrew Frazier frames this Leadership Live at 8:05 episode around the move from working on a business to preparing it for scaling, with Gene Bohensky of Archers Contact Solutions as the guest.
This episode introduces a podcast that helps small business owners improve their leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Host Andrew Frazier introduces a podcast aimed at helping small business owners improve their leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Host Andrew Frazier introduces a podcast that helps small business owners improve their leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
A podcast helping small business owners improve leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Host Andrew Frazier introduces a podcast about small business leadership, featuring interviews with entrepreneurs who share secrets to success.
This episode introduces a podcast that helps small business owners improve their leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
A podcast helping small business owners improve leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Host Andrew Frazier introduces a podcast aimed at helping small business owners improve their leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
This episode introduces a podcast that helps small business owners improve their leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Host Andrew Frazier introduces a podcast about developing business leadership skills through interviews with successful entrepreneurs.