Eric Winegard
118 episodes listed below
South Florida operators, candidly comparing notes.
The Gold Coast Podcast is a South Florida business interview show built around operators with practical stories. Its conversations move from customer service and insurance strategy to property management, wellness, self-defense, and the mindset behind local growth.
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The Gold Coast Podcast is a South Florida business interview show with a conversational, founder-to-founder feel. Eric Weingart speaks with entrepreneurs, clients, and local operators about the work behind their companies and the choices that shape their reputations. The show is informal. It often begins with personal backstory, then settles into practical talk about sales, service, discipline, and trust. Episodes cover a wide range: health and wellness, insurance and financial decisions, property management for real estate investors, home-service growth, and self-defense training. The common thread is not a single industry. It is the operator mindset. Guests describe how they keep customers, structure a better deal, build a team, or handle pressure when expectations are high. The show pays close attention to client outcomes. A recurring idea is that good business comes from doing what is best for the prospect, the policyholder, the investor, or the homeowner before chasing the quickest profit. The language is plain and sometimes blunt. Stories about relocation, social-media image, local networking, and personal standards give the interviews a specific regional flavor. Real estate and property management appear through conversations about mom-and-pop investors, condos, Palm Beach County, and long-term wealth. Sales and service appear through insurance examples, customer retention, and home-service values such as reliability and pride in the work. Wellness and safety episodes widen the frame, adding talk about energy, focus, longevity, training, and personal responsibility. The show is not tightly scripted, and that is part of its character. It sounds like business owners comparing notes at close range. For listeners interested in South Florida entrepreneurship, practical relationship-building, and candid accounts of how local businesses earn trust, The Gold Coast Podcast offers specific stories over broad theory.
Made for: Suited for South Florida entrepreneurs, service-business owners, real estate investors, and listeners who like practical business stories told in an informal interview style.
What sets it apart: The show blends local business promotion with unusually personal shop talk, moving easily from insurance structure and property management to wellness, retention, and self-defense without smoothing out the rough edges.
Hosted by Eric Winegard, this show dives deep into the stories behind South Florida’s most driven entrepreneurs, business owners, and community leaders.Each episode uncovers the real challenges, lessons, and victories that define the Gold Coast business landscape. Whether you’re a startup founder, established CEO, or simply passionate about growth, you’ll gain valuable insights, strategies, and inspiration from those shaping the region’s economy and culture.
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A wellness and business conversation that treats results, not branding, as the real signal.
The Gold Coast Podcast episode with Eric Lemon presents a wellness business built around health, protocol, and results. It also follows Lemon's move from upstate New York to South Florida, using that path to frame ideas about integrity, practical choices, and wanting to help…
Blunt self-defense talk that treats preparation as the real advantage.
The episode stays focused on street self-defense and the practical question underneath it: what actually improves your odds in a fight. It compares the threat posed by different weapons, looks at how reach changes the picture, and argues that training matters more than…
A grounded South Florida service-business conversation about systems, retention, and customer-first growth.
The episode stays close to the day-to-day work of a South Florida service business, and that is where it feels most honest. CRM, a website, Google business, retention, and looking after people are treated as the actual machinery of a durable company, not as buzzwords.
Short-term rental lessons from the operator side.
Island Garage Door’s founders describe growing from a Comcast-branded van on Marco Island to about 45 vehicles and roughly 60 employees.
The Gold Coast Podcast interviews Mauro Camuzzi about employee-centered leadership, business growth, faith, and the future of his paving company.
Roberto Carabetta describes reaching six figures at 26 or 27, delaying luxury purchases for five years, and later buying a five-series BMW as a status symbol.
The Gold Coast Podcast with host Eric Weingart and guest Eric Lemon moves between iCryo services, New York business pressure, and a long argument about the pandemic, masks, and vaccines.
Host Eric Winegard interviews insurance professional Jonathan Mason about his approach to client-first insurance and financial services.
Pedro Rodriguez argues that a hatchet or meat cleaver is more dangerous than a knife in close quarters because it can chop, slice, and change legal expectations after a fight.
The Gold Coast Podcast episode with Eric Weingart and a partner from Paradise Plumbing and Aaron Electric focuses on doubling home-service businesses with systems, marketing, and retention.
Harlan Miller discusses his experience in property management and the typical mom and pop investors he works with.