Season 2, Episode 4Nathan Barry
Kit founder Nathan Barry revisits the decision to buy kit.com after an earlier rebrand failed—and shares the framework he uses to surface disagreement, hear from the team, and make the call.
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Advisor coach Derrick Kinney shares the acquisition that nearly broke his business, the team exercise that exposed him as its bottleneck, and why growth required giving up the belief that he could do everything himself.
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Nitrogen CEO Dan Zitting explains how he got a whole company to adopt AI without a mandate: go first, show your work, and coach the agents. He also explains why the Riskalyze-to-Nitrogen rebrand came too early.
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Nathan Barry Had One Shot at Kit.com. Here's His Framework for Getting It Right.
Kit founder Nathan Barry revisits the decision to buy kit.com after an earlier rebrand failed—and shares the framework he uses to surface disagreement, hear from the team, and make the call.
Derrick Kinney on Transformation: Four Turning Points and What Each One Cost
Advisor coach Derrick Kinney shares the acquisition that nearly broke his business, the team exercise that exposed him as its bottleneck, and why growth required giving up the belief that he could do everything himself.
Dan Zitting Spent a Week in the Dark with AI. Then He Made It Nitrogen's Superpower.
Nitrogen CEO Dan Zitting explains how he got a whole company to adopt AI without a mandate: go first, show your work, and coach the agents. He also explains why the Riskalyze-to-Nitrogen rebrand came too early.
The $4 Billion Dollar Man: Leadership Lessons from Jason Wenk
Altruist founder and CEO Jason Wenk traces the path from a $3 billion advisory business to a custody platform serving roughly 6,600 advisors—and the follow-through discipline required to turn a bold plan into a company Vanguard agreed to acquire.
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The Land of the Lost Pre-Read: J.D. Mullin on Why Meetings Fall Apart (and How to Fix Them)
TextExpander CEO J.D. Mullin traces the failure of meetings with missing pre-reads and outlines a practical standard: send context early so the room can do its real work.
How a Routine Vendor Meeting Became Sheena Jester’s Never Ending Story
PetIQ talent-acquisition leader Sheena Jester revisits a vendor meeting that ran without direction and uses it to make the case for preparation and a defined purpose.
From Potatoes to Presidential Campaigns: Why Even Todd Cranney Couldn’t Escape Bad Meetings
Strategist Todd Cranney moves from Southern Idaho farm stories to political war rooms, extracting practical lessons from pressure, misfires, and fast-changing situations.
Why Morgan Housel Thinks Every Word (and Minute of a Meeting) Should Cost $100
Author Morgan Housel connects his standard for economical writing with the hidden cultural cost of meetings that consume time without doing enough with it.
How Donna White’s Interview Was Going Great… Until the Candidate Flipped the Script
Recruiting entrepreneur Donna White tells the story of a candidate who turned an executive interview into an unexpected pitch of her own.
When Two of Travis Hawkes’ Meetings Bombed at the Box Office
Capital Eleven founder Travis Hawkes recounts two especially unproductive meetings and offers an investor’s perspective on the signals a meeting sends.
Even Mike McDaniel Couldn’t Stop this Board Meeting from Going Up in Flames
Founder, advisor, and investor Mike McDaniel takes listeners inside a high-stakes board meeting that was carefully prepared and still broke down.
When Brian Deely’s Meeting Went from “Managing Money” to “Saving a Life”
Clear Creek Financial Management co-founder Brian Deely shares a client-meeting story, the lesson it delivered, and a moment in which helping someone became part of the work.
How Stef Aragon Wields her Chief of Staff Title to Slay the Underwriting Dragon
Capital Eleven Chief of Staff Stef Aragon explains how she is taking on a painful underwriting meeting rather than accepting it as an unavoidable drain on the team.
How Andy Swan Witnessed a Post-it Note Massacre, but Got 20,000 Splenda Packets in the Deal
Likefolio founder Andy Swan revisits a financial-services acquisition meeting remembered for a Post-it-note debacle and an unexpected cache of Splenda packets.