Cleveland Burning Podcast

Sean Henzey, owner of Studio Mind in Olmsted Township, JOINS The Cleveland Burning Podcast in more ways than one. This is our first episode with our new layout, using our new podcast engineer as a guinea pig. Tune in as we make Sean get in front of the camera to share his business mistakes and we learn how to navigate our new layout and get comfortable in the space. 

Sean is the first guest on the couch and reflects on the mistake ...

In honor of the Cleveland Burning Podcast theme - focusing on setbacks, failures and adversity that pave the way to success, this episode is all about the first lessons learned by rookies doing a podcast.

Kirk, owner of Cleveland Custom Coatings, and Kim, owner of Burning River Marketing reflect on mistakes from set-up and equipment to overestimating the skills and desire of our initial podcast engineer.

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Lamar Chase, owner of Chase Electric, joins us in this podcast to reflect on lessons learned from missteps made as a licensed electrician turned business owner. As a young teen, thirteen years old, Lamar did electrical work with his uncle and it has been a trade he literally grew-up mastering.  Lamar has been a licensed electrician for over 21 years and working for himself for the past six.

Lamar reflects on three basic truths he h...

Zach Christensen, owner of Vroom Groom Mobile Detailing, reviews his fantastic growth with a business he just started here in Ohio a few years ago.

Tune in to learn how, if Zach could do it all over again, he would have skipped his business school, saved $12K and got into business sooner.

As a fairly young man and new business owner Zach is driven, organized and doing a phenomenal job building a clientele of customers with all typ...

Bill Glick, owner of Bill Glick Painting, reviews his ups and downs throughout his journey from starting a small painting company to building up a fast-growing $2M business.

Tune in to learn how Bill found it's all about the team. He went from wanting to quit almost everyday for 3 years to building a successful business that almost runs itself. With a fantastic office manager and a self-policing crew, Bill focuses his time now...

Matt Panigutti, Division Director at American Pacific Mortgage in Berea reflects about the massive amounts of challenges he has endured in the mortgage industry since getting his start at The Mortgage Zone in 2002. With 22 years in an industry that has seen the biggest ups and downs than probably any other industry in the past 22 years.

Matt reflects on the landscape in the early 2000s with the boom in the market and easy access t...

Ericka Peake, the CEO of OCD Home Solutions, is passionate about the value she brings clients as she declutters and organizes their space. Since she posted a Facebook ad, 9 months ago, running OCD Home Solutions has been non-stop. Taking on over 91 clients in less than 10 months didn't give Ericka any time to plan a strategy for running her business, adding employees and being more intentional about organizing her own business ...

Richard Warren came out of retirement after a long career as an entrepreneur to launch paintCLE, a Benjamin Moore dealer.

paintCLE will be opening their fourth location on the West side soon to round out their other three locations in Shaker Heights, Willoughby Hills and Medina. paintCLE is your premier Benjamin Moore paint store with everything you need including wall paint, interior paint, exterior paint, deck stain, paint prime...

Tyese Love, seasoned property manager for the Dalad Group shares the ups and downs of what can be the turbulent industry of property management. Beginning her career as a leasing agent in New Jersey and New Jersey, and moving throughout positions in the industry. In Pennsylvania she worked with one of the largest 3rd party property management companies globally. After working in several areas of leasing and managing large propertie...

Dr. Scott Sedlacek has owned The Eye Place in Olmsted Falls for almost twenty years and enjoys being an active member of the Olmsted Falls community. As Vice President of a small business networking group in Berea, TAG Team, President Board of Directors of Explore Olmsted Falls, Olmsted Falls Kiwanis Club, Olmsted Falls PTA and several other affiliations, Scott is passionate about eye health and his community.

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Matt Siebert owns several businesses servicing Ohio including a CertaPro franchise (CertaPro Painters of Cleveland West and South), Superior Fence & Rail of Cleveland and Superior Fence & Rail of Columbus. Matt reflects on his initial mistake of focusing on sales when he first bought his CertaPro franchise. He eventually learned that building a solid team to deliver the service was more important than the sales and once th...

Chef Jim Cox, who spent 14 years as executive chef for Mr. Hero and now is a chef consultant for Orlando Baking Company. Chef Jim has built over 10 restaurants in the Cleveland area and graciously shares several stories of failures and adversity he has endured in the restaurant industry.

Learn how he tackled the restaurant industry for four decades, bit off more than he could chew at times, could be on top one minute and the next ...

Jennet and Dan Foster own Minuteman Press in Westlake, Ohio, offering high-quality design, print and marketing capabilities with a personal touch for almost 20 years. But it hasn't always been rainbows and puppy dogs - listen to how a wrecking ball AND COVID-19 forced them to make major changes in their business and how they turned adversity into success.

Dan Foster joins the podcast to tell us more about how their business has...

Kelly MacLean, an accomplished business owner of over 12 years, has helped hundreds of children and young adults through their education, college admissions, test taking and career planning journey. Hear how Kelly started her business from a place at the bottom - her health was in jeopardy, her marriage suffered a tragic end, her employment over as a result of injustice and Kelly focused on building a business to fill an overwhelmi...

Our first interview with a professional from the performing arts, Savvy (Savannah) Daniele, co-owner of the Tantalizing Tigers, explains the world of performance artists. As Co-Owner of the Tantalizing Tigers Savannah works to secure talent across the region (Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Indiana) to perform a wide variety of venues. Talents range from fire performances including fire eating and hoops, to arial a...

Katrina Botimer, owner of Carpet Advantage in Willoughby, OH, joins us to talk about running a carpet cleaning business and struggles that have contributed to their success. Katrina jumped at the chance to share her story and has been a big advocate of our the podcast. She arrived bearing gifts for Kirk's birthday as well as an original work of art she created for us.

In this episode Katrina, a cancer survivor, reflects on the...

Listen to our first interview with a local professional in the financial investments industry in this episode with Robert "Bud" Cygan of CFS Integrated Financial Services of North Olmsted. Kim and Kirk know Bud as a fellow BNI member in a different chapter, the Power Partners BNI Chapter that meet in N. Olmsted on Tuesdays.

In this episode Bud reflects on his over three decades of work helping families to protect their l...

Kim & Kirk stay on theme with failures and mistakes leading to success with the Cleveland Burning Podcast. In this episode they chat about everything they've done wrong so far.

Listen to learn everything from how they QUICKLY decided to do the first three episodes over to the opposite approaches the two have taken to this podcast journey. Listen to learn which one started promoting the podcast before it even existed and wh...