Your Business Growth Podcast
Welcome, fellow business owner, to Your Business Growth Podcast, the companion show to Jeremy Shapiro's book Your Business Growth Playbook, dedicated to helping you break through those frustrating plateaus and get back to scaling your business! If you’re an established entrepreneur who’s seen success but now feels like more hustle just isn’t working anymore, or if your expenses keep getting higher but revenue isn’t keeping up, then you’re in the right place. Our goal is to uncover the tactical and strategic methods that help businesses like yours increase not just revenue, but also profits.
Episodes
What happens when you realize a billion-dollar industry is still operating with outdated systems and nobody is willing to fix it?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Sam Berman, founder of LARC, to break down how a restaurant napkin sketch evolved into a global logistics and engineering company trusted by some of the world’s largest technology and data center operators.
After years working i...
What happens when your business valuation comes back far lower than expected because AI is threatening your entire industry?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Wes Towers, founder of Uplift 360, to break down how a shocking valuation forced him to rethink his agency.
Wes had built a successful web agency, but the business was still too dependent on him, margins were tightening, and custom ...
What happens when the biggest contracts in your business are actually slowing you down?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Albert Butler, a CPA and business advisor, who shares how chasing large government contracts nearly limited his firm’s growth—and what happened when he shifted focus instead.
Albert built his career working across multiple industries before stepping into a firm heavily ...
What happens when your team is working harder than ever—but your revenue refuses to grow?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Shawn Boehme, a sales leader in cloud communications, who shares how poor alignment across product, sales, and marketing nearly stalled his business—and what happened when he fixed it.
Sean started his career during the early days of cloud communications, joining a fa...
What happens when you stop charging upfront fees—and tie your entire business to performance?In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Ari Rastegar, founder of Rastegar Capital, who shares how aligning investor success with his own transformed his business—and helped him scale from a law student building houses to managing a billion-dollar real estate portfolio.Ari began his journey while still ...
What happens when the people managing your properties are the biggest reason your business is stuck?In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Leo Young, a real estate investor and operator who shares how poor third-party property management nearly limited his growth—and what happened when he took full control instead.Leo started his career in sales before transitioning into real estate investing...
What do you do when referrals slow down, revenue starts shrinking, and the strategy that built your business stops working?In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Virginia Elder to unpack how she rebuilt her podcast production business after hitting a painful plateau. Virginia shares how she first entered business after transforming her own finances, launched a personal finance podcast, and th...
What happens when your business is growing—but your model quietly starts holding you back?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Eric Lowe, co-founder of Aptiva Health, to break down how he identified a hidden operational bottleneck and turned it into a major growth opportunity.
Eric shares how his early virtual healthcare model—built on part-time providers—worked at first, but eventually bega...
What do you do when your business hits a ceiling—not because demand disappears, but because your pricing model traps you there?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Mark Walton to break down how he went from a low-ticket Forex education model that kept stalling out to a premium coaching business with a waiting list and far more freedom.
Mark shares his path from selling a physical business in...
What happens when your side hustle is an instant hit… and then starts falling apart the moment you scale it?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with William Holston to unpack the hard lesson behind an early product success that almost collapsed under real-world demand. William shares how a backyard charity carnival inspired a breakout game idea, how early customer demand validated the concept f...
What do you do when you’ve built an award-winning, nationally recognized firm… and still can’t find profit?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Lance Cayko (F9 Productions) to break down a counterintuitive turnaround: instead of hiring more people and chasing bigger volume, Lance capped headcount, tightened operations, and used pricing strategy to change the economics of the business.
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Most successful podcasts aren’t just about the guests—they’re about the preparation behind the scenes. In this special Behind the Scenes episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, host Jeremy Shapiro reveals the proven episode planning system that transforms ordinary conversations into compelling stories that resonate with your audience. If you’re tired of aimless recordings and want to craft episodes that hook listeners from the fir...
What do you do when your business is profitable, referrals keep coming in, and yet every “yes” means longer days, more stress, and less of your life?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Simone Little, who hit that breaking point while running a growing VA agency. The money looked great, but... her life didn’t.
Simone made a bold call: a six-week sabbatical where she let all clients go with n...
What do you do when you move to a new city, revenue stalls, debt starts stacking up—and the idea of getting a job suddenly feels real?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Nick Bonitatibus to break down how Nick went from general “video marketing for small businesses” (his words: “classic mistake”) to committing to one clear niche.
Nick shares the turning point where he opened Indeed, looked ...
What do you do when you’re running one of the top programs in the world—but realize staying there means slow decline?
Andrew Ackerman faced that exact moment. As a leader inside one of the world’s most respected startup accelerators, he saw the writing on the wall: the market was crowded, competition was scaling faster, and doing “more of the same” wouldn’t win.
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits do...
In 2019, Damien Zamora hit the lowest point of his life.
After decades as a serial entrepreneur - helping over 300,000 businesses get online and generating more than $500 million in revenue - his company began to spiral. Overhead ballooned. Focus disappeared. Debt stacked up. Lawsuits loomed. Key partners walked away. Payroll became impossible.
Then came the personal tragedy.
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Sha...
If you’re not growing, you’re dying - and in e-commerce, the “one winning product” trap can kill a business fast.
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, host Jeremy Shapiro sits down with David Schomer, CEO of Build Grow Scale and host of Firing The Man to break down how he went from a stalled business headed toward bankruptcy to building an Amazon operation with 1,000+ ASINs and a system that supports predictable, profi...
What do you do when your premium offer stops selling, even though the right prospects are still showing up?
In this episode, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Emily Crookston (ghostwriter, developmental editor, and author of Unwritten) to unpack the toughest stretch of her career: 12+ months without landing a single ghostwriting client. The calls were still happening, but people kept saying no. Then one prospect dropped the line every p...
What happens when you do everything “right” — pick a niche, dial in your offer, and rack up thousands of clients — and still hit a wall?
In this episode, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Ted Miller III (CEO of TM3), who went from sleeping in his truck “broke as a joke” to building a business that scaled hard — after discovering a brutal truth: his niche had a ceiling. Ted had amassed 7,000 chiropractic clients, then hit a plateau becau...
What happens when hard work stops working?
In this episode of Your Business Growth Podcast, Jeremy Shapiro sits down with Dom Casone, a long-time entrepreneur who faced layoffs, stalled growth, failed ventures, and eventually personal bankruptcy — and still rebuilt a stable, profitable business.
Dom’s story is raw, honest, and deeply practical. He shares how sticking with bad decisions too long nearly ended everything, and what final...
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