The Everywhere Small Business Podcast

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  13. Three Brothers, 30 employees, and 8,000+ Customers: Nick South and a Thriving Family Business 30.09.2026 54min

  What happens when a family of entrepreneurs takes decades of sales, marketing, and business experience and turns it into a technology company serving thousands of small businesses? Nick South knows the answer. Nick is part of the family behind Sotellus, a company that provides reputation management, marketing automation, and AI services to more than 8,000 small businesses across 33 countries. What started with his father’s sales career and his brothers’ experience in the Yellow Pages an...
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  12. How Jay Schwedelson Amassed 83,000 Followers: "Be Yourself & Show Up, Because Stupider People Have Done It" 23.09.2026 1t

  What do you do when your business is struggling, and you're not sure what to try next? For marketing powerhouse Jay Schwedelson, the answer has been surprisingly simple: keep showing up, keep testing, and be yourself. Jay shares how he grew up in a family direct-mail business, built an agency combining direct mail, email and digital marketing, nearly lost the business during COVID—and then completely changed his approach to marketing by becoming more authentic and visible. We talk about why c...
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  11. Turning Unemployment to a Multi-Million Dollar Business with Scott "The Note Guy" Carson 16.09.2026 56min

  What happens when a six-figure job disappears, the bills keep coming, and you have to figure out what to do next? For Scott Carson, getting laid off in the early 2000s became the beginning of an entrepreneurial journey that eventually turned him into “The Note Guy” — a real estate investor, educator, podcaster, and entrepreneur who has spent 20 years buying distressed mortgage debt and teaching others how to do the same. In this episode of the Everywhere Small Business Podcast, Scott sh...
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  10. Ending One Business To Ride The YouTube Wave: Mary Ann Bautista on Making Massive Change: 09.09.2026 48min

  Episode Overview What do you do when the marketing channel you've built your career around starts changing—and a completely new opportunity appears? For Mary Ann Bautista, the answer was to follow the opportunity...one on YouTube. And then, what started as an experiment became a specialty. Today, Mary Ann is the co-founder of TurboRank, a niche agency focused exclusively on the organic growth and optimization of YouTube channels—helping businesses capture existing demand through YouTube, Goog...
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  9. From 700 sq. ft. Apartment to $5 mil Landscape Business: Brian Fullerton's Investment In His Future 02.09.2026 1t 8min

  Episode Overview How do you know that your hard work and very humble beginnings would lead to a $5 million business? Well...you don't. For Brian Fullerton, it started at age 10, cutting lawns in a humble trailer park with a borrowed opportunity, a desire to make some money, and no idea where the journey would eventually lead. More than 20 years later, Brian has transformed Brian’s Lawn Maintenance from a one-man operation into a growing regional landscape and snow business—with a $5 mil...
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  8. From $5/hr to $500,000 at 21: How Andrew Clegg Built a Business Right Out of High School 26.08.2026 45min

  What happens when a 17-year-old decides that college, the military, or a traditional job aren't the only paths after high school? Andrew Clegg started his entrepreneurial journey with a car-detailing business while still in high school. He eventually discovered soft washing, launched Sweetwater Softwash in Monroe, Georgia, and began building a business around a simple philosophy: take care of your customers, do the basics exceptionally well, and build relationships that last. Now 21, Andrew h...
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  7. From Side Hustle to 8-Figures: Stephanie Betters on Building a Business Despite Big Obstacles 19.08.2026 51min

  What happens when the career you trained for becomes the foundation for something you never expected to build? Stephanie Betters is the founder and CEO of Left Main REI, a software platform built for real estate investors, and the co-founder of Better Path Homes, a real estate investment company she started with her husband. But her entrepreneurial journey didn't begin with a business degree or a startup plan. It started with a nursing career, a young family, a full-time job, and a decision t...
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  6. Leaving Your 9-to-5 to Save Your Family's 50-Year Business Legacy with Jaclyn Sugg 12.08.2026 39min

  When Jaclyn Sugg stepped into her family’s dental practice after her father passed away, she never expected to become a business owner. Her father had built Wheatland Dental Care over 50 years, beginning when he was just 32 years old. Jaclyn had stepped away from her own career temporarily to help her family, thinking she’d be back at her old job within a week or two. Five years later, she’s still running the business—and has discovered that running a small business can change you just as muc...
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  5. The Formula for Fighting Stagnation and Building Multiple 7-Figure Businesses with Serial Entrepreneur Lars Helgeson 05.08.2026 42min

  In this episode of the Everywhere Small Business Podcast, we chat with Lars Helgeson, entrepreneur and founder of ValaBright, about one of the most important challenges every business owner eventually faces: knowing when to make a change. Lars has built three businesses over the course of his career, beginning after his military service with an email marketing company, later creating a CRM platform, and eventually pivoting into healthcare technology with ValaBright. Throughout the conversatio...
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  4. Turning a Gut-Punch into a 7-Figure Retail Business with Stuart Benjamin 29.07.2026 44min

  “For years and years and years, it was always about, you know, one day this will be yours. And then one day it wasn't.” What happens when the business you thought you would inherit suddenly gets sold to someone else? For Stuart Benjamin, it became the beginning of something even more personal: building a business of his own. Stuart Benjamin of Stuart Benjamin Jewelry Designs grew up in San Diego’s jewelry business, starting work in his family’s company at just 18 years old. For nearly two dec...
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  3. Joy Gendusa on Unifying Staff, Retaining Superstars, and Driving $100 Million Growth 22.07.2026 30min

  What happens when a business grows beyond its founder? In this final episode of our three-part conversation with Joy Gendusa, founder and CEO of PostcardMania, we explore what it takes to lead a growing company without becoming the bottleneck—and how purpose, data, education, and adaptability can help a business continue to evolve. Joy shares how she uses statistics to understand what's happening inside the business, why her role has evolved into that of a "goal maker," and how she recognized...
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  2. Joy Gendusa and Creating The Culture For Scale 15.07.2026 37min

  There are two immutable laws of business: 1. You don't have to be a big brand to be a great brand. 2. All great brands have one thing in common: an authentic, definable culture. In Episode 2 of a three-part episode with Joy Gendusa, Founder and CEO of PostcardMania, she dives into how she created a culture and framework so the employees could be as successful as possible. What happens when a small business starts to scale—and suddenly the thing you built becomes responsible for the livelihood...
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  1. Joy Gendusa and How an Art School Dropout Started a $100M Business 08.07.2026 34min

  “Why don’t you have your own business?” It was a simple question from a successful businessman named Robert Schwartz. Joy Gendusa was about 30 years old, had two young children, was doing freelance graphic design, and had absolutely no idea how to run a business. But the question stuck. Years later, that idea would evolve to become PostcardMania — a marketing company serving small businesses with nearly 400 employees and a business that has grown to more than $100 million in revenue. In this ...