The Business Owner's Journey

We shorten the learning curve of business ownership by bringing on entrepreneurs, leaders, and innovators to share their stories, challenges, leadership practices, and winning strategies.

Welcome to ‘The Business Owner’s Journey', the podcast that’s here to help you navigate your way in the world of business ownership.

Hosted by 20+ year entrepreneur, Nick Berry.

Nick interviews entrepreneurs, leaders, and innovators to share their personal stories, challenges, leadership, and strategies from their own business owner’s journey.

Guests like:
Matt Diggity, John DiJulius, John Jantsch, Roland Gurney, Brett Bartholomew, Kiri Masters, Matt Goebel, Austin Mullins, Dr. Haley Perlus, Kelly Berry, Dana Farber, Steve McFarland, Sara Nay, Scott Fay, Daniel Wakefield, Jessica Yarmey, Shireen Hilal, Phil Putnam, Brooke Lively, Vivien Hudson, Anthony Milia, Romi Wallach, Nicole Mastrangelo, Melissa Darville

It’s crowdsourced business mentorship in highly concentrated doses.

We’ll cover:
- Strategy
- Leadership
- Ideas & Opportunities
- Best practices
- Tools and resources
- All of the Lessons and experience from our guests

This podcast for the business owners who are driven to grow and improve,
+ Who want realistic and actionable insights.
+ Who understand the immeasurable value in lessons learned from others.
+ And that they’re just one lightbulb moment away from a big breakthrough.

The goal is to shorten your learning curve so you can get out in front of challenges and be prepared for opportunities.

The journey for a business owner is hard. It’s complex, it’s stressful, and can be lonely.

But it can also be exciting, rewarding, and fulfilling, and you don’t have to do it alone.

Take advantage of insights and experiences of other business owners and how they’re navigating their own Business Owner’s Journeys, so you don't have to figure it all out on your own.

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The Business Owner's Journey

Season 2 of The Business Owner's Journey: The Need for Speed

March 05, 2025 • Nick Berry • Season 2 • Episode 48

Full episode page: Season 2 of The Business Owner's Journey: The Need for Speed

Episode Summary:

Nick Berry kicks off Season 2 of The Business Owner’s Journey with a preview episode with a short lesson on business growth and the power of speed in entrepreneurship. Nick previews this season’s lineup of top-tier guests - entrepreneurs, experts, and business strategists - who will share game-changing lessons to help you move faster, make better decisions, and lead with confidence.

Some of the upcoming episodes include:

Anne McGinty, host of How I Built My Small Business
Chase Murdock, CEO of Decada Group
Jessica Rhodes, Founder of Interview Connections
Joe Daniels, Founder of NicheBuilder
and many others!

He also share how a business owner’s needs evolve over time and why mentorship, networking, and advisory boards are critical for growth.

Takeaways:

Your speed of learning determines success – Faster insights mean faster business growth.
Three pillars of business support matter – Get a mentor, community, and peer board for success.
Upcoming guests will challenge your thinking – Learn from top entrepreneurs and strategists.
This season will help you lead better, faster – Make smarter moves with real stories & strategies.

Where to Connect with Nick:

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Season Two
02:09 The Importance of Growth and Learning as a Leader
04:02 Upcoming Guests and Their Insights

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00:00 Introduction to Season Two
02:09 The Importance of Growth and Learning as a Leader
04:02 Upcoming Guests and Their Insights

Nick Berry (00:00)
The Business Owner's Journey. I'm Nick Berry and I've got real business owners telling their real stories, sharing their real lessons and strategies so you don't have to figure it all out on your

Nick Berry (00:12)
Hello everyone. I hope your 2025 is off to a stellar start. Season two of the Business Owner's Journey is about to kick off and I'm really excited about what I've got to share with you this season. First, I want to start with sharing a short little snippet that I found reviewing some of our documents that we had used with clients. This is eight or 10 years old. This is something that I included in a message to them.

As your business grows and you mature as an owner, your needs become more about your growth as an owner and less about what activities you do as the operator. As business owners, none of us know what we don't know. As you're developing, figuring out what it is that you need to know next and then figuring that out as soon as possible becomes a critical factor. That's because every time that it takes you three months to fix something that really could have or should have taken one,

Or when your development as an owner plateaus, that meter is running on opportunity costs. And if you're the kind of person who is comparing yourself to your competitors, there's also someone in your rear view mirror who didn't slow down or stop and they've just gotten bigger in that mirror. So that's the end of the quote. The idea there is speed. Like you get speed from exposure, learning faster, hearing the right things at the right times.

And that's the purpose of this podcast. That's why I bring these experts, these entrepreneurs, these people who have been in the trenches and have lessons to share here to share their stories. So you get more inputs and can move forward and learn faster. That's why I believe so strongly in the three pillars of support that every business owner needs to have a one-on-one coach or a mentor. need to be active in your larger community network. You need to be part of a peer advisory board.

Those are all inputs. Those are inputs that move you forward faster because you do not need to be a leader on an island. And that's a choice. This season, I've got some amazing guests who have some unique stories, wisdom, and advice to help other business owners navigating their path.

got Jessica Rhodes, founder of Interview Connections, which was the first podcast booking agency and she started that business over 10 years ago. I've got Bradley Hamner of Blueprint OS, Joe Daniels of Niche Builder, Abby Donnelly of Leadership Legacy Group. And I actually have one of my guests who is going to interview me and I'm going to share my story of the exits and then my recent exit and

You know how that all came about. Season two is going to open up with Anne McGinty, the host of How I Built My Small Business podcast, which is now one of the fastest growing entrepreneurship podcasts out there. But Anne also has a business background and was able to retire at relatively early. And that's what's kind of led her to starting the podcast. Behind the scenes, I've been busy with

My leadership and business strategy clients, spending a lot of time playing with my daughter. She's almost three. And I've been rebuilding my second brain. If you know, you know. For the podcasts I'm still working on putting together some partnerships slash sponsorships, looking for a web flow designer, a graphic designer, social media strategist, a PR strategist. If you are any of those things and you want to reach out, please do.

I'm also adding some more staff looking for an executive assistant. need a Notion expert or a database expert. if those are of interest or you or you know someone who might be interested, feel free to contact me about those.

If you'd like to hear how other business owners are doing it or have done it, if hearing the stories and the lessons is what triggers your aha moments. If you're trying to figure out what kind of leader your business needs you to be, or you know what kind of leader your business needs to be and you're trying to figure out how to be that leader. Or if you're missing something, but you're just not sure what it is yet, I think you're in the right place. Listening to this show is going to help you find those things. That's what we do here.

Follow the show so you don't miss any of these new episodes of season two. And I hope that you'll share it with that friend of yours who thinks about these kinds of things the same way that you do.

Thank you for listening. You do have a lot of options for who you could spend your time listening to and you've chosen me and I sincerely appreciate that. So season two is on the way. Have a great rest of your day and rest of your week and I will be back soon.

Nick Berry (04:57)
Thank you so much for listening. If you found the show valuable, you can say thanks and show your support simply by taking a quick second to like, share, and comment on the show. You can also find more information about each of my guests, all of the resources from the show, and myself at nickberry .info.