Oct 7, 2026

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Overall, small business sales are growing. So why do so many owners still feeling the squeeze?

The answer is hiding underneath the headline.

Matan Bar, CEO of Xero U.S., joins Dr. LL to unpack what Xero's U.S. Small Business Insights data reveals when you look beyond one encouraging number: sales may be...

Oct 2, 2026

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The businesses people overlook may be the ones worth examining. Especially those ew - yucky - services!

Entrepreneurship culture gives enormous attention to innovation, technology, and businesses that sound impressive. Mark Regan built something very different: a recurring-revenue company around a simple problem...

Sep 30, 2026

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People experience your leadership long before you make a formal leadership decision.

It's in how you enter a room. How you react when you're stressed. Whether you acknowledge someone. The story you tell. The difficult interaction you choose not to pass along to the next person.

Lisa Even calls it the ripple...

Sep 26, 2026

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It has never been easier to look like an expert. That may be precisely why genuine expertise matters more.

AI can help produce polished content, sophisticated branding, books, social posts, and an increasingly convincing professional presence. But none of those things automatically demonstrate depth, judgment,...

Sep 23, 2026

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How do you know when persistence is serving the business? Or at what point does attachment to what you've built prevent you from seeing it clearly?

Joseph Shalaby knows something about operating through uncertainty. As founder of eMortgage Capital, he has built within an industry shaped by economic cycles,...