Podcast
What really helps a Small Business grow? Learning from honest conversations with people who are actually doing the work! Because we believe that Small Business owners are the drivers of great things for our communities, and each one has a great story to share.
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Your Host
Chris Foster is Chief Evangelist of PostcardMania, advancing our mission to help 1 million Small businesses grow through education, marketing, and technology.
He has hosted hundreds of Podcast conversations, and sets up each owner with a discussion guide to make it easy, comfortable, enjoyable, and memorable.
The Everywhere Small Business Podcast
This podcast is built to give Small Business owners and marketers the stories, insights, advice, new ideas, and resources they can use to make better decisions and take better actions towards growing their business.
Episode 18
Host Chris Foster talks with executive coach Jenna Dillon of the Executive Performance Institute for Coaching about the traps business owners can place themselves in. Jenna shares lessons from coaching leaders on burnout, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and slowing down enough to lead effectively.
Episode 17
Host Chris Foster talks with Samantha Scholl, vice president of innovation at the Better Business Bureau serving the Pacific Southwest and Mountain West, about helping small business owners grow through education, mentorship, access to capital, and connections with their communities.
Episode 16
Host Chris Foster talks with Ryan Cooper, co-founder and chief revenue officer of Set to Close, about growing the company from two founders on a couch to 40 employees and $4.5 million in four years. Ryan shares how documented processes, the right people, and a strong company culture helped them scale.
Episode 15
Host Chris Foster talks with Jessica Aubin, a speech-language pathologist and owner of two businesses, about growing from a solo practitioner to a team of 15+ employees, learning from costly face plants, and organizing her staff and marketing to support continued growth.
Episode 14
Host Chris Foster talks with Dan Thompson, executive vice president of Plus One Company BPO, about running a 5,000-agent call center across the US and Ecuador, treating every script as a scientific experiment, and why a sales call is really about keeping someone from reaching into a pocket full of excuses.
Episode 13
Host Chris Foster talks with Nick South, co-founder of SoTellUs, about building a video review platform alongside his father and two older brothers, hiring for fit over résumé so people stay for a decade, and why knowing your numbers is the line between running a business and funding an expensive hobby.
Episode 12
Host Chris Foster talks with Jay Schwedelson, founder of Outcome Media and author of Stupider People Have Done It, about growing up inside his parents' garage-run direct mail business, letting COVID push him into finally marketing as himself, and why consistency beats being the smartest person in the room.
Episode 11
Host Chris Foster talks with Scott Carson, the investor known across the country as “The Note Guy,” about losing a six-figure job and nearly losing his own home, building a business buying distressed mortgage debt from banks, and why delivered always beats perfected when it comes to marketing.
Episode 10
Host Chris Foster talks with Mary Ann Bautista, co-founder of TurboRank, about sunsetting the direct marketing agency she built over 25 years to go all-in on a YouTube-only niche, building the operations and partnership that let her replace herself, and why the skills that got her here aren't the ones that will take her to the next level.
Episode 9
Host Chris Foster talks with Brian Fullerton, founder of Brian's Lawn Maintenance and the Lawn Entrepreneur Academy, about turning a childhood grass-cutting hustle into a growing landscape business, building real belief before real revenue, and creating a roadmap so his employees — and his own kids — have something bigger to grow into.
Episode 8
Host Chris Foster talks with Andrew Clegg, who launched Sweetwater Softwash at seventeen and grew it into a half-million-dollar business by twenty-one, about starting young, learning to hire and lead employees, and building a family business rooted in faith and consistency.
Episode 7
Host Chris Foster talks with Stephanie Betters, who went from flipping her first house as a young nurse practitioner to building Left Main REI into an eight-figure, venture-backed software company, about turning constraints into systems, staying resilient through obstacles, and building a business alongside her husband and business partner.
Episode 6
Host Chris Foster talks with Jaclynn Sugg, who stepped in to run her family's dental practice, Wheatland Dental Care, after her father's death, about consistency, leadership alignment, and building a culture of open, honest communication.
Episode 5
Host Chris Foster talks with Lars Helgeson, founder of GreenRope and Complete CRM, about pivoting after 26 years in email marketing and CRM to launch ValaBright, a new platform bringing automated, personalized patient education to healthcare.
Episode 4
Host Chris Foster talks with Stuart Benjamin about rebuilding after his family jewelry business was sold, creating a 7-figure retail brand, earning customer trust, and adapting a service-first business across decades of change.
Episode 3
Host Chris Foster continues his conversation with PostcardMania founder Joy Gendusa about preserving culture while scaling, reading company statistics, adapting to changing small business markets, and keeping the company focused on helping business owners grow.
Episode 2
Host Chris Foster talks with PostcardMania founder Joy Gendusa about scaling a self-funded business, protecting culture, hiring people who care, and keeping teams focused on production, responsibility, and the customer.
Episode 1
Host Chris Foster talks with PostcardMania founder Joy Gendusa about the early experiences, first hires, customer lessons, and proven systems that shaped PostcardMania's growth into a $100M company.
