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The Deal Process - A warrior for a Lawyer
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 11. In this episode, Mike talks with Rob Swartwood of Consilium. Consilium is a boutique legal firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions and corportate legal matters. Rob is a former...
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Don't Leave Money On the Table - Know Your Valuation
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 10! In this episode, Mike talks with Mike DeWitt. Mike is a partner at CI-Brightworth and a senior instructor at The Business Owner Transition Academy. Listen in as Mike talks about the...
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The 3 Big Questions Every Dentist Must Answer As They Pursue An ELITE Exit
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 9! In this special show, Mike talks with Brett Miller. Brett is the partner and practice area leader in charge of CI-Brightworth Dental. CI-Brightworth Dental is a specialty practice...
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A Globe In Crisis - What Business Owners Should Expect?
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 8. In this episode, Mike talks with Nathan Corbitt, CPA, CFA, CFP, CExP about global geopolitical and economic unrest and what it means to the business owner in the rest of 2022 and...
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Give up your President seat and increase value
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 7. Would you be comfortable hiring an outsider to run your business so you would have a better chance of increasing value and the probability to exit on the terms you want? Listen to my...
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Barriers to an ELITE exit and why businesses don't sell
Welcome to season 2 episode 6. After speaking to a number of business owners in the last 2 weeks about exit readiness, I thought this would be a good time for a discussion of why business owners fail to achieve an...
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Will the supply chain have a new normal?
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 5 of The Business Owner Transition Podcast. Join Mike in his conversation with Tom Wrobleski. Tom has spent his career in the supply chain management space and serves as an advisor to...
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Building Leaders Increases Transferable Value!
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 4 of The Business Owner Transition Podcast. In this episodes, I talk with T.D. Smyers, CAPT USN (Ret). T.D. is the host of the Bold Leader Podcast, former squadron commander and Naval Air...
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What is your post transition "Cool Change"?
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 3 of The Business Owner Transition Podcast. In this episodes, I talk with Chuck Allen. Chuck is the host of the Cool Change Podcast, a highly accomplished executive coach and speaker and...
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Another Record Breaking Year For M&A?
Mike talks with Don Bravaldo, founder of Bravaldo Capital Advisors. They discuss Don's boots on the ground observations of the current lower middle market M&A environment and what it takes to get your company...
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Welcome to 2022
Welcome to 2022 and Season 2 EP1. In this episode, Mike discusses the outlook for the opportunity to create your ELITE Exit in 2022. He discusses the environment from three perspectives. First, the economy and...
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What is your post-exit elevator speech?
In this episode, Mike talks with Charlie Jordan, He is a CPA, a Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner, and a Certified Financial Transitionist®. Charlie leads the Retiring Well practice at Brightworth and uses...
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