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Dan Fletcher went from a park bench to Park Avenue. The CEO of Sound Hearing, Beltone reveals how he got clean at the Salvation Army, bought out the owners who refused to sell to him, and built a $20 million company with 54 Beltone franchise offices.

HIs company has 89 employees and 54 offices across Michigan and northern Ohio, and has won every award Beltone offers, including six straight Circle of Excellence awards and recognition as one of Detroit's top places to work, earned across a network of 1,600 offices nationwide.

He explains:

🡒 The Park Bench Turnaround: how hitting rock bottom at a Salvation Army recovery program became the foundation for everything he built afterward.

🡒 The 1,200 Unit Deal: the exact pitch he made to owners who told him the business would never be for sale, and how it made him a partner within one year.

🡒 The Lucky Question: the scale of 1 to 10 interview question that exposes a bad hire before they poison your entire team.

🡒 The Trust Sale: why nobody has ever actually bought a hearing aid from him, and what his patients are really paying for.

🡒 The 5% Edge: why success never required anything astronomical, just slightly more effort than everyone else is willing to give.

Chapters

0:00 Intro

0:41 Donut shops, odd jobs, and the newspaper ad that changed everything

8:25 How to sell a product nobody wants

14:52 Park bench to Park Avenue: the recovery story

18:58 Borrowing $40,000 and paying it back in year one

20:08 Generational wealth without spoiling your kids

27:31 Growing from two and a half offices to 54

31:13 The interview questions that reveal everything

39:44 Building a family first company

41:50 Final advice: get your foundation right before the leap

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Ben Bosscher hosts a three hour sports radio show five days a week on 100.9 The Mitt.

He's 24.

When the station gave him a test run, he replaced the time slot of Dan Patrick, who’d been on the air longer than Ben had been alive. There was no hiding his age - his vocabulary and experience both weren’t there yet.

So he leaned on the one thing he could control. Preparation.

What we covered:

→ How he preps a three hour show every single day

→ Getting his own show at 24 and why he says he earned it

→ Where sports talk radio goes after the hot take era

→ Sports gambling, promo codes at 21, and his lock of the day

→ His advice for anyone who feels behind their friends

Thanks for coming on, Ben. Catch him Monday through Friday, 9 to noon EST, on 100.9 The Mitt.

Chapters

0:00 Welcome Ben Bosscher

2:23 Building a three hour show every day

5:27 Sounding boards and the job that never stops

7:03 Why he's had success at 24

11:49 Where sports talk radio goes next

14:09 Trusting your gut on air

16:30 Sports gambling and the lock of the day

19:19 What's next for Ben

21:07 For anyone who feels behind

23:58 Will the Lions win the Super Bowl?

Connect with Ben

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-bosscher/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009-the-mitt/

https://www.instagram.com/ben.bosscher/

https://www.instagram.com/1009themitt/

https://www.facebook.com/SportsRadio100.9TheMitt/

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Bill Cowdin started Cowdin Design and Build in October 2008, the worst possible month of the worst possible year to launch a construction business.

And for a while, he was the whole company… Building kitchen islands in his garage, hauling sheets of wood in the back of a Suburban, and working 100 hours a week with an office in his spare bedroom.

The turn came when he stopped asking whether he could afford the next hire and started asking whether he could afford not to make it. He took the leap, paid his people before he paid himself, and made it work.

Today he runs a team with systems built to handle 35 to 40 percent more work than they have, and he doesn't touch day to day operations at all.

What we covered:

→ Doing every job in the company yourself, and recognizing when that stops being a badge of honor

→ Hiring before you can afford it, and paying your people before you pay yourself

→ Letting go of good people the business outgrew, and why owners wait too long

→ The client happiness chart, and why everyone bottoms out at drywall

→ Four ten hour days, quiet Fridays, and the Tuesday at 2:00 standing meeting

→ The discovery flight that led to his own Bonanza, and the flight with his dad that never happened

Most owners stay buried in the work because writing that first real paycheck to someone else feels impossible.

Chapters

0:00 Meet Bill Cowdin

1:53 Woodshop dreams, architecture, and a finance degree

4:38 Starting the company in October 2008

10:52 First clients, garage built islands, and 100 hour weeks

15:31 Hiring, letting go, and paying your people first

18:36 Four tens and the quiet Friday

21:18 The project roadmap and Tuesday at 2:00

28:55 Mini marriages and the client happiness chart

35:46 What's next, AI estimating, and building extra capacity

42:26 The Bonanza, his dad, and learning to fly

Connect with Bill

https://www.cowdindesignbuild.com/

https://www.instagram.com/cowdindesignbuild/

https://www.facebook.com/CowdinDesignBuild/

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Kingsview General Disclosure: Kingsview Wealth Management ("KWM") is an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Registration does not constitute an endorsement of the firm by the SEC, nor does it indicate that KWM has attained a particular level of skill or ability. The information presented is for educational purposes only. It does not intend to make an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any specific securities, investments, or investment strategies. Investments involve risk and, unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed