Every living thing has a growth point — the exact place where new life pushes through. Your business has one too.

I'm Ranger Kielak — SBDC business advisor, regenerative leadership coach, and the guy who walked 2,642 miles across America to find out what forward really means. The Growth Point Podcast is a weekly show for small business owners, ag professionals, and entrepreneurs who are great at what they do but stuck on what comes next. Each episode breaks down the G.R.O.W.T.H. Framework — real strategy, real talk, no fluff.

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What does a kitten on the side of an Oklahoma highway have to do with your stuck business? Everything.

In this first episode, Ranger Kielak — SBDC business advisor, leadership coach, and the guy who walked 2,642 miles across America — introduces the Growth Point Podcast with the story that started it all: finding Walker, a tiny black kitten abandoned on the shoulder of a highway, and what that decision to pick him up has to do with every entrepreneur who's ever talked themselves out of starting something.

Through three real stories from the road — a cat rescue in Georgia, a recovery home in Arkansas, and a hot sauce company in San Diego — Ranger unpacks the one lesson that kept showing up across 175 days and 2,642 miles: forward doesn't require a map. It requires a decision.

This is what the show is about. Let's grow.