The Entrepreneur’s Kitchen

Send us Fan MailBeing visible without a strategy is where most early founders go wrong. I did it too.You post. You check for likes and comments. You post again next week.This isn't what you signed up for as an entrepreneur.In this solo-episode, I share one cycle to build into your week, so every post teaches you how to make the next one better.What’s covered:The three steps most founders skip between one post and the nextHow to use AI as your coach without letting it do your thinkingWhat 30 posts in 30 days showed me about a year of weekly bloggingWhy three hours of editing is the wrong three hourLearn more about Priscilla Shumba📌 Good at what you do, but the business just isn't taking off like you expected?You’re not failing. You’re early.My ebook gives expert Founders 10 CEO shifts, and a 10-minute scorecard to find the one holding you back.Get your copy for $5: 10 CEO Shifts For Expert Founders E-book💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailOn paper he was a good husband and a good dad. That’s what made it so hard to see drift in his personal life. Lars Hedenborg built businesses that could run without him, and still couldn’t put them down until he heard God tell him to...What’s covered:What walking away from a 7 figure business cost him and what he gainedWhat drift looks like in a marriage, and the daily habits that stop itThe exercise he asks every client who wants to live an aligned life to do How to work hard even when God has told you He will bless your businessLars Hedenborg built a real estate business that served more than 5,000 families and he's coached more than 3,000 business owners. Then a message he heard from God, led him to rethink success. Today, he helps men put business in its proper place through The Ascent Brotherhood.Learn more about Lars https://a12.life/00:00 Financial Freedom vs. the Freedom That Matters00:45 Meet Lars: Four Businesses, Every Mistake01:46 Hearing From God05:38 Why He Shut Down a Profitable Business10:53 Time and Money Freedom: The Scorecard He Replaced11:39 AI Agents for Business: What He Hands Off15:27 Sales Outreach Maths: 125 Conversations, 5 Clients18:39 The E-Myth Revisited: How He’d Use It Now20:46 The Cost of Obedience in Business26:13 “What Makes You Qualified? You’re Not a Pastor”29:41 Business and Marriage: How the Drift Starts34:52 Daily Habits That Keep a Marriage on Course38:20 Time Management for Business Owners: The Honest Audit41:39 Where to Find Lars and The Ascent42:35 Final Advice: Systems, AI and Time With God📌 Good at what you do, but the business just isn't taking off like you expected?You’re not failing. You’re early.My ebook gives expert Founders 10 CEO shifts, and a 10-minute scorecard to find the one holding you back.Get your copy for $5: 10 CEO Shifts For Expert Founders E-book💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailYour marketing is working harder than ever and getting less back. It isn’t you. The rules changed while you had your head in the trenches.What's covered:Seven shifts in how people are buying right now,One exercise that gets your business to its current potential without adding a single new thing.Mentioned in this episode:The Chicken-Egg Dilemma: You Already Have More Than You Think The Founder’s Quiz How AI search recommends expert founders 💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailWhen a national story breaks, reporters have about three hours to find an expert. If they don’t already know your name, it won’t be you.Austin Holmes is president of Publicity For Good, the PR agency his wife Heather founded. His team has landed more than 40,000 media opportunities for clients.Small business PR for founders: earned media, AI search, and the relationships that get you called first.What’s covered:The one-line difference between PR and marketingWhy businesses that hide their prices are starting to vanish from searchWhy a year of steady PR beats a three-month launch pushWhat a reporter needs from you before they’ll say yesConnect with Austin at publicityforgood.com · @AAustinHolmes📌 Good at what you do, but the business just isn't taking off like you expected?You’re not failing. You’re early.My ebook gives expert Founders 10 CEO shifts, and a 10-minute scorecard to find the one holding you back.Get your copy for $5: 10 CEO Shifts For Expert Founders E-book💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailKelly Roach is a former Fortune 500 executive, eight-figure entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Kelly Roach International. She built her first business in one hour a day while still in her executive job.In this episode, she's candid about the trust recession, why selling high ticket straight to the market no longer scales, and why she stopped keeping her faith separate from her business.In this episode:Why she believes most founders won't make it without faithThe Miracle Hour: building a business when you only have an hourSelling as service, and how to sell without being pushyWhat "productizing" actually means for a service businessThe boring fundamentals that separate six-figure and eight-figure foundersHow to spot a high flyer before they've arrivedWhat nine months on Substack did for her businessFor Christian entrepreneurs building a business without putting faith and family second.📌 Good at what you do, but the business just isn't taking off like you expected?You’re not failing. You’re early.My ebook gives expert Founders 10 CEO shifts, and a 10-minute scorecard to find the one holding you back.Get your copy for $5: 10 CEO Shifts For Expert Founders E-book💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailTom Vander Well has spent 30 years running his business on biblical principles.At 14, Tom Vander Well prayed, "Wherever you want me to go, I'll go."He was preaching every Sunday. Sure he'd be a pastor.God sent him into a closet full of phone jacks with a cassette recorder instead...and over 100,000 business calls later, Tom says it's the pulpit he never expected.In this episode:📌 Kingdom business or under the radar? Tom's answer starts with Elijah and Obadiah📌 The three things every customer wants (and why his wife wants the same three)📌 Why he won't sign a contract longer than 12 months...and still keeps clients for 27 years📌 What kept him going when business went bad📌 He had AI review 25 calls. It got 1 in 5 wrong.Tom is CEO of Intelligentix and author of This Call May Be Monitored: What Eavesdropping on Corporate America Taught Me About Business and Life.Find Tom and his daily Wayfarer podcast at tomvanderwell.com 📌 Good at what you do, but the business just isn't taking off like you expected?You’re not failing. You’re early.My ebook gives expert Founders 10 CEO shifts, and a 10-minute scorecard to find the one holding you back.Get your copy for $5: 10 CEO Shifts For Expert Founders E-book💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailYou're not failing. You're running an employee operating system in a Founder's arena. Every expert who leaves a senior career carries the same instinct out the door. Do excellent work, and the work will speak for itself. Inside a company, it did. In the market, nobody knows you exist. And nobody cares until you give them a reason to.What's covered:The curse of the expert Why your first idea probably isn't The Idea, The circle of influence your buyer has to sell you to  The referral sentence that uses your client's words  The marketing maths to design your daily activities with  Why you should pay attention to the few people on your email list 📌 Homework from this episode: finish the sentence "if you hear someone say ______, that's me." Then send it to three people who've offered to refer you and never have.📌 Good at what you do, but the business just isn't taking off like you expected?You’re not failing. You’re early.My ebook gives expert Founders 10 CEO shifts, and a 10-minute scorecard to find the one holding you back.Get your copy for $5: 10 CEO Shifts For Expert Founders E-book💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailMost founders never build a company that their employees' grandchildren will work for. Robert L. Wallace did.Then he did it again. His second company builds solar plants across the US, Africa and the Caribbean.Before either worked, five or six of his businesses failed.What's covered:What he would build first, starting again with nothingThe four billion person market almost nobody is building forWhy wealth ruins founders who get it before they can hold itWhy he ran for mayor when people in his church warned him not toLearn more about Robert L. Wallace  at https://robertwallace.com/📌 Good at what you do, but the business just isn't taking off like you expected?You’re not failing. You’re early.My ebook gives expert Founders 10 CEO shifts, and a 10-minute scorecard to find the one holding you back.Get your copy for $5: 10 CEO Shifts For Expert Founders E-book💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailWhat if the next wave of business growth isn't coming from Google rankings, social media algorithms, or paid ads, but from AI recommendations?You may be the best person at what you do, and still be invisible when your ideal clients ask AI who they should hire.As more people turn to AI for recommendations, a new question is emerging: What determines who gets recommended and who gets ignored? In this episode, Priscilla Shumba unpacks a major shift that every founder, coach, consultant, and expert should understand.📌 Good at what you do, but the business just isn't taking off like you expected?You’re not failing. You’re early.My ebook gives expert Founders 10 CEO shifts, and a 10-minute scorecard to find the one holding you back.Get your copy for $5: 10 CEO Shifts For Expert Founders E-book💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.  

Send us Fan MailIf you're one of many founders that are starting to slightly resent the business they built, this conversation is for you. Ambition and perseverance got you to success, but the future of your business is going to require a founder that isn't too busy in the weeds to see where the puck is going next.  Your business will hit a ceiling of growth if everything still runs through you. In this episode, Alec Broadfoot explains how founders can recognize when it is time to stop trying to do everything themselves and start thinking seriously about the hire that can change the trajectory of the business: the right number two.Alec Broadfoot  is the founder and CEO of Vision Spark and the author of Hiring Your Right Number Two Leader. He has spent years helping entrepreneurs make one of the most important and most misunderstood leadership hires in business. This conversation explores why founders often get this hire wrong, what the right second-in-command actually looks like, and what has to happen after the hire if you want the relationship to work.If you are feeling stretched, tired of carrying the day-to-day, or wondering whether growth now requires a different structure around you, this episode will give you a sharper lens.📌What’s coveredWhen founder hustle stops being enoughThe leadership hire that can unlock growthWhy hiring on instinct can backfireThe role of assessments, traits, and fitWhat makes a founder-number two relationship workWhere good hires break down after day oneThe tension between trust, control, and scale📚Hiring Your Right Number 2 Leader: Gain More Time. Earn More Income. Create More Impact. by Alec Broadfoot🌐Learn more about Alec https://visionsparksearch.com/💛Share with a Founder who would enjoy this conversation. Thank you for listening in!  See you next week.