Kal Patel built hotels, a franchise, and an urgent care after a car crash, $150K loss, and a roof fall. Now he's handing businesses to his daughters.

Kevin Koster turned a tragic accident into a 40-year mission: proving that marketing controls most of what determines a business’s value — and most owners never calculate it.

Christian Hertl of Antolino Wealth Advisors shares how a 60-year-old firm built on thinking and caring became his professional home and what a terminal diagnosis taught him about purpose.

Rick Blackshaw grew Chuck Taylor to $1.8B, doubled Hey Dude to $1B+, and signed Taylor Swift for Keds. Now he’s building Stoke Shoes for the 75% of men with wide feet nobody was serving.

Andres Garcia built Venezuela’s first Wendy’s into 240 US locations, sold in 2024, and now builds Mr. O1 Extraordinary Pizza — deliberately, one culture-first location at a time.

Chloe Li left investment banking to build real value at CloudBeds, where she’s driving AI data strategy, payments, and the shift to serve larger hotel groups.

Steve Belcher built Advantis Medical Staffing from scratch, survived a 50% post-COVID revenue cliff, and sold to Adecco — the world’s largest staffing firm — in 2026.

Todd Lucas of Family Farm and Home shares how a radio background, 11 years at Menards, and a workforce age crisis led him to build a training department from scratch with a deer urine video.

Brie Bolopue and Rochelle Lierz of Good Apple share how they built a fractional leadership firm for small business, why exit planning starts years early, and what the silver tsunami means for business owners today.