Episodes

Chrisane Giard, Director of Brand Technology at Clean Air Lawn Care and Clean Air Mosquito Control, joins The Bliss Business Podcast's Marketing With Purpose Kit to explore balancing brand and lead generation: the systems, coaching calls, and internal CRM that align a national franchise network.

John Babcock, Brand President of The Lash Lounge and a franchisee himself, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explore the franchisee-to-brand-president leadership perspective: the mirror effect, service notes, and the systems that keep community trust consistent across salons.

Vanessa Errecarte, CEO of Marketing Simplified, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explore personal branding that builds trust: service-first frameworks that turn visibility into real credibility, not performance.

Christine Perkett, CEO and Co-Founder of The Nova Method, joins The Bliss Business Podcast's Marketing With Purpose Kit to explore translating data into human stories: building customer trust and connection as AI reshapes marketing.

Lisa Druxman, Founder of FIT4MOM, returns to The Bliss Business Podcast to talk about conscious franchise growth: how FIT4MOM paused new franchise sales to protect its culture, trust, and wellbeing while scaling.

Sandra Cagan, Founder and Owner of Orlando Cat Cafe, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to unpack conscious franchising: building a cat cafe model where shelter partnerships, hospitality, and real systems help entrepreneurs grow a purpose driven business without losing the mission.

Lizzy Young, Director of Marketing at Creative World School, joins the Marketing With Purpose Kit series to explain how full-funnel marketing systems turn customer acquisition, lifecycle strategy, and local activation into a measurable revenue driver for growing franchise and multi-location brands.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, business performance expert Scott Greenberg unpacks the emotional intelligence of high performance, showing how leaders shape team energy, transform customer experience, and build resilient, engaged teams from the frontline up, one hourly worker at a time.

Timmi Ryerson, Founder and CEO of Smart Property Systems, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to answer what should AI never decide: her platform automates the workload across six connected portals, but deliberately hands every judgment call back to the person responsible for it.

Travis Arnesen, Vice President of Marketing at Service Experts, joins the Marketing With Purpose Kit series to explain marketing KPI accountability: the five business metrics his team is measured by, so every dollar connects to a real outcome instead of a vanity number.

Mark Tuggle, PhD, EA, CEO of Telos Bookkeeping, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain purpose-driven bookkeeping: how clean, current numbers turn financial dread into confidence, freedom, and decisions that actually reflect what a business owner values.

Bill Sherman, COO of Thought Leadership Leverage and lead author of The Thought Leadership Handbook, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain why give your ideas away: generosity earns the trust that opens doors sales cannot, and holding your best thinking close is the bigger risk.

Ben Cohen, Chief Marketing Officer at French Florist, joins the Marketing With Purpose Kit series to explain marketing ROI accountability: why every dollar has to answer to real business growth, treating himself as a steward of the franchise owners whose capital funds the marketing.

Charles Smitherman, CEO of the Association of Professional Rental Organizations, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to make the case for consumer access and dignity as the point of the rent-to-own model, and to explain why an industry built on access has to be built on standards too.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Mike Davis, Chief Executive Officer of Neighborly, explains how empathy in franchise leadership scales trust across 5,500 franchise locations through shared values, accountability, and what he calls "shared insomnia" for franchise owners' success.

In this Marketing With Purpose Kit segment of The Bliss Business Podcast, Nelson Montini, Brand Manager at Top Rail Fence, explains why franchise marketing alignment starts with fixing the friction between marketing and operations, not chasing another campaign metric.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Tim Elinski, Founder of Pin Drop Travel Trailers, explains how sustainable business practices guide handcrafted, solar-powered trailer manufacturing in rural Arizona, proving that durable products, local jobs, and historic preservation can grow together.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Ben Green, Lead Consultant at The Storytellers (part of Accenture), shares how storytelling that builds connection helps leaders lead with empathy, activate strategy, and turn change into shared ownership.

In this Marketing With Purpose Kit segment of The Bliss Business Podcast, Rebecca Throop, Director of Marketing at Merchants Fleet, unpacks cross-functional team alignment: how shared goals, servant leadership, and data-driven systems turn marketing, sales, and operations silos into a real growth engine.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Josh Porter, Founder of Thunderwolf Consulting and former Google Cloud marketing leader, shares the emotional intelligence in marketing that turns complex, technical products into stories customers actually understand.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Brad Poulos, small business professor and author of Most Problems Solve Themselves, unpacks emotional intelligence in business: how founders make hard calls with clarity, build durable systems, and grow companies that don't consume them.

Sportball's Laura Peever explains why purpose can't be marketed into existence, and what it actually takes to build a purpose-led brand strategy that holds up under pressure.

Nicole Peel, founder of Pawsitively Spoiled, explains how a college side hustle became a national pet sitting franchise built entirely on trust.

Kelly Giard, founder of Clean Air Lawn Care, explains how solar power, organic treatments, and local ownership built a sustainable lawn care franchise that competes on price.