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The next frontier in social media isn’t more posts, but it is better conversations. Arias believes the biggest opportunity lies in finding ways to have hundreds of genuine conversations every day.

Over seven years, Overtone grew from a two-person passion project into a team of more than 80 employees across manufacturing, technology, and executive functions, before ultimately reaching a successful exit.

Budgeting season is here. For founders, executives, and leadership teams, building next year’s budget isn’t just about plugging numbers into a spreadsheet. It’s about aligning sales, operations, and finance so your team has the resources and accountability to hit ambitious goals.

Founders often ask themselves the same question: how do I get my entire team truly aligned? Lee Benson has a simple but powerful answer. After building and exiting multiple companies (including one that scaled to hundreds of employees and nine-figure revenue), he developed the MIND Methodology to help leaders focus on what matters most: identifying and driving their most important number.

How Tenia Davis Left the Boardroom to Build a Bookstore Café That Connects a Community When most people finish a corporate career, they picture rest or maybe a consulting project. Tenia Davis, PhD, imagined something far more vibrant. She traded meetings for meaningful conversations and turned her passion for books and people into a Chicago-based bookstore café filled with connection, creativity, and purpose. In this episode of the Growth Department podcast , host Chelsey Rey

Sales leadership is both strategy and stewardship. It’s knowing the numbers while guiding the humans behind them. As Steve Levitt shared, “You can’t succeed alone without your team. Help them. Carry their concerns upward and bring clarity back down. That’s the job.” Start now. Evaluate, plan, and lead with purpose. The teams that thrive in 2026 will be the ones whose leaders were already preparing today.

Values-based hiring is about finding people you can trust to live your company’s values every day. As Dr. Cohen put it, “You want to have people you can sleep well at night knowing they’ll do the right thing at the right time.”

When your business is just starting out, you wear every hat. You sell, you market, you manage operations. But real growth comes when you learn how to delegate with confidence, build authority in your niche, and put scalable systems in place.

At the heart of Bruno’s research lies a lesson that goes beyond business: focus on commonalities. CEOs and janitors alike share dreams, fears, and insecurities. When leaders connect human-to-human rather than role-to-role, trust deepens and relationships flourish. As Bruno puts it, generosity is contagious. Treat people with respect and compassion, and they will pay it forward — inside your company and out in the marketplace.

Wendy’s move into entrepreneurship was the result of years of reflection and a desire for more alignment between her work and her values. “I had a long and rewarding career,” she explains, “but I wanted more alignment. I wanted to create something lasting, meaningful, and deeply personal.”

Founders often assume that if each department is doing its job, the company will grow. Real life tells a different story. A disconnected team creates slowdowns, costly errors, and missed opportunities, even when individuals are talented and motivated.

There is a moment in every high performer or leader’s life when relentless effort stops producing better results or stops feeling...

Spirituality in business could mean a minute of breath work before a pitch meeting, an affirmation on a sticky note by your laptop, a weekly journaling session, or a phone-free walk. These habits create focus, strengthen decision-making, and reconnect you to your “why.”

Businesses treating their profile like a core asset, not just an online directory, consistently see stronger revenue. A well-managed Google Business Profile builds trust with both customers and search engines.

The damage from a poor drop may not be limited to a single day’s revenue. It’s a signal that fans may not feel the brand can deliver consistently, which makes it harder to sustain growth.

When founders say, “I need more leads,” the instinct is usually to chase tactics, like ads and flashy visuals. But as Tamara Ceman explains in this episode of the Growth Department podcast, real marketing is much more than promotion. Real, great marketing is about doing the invisible work that keeps your business growing long after a campaign ends.

In this episode of the Growth Department podcast, Logan joins Chelsey Reynolds to talk about storytelling, entrepreneurship, podcasting, and what he affectionately calls “entrepreneurial ADHD.” The conversation is raw, funny, and packed with practical advice for anyone who has ever thought about launching a show or simply finding a better way to share their voice.

For many leaders searching for how to use AI in my business, the landscape feels overwhelming. There are endless tools, countless new terms, and mixed messages about what works. That’s why voices like Daniel Friker are so important. His mission is to simplify AI adoption and show founders, executives, and teams what practical AI implementation looks like today.

If you think your career has zigged and zagged, wait until you meet Henry Woodman. He sold knives at 13, launched a television show in Chile, scaled and exited a global hotel tech platform, and now he’s producing a reincarnation-themed romance series written from a manuscript discovered in his dad’s garage.

If your reps can’t figure out what they’ll earn from a deal in under a minute, the plan isn’t working. Complexity slows decisions, erodes trust, and kills momentum. Reps lose motivation fast when they’re confused about their own compensation.