The Growth and Scaling Podcast with Todd Westra
Todd Westra interviews Executives and Business Owners who share the key decisions they made to make amazing breakthroughs in their quest to Scale their business.
Episodes
Eli Portnoy is a serial B2B tech founder focused on solving business problems through customer insight. He’s the CEO of BackEngine, a SaaS platform that uses AI to analyze customer conversations and deliver real-time feedback to teams, such as marketing, product, and customer success.
Eli emphasizes the power of customer insight to drive B2B growth. As CEO of BackEngine, he leverages AI to transform customer conver...
Andrew Hartman, founder and CEO of TimeBoss, is a former COO who turned his personal battle with overwhelm into a solution for leaders and teams. Through group coaching, workshops, and one-on-one sessions, TimeBoss helps them achieve results without burnout.
Andrew highlights his TimeBoss method: treating time as a valuable asset, cutting multitasking, and using weekly planning, prioritizing, and time-blocking for deep work. His...
Bertus/Bert Albertse, CEO and President of JETSET Pilates, is driving the company's growth with a focus on fitness, health, and wellness. Under his leadership, JETSET Pilates has reached 100 units in development in just three years. The brand offers a modern, accessible Pilates model centered on small-group fitness, appealing to new business owners and experienced investors.
Bert's leadership focuses on bui...
Nick Raschke is the Co-Founder & COO of Doe Media, a company specializing in paid marketing and advertising. With a strong entrepreneurial background, Nick has extensive experience scaling e-commerce and tech companies.
Nick highlights Doe Media's growth, aiming to lead paid marketing by improving strategies for successful brands. During the pandemic, they helped small businesses thrive and launched a mask business that made ov...
Ana-Paula Issa is the CEO of Encycle, a company she founded nearly 15-16 years ago. Originally a salesperson, she transitioned into energy entrepreneurship, driven by her passion for sustainability and energy management.
Ana-Paula highlights that Encycle's technology, inspired by emergence theory and nature's collaborative systems, helps businesses optimize energy usage by reducing energy consumption in hea...
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Nahed Khairallah is the founder and host of the Organized Chaos Podcast and an HR consultant who helps seven-figure companies scale to nine figures by transforming HR into a key growth accelerator. He views HR as a critical catalyst for success, driving growth by aligning people, processes, and infrastructure.
Rather than focusing solely on opera...
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Join us as Scott Hayford, Founder and CEO of BlackHays Group, discusses how his firm helps tech startups secure government contracts with a focus on sustainability and long-term relationships. From a solo venture to a team of 22, his approach has helped clients secure $15-$17 million in awards while extending the...
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Asim Razzaqis the Co-founder and CEO of Yotascale, a tech entrepreneur focused on solving critical problems. He believes in creating "painkiller" solutions—essential products customers can’t live without—rather than nice-to-have features. Asim advises founders to target a niche, ensure demand, and focus on execution, avoiding distractions like c...
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Rajiv Jadhav is the founder and CEO of R Squared Media Inc., a company focused on online reputation management. He helps individuals and businesses, especially high-net-worth clients, remove harmful content from search engines like Google to rebuild and protect their online reputation.
Rajiv highlights his career by founding R Squared...
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Christian Brown, 26, is the co-founder and CMO of Glewee, a platform that connects small to mid-sized businesses with influencers on social media. He oversees SEO and platform management, simplifying influencer marketing. Christian started at 17 with e-commerce projects and co-founded Glewee with his friend Dylan during COVID-19 to create a user-friendly sol...
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Join in as Ken Gavranovic, CEO of Product Genius, shares his journey from self-taught coder to founding Interland, which grew to $200 million and went public with Microsoft backing. He’s also led transformations at Cox Communications and advised a Fortune 20 healthcare company on cloud strategies.
Ken’s latest venture, Product Genius, uses AI to supercharge customer ...
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Transform your struggling business with Derrick Mains, CEO of Process Triage. With 15 years of experience, Derrick addresses operational challenges directly, collaborating with employees to drive real change and impactful results.
He stresses the importance of listening to frontline workers, who know the pain points. By highlighting how one company lost half ...
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Ready to transform your business into a sellable asset and unlock its full potential? 🚀 Join Scott Duke, the founder and lead M&A advisor at OpnRoad, for exclusive insights into how you can turn your privately held company into a profitable, high-value asset! With years of experience founding 11 companies and advising entrepreneurs, Scott reveals the secrets t...
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Join us as we explore the journey of Jessica Price, CEO and founder of AustinDEEP and The DEEPACADEMY School of Massage in Austin, Texas! Jessica is transforming the massage industry with a focus on consistency and quality, offering a unique therapeutic experience across her three locations, with plans for two more.
D...
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Join us as Mark Mears, Chief Growth Officer at LEAF Growth Ventures in Kansas City, shares valuable insights from his extensive marketing experience with brands like Pizza Hut and McDonald's. As the author of The Purposeful Growth Revolution, Mark advocates for intentional kindness and impactful leadership over profit.
Mark emphasizes leadership, engagement, accounta...
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Get inspired by Steven Montgomery, founder and CEO of ResiBrands, as he shares his journey from being broke to building a thriving franchise empire in the home service industry. Starting at 21, he built one of Texas’s largest businesses, doubling revenue from 2019 to 2021. Pivoting to franchising during the pandemic, h...
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Join us for an inspiring episode as Matt McLean, CEO and founder of Uncle Matt's Organic, shares his journey in building America’s leading organic orange juice brand, now found in over 15,000 stores.
As a fourth-generation Florida citrus grower, Matt highlights his 25 years in business, the brand's expansion into lemo...
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Join Neil Twa, CEO of Voltage Holdings, LLC, as he reveals his 17 years of e-commerce success in physical products and branding! Discover how he used Amazon FBA, TikTok, and Shopify to drive growth and achieved seven figures in revenues by 2014-2015 with multiple businesses.
Learn his killer strategies, including a launch plan that generated $5,000 daily from a bed s...
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Join Michael Jacobson, CEO of French Florist, as he shares his inspiring journey from helping his uncle's struggling floral shop to leading the largest florist in Los Angeles, projected to hit $10 million in revenue this year!
Discover how French Florist's innovative online fulfillment model processes 150-200 daily orders and supports local florists through a unique ...
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Welcome back to The Growth and Scaling Podcast with Todd Westra!
Feeling overwhelmed by rapid growth and constant bottlenecks? In this episode, Joshua Monge, Managing Owner and Executive Consultant, explains how a fractional COO can streamline operations, align teams, and eliminate inefficiencies to fuel sustainable growth.
Joshua discusses the challenges businesses...
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