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181: "The Best Businesses Solve Recurring Problems" (reflections on Bill Dowd)
🧠 Erik’s Take In this reaction episode, Erik reflects on his conversation with Bill Dowd — founder of Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control — and explores the deeper strategic lessons hiding underneath what initially sounds like ...
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June 19, 2026
181: "The Best Businesses Solve Recurring Problems" (reflections on Bill Dowd)
🧠 Erik’s Take In this reaction episode, Erik reflects on his conversation with Bill Dowd — founder of Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control — and explores the deeper strategic lessons hiding underneath what initially sounds like ...
June 19, 2026
180: "What If Your Team Already Knows What’s Broken, But Won’t Say It?" (reflections on Josh Frantz)
🧠 Erik’s Take After reflecting on his conversation with Josh Frantz, Erik kept coming back to a deceptively simple idea: every company has hidden problems that leadership would absolutely want to solve — if they actually knew...
June 18, 2026
179: Bill Dowd: "Why Are So Many Entrepreneurs Ignoring Businesses Like This?"
Bill Dowd went from professional hockey player to founder of North America’s largest humane wildlife control franchise — and in the process, built a business most people never even realize exists until they desperately need i...
June 17, 2026
178: Josh Frantz: "The Value Behind Extracting Knowledge From Frontline Employees"
In this episode, Erik sits down with entrepreneur and Blyndspot CEO Josh Frantz to explore one of the most overlooked ideas in business: the untapped intelligence hidden inside organizations. Josh shares how his experience bu...
June 16, 2026
177: "Is Typing Becoming Old-Fashioned in the AI Age?" ft. Justin Coats
Erik and Justin take a practical tour through AI “tools that actually ship.” They start with Lovable to build a real landing page fast, then move to NotebookLM for source-grounded research and repackaging, and finish with Spi...
June 15, 2026
176: "Is Talking to Your Boss the Same as Talking to a Brick Wall?" ft. Alli Murphy
Alli and Erik work through a familiar leadership bottleneck: a team is burning out, a senior leader brings data and requests support, and the boss keeps asking for more data or dismisses what’s already been presented. Erik fr...
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