If you had $100,000 to spend on your machine shop, what would you spend it on? When I polled people on LinkedIn, out of 170 responses, 46% said they would buy a new machine, 33% said robots and autom

During my career as a used machinery dealer, Ive met many successful companies in the machining business who have no social media presence and dont even have a website. Surprisingly they use some of

Sometimes great conversations just happen. But what Ive learned after 14 years selling used machines, and almost 250 podcast interviews, is that most conversations, even great ones, could be guided t

I dont know about you, but when the tariffs hit on Liberation Day, April 2nd, we were like Oh @#$%, is this really happening? We watched our portfolios crash in real time. Our company lost half our

Malachi Greb, my guest on todays show, has a mission, freeing humans, one robot at a time. He is the founder of Elite Automation, a company that designs automated systems for manufacturing clients,

Most shop owners get comfortable after 50 years. John Griner gets uncomfortable on purpose. John has been making screw machine parts since 1979 while starting countless other businesses, which he refe

On todays episode we continue our season talking about companies who produce their own products. Our guest is George Breiwa, founder of DynaVap, a company that produces a unique type of vaporizer, us

I know a ton of people reading this will relate to what Im talking about: starting something that feels completely daunting. So heres another blog about my new YouTube channel, I Learned It on a Pod

Have you ever wondered if bone screws could actually be machined from real tissue? If that were possible, where could one get such bone? What animals would be safe enough? Heres an old favorite episo

A few months ago, we brokered a Tornos MultiSwiss 8/26 from Germany to a shop in Massachusetts. To make sure the machine was in top shape, we brought in two Tornos expertsmy friend Dulio and his long