I highly recommend you watch the video version of this podcast. Click on the link to go to the video. I won a few big matches on my high school Tennis team, but I was never awesome. I never won the bi

This is how its always been done. Businesses sometimes can do OK with a philosophy like that. Maybe even make good money. But it sucks being just ok, because you know you could be so much better.

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