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Kade Wilcox
The Kade Wilcox Podcast is for you the small business owner. After a decade of starting and running small businesses, host Kade Wilcox, brings you a podcast filled with learnings to help you and your business grow. Learn from interviews with other small business leaders that are doing the work and have experienced all that it means to be a small business owner.
If you’re really looking to dig your heels into growth, then you have to intentionally stop and reflect on what you’ve learned.
In this episode, Kade goes solo and weighs in on the five most common threads of small business owners he’s noticed from his own experience, as well as what he’s learned from the experiences of others.
Explore all five with Kade, only on this week’s episode of The Kade Wilcox Podcast.
After five generations in the same business, is there anything left to learn?
Well, when you’re a woman in a man’s world who happens to be a rancher and cotton farmer whose livelihood depends on nature’s uncontrollables, the short answer is…
Yes.
And the long answer? Well that has a lot to do with resilience, having a business framework AND contingencies, and a skin as tough as the hide of the cattle Lacy Cotter Vardeman raises.
Learn more about the owner of Cotter Key Farms and her one-of-a-kind grit, only on The Kade Wilcox Podcast.
Sometimes it takes years.
Years of tinkering with curiosities, revising ideas, and playing with iterations.
Years of wisdom, knowledge, and real-world experience.
Sometimes entrepreneurship doesn’t manifest itself until the timing is just right. And that’s exactly what happened to lifelong businessman, Rod Martin, as he entered the world of entrepreneurship through the acquisition of a local company, Window World of Lubbock.
In this episode, Kade and Rod chat about bringing past lessons into a new venture, baking culture into your operations, and much more.
Listen now only on The Kade Wilcox Podcast.
What does the way you present yourself say about you?
Whether you’re seeing clients all day, everyday, or speaking to executives in the boardroom, your appearance speaks volumes to the business owner you strive to be.
In this episode, Kade sits down with Jeremy Hamilton, manager and salesman of local Lubbock men’s clothier, H.G. Thrash, and gets real about how one’s presentation shapes their business reality.
If you’re an entrepreneur, you might think you have to have BIG goals.
But co-founder of Boost Bariatrics, Matty McLain, disagrees.
In this episode, childhood friend to host Kade Wilcox, and successful entrepreneur, Matty, explains why he believes it’s the systems and processes you put in place, and your dedication to consistently refining them, that breeds success.
Not goals.
Learn more on this episode of The Kade Wilcox Podcast.
With just over three decades of dedicated knowledge, and talent, industry confidence between the two of them, LeAnne Lagasse and Joy O’Steen of ROI Talent Development were finally ready to jump into the world of entrepreneurship.
But just like many budding business owners, what they envisioned for their future took a back seat when COVID hit.
Learn more about a small business that started just before the world shut down, and what their employee-based business looks like in a post COVID world, only on this episode of The Kade Wilcox Podcast.
Dr. Julie Hubik has small business running through her veins. And not only that, she’s married to an entrepreneur herself.
But even with the odds stacked in her favor, Dr. Hubik understands what it means to adapt, overcome, get lean, and overcome some more with the best of them.
Learn more on this episode of The Kade Wilcox Podcast.
Always focused on figuring out how to make something better, Tanner Thetford, Owner of Mission Services Companies doesn't like to call himself an entrepreneur but knows what it's like to struggle to make your business succeed.