955. What Breaks First? Your Business Tells the Truth When You're Gone
Fullerton Unfiltered
Brian Fullerton
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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When you're in the business every day, it's easy to think everything is running smoothly. But what actually happens when you step away? In this episode, I break down what fails first when the owner is gone and what that reveals about your systems, leadership, and team. Because what breaks first isn't random… it's the truth about what you've really built.
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| 0:59.7 | Welcome back to the show, the Fullerton Unfiltered Podcast. |
| 1:03.0 | I miss you guys, man. |
| 1:04.5 | If you can't hear, the voice is slowly coming back, |
| 1:07.2 | and your boy's been out, hardcore sick for the last couple of days, but I'll tell you what, |
| 1:12.0 | feels so good to be back. |
| 1:13.8 | I got a couple podcast topics while I've been incapacitated the last couple of days, |
| 1:19.3 | and I've been writing down some of different ideas. |
| 1:22.1 | One of them being today's show, it's an idea or a topic or a thought that I heard a couple |
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