What's up, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Action Academy podcast, Corporate America's

least favorite podcast. This is the show that teaches you how to replace corporate with cash flow

through buying small businesses and big old commercial real estate deals. Today, ladies and gentlemen,

we have a wonderful interview for you. For my new listeners, we teach on business buying a lot

on this podcast, and you're going to want to listen to this episode all the way through. For our OG listeners, you will be familiar with the terms

top-line CEO versus bottom-line CEO that we've talked about on the show before, but for our new

listeners, here is what that means. A top-line CEO is somebody that can go buy a business

and help in their sales and marketing. They buy a business

that's operationally sound and they help increase marketing and sales. Duh. A bottom line CEO is

somebody that buys a company that already has strong lead flow, but a terrible dumpster fire

of an operations department. Today's guest, Cody Barton, is the one that fixes the

operations department. He is the one that does the hiring, the management. He is an operator through

and through. If you guys are heard of Pace Morby, Cody Barton is his operations brain. He's the

one in the background running his companies. Cody has a real

estate portfolio of over $10 million of value. His current business portfolio exceeds $40 million

and collectively his team has generated over $37 million in top line revenue last year.

So in today's podcast episode, you are going to learn how to scale a company after

you buy it, aka make a bunch of money, right? So without any further ado, let's get to it,

Mr. Cody Barton. As you started in real estate, now we're doing about $37 million in top line

from your current business

portfolio. So you buy and scale small businesses. Tell us a little bit about where we're at today.

We'll go backwards a little bit to our real estate journey. And then to dissect what went into the

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