How to Fund 80% of Your Business Without Debt - Stormi Banks | Social Proof Podcast #539
Social Proof Podcast
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4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Stormi Banks shares how she turned a $50,000 loss into a grant-writing empire that’s secured millions for businesses. In this powerful interview, she breaks down how to win grants, scale debt-free, and unlock funding most entrepreneurs don’t even know exists.
If you’re serious about business growth, this is the playbook.
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| 0:00.0 | You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday. How can you find amazing candidates fast? |
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| 0:30.9 | Don't wait any longer. Speed up your hiring right now with Indeed. |
| 0:35.0 | And listeners of this show will get a £100 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility with Indeed. And listeners of this show will get a £100-pound sponsored job credit to get your job's |
| 0:40.1 | more visibility at Indeed.com slash P-O-D-K-A-T-Z UK. |
| 0:45.5 | Just go to Indeed.com slash P-O-D-K-A-T-Z UK right now and support our show by saying |
| 0:53.1 | you heard about Indeed on this podcast. |
| 0:55.9 | Terms and Conditions Apply. Hiring, Indeed is all you need. |
| 1:00.0 | You're saying you and your company have written over 10,000 grants? |
| 1:03.0 | 100%. This year alone, we're at $400,000 in grants that we've actually won, monetary-wise. |
| 1:08.3 | We just had 13 vendors at InvestFest. |
| 1:10.8 | I spend about 400,000 a year on a podcast |
| 1:15.4 | how much of that you think we can get covered? I would honestly say we could look forward to like 80%. |
| 1:20.1 | You can see right now there's 9,883 available grants currently on the marketplace. So anyone that's |
| 1:26.2 | saying that they can't find a grant and there's almost 10,000 grants out there is cap. |
| 1:31.8 | Welcome to another edition of the social proof podcast, man. |
| 1:34.6 | We find dope people to do dope stuff. |
| 1:36.8 | And today is no different. |
| 1:39.2 | There's a young lady here. |
| 1:41.4 | I guess I met you when you were in your 20s though and been just cooking. Just cooking. |
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