Real Business Owner Exposes “Business Influencer” Culture
EntreLeadership
Ramsey Network
4.7 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's no such thing as an overnight success. |
| 0:09.0 | What looks like overnight is usually 10, 15, 20 years of hustling and grinding when no one was watching. |
| 0:17.0 | My first year, I was trying to figure out how to make payroll, how to keep the lights on, |
| 0:21.6 | and how to not lose my mind all at the same time. |
| 0:24.6 | There was a whole lot of pressure and a whole lot of primitive, basic mistakes. |
| 0:29.6 | Here's the truth about growing a business. |
| 0:31.6 | It's slow, it's hard, and it will take more out of you than you expect. |
| 0:35.6 | But if you keep showing up and keep doing the work, you persevere, it will pay off. |
| 0:41.4 | And then you're going to look back and go, wow, that was a ride. |
| 0:44.2 | And to show you what that really looks like, Entree Leadership's head coach, John Falcons, |
| 0:48.1 | is sitting down with someone who spent the last 25 years building a business from a two-person |
| 0:53.5 | operation to a multi-million |
| 0:55.5 | dollar company. |
| 0:56.8 | They're going to walk through the highs and the lows and the lessons learned so you can |
| 1:01.0 | keep growing your business even when it's hard. |
| 1:04.7 | You're the founder and CEO of Advantage Tech IT? |
| 1:08.1 | Advantage Technologies, but I've been called worse. Okay. How many folks do you |
| 1:13.2 | have working there now? Just about 100. Okay. So big company? It feels that way when payroll comes |
| 1:19.4 | around. I get that. That's a lot of people. It's a lot of payroll to make. Yeah. |
| 1:24.6 | And it's IT has managed IT services mostly for. Healthcare is a big one, lots of dental practices, but law firms and C. Yeah. And it's IT, has managed IT services, mostly for... |
| 1:28.3 | Health care is a big one, lots of dental practices, but law firms and CPA firms, so |
| 1:32.3 | professional services. |
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