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EntreLeadership

Real Business Owner Exposes “Business Influencer” Culture

EntreLeadership

Ramsey Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.74.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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🎯 Figure out your business's next steps in a free consult call with an EntreLeadership® team member.   Social media sells the dream of getting rich fast. Great business owners know better.  In this episode, John Felkins sits down with a successful business owner to reveal why sustainable growth beats quick wins—and how patience, discipline and consistency create real wealth.   Next Steps: ·  Help us make the show better. Take this quick survey. 👉 ⁠⁠https://ter.li/og0jwycp⁠⁠ ·      📞 Have a question for the show? Call 844-944-1070 or send us a message. ·      ✉️ Become a better leader in six minutes a week. Get tactical tips sent to your inbox every Friday. ·      📌 Don’t wing it. Get a coach that helps you lead and grow with confidence.  ·      🏢 Attend EntreLeadership Summit. ·      🎤 Attend EntreLeadership Master Series. ·      📖 Order Dave’s book Build a Business You Love.   Connect With Our Sponsors: ·      Go to Belay Solutions or text ENTRE to 55123 for their free resource! ·      Go to Christian Healthcare Ministries and use code ENTRE for a 50% credit toward your first month of membership. ·      Visit NetSuite today to learn more.   Listen to More From Ramsey Network: 🎙️ The Ramsey Show 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💰 George Kamel   Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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