The Best Calls of 2025

EntreLeadership

Ramsey Network

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’ll hear about: • A man dealing with the consequences of bad financial decisions • A manager whose team is upset they didn’t receive profit sharing • A young business owner considering leaving his full-time job for a profitable side hustle • A father seeking advice on how to divide his estate between his children Next Steps: • 📞 Have a question for the show? Call 844-944-1070 or send us a message: https://ter.li/ask-us • 📚 Learn about the EntreLeadership System™: https://ter.li/system-p • 💻 Get EntreLeadership Elite™ for your business: https://ter.li/elite-p • ✉️ Sign up to receive tactical tools, advice and resources in your inbox every week: https://ter.li/enl • 🏢 Attend EntreLeadership Summit: https://ter.li/summit • 🎤 Attend EntreLeadership Master Series: https://ter.li/masterseries • 📖 Order Dave’s new book, Build a Business You Love: https://ter.li/b4kru2 Connect With Our Sponsors: • 💼 Go to Belay Solutions or text ENTRE to 55123 for their free resource! • 💻 Visit NetSuite today to learn more. • 🧾 Visit Payority for a free consultation! • 📈 Grab Sales Gravy’s free resource to help you hire and lead better. Listen to More From Ramsey Network: 🪑 Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman 🎙️ The Ramsey Show 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show💰 George Kamel Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy New Year from the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions.
0:13.0	This is Entree Leadership, the show where I take calls from leaders like you about what it takes to win at any stage of business and leadership.
0:21.8	I'm your host Dave Ramsey with over 30 years of experience leading in the trenches right
0:26.3	alongside you. And today, we've got a treat for you. Our team has pulled together the best
0:31.6	moments from 2025, the real stories and hard wonons to help you lead better.
0:39.0	Grow your business on purpose and build a legacy.
0:41.7	First up, a call from Matt in Lansing, Michigan, who needed help saving his remodeling business
0:47.8	after racking up $260,000 in debt.
0:52.2	Let's take a listen.
0:53.8	So I am 24 years old. I own a remodeling business doing about $750,000 a year with six full-time
1:02.6	employees. But I have $260,000 in super crappy debt, and I don't have enough cash to get the projects done that we've
1:13.7	got on the schedule right now that we've taken deposit for.
1:17.0	So I'm trying to figure out a way to kind of get out of this without filing bankruptcy or
1:21.9	taking on more debt just to survive.
1:26.9	Okay, so, wow.
1:32.8	Have you been losing money on these projects?
1:36.0	We have.
1:37.3	So you're estimating sucks.
1:40.1	Estimating did suck.
1:42.8	We've, in the past three months, since I started
1:45.5	diving into this, we've increased our gross profit from an average of 18% to like 35.5%. We're
1:51.2	still going up from there, but we're kind of drowning in the past mistakes.
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