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Meet Lyndon: An Expansive EDGE Conversation
Episode 16 · 40 min 56 sec

Meet Lyndon: An Expansive EDGE Conversation

Josh interviews Lyndon about Expansive EDGE, why codifying business knowledge into a playbook matters, the four-pillar framework (Profile, People, Policy, Process), and the ControlShift process for taking a business from chaos to control.

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Meet Josh: A BasePoint CPA Conversation
Episode 15 · 36 min 51 sec

Meet Josh: A BasePoint CPA Conversation

Lyndon interviews Josh about BasePoint CPA, what virtual CFO services actually involve, when to bring in fractional financial leadership, and the hindsight-insight-foresight progression that takes a business from year-end shoebox accounting to strategic financial guidance.

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Focused Coaching
Episode 14 · 6 min 11 sec

Focused Coaching

A short, in-person stinger walking through the six-step focus coaching approach, awareness, responsibility, knowledge, interference, committed action, support or challenge, for coaching team members through performance gaps.

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Understanding Organizational Structure
Episode 13 · 36 min 32 sec

Understanding Organizational Structure

Designing an org structure around roles rather than people, mapping current and future state, and writing role descriptions that make accountability clear without falling into micromanagement.

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Profitability Through an ROI Lens
Episode 12 · 37 min 29 sec

Profitability Through an ROI Lens

Looking at every business expense through a return-on-investment lens, from advertising spend to team events to computer equipment, so dollars get deployed rather than sent out to die.

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Efficiency, Workflow and Profitability
Episode 11 · 35 min 39 sec

Efficiency, Workflow and Profitability

Increasing profit by tightening operational efficiency, the hidden costs of broken systems, why standardization and documentation matter, and how small workflow tweaks compound into bottom-line impact.

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Profitability Metrics
Episode 10 · 34 min 59 sec

Profitability Metrics

What gross margin and net profit margin actually mean, why monthly comparative income statements catch the issues early, and how to use both numbers to find where profit is leaking.

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Cashflow Firewall
Episode 9 · 34 min 25 sec

Cashflow Firewall

Building a cash flow firewall using a profit-first-inspired multiple-account structure, operations, tax, and profit, so you stop making decisions based on the bank balance.

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The Formula for Change
Episode 8 · 37 min 38 sec

The Formula for Change

Beckhard's change formula: D × V × F > R. Dissatisfaction, vision, and first concrete steps must outweigh resistance for change to stick, applied to both internal rollouts and external client acquisition.

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Business Rhythms
Episode 7 · 46 min 53 sec

Business Rhythms

The meeting cadences that move a business forward, daily huddles, weekly check-ins, monthly financial reviews, quarterly OKR sessions, and the annual offsite, and how to connect them so issues from daily standups get solved at the right level.

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The 90 Day Rule in Marketing
Episode 6 · 30 min 45 sec

The 90 Day Rule in Marketing

Whatever marketing you start today won't show real results for about 90 days, and trying to measure it sooner gives you bad data. Define your metrics up front, run the full quarter, iterate tactics but not strategy.

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The OKR Advantage
Episode 5 · 31 min 34 sec

The OKR Advantage

OKRs as a low-overhead alignment tool: three to five quarterly objectives at the executive level that cascade as key results down through the org. The soccer analogy, the contrast with EOS big rocks, and how to actually roll them out.

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The Sales Funnel
Episode 4 · 29 min 3 sec

The Sales Funnel

The stages a prospect moves through, awareness, interest, consideration, intent, conversion, and why ruthless qualification at the top saves enormous time at the bottom. Pricing on the website, drip campaigns, and the discipline of follow-up.

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Values, Our Guiding Principles
Episode 3 · 32 min 28 sec

Values, Our Guiding Principles

Core values as a working decision-making compass, not wall posters. How to land on four to six, why most companies leave them unenforced, the weekly acknowledgement round-table that keeps them alive, and what to do when behavior misaligns.

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Financial Pillars
Episode 2 · 31 min 47 sec

Financial Pillars

A walkthrough of the core financial statements every owner should be reading, P&L, balance sheet, cash flow forecast, and break-even, and the cadence to actually use them for decisions.

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Revenue Drivers
Episode 1 · 1 hr 1 min

Revenue Drivers

The pilot episode. Josh and Lyndon introduce the podcast and walk through the six revenue drivers, leads, conversion, retention, referrals, average dollar per sale, and average transactions per customer.

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