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Ep192 The Layoff He Prayed For: George Powell Jr., Founder and CEO of Exponential Equity Group (opens the original)
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George Powell hated his name until he looked it up. It means farmer. In this episode of the Default Profitable podcast, host Matt Nettleton sits down with George Powell Jr., founder and CEO of Exponential Equity Group, an Indianapolis real estate development firm he describes as faith-driven, building affordable housing alongside churches, nonprofits, CDCs, and grassroots groups that have underused land and a vision but not the capital or the capacity to develop it. George spent most of his care
Ep191 Seventy-Six Simple Steps to Running A Service Business: Katie Smith of All Pro Heating, Air & Plumbing (opens the original)
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Her team named her Bosslady. She just kept it. In this episode of the Default Profitable podcast, host Matt Nettleton sits down with Katie Smith, co-founder of All Pro Heating, Air & Plumbing, the Indianapolis HVAC and plumbing company she and her husband started at their kitchen table in 2012. It wasn't the first one. Before this there was direct sales, selling legal services, and then a general contracting outfit they closed on their attorney's advice. All Pro is the version that stuck. They r
Ep190 Larry Lannan, Founder of LarryInFishers.com: Fourteen Years Free, Then a Business (opens the original)
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What do you do when the news business is dying and you've just retired? Larry Lannan started covering it himself. In this episode of the Default Profitable podcast, host Matt Nettleton sits down with Larry Lannan, founder of LarryInFishers.com, a local news website and podcast covering Fishers, Indiana. Larry moved to Fishers in 1991, when about 9,000 people lived there. After more than a decade as a journalist and broadcaster and 28 years with the federal government, he retired and launched the
Ep189 Amanda Hill of Connections of Hope: The Founder Who Actually Had a Plan (opens the original)
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Amanda Hill started her business because her therapist told her to. In this episode of the Default Profitable podcast, host Matt Nettleton sits down with Amanda Hill, founder of Connections of Hope, a private counseling practice she launched in 2020 and has grown to five locations and 14 therapists. She'd been a counselor for 20 years and was working four jobs, teaching college on top of multiple counseling agencies, when her own therapist, a private practice owner, told her she couldn't keep go
Ep188 Nobody Gets Into Insurance on Purpose: Jenna Romens, Owner of Martin & Martin Insurance (opens the original)
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In this episode of Default Profitable, host Matt Nettleton sits down with Jenna Romens, owner and agent at Martin & Martin Insurance in downtown Noblesville. Jenna spent 16 years at Erie Insurance, moving through customer service, marketing, and agent roles before being promoted to district sales manager over agents across Hamilton, Marion, and Tipton counties. Then one of the agents she supported asked her to come to the agency side as part of a perpetuation plan. It took three asks before she
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