21 Hats Podcast

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The 21 Hats Podcast is a weekly conversation with entrepreneurs who share their challenges and compare notes on how they’re coping with the pandemic, whether their businesses are as profitable as they should be, how big a price they are willing to pay for growth, and why they hired their brother-in-law. Every week, host Loren Feldman has a conversation with three of the show’s six regulars: Karen Clark Cole, CEO of Blink UX; Paul Downs, CEO of Paul Downs Cabinetmakers; Jay Goltz, CEO of The Goltz Group; William Vanderbloemen, CEO of Vanderbloemen Search Group; Dana White, CEO of Paralee Boyd; and Laura Zander, CEO of Jimmy Beans Wool. Every week, the owners talk about news stories that matter to business owners, and track what’s working and what’s not working on their own entrepreneurial journeys. Visit 21hats.com to read episode transcripts and learn more. The show is produced by Jess Thoubboron of Blank Word Productions.

Episode Date
The Art of Building a Real Estate Boutique
Apr 16, 2024
Dashboard: Is the Era of Free Marketing Over?
Apr 15, 2024
Do You Take This Man to Be Your Business Partner?
Apr 09, 2024
I Took My Eye Off the Numbers
Apr 02, 2024
Dashboard: Why Gene Marks Is Happy to Pay Swipe Fees
Apr 01, 2024
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Business
Mar 26, 2024
Dashboard: How Would You Spend $5,000 on Marketing Now?
Mar 25, 2024
I Need a Business Model
Mar 19, 2024
Dashboard: You’re Still Using a 20-Year-Old CRM?
Mar 18, 2024
Man, I’m Glad We Didn’t Do an ESOP
Mar 12, 2024
Dashboard: John Arensmeyer on What Business Owners Need Now
Mar 11, 2024
Can Jimmy Beans Wool Sell Yarn on LinkedIn?
Mar 05, 2024
Dashboard: Our Man on AI’s Bleeding Edge
Mar 04, 2024
Managing Your Tasks, Your Credit Cards, and Your Anxiety
Feb 27, 2024
Dashboard: When Is It Time to Panic?
Feb 26, 2024
That Would Put Me Out of Business
Feb 20, 2024
Dashboard: Gene Marks Tries a Digital Marketing Test
Feb 19, 2024
‘I Had to Fire the Guy’
Feb 13, 2024
Dashboard: What Can We Learn from Boeing?
Feb 12, 2024
Why Would You Want to Own a Business?
Feb 06, 2024
Dashboard: Just Ignore Those New 1099 Rules
Feb 05, 2024
Have We Been Too Generous With Employees?
Jan 30, 2024
Dashboard: Is Microsoft Copilot Pro Ready for Prime Time?
Jan 29, 2024
We’re Making Good Money. I’m Not Sure How
Jan 23, 2024
Dashboard: Is America Really Experiencing a Startup Boom?
Jan 22, 2024
The Worker Co-Op Solution
Jan 16, 2024
Dashboard: AI, TikTok, and the Rise of Women Owners
Jan 15, 2024
New Year’s Resolution? Make. Some. Money.
Jan 09, 2024
Dashboard: The State of Small Business, 2024
Jan 08, 2024
This Is What It Takes to Build a Business, Vol. 2
Jan 02, 2024
Bonus Episode: The Unlikely Plan That Launched Down North Pizza
Dec 19, 2023
Dashboard: Do the Math. Lean into A.I. Play Squash
Dec 18, 2023
What Are Your Goals for 2024?
Dec 12, 2023
Dashboard: Your Last-Minute, Year-End Tax Moves
Dec 11, 2023
We Need to Go Back to Marketing for Humans
Dec 05, 2023
Dashboard: Don't Blame Your CRM
Dec 04, 2023
Bonus Episode: Are Salespeople Built or Born?
Nov 28, 2023
Clients and Taxes and Bears, Oh My!
Nov 21, 2023
Dashboard: It’s the Data, Stupid
Nov 20, 2023
Start Up, Throw Up, and Grow Up
Nov 14, 2023
The I-Hate-Marketing Approach to Marketing
Nov 07, 2023
Dashboard: Can You Fire Employees Who Won’t Return to the Office?
Nov 06, 2023
Best of: Sometimes, Dreams Do Come True
Oct 31, 2023
Dashboard: It’ll Change Everything
Oct 30, 2023
And Some Days the Bear Eats You
Oct 24, 2023
Dashboard: Gene Marks Expects an A.I. Backlash
Oct 23, 2023
We Haven’t Signed a New Client in Eight Months
Oct 17, 2023
Dashboard: The Insane Burden of Health Insurance
Oct 16, 2023
Bonus Episode: An Accidental Entrepreneur
Oct 13, 2023
Bonus Episode: The Employee Engagement Industry Has Failed
Oct 10, 2023
It’s Like Planning Your Own Funeral
Oct 03, 2023
Dashboard: About That Shutdown
Oct 02, 2023
I’ve Never Had to Lay off Anyone Before
Sep 26, 2023
Dashboard: Do You Know What Your Margins Are?
Sep 25, 2023
I Would Have Been a Sub of a Sub of a Sub
Sep 19, 2023
Dashboard: The Big Issues Looming for Small Businesses
Sep 18, 2023
The Temptation of Private Equity
Sep 12, 2023
Bonus Episode: When Private Equity Comes for Your Industry
Sep 05, 2023
I Didn’t See All the Danger Signs
Aug 29, 2023
The Toughest Conversation
Aug 22, 2023
Dashboard: Why Business Owners Don’t Like This Economy
Aug 21, 2023
When Business Owners Burn Out
Aug 15, 2023
Dashboard: The Big Story in Small Business
Aug 14, 2023
Can I Go Dig a Hole?
Aug 08, 2023
Dashboard: There’s Still Time
Aug 07, 2023
What’s Going to Happen to My Business?
Aug 01, 2023
Dashboard: A Mass-Extinction Event for Startups?
Jul 31, 2023
Escaping the Valley of Death
Jul 25, 2023
Dashboard: A Tsunami of Regulation
Jul 24, 2023
Bonus Episode: The Long Journey to Really Understanding ESOPs
Jul 21, 2023
Is Anybody Listening to Me?
Jul 18, 2023
Dashboard: ‘ChatGPT on Steroids’
Jul 17, 2023
‘You’re in the Valley of Death’
Jul 11, 2023
Dashboard: Are Your WFH-ers Really Working?
Jul 10, 2023
Why Do You Pay What You Pay?
Jul 04, 2023
Embrace It. Leverage It. Or Die
Jun 27, 2023
Dashboard: You Control Your Destiny
Jun 26, 2023
Twelve Hours a Day, Six Days a Week
Jun 20, 2023
‘Being Isolated Is Just a Bad Idea’
Jun 13, 2023
Dashboard: Gene Marks on Florida’s New Immigration Law
Jun 12, 2023
‘What Doesn’t Keep Me Up at Night?’
Jun 06, 2023
Dashboard: Getting Past the Fear
Jun 05, 2023
Best Of: What It Takes to Build a Business
May 30, 2023
Is PR Worth the Effort?
May 23, 2023
Dashboard: Are We Really Going to Ban TikTok?
May 22, 2023
Marketing Workshop: I Didn’t Know It Was Going to Work
May 16, 2023
Dashboard: Yes, It’s Time to Worry about the Debt Ceiling
May 15, 2023
I’m Not a Real CEO
May 09, 2023
Dashboard: Solving Monopolies, Immigration, Tipped Wages, and the Debt Ceiling
May 08, 2023
Bonus Episode: Not Sold on ESOPs? There’s a New Alternative
May 02, 2023
Dashboard: Where’s the Money?
May 01, 2023
When CEOs Behave Badly
Apr 25, 2023
Dashboard: America’s Economy Is Better than Americans Think
Apr 24, 2023
‘It’s Going to Take $8 Million in Financing’
Apr 18, 2023
We’re Still Buying Inventory
Apr 11, 2023
Dashboard: Is There Really a Credit Crunch?
Apr 10, 2023
Recession? That’s When You Need to Attack
Apr 04, 2023
Dashboard: Winter Is (Still) Coming
Apr 03, 2023
I Just Cut My Pay
Mar 28, 2023
Dashboard: Gene Marks Is Not a Fan of Mandated PTO
Mar 27, 2023
I Can’t Have a Handle on Everything
Mar 21, 2023
Dashboard: Bank As I Say, Not As I Do
Mar 20, 2023
For Wunderkeks, It Really Is Go Big or Go Home
Mar 14, 2023
Dashboard: Taxes, Regulation, and a Punch to the Face
Mar 13, 2023
Marketing Workshop: Turning a Failing Nut Shop into Nuts.com
Mar 07, 2023
Dashboard: The Three Reports Every Business Owner Needs
Mar 06, 2023
What It Means to Break $1 Million in Revenue
Feb 28, 2023
Dashboard: Coping With HR Issues Without an HR Staff
Feb 27, 2023
Marketing Workshop: Selling Cookies on LinkedIn
Feb 21, 2023
Dashboard: The Price of Tipping, Virtual Offices, and Men’s Underwear
Feb 20, 2023
ESOPs Are Great. But Not for Me
Feb 14, 2023
Dashboard: The Good News About Gen Z
Feb 13, 2023
Walking Away From a Salary
Feb 07, 2023
Dashboard: So You Think Building a Business in the U.S. Is Hard?
Feb 06, 2023
How Much Profit Should Your Business Make?
Jan 31, 2023
Dashboard: Getting an SBA Loan With No Down Payment
Jan 30, 2023
Why Isn’t This Product Selling?
Jan 24, 2023
Dashboard: ChatGPT, Salesforce CRM, and the Employee-Contractor Dilemma
Jan 23, 2023
Bonus Episode: A New Way to Sell Your Business
Jan 20, 2023
I’ve Always Been Afraid to Raise Prices
Jan 17, 2023
Dashboard: The State of Small Business, 2023
Jan 16, 2023
How’s Your Compensation Plan Holding Up?
Jan 10, 2023
Dashboard: Check Out the New Retirement Rules
Jan 09, 2023
The Hard-Nosed Business Case for Employee Ownership
Jan 03, 2023
Dashboard: Business Regulation Even Business Owners Will Support?
Dec 19, 2022
Jay Goltz’s 12-Step Business Check-Up
Dec 13, 2022
Dashboard: The Problem with Charging by the Hour
Dec 12, 2022
I Want to Double Sales Again Next Year
Dec 06, 2022
Dashboard: Okay, Boomer, What's Your Succession Plan?
Dec 05, 2022
Should We Tell the Employees?
Nov 29, 2022
Are You a Good Negotiator?
Nov 22, 2022
Dashboard: Zip It And Do Your Job!
Nov 21, 2022
For Richer, For Poorer
Nov 15, 2022
Dashboard: How Gene Marks Stopped Sweating Health Insurance
Nov 14, 2022
There’s Big Money All Over the Place
Nov 08, 2022
Dashboard: Don’t Leave It to Your CPA
Nov 07, 2022
Should You Be in a Business Group?
Nov 01, 2022
Dashboard: Would You Hire Them Again?
Oct 31, 2022
A Founder’s Year: Successful Raise, Fast Growth, and Mental Health Issues
Oct 25, 2022
Dashboard: Gene Marks Has One Piece of Tech Advice
Oct 24, 2022
Rule No. 1: We Will Not Have Civil Wars
Oct 18, 2022
Dashboard: Victor Hwang on Entrepreneurship in America
Oct 17, 2022
Dana Opens in Dallas
Oct 11, 2022
Dashboard: Welcome to Health Insurance Season!
Oct 10, 2022
Bonus Episode: Seth Goldman Brews Another Ice Tea
Oct 07, 2022
Are You Hitting Your Numbers?
Oct 04, 2022
Dashboard: I Like Recessions
Oct 03, 2022
Raising Capital: 'It’s a Ticking Time Bomb'
Sep 27, 2022
Dashboard: The (Commercial) Rent Is Too Damn High
Sep 26, 2022
Should HR Advocate for the Business or the Employee?
Sep 20, 2022
Dashboard: Could California’s Fast Food Regulations Actually Work?
Sep 19, 2022
Bonus Episode: Jason Fried Didn’t Mean to Blow Up Basecamp. But He’d Do It Again
Sep 16, 2022
Quiet Quitting: Another Gift Brought to You by Corporate America
Sep 13, 2022
Dashboard: What Type of Entrepreneur Are You?
Sep 12, 2022
We Have a Meeting With Costco!
Sep 06, 2022
Replay: You Take a Stand
Aug 30, 2022
Here’s My New Succession Plan: I Can’t Die
Aug 23, 2022
Dashboard: The Tax Break No One’s Talking About
Aug 22, 2022
Surviving Bad Clients and Bad Partners
Aug 16, 2022
Dashboard: What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Businesses
Aug 15, 2022
Trash, Rats, and Garbage Juice: A Case Study in PR
Aug 09, 2022
Dashboard: Why Gene Marks Hates Employees, Part 492
Aug 08, 2022
“I Think I’m Screwed”
Aug 02, 2022
Dashboard: Welcome to the Pre-Recession!
Aug 01, 2022
Are There Enough Hours in Your Day?
Jul 26, 2022
Dashboard: "I Killed"
Jul 25, 2022
Employees Still Have the Leverage
Jul 19, 2022
Dashboard: Something Is Going to Happen
Jul 18, 2022
How Would You Spend $10,000 a Month on Marketing?
Jul 12, 2022
Dashboard: Email or Text?
Jul 11, 2022
Bonus Episode: Kurt Wilkin Hates Business Books. So He Wrote One
Jul 05, 2022
Wunderkeks Has Two Daddies
Jun 28, 2022
Dashboard: Keep Calm and Carry a Lot of Inventory!
Jun 27, 2022
Do Core Values Matter?
Jun 21, 2022
Dashboard: Gene Marks Would Rather Not Employ Gen Z
Jun 20, 2022
I Think You Need to Hire a PR Firm
Jun 14, 2022
Dashboard: Inflation, Recession, the Metaverse. Oh, My!
Jun 13, 2022
Bonus Episode: I Didn’t Appreciate It Until I Almost Lost It
Jun 10, 2022
Fire Your Franchise Consultant
Jun 07, 2022
Dashboard: A Gusher of Money
Jun 06, 2022
What Would Deming Say?
May 30, 2022
The Early Warning Signs
May 24, 2022
Dashboard: It’s Still About Hiring
May 23, 2022
Have You Looked at Your Employee Handbook Lately?
May 17, 2022
Dashboard: The Marketing Crapshoot
May 16, 2022
Does Firing People Ever Get Easier?
May 10, 2022
Dashboard: Gene Marks Went Remote Years Ago. He Hates It
May 09, 2022
My Deal Has Come Apart
May 03, 2022
The Anchor Price
Apr 26, 2022
Bonus Episode: The Marketing Magic of Answering Customer Questions
Apr 19, 2022
Do You Really Want That Shiny Object?
Apr 12, 2022
Do You Take Money off the Table?
Apr 05, 2022
What If I Get the Contract?
Mar 29, 2022
Why I Sold 21 Hats
Mar 22, 2022
We Are Survivors
Mar 15, 2022
We Tried That Brand Thing. It Didn't Work.
Mar 08, 2022
Somebody’s Hiring All of These People
Mar 01, 2022
We Don’t Have a Brand
Feb 22, 2022
Why Not Become the Strategic Buyer?
Feb 15, 2022
Dashboard: Is the Labor Shortage Easing?
Feb 14, 2022
Have You Considered Not Taking Investors?
Feb 08, 2022
Dashboard: A Tale of Two Cities (Fort Myers and Philadelphia)
Feb 07, 2022
The Game Has to End at Some Point
Feb 01, 2022
Dashboard: Is Pay Transparency Good for Businesses?
Jan 31, 2022
The Hardest Thing I’ve Done in Business
Jan 25, 2022
Dashboard: The State of Small Businesses
Jan 24, 2022
Bonus Episode: The Changing Face of the Yarn Industry
Jan 21, 2022
I Want to Double Sales This Year
Jan 18, 2022
Dashboard: Is There Anything That Can't Be Sold?
Jan 17, 2022
Maybe It’s Not the Marketing
Jan 11, 2022
Dashboard: Why Gene Marks Thinks Blockchain is the Story of the Year
Jan 10, 2022
Bonus Episode: Who’s Running the Business?
Jan 07, 2022
When Fred Warmbier Wanted to Quit, Deming Brought Him Back
Jan 04, 2022
This Is What It Takes to Build a Business
Dec 21, 2021
Dashboard: How Concerned Should Businesses Be?
Dec 20, 2021
The Vomit List
Dec 14, 2021
Dashboard: A Tax Break Just for Business Owners
Dec 13, 2021
Are You Playing Offense or Defense?
Dec 07, 2021
Dashboard: Collect Your Own Data
Dec 06, 2021
When Buying an Unsexy Business Becomes Sexy
Nov 30, 2021
It’s Bonus Season. Are You Feeling Generous?
Nov 16, 2021
Dashboard: Robots Aren’t Just for Big Boys Anymore
Nov 15, 2021
“I Can Do It. I Promise You, I Can Do It”
Nov 09, 2021
Dashboard: A Social Media Strategy for Business Owners
Nov 08, 2021
Paying the Volcano God
Nov 02, 2021
Dashboard: What’s in the Build Back Better Bill for Small Businesses?
Nov 01, 2021
I Track Everything You Could Possibly Measure
Oct 26, 2021
Dashboard: How Much Can You Fake It Before You Make It?
Oct 25, 2021
Holy Crap! This Is All My Dreams Come True
Oct 19, 2021
Dashboard: The Case for Facebook
Oct 18, 2021
Should I Open My Books to My Employees?
Oct 12, 2021
Dashboard: Looking for Answers
Oct 11, 2021
“Pardon Me. I’m So Sorry. This Is My First Pandemic”
Oct 05, 2021
Dashboard: Is the Startup Party Over?
Oct 04, 2021
I’m a Freak About the Numbers
Sep 28, 2021
Dashboard: Forget Your Monthly Newsletter
Sep 27, 2021
Can an Entrepreneur Raise an Entrepreneur?
Sep 21, 2021
Dashboard: Stop Complaining!
Sep 20, 2021
Our Best New Accounts Are Coming Through LinkedIn
Sep 14, 2021
Dashboard: How Will the Vaccine Mandate Affect Smaller Businesses?
Sep 13, 2021
I Don’t Pay for Podcasts. Why Would I Pay for Yours?
Aug 31, 2021
"Every Day, I Have to Force Myself to Get Out of Bed"
Aug 24, 2021
Get Rid of the Arsonists
Aug 17, 2021
It’s a Pile of Money
Aug 10, 2021
I Had Two Great Candidates. They Both Blew Up.
Aug 03, 2021
Oh, No! They Accepted Our Offer
Jul 27, 2021
“I Didn’t Look Like Them, But I Could Act Like Them”
Jul 20, 2021
“Does It Matter What You Name Your Business?”
Jul 13, 2021
Why Did Your Business Succeed?
Jul 06, 2021
The Constant Struggle of Marketing
Jun 29, 2021
This Is Where We Get Into Therapy
Jun 22, 2021
Adventures in Candyland
Jun 15, 2021
Feeling the FUD: Dana White Fears She Isn’t Ready to Franchise
Jun 08, 2021
We’re Raising Wages for Everybody
May 18, 2021
I Think People Are Ready to Get Back to Work
May 11, 2021
Did It Have to Get Crazy at Basecamp?
May 04, 2021
I’ve Had a Love-Hate Relationship With PR
Apr 27, 2021
How the Sausage Is Made
Apr 20, 2021
Dana White Decides to Franchise Paralee Boyd
Apr 13, 2021
God, Loren, You Are Such a Jerk
Apr 06, 2021
My Name Is Jay Goltz, and I’m an Entrepreneuraholic
Mar 30, 2021
Should Small Businesses Have Boards?
Mar 23, 2021
I Hope You’re Not Torturing Yourself
Mar 16, 2021
I Need a Vacation
Mar 09, 2021
Chicago, New York, or Atlanta?
Mar 02, 2021
So You Bet the House?
Feb 23, 2021
How Do We Get Out of This Cage?
Feb 16, 2021
I Want Clean Hands
Feb 09, 2021
Optimism in D Minor
Feb 02, 2021
“A Fabulous Conversation About Marketing"
Jan 26, 2021
I Will Be Here
Jan 19, 2021
How Do I Manage My Managers?
Jan 12, 2021
All It Takes Is One Mistake
Dec 15, 2020
The Great COVID Churn
Dec 08, 2020
She Was a Hiring Goddess
Nov 24, 2020
We’ll Find Something for Them to Do
Nov 17, 2020
Are You Ready to Sell Your Business?
Nov 10, 2020
This Week, The Pandemic Hit Home
Nov 03, 2020
What Would You Do With $200,000 Right Now?
Oct 27, 2020
Man, If I Win...
Oct 20, 2020
REVISITED: That’s The Price
Oct 13, 2020
I Would Be Scared, Frankly
Oct 06, 2020
Landlords and Real Estate and Banks, Oh My!
Sep 29, 2020
When’s This Gonna Be Over?
Sep 22, 2020
There’s a Thin Line Between Confident and Delusional
Sep 15, 2020
We Kind of Live or Die by Google
Aug 25, 2020
The Case for Not Pivoting
Aug 18, 2020
The Most Expensive Hire You Will Ever Make
Aug 11, 2020
Hair Is Segregated
Aug 04, 2020
My Jay Goltz Face
Jul 28, 2020
I’m Not Going to Shut the Doors
Jul 21, 2020
Would You Start Your Business Today?
Jul 14, 2020
Doomsday Fatigue
Jul 07, 2020
That’s a Stupid Question
Jun 30, 2020
Do You Feel Shame Taking Money From the Government?
Jun 23, 2020
I’ve Never Raised My Prices
Jun 16, 2020
I’m Stressed
Jun 09, 2020
How Do You Handle the Fact That a Lot of People Don't Like You?
Jun 02, 2020
Everything I Learn, I Have to Learn the Hard Way
May 26, 2020
You’re Not Human Anymore. You’re the Boss. Deal With It
May 19, 2020
Dude, You’re Gonna Get on an Airplane?
May 12, 2020
My Employees Are Not Thrilled to Be Back at Work
May 05, 2020
Why Not Us?
Apr 28, 2020
Three Owners. Two Loans. One Emotional Conversation
Apr 21, 2020
The Money’s in the Bank
Apr 14, 2020
Warrior Mode
Apr 07, 2020
My Employees Are Freaking Out
Mar 31, 2020
Where Can I Save Some Cash?
Mar 24, 2020
I Ain’t Going Down
Mar 17, 2020
Maybe This Isn’t the Right Job for You
Mar 10, 2020
Special Episode, Part 2: We Want to Talk to You About the Bread
Mar 03, 2020
Mini Episode: The 21 Hats Business Owners Make Coronavirus Contingency Plans
Mar 02, 2020
Special Episode, Part 1: All You Have to Do Is Be Better
Feb 25, 2020
We’re at the Edge Right Now
Feb 18, 2020
Does Culture Really Eat Strategy for Lunch?
Feb 11, 2020
What Do I Have to Lose, Right?
Feb 04, 2020
I’m Trying to Survive in Retail
Jan 28, 2020
Special Episode: He Patted My Hand and Told Me I Didn’t Know Anything About Business
Jan 08, 2020
At Vanderbloemen Search, Everyone Blogs. Everyone? Everyone.
Jan 08, 2020
Is Your Business Making as Much Money as You Think It Should?
Jan 07, 2020