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The B Team Podcast
Talking all things Business, Bentonville, and Bourbon. Hosted by Josh Saffran, Matt Marrs, Rob Nelson, and Jim Corbett. New episodes every Thursday!
Episodes
141 episodes
Ep. 115 - Former Tight End Tackles High-End Trade Business
High-end trade businesses thrive on flawless execution and long-term client relationships. Former NFL tight end Phillip Supernaw joins the show to share how he built Natural State Putting Greens into a premier installer for homeowners, country ...
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Best of B Team: NIL Cash Chaos: Fixing College Sports Money
College athletics shifted from cash-filled duffel bags to multi-million dollar deals almost overnight, but the infrastructure to support these young athletes never caught up. When dynamic, highly paid recruits sign contract deals without basic ...
Ep. 114 - Whiskey Heritage Unlocked: From Charcoal to Aging
Chasing allocated bottles and overhyped secondary market releases often leads to overpriced disappointments while world-class heritage pours hide in plain sight. Modern whiskey consumers spend months hunting rare unicorns, completely ignoring t...
Best of B Team: Protected Paint Matters: Why Brushes Destroy Cars
Running an automated vehicle wash requires balancing delicate finish protection with chemical restrictions. Operating in a saturated market means constantly defending against aggressive tunnel competitors while proving why high-end car finishes...
Ep. 113 - Sourdough Crust Solutions: Building Cave Springs Hospitality
Opening a restaurant is a massive financial risk, and long-term survival in hospitality requires far more than just a good recipe. Most new locations struggle with high turnover, severe supply chain constraints, and the constant pressure of neg...
Best of B Team: Inside SALT Health’s All-in-One Model with Jordan Cash
The modern medical system isn't built to keep you healthy, it's built to treat you once you're already sick. Between skyrocketing premiums and high-volume clinics forcing physicians to speed through appointments, patients end up feeling like nu...
Ep. 112 - Property Management Profits: Scaling 485 Doors with Nick Limbird
Scaling a business in a shifting economy means ignoring vanity metrics and confronting harsh market conditions head on. In a real estate climate defined by rising interest rates and fluctuating inventory, holding onto outdated strategy guarante...
Best of B Team: Biking Means Business: Scaling Regional Retail
Capitalizing on local infrastructure before it goes mainstream determines who captures the territory and who gets left behind. In this episode, Jesse Hull breaks down how he turned a passionate two-wheel hobby into a dominant multi-location ent...
Ep. 111 - Bentonville's Hidden Stories: The Ultimate Golf Cart Experience
If you assume you know everything about your own backyard, you are likely missing the most profitable and entertaining narratives driving your local economy. We sit down with Brian Johnson, the founder of Big on Bentonville, to uncover how he b...
Best of B Team: Corporate Exit Strategy: Creating a Community Woodworking Shop
Not having access to the right tools kills the desire to build things. As more people look for physical hobbies to step away from their screens, the high cost and massive space required for a personal shop stop them dead in their tracks. We sit...
Ep. 110 - Pure Gelato Mastery: Bringing Paris to Northwest Arkansas
Bringing a high-profile international brand to Northwest Arkansas requires more than just capital; it demands an obsessive focus on product integrity, standard operating procedures, and local market education. In this episode, we sit down with ...
Best of B Team: Married Partners: Surviving Business with Your Spouse
Customer expectations dictate the survival of any local restaurant. Right now, retaining loyal staff and managing daily operations are the biggest hurdles for hospitality owners looking to stay afloat. Todd and Nickki Golden join us to share th...
Ep. 109 - Stop Biohacking: Simple Tweaks For Real Health Results
The wellness industry loves to push standard PDF diet plans and overnight magic pills, but generalized advice leaves desperate people exhausted and stuck. When the standard medical framework offers few answers for chronic, complex issues, it is...
Best of B Team: Serving the Streets: Turning the Barber Chair Into a Sanctuary
Humble beginnings are not an excuse to stay small; they are the foundation for long term business growth. In an economy where industries pivot overnight and competition can blind you to your own progress, staying focused on your lane is the ult...
Ep. 108 - Champagne Secrets: Debunking the Elitist Myths with Aaron Walters
Pretentious hospitality is a profit killer. When consumers feel intimidated by an industry, they simply lock their wallets and walk away. The global wine and champagne industry has spent decades building cardboard walls of elite terminology and...
Best of B Team: Ad Libbing Live: Jon Williams on Handling 20,000 Fans
Live entertainment looks effortless until you are the one standing in the center of a stadium with twenty thousand people watching you. The difference between a seamless fan experience and an absolute disaster class in front of a packed arena c...
Ep. 107 - Karaoke Empire Expands: Justin Urso’s Bentonville Move
Bentonville nightlife is about to see a significant shift as the gap between family-friendly dining and late-night entertainment finally closes. For too long, the local scene has lacked a dedicated space for groups to gather without the chaos o...
Best of B Team: Stop Freezing: Building Reactionary Muscle Memory
Reactionary movement is the only thing that saves you when a situation turns south. Most people assume that knowing a few moves is enough, but without the muscle memory to back it up, the human brain simply freezes under pressure. We sit down w...
Ep. 106 - Red Corn Rising: A Texas Whiskey Revelation
A single drop of water can either unlock the hidden soul of a bourbon or flatline its flavor entirely. In an industry where collectors often focus more on the label than the liquid, understanding the chemistry of the "tame and maim" is what sep...
Best of B Team: Injury Recovery Hacks: Healing Without Knives
A lot of “wellness” sounds good until you ask one question: does it actually work, and can someone explain why without the hype? That’s where we start. Josh Saffran, Matt Marrs and our permanent guest Rob Nelson, start talking about how our med...
Ep. 105 - Muckender: Skin-Safe Cleaning with Joshua Stanley
You’ve probably used a shop wipe that strips grease fast then leaves your hands feeling wrecked, or a “personal” wipe that falls apart when you actually need it. That gap is exactly what grabbed us about Muckender Towels, and we brought in co-f...
Best of B Team: Luxury Wellness: The Woodhouse Spa Journey
You can tell when a city is growing fast because the “nice to have” things quickly become the “how are we living without this” things. That’s where we start: why Woodhouse Spa decided to open in Rogers, and why Northwest Arkansas needed more th...
Ep. 104 - Layoff to Brewery: Dan Clous's Journey to Natural State Beer Company
You can learn a lot about a place by what it drinks and how it builds community around it. We sit down with Dan Clous, co-founder of Natural State Beer Company in Bentonville, to trace the unlikely path from a vendor career to homebrewing in a ...
Best of B Team: Bike Culture Economics: Why Out-of-Staters are Buying Bentonville
Bentonville is changing so fast that even locals can miss the scale of what’s being built right in front of them. We sit down with a longtime Northwest Arkansas real estate leader who came to town in 1992 as a Walmart engineer, then quickly piv...
Ep. 103 - Shark Tank Reality: Beyond the Handshake
The Shark Tank edit makes it look smooth, but the real experience is quiet, intense, and a lot longer than you think. We talk with the founder of Foam Cooler, Chad Lee, the Bentonville-based product developer who walked into the Tank, ran his c...