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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
134 episodes
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...
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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...
Best of B Team: From Homebrew Naivety to Brewery Reality
This week on The Best of B Team, we're throwing it back to our episode with Jeff, owner and founder of Bike Rack Brewing Co.Imagine the sun on your shoulders, a cold pint in hand, and a reason to show up, this conversation lives where sm...
Ep. 102 - Driving John Daly: Life as Limo Joe Pt. 2
Ever wonder what celebrity travel really looks like from the driver’s seat? Welcome back to part 2 with Joe Washington! We're back with Limo Joe, the man stars call when they land in Northwest Arkansas, for a raw, funny, and surprisingly tender...
Ep. 101 - Inside NWA’s Most Exclusive Car with Joe Washington Pt. 1
Power often rides in the backseat, and Joe Washington has spent years at the wheel. We kick off season three with the trusted driver behind Northwest Arkansas’s most intriguing routes, funded early by Don Tyson, introduced to Alice Walton as “m...
Best of B Team: Writing "The Book": Jenny Marrs’ 5-Year Journey
What turns a house into a story you can hold? In this recap episode, we look back at our episode with Jenny Marrs for a warm, funny, and honest look at how a five-year writing journey became a memoir stitched from rooms, rituals, and the small ...
Ep. 100 - Business Leaders Supporting Local Teens With TASC
Super Bowl energy meets real community impact as we crack open prop bets, swap bourbon notes, and rally behind TASC’s All-In casino night, our favorite way to turn a rowdy room into real support for teens in Northwest Arkansas. We start with li...
Best of B Team: Purple Bag Power, Building a Luxury Brand in Northwest Arkansas
A jeweler launching his own Prosecco sounds unexpected, until you hear how celebration sits at the heart of both. We sit down with Ben from Blakeman’s to trace the path from showroom sparkle to $24 bubbles on local shelves, and why that choice ...
Ep. 99 - From English Teacher to Beer Boss | With Flyway Brewing's Matt Foster
A blueberry wheat became a state legend, but the real story starts in a classroom. We sit with Flyway’s founder, an English teacher turned brewer, to unpack how a garage hobby grew into Arkansas’s bestselling Blue Wing and a new taproom on Walm...