Episode 316 | The Profit Answer Man I Featuring Yarin Gaon The Profit Paradox: Why More Revenue Is Killing Your Business (And What to Do About It) When you’re running a small business, the conventional wisdom seems simple: grow revenue, and profit will follow. Yet after mentoring over 400 founders and turning around dozens of struggling startups, […]
Read More… from Ep 316 Double Your Profit by Doing Less: The Subtraction Strategy with Yarin Gaon
Episode 315 | The Profit Answer Man I Featuring David Hori How to Buy Profitable Businesses Without Destroying What Founders Built A Conversation with David Hori on Cash Flow, Playbooks, and Real Business Value When most business owners think about selling their company, they imagine a big payday and a clean exit. When most entrepreneurs […]
Episode 309 | The Profit Answer Man I Featuring Aaron Trahan The Golden Five: A Proven Framework to Scale Profitably (Not Just Grow Revenue) At 24 years old, Aaron Trahan was handed the keys to a $100 million division and later helped run a business at a billion-dollar revenue run rate. From the outside, […]
Episode 308 | The Profit Answer Man I Featuring Dustin Young Pay-When-Paid Cash Flow: How Subcontractors Survive Long Payment Terms If you’re a subcontractor, you already know the real game isn’t just doing great work. It’s getting paid—on time—without starving your business in the process. In this episode of The Profit Answer Man, Rocky Lalvani sits down […]
Episode 304 | The Profit Answer Man Imagine being 24 years old. You have just bought a business. You are excited, ambitious, and ready to conquer the world. There is just one problem: you don’t know how to read a balance sheet, you have never led a team, and the market you just […]
With Former IRS Agent Carlotta Thompson Most business owners believe high taxes are just the price of success. They’re wrong. In this episode of Profit Answer Man, Rocky sits down with former IRS agent turned tax strategist Carlotta Thompson to reveal how the tax system really works, what actually triggers audits, and how profitable […]
Most business owners don’t lack data. They lack clarity. They have a P&L, a balance sheet, maybe even a dashboard. But when a real decision shows up—Can I afford this hire? Should I scale marketing? Why did margins drop again?—the numbers don’t give a clear answer. That’s where growth starts to feel chaotic. In this […]
Most owners chase revenue and wonder why cash keeps disappearing. In this episode, Rocky sits down with Megan Schwan—CEO of Sidekick Accounting and a certified Profit First Professional—to unpack the simple systems that turn chaos into cash: clean books, pricing discipline, expense sweeps, and a short list of actionable KPIs. If you want fewer surprises […]
Stop Chasing Revenue: How Fractional CFOs Clear the Financial Fog Most business owners measure success by one thing: revenue growth. The problem? Revenue isn’t cash—and it doesn’t always translate into profit. In this episode of Profit Answer Man, I sat down with Laresa McIntyre, founder of Rockbridge CFO, to uncover the blind spots that keep […]
Read More… from Ep 288 Your P&L Is Lying – Here’s What to Track with Laresa McIntyre
Why Scaling an E-Commerce Brand Can Bankrupt You (Unless You Fix This First) The Hidden Cost of Growth Nobody Talks About It’s every entrepreneur’s dream: launch a brand, grow revenue, and finally fire your boss. David Schomer lived that dream—scaling a pet supply company on Amazon before going full-time in e-commerce. But what most business […]
Read More… from Ep 279 The Purpose of Business is to Make Money with David Schomer