Jamie Christensen — Why Implementation Beats Strategy in Small Business Marketing

Jamie Christensen — Why Implementation Beats Strategy in Small Business Marketing

Fuse Associates founder Jamie Christensen joins Henry Harrison to explain why strategy is only a fraction of the work in marketing — and implementation is where results are won or lost. After 15 years in institutional finance, Jamie built a fractional marketing firm for growing businesses, and she shares how Fuse turned a client's $1M/year Google Ads spend from a negative return into a 2X while recovering roughly $900K in missed revenue. A grounded conversation on fractional marketing, the real impact of AI on small business, and the network and mindset behind sustainable growth. Fuse Associates: https://FuseAssoc.com [https://FuseAssoc.com] Tags: entrepreneurship, marketing, small business, fractional marketing, business growth, AI, leadership, founders, Henry Deimel Harrison

How Growing Companies Get Executive Talent Without the Full-Time Cost — Zach Nathan

Zach Nathan, founder of Suite Leap, joins Henry Harrison to talk about a problem most founders eventually hit: needing senior leadership before they can afford a full-time hire. Zach shares how he went from 11 years at American Airlines to building businesses of his own — including an urgent care company he grew to $20M — and what that taught him about finding the right expertise at the right time. He covers the $5–50M growth ceiling, why a full-time executive often carries more cost and risk than founders realize, a $15M client that grew roughly 50% in 18 months, and the lessons from a partnership dispute that ended an otherwise successful business. A direct, practical conversation on entrepreneurship, growth, and leadership. Suite Leap: https://www.suiteleap.com [https://www.suiteleap.com] More episodes: https://www.henryharrison.com [https://www.henryharrison.com]

Robert Siciliano on Cybersecurity and Becoming a Tougher Target

Why do criminals make billions off hardworking people every year? Because most of us do nothing to stop them. Cybersecurity and personal protection expert Robert Siciliano joins Henry Harrison to explain the psychology behind why people resist security, the real economics of a $12.2 trillion cybercrime industry, and the handful of practical steps every business owner should take today. In this episode: -Why attackers log in instead of hacking -The three habits that put you in the top 10% of secure users -Why phishing simulation training rarely works -How to reframe security from "paranoia" to risk management -The personal story behind 30+ years of this work Connect with Robert: https://protectnowllc.com/ [https://protectnowllc.com/]

Kep Kepner — Vulnerability, Brain Science, and the Hard Lessons That Built Two Companies

Kep Kepner is a repeat entrepreneur and founder of Kepner CPAs and Mindsmarts. He joins Henry Harrison to talk through an unconventional path — from his father's Wichita manufacturing business, to IBM sales, to an Arthur Young partnership, to a venture-backed real estate company that collapsed in the 1980s Texas downturn, to rebuilding a CPA firm from his bedroom. Kep opens up about what most founders miss when they take outside capital, why the savings and loan era taught him to read his investors as carefully as the market, and how the family cost of a business failure often exceeds the financial one. He also explains why he restructured his CPA firm around fractional CFO retainers, why he licensed neuroscience protocols from the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas to build Mindsmarts, and how brain training helped him double profits and grow revenue 25 percent without adding headcount. A practical conversation on capital structure, decision-making, and the mechanics of building a business that doesn't trap its owner. Learn more at https://kepnercpa.com/ [https://kepnercpa.com/]. Episode: https://www.henryharrison.com/kep-kepner [https://www.henryharrison.com/kep-kepner] Tags: entrepreneurship, business growth, leadership, fractional CFO, brain health, founder lessons, capital strategy, family business

Escaping the Owner Trap with Derek Isaac: Building Profitable, Sellable Construction Companies

Derek Isaac scaled a general contracting business, tripled revenue in one year, and still went bankrupt. He joins Henry Harrison to explain the gap between revenue and profit, why estimating is where money is made or lost, and how to build a construction company that doesn't depend on the owner. Derek is a construction business coach, founder of the Asset Builder Program, and host of the Contractor Business Builder Podcast. He shares the pricing mistakes that sink contractors, the systems that create real peace of mind, and client turnarounds across Hawaii, Arizona, and Georgia. A candid, practical conversation for builders, founders, and anyone trying to turn a busy job into a sellable business.