Emotional Intelligence for Durable Growth with Brad Poulos

Emotional Intelligence for Durable Growth with Brad Poulos

Business growth is not only about strategy, capital, or ambition. It is also about emotional intelligence: knowing when to push, when to pause, when to listen, and when to make hard decisions with clarity. In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, we welcome Brad Poulos, small business professor, entrepreneur, advisor, and author of The Small Business Operator’s Manual and Most Problems Solve Themselves. Brad brings more than 30 years of experience building, scaling, fixing, and sometimes shutting down companies, including growing businesses from startup to more than $75 million in revenue. In Emotional Intelligence for Durable Growth, we explore: • Why emotional intelligence matters in business decision-making • How founders can build companies that do not consume them • Why community and connection support long-term resilience • How leaders make difficult calls with discipline and empathy • What business owners often miss between startup and exit • Why clarity, systems, and fewer unforced errors create durability 🎙️ Hosted by Stephen Sakach and Tullio Siragusa 🎧 Produced by Martha Huerta The strongest businesses are not built by avoiding hard decisions. They are built by making those decisions with clarity, discipline, and care.

Marketing With Purpose Kit: The Truth Behind Purpose-Led Brands

Purpose isn't a marketing campaign. It's a way of doing business. The brands people trust most don't create purpose through clever messaging. They earn it by consistently living their values in every decision, every customer interaction, and every employee experience. In this week's Marketing With Purpose Kit from The Bliss Business Podcast, we're joined by Laura Peever, Head of Marketing at Sportball. Laura is a marketing leader and brand builder who believes the strongest brands are built through action, not messaging. As Head of Marketing at Sportball, she leads brand strategy and growth across a global franchise system dedicated to helping children develop confidence and a love for movement through fun-first sport experiences. Guided by the belief that marketing doesn't create purpose but reveals it, Laura helps organizations move beyond purpose as a positioning exercise and embrace it as a discipline that shapes how they operate, grow, and serve. 🎙️ Hosted by Tullio Siragusa 🎧 Produced by Martha Huerta 🧭 In this episode, we explore: • Why purpose must be lived before it can be marketed • The difference between purpose as messaging and purpose as an organizational discipline • Building brands through action, culture, and customer experience • How authentic purpose creates lasting trust and sustainable growth 🎧 If you're ready to build a brand where purpose is more than a tagline, this conversation offers practical insights into creating an organization that people genuinely believe in.

Paws, Trust, and Franchise Growth with Nicole Peel

Pet sitting is not just a convenience. It is a relationship built on trust, consistency, and the peace of mind families feel when their pets are cared for like they are part of someone else’s family. In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, we welcome Nicole Peel, Founder and CEO of Pawsitively Spoiled, a pet sitting franchise that began in Kokomo, Indiana in 1990 as a way for Nicole to make extra money while attending college. What started through word of mouth eventually became her full-time calling, and in 2020 she franchised the business. Today, Pawsitively Spoiled serves families across multiple communities through in-home pet sitting, dog walking, and doggy taxi services. In Paws, Trust, and Franchise Growth, we explore: • How trust turns a local pet sitting service into a scalable brand • Why pet care businesses depend on empathy and reliability • What it takes to move from side hustle to full-time founder • How franchising creates local ownership opportunities for animal lovers • Why community and word of mouth still matter in growth • How founders can scale care without losing the personal touch 🎙️ Hosted by Stephen Sakach and Tullio Siragusa 🎧 Produced by Martha Huerta The strongest pet care brands are built one visit, one family, and one moment of trust at a time.

Greener Lawns, Stronger Businesses with Kelly Giard

Sustainability does not have to compete with profitability. When environmental responsibility is built into the business model, it can create differentiation, customer trust, and opportunities for meaningful growth. In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, we welcome Kelly Giard, Founder and CEO of Clean Air Lawn Care, an eco-friendly lawn care franchise built around electric equipment, solar-powered operations, organic treatments, and services designed to be safer for families, pets, and the environment. Kelly began developing the concept from his garage before leaving his career in financial services to pursue the company full time. In Greener Lawns, Stronger Businesses, we explore: • How sustainability can become a profitable business model • Why environmental values must be supported by scalable systems • How franchising can expand access to greener services • What it takes to change a traditional, fuel-intensive industry • Why community and customer education matter • How business owners can grow without growing their environmental footprint 🎙️ Hosted by Stephen Sakach and Tullio Siragusa 🎧 Produced by Martha Huerta Sustainable business is not only about reducing harm. It is about creating better systems for customers, communities, entrepreneurs, and future generations.

Marketing with Purpose Kit: The Strategic Value of a Fractional CMO

Many companies do not have a marketing problem. They have a marketing leadership gap. The team may be working hard, campaigns may be running, and agencies may be producing deliverables—but without a clear strategy connecting marketing to revenue, customer needs, and business priorities, activity can quickly become fragmented. In this special Marketing With Purpose Monologue Edition from The Bliss Business Podcast, host Tullio Siragusa explores the importance and value of fractional CMO leadership. A fractional CMO gives a growing organization access to experienced executive marketing leadership without requiring an immediate full-time hire. But the value is not simply about reducing cost. It is about bringing clarity, accountability, strategic direction, and cross-functional alignment to a business at the moment it needs them most. 🎙️ Hosted by Tullio Siragusa 🎧 Produced by Martha Huerta 🧭 In this episode, we explore: • What a fractional CMO is—and what the role should not become • Why marketing activity often fails without executive-level alignment • How fractional leadership connects marketing to revenue and business strategy • When a company is ready for a fractional CMO • What meaningful progress should look like in the first 90 days • How the right leader can build internal capability instead of creating dependency 🎧 If your company has reached a stage where marketing feels busy but not fully aligned, this episode offers a practical framework for determining whether fractional CMO leadership could help turn scattered efforts into a measurable growth system. Because companies do not always need more marketing. Sometimes, they need someone who can help the organization decide what marketing is truly meant to accomplish.