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Making BIG Shifts

Making BIG Shifts

MKTG Reboot 60 Episodes Oct 9, 2026

Making BIG Shifts is a growth and decision-making podcast for founders and operators, hosted by Josh Anderson, founder of MKTG Reboot. Each episode features real operators, founders, and leaders unpacking the hard parts of running a business: tough decisions, setbacks, inflection points, and the wins that follow. The conversations cover growth, marketing, leadership, systems, and strategy, focusing on the shifts that actually move businesses forward.

Episodes

Why Nobody Remembers Your Presentation, and How to Fix It
Why Nobody Remembers Your Presentation, and How to Fix It Oct 9, 2026 00:27:23 Being louder doesn't make you more persuasive.Robert Begley, communication strategist and author of Voices of Reason, joins me to break down what actually makes communication memorable.We talk about clarity, confidence, authenticity, character, stage fright, presentation structure, and why some speakers influence a room while others are forgotten by the next day.Robert also shares one presenta
Winning Complex Healthcare Deals: Positioning, Buying Groups & the Cost of Inaction
Winning Complex Healthcare Deals: Positioning, Buying Groups & the Cost of Inaction Oct 6, 2026 00:29:49 Why do good healthcare products still get stuck in endless meetings, delayed decisions, and deals that suddenly disappear?Fred Sheffield has spent his career helping healthcare and health tech companies navigate that exact problem.Fred is the Chief Growth Officer of Five Stones Growth, a go-to-market strategist, and author of Health Tech Giant Slayer. In this conversation, we break down how smalle
Your Business Is Successful. So Why Are You Still Trapped in It?
Your Business Is Successful. So Why Are You Still Trapped in It? Sep 28, 2026 00:27:17 Most entrepreneurs start businesses because they want freedom. Years later, many discover they’ve created the exact opposite.In this episode, I sit down with Luke Mardigian, co-author of Exit Without Selling, to talk about owner dependence and why businesses can become completely reliant on their founder for decisions, relationships, knowledge, time, and revenue.Luke shares how he went from workin
50 Buyers, 3 Years and One Exit: What It Really Takes to Sell a Business
50 Buyers, 3 Years and One Exit: What It Really Takes to Sell a Business Sep 21, 2026 00:23:30 Most entrepreneurs spend years thinking about how to build a business.Far fewer think seriously about what it takes to leave one.Chris Slocumb built her agency over more than two decades before beginning a three-year exit journey that included roughly 50 buyer meetings, multiple letters of intent, several rounds of due diligence, and eventually a successful sale.In this episode of Making BIG Shift
Does Your Business Actually Own You?
Does Your Business Actually Own You? Sep 14, 2026 00:33:06 Most entrepreneurs start businesses because they want more freedom.Then the company grows, the team grows, the responsibilities grow, and suddenly every important decision still comes back to the owner.Dan Paulson calls it The Owner’s Trap.Dan is an executive advisor and bestselling author of Escape the Owner’s Trap. In this conversation, we dig into how owners become the bottleneck, why delegatio
Why More AI & Data Won’t Automatically Grow
Why More AI & Data Won’t Automatically Grow Sep 8, 2026 00:44:04 More AI. More data. More technology.But does any of that automatically create more revenue?Not even close.I sat down with James Roth, CRO of ZoomInfo, for a wide-ranging conversation about what the next era of sales and marketing actually looks like.James shares his unconventional path from college football and professional music to door-to-door sales and eventually the CRO seat at ZoomInfo. We ta
When Should You Quit? A 7-Time Founder on Pivoting, Failure & Finding Product-Market Fit
When Should You Quit? A 7-Time Founder on Pivoting, Failure & Finding Product-Market Fit Sep 3, 2026 00:37:08 Entrepreneurs are constantly told to keep going.But what happens when persistence becomes stubbornness?Nuri Otus has built seven companies, experienced successful pivots, raised capital, shut down ideas that weren’t working, and is now building DUO, an AI-powered matchmaking platform.In this conversation, we dig into how founders can recognize real market validation, why criticism can actually be
Stop Relying on Referrals Build a Sales Pipeline You Can Actually Predict
Stop Relying on Referrals Build a Sales Pipeline You Can Actually Predict Aug 31, 2026 00:25:56 Referrals are fantastic, but they shouldn’t be your entire growth strategy.I sit down with Craig Lowder, author of Smooth Selling Forever, to break down how businesses can create a more predictable pipeline by bringing sales and marketing together.We talk target audiences, messaging, lead generation, sales processes, connector networks, and a really simple 4-quadrant outreach strategy any business
Big Risks, Failure & Gritt: What It Takes to Win In Business
Big Risks, Failure & Gritt: What It Takes to Win In Business Aug 25, 2026 00:28:13 Big results usually require big bets, but how do you know when to keep pushing, when to pivot, and when you’re just being stubborn?Shawn Burcham went from labeling boxes at his kitchen table and selling chicken breading out of his garage to building a group of companies with operations reaching across the country.In this episode, we get into failure, gritt (spelled that way on purpose), focus, ris
Stop Chasing Leads: The Relationship Strategy That Actually Drives Growth
Stop Chasing Leads: The Relationship Strategy That Actually Drives Growth Aug 18, 2026 00:26:55 Businesses pour money into finding new customers, but some of the biggest growth opportunities may already be sitting inside the relationships we have.I sit down with Jamie Shibley, CEO of The Expressory and author of Relationship First: Strategic Engagement, to talk about building a real relationship infrastructure around customers, prospects, referral partners, teams, and other people who influe
What Do You Build After Success Stops Feeling Meaningful?
What Do You Build After Success Stops Feeling Meaningful? Aug 10, 2026 00:20:21 Jermaine Ee spent years building companies, exploring new industries, and chasing the traditional definition of entrepreneurial success.Then that definition stopped feeling meaningful.In this episode of Making Big Shifts, Jermaine shares the personal and professional shift that led him to create HeirLight, an AI-powered estate planning platform built around clarity, family, and the things people c
Why Most AI Copywriting Fails to Persuade
Why Most AI Copywriting Fails to Persuade Aug 4, 2026 00:26:19 AI knows a tremendous amount about copywriting. The real challenge is getting it to produce the right copy for the right audience.In this episode, I talk with Tyler Cook, founder of Hyper Media Marketing and author of Persuasion by Design, about the psychology behind effective marketing and the guardrails AI needs to create persuasive messages.Tyler explains how his background in door-to-door sale

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