Most entrepreneurs will tell you about the pivot, Hitting The Ceiling™ will tell you what happened the night before. Hitting The Ceiling, brought to you by EOS Worldwide is the perfect podcast for businesses, entrepreneurs, and key leaders and managers to talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud. Hitting the Ceiling is where business leaders and entrepreneurs talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud that often keep them from growing their businesses in healthy ways. These stories often happen behind closed doors, in the quiet, when the business was surviving, but the entrepreneur wondered if they...
Latest episodes
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26 min
What A Bike Ride Taught Him About Workaholism
How long would you stay in a good job after your family started asking why you could not show up?You can spend 22 years helping quadruple a company, earn a good salary, carry eight…
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25 min
What Bull Riding Taught Him About Risk
What happens when the identity you built your future around disappears overnight?Rick Gardner was supposed to ride bulls for a living. Then an injury took that future away, a roofi…
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25 min
Nobody Is Coming to Save You
How do you stop carrying everything when being the reliable one has become part of your identity?Clay Harris learned early not to wait for someone else to fix things. His father wa…
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49 min
You Can't Save Your Team From Themselves
How do you keep leading when every new stage of growth exposes skills you don’t have yetShannon Badger helped grow Badger CPA from nothing into a 60-person firm, but behind the ins…
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57 min
When Your Dream Starts Depending on Your Name | Ryan Hawk of The Learning Leader Show
When does your personal brand become the ceiling on your company?Ryan Hawk built his life around hard work, competition, and consistency, but losing the quarterback job to Ben Roet…
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22 min
When Your Business Starts Owning You
How long should you tolerate “growing pains” before admitting the way you are operating is not working?Brock Beiersdoerfer and his wife Kimberly opened The Heavenly Donut Company h…
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36 min
How to Rewire Your Working-Class Mindset
How much of your business is actually being run by the eight-year-old version of you?Kieran James built Stryde from the ground up, but the real story starts earlier than that: a wo…
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30 min
This is What It Takes to be the "Hardest Worker"
What happens when the drive to succeed becomes the very thing holding you and your business back?Glen Smith built GDS Wealth Management from relentless cold calls and early financi…
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56 min
The Private Jet Company That Nearly Crashed Before Takeoff
What happens when the systems that helped you grow start becoming the very thing holding you back?Cory Bengtzen and Tommy Aoki have helped turn SkyShare from a small aviation broke…
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52 min
He Sold His Company, Only to Buy it Right Back
Are you building your company with a purpose, or because you need to prove someone wrong?Eric V. Holtzclaw built his career turning ideas into businesses: launching Liger Marketing…
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54 min
What the World Cup Taught Us About Workplace Culture
When does the drive to grow become a cover for ego, fear, or the need for recognition?Jonathan Reynolds built Titus Talent Strategies around a simple belief: the right people in th…
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46 min
The Family Business Nobody Wanted to Inherit
What happens when the family business you spent your life building has no family member ready to take it over?Derek Volk spent decades turning his family's Maine packaging company…
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31 min
The Nonprofit Built to Say Yes Fast
How do you protect the people doing the work without taking resources away from the people you serve?Rachel Kuhn stepped into A Special Wish Foundation of Central Ohio carrying a p…
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38 min
How to Build an ESOP Company That Can Scale
What happens when the company you helped build starts outgrowing the structure holding it together?Mike Mortensen started at ARG Industrial as a delivery driver in Anchorage, Alask…
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45 min
The Family Legacy They Had To Rebuild | Denise Hutchinson & Michael Fleck of Occasions Fine Jewelry
What happens when the business you inherited starts falling apart before you have even found your footing?When Michael Fleck bought his family's Texas jewelry business in 2014, he…
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36 min
The Reckless Bet That Became A Legacy | Brenton Cloud, President of Greenhouse
What parts of your business are you calling success simply because they look impressive from the outside?Brenton Cloud came from a pest control family that dated back to 1934, but…
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1 h 08
The Ceiling Inside EOS Worldwide | Kelly Knight, President, EOS Worldwide
What happens when someone else’s prediction for your future becomes the thing you spend your life refusing to accept?As Kelly Knight stepped into EOS Worldwide, she wasn’t just joi…
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59 min
When Helping People Starts Hurting the Business | Chadwick & Michela Taylor of The Service Center
What does it cost when generosity turns into enabling?Chadwick and Michela Taylor built Service Center Pro from a simple phone-answering problem into a growing virtual team, but be…
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53 min
The Moment Hustle Stops Being Enough | Chase Calhoun, CEO of Apex Real Estate Investments
How do you build a company that can keep growing without constantly pulling you back in?As Chase Calhoun grew from buying a foreclosure sight unseen to running a real estate and co…
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1 h 02
The Dark Side of Public Leadership | Paul TenHaken, Mayor of Sioux Falls, SD
What does a crisis reveal about the way you make decisions under pressure?As Paul TenHaken built a thriving digital agency and later became mayor of Sioux Falls, the outside story…