My Business On Purpose

Scott Beebe
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We coach small business owners to uncover the things they cannot see, and implement systems and processes that help them live their business on purpose

  1. 5d ago

    The Financial Blind Spot Costing You Profit

    Why does a positive bank balance feel like good news, even when your business is quietly losing money? In this episode of The Dickie and Donny Show, business coaches Dickie and Donny break down the financial clarity system behind their annual Financial Tune-Up, a three part masterclass built for business owners who want real answers about their overhead, cash flow, and profit forecasting. They open with the confession that most owners feel financially fine right up until someone shows them the actual numbers. The first step is overhead. Not what you choose to spend, but what you are committed to paying every single month whether you work or not. Dickie and Donny walk through a real example of an owner shocked to learn his true payroll cost was 26 percent higher than his employee's salary once healthcare, taxes, and mileage were added in. From there they move into cash flow, showing why a healthy looking bank account can still hide a business that is bleeding without anyone noticing. Every dollar has a job, and most owners have never sorted out which dollars belong to overhead, profit, taxes, or cost of goods. ✅ How to calculate true overhead, not guessed overhead ✅ Why a positive bank balance can still mean you are losing money ✅ The weekly cash flow habit that prevents financial blind spots ✅ How to forecast 6 to 12 months ahead so cash gaps never catch you off guard If you have ever looked at your numbers and felt confident, then found out later you were wrong, this episode explains exactly why that happens and how to fix it. Curious where your business actually stands financially? 👉 Go to businessonpurpose.com/healthy to take the Healthy Owner Business Assessment and find out exactly where your business stands today. 📩 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter 📝 For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ 🎙️ LISTEN on Apple Podcasts HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dickie-and-donny-show/id1849240083 🎙️ LISTEN on Spotify HERE ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/1gkSeO4QGSAcupPOnon5oS?si=12cf4b4a42a84aa1 ▶️ SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1 #FinancialClarity #BusinessOwnerTips #CashFlowManagement #SmallBusinessGrowth

  2. Jul 17

    Fast Food and Owners That Need to Stop Being Heroes

    What does fast food have to do with you refusing to delegate? More than you would think. In this episode of The Dickie and Donny Show, business coaches Dickie and Donny kick off with a debate that gets surprisingly complicated: what actually makes a restaurant fast food. A drive through? Speed? No waiter? The answer turns out to be the perfect setup for a much bigger problem, the business owner who cannot stop being the hero. They share a real example of a restaurant famous for the fastest service in town, run by an owner who insists on cooking, taking orders, running the drive through, and cleaning tables himself. The result is the worst service in the building's history, because one person trying to do every job will always slow everything down, no matter how good that person is. Dickie and Donny break down what hero syndrome actually looks like in a business: burnout, short tempers with employees, missed deadlines, and a growing fear that nothing will get done right unless you do it yourself. Then they lay out a practical way out, starting with the easiest tasks to hand off first, defining what full ownership looks like for the person taking it on, and learning to live with 80% done well instead of 100% done by you. If you are the owner doing the job of four people and wondering why growth feels impossible, this episode names the exact habit holding you back. Ready to stop being the hero and start building a business that runs without you?  👉 Go to businessonpurpose.com/healthy to take the Healthy Owner Business Assessment and find out exactly where your business stands today. 📩 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter 📝 For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ 🎙️ LISTEN on Apple Podcasts HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dickie-and-donny-show/id1849240083 🎙️ LISTEN on Spotify HERE ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/1gkSeO4QGSAcupPOnon5oS?si=12cf4b4a42a84aa1 ▶️ SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1 #HeroOwnerSyndrome #DelegationForBusinessOwners #BusinessCoaching #ScaleYourBusiness

  3. Jul 3

    Client experience - Creating Raving Fans

    Are your customers loyal to you, or just doing business with you until something cheaper comes along?  In this episode of The Dickie and Donny Show, business coaches Dickie and Donny break down the difference between creating clients and creating fans, using lessons from the wildly popular Savannah Bananas and their fan first approach to business. They dig into two types of friction that quietly damage client experience: micro frictions, the small unnoticed issues that pile up over time, and macro frictions, the obvious problems everyone sees but few businesses fix. From a pothole in a parking lot to a 10 second gap in music, small details shape how customers feel about your brand. Dickie and Donny also explore why your product is not really your product. Your process is your product. Two competing businesses can sell the exact same thing, but the experience around it is what creates true fans. They share real client stories about building fan loyalty before someone even signs a contract, the power of a simple video text, and why a polarizing vision might be the key to attracting the right customers and repelling the wrong ones. If you are a business owner who wants loyal customers, referrals, and a business that runs without chaos, this episode will change how you think about every touchpoint in your client journey. Learn how to build a business that creates raving fans and gives you back your time. Take the free 7 minute business assessment at businessonpurpose.com/healthy 👉 Go to businessonpurpose.com/healthy to take the Healthy Owner Business Assessment and find out exactly where your business stands today. 📩 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter 📝 For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ 🎙️ LISTEN on Apple Podcasts HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dickie-and-donny-show/id1849240083 🎙️ LISTEN on Spotify HERE ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/1gkSeO4QGSAcupPOnon5oS?si=12cf4b4a42a84aa1 ▶️ SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1 #ClientExperience #BusinessOwnerTips #CustomerLoyalty #SmallBusinessGrowth

  4. Jun 26

    BYO 5Cs of AI

    What if you could hand AI your biggest business problems and actually get useful answers back? The problem is, most business owners are prompting AI like a vending machine and wondering why the output feels flat and generic. Dickie and Donny are back with a framework that changes everything. The BYO 5Cs of AI, which stands for Content, Context, Creativity, Concreteness, and Curiosity, is a proven method that helps business owners use AI with intention, precision, and results that actually move the needle. This episode breaks down each of the five C's in plain language, with real examples from real business owners in roofing, masonry, electrical, and more. You will learn how to set up AI the right way, how to widen your thinking, how to get specific fast, and how to keep asking the right questions until the output is something you are proud to use. If you are a business owner who feels like AI should be doing more for you, this episode is exactly what you need. 👉 Go to businessonpurpose.com/healthy to take the Healthy Owner Business Assessment and find out exactly where your business stands today. 📩 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter 📝 For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ 🎙️ LISTEN on Apple Podcasts HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dickie-and-donny-show/id1849240083 🎙️ LISTEN on Spotify HERE ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/1gkSeO4QGSAcupPOnon5oS?si=12cf4b4a42a84aa1 ▶️ SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1 #AIProductivity #BusinessGrowthStrategy #DickieAndDonnyShow #SmallBusinessSuccess

  5. Jun 19

    Why your company needs an AI policy

    Your team is already using AI. The question is whether they know what they should and should not be putting into it. Most business owners hand their people a powerful tool with zero guardrails and wonder why things feel chaotic. No policy. No boundaries. No plan. Just fragmentation. In this episode, BOP Coaches Shawn "Dickie" Stinson and Brandon "Donny" Gray sit down with Matthew Lingafelt, BOP's fractional Tech Stack role, to break down what an AI policy actually looks like for a small business and why you need one before your next employee opens an AI tool without a second thought. This is not about fear. This is about being intentional with one of the most powerful tools your business will ever use. ✅ Why "information in is information stored" and what that means for your business risk ✅ The three buckets of information and how to decide what belongs in AI and what does not ✅ How to build an AI policy that is one page, functional, and actually gets followed ✅ Why using AI without a project structure is costing your team time and memory ✅ The difference between AI as a complement to your business versus a substitute for your people ✅ What "you should not sacrifice ethics on the altar of efficiency" means for how you lead You do not need a 10-page document. You need a clear framework your team can actually use. Is your business using AI intentionally, or just hoping nobody puts the wrong thing in the wrong place? 👉 Go to businessonpurpose.com/healthy to take the Healthy Owner Business Assessment and find out exactly where your business stands today. 📩 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter 📝 For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ 🎙️ LISTEN on Apple Podcasts HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dickie-and-donny-show/id1849240083 🎙️ LISTEN on Spotify HERE ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/1gkSeO4QGSAcupPOnon5oS?si=12cf4b4a42a84aa1 ▶️ SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1 #AIPolicy #SmallBusinessOwner #BusinessOnPurpose #AIForBusiness

  6. Jun 12

    Building Buy-In: How Jackson Builders Leads Change Without Losing Culture

    Most business owners can drive change. Very few can bring their team along for the ride. And that gap between the vision in your head and the buy-in from your people is where great businesses stall out. In this episode, BOP Coaches Shawn "Dickie" Stinson and Brandon "Donny" Gray sit down with Roberto Gutierrez and Rogers Jackson, co-founders of Jackson Builders, a Nashville-based construction company doing 70 to 80 homes a year. Ten years in. Still growing. And still keeping their culture intact while everything around them changes. This is not theory. This is what it actually looks like to lead change inside a real business. ✅ Why explaining the "why" is the single most powerful tool for getting team buy-in ✅ How Jackson Builders turned 1,000 punch list items into a process overhaul that saved time and money ✅ The shift from cost-plus to fixed-price contracts and what it did for their margins ✅ How they built custom AI tools with zero coding background to track leads, project health, and marketing ✅ Why growing your sales pipeline is not just a revenue move, it is a leverage move ✅ The culture principle that keeps subcontractors, clients, and employees all moving in the same direction Change is not the enemy of culture. Poor communication is. The builders who scale without losing their people are not lucky. They are intentional. Is your business running you, or are you running it? 👉 Go to businessonpurpose.com/healthy to take the Healthy Owner Business Assessment and find out exactly where your business stands today. 📩 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter 📝 For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ 🎙️ LISTEN on Apple Podcasts HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dickie-and-donny-show/id1849240083 🎙️ LISTEN on Spotify HERE ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/1gkSeO4QGSAcupPOnon5oS?si=12cf4b4a42a84aa1 ▶️ SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1 #BusinessGrowth #ConstructionBusiness #SmallBusinessOwner #BuildingCulture

  7. May 22

    Scaling Your Business Part 3: Profit

    Most business owners think scaling is a growth problem. It is actually a money problem. And how you fund that next level of growth could be the difference between a breakthrough and a breakdown. In this episode, BOP Coaches Shawn "Dickie" Stinson and Brandon "Donny" Gray get into the one conversation most business owners avoid until it is too late: the cash side of scaling. No vague financial advice. No one-size-fits-all strategies. Just honest, practical talk from coaches who are inside real businesses every single week. Here is what separates the business owners who scale well from the ones who stall out. ✅ The four types of scale and why each one carries a different price tag ✅ Why your core values should be your first financial filter before you spend a dollar ✅ Save, debt, or hybrid: how to know which funding path actually fits your season ✅ The due diligence framework that tells you if a scale move is worth making at all ✅ Why having the money is not the same as having a reason to spend it ✅ The bank account rule every business owner should follow before taking on debt ✅ How a 13-week cash flow forecast changes everything about your risk decisions Scaling without a financial plan is not bold. It is just expensive. Know your numbers. Know your risk. Know your next move. Is your business built to scale, or just built to survive? 👉 Go to businessonpurpose.com/healthy to take the Healthy Owner Business Assessment and find out exactly where your business stands. 📩 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter 📝 For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ 🎙️ LISTEN on Apple Podcasts HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dickie-and-donny-show/id1849240083 🎙️ LISTEN on Spotify HERE ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/1gkSeO4QGSAcupPOnon5oS?si=12cf4b4a42a84aa1 ▶️ SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1 #SmallBusinessGrowth #BusinessScaling #CashFlowManagement #BusinessCoaching

  8. May 15

    Scaling Your Business Part 2: People

    What if hiring more people is actually the last thing your business needs right now? Most business owners think scaling means adding headcount. But the ones who scale well know it is about finding the right people for the right gaps at the right time. In this episode, BOP Coaches Shawn "Dickie" Stinson and Brandon "Donny" Gray get into the messiest, most misunderstood piece of scaling any business: the people side. No generic HR advice. No cookie-cutter hiring tips. Just real conversations from real businesses navigating real growth. Here is what most business owners skip before they hire their next person. ✅ Why scaling with people looks completely different depending on your business type ✅ The interior designer who needed fewer people, not more ✅ What happened when one business jumped from 3 employees to 22 without the revenue to match ✅ The MVP hire vs. the full team hire and how to know which one fits your season ✅ Why your vision, mission, and core values should drive every single hiring decision ✅ The bank account trick that removes the pressure of every new hire Scaling is not a headcount problem. It is a clarity problem. And until you know what your scale actually requires, every new hire is just an expensive guess. Are you building a team or just filling seats? Take the next step and find out how healthy your business really is. 👉 Go to businessonpurpose.com/healthy to take the Healthy Owner Business Assessment. 📩 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter 📝 For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ 🎙️ LISTEN on Apple Podcasts HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dickie-and-donny-show/id1849240083 🎙️ LISTEN on Spotify HERE ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/1gkSeO4QGSAcupPOnon5oS?si=12cf4b4a42a84aa1 ▶️ SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1 #BusinessScaling #SmallBusinessGrowth #HiringStrategy #EntrepreneurMindset

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