In this episode, Brandon and Jason get the opportunity to visit with Dr. Chris Jones about the importance of creating the culture in your community. Dr. Jones has a long list of accolades and is a key center of influence within the central Arkansas community. He shares some insight and experience with us around what it means to be an influence in the culture around us. His perspective is one that really holds weight in this area. Please take a chance to listen all the way through. 

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Creating Culture in your Community with Dr. Chris Jones

In this episode, Jason and Brandon discuss where your drive comes from as an entrepreneur. What keeps you going when times get tough and how to fight through the hard times. 

What Drives You

Brandon and Jason discuss the pros and cons of automation and how succeeding in business requires adopting automation where you can while defining your value against the mass market programs offering services at a reduced rate.

The Threat of Automation

In this episode, Jeremiah leads the discussion of the many different hats an entrepreneur wears as they are in the process of starting and growing a business. Everything from Chief Mail Opener to Chief Executive Officer. We also discuss how to take off the right hats to make room for scale and growth of the business. Oftentimes as business owners, we find ourselves getting in our own way when we refuse to delegate or let go of a particular process. We discuss how we can't make more time, so therefore we have to add efficiency, support staff, or both in order to effectively grow the business.

The Business Hats We Wear: How to Scale Efficiently

In this interview with custom tailor Paul Rainwater, we discuss how building a personal network is a lifelong pursuit. Jason & Jeremiah lead the discussion with Paul as he recounts his nearly 50 years of working in the clothing industry. He tells the story of how he has become a successful networker over his years in business and how relationships are the center of everything. Be sure to check out his store in Little Rock and his website here. https://qclothier.com/pages/little-rock

Network Building: A Lifelong Pursuit

In this week's episode the guys discuss the challenges of parenting as entrepreneurs and how it affects the way we parent. We would love to hear the perspective of our listeners so please comment below and join the conversation.

Parenting & Entrepreneurship

In this episode, Jeremiah leads the discussion with Jason and Brandon about how to approach business planning for the new year and how we can take some of the negatives from 2020 and turn them into positives for 2021.

Review & Revise: Renewed Vision for 2021

In this episode, Jason, Jeremiah, & Brandon discuss what it takes to find the right people to help build the business you've envisioned. Listen in as we discuss how to build your A-Team.

Building the A-Team

In this episode, Brandon, Jason, & Jeremiah discuss the importance of defining your niche within your business so that you can position yourself and your business to have greater value to a select group of people.

Defining your Niche

In this episode, Jeremiah leads the discussion about how to adapt and manage client expectations in a COVID-19 world.

Managing Client Expectations

In this episode, Jason, Jeremiah, & Brandon interview each other and talk about each of their business specialties. They also spend time talking about why they do what they do and how to find balance within the ever-changing life of an entrepreneur.

Meet The New Hosts: The Why Behind the Who

In this episode, Brandon, Brad, Jason Davis, & Jeremiah Russell discuss the transition and rebranding of Coffee & Company. The podcast will now be called Brainstorm: An Entrepreneur's Podcast and will take a slightly different direction from before. Instead of focusing on interviewing success stories of small business owners, it will become more of a round table type discussion where the most important topics of small business ownership are explored.

Brainstorm: A New Chapter

In this episode, Brad and Brandon share a few shots of long-pour espresso with Jason Davis of the Davis Law Firm.  (https://www.davisfirmpllc.com/)  Jason shares what it was like for him to decide later in life to go back to law school, change careers, and start his firm from the ground up right out of law school. We also discuss some of the entrepreneurial benefits of working for yourself and how you can design your work life and your social life to work together to grow your business. 

Social Synergy with Jason Davis

In this episode, Brad and Brandon get to hear the story behind Little Rock Landscape with Tony Knight. (https://www.lrlandscape.com/) Little Rock Landscape is a multi-generational commercial landscaping business that has grown from a couple of guys with a truck to doing landscaping work for one of the largest companies in the United States. Be sure to check it out! Also, on this episode, we taste coffee sent to us from one of our listeners in Texas. 

Planting Trees & Growing Business with Tony Knight

In this episode, Brad and Brandon chat with Tyler Tarver (@tylertarver) who is a serial entrepreneur as well as a public education consultant. Tyler shares with us how the landscape of the education system has been changing over the last several years. This is really interesting because this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 shutdown and before we knew what was going to happen to public schools for the 2020-2021 school year. Be sure to listen as Tyler sheds some light on what the future of education might look like. 

The Future of Education with Tyler Tarver

Hey guys! We're Brad & Brandon – we believe in good coffee & good company. On this show, we'll be grabbing coffee with some of our more entrepreneurial friends & talking shop about their business, as well as diving in to some details on what makes coffee great.

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