iBD Podcast
492 episodes. 11 years of conversations with owner-operators, advisors, and operators about turning a business into an asset that supports the life you actually want. Hosted by Ryan Tansom.
Every episode connects to one or more parts of the iBD Ownership OS™, the methodology that organizes 11 years of these conversations into a system you can actually run.
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Latest episodes
The most recent 10 episodes have full show notes, embedded player, and cross-references to the methodology. The full archive (Ep. 0 through Ep. 482) is being added incrementally. Each episode gets its own page over time.
| Ep | Date | Guest | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 492 | 2026-04-22 | Ryan Tansom | How to Analyze Your Margins and Gross Profit |
| 491 | 2026-04-30 | Bud Martin | The Lower Middle Market M&A Gap Nobody Talks About |
| 490 | 2026-04-23 | Alex Chausovsky + Kim Clark | Supply Chains, Inflation, and Your Profit Battle Plan |
| 489 | 2026-04-16 | Kim Clark | The Profit War Room. Inflation Is Coming. Do You Have a Battle Plan? |
| 488 | 2026-04-09 | Dr. Sabrina Starling | $10,000/Hour Work and the 4-Week Vacation Test |
| 487 | 2026-04-02 | Casey Brown | The Fear That’s Eating Your Margins |
| 486 | 2026-03-26 | Pete Walker | Your Business Built This Community. What Happens to It When You’re Gone? |
| 485 | 2026-03-19 | Steve Moss | You Found the Leader. Now How Do You Make Them Stay? |
| 484 | 2026-03-12 | Meg Gold | Your Best Leaders Are Out There. They Just Can’t Find You. |
| 483 | 2026-03-05 | Cyndi Gave | Stop Guessing If Your People Can Think |
What this podcast is about
Most podcasts about business are either tactical how-tos or feel-good interviews with founders. This one is built for the owner-operator living the actual contradiction. You started the business for freedom, and now the business owns you.
The conversations are with people who’ve been on both sides of that. Owners who sold. Owners who stayed. Advisors who help owners decide which path to take. Operators who run businesses without their owners in the room.
Topics that come up over and over:
- Pricing and margins. Your team’s ability to hold the line is usually the gap between strategy and outcome.
- Cash flow vs. revenue vs. valuation. Three different numbers. Three different decisions. Most owners are running them through the same instrument panel.
- Leadership team. Building one. Hiring one. Why most senior executives fail in 18 months.
- Exit and transition. Whether you sell, stay, or hand the business to your team. The decision needs to be yours, not a crisis response.
- Family business dynamics. The conversations nobody is having until the deal is on the table.
- Macro context. Supply chains, inflation, geopolitics, and how they hit real P&Ls.
How to navigate
- Browse by milestone. Each episode tags the milestones it touches. Click into any milestone hub and find the episodes that go deep on that topic.
- Browse by concept. Concept Dictionary entries reference the episodes where that concept gets discussed.
- Search. The site search (top of every page) covers every word in every episode page. Search “pricing” or “ESOP” or a guest’s name.
The podcast is hosted on Castos (recent episodes) and YouTube (full archive).