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Hosted by Elevate Teams · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 27 episodes
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Elevate the Hustle is the bold, founder-to-founder show for leaders who want to stand tall and scale smart. 🦒 Hosted by Stanley Meytin and Dominic Piccirillo , co-founders of Elevate Teams, the show dives into the real journey—growth, chaos, culture, and the systems that unlock time and revenue. You’ll hear from independent insurance agency owners, entrepreneurs, and operators who are in the arena: how they hire, how they lead, and how they use world-class talent to level up. It’s fast, funny, and practical—no jargon, no theory, just the plays that actually work. Who it’s for: Owners, principals, and operators who want real leverage—better processes, better people, better outcomes. What you’ll get: Actionable hiring and ops strategies, culture-first leadership insights, and memorable stories that push you to think bigger and build bolder.
Elevate Teams hosts Elevate The Hustle, a business show with 27 episodes published.
"$225K for 10%. He left owing 32%. Still called it a win." In this episode of Elevate the Hustle, Stan and Dom sit down with Nelson Brooks, founder of Cabana Boys Events, who built an 8,000-party empire before Shark Tank
14 years old. Already failed 10,000 times. And he's just getting started. In this episode of Elevate the Hustle, Stan and Dom sit down with Cody DeCoons, a 14-year-old entrepreneur who built Sports Sitters, a real, payin
He lost his father at 26, inherited a family business he wasn't ready for, and turned it into an 80-person insurance agency with 20+ acquisitions. In this episode of Elevate the Hustle, Stan Meytin and Dom Piccirillo sit
Insurance agency owners: How Greg May launched a specialty casualty MGA from scratch with his brother, said no to the opportunity three times, and bound their first policy in under five months. Want to grow your insuranc
In this episode of Elevate the Hustle, Stan Meytin and Dom Piccirillo sit down with Kim Ades, founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and one of the most respected executive coaches in the entrepreneurial world. Kim started se
In this episode of Elevate the Hustle, Stan Meytin and Dom Piccirillo sit down with Ryan Hanley, 20-year insurance industry veteran, founder of Rogue Risk, board member at Linkora, and one of the most polarizing voices i
Insurance agency owners: How Jon Spaugy spent 16 years building one of the most connected networks in the independent insurance world, and why the agents who stay personal are the ones who survive what's coming. Want to
Insurance agency owners: How Kevin Panter built a $20M independent insurance agency in a Georgia county of 27,000 people, and why he keeps saying no to private equity. Want to grow your insurance agency without burning o
Most people build a business to find freedom. Liz Mershon built five and was still a prisoner. In Episode 20 of Elevate The Hustle, hosts Stanley Meytin and Dom Piccirillo sit down with Liz to unpack the unfiltered story
In Episode 20 of Elevate The Hustle, hosts Stanley Meytin and Dom Piccirillo sit down with Neil Krauter to unpack a career that started with peanut brittle sales records and a keg party that changed everything, leading t
Most people talk about building something. Andrew Nigri had the audacity to actually do it. In Episode 19 of Elevate The Hustle, hosts Stanley Meytin and Dom Piccirillo sit down with Andrew to unpack the unfiltered story
"This company has survived the Great Depression, multiple wars. When you really think about what it takes to navigate business for that long, it's really insane." Connor Lynch runs a 107-year-old insurance agency in Sout
"No one grows up wanting to get into insurance, right? It's not on your vision board." Before Kenneth Mantuo Jr. was building a multi-state insurance agency and trying to make the industry sexy, he was chasing a very dif
"We knew the need before they knew the need." Before Troy Chakarun was helping scale one of the fastest-growing firms in insurance, he was making cold calls, sorting mail, answering phones, and getting yelled at by stran
"This is not the ceiling for me. I need more, I want more, and I've always worked for that." Gabriela Rodriguez started as a virtual assistant in Venezuela in 2017. $1 an hour. Paid in a collapsing currency. Her first cl
The best investment you can ever make? Yourself. "I took a 70% pay cut at 25 just to get my foot in the door. Whether I made money at it or not, it was going to provide me tremendous value long term." David Ragno started
"I promoted myself to COO. See, when you don't want to promote me, I promote my damn self." Sonya Horton started as a receptionist at a Brooklyn livery cab brokerage in the '90s—answering phones for quarters and dimes, r
"In Sales, the better you work, the harder you work, the more input you have, the better output you get. There's a level of justice to it." Matt Naimoli knew he was built for entrepreneurship before he even knew what tha
"If it doesn't keep you up at night and you're not excited to go to work on Monday, then it's not your thing. It's not your why." Cari Gelber spent 20 years in events, hospitality, and the music industry—touring with ban
"I was determined to play at the highest level, and I did." Al Sica is talking about Division I baseball—but he could just as easily be talking about insurance M&A. Today, he's the founder of Sica | Fletcher , the #1-ran
Cody DeCoons
Sports Sitters
1 appearance on this show
Greg May
May Specialty
1 appearance on this show
Kim Ades
Frame of Mind Coaching
1 appearance on this show
Jon Spaugy
ABU United
1 appearance on this show
Kevin Panter
Kevin Panter Insurance
1 appearance on this show
Connor Lynch
Plastridge Insurance
1 appearance on this show
Al Sica
Sica | Fletcher
1 appearance on this show
Mike Stromsoe
UPP (Unstoppable Profit Producer)
1 appearance on this show
Rich Nesbitt
Johnny Walker Insurance
1 appearance on this show
Jay Wolfberg
We Insure
1 appearance on this show
Allen Hudson
Community Risk Advisors
1 appearance on this show
Rob Bowen
Patriotic Insurance Group
1 appearance on this show
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