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Hosted by Glen Dall & John Ninkovich · business · EN-US
Escape the CEO Doom Loop is built for CEOs and leadership teams ready to grow. Each episode delivers practical insights, real-world stories, and tools you can use today to lead with clarity and scale with confidence. We spotlight what’s working—and what’s not—for leaders navigating growth, building culture, and driving accountability. It’s more than a podcast—it’s a gateway to The CEO Playbook and the next step in becoming the leader your business needs next.
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Signup to Generate a PitchEscape the CEO Doom Loop is built for CEOs and leadership teams ready to grow. Each episode delivers practical insights, real-world stories, and tools you can use today to lead with clarity and scale with confidence. We spotlight what’s working, and what’s not, for leaders navigating growth, building culture, and driving accountability.
Escape the CEO Doom Loop is hosted by Glen Dall & John Ninkovich. The show has published 30 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 30: Slow Is Fast With People | Ken Misiewicz, Pleune Service Company" (20 October 2026, 56 minutes), "Episode 29: You Can't See Your Own Ceiling From Inside the Business | Nathan Austin, Mytech Partners" (6 October 2026, 52 minutes), and "Episode 28: Stop Doing the Job You Already Left | Dan Larsen, DCI Inc." (29 September 2026, 47 minutes).
Escape the CEO Doom Loop publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 30 episodes.
Booking probability for Escape the CEO Doom Loop is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Escape the CEO Doom Loop requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Escape the CEO Doom Loop's contact route on record: public web form.
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Glen Dall & John Ninkovich hosts Escape the CEO Doom Loop, a business podcast with 30 episodes published.
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Escape the CEO Doom Loop
When Ken Misiewicz was asked to run Pleune Service Company, he told the founder he needed ten years to get ready. The founder asked if next Tuesday worked. Then the recession hit, the bank pulled financing, and Ken says...
Episode #28
Nathan Austin has broken through four or five plateaus in twenty-six years of building Mytech Partners. Not one of them did he see coming, and not one of them did he solve alone. An acquisition that pushed change faster...
Escape the CEO Doom Loop
Dan Larsen took a CEO title he had always wanted, then spent a year learning it was the wrong seat for who he is. He came out of it with a coach, an honest look at what he is actually good at, and a rule he now builds...
Episode #27
Some of the people who built your company are not the people who scale it. That's the call growth-stage CEOs put off longest, because the person in question worked hard and got you here. Pete Wolf bought Robinson Rubber...
Escape the CEO Doom Loop
Mike Amine walked away from a corner office, a 26-year run, and a guaranteed paycheck at MetLife to start over from zero at almost 50. No marketing department, no compliance department, no built-in resources. Just a...
Escape the CEO Doom Loop
<p><b>Most CEOs become successful by being excellent operators.</b></p><p><b>Then growth demands a different job.</b></p><p><b>You have to stop solving every problem yourself and focus on the work only the CEO can...
Escape the CEO Doom Loop
Most CEOs become successful by being excellent operators. Then growth demands a different job. You have to stop solving every problem yourself and focus on the work only the CEO can do. In this conversation, Keith...
Episode #24
<p>Troy Schroeder built Clutch from a couple of people to just shy of 60, doubling the business several times in nine years. He was also the firm's best salesperson. Which made him, in his words, the thing standing in...
Escape the CEO Doom Loop
<p><b>A lot of companies say they care about leadership, then lower the standard when it is time to choose.</b></p><p><b>Barry Conchie does not do that.</b></p><p><b>This conversation gets into what leadership actually...
Escape the CEO Doom Loop
<p>A lot of CEOs think they have a growth problem.</p><p>What they really have is a leadership problem.</p><p>David Sokol shares what changed in his business when he stopped being the center of everything, invested in...
Episode #20
<p>Most CEOs think they have a culture problem. Michael Reddington says it's a conversation problem.</p><p>Michael is a certified forensic interviewer, president of Quaive, and author of The Disciplined Listening...
Episode #20
<p>Most CEOs think their CPA only sees the numbers. Pat Fuelling sees the patterns — the warning signs, the blind spots, and the decisions that separate leaders who scale from those who stall.</p><p><br/></p><p>Pat is a...
Episode #18
<p>There is a moment many CEOs remember clearly.</p><p><br/>Not the first sale.<br/>Not the first hire.</p><p><br/>The moment they realize they are exhausted, isolated, and carrying more than the business should...
Episode #18
<p>Most CEOs don’t fail because they lack effort, intelligence, or ambition.<br/>They get stuck because the business outgrows the way they’re leading.</p><p>In this episode of Escape the CEO Doom Loop, Glen Dall and...
Episode #16
<p>Growth doesn’t slow because CEOs lose ambition or discipline.<br/>It slows because success creates complexity faster than structure can keep up.<br/><br/>In this episode of Escape the CEO Doom Loop, hosts Glen Dall...
Episode #17
<p>Most CEOs are not stuck because they are bad operators.<br/>They are stuck because they are chasing bigger instead of better.</p><p>This conversation is about the moment when growth stops working, and what replaces...
Episode #15
<p>Most CEOs do not burn out from lack of effort. They burn out from reacting too fast.</p><p>Dan Hanson is the CEO of Hanson Remodeling, serving homeowners across Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the first ring of...
Episode #14
<p>What happens when a CEO realizes he’s the bottleneck in his own business? In this episode of Escape the CEO Doom Loop, hosts Glen Dall and John Ninkovich sit down with Philip Chabot, CEO of RSC Mechanical, to talk...
Episode #13
<p>Carl Saunders was stuck.<br/>Four years of flat revenue. Flat profit.<br/>Eighty to one hundred hour weeks.<br/>Two top performers asking, “Where is the opportunity here?”</p><p>Most CEOs know that moment.<br/>Few...
Episode #12
<p>In this episode of Escape the CEO Doom Loop, hosts Glen Dall and John Ninkovich sit down with former tech CEO turned coach Matt Dion.<br/><br/></p><p>Matt shares his unfiltered story of success, burnout, and...
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