Hosted by Sam Sapp · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 52 episodes
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Sam Sapp hosts Ground Zero Growth, a business show with 52 episodes published.
James Gorman helped wire the early internet, stood in a New York data center turning screwdrivers in the morning and pitched bankers in the boardroom that afternoon, and once told GE's leadership they could own the inter
Robert Gold was 26 years old, on track at KPMG, when his father died at 51. His dad ran a small CPA practice out of the basement of the family house, office wedged between the furnace and the dryer. Robert left the natio
Two weeks into his freshman year at Harvard, David G. Ewing tore his Achilles tendon clean in half. The football career he had been recruited for ended before it started, and he spent the next year learning to run withou
Marc Shaffer is the CFO of Searcy Financial, a firm that started in 1976 with one founder serving physicians and has spent 50 years turning itself into something more. He wrote a book called One For All built on an Irish
Andrew Brown has spent 30 plus years inside professional services, financial services, SaaS, and digital marketing agencies, and he kept noticing the same pattern. The best leads almost always came through a trusted refe
Oscar Duran reads four books at a time, runs a bespoke tailoring atelier with his partner Katie, renovates old buildings through his community development company Black Sailboat, and is putting out a book called The Gard
Todd Milner almost kept driving. It was 3:30 on a Friday afternoon in western Kansas, he had a two-hour drive home, and he was done. Something told him to pull a U-turn into one more hospital parking lot. That stop turne
Kelly Narowsky woke up one Saturday to texts from strangers trying to buy cars. Hackers had taken over her Facebook account, impersonated her with a stolen copy of her driver's license, and wiped out roughly 2,600 friend
About a year and a half before this conversation, Mark Davis took over Translube Lubricants, the 50 year old family business his parents founded in 1975. One of his first moves was a rebrand. People on sales calls had st
Christian Brim has spent 28 years running Core Group, a firm that helps entrepreneurs in creative industries trade financial anxiety for clarity. But the conversation with Sam Sapp quickly moves past spreadsheets. Christ
Jayme Busch grew up selling polished rocks on a busy street in Bellevue and never really stopped selling something. By the time she sat down with Sam, she had been through Mary Kay, 31, color street nails, Tupperware, a
Twenty five years into running Fulling Management and Accounting in Olathe, Kansas, Rusty Fulling has seen the full arc of small business pain. Owners projecting four million in sales who haven't taken a paycheck in mont
George Commons keeps returning to a single verse: 1 Corinthians 3. It's the passage about every person's work being tested by fire, with only gold and precious stones surviving the flames. George first heard a coworker d
Mike Grigsby introduces himself as a retired Kansas City Missouri police officer first, not as a former FBI forensic examiner, former CIO, or 25-year executive coach. It's a deliberate choice. Telling someone you used to
Eric Kelting didn't know e-discovery existed until the day he interviewed for a job in it. Eleven years into running Complete Legal, the litigation support company he co-founded in 2014, he can trace the entrepreneurial
Christian Roduner grew up in Rossville, Kansas, a farming town with one stoplight that never turns green and a high school class of thirty-five. He graduated with no job offers, nearly enlisted, and scraped into a junior
Keith Davenport recorded this episode from a park in Olathe, after a library patron sat behind him in frame and a cello lesson pushed him out of his home office. That small logistical scramble is a pretty accurate pictur
Matthew Entringer didn't grow up around homelessness. Then one bitter December in 2021, three or four people were bundled up in the lobby of his downtown Kansas City apartment just trying to stay out of the cold, and he
Paul Abugattas has signed the books, run the stores, unloaded the containers, and stood outside a crime scene at 24 wondering what on earth to say to the SWAT team. He grew up outside Washington DC, didn't realize until
Clients at Hovey and Company joke that you shouldn't drink the water. Babies keep arriving. Meghan Hovee runs a predominantly women led accounting firm in Kansas City, and she has built it on a bet most CPA firms aren't
Marc Shaffer
CFP® and partner · Searcy Financial
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Brown
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer · Indiana University School of Medicine
1 appearance on this show
Mark Davis
Negotiation Trainer · Australian Lending & Investment Centre
1 appearance on this show
Christian Brim
CPA, author of Profit First for Creatives · CORE Group
1 appearance on this show
Rusty Fulling
founder and CEO · Fulling Management and Accounting
1 appearance on this show
Alex Walker
DJ/streamer/PRFam member · Rockwell Automation
1 appearance on this show
Tim King
pulp collector and former intelligence consultant · Melior Investment Management
1 appearance on this show
Zach Arend
1 appearance on this show
Bill Green
managing partner · Climate Adaptive Infrastructure
1 appearance on this show
John Hall
associate director at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts · Remedial Repair & Restoration
1 appearance on this show
Ray Freeman
Jiu Jitsu Purple Belt · One Community Jiu-Jitsu Club
1 appearance on this show
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