Hosted by Jeff Watson & Luke Godwin · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 464 episodes
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A podcast for Independent Used Car Dealers to get help on how to improve their dealerships and their life. As current used car dealers, Luke and Jeff find the best advice from industry experts and other successful dealers. If you want to learn and grow your business with like minded used car dealers tune in each week. "Dealers Helping Dealers"
Jeff Watson & Luke Godwin hosts The Independent Dealer Podcast, a leisure show with 464 episodes published.
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin sit down with Byron Oldham, owner of Honest Autos in central Florida and the FIADA Florida Independent Auto Dealers Association Quality Deale
Welcome to the Monday Minute — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention.Your dealership can look busy and still be bleeding money. You can sell a ton of cars,
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Luke Godwin takes the stage at an industry conference to break down one of the most expensive — and most ignored — problems in the buy here pay here business: recon. Joi
Welcome to the Monday Minute — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your dealership with intention.Your team is talking to customers all day long. The question is whether what they're saying is help
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin sit down with Melissa Rowan, co-founder of Red White and Blue Autos in Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic Quality Dealer of the Year — now headed
Welcome to the Monday Minute — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention. Front-end margins are getting squeezed. The spread between wholesale and retail is tig
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin sit down with Robyn and the team from Blytz — live from Caesars Palace at BHPH United 2026 in Las Vegas — for a candid conversation about wha
Welcome to the Monday Minute — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention. Every dealer has a sales process. The question is whether it's intentional or accident
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin sit down with Bill Hancock, owner of Bill Hancock Motors in Albertville, Alabama and National Quality Dealer of the Year nominee, for a conve
Welcome to the Monday Minute — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention. Every used car dealership has the same problem: doing 90% of the work and rushing the
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin get real about one of the most pressing challenges facing independent dealers in 2026 — building and keeping the right team. From sales to co
Welcome to the Monday Minute — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention. Parts. Shelves of parts. Rooms full of parts. Parts nobody can identify, that nobody k
In this special episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, recorded live on location at Buy Here Pay Here United 2026, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin flip the script with a first-of-its-kind vendor panel. Instead of the tra
Welcome to the Monday Minute — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention. A few weeks ago, Luke and Jeff broke down turn time. This week, they're tackling the o
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson takes the conversation to the floor of BHPH United Summit for a raw discussion on the future of EVs in buy here pay here and lease here pay here. Joined by T
Welcome to the Monday Minute, brought to you by Collections Boot Camp with AI from Godwin Consulting — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention. You've heard i
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin sit down with Patrick O'Brien, Director of Government Relations and Compliance at NIADA, for a straight-shooting breakdown of the FTC's 97 wa
Welcome to the Monday Minute, brought to you by Collections Boot Camp with AI from Godwin Consulting — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention. You don't make
Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin hit the floor at the 2026 BHPH United Summit in Las Vegas to ask dealers one simple question: what's your biggest problem right now? The answers? Honest, unfiltered, and exactly what you'd exp
Welcome to the Monday Minute, brought to you by Collections Boot Camp with AI from Godwin Consulting — your weekly reset to lead better, think clearer, and build your independent dealership with intention. Every independ
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The Independent Dealer Podcast is hosted by Jeff Watson & Luke Godwin. The show is categorised under leisure (automotive) and has published 464 episodes.
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