Episodes

Some leaders grow businesses. Others grow movements.




In this special return episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, we are honored to welcome back Lisa Druxman, Founder of FIT4MOM, speaker, author, and longtime advocate for women, wellness, and community.




Lisa first joined us on August 29, 2024, for a beautiful conversation on Building Community and Connections in Business, where she shared how FIT4MOM became more than a fitness organization: it became a powerful support network for m...

A cat café is more than coffee and cats.


At its best, it is a place where people connect, shelter animals find homes, and business becomes a bridge between purpose and community.




In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, we welcome Sandra Cagan, Founder and Owner of Orlando Cat Café, the first cat café in the state of Florida. Founded in 2016, Orlando Cat Café partners with animal welfare organizations and café partners to create a welcoming space where guests can relax, connect, a...

Marketing shouldn't just create activity.It should create measurable revenue.




The strongest marketing organizations connect strategy, customer insight, execution, and sales to build systems that move the business forward.




In this week's Marketing With Purpose Kit from The Bliss Business Podcast, we're joined by Lizzy Young, Director of Marketing at Creative World School.




A Certified Franchise Executive and Certified Franchise Marketer, Lizzy has spent the last decade helping mo...

Business performance is never just about systems, strategy, or execution. It is also about the human energy behind the work.




In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, we welcome Scott Greenberg, business performance expert, workforce leadership speaker, author of The Wealthy Franchisee and Stop the Shift Show, and creator of the Hourly Employee Management System. Scott’s work focuses on leadership, team performance, customer experience, franchise success, and the human elements that s...

Timmi Ryerson, Founder and CEO of Smart Property Systems, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to answer what should AI never decide: her platform automates the workload across six connected portals, but deliberately hands every judgment call back to the person responsible for it.

Travis Arnesen, Vice President of Marketing at Service Experts, joins the Marketing With Purpose Kit series to explain marketing KPI accountability: the five business metrics his team is measured by, so every dollar connects to a real outcome instead of a vanity number.

Mark Tuggle, PhD, EA, CEO of Telos Bookkeeping, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain purpose-driven bookkeeping: how clean, current numbers turn financial dread into confidence, freedom, and decisions that actually reflect what a business owner values.

Bill Sherman, COO of Thought Leadership Leverage and lead author of The Thought Leadership Handbook, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain why give your ideas away: generosity earns the trust that opens doors sales cannot, and holding your best thinking close is the bigger risk.

Ben Cohen, Chief Marketing Officer at French Florist, joins the Marketing With Purpose Kit series to explain marketing ROI accountability: why every dollar has to answer to real business growth, treating himself as a steward of the franchise owners whose capital funds the marketing.

Charles Smitherman, CEO of the Association of Professional Rental Organizations, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to make the case for consumer access and dignity as the point of the rent-to-own model, and to explain why an industry built on access has to be built on standards too.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Mike Davis, Chief Executive Officer of Neighborly, explains how empathy in franchise leadership scales trust across 5,500 franchise locations through shared values, accountability, and what he calls "shared insomnia" for franchise owners' success.

In this Marketing With Purpose Kit segment of The Bliss Business Podcast, Nelson Montini, Brand Manager at Top Rail Fence, explains why franchise marketing alignment starts with fixing the friction between marketing and operations, not chasing another campaign metric.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Tim Elinski, Founder of Pin Drop Travel Trailers, explains how sustainable business practices guide handcrafted, solar-powered trailer manufacturing in rural Arizona, proving that durable products, local jobs, and historic preservation can grow together.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Ben Green, Lead Consultant at The Storytellers (part of Accenture), shares how storytelling that builds connection helps leaders lead with empathy, activate strategy, and turn change into shared ownership.

In this Marketing With Purpose Kit segment of The Bliss Business Podcast, Rebecca Throop, Director of Marketing at Merchants Fleet, unpacks cross-functional team alignment: how shared goals, servant leadership, and data-driven systems turn marketing, sales, and operations silos into a real growth engine.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Josh Porter, Founder of Thunderwolf Consulting and former Google Cloud marketing leader, shares the emotional intelligence in marketing that turns complex, technical products into stories customers actually understand.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Brad Poulos, small business professor and author of Most Problems Solve Themselves, unpacks emotional intelligence in business: how founders make hard calls with clarity, build durable systems, and grow companies that don't consume them.

Sportball's Laura Peever explains why purpose can't be marketed into existence, and what it actually takes to build a purpose-led brand strategy that holds up under pressure.

Nicole Peel, founder of Pawsitively Spoiled, explains how a college side hustle became a national pet sitting franchise built entirely on trust.

Kelly Giard, founder of Clean Air Lawn Care, explains how solar power, organic treatments, and local ownership built a sustainable lawn care franchise that competes on price.

In this Marketing With Purpose Monologue Edition of The Bliss Business Podcast, host Tullio Siragusa unpacks fractional CMO leadership: how it brings clarity, alignment, and accountability to growing companies that are not yet ready for a full-time marketing executive, and what real progress should look like.

Tom Goodwin, second-generation Steward and CEO of Mountain Laurel Chalets, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain hospitality stewardship: why his family-owned vacation rental company treats homes and guests as relationships, not inventory, and how that mindset built a 59 percent repeat booking rate.

Bruce Cleveland, Founder and CEO of Traction Gap Partners, returns to The Bliss Business Podcast to unpack market engineering: the five-tenet framework, category design, positioning, messaging, storytelling, and thought leadership, that helps companies build the market their product deserves, not just the product itself.

In this Marketing With Purpose Kit segment, Michelle Hubner, Director of Marketing at Ideal Siding, explains how a clear revenue target, connected data, and cross-team alignment turn franchise marketing revenue into a system that compounds instead of just producing activity.