Coffee, Chaos, & Cashflow

Send us Fan Mail Aram’s out this week, so Yemi and Gabbi take the mic for a freeform conversation about something every business owner wrestles with: deciding which clients, and which tasks, get your best energy. They start with sports, where owners’ decisions play out on national TV. Then they bring it home: when every client thinks their request is the most urgent, how do you decide what actually comes first? 🏈 Gabbi shares what it’s like running the whole agency while her boss is out. She ...

Send us Fan Mail This week Aram and Yemi sit down with Jeremy Buchanan of Hartfield & Co., the Paris, Kentucky distillery that brought bourbon-making back to Bourbon County for the first time since Prohibition. Jeremy opens with a history lesson you won’t get from a Google search 🥃. Bourbon County predates Kentucky itself, its whiskey traveled out along the river and the frontier highway until “whiskey from Bourbon County” became simply bourbon, and when Prohibition hit, the county’s 26 d...

Send us Fan Mail This week Aram and Gabbi sit down with Trent Mobley — Associate Certified Entomologist, 14 years in the bug business, and founder of Berner Pest Solutions, a three-time Best of Lexington Gold winner in just three and a half years. First, the mystery everyone asks about: the company is named after Frank, the Bernese Mountain Dog Trent's wife had wanted for years and they finally brought home from a Bell Buckle, Tennessee farm shortly after moving to Kentucky 🐕. During his mont...

Send us Fan Mail Too Many Hats: When the Founder Becomes the Bottleneck For the first time, it's just the three of us — no guest, Yemi, Aram, and Gabbi riffing on the many hats you end up wearing as a business owner, and the ones you're still wearing that you probably shouldn't be 🎩. Everybody opens up their current hat rack: Aram has climbed back onto the sales front himself after a part-time sales team wound down (and makes the case that the structure, not the people, was the flaw); Yemi is...

Send us Fan Mail How to Build a Business You Can Walk Away From — Tim Brown Returns Tim Brown is back for round two — founder of Four Quarters Capital, two decades in finance, a philosophy background, and a former women's basketball coach. Last time he made the case for winning your financial "fourth quarter"; this time he applies that same idea to business owners and the exit . The counterintuitive heart of it: the goal is a business that runs without you, and the very first question isn't f...