Business Under Fire

In this episode of Business Under Fire, host Tommy sits down with Hobart Doyon, owner of HD Pools & Landscaping, to talk about his journey from earning a Master's Degree in Accounting to building a successful landscaping and pool construction business. Hobart shares how a side hustle mowing lawns grew into a full-time career, why he left the corporate world behind, lessons learned from scaling a service business, the realities of the pool industry, hiring and retaining employees, network...

In this episode of Business Under Fire, we sit down with Dr. Mark Haverkorn — a rare dual-credentialed DDS and MD — who runs River City Oral Surgery in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Haverkorn breaks down what oral and maxillofacial surgery actually covers (spoiler: way more than pulling teeth), shares his path from a self-described math-team nerd to a surgeon who reconstructs faces, and gets real about the business side of running an independent medical practice — including the wild "cupcake marketing...

In this episode of Business Under Fire, Tommy Bonner sits down with leadership coach, speaker, professor, and talent development expert Dr. Colby Jubenville for a wide-ranging conversation on leadership, confidence, coaching, culture, personal growth, and what it really takes to build successful organizations and successful lives. Dr. Jubenville shares lessons from decades of coaching, consulting, higher education, athletics, and leadership development. Together, Tommy and Colby explore why ...

On this episode of Business Under Fire, we sit down with Jacob Carroll, founder of Till Death Digital Media, a wedding photography and videography business based in Seguin, Texas — just 11 months into the game and already turning heads. Jacob's path here wasn't typical. Before picking up a camera, he spent years working as a correctional officer, starting as an 18-year-old control room operator and working his way up through general population, lockdown, psych units, and a prerelease parole u...

In this episode, Tommy sits down with Brittany, founder of Cloud Ten Events, to discuss her journey from teaching and owning a nutrition shop to building a thriving event business with seven mobile event carts and a growing corporate events division. Brittany shares how a simple cotton candy cart turned into a full-scale business, the lessons she learned from failure, the cease-and-desist that forced her to rebrand, and why saying "yes" to opportunities helped her build a company that's growi...