Leslie Anne Morris began her Smoky Mountain investing journey while earning her MBA at the University of Southern California and working in Los Angeles as a commercial banker. For over twenty years, Leslie helped high-profile clients like SpaceX and closed a $50 million private equity deal. She applies the same underwriting strategy to building her …
You ever thought about what you’re gonna do with your business if you aren’t there to run it? Maybe you want to retire, maybe you want to walk away, maybe you unexpectedly pass away. It’s probably something that most single member businesses never even think about doing. It’s probably an important thing to do though. …
As an entrepreneur it can be easy to get caught up in the day to day or think about all the fires you have to put out and forget about all the great things you’ve accomplished or seen in the business. With that in mind, we thought it might be good to take a second …
The robots are coming! Somebody call John Connor! Jk… That’s a Terminator reference for those of you who aren’t as cool as us. While that’s a joke, the advancements in Artificial Intelligence are one of the hottest topics right now and people all over are finding ways to use it in their businesses. As entrepreneurs …
You’ve probably heard her name a few times lately so you know it was only a matter of time before we brought her on the show. I’m talking about Payton Byrd, she’s the newest acquisitions manager for Justin and we couldn’t be more excited to have her on the show today. She’s came on board …
Last weeks episode got a few more comments than normal and while that’s a good thing, it made us realize we may need to follow up on that message. If you missed that show you’ll need to go back and listen to it but the main message was that you need to prepare incase something …
Whether you believe it’s happening or not, everywhere you turn people are talking about an impending recession. Sometimes, just speaking about it is enough to slow entire markets down. So how should you be progressing in your business. Completely stopping isn’t an option and buying every thing you can no matter what it looks like …
I think most of you would read the title of this episode and immediately say that it does. We’ve got an interesting take on it for you this week though. We’re gonna look at it from the eyes on an idea that we spoke about over lunch and see if you agree with us. The …
It’s painful, it lingers and you don’t always recover so fast from it. It happens to all of us though and it sucks. One day you’ll be on top of the world and out of nowhere, BAM!! It happens and you get stopped in your tracks. As entrepreneurs it happens all the time. We’d even …
At some point in your career you’re gonna hit a wall with either something you don’t like doing, can’t do yourself anymore, don’t want to do yourself anymore, etc.. Most of us will keep doing those things anyway though because that’s just who we are as entrepreneurs. We’ll know that we need to make a …