Inside The Firm

Danielle Hayden a CPA, author, Co-Founder and CEO of Kickstart Accounting. She is a seasoned Chief Financial Officer who is rewriting what it means to provide bookkeeping and consulting services to high-earning female business owners. The Kickstart Accounting Inc. team is the one-stop-shop that provides their clients with bookkeeping services as a tiered system that grows with the business as needed. Additionally, they offer online courses (think all things money mindset), payroll services and tax consulting services. Since their founding in 2015, the Kickstart team has helped thousands of high-earning service-based business owners grow and scale their businesses to new heights.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, top sales superstitions, new nationwide codes mandate a major blow to housing affordability, and the seven habits of highly ineffective managers. Join us as we go back Inside the Firm!

Jeremy Zick is the CEO of WeCollabify. WeCollabify is a support network of architectural Talent. We provide staff to your team from our nearshore "garden of talent." We help right-size your firms profit margins with our placements by providing you access to skilled, cost effective talent excited and inspired by the opportunities working with USA based Architect companies can afford them.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, how did architecture become such a poorly paid profession? Join us as we go back Inside the Firm!

Elona Lopari is the Visionary CEO of The Life School , Speaker, and a Best Selling Author. She is both a servant community builder and a people connector. She is a Prior Fortune 500 CEO Featured in Disrupt, NY Weekly, Business Insider, CEO Weekly, The Business News & Famous Times. Elona is also the CEO of The Life School where she helps Visionary Leaders and CEOs grow legacy purpose driven businesses through Inner Alignment, Branding, Marketing, Sales, and Teams so that they can maximize their Impact and Income to do better in the world.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, this economy sucks - thanks for nothing Janet, then why can’t architects see past themselves? Join us as we go back Inside the Firm!

Zach Mannheimer is a Muhlenberg College graduate in Theater and Philosophy, who nearly spent a decade in Brooklyn before embarking on a life-changing road trip to find a new home. Settling in Des Moines, IA, he founded The Des Moines Social Club, a hub for art, culture, and community development. In 2020, Zach and his partners launched Atlas Community Studios, focusing on creative placemaking across 25 states. Recognizing the housing crisis as a barrier to community prosperity, Zach founded Alquist 3D to 3D-print quality, affordable homes in underserved areas. He speaks passionately about community development and innovative home-building technologies. Zach is a board member of Iowa Public Radio and the Iowa Rural Development Council, and his work has been featured in major media outlets.

Patrick MacLeamy the former CEO of the world-renowned architecture firm HOK, joins us again. In this episode we dive into his book Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm. We take a deep dive into how: why Patrick wrote this book, how to value your firm, how to structure your bank accounts, and how to think about bonuses. Patrick practiced architecture for 50 years at HOK, one of the top 10 largest architecture/engineering firms in the world. He began there as a “junior designer” and worked his way up, serving as HOK’s CEO and Chairman from 2003-2017. As CEO, Patrick led HOK’s transformation from a firm that struggled to pay its bills and was close to breaking apart, to one that is consistently profitable, with a company culture where people help each other to succeed.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, the guys continue with a list of questions from an “anonymous” long-time listener and answer them plus Lance thanks Joe Biden for crushing it and an update on those pesky interest rates! Join us as we go back Inside the Firm!

Marilyn Ackerman is a top producing real estate agent in Boulder County. She's been selling real estate since 2011. For the past several years she has been in the top 5% of producers in sales of her Nationwide brokerage of 33,000 + agents. She is also a licensed mortgage broker. She believes that real estate is a path to wealth and freedom, and she walks this walk and talks this talk everyday as she owns eight rental properties in the area. The biggest change in real estate in the last 50 years or more has just occurred and she's here to talk about that today.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, the guys get a list of questions from an “anonymous” long time listener and answer them.

Conor Cunneen is IrishmanSpeaks and is happily exiled in Chicago where he says the Guinness is good, the people are friendly and has been force fed more corned beef and green beer than he ever had in Ireland! Conor is a former Marketing Vice-President who now earns his living as a keynote speaker, business humorist and consultant who leaves audiences with a smile on their face, a spring in their step and memorable, actionable takeaways to Improve People, Performance, & Productivity! Conor is Chicago’s Humorous Speaker of the year - for a speech (would you believe?) on Customer Service in San Quentin Prison. He is also a recipient of the President's Gold Medal for Volunteer Service for his work with the unemployed.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, multi-family housing starts and permitting drop, then Tucker Carlson joins the show for a read, and finally Tadao Ando isn’t even an architect says some random man on the internet?! Join us as we go back Inside the Firm!

Reverend Dr. David Chotka is the Founder and Director of Spirit-Equip Ministries, focusing on spiritual disciplines. He chairs the Alliance Pray! Team, developing prayer equipping resources. David also serves as Canadian director of the College of Prayer, dedicated to intercession ministry. With extensive experience leading prayer events globally, David has studied in various theological contexts and has four earned degrees.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, U.S. home sales miss expectations but inflation keeps on rescinding, and Colorado is doing what with ADUs?! Join us as we go back Inside the Firm!

Alesia Galati has been listening to podcasts since 2015 and knows what goes into creating a standout podcast that captures your audience’s attention even before they press “play”. She’s helped coaches and thought leaders launch and maintain over 50 podcasts and has developed a signature, thorough system to launching and managing podcasts so you don’t have to stress about anything falling through the cracks! She lives in sunny North Carolina with her two kiddos and husband. When not helping her clients, Alesia can be found reading over 200 books a year, hiking, and exploring the zoo with her boys.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, are architects bad at business?, unpacking the collapse of modular construction firms, and how to command double the fees! Join us as we go back Inside the Firm!

Heather Bemis, a licensed architect with over 16 years of experience and a Masters in Architecture from North Dakota State University, leads SWAP Integration. Her expertise lies in critical thinking project management, navigating design phases for efficiency and success. As a LEED AP BD+C accredited professional and NCARB certificate holder, Heather's nationally recognized woman-owned business specializes in creating well-coordinated, faster, and more efficient project workflows. Her integrated scheduling approach adds significant value to diverse project teams by streamlining processes and optimizing outcomes.

On this episode of Inside the Firm, the tallest building in the world is going where?, then the 2023 Architecture Firm Budget Survey and a shoutout, and last but not least Tadao Ando Reads! Join us as we go back Inside the Firm!

Matthew Stafford is the mad scientist behind the data and the development of the BGS “Revenue Optimization” system as well as the Revenue Optimization BGS team of over 40 full-time experts. Although he won’t tell you himself, he’s also become known as the top Shopify optimization expert in the game and spends a ton of time turning away people that want to work with him. Matt has a keen eye for impediments to the customer journey and is great at interpreting the data to find the diamonds in the rough. He also has the ability to see things from a business owner’s perspective, having run his own companies for the past 27 years. Almost every other “expert” in the ecommerce education industry has been influenced by the “No-B.S.” data-driven results and insights shared by Matthew Stafford and Build Grow Scale!