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In this episode, Evan Stewart breaks down how he searched for years without quitting his day job, bought a 30-year-old commercial printing business making $1.7M a year in profit, and grew it past $3M in an industry most people write off as dying.

◼️ How he raised money from friends and family using a playbook from his political fundraising days (and the one question he used to cut his list)
◼️ The last-minute demand from the bank that nearly killed the deal, and the move by the sellers that saved it
◼️ Why he borrowed the absolute max the bank would give him for his first deal (he believes bigger is actually safer)
◼️ What happened when he realized he was "the dumbest person in the building," and how working second shift won over his 70-person team
◼️ The diligence mistake he regrets most: building model after model when he should have been studying the people

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In this episode, Bailey breaks down why she stopped trusting Big Tech and bought a firm that's run since 1971, how she closed the $925K deal in six months without quitting her job, and what running it on 20 hours a week actually looks like.

◼️ Why she stopped trusting "the tech billionaires" to keep her employed and bought a business instead
◼️ How our team helped her kill the seller's balloon payment and land interest-only terms for the first two years
◼️ The rival buyer she beat out, even though the seller thought he was too "spreadsheet focused"
◼️ Why she drove her own car into a member's auto shop for an oil change, just to prove we weren't all "paid actors"
◼️ What running a $450K-a-year business on 20 hours a week looks like when you still have a full-time job

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In this episode, Brian Seeling breaks down how he left a 15-year IT career, bought the very first business he ever looked at, and grew a boring commercial kitchen repair shop to almost $1.2M a quarter.

◼️ Why the first business he ever saw on BizBuySell ended up being the one he bought

◼️ The three separate times his deal fell apart before closing (and how he saved it each time)

◼️ The fine print that doubled his down payment mid-deal

◼️ How he's doubling revenue without chasing a single new customer

◼️ The no-cap commission structure that keeps his techs from milking the clock

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