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Exploring Success & Challenges in SMBs - Unconventional Insights to Strengthen Your Business

Unconventional SMB

Exploring Success & Challenges in SMBs - Unconventional Insights to Strengthen Your Business

EntrepreneurshipSelf-ImprovementMental Health
Operator-led interviews with real SMB owners
Connect directly with a peer-driven SMB audience
Spotlight your strategies, pivots, and people-first wins
Grow your influence in the entrepreneurship ecosystem

About Unconventional SMB

Exploring Success & Challenges in SMBs - Unconventional Insights to Strengthen Your Business

A podcast that explores everything small & medium businesses, offering a unique platform where SMB owners share their stories, insights, and valuable lessons learned along their journeys.

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SMB-Focused Audience

You reach founders, operators, and investors who care about real-world SMB wins, failures, and frameworks.

Operator-to-Operator Chats

You'll join a format built for depth-interviews, solo episodes, and real talk on strategy, people, and pivots.

Award-Winning Guest Roster

You'll be in good company-past guests include E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year and Avenue 40 Under 40 awardees.

Apple, Spotify + More

Your episode is published across all major platforms, making it easy to share and build visibility.

Episode Angles & Guest Pitches

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From the Trenches: Real SMB Growth Stories

Share how you built, scaled, or pivoted your business across industries and markets.

Early struggles Key inflection points Team growth
Mindset, Burnout & Self-Care

Explore how you've navigated the emotional and mental side of running a business.

Burnout Resilience Work-life design
Unconventional Wins & Experiments

Break down the weird, wild, or risky moves that paid off-or didn't.

Experiments Failures Unexpected wins
Cashflow, Capital & Profit Share

Talk real numbers-from bootstrapping to profit-sharing and financial strategy.

Cashflow Funding Profit models
How You'd Contribute to the Show
Audience Takeaways

Your episode helps listeners solve real SMB problems-from cashflow to culture-through candid stories and practical insights.

Hot Topics
Bootstrapping and scaling lessons from the field
Navigating mental health and self-care as a founder
Unconventional strategies that actually worked
Why Trust Me
Hosted by Jon DeCoste, a seasoned SMB operator
Guests include award-winning entrepreneurs and CEOs
Episodes feature real financials, pivots, and playbooks
The Ideal Guest

You're a founder, operator, or investor with real stories from the SMB trenches-successes, scars, and all-and you're ready to share what works (and what doesn't).

Recent Episodes

From the Rigs to Raising Millions - Strategies, Perspectives and Great Stories - Chad Hayden

Unconventional SMB Jul 29, 2024

#10 From the Rigs to Raising Millions - Strategies, Perspectives and Great Stories | Chad Hayden

Unconventional SMB Jul 28, 2024

Built with Purpose - Designed Lifestyle, 4-Day weeks, Growth of People - Rick Jollymore

Unconventional SMB Jul 10, 2024

#09 Built with Purpose - Designed Lifestyle, 4-Day weeks, Growth of People - Rick Jollymore

Unconventional SMB Jul 9, 2024

Valuable Lessons In Failures & Experiments - Unconventional SMB #recipeforsuccess #experiments

Unconventional SMB Jun 9, 2024

Coaching Made Me A Better CEO - Unconventional SMB #hockeycoach #smallbusinessideas

Unconventional SMB Jun 9, 2024

A Synchrotron Facility To A Midstream Company - 6 Years, $1B of Throughput, $18M of Profit Share

Unconventional SMB Jun 5, 2024

#08 A Synchrotron Facility To A Midstream Company 6 Years $1B of Throughput $18M of Profit Share

Unconventional SMB Jun 4, 2024

Avenue Magazine 40 Under 40 & Alberta Resources Leader Award

Unconventional SMB May 21, 2024

Bootstrap A SaaS Solution While Running A Consulting Biz - Unconventional SMB

Unconventional SMB May 21, 2024

Tech + Consulting A Powerful Recipe Experiments, Failures & Creating “Luck” | Adam Martinson

Unconventional SMB May 21, 2024

#07 Tech + Consulting A Powerful Recipe Experiments, Failures & Creating “Luck” | Adam Martinson

Unconventional SMB May 20, 2024

The Gift of Forbearance - UnconventionalSMB #forbearance #debt #grind

Unconventional SMB May 7, 2024

Keep an eye on Cashflow - UnconventionalSMB #cashflow #banks #smb

Unconventional SMB May 7, 2024

Searching for Purpose - UnconventionalSMB #strategy #entrepreneur #purpose

Unconventional SMB May 7, 2024

Farm Life to 250 Employees Powerful Culture, Self-Care, Darkest of Days

Unconventional SMB May 5, 2024

#06 Farm Life to 250 Employees: Powerful Culture, Self-Care, Darkest of Days | Trevor Muir

Unconventional SMB May 4, 2024

E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award - A great feeling for the team

Unconventional SMB Apr 25, 2024

Built, Sold and Built again - 150 Employees Strong Across 4 Provinces - A Telecom Journey

Unconventional SMB Apr 23, 2024

#05 Wires of Wisdom: Built, Exited, Built Again. 150 Employees Strong, Across 4 Provinces | Shawn Kersey

Unconventional SMB Apr 22, 2024

Fixed and Variable Costs - Taylor Carcasole #strategy

Unconventional SMB Apr 19, 2024

#04 Lessons & Insights: Acquiring, Operating and Exiting. Now Searching to Acquire Two More | Taylor Carcasole

Unconventional SMB Apr 8, 2024

#03 - Midway into a Successful Career, Pivoting to Tech Entrepreneur | Glenn Moore

Unconventional SMB Apr 2, 2024

#02 - An IPO, 15 Acquisitions & a Startup | Michael Palmer

Unconventional SMB Mar 26, 2024

Unconventional SMB - ETA search update & leaving value

Unconventional SMB Feb 23, 2024

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