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Aftermarket All-Access
Aftermarket All-Access is your resource for insight, analysis, and the latest news shaping the automotive aftermarket. In each episode, we deep dive into the trends, challenges, and innovations driving the aftermarket. Each episode features expert interviews, real-world case studies, and actionable strategies to inform you about the ever-evolving automotive aftermarket landscape.
Episodes
- Aftermarket All-Access
Plan Smart, Network Hard: Maximizing Your 2026 AAPEX Experience
AAPEX is more than a trade show—it’s the industry homecoming where parts manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and every player in the automotive aftermarket…
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How TrakMotive Turns Market Feedback Into Innovation
In this episode of Aftermarket All-Access, Chris Jones sits down with Ryan DeVoe, global director of product data management at Trakmotive, and Sören Neumann…
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Getting Started with AI Workflow
In this episode, customer experience leader Amy Steele discusses how automotive aftermarket companies can start putting AI to work for their teams. Drawing on…
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Podcast: Fourth Generation, First in People
Fletcher Lord III is President and CEO of Parts Warehouse Inc., operating as Bumper to Bumper/Crow-Burlingame, a company his great-grandfather started four…
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Why Continuing Education Is the Aftermarket's Best-Kept Secret
Most professionals didn't set out to land in the automotive aftermarket — they fell into it, and stayed because they loved it. James O'Dell, who leads…
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Navigating Supplier Acquisition
Imagine building one of the strongest supplier relationships in your business—rebates, pricing tiers, a rep who knows your operation inside and out—and then…
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Selling the Best Part on the Shelf—and Creating the Data Behind It
Dorman's Brian Matthias on closing the aftermarket's data-quality gap and where AI is actually showing up in the work Imagine trying to sell a door handle and…
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What Separates Good Leaders From Great Ones?
What separates a good leader from a great one? My guest today says it comes down to how well you communicate—and how deeply you understand the people you're…
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Fearless to Courageous
He built 14 stores. Then he sold 10 of them—one by one—during one of the toughest economic downturns in modern history. In Fearless to Courageous, James Baxter…
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Inside East Penn's Record-Breaking Battery Recycling Event
Imagine collecting 828 used batteries in four hours — from a drive-thru. My guest today helped make that happen. Joel Brady is vice president of marketing and…
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Reintroducing a 100-Year-Old Brand to a New Generation of Drivers
Imagine being handed the job of introducing a brand with more than 100 years of history to a generation that's never heard of it — and pulling it off. That's…
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Give Up What You Don't Need
A technician crashes two vehicles and causes $14,000 in damage. What would you do? My guest today chose to skip the punishment — and made an investment…
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Fight Forward
What if the real barrier to your success isn't the goal itself—but how you're thinking about it? On this episode of Aftermarket All-Access, Chris Messer, vice…
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Dr. Kent MacDonald on Building the Next Generation of Automotive Leaders
In this episode, Dr. Kent MacDonald, president of Northwood University, sat down to talk about educating the next generation of automotive and aftermarket…
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Beyond Parts: ZF's New Approach to Research, Innovation, and Bringing Products to Market
WEBSITE DESCRIPTION: What drives innovation in the automotive aftermarket? For Anuj Gupta, business line digital North America at ZF Aftermarket, it starts…
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Podcast: Mind Your Business!
Your trajectory isn't determined by how skilled you are — it's determined by how you think. In this episode, recorded at AAPEX, Chris Messer (executive vice…
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What 2025 Taught Us About the Aftermarket—And What Comes Next
What's really happening in the automotive aftermarket right now? Mike Chung, senior director, market intelligence at the Auto Care Association. He digs into…
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From Parts Counter to Data Pioneer: Courtney Pedler on driving the aftermarket forward
In this episode, Aftermarket All-Access host Chris Jones speaks with Courtney Pedler, founder and CEO of Autology Data Management Group and Chair of the…
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Focus on the Outcome
In Episode 5 of our Endeavor 2 Discover series, Chris Messer, Executive Vice President of Endeavor Business Media's Transportation Group, is joined by Mike…
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How Steve Tucker is building community in the automotive aftermarket
In this episode, host Chris Jones sits down with Steve Tucker, president of Automotive Parts Associates, to explore his journey from rebuilding his first car…
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An "I will" attitude is the only attitude
In Episode 4 of our Endeavor 2 Discover series, Chris Messer, Executive Vice President of Endeavor Business Media's Transportation Group, is joined once again…
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Inside the 2025 AWDA Annual Conference
In this episode, Ted Hughes discusses what makes the AWDA Annual Conference, held November 2-3 in Las Vegas, one of the most important gatherings for warehouse…
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Lead From the Frontlines
In Episode 3 of our Endeavor 2 Discover series, Chris Messer, Executive Vice President of Endeavor Business Media's Transportation Group, is joined once again…
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AAPEX 2025 Unleashed: What suppliers and distributors need to know
In this episode, Auto Care Association's Mark Bogdansky discusses the new changes coming to AAPEX 2025 that will transform how auto parts suppliers…
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The Common Language of Parts: Jonathan Larsen on ACES, PIES, and Latin American Expansion
Jonathan Larsen from Auto Care Association discusses the expansion of ACES and PIES standards into Latin America. Learn about the challenges of international…
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Bonus: Follow Up, Follow Through
Mike Jones, president and master trainer at Discover Leadership Training, is back on Aftermarket All-Access with Chris Messer, executive vice president of the…
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Failure Isn't an Option
For anyone who has ever uttered the words, "failure isn't an option," Mike Jones, president and master trainer at Discover Leadership Training, has a message…
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The impact of mental health on your business decisions
In this episode of Aftermarket All-Access, Margaret Light, licensed marriage and family therapist of Equilibrium Therapy Services P.L.L.C. has a conversation…
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The Ins and Outs of Category Management
In this episode, Dave Bohr, director of category management at Bill Murray & Associates, discusses the ins and outs of category management. He starts by…
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Building a Better, Smarter Parts Catalog
In this episode, Scott Tompkins, senior manager of product management at Epicor talks about how the company created its parts catalog. He also discusses how it…
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MEMA's Ben Brucato on Service, Sustainability, and Trump Administration Tariffs
In this episode, Ben Brucato, vice president, membership & engagement, MEMA Aftermarket Suppliers about the role of MEMA in the aftermarket, its new…
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Federated Auto Parts CEO Sue Godschalk Reflects on 50+ Years in Automotive
Imagine being employee number three at one of the automotive aftermarket premier auto parts distributors. My guest today was just that. I’m talking to Sue…
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How Leaders Lead
In this episode, Mike Jones of Discover Leadership Training discusses how to level up your leadership. Mike also covers leadership versus management, the…
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Understanding Inclusive Leadership
In this episode of Aftermarket All-Access, Tammy Tecklenburg, founder of dott, jons the show to talk about her 30 year career in the automotive aftermarket…
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Driven to Do Good: The Automotive Aftermarket Charitable Foundation
What happens when an entire industry comes together to support those in need? Join host Chris Jones as he sits down with John Kairys, executive director of the…
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Introducing Aftermarket All-Access
Aftermarket All-Access is a twice-monthly podcast covering the news, insight, trends, challenges, and innovations you need to know about the automotive…