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The B Team Podcast
Talking all things Business, Bentonville, and Bourbon. Hosted by Josh Saffran, Matt Marrs, Rob Nelson, and Jim Corbett. New episodes every Thursday!
Episodes
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Ep. 119 - Law Enforcement Marksmanship: Overcoming Broken Standards with Jeff Hunt
Most police officers only fire their duty weapons once a year during state qualifications. Former Marine and veteran officer Jeff Hunt joins the table to…
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Best of B Team: Scaling Fleet Operations: From Metered Cabs to VIPs with Joe Washington
High-stakes transportation is won on trust, ironclad safety, and non-stop fleet operations. Joe Washington, founder of NWA Transportation and longtime personal…
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Ep. 118 - High-End Hospitality: Unlocking VIP Service with Jennifer Keaton
Hospitality revenue depends on filling dead afternoon hours and keeping big spenders loyal. Jennifer Keaton, Private Dining and Events Manager at Ruth's Chris…
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Best of B Team: Construction to Commercial: Dillon King's Playbook
Parking money in a bank account yields zero growth while commercial property builds tangible wealth. Dillon King joins Josh Saffran and Matt Marrs to break…
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Ep. 117 - High Protein Dining: Franchising Clean Concepts with Leah Thrasher and Jay Boston
Serving healthy comfort food at scale requires strict operational discipline and zero compromise on ingredient quality. Restaurant owners Leah Thrasher and Jay…
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Best of B Team: Building Mezzaluna’s Success with Soerke Peters and Amy Stouffer
Moving a successful restaurant across the country takes more than good recipes. Guests Soerke Peters and Amy Stouffer share how they expanded Mezzaluna from…
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Ep. 116 - Premium Fitness Evolution: Inside The Yard Gym
Traditional gym models are failing because generic open-gym access breeds low retention and stagnant routines. Hosts Josh Saffron and Jim Corbett welcome…
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Best of B Team: Grassroots Growth: Transforming Small Fundraising
Running a successful community fundraiser requires balancing operational control with rapid growth. Emily Saffran breaks down how she expanded the GEM…
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Ep. 115 - Former Tight End Tackles High-End Trade Business
High-end trade businesses thrive on flawless execution and long-term client relationships. Former NFL tight end Phillip Supernaw joins the show to share how he…
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Best of B Team: NIL Cash Chaos: Fixing College Sports Money
College athletics shifted from cash-filled duffel bags to multi-million dollar deals almost overnight, but the infrastructure to support these young athletes…
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Ep. 114 - Whiskey Heritage Unlocked: From Charcoal to Aging
Chasing allocated bottles and overhyped secondary market releases often leads to overpriced disappointments while world-class heritage pours hide in plain…
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Best of B Team: Protected Paint Matters: Why Brushes Destroy Cars
Running an automated vehicle wash requires balancing delicate finish protection with chemical restrictions. Operating in a saturated market means constantly…
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Ep. 113 - Sourdough Crust Solutions: Building Cave Springs Hospitality
Opening a restaurant is a massive financial risk, and long-term survival in hospitality requires far more than just a good recipe. Most new locations struggle…
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Best of B Team: Inside SALT Health’s All-in-One Model with Jordan Cash
The modern medical system isn't built to keep you healthy, it's built to treat you once you're already sick. Between skyrocketing premiums and high-volume…
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Ep. 112 - Property Management Profits: Scaling 485 Doors with Nick Limbird
Scaling a business in a shifting economy means ignoring vanity metrics and confronting harsh market conditions head on. In a real estate climate defined by…
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Best of B Team: Biking Means Business: Scaling Regional Retail
Capitalizing on local infrastructure before it goes mainstream determines who captures the territory and who gets left behind. In this episode, Jesse Hull…
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Ep. 111 - Bentonville's Hidden Stories: The Ultimate Golf Cart Experience
If you assume you know everything about your own backyard, you are likely missing the most profitable and entertaining narratives driving your local economy…
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Best of B Team: Corporate Exit Strategy: Creating a Community Woodworking Shop
Not having access to the right tools kills the desire to build things. As more people look for physical hobbies to step away from their screens, the high cost…
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Ep. 110 - Pure Gelato Mastery: Bringing Paris to Northwest Arkansas
Bringing a high-profile international brand to Northwest Arkansas requires more than just capital; it demands an obsessive focus on product integrity, standard…
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Best of B Team: Married Partners: Surviving Business with Your Spouse
Customer expectations dictate the survival of any local restaurant. Right now, retaining loyal staff and managing daily operations are the biggest hurdles for…
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Ep. 109 - Stop Biohacking: Simple Tweaks For Real Health Results
The wellness industry loves to push standard PDF diet plans and overnight magic pills, but generalized advice leaves desperate people exhausted and stuck. When…
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Best of B Team: Serving the Streets: Turning the Barber Chair Into a Sanctuary
Humble beginnings are not an excuse to stay small; they are the foundation for long term business growth. In an economy where industries pivot overnight and…
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Ep. 108 - Champagne Secrets: Debunking the Elitist Myths with Aaron Walters
Pretentious hospitality is a profit killer. When consumers feel intimidated by an industry, they simply lock their wallets and walk away. The global wine and…
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Best of B Team: Ad Libbing Live: Jon Williams on Handling 20,000 Fans
Live entertainment looks effortless until you are the one standing in the center of a stadium with twenty thousand people watching you. The difference between…
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Ep. 107 - Karaoke Empire Expands: Justin Urso’s Bentonville Move
Bentonville nightlife is about to see a significant shift as the gap between family-friendly dining and late-night entertainment finally closes. For too long…
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Best of B Team: Stop Freezing: Building Reactionary Muscle Memory
Reactionary movement is the only thing that saves you when a situation turns south. Most people assume that knowing a few moves is enough, but without the…
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Ep. 106 - Red Corn Rising: A Texas Whiskey Revelation
A single drop of water can either unlock the hidden soul of a bourbon or flatline its flavor entirely. In an industry where collectors often focus more on the…
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Best of B Team: Injury Recovery Hacks: Healing Without Knives
A lot of “wellness” sounds good until you ask one question: does it actually work, and can someone explain why without the hype? That’s where we start. Josh…
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Ep. 105 - Muckender: Skin-Safe Cleaning with Joshua Stanley
You’ve probably used a shop wipe that strips grease fast then leaves your hands feeling wrecked, or a “personal” wipe that falls apart when you actually need…
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Best of B Team: Luxury Wellness: The Woodhouse Spa Journey
You can tell when a city is growing fast because the “nice to have” things quickly become the “how are we living without this” things. That’s where we start…
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Ep. 104 - Layoff to Brewery: Dan Clous's Journey to Natural State Beer Company
You can learn a lot about a place by what it drinks and how it builds community around it. We sit down with Dan Clous, co-founder of Natural State Beer Company…
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Best of B Team: Bike Culture Economics: Why Out-of-Staters are Buying Bentonville
Bentonville is changing so fast that even locals can miss the scale of what’s being built right in front of them. We sit down with a longtime Northwest…
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Ep. 103 - Shark Tank Reality: Beyond the Handshake
The Shark Tank edit makes it look smooth, but the real experience is quiet, intense, and a lot longer than you think. We talk with the founder of Foam Cooler…
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Best of B Team: From Homebrew Naivety to Brewery Reality
This week on The Best of B Team, we're throwing it back to our episode with Jeff, owner and founder of Bike Rack Brewing Co. Imagine the sun on your shoulders…
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Ep. 102 - Driving John Daly: Life as Limo Joe Pt. 2
Ever wonder what celebrity travel really looks like from the driver’s seat? Welcome back to part 2 with Joe Washington! We're back with Limo Joe, the man stars…
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Ep. 101 - Inside NWA’s Most Exclusive Car with Joe Washington Pt. 1
Power often rides in the backseat, and Joe Washington has spent years at the wheel. We kick off season three with the trusted driver behind Northwest…
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Best of B Team: Writing "The Book": Jenny Marrs’ 5-Year Journey
What turns a house into a story you can hold? In this recap episode, we look back at our episode with Jenny Marrs for a warm, funny, and honest look at how a…
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Ep. 100 - Business Leaders Supporting Local Teens With TASC
Super Bowl energy meets real community impact as we crack open prop bets, swap bourbon notes, and rally behind TASC’s All-In casino night, our favorite way to…
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Best of B Team: Purple Bag Power, Building a Luxury Brand in Northwest Arkansas
A jeweler launching his own Prosecco sounds unexpected, until you hear how celebration sits at the heart of both. We sit down with Ben from Blakeman’s to trace…
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Ep. 99 - From English Teacher to Beer Boss | With Flyway Brewing's Matt Foster
A blueberry wheat became a state legend, but the real story starts in a classroom. We sit with Flyway’s founder, an English teacher turned brewer, to unpack…
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Ep. 98 - Separate Is Sexy: Why Space Makes Love Stronger | With Intimacy Evolution's Mark and Bri Carey
Bourbon in hand, we take aim at a tender truth: kids don’t break marriages, unspoken change does. We sit with Mark and Bri, the duo behind Intimacy Evolution…
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Ep. 97 - B Team Recap: Bourbon, Bentonville & Broken Chairs
A hundred episodes later, the energy feels different, in the best way. We unpack a year that stretched us and grounded us: restaurant openings that set a new…
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Ep. 96 - Fondue, Family, and a Bold Leap
A sparkling square, a family caravan, and a risky idea that turned into a community magnet. We sit down with Chad, a former hospital executive who moved from…
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Ep. 95 - Seahorses, Fry Pies, and Bentonville Buzz
Downtown Bentonville just got a new reason to rally. We sit down with the force behind Fry, a hidden-in-plain-sight bar at 100 SW 2nd Street, built on a simple…
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Ep. 94 - Bourbon, Business & $100K Nights
A bourbon night that starts with Pappy Van Winkle and ends with purpose doesn’t happen by accident. We pulled back the curtain on how a fourth-year charity…
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Ep. 93 - Granola with Guts: The BFF Your Microbiome Needs
A granola shot that goes down like bourbon and lands like a health upgrade. We bring Gita, the founder of Gut BFF, into the studio with Gabby to taste three…
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Ep. 92 - Inside Bentonville's Film Scene
Bourbon on the table, big ideas in the air. We sit down with an award-winning filmmaker who left Southern California for Northwest Arkansas and break down…
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Ep. 91 - Eating Clean Without Spending a Fortune
What if clean eating didn’t mean bland food, complicated meal prep, or $15 drive‑thru compromises? We sit down with Stu of Stu's Clean Cooking, a veteran who…
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Ep. 90 - Rewriting Belonging: Turning Isolation Into A Million-View Movement
A caramel-apple bourbon toast opens the door to a story that hits harder than cinnamon: growing up in a restrictive church, feeling unseen, and transforming…
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Ep. 89 - Why Great Harvest Feels Like Home
The smell of fresh bread can change a life. Our guests from Great Harvest NWA share how a spur-of-the-moment lunch on a road trip, followed by a snowy trek to…
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Ep. 88 - Behind the Barrel Selections
Imagine tasting a single barrel so good that you try to convince the distillery to bottle it under a different label. That happened to us with a Rock Hill…
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Ep. 87 - Beyond the Bottle: Inside NWA’s Exclusive Bourbon Club
If you’ve ever stared at a $6,000 unicorn behind glass and wondered how anyone actually tastes it, you’ll feel right at home here. We pull back the curtain on…
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Ep. 86 - The Bourbon Market Just Flipped
Borrowed coffee cups, a sherry-finished pour, and a market plot twist: we crack open Horse Neck’s Kentucky Bourbon and unpack why the bourbon world suddenly…
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Ep. 85 - From Fine Dining to Fire Ovens: Miles James Unfiltered
A great neighborhood spot doesn’t become an institution by accident. Chef-owner Miles James joins us for a spirited session, pizza in hand, bourbon on the bar…
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Ep. 84 - Building the Courts Everyone Wants: Inside the Pickleball Boom
The bottle was hot and the takes were hotter, but beneath the jokes is a story about how courts are bringing people together across Arkansas. We sit down with…
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Ep. 83 - Building Better Athletes: Managing NIL the Right Way
Northwest Arkansas has a rich history of innovation, and now that pioneering spirit has reached collegiate athletics through Pinnacle Sports Ventures. Founded…
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Ep. 82 - Building Bentonville’s Top Italian Spot
What does it take to create Northwest Arkansas's hottest restaurant? This week, we discover the remarkable journey behind Mezzaluna Pasteria as owners Amy and…
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Ep. 81 - Hope Beyond the Diagnosis with Tim Siegel
How do you transform unimaginable grief into a legacy of hope? Tim Siegel's journey from professional tennis courts to hospital rooms to nationwide advocacy…
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Ep. 80 - Shiny Happy People, Real Business Moves
Dillon King steps out from behind the scenes to reveal himself as far more than just "Amy Duggar's husband" on this fascinating episode of the B-Team Podcast…
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Ep. 79 - The Story Behind Pedaler’s Pub
Ever wonder what it takes to build a restaurant that becomes a beloved community staple? Kevin from Pedaler's Pub joins the B-Team Podcast to share the…