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Pivoting as a Business Owner With Craig Sturgill (Ep. 43)

Pivoting as a Business Owner With Craig Sturgill (Ep. 43)

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In the realm of exit plans, things don’t always go as planned. Sometimes they happen smoothly the first time, other times they face delays. But that’s the thing: there’s no one right way. Each exit is its own journey, with its own ups and downs.

Join Mark Doman as he sits down with Craig Sturgill, COO, and Co-founder of Excel™, a company at the forefront of the InsureTech space. Craig, a U.S. Army veteran and successful entrepreneur, shares his journey from starting an insurance agency at 18 to co-founding Excel™. Follow along to learn about the challenges and strategic pivots he made, including an unsuccessful exit attempt, recalibration for growth, and the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people in order to execute a successful exit.

Mark and Craig discuss: 

  • Craig’s journey from door-knocking insurance sales to co-founding an InsureTech company
  • How his business model shifted toward digital customer acquisition
  • Insights into the InsureTech space and Excel’s innovative lead-generation strategies
  • Valuable lessons learned from an attempted business exit and how diversification and a strong leadership team can make all the difference 
  • And more

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At the age of 18, Craig Sturgill founded his first business. He built his Medicare-focused insurance agency, however, he was unable to find lead-generating vendors that met his standards for quality and high performance so in 2013 he partnered with 2 like-minded individuals to found Excel™ which he now acts as COO. He has since started multiple other businesses such as TruRidge, LLC and ​​Stealth Ventures, LLC.

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Professional Management and Business Legacy with Joni Fedders (Ep. 39)

Professional Management and Business Legacy with Joni Fedders (Ep. 39)

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Are you ready to transform the way you run your business?

Today on the Finish Big Podcast,  Mark Doman introduces Joni Fedders, President of Aileron, and explores the unique nonprofit organization based in Dayton, Ohio. Together they explore how Aileron helps business owners and their teams embrace professional management to elevate their lives and organizations. Follow along to hear Joni’s passion for professional management, and how it empowers businesses and their owners to articulate a vision, align their organization towards it, and successfully navigate ownership transitions.

Joni discusses: 

  • The importance of having an exit plan and how it affects the future success of your business
  • Aileron’s DOC System of professional management and its impact on business success
  • The challenges of creating a thriving business and navigating transitions
  • How Aileron supports business owners in different ways to achieve long-term success
  • Aileron’s mission and involvement in the community
  • And more

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Joni Fedders is the President of Aileron, a nonprofit organization that helps business owners and their teams embrace professional management to elevate their people and organization. Joni directs strategic vision, culture, and operations, inspiring both the team and the community to elevate private businesses.

Recipient of the “Forty Under Forty” award, Joni holds a business bachelor’s from Miami University and an MBA from Xavier University. With her husband Jim, she values family time, her dogs, and enjoys skiing, tubing, running, fishing, sports, and vacations with their three children.

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From Growing Pains to Profit With Ron Nagy (Ep. 38)

From Growing Pains to Profit With Ron Nagy (Ep. 38)

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to scale a family business into a multi-location, multi-million dollar empire?

In the latest installment of the Finish Big Podcast, Mark Dorman talks with Ron Nagy, a successful second-generation business owner, about his journey of transforming a single-location body shop into a multi-location thriving enterprise, the challenges faced along the way, and the strategic decisions that led to their successful growth and eventual sale.

Ron discusses: 

  • How Nagy’s Auto Collision came to be and how it evolved over time
  • The challenges faced during the business’s expansion phase 
  • Market shifts and exit planning
  • Post-exit ventures
  • And more!

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Ron Nagy is a second-generation business owner. Ron served as the President of Nagy’s Collision Center before selling the business to Caliber Collision in 2019. Ron grew up in Doylestown, Ohio. He graduated from Chippewa High School in the Automotive Management Institute and has since won numerous chamber awards and industry awards. He has sat on many nonprofit boards and an industry advisory board. Ron is an active member in his church and in his spare time, helps his wife at their horse farm.

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