So You Want To Be More Confident?–EP 261
The most interesting things I’ve ever done — the best conversations, the best podcasts, the best calls — they all required me to be confident enough to move forward, when the results were far from certain. Today I’m going to tell you something I just learned that can get that

Fair Price?
As a machinery dealer, I hear the word “fair” thrown around a lot during negotiations with customers. I think most people don’t mean any harm

18-Year-Old Immigrant Becomes Machine Shop Founder, Dulio Arellano (Part I)—EP 218
My guest on today’s show immigrated to the United States from Mexico at 18 years old, went to tech school, worked his way up in

“If You Give a Dog a Donut”
My wife, Risa, is an educational therapist who teaches kids with learning problems in our house. She probably has close to a thousand books in

Impossible For Me to Predict
Can you predict how your mood will be tomorrow? How about your business next week? Life is constantly surprising us, yet we are forced to

How to Buy and Sell Machines Like a Used Machinery Dealer–EP 217
Do you ever wonder how I make a living buying and selling old iron? Sometimes Graff-Pinkert’s used machinery business boggles our own minds too. But

Are EVs a Losing Game?
It’s been a miserable month for electric cars. Tesla fired everybody in its charger department, Ford told us that it is losing $100,000 on every

