The Entrepreneurs' Guild Podcast

Hosted by Thom Stimpel

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Aug 2026

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The Entrepreneurs' Guild podcasts consist mainly of interviews with successful entrepreneurs who share their stories about their inspirations to become a business owner, their challenges and struggles in the beginning, their unique learning experiences, and the things they discovered along the way that has led to their success. The programs are designed to encourage and inspire business owners, regardless of where they are in their entrepreneurial journey.

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September 8, 202621 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 289: With Christina Bumba

Christina is the founder of Digital Heights Marketing (DHM), a boutique social media management agency based in Chicago. She specializes in industries that most people think are too boring to be on social media - industries like highly regulated financial, insurance, and legal spaces- and then she proves those people wrong every day. Her strategy is simple: build meaningful connections and trust. That will always outperform automated tactics. In a world chasing algorithms and vanity metrics, Christina focuses on community, consistency, and authentic storytelling that turns an online presence into a long-term business asset. DHM works with clients who understand that showing up online is a long game worth playing.

September 1, 202625 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 288: Issues, Ideas & Resolutions: "Critical Communications"

Excellent communication with your clients, your suppliers, your staff, and any other faction among your interested parties is essential to success. But many entrepreneurs don't pay enough attention to this critical skill, resulting in lost business, annoyed customers, limited growth, or worse. In today's program, we discuss some common screw-ups and draw attention to the critical communication you need to master if you are to succeed at the highest level. No matter how long you've been in business, or how successful you are, you might still learn something in this program and fix an error that will further boost your success. They are simple changes … which means they are also easy to overlook!

August 25, 202625 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 287: The One-Minute Manager

Managing your staff (or suppliers) with efficiency and great communication – and having them appreciate and learn from the process – is one of the best lessons learned in the book "The One Minute Manager". The book is filled with small bits of insight that power organizations and is itself is an excellent example of ideal communication … simple and elegant! In this program, we discuss one of the key learnings and how we have seen it applied – or misapplied – in organizations that we have worked in. Organizational management and development can be dramatically simplified and much more effective by applying these lessons learned!

August 18, 202622 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 286: With Dan Curran

Dan is a serial entrepreneur, documentarian, and soon-to-be author. He's spent his career helping people tell their story. Now, as Co-Founder of Chapters , he's building a home for industry experts, scientists, and founders to capture, protect, and monetize their Intellectual Property. At Chapters , the book is only the beginning. Dan is a former chapter president of EO (Entrepreneur Organization) and the American Advertising Federation.

August 11, 202620 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 285: With Cynthia Main

Cynthia is the founder and creative director of Sunhouse Craft, a Berea, Kentucky-based artisan manufacturing company dedicated to preserving traditional craft while building a modern American home goods brand. An experienced fabricator and entrepreneur, she believes business can be a powerful tool for strengthening communities, creating meaningful work, and rebuilding regional supply chains. Before founding Sunhouse Craft, Cynthia spent more than a decade in collaborative design and fabrication, including launching a furniture line, workshop program, and workforce training initiative at Chicago's Rebuilding Exchange. Today, she leads a growing team producing handcrafted brooms, wooden wares, and traditional Appalachian goods that are sold through hundreds of retailers across North America. Sunhouse Craft has been featured in publications including Architectural Digest, Southern Living, Country Living, and Fast Company. Cynthia is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program and is currently leading a revival of Kentucky's historic white oak basket-making tradition through a new apprenticeship and production initiative.

August 4, 202624 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 284: With Wendy Poirier

Wendy is the founder of Meticulous Matters, a very interesting bookkeeping and accounting services company. Established in 2007, Wendy and her team provide remote, after-the-fact, monthly bookkeeping services to for-profit businesses primarily in service industries. Her business model is to provide monthly, remote, after-the-fact bookkeeping services … which means they are not managing a client's cash, A/P, or A/R. They complete the books and reconcile on a monthly basis, ask necessary questions, and send clean year-end reports and supporting backup to the client's CPA. Their mission is to provide this year-end package so that CPA's have no questions.

July 28, 202624 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 283: With Mary Moody McLean

Mary is a historian, nonprofit professional, and humanitarian living in the suburbs of Washington, DC. After earning a bachelor's in political science and a master's in history, she founded The Connection Commission, a disability-led nonprofit helping disabled people move their work out of "project purgatory" and into the world. Mary built the organization around a problem entrepreneurs know too well: passion and talent are not enough when the system demands more money, energy, paperwork, and risk than a person can safely absorb. Through caseworker-guided support, practical funding, and a participant-led project structure, The Connection Commission creates safe passage from idea to completed work for disabled entrepreneurs and creatives."

July 21, 202621 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 282: With April Chappell & Dave Hiltz

April and Dave are co-founders of MicroOffice Solutions, a micro-office and business services facility in Casper, Wyoming. Before entrepreneurship, April spent 17 years as a practicing veterinarian, while Dave brings 35 years of carpentry and construction experience to the business. The Canadian couple moved to Nicaragua, where they built and managed vacation rental properties and experimented with various other ventures. After being personally rejected by banks and payment processors over having only a virtual business address, they built MicroOffice Solutions to give entrepreneurs banking-credible physical addresses and real workspace. Today MOS serves clients ranging from local Wyoming businesses to international founders launching companies in the U.S.

July 14, 202622 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 281: With Dustin Schultz

Dustin is the Founder of the video agency, UNION, located in Farmington, CT. He helps marketing teams and agencies use video strategically, not just creatively, to drive clarity, trust, and demand. When Dustin started creating films for businesses, he was only thinking about production, not additional services. But since launching UNION in 2011, he has continued to evolve his business, including being honored with three Emmy's.

July 7, 202618 min

The Entrepreneurs' Guild EP 280: With Jennifer White

Jenny is a retired registered nurse with 30 years of vast experience in hospital settings, ICUs, trauma units, the surgical floor, public health, and long-term care facilities. When she retired, doctors discovered a tumor wrapped around the carotid artery in her brain, a life-threatening condition that required specialized surgery. After a dangerous and complex procedure, she was comatose for days before awakening to find that she could not walk, talk, or recognize her husband. As she worked her way through the therapy that would aid her recovery and teach her to talk again, she became interested in writing. Writing was therapeutic and greatly assisted with her rehabilitation. The story she tells about the beginning of that process is fun and interesting. Today she has written a dozen children's books and is nearing completion of her second medical thriller (with two more to come). She has also become a popular public speaker, discussing how striving to achieve goals, continually progressing, and persevering -even if only taking baby steps- will allow you to achieve great things regardless of obstacles and challenges!