U.S. CEOs with $1M-$5M ARR too often hit growth plateaus or worse. Having worked with 50+ CEOs fueling millions in revenue growth, host Nitin Kartik (CEO at Caribou Strategic) shares CEO wisdom from the road of life in 2-minute episodes to help you navigate the curves ahead and crush your targets.
CarTalk with Kartik
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U.S. CEOs with $1M-$5M ARR too often hit growth plateaus or worse. Having worked with 50+ CEOs fueling millions in revenue growth, host Nitin Kartik (CEO at Caribou Strategic) shares CEO wisdom from the road of life in 2-minute episodes to help you navigate the curves ahead and crush your targets.
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July 12, 2026
Make your message move | Ep 311
<p>CarTalk with Kartik #311: Make Your Message Move</p><p><br></p><p>Can a CEO book turn messy expertise into company-wide momentum? That's the question one of my CEO clients and I recently discussed. As a 2X bestselling author featured on BBC TV & Times Square and named a Top Consultant of the Year by PMA, here's my take.</p><p><br></p><p>Most CEOs have brilliant ideas trapped in their head.</p><p><br></p><p>The problem?</p><p><br></p><p>Their sales team explains it one way, marketing explains it another way, product explains it with 47 slides, and the customer is sitting there thinking, “So... do I buy this or take a nap?”</p><p><br></p><p>That is where a great CEO book helps.</p><p><br></p><p>Writing a book forces you to clarify your ideal customer, their buying journey, your positioning, your value, and the framework behind your business.</p><p><br></p><p>Done well, the book is not just a credibility piece.</p><p><br></p><p>It becomes a company alignment tool.</p><p><br></p><p>It turns scattered expertise into a clear message your market, team, and buyers can actually understand.</p><p><br></p><p>Dive deeper into this topic on page 128 of my book Product Marketing Wisdom, which just completed 77 weeks as an Amazon bestseller. Check it out at:</p><p>https://ProductMarketingWisdom.com/s</p><p><br></p><p>Listen to CarTalk with Kartik on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Audible, Castbox, iHeart, or your favorite podcast app!</p>
July 5, 2026
Can your idea travel? | Ep 310
<p>CarTalk with Kartik #310: Can Your Idea Travel?</p><p><br></p><p>Can your big idea survive outside your zip code? That's the question one of my CEO clients and I discussed recently. As a 2X bestselling author featured on BBC TV & Times Square and named a Top Consultant of the Year by PMA, here's my take.</p><p><br></p><p>A CEO book should not just prove that your idea worked once.</p><p><br></p><p>It should show why it can work again.</p><p><br></p><p>In the case of my client Robert Lee, his organization Rescuing Leftover Cuisine could not simply copy and paste New York into every city. Walking routes in Manhattan become car routes somewhere else. A campus model may become a restaurant district model. Same mission, different mechanics.</p><p><br></p><p>That is the real power of a CEO book.</p><p><br></p><p>It turns your experience into a model people can understand, trust, and adapt. Otherwise, your book becomes a 200-page humblebrag with better parking.</p><p><br></p><p>So always ask yourself - Can your idea travel?</p><p><br></p><p>Dive deeper into this topic in Chapter 18 of the bestselling book "Millions of Meals Hidden in Plain Sight" by my client Robert Lee, CEO at Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. Check it out on Amazon. And see you next time on CarTalk with Kartik!</p><p><br></p><p>Listen to CarTalk with Kartik on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Audible, Castbox, iHeart, or your favorite podcast app!</p>
June 21, 2026
The book inside your pain | Ep 309
<p>CarTalk with Kartik #309: The Book Inside Your Pain</p><p><br></p><p>What does being alone, not lonely, really mean? That's the question one of my CEO clients and I discussed recently. As a 2X bestselling author featured on BBC TV & Times Square and named a Top Consultant of the Year by Product Marketing Alliance, here's my take.</p><p><br></p><p>Being alone is not the same as being empty. Sometimes it means finally hearing your own voice without a committee meeting in your head. And for CEOs, that matters.</p><p><br></p><p>Because the best books are not just about what you built. They are about what you survived, what you stopped tolerating, and what you finally understood.</p><p><br></p><p>That is where authority comes from. Not polish. Not jargon. Real lived clarity.</p><p><br></p><p>So write the book inside your pain.</p><p><br></p><p>Dive deeper into this topic on page 132 of the bestselling book "Unmarried" by my client Rina Raichada, CEO at Dentistry on 10. Check it out on Amazon. And see you next time on CarTalk with Kartik!</p><p><br></p><p>Listen to CarTalk with Kartik on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Audible, Castbox, iHeart, or your favorite podcast app!</p>
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