From The Ground Up Show - Entrepreneur and Leadership Success Stories from Blue Collar, and Unconventional Career Paths
Hosted by Erick Loden · Erick Loden
5.0from 12 ratings
- 54
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 12
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About From The Ground Up Show - Entrepreneur and Leadership Success Stories from Blue Collar, and Unconventional Career Paths
From The Ground Up Show is a long-form interview show about how capable people are made. Host Erick Loden talks with entrepreneurs, operators, tradespeople, service members, builders, and unconventional leaders about where they came from, the risks and decisions that shaped them, the failures and setbacks they faced, and the lessons they learned. Honest stories about what worked, what didn’t, and what others can learn from the journey. Built with hearts, hands, and hustle.
- Publisher
- Erick Loden
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 54 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mark Wilson - One Minute From Failure: $1.8M Debt, Embezzlement, and the Wire That Saved the Store
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ben Hansen - More Revenue and Less Profit
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Richie Zook - Building a Trades Business That Can Run Without You
Inside a recent episode
Mark Wilson - One Minute From Failure: $1.8M Debt, Embezzlement, and the Wire That Saved the Store
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I couldn't prove the other 1%. So the court, they just said, no, you can't. We're not going to add. So I had $38,000. I did have insurance that covered for about 20 grand. But I mean, I, in that timeframe, I mean, it got so tighter. Our wholesaler would pull, you'd order groceries. We had two trucks a week and they would pull Monday morning or Monday afternoons at two o'clock. And if you didn't have the money, you're not getting a truck. Well, we had about $370,000 worth of inventory. And you can imagine over and doing a hundred plus thousand a day. And this store would have just vaporized in inventory if I didn't get that truck. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on From The Ground Up Show - Entrepreneur and Leadership Success Stories from Blue Collar, and Unconventional Career Paths
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- Mark Wilson
- Ben Hansen
- Richie Zook
- David Michaux
- Charbel Louis Karam
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
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Who hosts From The Ground Up Show - Entrepreneur and Leadership Success Stories from Blue Collar, and Unconventional Career Paths?
Erick Loden host the show. Published by Erick Loden.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does From The Ground Up Show - Entrepreneur and Leadership Success Stories from Blue Collar, and Unconventional Career Paths take guests?
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