The Business Growth Show

About The Business Growth Show

FORDIFY LIVE: The Business Growth Show with Ford Saeks is a business growth podcast for entrepreneurs, franchise leaders, executives, and sales and marketing professionals who want practical strategies to grow revenue, improve performance, leverage artificial intelligence, and stay ahead of change. Hosted by Ford Saeks, Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker, Business Growth Accelerator, AI Integration Strategist, and author of Accelerate, AI Mindshift, and AI Alchemy, each episode delivers real-world business strategies you can put to work immediately. Ford has helped organizations generate more than $1 billion in sales by improving how they think, market, sell, innovate, and serve their customers. On FORDIFY LIVE, he brings those insights directly to you through practical conversations with CEOs, franchise executives, entrepreneurs, marketing experts, sales leaders, customer experience authorities, and AI innovators. Each episode explores the strategies, trends, and ideas shaping business today, including: **Business Growth Strategies:** Discover practical ways to accelerate revenue, improve profitability, increase performance, and gain a competitive advantage. **AI for Business:** Learn how to use artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and emerging AI tools to improve productivity, streamline operations, make smarter decisions, and create better customer experiences while keeping the human touch. **Franchise Growth and Performance:** Explore strategies for franchise leadership, local marketing, franchisee performance, sales growth, customer engagement, and scalable success. **Sales and Marketing:** Learn how to attract high-value prospects, build trust, improve conversions, strengthen your brand, and generate more repeat and referral business. **Leadership and Innovation:** Discover how successful leaders navigate disruption, improve accountability, develop stronger teams, embrace innovation, and turn change into opportunity. **Customer Experience:** Learn how to create remarkable customer experiences that strengthen loyalty, generate referrals, and build long-term brand value. Whether you're a business owner, entrepreneur, franchise executive, franchisee, sales professional, marketing leader, or corporate executive, FORDIFY LIVE gives you actionable ideas to solve real business challenges and achieve measurable results. If you want to grow your business, increase sales, use AI more effectively, strengthen your leadership, improve franchise performance, or stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, you're in the right place. Subscribe to FORDIFY LIVE: The Business Growth Show with Ford Saeks and turn today's ideas into tomorrow's results.

Publisher

Ford Saeks

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jan 2023

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

51 of 204 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   S1Ep301 Smarter Franchise Expansion with Kristie Kalinowski

   Ford Saeks interviews Kristie Kalinowski, Vice President of Franchise Development at Hand & Stone, on achieving smarter franchise expansion through disciplined selection and alignment.

2. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   S1Ep300 Leadership from the Front with David Druker

   Ford Saeks interviews David Druker, President and CEO of The UPS Store Canada, about leading from the front to maintain business connection and build an effective team.

3. 

   1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   S1Ep299 Building a Business Through Responsible Growth with Don Varady

   Ford Saeks interviews Don Varady, CEO and Co-Founder of Clean Eatz, about building a resilient business through adaptable strategies and customer-focused growth.

Inside a recent episode

S1Ep301 Smarter Franchise Expansion with Kristie Kalinowski

Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] If I can better understand their why and match that to the company's really long term goals and see if those align. then I know that we have a path forward. But if it's just, oh, I want to park money somewhere, I want to throw money at something, generally the brands that I represented, that model doesn't work. And that's okay, because there's other ways that you can invest your money. But if you want to be an entrepreneur and a true business owner, doesn't mean you need to be in the business, but you do certainly need to be working on the business in order to be successful. No, that's some sage advice. […]

Who has been a guest on The Business Growth Show

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kristie Kalinowski
• David Druker
• Don Varady
• Brad Fishman
• Pete Hull

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

295,252

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

79 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

90

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

71

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