EOS Podcasts

Eric V. Holtzclaw built his career turning ideas into businesses: launching Liger Partners (yes, that’s a Napoleon Dynamite reference), building a research company, and learning firsthand what happens when a founder’s ambition collides with a revenue ceiling. Having to figure out how to leave a difficult partnership, while under serious pressure to keep growing, forced him to look inward and explore what it was he really wanted out of his business.

Jonathan Reynolds built Titus Talent Strategies on a simple, stubborn belief: Get the Right People in the Right Seats, and genuinely care about them, and everything else will follow. But as the company grew past what just one person could hold, that belief started to crack under its own weight. The pressure to personally know everyone, stay central to every decision, protect a culture he built, and keep proving his worth exposed something harder to face: What if the healthiest version of Titus Talent needed him… less?

Derek Volk spent decades turning his family’s Maine packaging company into a $50 million operation. He worked hard to build it just the way his father and grandfather had before him. Then, three weeks from closing a sale that would have let him walk away clean, the deal fell apart.