Small Business, Big Lessons

Episode 8: Letting Go

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part of the journey of small business ownership sometimes involves letting go, branching out into new areas and trying out new things. This could be l...

Episode 7: Taking A Stand

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

By standing still and not speaking out on the issues that matter to you and your customers, you run the risk of alienating your audience. But when doi...

Episode 6: Getting Support As A Small Business Owner

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Starting and running your own business can be incredibly stressful. This is why having a good support network is invaluable for entrepreneurs. Having ...

Episode 5: Growing Your Impact

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you go about increasing the weight and reach of your impact as a business? How do you measure impact and know if you’re on the right track?In...

Episode 4: Growing Your Business

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you know when to say ‘yes’ to opportunities for growth and ‘no’ to the things that will lead you from your path?In this episode we brin...

Episode 3: Intentionally Staying Small

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Does success always have to equal growth? As businesses get bigger they will inevitably change what they do and how they do it. So what if the whole r...

Episode 2: Turning Down Big Money

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Would you turn down a nine figure offer to buy your business? We hear from Buffer CEO, Joel Gascoigne, who did just that, along with stories from incr...

Episode 1: On Cultivating Community

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Community is at the center of many impactful small businesses. Whether we’re talking about the people who work with you to build your company or the...

Season 2 Trailer: Small Business, Big Lessons

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Small Business, Big Lessons is a podcast from Buffer that goes behind-the-scenes with inspirational small businesses to explore how they are questioni...

Episode 8: How small businesses drive change

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can small businesses drive real societal change? As the founder of Gullybean, a hemp farm in Hudson Valley, New York, Damian Fagon is part of a sm...

Episode 7: The circular economy

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean for a business to act sustainably? Using greener materials and manufacturing processes as well as changing consumer behavior are vit...

Episode 6: Open book management

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Since Zingerman’s first opened its doors in 1982, it has become an institution in Ann Arbor, Michigan. On the surface, it’s a collection of food-r...

Episode 5: People-first business

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does the future of work look like? What would happen if work was less about businesses and what they need to grow, and more about people and what...

Episode 4: Employee ownership

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s driving the growth of employee-owned businesses? Can employee ownership solve the tension between employees and owners? How does it benefit S...

Episode 3: Building in public

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to build a business in public? Should you share business decisions in real-time and admit to your mistakes publicly? Is there value ...

Episode 2: Staying true to your why

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it look like to stay true to your "why", and how can it lead to better business decisions? Finding your why and building a business around t...

Episode 1: Getting better at staying small

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can small businesses have an outsized impact? Is there a way to stay small and push against the cultural conditioning of ‘scale at all costs’? Wha...

Season 1 Trailer: Small Business, Big Lessons

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas