Do This If You Want to Build A Business You Love (Dave Ramsey Interview) | Ep 844
episodePreviously titled “Do This If You Want to Build A Business You Love (Dave Ramsey Interview) | Ep 871” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What are the key lessons from Dave Ramsey's business journey?
You're about to see a fascinating conversation I had with Dave Ramsey, where we talk about how he makes money, the advantages of in-person versus remote, a project that he lost millions of dollars on that I think has underlying lessons that any business owner can take from them. And finally, five stages of scaling all entrepreneurs go through. I think you're gonna love it. Enjoy. Welcome everyone to the game. I'm here with Dave Ramsey, the man, the myth, the legend.
Honor to be back with you, my friend. I'm so excited with everything that's happening with you guys. You're blowing up, man. I'm proud to watch you. It's great.
Well, thank you. We're trying to follow in the Ramsey footsteps. There's so much stuff that I had written down and prepared for today, and I doubt we'll get to all of it. But if you could walk me through just kind of lay of the land in terms of Ramsey Solutions as the business exists today, because I think it'll be helpful for the audience to give context.
Yeah, what what ended up happening with us was we classic entrepreneurs. um you know we were um we bit add and so uh you know just something something flashy and uh shiny went in front of us we would look at it because but it all came through the funnel of or the filter of does this serve our mission and our mission is just to help people uh with common sense education and empowerment in some area in their life it started in the money piece And so when I first started, I was doing a free I was working for free at a talk radio station, doing a little talk radio show on the local station. And I print a little book, start selling it out of the trunk of my car. So publishing was born. Right. And then we did an event at the local Ramada Inn. So live events were born. And so each of these in those days, everything was analog.
Of course, the Internet comes along and one of these kids working for me comes in and goes, hey, we need a Web site. And I'm like, what's that? And so we built a website on one of those tiny little antique. You ought to look them up. They're cool. Those little first little Apple computers, the first little they look like a little shoe box. And he built it, built us a site on there with cold fusion. And it was pitiful, but it was still cutting edge. It was a big time deal in those days because nobody had a website. We had one of the first people had a web store to sell stuff online. because it was a platform again platform platform platform so we're platform agnostic and anytime we see a and a new on our emerging platform analog or digital we're going to put our toe in the water and keep doing the ones we're already doing we're not going to abandon them if they die on their own fine uh if something runs its course we're done with it but uh but but and
You know, we just go on and do the next thing. And a guy walks in my office in the early 2000s and says, we need a podcast. And what's a podcast? I don't even know what this is. And we were one of the first, certainly one of the first in talk radio to put a podcast out because the talk radio people resisted it. They were afraid it was competition. So on and on and on and on it goes. And now we end up today, we've got about 14 profit centers here inside the organization today. There's about 1,100 of us, 650,000 square foot campus that you've been here and hung out with us at our home. And, um, and so we've got the entre leadership brand where we're teaching leadership and coaching small businesses.
And we've got events around that books around that the book we're talking about today is from that, that idea. Uh, and we've got a huge coaching business in that area, coaching small businesses, uh, 200 and fewer team members. And, um, we're not real good with the large corporate goobers. We don't help them much. So, um, And then obviously we've got all the stuff in the money space. Financial Peace University is now digital. It's no longer a VHS or a DVD or even an MP3. It's a digital format. We're rolling that up into slowly. We're in beta to slowly start to move pieces of that into the EveryDollar app, which is one of the largest budgeting apps on the planet right now. We've had 50 million downloads with that. That app is huge. It's exploding, and it's fabulous.
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