The Necessary Entrepreneur

What if being busy is actually holding your business back? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Bill Gallagher, a four-time CEO, entrepreneur, author, and founder of Scaling Coach, who has spent more than 40 years building and scaling businesses. Bill has helped grow two companies from startup to more than $500 million and has worked with roughly 800 companies across 18 countries. Bill is the author of Busy Is Broken: Do Less, Scale More, built around a s

In this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, host Mark Perkins sits down with Joshua Evarts, entrepreneur, business owner, and author of the new book If Jesus Smoked Cigars: The Eight Lessons in Relational Leadership. Joshua has spent 25 years in business, most recently as the owner of the Vault Cigar Lounge in Meridian, Idaho, where he built a thriving community around one simple belief: relationships are not just a nice part of doing business, they are the business. His model of relational

Eric Saperston took an unconventional path into entrepreneurship. After college, he hit the road in a Volkswagen bus, asking successful and influential people if they would sit down with him for a conversation. Those interviews eventually became The Journey, an award-winning documentary that took a decade to complete and featured conversations with people including Jimmy Carter, Henry Winkler and Maya Angelou. After interviewing hundreds of extraordinary people, Eric began identifying the princ

How do you take a law firm from a one-bedroom apartment to a 150+ employee organization without losing the standards that made it successful in the first place? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Seth Bader, founder and CEO of Bader Law, one of Georgia's leading personal injury and workers' compensation firms. Seth started the firm in 2008 out of a one-bedroom apartment and grew it into a business serving tens of thousands of clients. Seth shares what he

How do you scale a business when technology is moving faster than your ability to plan for it? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Gilad Bechar, Founder & CEO of Moburst, a global digital growth company that has worked with brands including Google, Uber, Samsung, and Reddit. Gilad built Moburst from a highly specialized mobile marketing company into a much broader digital growth business, expanding through technology, AI, and strategic acquisitions. Along

What does it really take to build a successful business and a life that still works when the business gets complicated? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Dr. Thomas J. Powell, founder of The Founder’s Office, to explore the mindset, resilience, risk management, and decision-making that separate successful entrepreneurs from everyone else. Tom has spent decades working with founders and says his experience helping more than 500 founders and deploying mor