In this episode, Ruby Powers sits down with Warren Fiihr — business coach, franchise owner of ActionCOACH Sugar Land, and soon-to-be author of Trust Your Caddy — for a wide-ranging conversation about what it actually takes to build a business that grows beyond you.
Warren grew up on a farm in Iowa, spent decades running TV stations and advertising companies across the country, and eventually landed in Houston to do what he's always done: fix broken things. Today he coaches business owners — including professional service firms — on the strategies, team dynamics, and culture that separate the ones that scale from the ones that stay stuck.
What we explore:
✅ What Got You Here Won't Get You There: Why the hustle, grit, and sales instinct that got a firm to $2M or $4M is not the same skill set that gets it to the next level — and why business owners resist that truth longer than they should.
✅ Hire Slow, Fire Fast — Or Pay for It: Why the best interview is the best someone will ever be. Why marginal people don't get better. And why hanging onto the wrong person way too long is one of the most common and costly mistakes Warren sees.
✅ Delegation Is a Time Investment: The first time you hand something off, it's a negative ROI. The 20th time, it's pure upside. Why slowing down to train — and teaching your team to think critically instead of just bringing you their problems — is the unlock most leaders skip.
✅ Culture Isn't Tacos and Birthday Cake: Warren's USA framework — urgency, skills, attitude — and why culture isn't what you say it is, it's what you do in the small moments, especially when things go wrong.
✅ The Outside View: Why looking outside your industry — at ballerinas, Navy ships, Savannah Bananas, and bike teams — consistently produces the best breakthroughs. And why getting out of the building, literally, changes how you think.
✅ AI as the Next Delegation Layer: A candid, unplanned thread running through the episode — Ruby's current obsession with transforming her firm's operations with AI, and Warren's firsthand experience with what's actually possible when you stop making excuses and just try it.
If you've been working harder than ever and wondering why the firm isn't growing the way it should — this episode names exactly what's in the way.
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Book: Trust Your Caddy — coming soon
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