Scaling an online brand requires a balance between Amazon acquisition and DTC margins. Duncan & Stone co-founder Garrett Peters joins the show to share a clear framework for building an e-commerce flywheel, managing operational fatigue, and surviving the psychological friction of business growth.

Venture capital can be a profit trap. Cameron Magee of avad3 Event Production shares how he scaled a multi-state logistics brand without external funding, managing seasonal valleys by avoiding heavy fixed overhead and funding growth entirely through organic customer revenue.