The Kitchen Table

EPISODE NOTES

Guest: Jake Huotari, Co-Owner, Aspire Home Services (Maple Grove, MN)
Host: Ken Baden, CEO/Owner of Baden Consulting and Potomac Custom Remodeling

Key takeaways

Flexibility and a good attitude are core to Jake's leadership philosophy: "Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape...

🗒️ EPISODE NOTESMenace Monroe joins the show for the third time, discussing his life, music, and business ventures.He details his history in and out of incarceration starting at age 14, including a recent 6-year prison term.Discusses how a drug habit drove much of his past legal trouble, and how he's been sober and focused since coming home.Explains why he sees the music indust...

🗒️ EPISODE NOTESPeter Roth returns for his second appearance on The Kitchen Table Podcast, this time bringing detailed numbers and frameworks.Scalify specializes exclusively in human-driven outbound cold calling (AI cold calling is illegal) for booking home service estimates — no inbound, no lead reselling as a primary offering.Scalify builds fully-managed, client-owned call ce...

Episode Notes Why Ken loves doing solo episodes — using the platform for pure value, no guest filter The "lean and mean" strategy that worked great... until it didn't The complacency factor: why sales reps unconsciously coast once they hit a comfortable income The fix: going all-in on recruiting, scaling from 5-7 reps to 15-20 across two offices Why team leads need to be p...

Episode Notes Nancy's background: raised by parents with limited means, inspired by a family friend who was a CPA Left a traditional accounting career path after realizing she disliked tax, audit, and corporate work Became a stay-at-home mom while helping her husband start businesses — five failed along the way Hit rock bottom at 45: divorced, four kids, $100/week child sup...