
Manufacturing Professionals will receive immediate and actionable insight into high-level issues of running a small to mid-sized manufacturing company. All communicated in an easy-to-digest 20 minutes by your expert podcaster and second-generation business owner, Jim Carr.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 154 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Business | |||

In this continuation of Three Generations, One Exit, we move past the idea of selling and into the reality of doing it. The conversations get tougher, the stakes get higher, and the margin for error gets smaller.
We unpack what really happens durin... more
This episode hits home.
I sat down with a close friend—a third-generation machine shop owner—who took his family business all the way through a private equity exit. From the outside, it looks like a win… but behind the scenes, it was anything but s... more
Automation didn't fail us—the wrong partner did.
In Part 2 of this two-part series, Jim Carr and Ryan Carr finish the story behind a CNC automation retrofit that went off the rails—and get into what really matters: the lessons. This is where they b... more
Automation is supposed to make your shop faster, leaner, and more profitable. But what happens when the company you trust to retrofit your CNC turns out to be the wrong partner?
In this episode, Jim Carr sits down with Ryan Carr for the first of ma... more
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I am an executive in the cybersecurity space. I found Jim Carr’s podcast while searching for ways to understand our manufacturing clients better, and boy, I get a lot more out of his episodes than I ever expected. I just forwarded his 1/2/26 episode about networking to our marketing and sales team. Jim’s clear and concise content and delivery makes it a dense, attention demanding experience, in the best way. A podcast for every business leader; nuggets and take-aways for all. Thank you, Jim!... more
Jim’s honest accounts of his experiences, successes and mistakes are invaluable for other owners trying to navigate their own challenges.









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