In this episode of The FAFO Podcast, I sit down with entrepreneur and author Rich Ashton to talk about a question every business owner eventually needs to answer: Can you build a business that no longer needs you?

Rich bought a nearly bankrupt HVAC company in 1988 and spent decades rebuilding it, but one of his biggest lessons wasn't about sales or revenue—it was learning how to develop the people already working for him into leaders capable of running the business without him.

We talk about leadership in the blue-collar world, trusting employees, giving up control, making mistakes, developing leaders from within, and why being indispensable might actually be one of the worst things a business owner can do.

We also get into Rich's book, Growing Your Own: Common Sense Advice for Developing Leaders Within a Small Business, and how building those leaders eventually allowed him to do something many entrepreneurs never manage to do: walk away and retire.

A fun, insightful conversation with a guy who's got four decades of real-world lessons from the trenches of small business.

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