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Printavo PrintHustlers Podcast
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Discover amazing stories & lessons from fellow shop owners and industry leaders. Hosted by Bruce Ackerman and Steven Farag
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34: Running a Financially Transparent Contract Shop with We Talk Shirty
Yesterday00:41:24Tap to summarizeBruce sits down with Ron Augelli from We Talk Shirty, who built his shop from a college dorm room to a 40-employee operation running almost entirely on contract work. After stepping back from day-to-day operations for over a year to recover from a health setback, Ron returns with a sharper view on what growth actually means, how he vets customers before they ever fill out a contact form, and why he'd pay for outside advice years earlier if he could do it again.
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33: 10 Questions To Ask Before You Plan Your Next Quarter
1w ago00:37:04Tap to summarizeBruce and Steven sit down for a hosts-only episode to reflect on the first half of the year and build a real plan for Q4 — the quarter that makes or breaks the year for most shops. They break down the "one more order a day" math behind hitting growth targets, why AI-generated graphics are starting to make every shop's marketing look the same, when it's actually worth hiring a brand agency, and the "clone yourself" hire that could be the highest-leverage role in your business.
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32: Lee Stuart on What He'd Change: Hiring, Mental Health, and Life Past $1M
2w ago00:51:18Tap to summarizeLee Stuart (Rogue Lab / Rogue Transfers) joins Bruce and Steven for an update on scaling a 6-person screen print shop into a 60,000+ sq ft, multi-business operation — plus his systemization playbook, his AI tech stack, and the moment being "the best printer in the world" almost broke his business.
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The $500M Chess Move Rocking the Apparel Industry
3w ago00:28:55Tap to summarizeSanMar just pulled Bella+Canvas exclusively in-house — 37 days after telling the market nothing would change. Bruce and Steven break down the timeline, why S&S Activewear's private-equity playbook just got disrupted, and whether Gildan is circling S&S next.
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How One Shop Owner Got 15 Employees Using AI in 4 Months
3w ago00:53:15Tap to summarizeMatt Marcotte (Free Gang Sheet Maker, ScreenPrintGPT.com) joins Steven Farag solo (Bruce is out — he just welcomed a baby girl 👶) to talk about what's actually stopping print shop employees from adopting AI — and it's not laziness. They get into the psychology of resistance, how to find and empower an "AI champion" in your shop, and real numbers from tools Matt's built that are being used by thousands of shops.
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How to Turn Your Order Taker Into a $1M/Year Sales Machine
Jun 2400:52:00Tap to summarizeMost print shops have untapped revenue sitting in their current customer list — and the person to unlock it is already on your payroll. Steven sits down with Kevin Baumgart (Sales Ink, fractional VP of Sales at Campus Ink) to break down exactly how to
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Working Less is Not The Goal
Jun 1500:44:32Tap to summarizeDan Frank of Silver Screen Printing is back — and a LOT has changed since his last appearance on the show. Dan went from a $2.7M print shop to projecting $23M this year with 110 employees, 60,000 sq ft, and facilities that essentially never close. Along the way: a full company restructure, two managers who had to move on, 15% raises across the leadership team, and a deliberate shift from being an operator to being a coach.
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Taking a Manufacturing Approach to T-Shirt Production with Rodney McDonald
Jun 300:47:58Tap to summarizeRunning 210 people, 12 automatic presses, three shifts, and 30,000+ units per day isn't a hustle story — it's a manufacturing story. Rodney McDonald of US ColorWorks built one of the most operationally sophisticated contract decorating shops in the country by bringing private equity turnaround discipline to the apparel industry.
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The Biggest Free Event in Screen Printing Is Happening at Made Lab | Brett Bowden
May 2000:40:16Tap to summarizeBrett Bowden of Made Lab and Printed Threads joins Steven to talk about the Make Ready open house event happening June 12th in Fort Worth, TX — and what the print industry needs to understand about AI right now.
Transcribe →How a Shop in Canada's Smallest Province Is Outbuilding Most Shops in the US
May 1300:46:31Tap to summarizeColtin Handrahan started Stay Golden Custom in his high school student council office on Prince Edward Island — Canada's smallest province — and he's been proving that geography is no excuse ever since. Fourteen years in, he runs a 12-person operation with a second location now open in Halifax and a third potentially on the way.
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