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Jeremy Hunka bought a $2m cabinet business, and year one consumed him. Leadership had to evolve for things to improve.
Topics in Jeremy’s interview:
- Buying a business at age 27
- Rocky first day as owner
- Living 1.5 hours from the business
- Employees wanting him present every day
- Taking too long to fire an employee
- Watching sales drop dangerously low
- Facing resistance from employees
- Learning to balance empathy with boundaries
- Hiring a great sales leader
- Installing a CEO to run the day-to-day
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron
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