
Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
<p>Brian Lofrumento reveals everything you need to go from wantrepreneur – or someone who WANTS to own their own business – to a money-making, action-taking entrepreneur. Discover exactly how to start a business and build a raving audience of fans and customers who want to buy your stuff, and learn exactly how to best serve your customers and clients by building a customer-centric line of products and services. Brian has built multiple six-figure businesses, including a six-figure SEO agency at the age of 24, and now helps thousands of entrepreneurs from around the world grow, automate, and scale their businesses by implementing high-converting marketing strategies and systems into their businesses. Visit the show online and get a free copy of the book, Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur, at TheWantrepreneurShow.com. Our show is made possible by the financial, time, and knowledge contributions of our amazing guests. Together with the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur host and team, our guests believe in the power of entrepreneurs lifting up other entrepreneurs, and their contributions make it possible for us to reach wantrepreneurs and entrepreneurs all over the world ad-free.</p>
43 episodes
Episodes

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Vanja Todorovic builds a cross-check for unreliable AI
As convincing AI errors become harder to spot, MelMat offers a way to compare competing answers before relying on them.
Sep 29, 2026 · 32 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Alexander Torrenegra makes the case against default fundraising
The episode examines whether founders should trade ownership and flexibility for venture capital when disciplined bootstrapping can solve real problems.
Sep 28, 2026 · 36 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Why entrepreneurial success rarely transfers cleanly
The episode argues that copying another entrepreneur’s winning channel can obscure the evidence needed to make a sound decision.
Sep 27, 2026 · 14 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Founders reveal how old skills compound into business value
The episode reframes entrepreneurship as a long game in which curiosity, discipline, technical depth, and openness can pay off years after they begin.
Sep 25, 2026 · 26 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Enterprises need an AI control plane, not another model
As AI spreads through everyday business operations, organizations need a way to govern privacy, compliance, model choice, usage, and costs.
Sep 24, 2026 · 35 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
AI hiring shifts focus from credentials to human capability
As generative AI makes resumes and digital identities harder to verify, hiring systems must balance automation with human judgment and authentic connection.
Sep 23, 2026 · 33 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Trust and fast results drive better business decisions
The episode connects project-management discipline with the human work of building trust, testing ideas, and moving through uncertainty.
Sep 22, 2026 · 34 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Nuven turns food decisions into a data problem
The episode examines whether culturally relevant AI can make healthy home cooking easier without replacing the judgment of users or founders.
Sep 21, 2026 · 33 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Entrepreneurs need evidence-resistant conviction
The episode examines when ignoring discouraging evidence becomes a necessary condition for pursuing an uncertain business vision.
Sep 20, 2026 · 13 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Founders reveal the lessons coursework never taught them
The episode shows how entrepreneurial judgment often develops through habits, work, sport, mentors, and practical experience rather than formal business education.
Sep 18, 2026 · 42 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
No-code platforms turn spreadsheet chaos into custom software
Small businesses can now shape software around their operations, but ownership still brings responsibilities for security, maintenance, uptime, and change management.
Sep 17, 2026 · 36 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Founders need an ROI playbook for agentic AI
As AI tools spread faster than businesses can evaluate them, the episode argues that measurable workflow improvements matter more than experimentation alone.
Sep 16, 2026 · 34 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
AI founders redesign higher education around learning, not cheating
As students and educators adopt AI without shared standards, Scholera’s founders are testing how universities can use it without surrendering human teaching.
Sep 15, 2026 · 33 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Small businesses find scale in disciplined operations
The episode shows how process, supply-chain visibility, data, and outside expertise can help smaller companies control costs while growing sustainably.
Sep 14, 2026 · 33 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Entrepreneurs win by executing proven ideas
The episode challenges the belief that originality is the main barrier to business success, shifting attention toward marketing, sales, delivery, and disciplined improvement.
Sep 13, 2026 · 12 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Entrepreneurs redefine hard work as judgment, leverage, and restraint
The episode examines how founders replace visible busyness and personal sacrifice with sustainable effort, effective systems, delegation, and decisions that create meaningful progress.
Sep 11, 2026 · 49 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Founders must evolve before growth stalls
The episode frames sustainable growth as a personal development challenge, requiring founders to reassess the skills, habits, mindset, and leadership that built their current success.
Sep 10, 2026 · 11 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Patience can quietly stall entrepreneurial growth
The episode reframes patience as useful only when it supports sustained progress rather than delaying decisions, testing, or execution.
Sep 9, 2026 · 9 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Constraints force entrepreneurs to rethink how they work
The episode argues that limiting available time can expose low-value work and redirect entrepreneurial effort toward higher-impact decisions.
Sep 8, 2026 · 8 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Entrepreneurs grow by expanding their universe
The episode frames growth as a deliberate expansion of perspective, relationships, skills, and routines rather than a purely business challenge.
Sep 7, 2026 · 10 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Small entrepreneurial actions can compound into future business value
The episode frames entrepreneurship as a long-term allocation problem: today’s tasks must also create assets, opportunities, and momentum for the business ahead.
Sep 7, 2026 · 12 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Doctor turns women’s healthcare frustration into a virtual practice
Emily Denis’s shift from clinician to CEO shows how unmet patient needs can become a focused, adaptable healthcare business.
Sep 4, 2026 · 32 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Two founders turn trust and mission into distinct businesses
The Grass couple’s experience shows how nonprofit disciplines can shape for-profit ventures without sacrificing authenticity or community value.
Sep 3, 2026 · 38 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Customer data reveals SaaS growth hiding in plain sight
SaaS companies may be leaving revenue untapped because they understand customer activity without understanding the needs behind it.
Sep 2, 2026 · 33 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Ask Taylor turns outfit indecision into an AI product
The episode shows how a founder can turn a personal passion into a focused business by solving a recurring problem and letting user evidence shape the product.
Sep 1, 2026 · 32 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Digna Deleon-Morris trades an $82 million territory for purpose
Her story shows how financial education, deliberate risk, and sustained effort can turn corporate success into a mission-driven business.
Aug 31, 2026 · 34 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Brian admits perfectionism kept a valuable interview unpublished
The episode examines how fear of imperfect work can block useful ideas, business progress, and service to an audience.
Aug 30, 2026 · 19 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Adaptive AI brings intelligence into everyday life
As AI moves from fixed automation toward context-aware assistance, founders must balance innovation, trust, regulation, and resilience.
Aug 28, 2026 · 38 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
AI prototypes still need a business before they become products
The episode separates technical possibility from product readiness, showing why customer value, security, reliability, ownership, and sales determine whether an idea can become a business.
Aug 27, 2026 · 32 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
AI reads leadership readiness beyond resumes
Better signals of capacity could help organizations reduce biased hiring, improve role fit, and understand how people grow into more complex work.
Aug 26, 2026 · 32 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Fractional CFOs turn financial data into scalable growth
Founders need more than accurate books to make better decisions, build durable companies, and prepare for a sale, succession, or legacy.
Aug 25, 2026 · 35 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
AI agents turn business context into action
As companies adopt rapidly changing AI tools, the durable advantage may lie in connecting their operational context to workflows that actually get completed.
Aug 24, 2026 · 32 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Entrepreneurs must repeat their message before audiences remember it
Constantly changing a brand’s message can create confusion, while disciplined repetition builds recognition, trust, and authority.
Aug 23, 2026 · 14 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Founders can replace chaotic growth with operating discipline
Sustainable growth depends less on making every decision faster than on diagnosing operational causes and building systems people can actually use.
Aug 21, 2026 · 31 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Consensus engines make AI more reliable for legal intake
The episode examines whether combining AI systems can improve high-stakes business decisions without losing the human context that shapes outcomes.
Aug 20, 2026 · 30 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Personalized AI turns curiosity into prototypes
The conversation frames AI as a way to extend individual judgment and research capacity without replacing the questions that drive innovation.
Aug 19, 2026 · 37 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Small businesses turn Philippine talent into a strategic advantage
The episode examines how dedicated offshore teams can give smaller companies specialized talent, lower costs, and stronger operating capacity without corporate-scale infrastructure.
Aug 18, 2026 · 33 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
AI turns e-commerce bottlenecks into operating leverage
The episode connects the hard-won realities of building a seven-figure pet brand with a practical method for applying AI where businesses actually stall.
Aug 17, 2026 · 31 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Shrink the timeline to overcome overwhelm
Ambitious plans can become paralyzing when viewed too far ahead, while a shorter horizon turns progress into a manageable, repeatable action.
Aug 16, 2026 · 13 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
A founder scales behavioral services through values and trust
The episode connects entrepreneurial growth with the harder work of expanding ethical, culturally aware behavioral support into underserved communities.
Aug 14, 2026 · 32 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Robotics founder turns attention into an entrepreneurial mission
The episode examines how entrepreneurs can address technology’s effects on attention and connection without treating technology itself as the enemy.
Aug 13, 2026 · 34 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Clasp turns loan repayment into healthcare talent strategy
Healthcare employers face persistent talent shortages while students carry costly training debt, creating an opening for benefits that serve recruitment and retention at once.
Aug 12, 2026 · 35 min

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business
Senior care needs profitable innovation to meet aging demand
Aging-in-place models could expand care beyond nursing homes, but mission-driven organizations need sound economics, leadership, and technology to make them durable.
Aug 11, 2026 · 32 min
