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The Black Belt Business Podcast
The Black Belt Business Podcast goes inside the daily grind of building a business — the mindset, the mistakes, and the reps nobody sees — with founders, operators, and marketers across the Triangle.
Hosted by Triangle Marketing Club — the same community that's spent over a decade helping Triangle marketers learn, network, and mentor one another — this is where that conversation continues, one episode at a time.
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About the Show
Every episode, we sit down with business owners, marketers, and operators doing real work across the Triangle and beyond. We skip the highlight reel and get into the actual process — the decisions, the setbacks, and the discipline it takes to keep going.
Four threads run through every conversation:
- The Spark
- What actually pushed our guests to bet on themselves and start the business.
- The Joy
- The wins that make the risk worth it.
- The Trials
- The mistakes, curveballs, and near-misses nobody plans for.
- The Grind
- How our guests get back on the mat after a bad day and show up again tomorrow.
Coming Soon
The First Episodes
- Ep 01Episode 01
Sparring with the Market
How to read your market's next move and counter before it lands: adapting, pivoting, and staying light on your feet when your competitors — or the economy — throw a punch you didn't see coming.
- Ep 02Episode 02
From Practitioner to Owner
The hardest transition in business: stepping back from the craft that made you good — coding, baking, teaching karate — to actually run the company.
More episodes are in the works.
Be the first to know when Episode 01 drops.
Want to Be a Guest?
Got a story about building something from the ground up — the wins and the near-disasters included? We're booking guests for our first season now.
The Black Belt Business Podcast is looking for founders, operators, and marketers from the Triangle (and beyond) who are willing to talk honestly about what it actually takes to run a business.
Applications are handled on our Get Involved page — not through the general contact form.
Interested in sponsoring an episode, or helping build the show behind the scenes? Reach out to the Triangle Marketing Club team →
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