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Growing Your Own with Rich Ashton

Growing Your Own with Rich Ashton

By: Stacey Chillemi
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You don’t need an MBA to build killer managers... You need a roadmap.

After 40 years of growing a thriving HVAC & plumbing company, Rich Ashton cracked the code on turning technicians and salespeople into confident, accountable leaders.

This show is for small business owners who are tired of:
• Promoting the wrong people

• Babysitting managers

• Putting out leadership fires

• Hoping “they’ll figure it out”

The clarity of this podcast delivers real-world leadership psychology without the corporate jargon—just practical tools, real stories, and immediate results.

If you want to grow your own managers instead of hiring headaches… You’re in the right place.The Advisor Network Career Success Economics Leadership Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Why Your Team Keeps Quitting — And How to Fix It

    Why Your Team Keeps Quitting — And How to Fix It
    May 27 2026
    Most small businesses don't have a strategy problem — they have a culture problem. And it's costing them their best people.

    Lisa Urbanski sits down with Rich Ashton, founder of Growing Your Own, to show you how to build a workplace culture that retains talent, develops leaders, and sets you free.

    You'll learn:
    🔥 What a healthy culture actually looks like in a small business
    🏗️ The hiring turnaround story that went from 20% to 80%
    🧠 How to instill culture before someone's first day
    ⚠️ The AI threat most leaders aren't talking about
    🚀 The shortcut to developing your next layer of leaders

    Connect with Rich Ashton:
    🌐 Website: https://www.growingyourown.net/

    📘 Book: Growing Your Own
    • Barnes & Nobles
    • Amazon

    💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-ashton-397a2b10/
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    28 mins
  • Breaking Invisible Ceilings: How to Overcome Hidden Barriers to Leadership

    Breaking Invisible Ceilings: How to Overcome Hidden Barriers to Leadership
    Mar 25 2026
    What if the biggest thing holding you back in your career or leadership isn’t external at all?

    In this episode, Lisa Urbanski talks with leadership expert Rich Ashton, author of Growing Your Own, about the hidden beliefs, internal patterns, and “invisible ceilings” that can quietly limit confidence, growth, and leadership potential.

    In this conversation, you’ll learn:
    ✨ What invisible ceilings are and why they’re so hard to recognize

    ✨ How the environment shapes confidence, leadership, and self-belief

    ✨ What it looks like to break through a leadership ceiling in real life

    ✨ Why leadership growth happens in small, practical steps

    ✨ How organizations can better support emerging leaders

    Connect with Rich Ashton:
    🌐 Website: https://www.growingyourown.net/

    📘 Book: Growing Your Own
    • Barnes & Nobles
    • Amazon

    💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-ashton-397a2b10/
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    36 mins
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