Show Notes
Running a business is more than strategy and numbers. It’s momentum, pressure, excitement, and responsibility–often all in the same day. It’s making decisions without perfect information, trusting your instincts, and living with the outcome.
In This Is Small Business, host Andrea Marquez sits down with founders and creators to talk honestly about what it’s really like to run a business. The highs that keep you going. The moments that make you pause. The decisions that change how you see your business and yourself.
These conversations go beyond how companies grow. They get into the emotional reality of entrepreneurship: the confidence, the doubt, the energy it takes to keep showing up. If you’ve ever wondered what it actually feels like to build and run a business, this is the place for you.
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