Optimized Entrepreneur / Jeremy Hanson
Optimized Entrepreneur with Jeremy Hanson is an entrepreneurship podcast for small business owners and service business owners who refuse to sacrifice marriage, family, health, or peace of mind just to grow a company. Your business should create an incredible life—not steal it. Hosted by Jeremy Hanson, a 30-year entrepreneur who built his life through service businesses, stayed married, and raised 13 awesome kids. This is real-world business advice from someone who has made payroll and still chose to be a husband and a father. Tuesdays are Unleashed Entrepreneur: small business strategy for service businesses—operations, systems, customers, leadership, and growth. Thursdays cover the side most business podcasts skip: marriage, parenting, work-life balance, anxiety, identity, and how to build a company that serves your life instead of controlling it. Learn how to grow a profitable small business, stay married while you scale, raise strong awesome kids, lead under pressure, manage entrepreneur anxiety, and create systems that give you freedom—not more stress. No hype. No influencer tactics. Just proven strategies for business owners who want ownership of their income and their life. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Get the Built Different newsletter and more at optimized1.com and jeremyhanson.pro. entrepreneurship podcast, small business podcast, service business, business owner, leadership, marriage, parenting, work life balance, entrepreneur mindset, blue collar entrepreneurship
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Recent Episodes
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Sept. 24, 2026
OPTIMIZED ENTREPRENEUR WHEN IT'S TIME TO CUT PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR LIFE
Every entrepreneur has a version of the eleven-forty phone call. The name that appears on the screen before you look at it. The crisis you didn't cause and are expected to solve. The spouse who stopped commenting on it two years ago. In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur, Jeremy Hanson takes on the subject most people avoid entirely: the point at which a relationship stops being a hard season somebody is moving through and becomes a permanent pattern of destruction you are financing with you
203
Sept. 22, 2026
BUILD IT TO SELL IT Why the Three-Year Service Business May Be One of the Best Investments You're Overlooking
Most entrepreneurs build a business they intend to keep forever, and a surprising number of them end up owning a job with a logo painted on the side of a truck. In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur, Jeremy Hanson lays out a completely different model: choosing an unglamorous service industry on purpose, building the company as an asset from the first day of operation, and preparing it for a sale that may happen in thirty-six months. Pressure washing, HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, pest contro
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Sept. 17, 2026
OPTIMIZED ENTREPRENEUR SUMMER IS OVER — TIME TO GET OPTIMIZED
Everything between the markers goes into the RSS.com notes editor as written. Plain text. No bold, no headings, no manual hyperlinks. Type the URLs raw and let the apps linkify them, because every anchor tag you add eats forty or more hidden characters out of your 4,000. --- BEGIN NOTES --- Summer is over. The kids are back in school, football is back, and somewhere in corporate America somebody has already put Christmas decorations on a shelf. For entrepreneurs, that means playtime is over to
203
Sept. 15, 2026
OPTIMIZED ENTREPRENEUR WHAT IS THE BEST VERSION OF YOU?
What is the best version of you? Not the richest version. Not the version with the biggest company. The version that exists when nobody is watching. Most entrepreneurs can tell you their revenue target, their headcount goal, and the number that would finally make them feel like they made it. Almost none of them can tell you who they are trying to become while they get there. In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur, Jeremy Hanson takes apart a question that sounds simple and turns out to be th
202
Sept. 10, 2026
How to Raise Kids Who Are Not Afraid to Work | Building Work Ethic, Responsibility & Resilience
How do you raise kids who aren’t afraid of hard work? In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur with Jeremy Hanson, Jeremy explores how parents can teach children work ethic, responsibility, resilience, discipline, ownership, and the confidence that comes from doing difficult things. We live in a world where parents naturally want to give their children opportunities they may not have had themselves. But there is a difference between giving your kids a better life and removing every obstacle fr
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Sept. 8, 2026
OPTIMIZED ENTREPRENEUR EPISODE 201 THE MONOTONY OF SCALE WHY CONSISTENCY BUILDS WHAT TALENT CANNOT KEEP
Two hundred episodes gets a graphic. Two hundred and one gets a Tuesday. Jeremy Hanson opens the two hundred and first episode of Optimized Entrepreneur by pointing at the number nobody celebrates and explaining why it is the only one that proves anything. Two hundred is a photograph, a moment where a person stands still long enough for somebody to take the picture. Two hundred and one is the machine still running after the picture was taken, and the distance between those two numbers is the sub
Recent Blog Posts
Jan. 9, 2026
2026: The Year of the Service Entrepreneur
2026: The Year of the Service Entrepreneur Are you ready to seize a once-in-a-decade opportunity? The data is clear: 2026 is shaping up to be an extraordinary year for service entrepreneurs. In this blog post, we'll dive deep into the numbers and t…
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