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Aug. 28, 2026
Mercedes-Benz Executive: Why Great Products Still Lose Customers | Lisa Holladay
A great product can earn the first sale, but it cannot guarantee a customer will stay. TIGER 21 Chief Experience Officer Lisa Holladay joins Ryan Alford to reveal how her years leading brand experiences for Mercedes-Benz, The Ritz-Carlton, and St. Regis shaped her approach to customer loyalty.
Lisa explains why brands need fans, how mapping every customer touchpoint creates long-term value, and why exceptional experiences matter even more when the product falls short. Ryan and Lisa a…
Aug. 28, 2026
How Mercedes-Benz, Marriott, and TIGER 21 Build Brand Loyalty | Lisa Holladay
Lisa Holladay has spent her career building loyalty for Mercedes-Benz, The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, and now TIGER 21. She joins Ryan Alford to explain how intentional customer experience turns transactions into lasting relationships and why product quality alone cannot create brand love.
Their conversation covers customer journey mapping, experiential marketing, surprise-and-delight moments, community building, and the challenge of creating meaningful value for ultra-high-net-worth m…
Aug. 25, 2026
Your Most Popular Product Might Be Killing Your Profit | Yarin Gaon
Your highest-selling product might be the exact thing draining your bank account. Fractional Partners founder Yarin Gaon joins Ryan Alford to explain why growing businesses get stuck when they chase more customers, more offers, and more revenue without understanding what actually generates profit.
Yarin breaks down his “growth by subtraction” framework and reveals how a multimillion-dollar plumbing company discovered that one of its most popular services was losing hundreds of thousa…
Aug. 25, 2026
Why More Revenue Can Mean Less Profit: Yarin Gaon on Growth by Subtraction
Yarin Gaon started his first company at 14, built and sold Israel’s largest military-goods e-commerce platform, and now helps founder-led businesses make smarter decisions about growth. On Right About Now, he joins Ryan Alford to explain why so many companies stall after reaching $1 million to $5 million in revenue and how “growth by subtraction” can improve profitability.
Their conversation covers profit mapping, unprofitable bestsellers, ideal customer profiles, leadership alignmen…
Aug. 21, 2026
The Self-Made Millionaire: Why Struggle Was His Greatest Advantage
Moses Heredia worked in agricultural fields as a child, started in merchant services at $4.25 an hour, and eventually founded Global Processing Systems. He tells Ryan Alford how a Spanish-language sales appointment earned him nearly $800, pushed him into commission sales, and set him on the path to building his own company from a Ford F-150.
Ryan and Moses unpack the obsession with winning, fair dealmaking, and old-school customer service that helped the business endure the 2008 down…
Aug. 21, 2026
The Self-Made Millionaire: Why Struggle Was His Greatest Advantage
Before founding Global Processing Systems, Moses Heredia worked crop fields with his immigrant mother, entered merchant services at $4.25 an hour, and survived a period when he could not afford basic utilities. One Spanish-language sales appointment showed him what commission could unlock; after becoming a top performer and rising through management, he walked away from an executive track to build his own company.
On Right About Now, Ryan Alford asks Moses what actually sustained tha…
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