{"podcast":{"title":"Built to Sell Radio","slug":"built-to-sell-radio-3693","podcast_index_feed_id":3693,"rss_url":"https://builttosell.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://builttosell.com/radio","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/c/5/4/3c540c97997e1129bafc7308ab683e82/Built_to_Sell_Radio_Cover_Art_1400x1400_JPEG.jpg","author":"Hosted by John Warrillow, the creator of The Value Builder System™.","episode_count":562,"summary":"Built to Sell Radio is a weekly podcast for business owners interested in selling a business. Each week, we ask an entrepreneur who has recently sold a business why they decided to sell their business, what they did right and what mistakes they made through the process of exiting their business. Built to Sell Radio is the ultimate insider's guide to approaching the most important financial transaction of your life.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T14:17:47.601524+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/built-to-sell-radio-3693"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 553 Why 17.5% of Owners Are Burnt Out and Want to Sell","slug":"ep-553-why-17-5-of-owners-are-burnt-out-and-want-to-sell","published_at":"2026-07-03T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/built-to-sell-radio-3693/ep-553-why-17-5-of-owners-are-burnt-out-and-want-to-sell","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/built-to-sell-radio-3693","url":"https://builttosell.libsyn.com/ep-553-why-175-of-owners-are-burnt-out-and-want-to-sell","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/builttosell/Panel_Episode_Edit.mp3?dest-id=269159","summary":"More owners than ever say they are simply tired. A look at 10,255 PREScore ™ assessments over six years found that 17.5% pointed to burnout, not retirement, as the number one reason they want out. So the question went to two people who spend their days on the buy side, valuing companies and deciding what to pay. Lee McCabe is a private equity veteran who advises PE firms on the businesses they acquire . Jason Swenk built marketing agencies and spent time acquiring them. In this episode, you discover how to tell whether burnout is a signal to sell or a problem worth fixing first, and how a buyer prices the difference either way.","meta_description":"More owners than ever say they are simply tired. A look at 10,255 PREScore ™ assessments over six years found that 17.5% pointed to burnout, not retiremen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2499,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/built-to-sell-radio-3693/episodes/ep-553-why-17-5-of-owners-are-burnt-out-and-want-to-sell/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/built-to-sell-radio-3693/ep-553-why-17-5-of-owners-are-burnt-out-and-want-to-sell.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}