{"podcast":{"title":"The Reluctant Entrepreneur Podcast","slug":"the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244","podcast_index_feed_id":7049244,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6346062/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.mikekonrad.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/0c0e18f8fee88bf987c05cd6e1532a66.jpg","author":"Mike Konrad","episode_count":127,"summary":"I’m your host, Mike Konrad, the author of The Reluctant Entrepreneur - Anatomy of a Business Start-Up - From Uncertainty to Unstoppable, available on Amazon as a paperback, e-book, and an audible book, and I’m excited to share real stories that reveal the many paths people take to build their own businesses. Whether you stumbled into entrepreneurship or you’ve always known it was your calling, this podcast is for you. Let’s start with what it means to be a reluctant entrepreneur. Many entrepreneurs don’t set out with a grand plan to build a business. Maybe you worked for a company that didn’t value your vision, and one day you thought, “I could do this myself”, that was my story. Or maybe life pushed you in an unexpected direction—losing a job, facing a personal crisis, or discovering a passion that grew into a business. Reluctant entrepreneurs often find themselves starting a business not because they always dreamed of it, but because it was the best—or only—option available. And then there are intentional entrepreneurs. These are the people who’ve known from the start that they were meant to create something of their own. They may have planned meticulously, crafted their vision,…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T16:18:29.568615+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244"},"episode":{"title":"The Magic Is Not Magic: Vance Morris on Disney Systems, Bankruptcy, and Building Back","slug":"the-magic-is-not-magic-vance-morris-on-disney-systems-bankruptcy-and-building-back","published_at":"2026-06-08T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244/the-magic-is-not-magic-vance-morris-on-disney-systems-bankruptcy-and-building-back","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-magic-is-not-magic-vance-morris-on-disney-systems-bankruptcy-and-building-back--72334882","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72334882/re_vm_final_01.mp3","summary":"For many entrepreneurs, the journey does not begin with a business plan. It begins with a problem, a setback, or sometimes a job they never imagined would shape the rest of their career. My guest today, Vance Morris, has taken one of the more unusual paths into entrepreneurship. He went from working as a security guard in a birth control factory, to a decade in Disney management, to bankruptcy, to building a successful brick-and-mortar service business, and then helping other business owners create better customer experiences. Vance is known for taking lessons from Disney and translating them into practical systems that small businesses can actually use. Not theory. Not magic. Systems. https://vancemorris.com https://www.deliverservicenow.com/","meta_description":"For many entrepreneurs, the journey does not begin with a business plan. It begins with a problem, a setback, or sometimes a job they never imagined would…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3019,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244/episodes/the-magic-is-not-magic-vance-morris-on-disney-systems-bankruptcy-and-building-back/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reluctant-entrepreneur-podcast-7049244/the-magic-is-not-magic-vance-morris-on-disney-systems-bankruptcy-and-building-back.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}