ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Last Bolt is a podcast about what it really takes to build, run, and pass on a small business when real people and real livelihoods are on the line.
Hosted by Steve Glod, each episode is a deep, practical conversation with founders, operators, buyers, and second generation owners who are living inside the work. We talk about succession, trust, family dynamics, buying and selling businesses, systemizing what lives in your head, and turning founder driven companies into ones that can scale, transfer, and survive beyond a single person.
These are not surface level interviews. They are the conversations about how businesses actually work, how decisions get made under pressure, and what it feels like to step into ownership, whether you are taking over a family company, buying a business, or preparing for the next chapter.
Produced by Rowan, the human centered, AI powered platform helping business owners prepare for succession, growth, and transition with clarity and care.
Learn more at trustrowan.com
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 9 days
Average audio length:
54 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
11 episodes
since Feb. 16, 2026
episodic
explicit content
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Steve sits down with Andrew Henke, co-founder of Lever, to trace a remarkable journey from Division I basketball at the Air Force Academy to building Sports Academy (a "Four Seasons of sports" training facility that caught Kobe Bryant's attention) to modernizing an old-school plastics manufacturing…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Ron Khormaei left Iran at 15, attended high school across four countries, earned four consecutive degrees in Oregon, and eventually founded Steelport Knife Co., an employee-owned American manufacturer based in Portland. In this episode, Ron shares how navigating uncertainty as a young immigrant sha…
Anthony Tokosky grew up behind the register of his parents' Chinese restaurant in San Diego. His dad swam from China to Hong Kong with nothing. His mom worked as a bus girl before buying the same restaurant 20 years later.
n this episode of The Last Bolt, Anthony shares how he went from software en…
Ross Gale's family has been in the machinery business for five generations.
In this episode of The Last Bolt, Ross shares how IPP Group evolved from scrapping junk cars to buying, relocating, and repopulating entire chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants across the globe. We talk about th…
Tory Cosich's dad left Xerox at 26 to start a company out of his father's garage. He built it, sold it, and then started over at the dinner table with his four sons.In this episode of The Last Bolt, Tory shares how Proven IT grew from zero customers in 2003 to over $100M in revenue — and what it ac…
Anthony Manna started his career with multiple failed startups. Chasing ideas that never quite landed. Now he's the President of Hello Sunray, a commercial solar company operating under M7, his family's investment office.
In this episode of The Last Bolt, Anthony talks about failing forward, knowin…
John Stencel did not just inherit a family business. He helped reinvent it.
In this episode of The Last Bolt, John shares how his family’s company evolved from a traditional machinery dealer into a specialized testing equipment business with customers across manufacturing, aerospace, defense, and …
Tatsuya Nakagawa started his first business at just 10 years old selling pears by the bus stop.Now he's the CEO and founder of eco-friendly roof coating company Castagra.In this episode of The Last Bolt, Tatsuya talks about what makes a great entrepreneur. We talk about focus, resilience, industry …
Dan Mihelich didn’t start out on a shop floor.
He built his career in accounting, investment banking, and private equity-backed M&A. He learned how to value companies, sell them, and buy them. But eventually, advising wasn’t enough.
In this episode of The Last Bolt, Dan shares why he left cor…
Your classic story: a father builds the business. A son takes it over.
But what makes the difference between survival and scale?
In this episode, Brett Newman shares how he stepped into a family business and applied lessons from startups to modernize operations, build systems, and create something…
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