The Third Growth Option with Benno Duenkelsbuehler and Guests
Welcome to The Third Growth Option, where we're not just talking about growth—we're making it our mission.
At TGO, we understand that success isn't a fixed destination; it's an ongoing journey with twists, turns, and unexpected detours that take us to new places. Those moments are our Third Growth Options, where we throw away binary choices to create our own path.
Hosted by Benno Duenkelsbuehler, O.G #GrowthNerd, we're on a mission to redefine success inside and outside of business, one episode at a time. From humble beginnings to Fortune 500 companies, our stories are not just about business—it's about the relentless pursuit of greatness in every aspect of life.
With each episode, we don’t just want to share insights—we want to empower business owners across all frontiers to carve their own path to success, their way.
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 175
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Making Process a Nutrient for Growth, with Brittany Toler
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Process, growth, and creativity - starting your career at 18 and scaling the corporate ladder to become a successful business executive and CEO - that's …
Heartland Mfg. Innovation to Digital Transformation
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In this episode, we are chatting with Trent Guyer, VP of Marketing and Digital Strategy at Grasshopper Mowers in Moundridge, KS—a small town in the heart…
Grow Your Own Business – or Career?
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Welcome back, podcast aficionados! In this episode with Cheri Lantz, we're diving deep into the world of recruitment and talent acquisition, with a dash …
The Creative Process – Starts and Re-Starts
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Curious about the creative process? How does it apply to innovation and teamwork in general? Enter Nick DeSario, a deeply experienced and talented furnit…
Reigniting a Classic Brand with a Start-up Mindset
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Reigniting the spark of a 48-year-old legacy company, whose founder had passed away some years ago, is a difficult balancing act. Chuck Fraelich, preside…
Growth & Grit, from Co-Founding to (Partial) Exit
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Todd and Jannetta Litzman built, evolved, merged or sold and have been running a software business for the last 25+ years. In this episode, Todd shares t…
Mature Company Growth – through Constant Reinvention.
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It’s one thing to develop a hugely successful product and build a company around it - Willow Tree is that product and industry leader DEMDACO is that com…
Aha! Moments Building a Subscription Model
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Post-acquisition integration is where most M&A acquisitions succeed or fail. Steve Nunn is CEO of Intista, a company that helps to integrate acquired sma…
Nurturing Growth – Idea to Reality
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Preet Brar, global brand leader in consumer goods and guest on this episode, understands markets and teams. I asked her about changes in the external mar…
Trees & Forests: Balancing Growth Initiatives in Midsized Companies
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My guest is John Lanman, a consumer products CEO/General Manager who cut his teeth in Marketing roles with well-known names like Thermos, Blyth Candle/Fr…
Chasing Leaders to Grow
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This episode evolved from a conversation I had with Tara Dikos, EVP at Transpac, in which she used the phrase “chasing leaders” - here, we talk about wha…
Building Community – by Nurturing Your Customers
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Growth does not happen in a vacuum, we grow with others and do so in a thousand different ways. In this episode, Patrick Keiser, Executive Director of He…
Intentional Community Building
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My guest on this episode is Tom Ungrodt, a Gift & Home Industry Community Builder and sometime (re)ALIGN Sherpa. If you’re interested in growing by joini…
Are you Intentional about your Superpowers?
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Two entrepreneurs - Gary Levine, founder/CEO of Roaring Brook Art Licensing Company, and Benno, Chief Sherpa/CEO of (re)ALIGN Expansion Sherpas - are tal…
Building 8-figure Growth from Across the Pond
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Michael Nieves shares an international expansion story: taking a UK company from a tiny six-figure USA footprint to the $25M to $30M range of US revenues…
Growing with the Millennial Samurai
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This episode is a tour de force with George Chanos, author of Millennial Samurai, a current futurist and former Attorney General of Nevada. George talks …
Synthesize to Grow
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Vic Clesceri is a uniquely well-rounded business leader, and we talk about helping people and companies to grow, by aligning corporate strategy and workf…
Nurturing Growth thru Nests
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In this episode two brand owners/founders and their sales agency partner share notes how they help each other to grow - by taking an informal yet intenti…
Growing and Innovating to Become Digital First
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Curious how a mid-sized B2B wholesale business - established decades before the internet - embraced digitalization and added a B2C channel? Sushil Arora,…
DEI, Change Management – Growing Despite Buzzwords
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Priya Klocek moved to Cincinnati from India as a 20-year-old, so she is no stranger to managing change. Now she works with leaders of businesses and orga…