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
The Other Camp David – an Investment Banker’s Growth Ideas
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When I’m in the market for thoughtful, intentional and sound advice, over the years I have turned to David Deutsch, a NYC investment banker, board member…
World’s Largest Furniture Store – Now What?
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Furnitureland South is a 52-year-young company, one location the size of a dozen or so Home Depot stores (1,300,000 square feet!) that became the world’s…
To Thrive on Shifting Ground, Be a Mammal
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Before founding a software company, Brett Goldberg was an importer and distributor of a very successful line of skincare products. Brett loves to build t…
Small Business – Big Dreams
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Darin Vilano grew up around small businesses and knows how to help them. After an early career with big corporations, he returned to his roots to create …
Embrace the Learning Curve
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In this episode my guest Lynn Provenzano shares how she leans into and thrived in 4 distinctly different work environments in her career. Lynn shares wha…
Family Business – Challenges & Joys
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Starting and running a business is hard. Do you have family members in your business or are you considering asking family members to join? For some of us…
Overinvest in Culture – and other growth approaches
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If you care about culture in your business, Tim Metzner (serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Coterie and other successful start-ups) offers great insights…
What’s your Brand’s Job?
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Interested in organizing principles to “focus the blur” of branding, marketing and strategy? This conversation with Ben Greenberg and Sebastien Hue – thi…
Plan Strategically & Remain Situational – lessons from the Art Business
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How do you keep growing when both your product and your customers constantly shift? Since 2003, Gary Levine’s company has sold licensed art (with constan…
Community Colleges –American Dream Growth Engine
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“Community colleges have low self-esteem” – as a graduate of both a community college and an ivy-league university I can relate to that sentiment. Becaus…
Purpose-driven Business: Fusing Clean Energy with Capitalism
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My guest Steve Melink shares a powerful and very important story: highly knowledgeable about clean energy, he built a case why clean energy is critically…
eDesign – Virtually Design Virtually Everything
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As our life becomes more digital, we need to grow and learn new skills to keep up. Covid has accelerated that trend – not just Zoom calls and filesharing…
The World’s First Ever All-Digital Designer Showhouse
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When an entrepreneur envisions boldly… risks… invites industry stars to participate… creates a first of its kind in the history of the world event… and i…
Chasing Digital Growth, faster and more profitably
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Adam Smith founded SoundPress, his digital marketing agency 20 years ago in 2000. Today his team serves Fortune 50 companies in the automotive industry a…
You are not the Hero – Storytelling for Marketers
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Mark Haas talks about story structure and how to ‘flip the script’ – focus on the customer’s problem, not the product, not your company. The pattern in s…
Settler vs. Pioneer – lessons from a Cannabis Start-up
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Despite (relatively minor) audio challenges, this turned out to be a great episode. If you ever moved from big “settler” company to “pioneer” work in a s…
Storytelling – or: Bootstrapping a $100M Start-up
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Remember FiveFingers Shoes? Neither did most consumers a dozen years ago, until it became a B2B manufacturer’s amazing B2C success story. Michael Martin,…
Never Integrate or Grow: Pre/Post Acquisition Challenges
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Spoiler alert: integrate or grow is a false choice, you can and should do both, walk and chew gum, integrate and grow. But too often poor integration bet…
Can Three Things Improve your Business, really?
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Paul Heagen has a talent for making the complex simple, and in our discussion about his latest book These Three Things we talk about Pride, Safety, and L…
Growing your Company using Brand Licensing
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After his first job as CPA at Arthur Anderson ended shortly after the Berlin Wall fell (fun story how that global event unleashed our guest’s entrepreneu…