More Gooder

More Gooder is a business podcast for people who'd rather learn from operators than gurus. Andy scaled a service business from zero to $3MM. Daniel left a career in finance to open a fitness studio. Together they're on the road to $10MM — and the podcast is the open notebook. You'll hear what's already worked, what's breaking this week, and the hundred small decisions in between: hiring, pricing, positioning, and the stuff nobody warns you about. Useful, occasionally uncomfortable, and funnier than it has any right to be.

More Gooder is a business podcast hosted by Daniel Feleppa, with 5 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Daniel Feleppa hosts More Gooder, a business show with 5 episodes published.

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  Episode #5

  A Small Business Owner's Job Is Leverage, Not Labor.

  Jun 4, 202642 minS1

  <p>Once your business runs without you, the job changes: it's no longer about doing the work, it's about deciding what's worth doing at all. Most of what you could do today isn't worth your time as CEO — and knowing the difference is the whole game.</p><p>In this episode:• Why most of your to-do list isn't worth your time as CEO• Building a road map so every decision has a clear next step• Optimizing the work instead of doing it• Why "fix it now" is usually the wrong call• Forecasting employee burnout from their hours• Why a note on a client's...

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  Episode #4

  They Laid Me Off the Day My Daughter Was Born. I Never Went Back to a Job. | More Gooder Pod Ep. 04

  May 11, 202619 minS0

  <p>Daniel walks Andy through his actual career path — the messy version that doesn't fit on LinkedIn.</p><p>Criminal justice degree. 90+ scores on the NYPD test. A Wolf of Wall Street-style boiler room where managers literally stood on desks and screamed at him to sell. Selling life insurance. An MBA in finance. Financial advising until the company was bought out and laid off every single employee. He found out while he was on hold with HR, waiting to tell them his daughter had just been born.</p><p>That was the layoff that turned him into an entrepreneur. He ne...

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  Episode #3

  One Task at a Time: The Smartest Way to Automate Your Small Business

  May 3, 202617 minS0

  <p>Should you automate your small business — and where do you even start? Andy and Daniel break down the exact playbook, from $0 tools to custom apps.</p><p>In this episode of More Gooder, Andy shares why he finally bought into automation after pushing back for months — and the custom app he and Daniel are now building for his 9-truck mobile grooming business to handle inventory, onboarding, and compliance. The goal: get Andy out of the day-to-day so the business can scale without him.</p><p>But this isn't just for big operators. They get tactical on how a brand-new powe...

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  Episode #2

  The Boring Move That Makes Starting a Business Way Less Terrifying

  Apr 23, 202627 minS0

  <p>Nobody wants to talk about cutting their Netflix and eating less takeout. But if you're trying to get into small business without a full-blown financial meltdown, it might be the most important thing you do first.</p><p>In this episode, Daniel and Andy get into the unsexy but genuinely useful stuff: how they cut their own expenses before going all in, how to build a framework for figuring out what actually has to go, and why lowering your personal burn rate might be the most underrated entrepreneurship strategy out there.</p><p>Real talk, some laughs, and actual...

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  Episode #1

  When Should a New Service Business Actually Start Running Ads?

  Apr 20, 202630 minS0

  <p>Welcome to More Gooder. In our first episode, we're digging into a question every new business owner wrestles with: when should you actually start running ads?</p><p>Andy's early experience was hiring a third-party agency to run Google Ads for his service business — a setup a lot of founders default to, with mixed results. Daniel came at it from a different angle, learning Meta ads hands-on while running his fitness studio. When he eventually pitched Andy on bringing Meta into the mix, Andy was skeptical. Then the numbers moved.</p><p>We talk through what we got right, wh...

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