In this episode of the Show Your Value Podcast, host Lee Benson sits down with entrepreneur John St. Pierre, who built a 55 million dollar company… and lost it all.

John opens up about the painful lessons behind that collapse and the powerful mindset that helped him rebuild his success. He calls it patient ambition, the balance between drive and discipline that every founder needs to master.

Together, Lee and John unpack what really happens when you grow too fast, why most entrepreneurs overestimate short-term gains and underestimate long-term potential, and how to protect your company from losing control.

If you’re building a business, raising capital, or chasing growth, this conversation will change the way you think about success.

In This Episode:

- The real story behind losing a 55M company

- What “patient ambition” means and why it matters

- How to grow without overleveraging or burning out

- The seven principles that protect and scale a business

- The difference between ownership and control

- How to build lasting enterprise value

Timestamps:
00:00 John’s story: from 55M to zero
02:00 Ambition vs patience
06:00 What caused the collapse
10:00 Protecting your business and team
15:00 The 7 principles of the $100M Journey
20:00 How to grow responsibly
25:00 AI, leadership, and the future of entrepreneurship
30:00 Final takeaways

About the Guest:
John St. Pierre is the author of The $100M Journey, entrepreneur, and advocate for sustainable growth. Learn more at 100mjourney.com

For more free videos, tools, and resources about the MIND Methodology go to https://etw.com/

If your business feels busy but not better, this is for you.
Lee Benson shares a practical, no-fluff system to get unstuck: build a healthy relationship with struggle, define value clearly, operate with live resistance on the front lines, and install a management operating system that scales (a true Value-Creation System).

You’ll learn

- Struggle, redefined: healthy vs. unhealthy vs. intentionally designed struggle and how to raise your tolerance to create more value.

- Organize & Develop: the two-word mantra to fix frustration fast and point effort at the bottleneck.

- Value-Creation Funnels: see where marketing/sales/ops are breaking and fix the right stage.

- Live Resistance: why front-line work beats armchair strategy (and how founders prove scalable traction).

- Letting go: clear rules for when to part ways with people or pivot initiatives.

- MOS that works: what a management operating system must track (one number per team, flow across the whole org).

- Fulfillment over Happiness: how leaders keep emotional energy high, for themselves, their teams, and their families.

For more free videos, tools, and resources about the MIND Methodology go to https://etw.com/

What does real leadership look like in today’s workplace? Aviation executive and leadership expert Stephanie Chung shares her 40-year “overnight success” story and explains why leadership is not about DEI but about ROI.

In this episode you will discover:

- Why most employees only give 60 percent at work

- The crisis of character affecting today’s workforce

- How to lead across six different generations

- Why diversity of thought drives profit and growth

- The ALLY and EARN frameworks for simple, effective leadership

- How to turn teams into billion dollar growth machines

Stephanie’s journey from parking planes at Boston Logan Airport to becoming president and board member in private aviation proves the power of excellence, integrity, and showing up with your best every day.

If you want practical tools to lead teams that win, this conversation is for you.

Learn more about Stephanie: https://stephaniechung.com

For more free videos, tools, and resources about the MIND Methodology go to https://etw.com/