Oct 15, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
Growing a business today means navigating new technology, managing risk, building strong relationships, and finding smarter ways to work. On this episode of *Who You Work With Matters*, Aaron Levine…
We're talking about your story going from corporate to small business, right? I did the...
Right? I went from being a small business owner to now being, you know, an employee in a 1,500-person or plus organization, right? So I-
... merged my business into a much larger agency for different reasons, right? I still have my autonomy, right? I'm still able to run my office, so to speak.
Um, you know, we report on a different way, but I wanted to be able to take my business to the next level.
I wanted to be able to grow and not have to worry about just growing by myself and worrying...
I get to work on growth of myself and growth of my team in hopes to then make a bigger impact within the greater good of the organization.
I love the word entrepreneur because I'm still being creative and doing everything I need to do, just as part of a new organization where, you know, I'm also a stockholder, that I have benefits for the growth of what we need to do, and I need to work for the greater good of the organization, which sometimes is difficult when you go the direction that I went, 'cause not everybody wants to be told what to do.
Right? I like to have creative conversations with sm- people that are smarter than me to get better ideas on how to do it better.
I don't wanna be told what to do, right? There's always a way to communicate, and I try to instill that in my children when they demand things.
Let's find the appropriate way to ask." And my little one, my eight-year-old, she got it the other night.
She said, "Hey, Dad, remember a few minutes ago when you said you would be able to do this? You know, do you think you have time to do it now?" I'm like-
We're talking about your story going from corporate to small business, right? I did the...
Right? I went from being a small business owner to now being, you know, an employee in a 1,500-person or plus organization, right? So I-
... merged my business into a much larger agency for different reasons, right? I still have my autonomy, right? I'm still able to run my office, so to speak.
Um, you know, we report on a different way, but I wanted to be able to take my business to the next level.
I wanted to be able to grow and not have to worry about just growing by myself and worrying...
I get to work on growth of myself and growth of my team in hopes to then make a bigger impact within the greater good of the organization.
I love the word entrepreneur because I'm still being creative and doing everything I need to do, just as part of a new organization where, you know, I'm also a stockholder, that I have benefits for the growth of what we need to do, and I need to work for the greater good of the organization, which sometimes is difficult when you go the direction that I went, 'cause not everybody wants to be told what to do.
Right? I like to have creative conversations with sm- people that are smarter than me to get better ideas on how to do it better.
I don't wanna be told what to do, right? There's always a way to communicate, and I try to instill that in my children when they demand things.
Let's find the appropriate way to ask." And my little one, my eight-year-old, she got it the other night.
She said, "Hey, Dad, remember a few minutes ago when you said you would be able to do this? You know, do you think you have time to do it now?" I'm like-
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