What's Your Deal? | Business Buying, Business Acquisitions, Investing & Exit Strategies

For the first time on What's Your Deal, Matt Uhler sits down with a fellow business broker, Ryan Armstrong of Transworld Phoenix. He and Matt walk through the full life of a Main Street deal: preparing the seller emotionally, building a data-driven listing, and vetting buyers. They also cover LOIs, due diligence, financing and closing, and why the best deals leave buyer and seller as friends.
 
Connect with Ryan Armstrong:
 
https://www.tworld.com/agents/ryanarmstrong
 

Phone: 480-447-3504
 
 
Connect with Matt Uhler / Amped Success:
 
Instagram: @ampedsuccess
 
Website: ampedsuccess.com
 
Email: admin@ampedsuccess.com
 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-uhler-a9896612/
 
 
 
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Why do brilliant people sometimes make terrible decisions? According to Rich Hua, former Chief EQ Evangelist at Amazon, it's because stress can cut your effective IQ in half, and most leaders were never taught how to manage it.
 
In this episode of What's Your Deal, host Matt Uhler sits down with Rich to talk about emotional intelligence and why it may be the most underrated skill in business today. Rich grew up focused almost entirely on IQ: straight A's, a perfect SAT score, and engineering at UC Berkeley. He calls it his "genius robot" plan, and it worked well until he got married and realized something important was missing. That realization launched a lifelong study of EQ. At Amazon, he wrote the six-pager that created his own role and built a 70,000-person community. He ultimately helped bring EQ to more than 1.5 million people inside Amazon and across leading companies worldwide.
 
Connect with Rich Hua:
 
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richhua
 

Email: rich@richardhua.co
 
 
Connect with Matt Uhler / Amped Success:
 
Instagram: @ampedsuccess
 
Website: ampedsuccess.com
 
Email: admin@ampedsuccess.com
 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-uhler-a9896612/
 
 
 
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Ryan Beckmann built and lost multi-million-dollar RV dealerships, won a 40 Under 40 award the same year he became homeless, and fought his way back from addiction to found Hero Picks and The Last Save. In this raw conversation, Ryan shares what it took to hit bottom, why service to others became the key to his own healing, and how he's now building "Beyond Awareness" — a platform designed to connect survivors of trauma and abuse directly to real-time resources and sustainable funding.
 
 
Connect with Ryan Beckmann:
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-beckmann-heropicks/
 
https://www.instagram.com/ryanfbeckmann/
 
 
Connect with Matt Uhler / Amped Success:
 
Instagram: @ampedsuccess
 
Website: ampedsuccess.com
 
Email: admin@ampedsuccess.com
 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-uhler-a9896612/
 
 
 
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Matt sits down with longtime friend and ZebraScapes Landscaping founder Rodney Steidinger, who built his company from a minivan and a trailer during the 2008 recession into a thriving, multi-generational business. Rodney shares the breaking point that forced him to hire real leadership, how he built a family business empire with his three daughters, and the core values that guide every hire and promotion at ZebraScapes.
 
Connect with Rodney Steidinger:
 
https://zebrascapes.com
 
https://www.instagram.com/zebrascapes/
 
 
 
Connect with Matt Uhler / Amped Success:
 
Instagram: @ampedsuccess
 
Website: ampedsuccess.com
 
Email: admin@ampedsuccess.com
 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-uhler-a9896612/
 
 
 
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Most business owners over 40 have never posted on social media — and it's not because they don't know how. It's fear. Matt Uhler sits down with Beau Bullard, founder of Bullard Media, to unpack why attention is today's most valuable currency, why iPhone content outperforms professional cameras by up to 800%, and how business owners (and the buyers who acquire their companies) should think about personal brand, legacy, and authenticity on social media.
 
Connect with Beau Bullard:
 
https://bullardmedia.org/
 
https://www.instagram.com/beaubullardaz
 
 
Connect with Matt Uhler / Amped Success:
 
Instagram: @ampedsuccess
Website: ampedsuccess.com
Email: admin@ampedsuccess.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-uhler-a9896612/
 
 
Want to be a guest or sponsor an episode?
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