Be a guest
Bring a story built from real experience.
From The Ground Up Show welcomes owners, operators, entrepreneurs, and builders with an instructive journey and hard-earned lessons to share. Our roots are in blue-collar work and the skilled trades, and we also welcome service members and people whose unconventional paths reveal what it takes to build, lead, serve, or rebuild.
The best conversations are honest, specific, and useful.
We explore how you became the person capable of doing what you do. Bring the real story: the decisions, risks, failures, turning points, people, and values that shaped you. Be ready to discuss what it cost, how you changed, and what listeners can learn. Your story should stand on its own beyond anything you are currently promoting.
A strong guest brings
- Firsthand experience building, operating, leading, serving, or rebuilding something meaningful.
- An unusual or instructive path, with specific decisions, risks, and turning points worth exploring.
- Lessons earned through experience that listeners can carry into their own work, leadership, and lives.
- A willingness to discuss mistakes, setbacks, personal growth, and the effects on family and relationships as openly as wins.
What to include
- A short background: what you have built, led, served, or rebuilt, and your direct role in it.
- Two or three specific turning points, including a difficult decision, failure, or setback; what changed in you; and what listeners could learn.
- Links that help us understand your experience, plus the story you would share beyond any current book, product, or service.
- The best way to contact you or your representative.
Choose Apply to Be a Guest below and share the details in the message field. Submitting an application does not guarantee a booking; the FTGUS team will follow up when the story and timing are a fit.