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Upstream Profit with Steve Barton

2 min readJul 7, 2026
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Upstream Profit with Steve Barton
Upstream Profit with Steve Barton on Your Business Growth Podcast

What if the very hard work you’re putting into your business is actually the thing keeping you stuck?

Our guest today led a third-generation company through 10x growth from a six figure plateau to over two million in revenue, only to discover that massive growth can sometimes mask a complete lack of profit.

He was drowning in complexity and stress until he realized that the “brick wall” he hit wasn’t just an operational one — it was a plateau of awareness.

By flipping his perspective and taking control of a hidden part of his industry’s ecosystem, he transformed a stagnant family legacy into a high-performance machine that caught the attention of Harvard Business School, and led to a successful exit.

Welcome to today’s episode of Your Business Growth Podcast. I’m your host, Jeremy Shapiro, author of Your Business Growth Playbook, and my guest today is Steve Barton.

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Written by Jeremy Shapiro

Serial Entrepreneur Jeremy Shapiro is an author, mentor, and coach, helping entrepreneurs to find Entrepreneurial Freedom. He also loves bicycles and coffee.