Badass Business Summit

Badass Business Summit THE BADASS BUSINESS SUMMIT WAS CREATED FOR AMBITIOUS ENTREPRENEURS JUST LIKE YOU!

The Badass Business Summit has been specifically designed to help small business owners develop their audience and build traffic, create brand awareness, and close more sales to drive business growth and success. The Badass Business Summit is ideal for individuals who have left traditional corporate roles to carve out their own path. Whether you're struggling to find your footing or eager to scale your operations, this event is for you. If you have a burning desire to make a difference, a relentless drive to succeed, and an unwavering belief that you're destined for something more, you'll be in good company at the Badass Business Summit.

09/02/2026

Join Donnie live as he sits down with special guest ahead of the Badass Business Summit! In this session, we're talking real strategies, real stories, and real growth - the same energy you'll find at BBS.

Who was the person that changed your business trajectory? Not the client. Not the mentor you paid for. The person you ha...
08/26/2026

Who was the person that changed your business trajectory?

Not the client. Not the mentor you paid for. The person you happened to sit next to at an event, or on a call, or in a coffee shop, whose relationship ended up moving your business more than any strategy you executed.

That's what the Day 3 fireside chat at BABS 2026 is about. Three builders, Thomas Howard, Stephen Crockett, Kristen Thomas, walking through the real mechanics of the relationships that build companies.

Tag the person in the comments if they're on Facebook. Give them the credit. 👇

September 16–18 | Fort Worth, TX.

08/14/2026

Melissa Cohen with the truth most service businesses keep dodging:

"Don't trade money for time."

It's the pricing model everyone starts with because it feels safe. You want an hour? It's $X. Simple.

Simple doesn't scale.

The ceiling isn't a mystery, it's your calendar. You literally can't book more hours than exist in a week. At some point you stop growing and start burning out.

Melissa made the pivot the hard way and she credits Macnamara for helping her shift the thinking.

Jerry's on the Day 1 stage at BABS 2026 running the CEO Scaling Roundtable and The Next Bottleneck. Melissa's in the room too.

If your business runs on your hours and you're feeling the ceiling, this is the room.

September 16–18. Fort Worth. 300 seats.

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Steve Wallace's session at BABS 2026 is called Creating Strategic Partnerships That Produce Revenue with heavy emphasis...
08/12/2026

Steve Wallace's session at BABS 2026 is called Creating Strategic Partnerships That Produce Revenue with heavy emphasis on the last two words.

Because most "strategic partnerships" are neither strategic nor productive. They're friendly relationships that generate lunch, not revenue.

So a real question:

How much revenue did your top 3 partnerships generate for you last year?

If the answer is "I'm not sure" or "not much," that's not a relationship problem. It's a structure problem. And it's the exact thing Steve's session fixes.

Comments open. 👇

08/10/2026

Catherine Brown said something at BABS that every service business owner needs to sit with:

"Most referral partnerships fail because everyone's too polite."

Two people meet on a call. They love each other. They "should definitely stay in touch." They agree to "circle back next quarter."

Nothing happens.

Because nobody left with an assignment. Nobody was tested. Nobody had to prove they'd actually do the thing they said they'd do.

Catherine's been an entrepreneur since 2002 and every painful lesson points to the same fix: give homework on the first call. Give it back. Find out fast who's actually a partner and who's just a nice conversation.

At BABS 2026 Catherine's teaching the specific taxonomy of the 5 Power Partners every service business needs — plus the exact assignments to give on the first call.

If your referral pipeline has been running on hope — this is where that stops.

September 16–18. Fort Worth. 300 seats.

08/08/2026

Joseph Frost said something on a panel at BABS that hit me right in the chest.

"I built two or three businesses before I really learned to ask for help."

Every founder has this moment. You tell yourself you can figure it out alone — that asking means you're not smart enough, tough enough, built for it.

That story costs you years.

Joseph waited too long. Then he asked a mentor to hold him accountable. Weekly. That guy poured more into him in three years than he could have paid for.

Same story for me with Jerry Macnamara. He beats me up on a regular basis and I love every bit of it. The company wouldn't be where it is without him.

The room at BABS is built to give you what a good mentor gives you — peers who push you when you need it.

If you've been quietly building alone, this is where that stops.

September 16–18. Fort Worth. 300 seats.

08/06/2026

Cohen said this at BABS and it's been stuck in my head since:

"AI is turning all of us into the same person."

Same posts. Same images. Same hooks. Same cadences. Melissa calls it the sea of sameness — and she's right.

She's not anti-AI. Neither am I. It's a tool. Use it.

But the thing that makes people want to work with you is the thing an LLM can't fake — your specific voice, your specific stories, your specific point of view. The know-like-and-trust equation still runs on being unmistakably you.

If you outsource that, you disappear into the slop.

Melissa's going to be in the room at BABS 2026 unpacking exactly how to use AI without becoming AI.

September 16–18. Fort Worth. 300 seats.

08/05/2026

The countdown to BBS is on! Join Donnie for "Behind the Badass: Live Talks - real conversations, real stories, and a taste of the energy you'll get at the Badass Business Summit.

Catherine Brown is teaching a session at BABS 2026 called Becoming Referable — The 5 Power Partners Every Business Needs...
08/05/2026

Catherine Brown is teaching a session at BABS 2026 called Becoming Referable — The 5 Power Partners Every Business Needs.

Not networking. Not "collect more cards." Five specific partner types every service business needs.

Quick gut check: how many of these do you have a real, active relationship with right now?

→ A partner who sells INTO your same client base (adjacent, not competitive)
→ A partner who sells AFTER you (upstream in the buyer journey)
→ A partner who sells BEFORE you (downstream)
→ A partner in a related industry who sees your customer regularly
→ A COI (center of influence) who can vouch for you at the boardroom level

If you're missing more than two — you have a growth ceiling you can't tactic your way out of.

Which one are you most missing right now? Comments open. 👇

September 16–18 | Fort Worth, TX.

08/04/2026

I was 22, covered in HVAC dust in a Texas attic, when a friend's dad dragged me to an event that changed everything.

I didn't even want to go. I sat through speakers talking about business concepts I'd never heard of.

I was almost out the door when someone grabbed me. "You need to stay for the last speaker."

Lights out. Whole place goes black. Spotlight hits the stage. Dude walks out. Room absolutely loses its mind.

I can't tell you who he was. I can't tell you what he said. Zero recollection of the content.

All I remember is thinking: I want to be in that spotlight.

Not for the ego. For the impact. Because in that moment I realized one person could show up in a room and shift the trajectory of everyone in it.

That's why BABS exists.

September 16–18. Fort Worth. 300 seats — one of them could be the room that shifts your trajectory.

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