Real stories about the many paths to ownership.

Weekly interviews with business owners about the career pivots, bold bets, wrong turns, lucky breaks, and unexpected opportunities behind the business.

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Long-form conversations about the businesses they built, the decisions they made, the turns they didn't expect, and what they learned along the way.

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Small business

How a small safety business went from bleeding cash to being acquired by a public company.

Recurring revenue, bad inventory decisions, aggressive growth, and a well-timed exit.

Aug 25 · 8 min read
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Interior design

How to turn one client into your next five, then build 25 years of business without advertising.

Starting at 40, no advertising, 25 years of referrals.

Aug 27 · 7 min read
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Wellness

Why you should build a business around the thing you can't stop learning about.

Acting, spiritual study, and following curiosity into a hypnotherapy practice.

Sep 1 · 6 min read
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About Hannah

Hi, I'm Hannah.

Hannah Ford

I'm a business owner, interviewer, and former tech leader. After leaving a decade-long career in tech and starting a small service business, I became fascinated by all the different ways people find their way into ownership. Owner Interviews grew out of that curiosity.

Now I talk to owners about what they built, what changed along the way, and what they know now that they didn't know when they started.

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