Abby Buchmiller recording Blind Ambitions
the podcast

Blind Ambitions.

Long-form conversations with founders, operators, and the occasional outlier: ambition, scale, and the trade-offs that come with both. A podcast for solar and trades entrepreneurs building real businesses under real pressure. New episodes weekly.

archive
ep. 3 · APR 7, 2025Empowered Growth
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ep. 2 · JAN 22, 2025From Sales to Innovation
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ep. 1 · SEP 30, 2024Energizing Change
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JUL 29, 2024Episode 10: Turning the Tide With Jake Kilgore
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JUL 22, 2024Episode 9: Sweet Victory: Bennett Maxwell’s Journey with Dirty Dough
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ep. 1 · JUN 17, 2024Episode 8: Rising and Rebuilding
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ep. 7 · MAY 21, 2024Episode 7: From youngest to leader.
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ep. 6 · MAY 2, 2024Episode 6: Resilience in the face of adversity
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ep. 5 · APR 26, 2024Episode 5: Let's take a seat with Mark Bench.
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MAR 30, 2024Episode 4: Let's get personal
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ep. 3 · FEB 7, 2024Episode 3: Jake Hess: An inside look
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ep. 2 · FEB 1, 2024Episode 2: SOLO CEO Dan Larkin: Navigating Solar Challenges and Tech Entrepreneurship
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ep. 1 · JAN 19, 2024Episode 1: A chat with John Frampton
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13 episodes and counting
the show

what this podcast is.

Long-form conversations with founders who’ve built real businesses under real pressure: solar, roofing, home services, trades. The kind of operators who’ve scaled past the founder-as-rainmaker stage and lived to tell what it cost.

Each episode goes past the LinkedIn version of the story to the parts most founders only say to one person at 11 p.m.: the calls they had to make, the things that broke, the trade-offs they wouldn’t talk about anywhere else.

the host
Abby Buchmiller.

Founder of 1982 Media. CEO and co-founder of Radicl. Built and rebuilt a top-5 national solar company. Hosts because she’s had the calls and made the trade-offs herself.

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guest pitch

an operator with a story not yet told?

If you’ve built and rebuilt in solar, roofing, trades, or home services, and you’ve got a story you’ve only told to one person at 11 p.m., pitch the show. We read every one.

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