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Hitting The Ceiling

Mark O'Donnell

Booking Overview

Interview-focused business leadership show centered on candid stories from entrepreneurs, founders, executives, and nonprofit leaders confronting growth, succession, culture, and leadership challenges. Agencies could credibly pitch CEOs, business owners, operators, and organizational experts with firsthand experience scaling companies or navigating difficult leadership transitions; booking difficulty is medium because guests need substantive leadership stories, but the show features accessible professional-level guests rather than only major celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 29

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Gender skew: Neutral

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 36.1k subscribers

Instagram: 16.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

seth@storyon.co

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Host

Mark O'Donnell - CEO and Visionary of EOS Worldwide, the organization behind the Entrepreneurial Operating System for entrepreneurial leadership teams.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Founders, CEOs, business owners, executives, nonprofit leaders, and experienced operators with firsthand experience navigating company growth, succession, employee ownership, culture, or difficult leadership transitions.
Required Achievements:  
Founded or scaled a company or nonprofit, Led an organizational transformation or major growth phase, Navigated succession, ownership, debt, or an attempted exit, Built leadership systems, teams, or employee-ownership structures

Recent Guest Discussions

Eric V. Holtzclaw - Founder Identity, Business Growth, Partnership Conflict, Company Ownership, And Building A Sustainable Agency.

Jonathan Reynolds - Founder Ego, Organizational Culture, Purpose, Delegation, AI, Automation, And Leading A Company That No Longer Depends On Its Founder.

Derek Volk - Business Succession, Failed Exits, Debt, Delegation, Employee Ownership, And Preserving A Family-business Legacy.

Rebecca Brown - Wish-granting Operations, Nonprofit Capacity, Leadership, Funding Pressure, Team Sustainability, And Organizational Growth.

Rachel Kuhn - Nonprofit Leadership, Funding, Team Capacity, Donor Accountability, Delegation, And Sustainable Organizational Growth.

Recent Topics

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Succession, Employee Ownership, Business Growth

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Hitting The Ceiling
:

Nobody Is Coming to Save You

October 13, 2026

How do you stop carrying everything when being the reliable one has become part of your identity? Clay Harris learned early not to wait for someone else to fix things. His father was mostly absent, his mother was raising him on her own, and one of the adults who believed in him most was a high school teacher who would simply point to a banner at the front of the classroom that read, “Look inside yourself.” That lesson followed Clay into adulthood, through entrepreneurship, leadership, and eve...

You Can't Save Your Team From Themselves

October 06, 2026

How do you keep leading when every new stage of growth exposes skills you don’t have yet Shannon Badger helped grow Badger CPA from nothing into a 60-person firm, but behind the inspiring growth story was a founder learning in real time how much a business can take from your confidence, marriage, health, parenting, and sense of control. As the firm scaled, Shannon and her husband Jonathan remortgaged their house, gave up vacations, fought through the chaos of seeing the outcome of spending to...

When Your Dream Starts Depending on Your Name | Ryan Hawk of The Learning Leader Show

September 29, 2026

When does your personal brand become the ceiling on your company? Ryan Hawk built his life around hard work, competition, and consistency, but losing the quarterback job to Ben Roethlisberger forced him to confront an uncomfortable truth: sometimes effort alone cannot change the outcome. Years later, he walked away from a successful corporate career to turn The Learning Leader Show into a business, only to discover a new ceiling as the podcast, coaching work, and livelihoods of his team becam...

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Frequently asked questions

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Hitting The Ceiling
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How do I get in touch with Hitting The Ceiling?

Hitting The Ceiling is hosted by Mark O'Donnell. Its publicly listed email is seth@storyon.co. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

What is the email for Hitting The Ceiling?

The publicly listed email for Hitting The Ceiling: seth@storyon.co.

How many listeners does Hitting The Ceiling have?

Podseeker estimates Hitting The Ceiling reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for Hitting The Ceiling?

Hitting The Ceiling typically books working professionals with real expertise. Typical guest background: Founders, CEOs, business owners, executives, nonprofit leaders, and experienced operators with firsthand experience navigating company growth, succession, employee ownership, culture, or difficult leadership transitions. Common among recent guests: Founded or scaled a company or nonprofit; Led an organizational transformation or major growth phase; Navigated succession, ownership, debt, or an attempted exit. Recent guests include Eric V. Holtzclaw, Jonathan Reynolds, and Derek Volk.

How hard is it to get booked on Hitting The Ceiling?

Medium. Guests usually need solid credentials in the topic and an idea that fits the show.

What topics does Hitting The Ceiling cover?

Recent episodes cover Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Succession, Employee Ownership, and Business Growth. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

Publicly listed emails

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