#1 Brick and Mortar Entrepreneur Podcast
Opening Soon Podcast
Opening Soon is the podcast where we go behind the scenes with founders of brick-and-mortar businesses - from pilates studios to coffee shops, boutiques, medspas, and more. Hosted by Alan Li, co-founder of FotoLab Studio and Signs and Mirrors.
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Recent Episodes
Oct. 22, 2025
From Restaurants to Retail: Arnold Byun’s Journey Building MAUM Markets
Arnold Byun is the co-founder of Maum Market and Store. After nearly a decade managing some of New York’s most acclaimed restaurants including Eleven Madison Park, Bouley, and Atomix, he found himself jobless during the pande...
Oct. 15, 2025
From Cart to Canal Street: Selling $5K of Coffee a Day at Blue Dove with Amadeo Falce
Amadeo Falce is the founder of Blue Dove Coffee , a viral coffee brand that started as a cart in Union Square and has since expanded to a brick-and-mortar café on Canal Street. A former Army paramedic turned entrepreneur, Ama...
Oct. 8, 2025
Reinventing Dentistry: Wally’s $249/Year Membership Model with CEO Tyler Burnett
Tyler Burnett never planned to reinvent dentistry. But after a 2017 visit where a dentist told him he needed eight fillings on the spot , he walked out skeptical and down a path that would lead to founding Wally , a membershi...
Oct. 1, 2025
Scaling a Gift Shop in NYC - Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store with Ann Cantrell
Ann Cantrell thought she was building a career in fashion. She spent over a decade in product development at Ralph Lauren, Coach, and Brooks Brothers, turning sketches into products and learning the vendor, margin, and produc...
Sept. 24, 2025
Building Jonny's Pizza in NYC at just 24 years old with Jonny Rashtian
Jonny thought he was headed for a JD/MBA and a career in tech. Instead, a chance encounter with the founder of 7th Street Burger pulled him into the restaurant world. He hustled through cashier shifts, shadowed build-outs, an...
Sept. 17, 2025
Bootstrapping a NYC Fitness Studio to $200k a Month with Victor Valle
Victor Del Valle went from aspiring dentist to MPC bodybuilder to scrappy trainer hustling through the pandemic, literally converting his NYC apartment into a one-on-one gym. Within weeks he was booked 6am–9pm, charging $100/...