Slow Growth Business

Retail Relief: Simplify Your Holiday and Save Your Team

This episode shows jewelry store owners and leaders how to find relief by simplifying priorities, protecting team culture, and eliminating time-draining products or services that cost more than they earn.

Published

6 months ago

September 27, 2025

INSTORE Staff

FEELING OVERWHELMED BY holiday retail chaos? This episode shows jewelry store owners and leaders how to find relief by simplifying priorities, protecting team culture, and eliminating time-draining products or services that cost more than they earn.

Hosts Jimmy DeGroot and Kyle Bullock offer practical steps: narrow daily focus to one or two essential tasks, support and listen to your people, and radically remove non-essential work to preserve excellence during the busiest season.

ABOUT THIS PODCAST:Exhausted and stressed by trying to grow your business fast enough, smart enough, profitably enough… to where it may not feel like you’re doing enough? Try the Slow Growth Approach to business and stop letting your business run YOU, YOU run IT!

Join retail experts Jimmy DeGroot and Kyle Bullock each week as they unpack ideas, concepts, and steps you can take to intentionally grow your business, slow and steady and for the long haul. They use their decades of experience in the retail and luxury landscape as business owners and consultants to help you feel free to run your business the way you’ve always dreamed.

This show sponsored by INSTORE and by Kyle and Jimmy’s training platforms TrainRetail.com

How Howes Diamond Jewelers Closed a Location — and Opened the Door to What's Next

Dan Howes grew up in his family's jewelry business, eventually taking the helm of two locations his father launched in 1964. When it came time to consolidate, he turned to Wilkerson. "It was a pretty easy decision," Howes says, citing the company's strong reputation and a friend's successful experience. Wilkerson's proven sales roadmap delivered — meeting projected financial goals and guiding the process every step of the way. "This is their profession. They have it dialed in."