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  • Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Brooke Guy

    Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Brooke Guy
    Apr 8 2026
    Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Brooke Guy

    Welcome to The #5Liner, the show dedicated to the individual journeys that power the automotive industry. It's not about the company; it's about the individual, their career, mindset, and personal story. In each episode, we sit down with a high-quality selection of Car Guys and Car Gals to get beyond the title and into the hard earned wisdom they've gained. Join us as we uncover the wins, challenges, and #5Liner takeaways that have shaped today’s top talent.

    In this episode of The Car Guy Coffee Podcast, hosts Lou Ramirez and Fred Lennartz welcome Brooke Guy, a third-generation dealer from Pawleys Island, South Carolina, to share her journey in the family dealership. Brooke explains her “why” as a drive to win, faith, honoring her grandfather’s legacy, and pushing the store to the next level, and describes how she stayed in automotive through early reluctance, travel opportunities, and overcoming the challenges of finance.


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    39 m
  • Car Guy Coffee presents Dealer Pay Live “Cost of Standing Still” with Julie Douglas

    Car Guy Coffee presents Dealer Pay Live “Cost of Standing Still” with Julie Douglas
    Apr 1 2026
    Car Guy Coffee presents Dealer Pay Live “Cost of Standing Still” with Julie Douglas

    Welcome to the Car Guy Coffee Podcast. Kickstart your day the right way and join us as we tap into the brightest minds and most passionate voices across the automotive world to bring you the education, motivation, and inspiration you need to thrive. From the showroom floor to the service lane, prepare to Upshift and Uplift your perspective.

    In this episode of The Car Guy Coffee Podcast, hosts Lou Ramirez and Fred Lennartz welcome Julie Douglas of Dealer Pay to launch their monthly “Dealer Pay Live” series with an episode on “The Cost of Standing Still.” They discuss how dealerships often assume payment processes are fine as long as money hits the bank, but outdated, non-integrated systems can create leaks in profit, productivity, and customer experience while adding accounting headaches and potential compliance and security risks. Julie explains that modern, DMS-integrated payment technology can speed up getting paid, improve efficiency, boost CSI, and increase profit, while simplifying reconciliation for controllers and office managers.


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    25 m
  • Coffee Guy Coffee Podcast “Bigger Than Business” with Jenna Kay

    Coffee Guy Coffee Podcast “Bigger Than Business” with Jenna Kay
    Mar 25 2026
    Coffee Guy Coffee Podcast “Bigger Than Business” with Jenna Kay

    Welcome to the Car Guy Coffee Podcast. Kickstart your day the right way and join us as we tap into the brightest minds and most passionate voices across the automotive world to bring you the education, motivation, and inspiration you need to thrive. From the showroom floor to the service lane, prepare to Upshift and Uplift your perspective.

    In this episode of The Car Guy Coffee Podcast, hosts Lou Ramirez and Fred Lennartz welcome back Nashville artist Jenna for her third appearance, celebrating her journey from St. Louis to pursuing music full-time. Jenna shares the ups and downs since releasing her 2023 debut EP Icing on the Cake, signing with Label 22, and the mentors and collaborators who’ve shaped her growth, including writer Jake Arthur and friends who inspire her. She previews her upcoming EP Smart Sass, explaining how she turned difficult experiences into witty, sarcastic pop-rock songs, writing 21 songs in a week and narrowing them to six. Jenna highlights recent and upcoming shows in St. Louis and Nashville, discusses songwriter listening-room events, and offers advice on confidence, self-worth, and believing in yourself.


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    32 m
  • CarGuy Coffee “V20 Mixer”

    CarGuy Coffee “V20 Mixer”
    Mar 18 2026
    CarGuy Coffee “V20 Mixer”

    Welcome to the Car Guy Coffee Podcast. Kickstart your day the right way and join us as we tap into the brightest minds and most passionate voices across the automotive world to bring you the education, motivation, and inspiration you need to thrive. From the showroom floor to the service lane, prepare to Upshift and Uplift your perspective.

    In this episode of The Car Guy Coffee Podcast, hosts Lou Ramirez and Fred Lennartz welcome V20 leaders to build excitement for NADA in Las Vegas and the Dealer Vendor Mixer (DVM) after-party. They highlight the event’s focus on networking, trust, and community—bringing dealers and vetted vendors together without “pitch slaps,” plus music, drinks, and views near the Bellagio fountains. The group promotes limited tickets available via dealer-vendor-mixer.com and sponsor partners, and shares details on the V20 booth (2001 West) featuring 15-minute educational, non-sales presentations, speed-dating style vendor intros, and gamification like ZipDeal’s “Jackpot Journey” with a $3,500 dealer cash prize. They emphasize “stronger together,” relationship-building, and human connection as the core of industry progress.


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    33 m
  • Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Christene Addis

    Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Christene Addis
    Mar 11 2026
    Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Christene Addis

    Welcome to The #5Liner, the show dedicated to the individual journeys that power the automotive industry. It's not about the company; it's about the individual, their career, mindset, and personal story. In each episode, we sit down with a high-quality selection of Car Guys and Car Gals to get beyond the title and into the hard earned wisdom they've gained. Join us as we uncover the wins, challenges, and #5Liner takeaways that have shaped today’s top talent.

    In this episode of The Car Guy Coffee Podcast, hosts Lou Ramirez and Fred Lennartz welcome Christene Addis. Christene shares her “why” as faith, family, and passion, with a focus on serving and uniting her community. She explains that automotive wasn’t her original plan—she came from nonprofit and corporate work—but fell in love with the industry’s fast pace, adaptability, people, and marketing impact after five years in the business. Christene highlights key mentors, including her adoptive father and former leader Craig Linvall, sharing lessons like “Who will be better because of what I do today?” and “Nobody cares about your storm.” She names her hardest career lesson as learning that you can do everything right and still lose, and her greatest rewards as her daughter and successful community campaigns and initiatives.


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    34 m
  • Coffee and a Conversation with Tiana Mick and Sean Bradley

    Coffee and a Conversation with Tiana Mick and Sean Bradley
    Mar 4 2026
    Coffee and a Conversation with Tiana Mick and Sean Bradley

    Welcome to the Car Guy Coffee Podcast. Kickstart your day the right way and join us as we tap into the brightest minds and most passionate voices across the automotive world to bring you the education, motivation, and inspiration you need to thrive. From the showroom floor to the service lane, prepare to Upshift and Uplift your perspective.

    In this episode of The Car Guy Coffee Podcast, hosts Lou Ramirez and Fred Lennartz welcome Tiana Mick and Sean Bradley of Dealer Synergy for a conversation on family leadership in automotive, building a lasting business, and the importance of daily training. Tiana shares how she left college to sell cars and why she works to prove herself beyond her name, while Sean discusses working with his children as his proudest accomplishment and the challenges dealer families face. This episode also covers Dealer Synergy’s training platform and new AI role-play and AI scorecard tools designed to help teams practice safely, improve call performance, and strengthen professionalism, along with observations on industry trends like increased video and social media use and the need for innovation as market conditions shift.



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    46 m
  • Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Tom Stuker

    Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Tom Stuker
    Feb 23 2026
    Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Tom Stuker

    Welcome to The #5Liner, the show dedicated to the individual journeys that power the automotive industry. It's not about the company; it's about the individual, their career, mindset, and personal story. In each episode, we sit down with a high-quality selection of Car Guys and Car Gals to get beyond the title and into the hard earned wisdom they've gained. Join us as we uncover the wins, challenges, and #5Liner takeaways that have shaped today’s top talent.

    In this episode of the Car Guy Coffee Podcast, hosts Lou Ramirez and Fred Lennartz welcome Tom Stuker, whose scripts and phone techniques helped shape their early dealership careers, including the well-known “script book” and the “Stuker box” organization system. Tom reflects on hard lessons about failure, gratitude gained through extensive world travel, and says his greatest reward is the people and relationships in his life rather than money.

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    47 m
  • Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Paul de Vries

    Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Paul de Vries
    Feb 17 2026
    Car Guy Coffee Podcast Presents #5Liner feat. Paul de Vries

    Welcome to The #5Liner, the show dedicated to the individual journeys that power the automotive industry. It's not about the company; it's about the individual, their career, mindset, and personal story. In each episode, we sit down with a high-quality selection of Car Guys and Car Gals to get beyond the title and into the hard earned wisdom they've gained. Join us as we uncover the wins, challenges, and #5Liner takeaways that have shaped today’s top talent.

    In this episode of the Car Guy Coffee Podcast, hosts Lou Ramirez and Fred Lennartz welcome Paul de Vries, a European online automotive leader whose mission is to “make online automotive a better place.” Paul shares how he sold his first car online in 1998, helped build a platform to buy new cars online that was later acquired by eBay in 2015, and explains his marathon-minded approach of helping OEMs, franchise dealers, independents, and anyone in the industry without focusing on quick sales. In the show’s “five liner,” Paul discusses his why, how he entered automotive through persistence after working as a gas station attendant, and how he earned his first sales role despite stuttering and limited experience. His greatest reward, he says, is being thanked years later for teaching and helping others, emphasizing the value of human capital, relationships, and attending industry events like NADA.

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    40 m