Falcon Insight Partners Inc

Helping business owners escape daily operations & scale with leadership teams
✔ Developed The Raptor Route – helping business owners remove themselves from daily operations. Guide to teach owners how to own their development, own the business, and own their legacy.
✔ Guided 100+ owners to scale beyond $1M in revenue with sustainable, high-performing teams.
✔ Created a 12-week coaching program & playbook helping owners install scalable systems & regain their time.

🚀 Let’s talk if you’re stuck in daily operations and need to scale. DM me or schedule a call here → https://calendar.app.google/cJ3er6SgQcyPvp3H6

Founder

Insurance Industry

I made a big mistake by taking a role where I didn't belong. I thought working in insurance would fulfill my desire to work with business owners. Oops! I was wrong.

Head of I Made a Mistake

Dimonia

Identified opportunity, completed market research, and built an MVP for a social platform connecting the needs of the local and national electorates to elected officials; the end objective was to provoke greater confidence in voters to ensure that their voices are heard via a streamlined and data-rich outlet.
          After working with engineers to establish cost and build out timelines, I determined the risks were too great, I didn't love politics that much, and I wanted to work with business owners instead.

Founder & Product Manager

Sunburst Landscaping

I learned a lot from owning and selling Sunburst.  Three main take-a-ways were that I always had a lot to learn (there are way too many hats to wear), I couldn't do it without great people working with me, and I could not have done it without vendors and suppliers who helped support not only the company but me.  I am forever grateful! 
Acquired company operating with -2% profit margins. After changing the strategy, product offering, and culture; negotiated and executed the sale, average client engagement of 7.5 years (75% original clients after 15 years), and an industry-leading 15% profit margin.
	The product strategy and roadmap considered the market and developed competitive analyses while understanding and representing user needs. New budgets, product pricing, and positioning strategies were designed to deliver the vision and strategy in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Act as the strategy and product evangelist to build awareness and understanding, creating buy-in form internal and external customers.
	Changes to our value proposition, resource allocation, and operational improvements were crucial to success, but relentlessly prioritizing the costs and benefits allowed us to move incrementally closer to the strategic goals. Defining a clear vision to align our teams and customer journeys allowed us to grow +34% revenue annually (no outside funding) for the next five years through the 2008 recession.

Principal Owner

Airgas

Exciting opportunity to work in many different functions in the bottle gas industry to supply the customers with gases and welding supplies.  Completed rotations in production, supply chain, specialty gasses, customer-facing sales, and branch management.

Rotational Leadership Program, Associate

The Ridge at Back Brook Country Club

Exclusive 300+-acre private golf course designed by architect Tom Fazio and located close to Princeton University.  Co-led a crew of 50+ Costa Ricans to help build and grow in the new construction golf course.

Supervisor ♦ Team Lead

If your business feels like it would fall apart without you… You’re not alone.

Most owners I speak with are in the $300K–$3M range. They’ve built something real, but now they’re overwhelmed, stuck in the weeds, wearing every hat, babysitting their team, and wondering if freedom is even possible.

I’ve been there. I scaled and sold my own company after 15+ years in the field. I learned (the hard way) how to shift from operator to owner, and how to build a company that doesn’t need you in every meeting, decision, or fire drill.

Now, I coach business owners to do the same.

Through my signature method, The Raptor Route™, I help owners:
• Escape daily operations
• Build leadership teams that take real ownership
• Install systems so things run without micromanagement
• Redefine their role as a true owner, not the bottleneck

In the last year alone, 36 owners trusted me to help them take true ownership of their company by working 1:1 with me. I look forward to serving more owners this year as 10-week cohorts and a community are established.

If you're tired of holding everything together and ready to build a business that works without you, let's talk.

👉 DM me “OPS” for a free 90-Day Exit Plan from Operations to get you started.

“Enter Sandman” started blaring from her phone.
Everyone in the waiting room turned.

She didn’t look like a Metallica diehard, but the bright red face said she’d rather crawl under the chair.

She was close to me, so I smiled and said,
“Not many songs beat that one.”

That sparked a conversation.

She shared memories of concerts with her husband, then with their kids, and now they're back to just the two of them again.

I shared how we made it a mission to catch some of the greats before it’s too late.

Our first official date was Tony Bennett.

My favorite? The Stones.

That moment stuck with me.

Because what we chase in music… we also chase in business.

Stick with me a second.

We want clarity, mastery, and moments that last.

We want someone on stage we trust to deliver.

After hundreds of 1:1 coaching calls, I know I’ve hit capacity.

I can't currently take on any more 1:1 clients, But...
I want to reach more owners.

The Genius Trap™ and The Raptor Route™ work, but they’re not accessible at scale.

So now I’m asking:
👉 How do I build a system that overwhelmed business owners chase…
the same way fans chase the all-time greats in music or sports?

I’m not trying to be a rockstar.

But I do want my work to hit like your favorite setlist;
unexpected, unforgettable, and worth showing up for.

How are you designing your unforgettable setlist?

Nick Strehle

Scale your business, reclaim your time, grow your valuation. | Creator of The Raptor Route™ & Independence Accelerator | 3rd Generation Multiple Business Owner

LinkedIn was in the way.
For over a month, I stopped.

I stopped almost all networking events and social media interactions.

As much as I enjoy interacting and posting, I couldn't dedicate the hundreds of hours needed to build.

With a few hundred coaching sessions and consulting hours under my belt with Falcon Insight Partners, I kept seeing the same challenge.

Business owners struggle to transition from doers to true owners.

I call this the Genius Trap™.

My last post was over a month ago, but it feels much longer with the isolation and long hours to build something I'm proud to deliver.

Today is the official launch day for The Independence Accelerator.

It is a 10-week virtual cohort designed to guide overwhelmed business owners in reclaiming 10+ weekly hours, building a leadership team, and increasing business valuations by 30-40%.

This is the founders' cohort, limited to 25 seats, and I'm offering a few incentives that may never be offered again.

Check it out!
All feedback welcome, especially if you can write it in red ink.

Saw a broken-down construction truck on the way
to drop the kids off at school this morning.

Hood up. Flashers on. 🚨
Crew standing around waiting.

Right behind it was a brand-new $85K pickup. 🛻
Looked like the owner. 
Sitting in the cab. 
On the phone. 
Probably trying to solve the problem.

🧠 And all I could think was this:
This is exactly why most business owners stay stuck.

Yeah, he’ll get the truck towed. He’ll fix it.
But that’s not the real cost.

Here’s what it actually costs to be stuck in daily operations:

💰 The job they should have been on this morning? Lost.
💰 The time he spent fixing this instead of growing the business? Gone.
💰 The impact on his crew's morale, productivity, and focus? Slipped.
💰 The opportunity cost? Massive.

And here's the kicker...

If you're still the one solving problems like this, 
you're not running the business. 
The business is running you.

You can't scale when you’re stuck reacting.

You can't build freedom when your phone
rings every time something breaks.

So ask yourself:

👉 What is the true cost of you still being in the middle of everything?
👉 What happens when you don’t have clear processes for problems like this?
👉 How much longer can your business afford to rely on you to be everywhere at once?

This isn’t just about one truck breaking down.

It’s about whether your business can function without you.

And if the answer is “no”—we should talk.

Hello, I'm Nick Strehle (Follow me) 
I work directly with business owners 
to get them out of the daily grind, 
install a real leadership team, and 
build a business that runs without them.

Fear. 😨

It’s the first thing that hits me 
when I look at the hours poured 
into building the pages behind me.

☹️ What if no one shows up?
☹️ What if no one signs up?
☹️ What if no one cares?

Providing a service never felt like this.

Landscaping. Janitorial. Real estate.

You show up, you do the work, people see the value.

Creating is different. 🧑‍🎨

You put something into the world and wait.
Vulnerable, exposed.

The only time I felt close to this was back when I designed landscapes. 

But even then, it was about solving problems. 
Not creating something that people might ignore.

Here’s what I realized, though 💡
I’m not actually creating something “new.”

I’m packaging 20+ years of ownership lessons
and thousands of hours of study.

Not theory. Not fluff.

A playbook for owners who want to step out
of the grind and actually own their business.

And that’s where fear flips.

Because fear doesn’t just mean risk.

Fear means you’re pushing into work that matters.

So when that fear shows up,
when it whispers “what if no one cares?”

I take it as proof that I’m on the right path.

Fear is a signal. 
The question is......what will you do with it?

Hello, I'm Nick Strehle, and I create tools,
webinars, and cohort communities for overwhelmed
owners looking to get out of daily operations
and build a legacy.

I used to think working harder was the answer. 💪

In my 20s and even 30s, I was proud that I could outwork most everyone.

🙄 There are some things passed down from our parents that aren't in our control, but that's for another time.

When I ran my landscaping company, I wore every hat: sales, estimates, scheduling, and operating equipment whenever possible. 

I told myself, “If I don’t do it, it won’t get done right.”

Then one day it hit me. It was the first time in my life that I started to have heart palpitations. ❤️‍🩹

And everything fell apart.
📞 Fell behind on calls.
👷‍♂️ Crews didn't have the answers they needed to keep moving.
🖇️ And I was behind on office tasks, such as bookkeeping and proposals.

Sometimes, as humans, we are truly amazing creatures, but other times, crap has to get pretty bad before we take action.

That’s when it hit me: I wasn’t the hero. I was the bottleneck.

I had built a business that depended 100% on me, which meant I didn’t own a business. I owned a job. 😬

That was the day I realized: if I wanted true freedom, I had to stop being the operator and step into being the owner.

The first thing I did was force myself to say no more frequently. I had to bid jobs that I knew my crews could handle without me.

The internal dialog had to be pretty loud to keep me off the job sites.

Most owners I talk with are still stuck where I was....
Trapped in The Genius Trap.
The good news? You don’t have to stay there.

❓Question for you: If you walked away for two weeks, would your business continue to move forward, or would it stall?

Hello, I'm Nick Strehle , and I help business owners escape daily operations, become true owners, and build a lasting legacy.

"I’m not coachable. You can’t fix me."
That’s what the owner of a $12M service company told me.

Straight-faced

After asking how I could help his leadership team become more aligned and productive.

This guy knew his team was off-track. But when the conversation shifted toward him being the root cause?

Yup, he said he wasn't coachable and I shouldn't even try.

Right then, I knew: we wouldn’t be working together.

Here’s the truth most owners don’t want to hear:
If your team’s underperforming, look in the mirror.
If your business is stuck, it's not a systems issue. It’s a self-leadership issue.
If your growth has flatlined, it’s because you’ve hit the ceiling of your ability, not theirs.

The most painful (and profitable) shift in business? 

Realizing you are the bottleneck.

If you're not ready to own that, no coaching system will help you. Not EOS, not Scaling Up, not even mine.

But if you are...
If you’re ready to own the real work, there’s a path forward.

Want to know where you stand?

I’ve had a few hundred coaching calls this year alone with owners walking the same line between growth and burnout.

DM me and I’ll show you what patterns I’m seeing, and where you stack up.

All business owners start with a dream.

How confident are you in sticking with it and improving each day like Matt Rosa and his team at Alita?

Co-Founder & CEO @ Alita | AI Agents for Post-Acute Care

Things have been moving so fast with officially launching Alita this week that I haven’t even had a moment to let it sink in. 

It wasn’t until Kelsie Davis & Adrianne Grimes sent me this clip of us on the news that it really started to hit me!

A huge thank you to The Harbor Entrepreneur Center  for supporting us throughout this journey and surrounding us with such incredible mentors. Being part of a community of entrepreneurs day in and day out has pushed us to go from good to great.

Shoutout Grady Johnson Tom Browning Doug Lehrman Andrew Leone Pete Fitzsimmons Kim Padilla Walpole Tom Walpole Thomas Heath Nick Strehle Jim Veraldi Frank 💜 Wells Joseph (Joe) Moody Amrish Macedo Miles Williams Meghan Corsello and so many more for your advice, insight, and valuable time with Landon Feuerstein and me. We couldn't have done this without your support.

If nothing changes, nothing changes.
Sherlock Holmes right there!

We all know change is difficult for all humans,
but what will it take to break free?

You already know this, but I see this daily in my newer clients.

Let's don't forget the hardheaded ones too. That was me!

Remaining overwhelmed, reactive, and buried in tasks they shouldn’t be doing.

Without change I know the next six months will be more;
🔹Late nights.
🔹Bottlenecks.
🔹Firefighting.
🔹Less freedom.

That’s the cost of standing still.

 📉 How long can your business afford to keep running this way?
 📉 How long can you?

Most owners I work with don’t need another strategy.

They need ownership.
Ownership of their time.
Ownership of their decisions.
Ownership of their future.

We help business owners break this exact cycle.
And build a company that doesn’t need them in every single decision.

Because running your business shouldn’t cost you your life.
Ready to shift from operator to owner?

None of the greats started with a blueprint.
Jobs. Musk. Oprah. Bezos. Buffett.

💰 They didn’t begin with billion-dollar visions.

But here’s the part most people miss:

🔹They had to repeatedly redefine 
what they believed was possible. 🔹

Every next level demanded a new version of them.

That’s not just their story
It’s yours too.

👉 What’s your 4-minute mile?
👉 What feels almost too big to say out loud right now?
👉 What belief, fear, or system is standing in your way?

I recall the first time we billed over $100K in a single month.

I was thrilled
And totally unprepared.

No systems.
No buffer.
Just a flood of opportunity, we barely held together.

But that month changed me.

It gave me more than just revenue.
It gave me confidence.
It showed me what was possible.

And it pushed me to build the foundation I should’ve had.

Growth rarely feels clean.
It’s messy, chaotic...
But absolutely worth it.

So dream big.
Dare to fail.
And above all, bet on yourself.

Hello, I'm Nick Strehle, and I
help overwhelmed business owners
gain back their time and increase their
company valuation.

Why are we more patient with our kids than with our employees?
While cutting grass yesterday, I watched a dad play pickleball with his son.

⏳ The kid’s timing was off.
🧭 His aim was off.
💪 The strength of the swing? Way off.

But the dad didn’t rush him.
Didn’t get frustrated.
Didn’t sigh or shake his head.

He just kept chasing & tossing the ball back.

Again. And again. And again. ♻️

Letting his son figure it out.
No lecture. No urgency. Just presence.

And it hit me: 💡
Why don’t we lead our teams the same way?

Why do we expect someone to get it right the first time...
…without clear instruction
…without context
…without practice?

I see this all the time in the owners I work with.

And I’ve been guilty of it myself. 😬

You give someone a task you’ve done 100 times…
And expect them to nail it on their first try.

But every business does things differently.

Every owner has their own unspoken expectations.
Every system has nuance.

So here’s the reminder....

If you wouldn’t coach your kid by yelling
at them to “just figure it out,”
don’t lead your team that way either.

You want better results⁉️

Teach. Coach. Repeat.

Then let them take ownership from there.

That’s leadership. That’s scaling.
That’s ownership. 🏆

Hello, I'm Nick Strehle. 
Follow along for more on business ownership. 
Helping you regain your time, scale profitably,
and build a legacy with the Raptor Route.

Confidence is a Double-Edged Sword
You don’t need it to start. But too much can keep you stuck.

There’s a fine line between not enough confidence... 
and too much of it.

I see it every week!
Business owners on both ends of the spectrum.

👉 On one side: They’re smart. Talented. Experts in their field.

But they’re in The Genius Trap. 
They can’t step out, can’t delegate, can’t scale.

Because they only feel confident doing what they already know.

👉 On the other side: Overconfidence.
They think they’ve got it all figured out.

Revenue’s growing, the team’s small but scrappy, and things “seem fine.”
But what they can’t see is the ceiling they’ve built for themselves.

They stopped asking for help. Stopped learning. 

We don't talk enough that:
🔹Confidence isn’t the goal. Ownership is.
🔹Confidence without self-awareness is arrogance.
🔹Confidence without a willingness to grow becomes a trap.

I’ve been on both sides.

Early on, I waited way too long to get help. 
I thought I had to figure it all out myself.
Asking for help felt like weakness.

Later, when things were going well, 
I assumed the systems I had in place were “good enough.”

They weren’t.
What changed?

Commitment.
🔹To the bigger vision.
🔹To learning what I didn’t know.
🔹To become the kind of owner my business actually needed.

Take 5 minutes to self-reflect today. Yes, TODAY!
Where is your confidence protecting you?
And where is it limiting you?

You don’t need more confidence to grow.
You need the courage to honestly assess your current situation and commit to leveling up.

Hacks, tricks, and shortcuts don’t outcompete deliberate testing.

There isn’t a single formula for guaranteed success.

Whether it’s in your marketing, sales, or team.

Just like Derek shared about Meta’s big shift, the playbook will keep changing. Algorithms, markets, employees… none of it stays still.

The owners who win aren’t the ones with the cleverest “trick.” They’re the ones with a process. They test, adapt, and adjust....
.....over and over.

After hundreds of hours with business owners, I can tell quickly who’s going to break through and who isn’t.

👉 If you’re willing to test and learn, you’ve got a shot.
👉 If your first response is to tell me why something won’t work… you’re already stuck.

Ownership means being willing to test everything in your business. 
Again. 
And again.

Testing never stops. You just get better at testing.

Data Driven Growth | Senior Performance & Growth Marketer | Paid Search, Paid Social, CRO | AI Enthusiast | 100M+ Managed

As a Meta Partner, I just wrapped up our end-of-Q3 catch-up call, and let’s just say, big changes are coming.

Meta has been slowly rolling out Project Andromeda alongside a handful of other updates that will shape the way we run ads moving into 2025 and beyond.

Here are a few key shifts to pay attention to:

🔹 Advantage+ is the future (and soon the only audience option).
 Forget complicated audience building, Meta wants the algorithm to do the heavy lifting. This has been a trend for years now but it's about to be the only option. 

🔹 Creative volume is king.
 The old best practice of 4–8 creatives per ad set? Gone. The new playbook is 20+ per ad set so the system has more variety and signals to optimize.

🔹 Systemized testing matters more than hacks.
 Those still clinging to “audience tricks” are going to get left behind. Success now comes down to building repeatable creative engines that can feed Advantage+ the right inputs.

I’ll be diving deeper into these changes and how we’re adapting campaigns at Rediscover Digital, but one thing is clear:

 👉 The next wave of profitable growth on Meta won’t come from who has the best targeting, tactics, or tricks, it’ll come from who have the best process for producing and testing creative at scale and those that can iterate on this  process the fastest. 

Good Luck.

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