Bear with us on this one — Brian was running on cough medicine and not much else when we recorded this. The content is worth it.

In this episode, Brian sits down with Guillermo Ochoa of Merseyshell LLC — a manufacturing veteran with 15 years across the auto industry and Bimbo Bakeries (the largest bread manufacturer in the world) — who is now on a self-funded search to acquire and operate a small industrial business.

Guillermo walks through his career arc from R&D engineer to warehouse automation lead, with stints in Mexico, Colombia, Spain, and the UK. He breaks down how large-scale food manufacturing actually works — the machinery, the sourcing contracts, the labor economics, and how brands like Arnold's and Sara Lee compete against Walmart's Great Value on grocery shelves.

Then the conversation shifts to where Gu ...