The Zorzee Sessions Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:54:26 -0400 https://zorzee.com/ en-us © 2026 Zorzee LLC yes f81af5a8-0d87-5770-83e2-fbbb15f0f49f dan@zorzee.com dan@zorzee.com Dan Lorenz episodic false The Franchise Disclosure Document is 200-plus pages of legal filing, and what you miss in it can cost you six figures. Zorzee Sessions reads it with you.


Each week, one franchise gets the analyst treatment: what the FDD actually says, what the Item 19 numbers produce when you run the math, where the risk sits, and how real operators mitigate it. Every red flag gets a realistic mitigation. Every tailwind gets stress-tested. No hype, no fear, no pitch.


Zorzee Sessions is the audio companion to The Zorzee Report, the independent franchise-intelligence newsletter for professionals deciding whether to put $100,000 or more into a franchise.


The analysis comes from Dan Lorenz, and he's been on every side of the table this show covers: multi-brand franchise owner; founder of Books Brothers, Guerrilla Franchising, Synyrgx, and Zorzee; former JP Morgan investment banking analyst and Deloitte consultant; 22-year military veteran with 18 years in US Army Special Forces. He's been the corporate professional weighing the leap, the franchisee writing the checks, and the consultant who's helped 85+ people into ownership. He built Zorzee after discovering $321,000 in costs omitted from his own FDD, after he signed.


No commissions. No franchisor revenue. Independent analysis only. Franchisors never sponsor this show and never pay for coverage.


New episodes weekly, alongside the Tuesday issue. Full breakdowns at zorzee.com.


Production note: episodes are produced from each week's published issue, most are voiced with AI narration, and every one is reviewed by Dan before release. Some episodes Dan hosts himself.


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]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) franchise, FDD, franchise disclosure document, franchise due diligence, franchise investing, home care franchise, small business, entrepreneurship, Dan Lorenz, Zorzee, franchise analysis, franchise buyer Dan Lorenz dan@zorzee.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/p0rf8l5j4aimz92gw7x8cc8rpqki?.jpg The Zorzee Sessions https://zorzee.com/ Seniors Helping Seniors: 53.3% Labor Cost in a 65-to-75% Industry (Part 3 of 4) Seniors Helping Seniors: 53.3% Labor Cost in a 65-to-75% Industry (Part 3 of 4) Most home care operators lose 65 to 75% of revenue to caregiver labor. This brand runs 53.3%. One design decision explains it.

In Issue 3 of The Zorzee Report, we go inside the Seniors Helping Seniors FDD: the brand where the caregivers are seniors themselves, and what that single design choice does to the biggest cost line in the business. 

We get into the 53.3% average caregiver payroll across 62 surveyed operators, why the model's lower turnover is the real engine, the local-marketing requirement that doubles as discipline, and who this peer-caregiver model actually fits.

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#homecarefranchise #seniorshelpingseniors #franchise #franchiseduediligence #fdd #seniorcare

]]> Most home care operators lose 65 to 75% of revenue to caregiver labor. This brand runs 53.3%. One design decision explains it.

In Issue 3 of The Zorzee Report, we go inside the Seniors Helping Seniors FDD: the brand where the caregivers are seniors themselves, and what that single design choice does to the biggest cost line in the business. 

We get into the 53.3% average caregiver payroll across 62 surveyed operators, why the model's lower turnover is the real engine, the local-marketing requirement that doubles as discipline, and who this peer-caregiver model actually fits.

Read the full issue at zorzee.com

The Zorzee Report is independent franchise intelligence. No commissions. No franchisor revenue. 

Subscribe free at https://thezorzeereport.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=zorzee-sessions&utm_content=ep03-seniors-helping-seniors

FOLLOW: 

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Production note: this episode was produced from the published issue with AI narration and reviewed by Dan Lorenz before release. Educational purposes only, not financial, legal, or investment advice.

#homecarefranchise #seniorshelpingseniors #franchise #franchiseduediligence #fdd #seniorcare

]]> https://thezorzeereport.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=zorzee-sessions&utm_content=ep03-seniors-helping-seniors Dan Lorenz Buzzsprout-19393828 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:00:00 -0400 794 franchise, FDD, Seniors Helping Seniors, senior care franchise, home care franchise, franchise due diligence, Item 19, caregiver labor cost, franchise investing, franchise review 3 full false One You Love Homecare: What One Owner Changed to Triple His Revenue (Part 2 of 4) One You Love Homecare: What One Owner Changed to Triple His Revenue (Part 2 of 4) Same brand. Same fees. Same territory. One franchisee ran the business two completely different ways and got two completely different outcomes.

In Issue 2 of The Zorzee Report, we go inside the One You Love Homecare FDD: the operator who ran part-time for three years and watched revenue slide to $473,000, then went full-time and tripled past $1.4 million in a single year. We get into why caregiver labor as a percentage of revenue is the number that decides everything, why the demographic tailwind doesn't drive revenue but the referral network does, and what to look for in the founder on the other side of a 10-year agreement.

Read the full issue at zorzee.com.

The Zorzee Report is independent franchise intelligence. No commissions. No franchisor revenue. Subscribe free at zorzee.com.

Production note: this episode was produced from the published issue, voiced with AI narration, and reviewed by Dan Lorenz before release. Educational purposes only, not financial, legal, or investment advice.

]]> Same brand. Same fees. Same territory. One franchisee ran the business two completely different ways and got two completely different outcomes.

In Issue 2 of The Zorzee Report, we go inside the One You Love Homecare FDD: the operator who ran part-time for three years and watched revenue slide to $473,000, then went full-time and tripled past $1.4 million in a single year. We get into why caregiver labor as a percentage of revenue is the number that decides everything, why the demographic tailwind doesn't drive revenue but the referral network does, and what to look for in the founder on the other side of a 10-year agreement.

Read the full issue at zorzee.com.

The Zorzee Report is independent franchise intelligence. No commissions. No franchisor revenue. Subscribe free at zorzee.com.

Production note: this episode was produced from the published issue, voiced with AI narration, and reviewed by Dan Lorenz before release. Educational purposes only, not financial, legal, or investment advice.

]]> https://thezorzeereport.beehiiv.com/p/one-you-love-homecare-franchise-review Dan Lorenz Buzzsprout-19339825 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:00:00 -0400 1310 franchise, FDD, home care franchise, One You Love Homecare, franchise due diligence, Item 19, franchise investing, senior care franchise 2 full false Home Care: The Tailwind, the Trap, and the Part Discovery Day Skips Home Care: The Tailwind, the Trap, and the Part Discovery Day Skips The aging population is real. So is the 75% turnover. Only one shows up at Discovery Day.

In the first Zorzee Session, we break down the home care franchise category before the brand deep dives begin: the two completely different businesses that share the name "home care," the number that decides whether you survive (caregiver labor as a percentage of revenue), why demographics don't write checks but referral networks do, and who this category actually fits.

Read the full issue at zorzee.com.

The Zorzee Report is independent franchise intelligence. No commissions. No franchisor revenue. Subscribe free at zorzee.com.

Production note: this episode was produced from the published issue with AI narration and reviewed by Dan Lorenz before release. Educational purposes only, not financial, legal, or investment advice.

]]> The aging population is real. So is the 75% turnover. Only one shows up at Discovery Day.

In the first Zorzee Session, we break down the home care franchise category before the brand deep dives begin: the two completely different businesses that share the name "home care," the number that decides whether you survive (caregiver labor as a percentage of revenue), why demographics don't write checks but referral networks do, and who this category actually fits.

Read the full issue at zorzee.com.

The Zorzee Report is independent franchise intelligence. No commissions. No franchisor revenue. Subscribe free at zorzee.com.

Production note: this episode was produced from the published issue with AI narration and reviewed by Dan Lorenz before release. Educational purposes only, not financial, legal, or investment advice.

]]> Dan Lorenz Buzzsprout-19298193 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0400 1354 1 full false