Best Dtc Tips Podcasts (2026)

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#217 The Holiday Hangover | Why January Breaks So Many Ecommerce Brands 11:24

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What is the (ecommerce) holiday hangover? If December was your biggest month ever, January can feel like something broke overnight. During December sales spike, ads look strong, and dashboards glow green.But January hits and suddenly refunds accelerate, inventory disappears and cash tightens. In this Week in Review, Neil breaks down why December re…

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#216 From $0 to $50K: How He Built a Profitable E-Commerce Business with Voltage 27:42

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From walking away from e-commerce to building a $50K-per-month profitable brand. This episode shows what happens when you stop quitting and fix the real problem. In today’s episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil sits down with Jarod Jones, a Voltage client who originally dismissed e-commerce entirely. After acquiring a struggling Amazon bu…

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$1.7M BFCM: Inside Montana Knife Company's Black Friday 53:37

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Montana Knife Company pulled in $1.7 million over Black Friday weekend without discounting a single knife. Co-founder Brandon Horoho explains how: five targeted product drops, one for each customer persona. An email cadence so aggressive he was watching unsubscribe rates like a hawk. And a VIP program where the reward shows up unannounced in your m…

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#215 Why Your Margins Are Shrinking (Even When Sales Are Up) 16:42

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Why is your margin getting smaller even when sales look fine? Your revenue is growing, your ads look fine, and orders keep coming in. So why does it feel harder to make money than it used to? This episode explains why margins shrink as platforms mature and how sellers get caught off guard. In this Week in Review, Neil explains how platform maturity…

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TEA 221: One Annual Ritual That Changed My Business (And Life) 30:40

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Leave a podcast rating, then email a screenshot to [email protected] and we'll send you a $10 Amazon gift card OR a $100M Money Models book as our thank you! Every year between Christmas and New Year’s, I take one uninterrupted day that completely resets my direction, priorities, and momentum—I call it a Clarity Day. In this episode, I break …

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#367 - The Insider's Guide to Supplements: What Every Founder Needs to Know About Compliance, Claims, and Scale 53:37

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Graham Rigby is the President and CEO of the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the leading trade association for the herbal products industry. With 20 years of experience across startups and industry leadership—including serving as Chief Innovation Officer at Care/of—Graham has helped shape how modern supplement brands navigate regulatio…

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#214 He Made $433K Selling BEDSHEETS in 1 Year… Lessons From David, the Founder of Threads of Egypt 31:37

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From zero product to $433K in sales. This episode breaks down what real e-commerce growth actually looks like. In this episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil sits down with David, a Voltage client who started with no product, no brand, and no prior e-commerce experience. After nearly two years of research, delays, and hard lessons, David l…

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Native A/B Testing Hits Shopify: What You Need to Know 32:24

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"It's really about helping merchants become more informed, helping them make more bold decisions." Aaron Glazer, Product Lead at Shopify, reveals two features from Winter '26 Edition that change how merchants test and optimize their stores. Rollouts brings native split testing directly into the admin. SimGym deploys AI agents trained on billions of…

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TEA 220: You Need These Meta Audience Segments Setup 28:39

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Josh and Dylan discuss the importance of setting up Audience Segments in your Meta Business Advertising Settings. They also discuss how they use audience segments to make decisions in the ad account and make more informed advertising decisions. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ► Visit Our Website For Training and Resources ► Leave Us An Honest R…

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#213 Don't Fix Your Ads, Fix Your Fulfillment… Why Speed Is Beating Marketing 7:02

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Everyone loves talking about marketing.New creatives. New channels. New funnels. But if a customer can get the same product in one hour, three-day shipping feels broken.Not inconvenient. Broken. And when ads stop converting, most sellers blame marketing.This episode explains why that is usually the wrong diagnosis. In this Week in Review, Neil brea…

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#212 What Business Owners Get Wrong About Bitcoin… A Breakdown With Eric Runge 38:42

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Bitcoin isn’t a trend and it’s not going anywhere either…. In this episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil sits down with Bitcoin advisor Eric Runge to break down what Bitcoin actually is, why it exists, and why serious investors are paying attention. This isn’t a hype-driven crypto conversation. It’s a fundamentals-first discussion about m…

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SHOPIFY EDITIONS WINTER '26 39:57

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Shopify just dropped their "Renaissance Edition" with 150+ product updates. We cut through the noise. Sidekick finally works—I use it daily now for reports, segments, and Flow automations. Native A/B testing arrives with Rollouts and SimGym. The new Product Network let one early adopter earn $1,400 in commission in 30 days. And Shop App? #1 in the …

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TEA 219: How Much Is Enough? 3 Tips For Wealth, Stewardship, and Building With Purpose (Special Episode w/ Daniel Miller) 1:12:55

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Josh brings in his long-time friend & financial advisor, Daniel Miller, to discuss money, financial mistakes entrepreneurs make, reverse-budgeting, generosity, and faith-led wealth building. If you're interested in Daniel's financial strategy/services, click here to learn more. (Let him know you listened to this podcast!) DISCLAIMER: Daniel is an I…

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#211 Black Friday Is Lying To You (What the Data Actually Says + What It Doesn’t) 8:13

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Everyone loves Cyber Week numbers. Big charts. Big screenshots. Big claims. But Cyber Week data lies…. When demand is compressed into five days, behavior gets distorted. And if you build your next 90-day strategy on distorted data, you scale the wrong lesson. In this Week in Review, Neil breaks down what the post–Cyber Week data actually reveals, w…

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#366 - 360° Brand Growth: How Premium Brands Crack the UK, Optimize Their Funnel & Scale Profitably 48:37

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Natalia Chappell is the founder of Natalia Chappell & Co, a UK-based consultancy helping luxury and lifestyle brands scale sustainably. Previously, she led marketing for THG's luxury division, working with brands like Coach and Ralph Lauren across price points from hundreds to thousands of pounds. In this episode of DTC Pod, Natalia breaks down wha…

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From Family Farm to Grocery Aisles: How Lottie’s Meats Is Elevating the Pork Category 44:47

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Launching a CPG brand is always a grind — but reinventing pork sausage with chef-crafted recipes, premium cuts, and a sixth-generation family farm story? That’s a whole new challenge. In this episode of Shopify Happy Hour, Dan sits down with Cassie Maschhoff, co-founder of Lottie’s Meats, the sister-run brand elevating pork with gourmet sausages an…

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#210 The Ego That Kills Businesses: Sean Steimer on Partnerships, Failure, and Tenacity 27:47

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The biggest killer of businesses isn’t money, competition, or bad timing. It’s ego. In this episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil Twa sits down with serial entrepreneur Sean Steimer to break down how ego destroys partnerships, blinds founders, and turns promising ventures into unnecessary failures. Sean went from cleaning tables in Scotts…

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Why Your Creative Strategy Is Burning Cash 55:54

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"Do you care enough about new customer acquisition? What you care about shows up based off of your actions, not your thoughts or your words." Meta's Andromeda update broke everyone's brain and most brands still haven't recovered. Nehal Kazim, CEO of Ad Pros, argues that the industry overcorrected by wildly overproducing content, burning through bud…

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#209 Black Friday Broke the Internet. Here’s How Our Brands Hit Record Days Anyway 15:19

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Shopify went dark on Cyber Monday. Amazon glitched and wiped deal badges across Black Friday and Cyber Week. Sellers relying on one platform got crushed. But diversified brands kept growing because TikTok, Shopify, Amazon, and email all picked up the slack. Factories across China and Vietnam are now slowing down early ahead of Lunar New Year, which…

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TEA 218: Road to $1M/Mo (November Recap) 43:06

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In this episode, Robert and Josh provide a full account of November for our partner brands. We will break down what worked, what went wrong, and our progress on pursuing a collective million-dollar month. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ► Visit Our Website For Training and Resources ► Leave Us An Honest Rating, Email An Image Of Your Rating To …

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#208 He Built an 8-Figure DTC Brand | Unbound Merino Founder 35:15

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Your biggest advantage in e-commerce is being a founder who refuses to get knocked out. In this episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil Twa sits down with Dan Demsky, CEO and co-founder of Unbound Merino, an 8-figure DTC apparel brand built on nearly a decade of grit, adaptation, and relentless reinvention. Dan opens up about the real chall…

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She Sold 250K Shampoo Bars Without Amazon or Ads 48:51

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Kate Assaraf tried every plastic-free shampoo bar on the market. They sat in her shower like, and I'm quoting here, "tombstones." Failed products. Dead ends. So she decided to make her own. Without Instagram ads. Without Amazon. Without any of the things you're supposed to need to build a business. Today on our program, we follow Kate's journey fro…

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TEA 217: Our TOP-Performing Ad Creatives (w/ Ben From Smart Marketer) 48:17

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In this episode, we're bringing on Ben Bennett from Smart Marketer to talk about ad creative. Ben leads the creative team at Smart Marketer Agency, where they do done-for-you creative work. We’ll discuss the types of creatives that they’re seeing absolutely crushing it right now. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ► Visit Our Website For Training …

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365 - From Clicks to Bricks: How Digitally Native Brands Go Massive in Retail 58:57

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Martin Forde is the co-founder and partner at Highline Brands, a retail brokerage built for modern CPG and emerging brands. As the first sales hire at Dr. Squatch, he helped lead the brand's Walmart launch—which did over $50M in year one and set the foundation for a $1.5B exit to Unilever. In this episode of DTC Pod, Martin shares the full playbook…

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#207 TikTok’s $19B Quarter, Factories Slow Down Early and Amazon’s Temu Killer | Friday Week in Review 17:39

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Amazon launched a Temu killer, started selling certified used cars, and began rewriting product listings for AI bots… Factories across China and Vietnam are signaling early Lunar New Year shutdowns, and TikTok Shop had one of the biggest quarterly numbers in platform history. In today’s Week in Review, you’ll learn what’s shaking global supply chai…

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#206 Non-Food Franchising: The Career Path AI Can’t Replace 22:13

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What if the safest path in an AI-driven economy isn’t climbing the corporate ladder, but owning a business that AI can’t automate? In this episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil Twa sits down with franchise expert Jon Ostenson, former President of ShelfGenie and founder of FranBridge Consulting, who has helped thousands of people transitio…

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What Discounts Actually Make People Buy (Study) 41:08

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There's this thing that happens when you run an e-commerce store. You know you need to discount, but you're terrified. Terrified of training customers to wait for sales. Terrified of looking cheap. So you do nothing, or worse, you slap WELCOME10 on your popup and call it a day. Meanwhile, the big brands? They're discounting constantly. Just invisib…

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TEA 216: 12 Things You MUST Check Before Black Friday Hits 22:49

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► Get 50% Off Onboarding And A Gift of $500 Value By Joining The Max Prohits Mentorship This Week Josh and Dylan give a 12 step checklist every ecommerce business should complete before BFCM hits. Some are small, and some are big but all of them will make a huge difference for your BFCM sale. BFCM Checklist: Reset Your Ads Manager Before Scheduling…

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#205 Freight Is Down, Tariffs Shifted, TikTok Shop Is Exploding. Here’s What Matters | Friday Week in Review 13:49

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🚀 What should I sell next? Visit: gpt.caimandata.com to generate data-driven product ideas powered by Caiman Data’s AI engine. What matters for e-commerce going into 2026? Freight rates are dropping, tariffs just changed again, TikTok Shop is exploding, Amazon rolled out new updates, and factories in Asia are reporting eight straight months of cont…

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TEA 215: How Aggressively Can You Scale Meta Ads? 34:40

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In this episode, Josh and Dylan discuss the importance of risk tolerance and confidence when deciding to scale aggressively, especially during high-stakes periods like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. With real-life examples and insightful frameworks, they guide listeners through strategies to maximize ad performance and profitability. Whether you're…

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#204 From 0 Experience to 500K on Amazon. How Ashley Built Her Brand From Scratch 55:04

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What if you could take a single product idea and build a real business from it, even with zero e-commerce experience? In this episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil Twa sits down with community member and entrepreneur Ashley Klaus, who scaled a simple scar-care product into a fast-growing brand doing over half a million dollars in revenue.…

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This Founder Automated Influencer Outreach Completely 45:44

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So there's this guy, Bora Celik. Software engineer, thirty years in the game. Last year he tells his investors something crazy: SaaS is dead. Not dying. Dead. And here's the thing - he might be right. See, while everyone's playing with ChatGPT, asking it questions, Bora's building these things called AI agents. They don't just answer questions. The…

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TEA 214: Our 2025 BFCM Meta Ads Playbook 43:43

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In this episode, Josh breaks down our exact Meta Ad campaign structures, what to expect, how to budget, and how to create the right ads–as well as some additional considerations. If you'd like to get access to our BFCM Meta Ads Kit, click here. (Ad setting cheat sheets, when to scale/kill things, our brand's BFCM ad/email examples, and our BFCM Liv…

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#203 Before You Launch a Brand in 2025, Listen to This. 6:53

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🚀 What should I sell next? Head to gpt.caimandata.com to generate data-driven product ideas powered by Caiman Data’s AI engine. Most new e-commerce sellers are starting in the wrong place. In 2025, the rules have changed. Tariffs are higher. Social commerce is exploding. Marketplaces dominate global sales. If you're still launching the old way, you…

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#202 Can You Sell Your Amazon Account? Here’s How to Do It Legally 23:58

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What if that old Amazon store you stopped using is still worth thousands of dollars? Most people just walk away, but you can sell your account. In this episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil Twa sits down with long-time friend and eCommerce expert Aaron O'Sullivan to break down the real market for Amazon seller accounts. You’ll learn how t…

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Buff Clucks: From Homework Assignment to 7-Figure Chicken Brand 48:43

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So there's this moment in 2022 where Celia Hatch wakes up from a dream about chicken supplements called "Chicken Spice." She thinks it's ridiculous. Fast forward to today, and she's running a seven-figure business serving America's 13% of households with backyard chickens. The twist is it started as her teenage son's eighth-grade homework assignmen…

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TEA 213: This Product Launch Strategy Made $50k in 4 days 37:36

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Three years ago, Allyson Kuhns was generating just over $3,000 per MONTH in sales. Now, she earns nearly $50,000 in four days during product launches. In this episode, we break down everything she did leading up to and through the promotion of a new product launch for her dog scarves! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ► Visit Our Website For Trai…

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TEA 212: Road To $1M/Mo (~$350k October Recap) 53:27

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In this episode, Robert and Josh provide a full account of October for all three brands. We will break down what worked, what went wrong, and what we are doing to pursue our first million-dollar month in November. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ► Visit Our Website For Training and Resources ► Leave Us An Honest Rating, Email An Image Of Your R…

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#201 TikTok, Shopify, and Amazon Are Merging, Here’s How to Stay Ahead in 2026 | Friday Week in Review 5:55

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TikTok, Shopify, and Amazon are shifting fast. These updates will shape how you sell in 2026. In this week’s Friday “Week in Review,” Neil breaks down the latest data, platform changes, and pricing strategies helping sellers stay profitable as ad costs rise. You’ll learn how a small pricing shift turned into a major profit win, what TikTok’s new to…

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#200 Episode Special: I Interviewed 200 Entrepreneurs... Here’s Everything I Learned In 7 Minutes 8:32

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200 episodes. 5,000 minutes. 83 hours of real conversations with founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs who’ve built something from the ground up. In this milestone episode, Neil reflects on what 200 interviews have revealed about what it really takes to build a successful business in today’s world, from systems and data to freedom and fulfillment. No t…

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What's New in Shopify: November 2025 35:21

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Shopify just went from 100 variants per product to 2,048. Shopify Partners Kurt Elster and Paul Reda tested it and found out there's a secret limit at 250 where everything changes. Your theme might work perfectly, it might half-work, or it might completely break depending on when it was built. They also dig into the new VS Code-based theme editor (…