Best Gary McGraw Podcasts (2025)

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September 23, 2025 - Obstacles to Opportunity Pat Alacqua and Go Giver Bob Burg 53:59

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Pat Alacqua – CEO of Blue Magnet Partners and Author of Obstacles to Opportunity: Transforming Business Challenges into Triumphs Growth is not scale. Don’t mistake the two. Scale is capacity, not chaos, and start building scale early, because you run out of hustle at some point. Pat Alacqua is a seasoned business growth strategist who has built his…

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Rants & rAVes — Episode Episode 1459: Talking XBO and Workforce Development With NSCA’s Laura Janssen

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On this episode of Rants & rAVes, I’m joined by Laura Janssen, director of workforce development at NSCA. We talk about the upcoming XBO Experience (Oct. 28-29, 2025, in Austin, Texas) — what it is, who should attend and why it matters — along with the workforce challenges facing the AV industry today. Laura also shares how NSCA is tackling these i…

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September 22, 2025 – Finance Expert Stefanie O’Connell, I Need A VA Brittany Bettini andEnlightened Entrepreneur Corey Poirier 53:59

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Stefanie O’Connell – Personal finance expert, featured on The Today Show, ABC World News, Bloomberg, CNBC, and more My strategy is a time in the market is better than timing the market. In a time when traditional savings accounts are offering less incentives to younger generations, new research shows that Bitcoin (BTC) is emerging as a frontrunner …

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September 19, 2025 – Smootheeze Ross Nelson and Lewis Howes 53:59

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Ross Nelson – Founder of Smootheeze After about five months, we crossed six figures in revenue. And so it was a great milestone, and just validation that people continue to buy after that. Ross Nelson is the Founder of Smootheeze, I am passionate about transforming the way people prepare and enjoy smoothies. Our innovative silicone freezer trays ma…

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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1458: Here’s How LG Can Help You Sell AV to the Government!

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In this episode of Rants & rAVes, I sat down with Beth Dudley, director of public sector sales for Almo Pro AV, and Vicky Sanville, director of corporate and public sector sales for LG. We talked about how Almo and LG are making it easier to sell AV into the government and public sector — from streamlining the sales process to opening up new opport…

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September 18, 2025 – Working w King Charles & High End Clothing Empire Federico Marchetti and Lisa Lindahl 53:59

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Federico Marchetti – Member of the Board of Trustees at Circular Bioeconomy Alliance The most important thing is take courage. Take risks, because if you don’t take risks, it would be impossible to be lucky. I was very lucky, but simply because I took so many risks, and most of the times it went well. Federico Marchetti took a few million dollar in…

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September 17, 2025 – Principal Amen Rahh and Justin Harbinger 53:59

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Amen Rahh – Founder/CEO at Knowlej and Author of Revolutionary School Culture: The 6 Principles of Unlocking Your School’s Hidden Treasure I was graduating 100% of my students year over year for three years straight, and I have one student who was homeless and in foster care… he needed $400 to get from California to Alabama to pay for his ticket. H…

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September 16, 2025 – Coaster Force Scott Schaffer 53:59

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Scott Schaffer – Founder of Upstop Media and Videographer of Coaster Force Constant content that people are interested and engaged with, I would say is the best way to put it… The more consistent you are, and the more YouTube recognizes that, the more YouTube pushes your content, and then the more viewers you get, the more subscribers you get, and …

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September 15, 2025 - AI Sales Role Playing Kelvin Johnson and Likeable Dave Kerpin 53:59

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Kelvin Johnson – CEO of Brevity and Author of The Sales Trap Prevention Playbook In essence, a lot of people believe that practice makes perfect. We don’t believe that. At Brevity, we believe perfect practice makes perfect. Kelvin Johnson is a leader and sales expert who founded Brevity. He is CEO and can speak about many topics such as leadership …

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Send us a text James McGraw hails from Troy Michigan, is a long time Pro Flatlander and organizer of the second iteration of the AFA (American Flatland Association). He is also passionate about restoring classic cars. Special Thanks to Shaun Jarvis for handling our socials. Support the show

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September 12, 2025 - Venture for Canada Scott Stirrett and Network Star Graham Hancock 53:59

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Scott Stirrett – Founder and CEO of Venture for Canada and Author of The Uncertainty Advantage: Launching Your Career in an Era of Rapid Change Self compassion is a really important part of navigating uncertainty… adaptability means not setting really rigid plans for yourself, but being guided by your values and your life mission. Scott Stirrett’s …

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September 11, 2025 – Success Mindset Gary MacDermid and Publisher David Hancock 53:59

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Gary MacDermid – Founder of USA Private Equities and ProGrowth Solutions and Author of Set Your Own Goals-Or Someone Else Will: How to Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs and Get Things Done You’re the sum of the five people that you spend the most time with, and sometimes you do have to remove yourself from negativity to position yourself for success. …

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September 10, 2025 – Film History Alice Lovejoy and Master of Memory Ron Fry 53:59

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Alice Lovejoy – Professor at University of Minnesota & Author of Author of Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War We know that our smartphones and computers can’t run without rare earths, without materials that have very violent histories behind them… what Tales of Militant Chemistry shows is that these present-day histor…

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September 9, 2025 – Flexible Leadership Kevin Eikenberry and Greatest Hit Dorie Clark 53:59

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Kevin Eikenberry – Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group Engagement is not something we do to people. It’s not ping pong tables, it’s not casual Fridays… Engagement is something that someone chooses. Our job as leaders is to create an environment where people want to engage. Kevin Eikenberry is a world-renowned leadership and remote…

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September 8, 2025 – First Quarter Million Katie Nelson and Cisco’s John Chambers 53:59

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Katie Nelson – Founder/CEO of Sales UpRising Don’t put yourself so far ahead of ‘I need to be this persona of a CEO, or I need to be a persona of an executive, or a president, or whatever the case is.’ Just be who you are and go hawk your stuff. Go see who the right buyer is for you, figure that out first, and then the rest, you’ll have time, you c…

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September 5, 2025 – Science of Leadership Margaret Moore and Famous Prankster Alan Abel 53:59

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Margaret Moore – Executive Coach and Co-Author of The Science of Leadership: Nine Ways to Expand Your Impact Conscious leadership is really about setting aside the mental and emotional human stuff… and actually, like in Taoism, it’s called the mountain – you see, you’re still, you’re calm, you’re clear, you move deliberately, you know where to go, …

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September 4, 2025 – Market Place Safety Jeremy Gottschalk and Signal Wire Sean Heiney 53:59

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Jeremy H. Gottschalk – Founder & CEO of Market Place Risk and Author of “Bulletproof Your Marketplace: Strategies for Protecting Your Digital Platform“ What happens when you integrate these Gen AI tools like ChatGPT to help you communicate faster, or create profiles or message one another? Right then that’s not the user’s not generating that. The p…

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September 3, 2025 – Car Credit Card Jacob Zachs and Barefoot Entrepreneur Michael Houlihan 53:59

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Jacob Zachs – Founder and CEO of Fasten Rewards My wife was three months pregnant. I looked at her with our first child, and I said, ‘Hey, I think I want to start a company.’ And she said, ‘You’re crazier than I thought, but let’s go and let’s do it. Jacob Zachs brings a wealth of experience from the early-stage tech ecosystem. He played a pivotal …

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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1457: Almo Pro AV Brings the E4 Experience to Santa Clara

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In this episode of Rants & rAVes, Steph Beckett sits down with Greg O’Rourke to preview the upcoming E4 Experience in Santa Clara on Sept. 10 — the first E4 to debut under the newly rebranded Almo Pro AV name. Greg shares what this change means for the company and for attendees, while also highlighting what’s new for the Santa Clara stop, from hand…

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September 2, 2025 – Skidmore President Dr. Philip Glotzbach and Human Rolodex Nihla Mehta 53:59

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Dr. Philip A. Glotzbach – President Emeritus of Skidmore College and Author of Embrace Your Freedom: Winning Strategies to Succeed in College and in Life College is so much more than that. First of all, it is an opportunity to test drive your new adult self, and that means to think about what sort of adult you want to be, what values do you have, w…

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September 1, 2025 – Givecard Lurein Perera, Q10 Rhea Wessel, and Millionaire Mindset Dr. Sarah Fallaw 53:59

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Lurein Perera – CEO of Givecard How do we take modern financial technology but put it in the sense of giving people money? And that’s really the ethos of GiveCard and what we’ve become today. Lurein Perera, CEO of Givecard, has spent the past six years building GiveCard, a mission-driven platform dedicated to empowering individuals through direct f…

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August 29, 2025 – Next-Gen Product Management Teresa Cain and 20 Businesses & 20 Books James Altucher 53:59

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Teresa Cain – Co-Author of Next-Gen Product Management I’m not worried about [AI] taking jobs. I’m worried about the people that aren’t using it to enhance their skills and the job… Products like ChatGPT allow you to have another problem-solving person right next to you. Teresa Cain is an author, speaker, entrepreneur and technology executive who h…

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August 28, 2025 – Church Marketing Brady Sticker and Motivat Publisher Justin Sachs 53:59

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Brady Sticker – Founder of ChurchCandy Marketing We take online views and turn them to butts in pews, using social media ads to make that happen. And so that’s applicable to businesses, churches, really anyone. You can use the tools we have today to grow your organization. Brady Sticker is an American author, speaker, and digital marketing strategi…

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August 27, 2025 – Internal Guidance System Zen Cryar DeBrucke and GreatCynthia Fisher 53:59

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Zen Cryar Debrucke – Founder of Fear Free Human Anytime you’re feeling worry, fear, anxiety, overwhelm, doubt, guilt, frustration, irritation – procrastination is actually not a character flaw. It’s guidance. Zen Cryar DeBrucke went from high school dropout to getting my Bachelors degree in Foreign Policy, from UC Davis, to founding one of the firs…

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August 26, 2025 – Odoo & Systems Nick Foy and Rahul Aggarwal 53:59

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Nick Foy – Founder of Silverdale Technology Now, 75% of all ERP implementations fail to meet their original objective. If you’ve only got a one in four chance of being successful at something, why would you even bother? Nick Foy is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Evangelist of Silverdale Technology, which provides access to world-class processes, syste…

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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1456: Previewing CEDIA Expo and Commercial Integrator Expo with Jason McGraw

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I caught up with Jason McGraw, group vice president of CEDIA Expo and Commercial Integrator Expo, to preview this year’s shows in Denver, Sept. 4–6 (with education starting Sept. 3). Jason walked me through what attendees can expect — from the trends shaping both residential and commercial AV to education highlights and key show floor themes. If yo…

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August 25, 2025 – AI Podcast Co-Host Ashraf Amin, Financial Guru Jean Chatzku and Sam Adams Founder Jim Koch 53:59

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Ashraf Amin – Founder of Conquest Distributors, Founder of Volo Technologies Group, Founder of Toronto Talks What if an AI could be more than just a tool? What if it could be a co-creator in helping make sense of the world? Ashraf Amin is a Canadian entrepreneur, fintech founder, and creator of Toronto Talks—a bold new podcast co-hosted by an AI na…

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August 22, 2025 – Emotional Intelligence Amy Jacobson and Millions Sold Scott Turrow 53:59

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Amy Jacobson – EI and Human Behaviour Specialist and Author of The Emotional Intelligence Advantage: Mastering change and difficult conversations Your IQ will get your foot in the door, but your emotional intelligence… this is what gets you promoted. Amy Jacobson is an EI and human behaviour specialist based in Perth, offering emotional intelligenc…

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August 21, 2025 – “SmallBizLady” Melinda Emerson and Choose to Win Tom Ziglar 53:59

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Melinda Emerson – Small Business Expert, Digital Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker, and Bestselling Author of Fix Your Business: A 90-Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Remove Chaos From Your Business The reason I do what I do is because my mission is to end small business failure. That is my mission. That is what drives me. Melinda F. Emerson,…

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August 20, 2025 – Mosquito Nix Mike O’Neal, Financial Freedom Justin Buonomo and SuperSpeaker Brian Tracy 53:59

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Mike O’Neal – President of MosquitoNix The whole thing about franchising is to mitigate business risk. You have processes, and at the end of the day, we just want to make sure owners are on the right track. Mike O’Neal has worked across various departments at MosquitoNix for over a decade. He brings a contagious level of motivation to his role and …

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August 19, 2025 – ER Boss & CRISPR Concerns Dr. Neal Baer and Top 0.1% Bryant McGill 53:59

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Dr. Neal Baer, MD, MA, MEd – Author of The Promise and Peril of CRISPR Tell the story as best you can, emotionally, not the science behind it, but the emotion behind it, like if you’re doing something that saved someone’s life, tell me who died and why you’re doing this now. Dr. Baer most recently was Executive Producer and Showrunner for the third…

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August 18, 2025 – Sold 12 Businesses Gregory Shepard, Melinda Emerson Quick 10, and Former Pixar CFO Lawrence Levy 53:59

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Gregory Shepard – Former CTO of eBay, Founder and CEO of StartupScience.io and Author of The Startup Lifecycle: The Definitive Guide to Building a Startup from Idea to Exit Every year, I choose one thing that I think is impossible, and I go after it. From a challenging background as a “bullied, scrawny, autistic kid” growing up paycheck to paycheck…

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August 15, 2025 – Don’t Be A Little Pitch Bryce North and The 7 Habits Sean Covey 53:59

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Bryce North – Founder of Don’t Be A Little Pitch and PR Pro If you can’t promote yourself, then why do I think you can promote me? If you can’t help yourself get exposure and seem influential, why do I think you can help my business? Bryce North is a serial entrepreneur with years of experience building, scaling, and running startups. He has built …

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August 14, 2025 – Tree Ring Digital Marketing Paige Wiese and TED SuperStar Simon Sinek 53:59

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Paige Wiese – Founder and CEO of Tree Ring Digital The moment I stopped chasing every client and started focusing on serving the right clients, my business didn’t just grow – it transformed. Paige Wiese is the founder and CEO of Tree Ring Digital, a top-ranked Denver-based marketing agency that develops high performance websites and digital marketi…

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August 13, 2025 – Deep Listening Emily Kasriel and EO Founder Verne Harnish 53:59

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Emily Kasriel – Deep Listening Expert, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London and Author of Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends, and Foes―Transformational Communication, Listening, and Empathy Through an 8-Step Method There’s such an epidemic of loneliness in our society… we all need to be heard. It’s a…

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August 12, 2025 – Rabbi Stephen Roberts, Cox’s Kelsea Warren and T-Mobile’s Alice Williams 53:59

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Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts – Author of A Truth versus The Truth: How Religious People Embrace or Resist the Modern World: A Guide to Recognizing and Talking About Faith in Everyday Life It is important for us to look at our own gifts, and if God has given you a good business gift, particularly as an entrepreneur, run with it. Own the gifts that God h…

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August 11, 2025 – Can I Rent Your Pool? Bunim Laskin and OwnUp Jennifer Long 53:59

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Bunim Laskin – Founder and CEO of Swimply I started knocking on doors. I went on Google Earth to see who had pools and who didn’t. I knocked on 80 doors, to be exact, and got four people to agree to let me rent out their pools. On a hot day in 2018, as the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin convinced his neighbor to let us use her pool for a fee. …

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August 8, 2025 – Financial Freedom Justin Buonomo, T Mobile’s Alice Williams and Fallaw 53:59

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Justin Buonomo – Founder, Owner & CEO of Journey To Financial Freedom We won that competition, so we got about 350,000 in non dilutive funding, plus all nine major banks in the UK had to work with us by law for three years. Justin Buonomo is the CEO and Founder of Journey to Financial Freedom, a coaching company that helps faith-driven individuals …

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August 7, 2025 – Life After Debt Amber Duncan, Jimi Gibson Plays the Q10, and Shark Tank Judge Kevin Harrington 53:59

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Amber Duncan – Founder of Life After Debt If you can solve a universal problem, you’re going to have a million dollar company. That’s just the way I see the world. Life After Debt is led by Amber Duncan, a serial entrepreneur who has seen the bottom, struggled (like so many), and turned that struggle into a passion project – helping others and meet…

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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1455: A Closer Look at Logitech’s Rally Board 65 Collaboration Solution

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I was joined by Craig Ishii, Logitech’s product marketing guru and a well-known voice in the collaboration space, for a real-time video tour of the all-new Rally Board 65 — a 65-inch collaboration board that’s ready to go with Microsoft Teams and Zoom right out of the box. This behind-the-scenes walkthrough covers the full solution — and Craig even…

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August 6, 2025 – Prison to Street Smart Empire Chad Wade and Priceline Entrepreneur Jeff Hoffman 53:59

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Chad Wade – Chief at UNS Wholesale and UpnSmokeOnline, Content Creator at Chad Wade TV and Author of Street Smart: How to Start a Million-Dollar Business and Run It like a Weed Empire We ended up growing into five stores within two years, because we were doing something everybody else wasn’t. We were telling them the truth about what prices really …

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August 5, 2025 – Product Development Diana Stepner and Live Nation ex-CEO Jason Garner 53:59

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Diana Stepner – Author of Next-Gen Product Management: Future Proof Your Career AI is able to accelerate that. It’s able to, you know, provide a lot of capacity and capabilities to two to three people. So whereas before, you might have needed more individuals to start a company, now you can do so quite quickly with a smaller number of folks. Diana …

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August 4, 2025 – Playground Tycoon Nic Breedlove and 1-800-GOT-JUNK?’s Brian Scudamore 53:59

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Nicolas Breedlove – Visionary Entrepreneur and CEO of NVB Playgrounds and Author of Biography of Play: A CEO’s Perspective of Running through Seasons of Disruption in an Unfamiliar Industry of Commercial Playground Equipment I don’t necessarily know that it’s 100% needed to be passionate about what you’re selling as much as it is about why you’re s…

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August 1, 2025 – One of top 5 interviews Kasim Aslam and Click Funnels Russell Brunson 53:59

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Kasim Aslam – Co-Founder @ Pareto Talent One person in a thousand-person organization does about 25% of the total work, which is insane, but it ends up being true. Kasim Aslam is the Co-Founder of Pareto Talent, one of the top recruiting agencies in the world. He founded and sold Solutions 8, a leading Google Ads agency. He was the first traffic co…

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July 31, 2025 – Productivity Expert Ari Meisel and NYT SMB Expert Melinda Emerson 53:59

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Ari Meisel – Founder of Less Doing. A productivity expert focused on optimizing operations and helping entrepreneurs work more efficiently Anytime you hear yourself using the word ‘every’—every time I do a new radio show, every time I bring on a new client, every time I send a newsletter —that word ‘every’ should be a trigger and a flag in your min…

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July 30, 2025 – Coaching Power Luciana Nuñez and Greatest Hits! NYT Bestseller Susan Solovic 53:59

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Luciana Nuñez – Executive Coach at The Preston Associates and Author of Coaching Power: Leading With Coaching to Create Individual, Team, and Organizational Outperformance The leader that has the real power is the leader that asks the right questions. And that’s very much a coaching skill that we have. Luciana Nuñez is an Executive Coach with over …

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July 29, 2025 – SaaS Gurus Anthony Nitsos and Founder of North Face Hap Klopp 53:59

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Anthony Nitsos – Founder and Lead Guru at SaaS Gurus People are going to value your product more based on how much you’re going to charge them for it. Anthony Nitsos is CEO and Founder of SaaS Gurus, is a seasoned financial strategist with a unique background in human medicine and finance. Since establishing SaaS Gurus in January 2020, he’s devoted…

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July 28, 2025 – MyGig Gary Engels and Messaging Magician Jimi Gibson 53:59

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Gary Engels – CEO of MyGig If you want to understand how an animal behaves, don’t go to the zoo. Go to the jungle… Talk to your customers. Why did they start using your product or service? Gary Engels is a seasoned entrepreneur, leadership architect, and tactical strategist with a powerful track record of building businesses that drive both income …

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July 25, 2025 – i Success Training John Joseph and 17 Runs Olivia Chadwick & Garnet Morris 53:59

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John M. Joseph – Founder of i Success Training In every sales business, there’s a buyer, there’s a seller. Stand in the middle. Don’t say anything too stupid. You’ll probably get a check. John M. Joseph was a top-producing agent listing 100-125 properties per year, both residential and some commercial, for Coldwell Banker. Next, Coach John was aske…

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July 24, 2025 – HOA Disruption Yotam Cohen and Broad Book Press Dr. Jennifer Dorsey 53:59

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Yotam Cohen – Founder of Daisy The most important ones are one, which I started here at Daisy, is really starting with the market… The second one is really on people… And the third thing… is focus. I think trying to always do too many things is detrimental to startups. Yotam Cohen who I thought would also be a good fit: He’s a second-time founder w…