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A stock-market-cycle episode built around the Euphoria/Reckoning/Phoenix framework, walking through how to recognise a crash and position…

Guest Alex Hanson, founder of The Shelf Dude, scaled custom shelving from a weekend side hustle to six figures almost entirely through…

Audience-from-zero playbook: forget the numbers, find your inner nerd, build a magnet, the 'first, last, best, worst, weirdest' interview…

An engineer monetizes 3D modeling and rendering skills by offering services on Upwork, growing into an international freelance business and…

Teen founder Kirk McKinney built Junk Teens into a $900K/year junk-removal business after stumbling onto valuable discards at a local dump,…

Sam and Shaan take a break from business to talk about relationships, leaning on 'The Body Keeps the Score' and Gottman's Four Horsemen…

Saeed Ezzati built an AI Chrome extension to over $20K/month, walking through the idea, how to build it, early opportunities, monetization,…

A programmer spends a year writing a 300-page book of life lessons, only to realize it is too generic to sell. The segment is a cautionary…

HoldCo Bros with NikonomicsPodcast interview Isaac French of Live Oak Lake on turning $20K into a $2.3M micro-destination investment that…

Alex Hormozi on losing everything, the Acquisition.com ~$250M/yr playbook for buying boring service businesses, investing in Skool ($100M+…

Greg shares four 2025 SaaS ideas with growth playbooks: Legal Jargon Simplifier (Chrome extension at $5/mo or $50-75/year with viral…

Mark Janasik, founder of chef-driven coffee house Southern Grounds in Florida, shares how he bootstrapped a multi-million-dollar…

Noah Kagan gives a behind-the-scenes vlog of a day leading AppSumo, a roughly $96M/year software deals marketplace run by about 120 people.…

Emma in Pittsburgh turns a decorating talent into a home staging business, earning her first $1,000 by preparing properties for realtors…

Justin Welsh interview walking through an 'AI-powered book empire': brainstorm concepts with Claude/GPT-4, analyse Amazon bestsellers with…

The episode is a short advice-focused set of stories around Scott Belsky's pep talk, enrolling in getting rich, asking better questions,…

Chris tells the origin story of his multi-million dollar business: a Buc-ee's visit, a viral marketing stunt, a $3,000 gamble, and building…

Mark Tilbury breaks down a recent stock market crash, citing four main causes: recession fears, rising interest rates, a tech-stock…

Sam and Shaan react to a market dip, then pivot to Olympics winners and losers (Femke Bol, Team Refugees, Simone Biles, pole vault memes,…

An aspiring coach spends $20,000 joining a mastermind group focused on ecommerce businesses, then feels lost trying to start her own. The…

HoldCo Bros brainstorm eight ideas: local and niche newsletters with influencer partnerships, Botox business economics, a…

Scott Heiferman on his path to a $15M outcome, building Meetup.com to a $156M exit, 'Rosie the Riveter 3.0,' plus an Elon problem-solving…

Five ideas/frameworks: Brand & Influencer Matching 2.0 (a 'link tree for brands' with AI-curated creator applications), a Mini-Tools…

Chris tells his own story: from broke to multiple million-dollar businesses, a spreadsheet of 72 ventures, partnering with John McAfee, the…