Episodes

April 4, 2023

How to Go From Startup to Scale: Lessons from Top Business Operator R…

On this week's episode, Sachit (@sachitgupta) sits down with Regina Gerbeaux (@_rpgbx) to discuss how creative founders can find business operators, onboard them, and create action trackers that keep everyone on the team efficient and accountable....

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March 27, 2023

Matt Mochary & Faith Meyer on Culture Building, Leadership and Growth

“You must succeed. This company cannot take care of its people, unless the company itself is succeeding. So you can't have bloat, you can't have dead-weight. You need everybody to be at the tip, top shape, tip, top form, really …

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March 14, 2023

Inventing the MOST EFFECTIVE Management System | Holacracy by Brian R…

“I want self-managed people, especially for Halocracy. It's a self-managing environment, that needs people that are capable of individual self-management to be part of a team that is self-managing.” — Brian Robertson This week Sachit () chats...

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Feb. 28, 2023

Charles Jones — Cognitive Scientist on Stopping Procrastination, Stre…

“If you want to be a conscious creator, part of what you need to do is become skillful in facilitating the dialogue between your conscious mind and your subconscious.” — Charles M. Jones This week Sachit () chats with Charles …

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Feb. 17, 2023

Michael Lovich and Hollis Carter on Building a 7 Figure Business from…

“You got to like people, and you gotta recruit the people you want to be around. And then treat them cool and make sure you like your partner. And then find someone who can do organizational things.” — Michael Lovitch …

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Feb. 10, 2023

Dave Lakhani — How to Start a Movement: Growing Up in Cults, Persuasi…

“Persuasion doesn't mean to manipulate. Intention is everything. If it isn't in the best interests of the person you're persuading, you probably shouldn't do it.” — Dave Lakhani This week Sachit () chats with Dave Lakhani, former Entrepreneur,...

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Feb. 2, 2023

Sachit Gupta on How to Build a Million Dollar Content Business

“Creators need to understand that the game being played around them is rigged. And basically, if they don't understand a different way to play this game, they will get sacrificed in the algorithm and burnout because the platforms doesn’t care. …

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Jan. 24, 2023

How to Operate a $100M+ Holding Company | Michael Girdley on Holdco, …

“If you have good people and the right person in the seat, they're going to have a better hit rate than you. Which, may be jarring to people who are like, “I'm really good at business.” Well, it turns out, …

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Jan. 17, 2023

Alexis Grant — How to Build Content Operations Teams to Scale and Sell

“More than half of the people I talk to are burned out and that's why they want to sell. And if you're burned out, it's not too late because you can still sell the business, but it's not the optimal …

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Jan. 11, 2023

Selling a 7 Figure Business | Blake La Grange & Tim Geoffrion on Busi…

“Figure out — What is the business that you want to run? What's the level of involvement that you want to have? Make sure that your business model matches your psychological desire for your involvement with the business.” — Tim …

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Jan. 3, 2023

Gina Bianchini — How to Build & Design Communities That Run Themselve…

“There is something incredibly powerful when the design is for connection versus the design is for content. Community is designed for connection. Social media is designed for content.” — Gina Bianchini This week Sachit () chats with Gina...

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Dec. 28, 2022

How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup | Immad Akhund on Mercury, Buil…

“Whatever point you are at, you kind of have to go back and say ‘what is the thing that you're building?’ And ‘do people really want it?’” — Immad Akhund This week Sachit () chats with Immad Akhund (), CEO …

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Dec. 20, 2022

Raia Carey — How Growing Her Confidence Helped Her 30x Her Earnings a…

“It's not just the people who are interested in you, but who's going to believe in you, who's going to support you, who's going to care about you as a person, not just as the brand.” — Coach Carey This …

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Dec. 13, 2022

Ayman Al Abdullah — How to go from 6 to 7 to 8 Figures and Beyond Thr…

“Your job and your goal should be ‘How do I continuously build the systems in place in order to have an empty calendar and empty tasks list?’ In the beginning, you are the firefighter. Your job as the CEO is …

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Dec. 6, 2022

Matt Cisneros — Lessons from 10M+ in Brand Deals Across 200+ Brands a…

“What really kind of gets me going to grow this business is I never want to make this something to where it's like - Oh, I don't know that person's name or they're just there because they're good at this. …

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Nov. 29, 2022

Sam Ovens — How He Built a $80M Course Empire, the Future of Online E…

“People are burned out of courses and no one really enjoys them. So like notice what people like, people like masterminds - they like hanging out with other people and interacting. It's more about the people. It's less about the …

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Nov. 22, 2022

Steve Sims — From Getting Onstage with Journey to Meeting Elton John:…

“I believe that we have the ability to solve someone's problems and in doing so that produces loyalty, commitment, addiction, attention, but I don't believe it comes from selling. Selling is nine times out of 10 — When someone is …

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Nov. 15, 2022

JP Newman — 1.75+ billion in Real Estate Transactions: Importance of …

“Every stakeholder is even. So your customer, or your stakeholder, or your janitor, or your employees, are just as important as the investor. This mentality changes everything.” — JP Newman This week Sachit () chats with Entrepreneur JP Newman,...

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Nov. 8, 2022

Tiago Forte — The Business of Building a Second Brain

The second brain grew so slowly from one little use case to now I use it for basically everything, but you cannot start like that. That is trying to boil the ocean. That is trying to skip to the end. …

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Nov. 1, 2022

Chris Lochhead — Why Creators Should Stop Making Hustle P*rn and How …

The ultimate question for every creator, marketer, and entrepreneur is if you read and consume your content for the first time, would you go and say -that's legendary content! If you're a creator when your shit goes out, do you …

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Oct. 25, 2022

Trivinia — How to Build a Team and Scale Beyond Yourself

As best as you can, let your team in because when you let them in, they will see opportunities to support you that you won't even see because you've got your little blinders on. — Trivinia Barber This week Sachit …

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Oct. 18, 2022

James Guldan — How to 10X Your Creator Business: Lessons from $1 Bill…

Trigger Warning - The audio contains sensitive content that might be disturbing to some audiences. It's not easy to be a leader on a team and it shouldn't be. It should be a burden. I think most people think it's …

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Oct. 11, 2022

JeVon McCormick — How the CEO of a 9-Figure Publishing Company Became…

“Privilege is only negative if you don't use your privilege to elevate others. That's when it's negative. So for me, I express to people I have a deep privilege and a deep responsibility given my upbringing to give back.” — …

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Oct. 4, 2022

Justin Moore — How to Get Your Dream Partnerships Without a Huge Audi…

The fundamental thing to understand is that being a creator is not a normal job. Being able to create high-quality content, talk about products in interesting ways, and influence people to take an action - that's a skill set that …

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