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What if the secret to building a sold-out, sponsor-magnet, NFL-partnered brand was rejecting the thing everyone else is selling?Lucy, co-founder of Coffee & Chill, moved to Miami knowing nobody, got stood up on friend dates, and turned her loneliness into one of the fastest-growing wellness communities in the country.We Chat:How Lucy went from zero friends in Miami to hosting 40,000+ guests and landing partnerships with the NFL, Formula One, and Inter Miami (and the intentional strategy behind the hype that made brands come to her)The venue hack that keeps events profitable from day one, even if you have no track record, no social following, and have never hosted anything beforeWhy she lost $10K at her own event and the venue red flag she ignored that caused itShe turned down $20K from a sponsor recently because of one ingredient in their product — why that decision is actually a growth strategy, not a sacrificeThe "morning party" positioning that filters out the wrong crowd before they even buy a ticketWhy your event should never change (and how to introduce novelty without reinventing your product every time)What it's actually like to build a business with your romantic partner, the boundaries that make it work, and why Sam is reconsidering her stance on it

This week on Fuel for the Sole, we're tackling listener questions - and naturally, going off the rails along the way. We share an update on RNWY landing at Whole Foods, the races we have on our calendars, whether you actually need more sodium in the summer heat, why some BPN gels come with a daily limit, and why you can probably skip the carb load before your next 10K.Want to be featured on the show? Email us (written or an audio file!) at⁠ fuelforthesolepodcast@gmail.com⁠. This episode is fueled by ASICS and RNWY!Head over to⁠ ASICS.com⁠ and sign up for a OneASICS account. It's completely free and when you sign up you will receive 10% off your first purchase. You also gain access to exclusive colorways on ASICS.com, free standard shipping, special birthday month discounts and more.RNWY Complete Protein is a post-run recovery shake we genuinely stand behind. Here's why: built on YESTEIN®, a fermented yeast protein that scores a PDCAAS of 1.0, which is the highest possible protein quality rating. That puts it in the same category as whey but without anyof the dairy. Every serving gives you 25 grams of complete protein containing all nine essential amino acids plus 5 grams of creatine monohydrate and a five-enzyme digestive complex. Get yours at https://rnwy.life/ and use code FEATHERS15 for 15% off your purchase. Disclaimer: This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Working nights. Working weekends. Working into the cracks of your life. Tracking every minute for 30+ clients. Watching your effective rate drop every time you get faster at your job.If that is your current reality, this episode is the mirror you need.This week on Serve Scale Soar, I sit down with Mandy, a Canadian funnel designer and Strategist Society member, who pulled off one of my favorite kinds of transformations. She went from $10K hourly months (and full-on burnout) to one $12,000/month retainer client, a $19K best month, and a $130K year in 2025, all while working around 30 hours a week. Same brain. New container.We get into the exact moment it finally clicked for her at Strategist Summit Live, the boring (and consistent) Marketing Minutes strategy that landed her dream client out of a free Facebook Group, and the unexpected champagne client problem nobody warns you about when you finally get your time back.In this episode, you'll learn:Why hourly pricing is a pay cut every time you get better at your craft (and the math behind it)The Strategist Summit moment when one sentence from another member finally cracked Mandy openThe exact Marketing Minutes strategy Mandy ran during our 30-day challenge (hint: Facebook Groups are NOT dead)How she pitched and landed a $12K/month retainer from a free Facebook Group postThe "champagne client problem" of suddenly having time and not knowing what to do with itWhy you should build your retainer floor BEFORE the scalable offerWhy Strategist Society works for funnel builders and consultants, not just ad managersWhat actually moved the needle inside the program (and what Mandy did NOT consume)Mentioned in this episode:Apply for Strategist Society: thestrategistsociety.comDM the keyword MANDY to @brandimowles on Instagram for the lightning recapFor early-stage ad managers: conversionsforclients.comReady to scale past $10K months?Strategist Society is the room where high-level service providers (ad managers, funnel builders, consultants, OBMs, copywriters) scale to $20K, $30K, and $50K months while working under 25 hours a week. If you are ready to drop hourly pricing for good and want a coach in your corner who will quote the bigger number until your nervous system catches up, head to thestrategistsociety.com and apply. We will hop on a call, do a full business audit, and figure out if we are a fit.Loved this episode?Screenshot it, tag @brandimowles on Instagram, and share it with one service provider friend who is still stuck on hourly. That is how more women find their way out of the hourly trap.Now go do the dang thing.Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serve-scale-soar/id1477998650Follow Brandi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandimowlesFollow Brandi on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Brandiandcompany

Let's begin today's program with this declaration:On every metric, American kids are so much dumber than they were 5 years ago and we are grade inflating away the reality. x.com/hookedonjohnic…How did this happen? One main reason. The surge in illegals that hit peak levels under Biden screwed the pooch.By 2023-24 academic year, 25% of public school students lived in an immigrant household.President Trump either directly or indirectly is hosing fire the Democrats started over the past few decades.First, people are happy[X] SB - Conservatives are happier than Leftists…Conservative women very happy. Leftist women least happy.Next, pride in America has remained consistent across multiple presidents. It's currently at 92%. Democrats' pride depend on the president, and it fell dramatically during Obama's tenure (from 90% to 60%), and continued dipping during the Trump era to 42%. With Biden it went up to 61% then fell to 36% under Trump v2IT'S OFFICIAL: Pro-Trump right-wing Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo De La Espriella, the underdog, WINS the national election round one, and is the FAVORITE to win outright on June 21Worth noting that since Donald Trump & Marco Rubio shut the USAID program down not a single country in Latin America has voted for a Leftist leader again.https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/2061202221271019968One-in-five lawyers (10K+) working for the federal government have left since Trump's election win. Many have gone to work for Democrat AGs and liberal nonprofits to fight the admin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

20+ AI agents in daily production. 2.25M sessions. 614 meetings booked by a single agent. Millions of interactions across the stack. Amelia Lerutte, Chief AI Officer at SaaStr, and Jason Lemkin, Founder and CEO of SaaStr, take you behind the scenes of the AI agent stack running SaaStr every day, with live demos of the actual backends. In this session, they go deep on the top agents in production: 10K, SaaStr's AI VP of Marketing, built on Replit with 1,000+ commits in 4 months QB, the AI VP of Customer Success, managing 150+ customers end-to-end Annie, the AI Event Producer running saastrannual.com (46K+ lines of code) Amelia AI, the inbound agent on Qualified that booked 614 meetings and handled 402,000 chats for SaaStr Annual alone Agentforce, reviving the leads humans never followed up with Ava (Artisan) for warm outbound on the B leads humans won't touch Monaco for fully cold outbound that fills its own funnel with lookalikes You'll also hear the honest stories: the day Annie sent emails from a prohibited address, why Replit and Lovable versions of the same agent come to different conclusions, why the traditional CSM role is dead, and how headless Salesforce + Replit is the fastest path to your first real agent. The biggest takeaway: don't put AI on your A leads. Put it on the B leads your humans won't follow up with. That's where the real revenue is. Recorded live at SaaStr AI Annual 2026. Part of The Agents series.

This is a special episode recorded live at GiveCon 2026, sponsored by Bloomerang.I joined three powerhouse experts, fundraising event strategist Samantha Swaim, digital marketing consultant Julia Campbell, and Bloomerang CMO Ann Fellman, for a candid panel called "The Advice We Don't Put on Slides." No safe takes, no polished talking points, just the real stuff consultants say behind closed doors. We cover what nonprofits consistently get wrong, the trade-offs nobody wants to make, what actually moves the needle, and the advice we give all the time but wish we didn't have to. From a scarcity mindset to the 17 touchpoints it takes to convert a donor, from abandoning friend-raisers to stepping into CEO energy, this conversation is packed with the kind of honest, actionable insight you don't usually get in a conference session.Topics:The most expensive mistakes nonprofits repeat Why the call is coming from inside the house when donor numbers decline, and what to do about itWhy "just do a raffle" and "friend-raiser" events are costing organizations more than they raiseThe 15–17 touch points it takes before revenue comes in, and why that changes everythingFor a full list of links and resources mentioned in this episode, click here.Bloomerang is the complete donor, volunteer, and fundraising management solution that helps thousands of nonprofits deliver a better giving experience and create sustainable, thriving organizations. Combining robust, easy-to-use technology with people-powered support and training, Bloomerang empowers nonprofits to work efficiently, improve supporter relationships, and grow their donor and volunteer bases. Learn more here. register here - splendidcourses.com/emailResources:Easy Emails For Impact™: The $5K+ Fundraising Campaign SystemPurpose & Profit Club® Fundraising + Marketing Accelerator   The SPRINT Method™: Your shortcut to 10K fundraisers Instagram, LinkedIn, website , weekly newsletter  [FREE] The Brave Fundraiser's Guide: Stop getting ignored. Start raising more. May contain affiliate links

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If you've got an online business and you haven't hit consistent $10K months yet, this episode is your roadmap. I've generated tens of millions in my business and we have over 40,000 customers, and in this episode I'm breaking down the five exact steps that got me there, from building your first relationships to mastering the skill of selling. These aren't complicated strategies that require a huge audience or a massive budget. They're the same things I did from the very beginning, and they work whether you're just getting started or you've been at it for a while and the results just aren't where you want them to be yet. What You'll Learn How to get in front of your dream clients by leveraging communities that already exist The 2026 visibility strategy: why distribution matters more than creation Why in-person networking is one of the most underestimated growth tools (and the unexpected places it took me) How to co-create your offer with your audience so they're excited to buy before you've even launched The one question to ask yourself that completely changes the way you think about selling Why selling is a skill you can learn, not a personality trait you're born with Inside This Episode The story of how Nikki signed up over 90 clients without even having a website Why 2026's trust crisis is actually great news for business owners willing to build real relationships How I ended up at Buckingham Palace talking entrepreneurship (and what made it possible) The content distribution approach that turns one piece of content into five or six Why I started running ads before I ever had anything to sell The Benjamin Hardy quote that changed how I think about goal-setting and selling The reverse-engineering exercise that makes $10K months feel achievable instead of impossible Resources Mentioned The Science of Scaling by Benjamin Hardy FEA Business Quiz: get a personalised success plan for your business. Let's Keep Going Let me know in the comments or on Instagram @iamcarriegreen which of the five steps you're going to take action on first. I'd love to hear from you.

Okay so I need to talk about something.I moved. New town. New everything. And I'm sitting with this feeling that I think a lot of you know — where everything is different all at once and you're just kind of like... okay. So this is it. This is the starting over everyone talks about.And here's what nobody tells you: it feels equal parts terrifying and electric at the same time.This episode is that conversation. The real one. About rebuilding your health, your finances, your entire life — from scratch, at 33, with a baby, while running a business. And why blowing up the life that wasn't working might be the most powerful thing you ever do.IN THIS EPISODE— Why starting over is the most vulnerable AND the most magnetic thing you can do — and why the women you admire most have all done it— What rebuilding your body actually looks like as a solo mom when it's not about bouncing back — it's about feeling alive again— The hot girl wealth era: what it actually means to decide to double your income when the year hasn't gone as planned— What moving to a new town with no village, no roots, and no community teaches you about yourself— Why blowing up the life that didn't fit isn't failure — it's a power moveThis isn't the polished version. This is what starting over actually looks like.

In this episode, Mike and Ben break down May as the first full month after the latest Amazon changes and are joined by guest Mike Dancy to talk through what the shift is looking like in real time.Ben shares how May ended up being a volatile month, falling from an early projection of around $12K to closer to $10K, while Mike talks through how he still expects to land around $11K for the month despite dealing with two hospitalizations and serious health issues. A big part of the conversation centers around why higher-quality, more intentional videos are becoming even more important as the program continues to shift.Guest Mike Dancy shares how his Amazon earnings dropped significantly despite having hundreds of videos live, while his UK, Canada, and Australia storefronts improved and his off-site efforts continued to create opportunities. He explains how he is using YouTube and other social platforms to drive traffic, build UGC income, and create new brand relationships outside of relying only on Amazon.The episode also covers UGC pricing, finding clients, niche advantages, tools like Wovo, comparison videos, search-based content, Creator Connections, and why creators need to diversify income beyond Amazon if they want more stability going forward.If you are an Amazon Influencer, content creator, or product reviewer trying to understand the latest changes, grow off-site, and build a more durable creator business, this episode is packed with real-world strategy and perspective.____________________JOIN THE COMMUNITYIf you are looking for deeper strategy, accountability, & honest conversations with other serious content creators, the Creator's Leverage Guild was built for exactly thatLearn more and join here:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creator's Leverage Guild⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠_____________________CHECK OUT OUR 2 NEW EBOOKS THAT JUST LAUNCHED!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The AIP Master Guide⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Stop guessing your way through AIP. The AIP Master Guide is your go-to resource for setup, backend navigation, Store IDs, payments, uploads, & more.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Leveraging Brand Deals Playbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Stop leaving money on the table. The Leveraging Brand Deals Playbook helps you pitch smarter, negotiate better, & turn free product offers into real paid opportunities._____________________WORK 1-ON-1 WITH MIKE AND BENGet personalized guidance on content strategy, monetization, brand deals, & scaling your creator business.• Book a 1-hour coaching call• Save with a 4-session coaching package⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign Me Up!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠_________________________JOIN OUR FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITYConnect with other Amazon Influencers & content creators, ask questions, & stay up to date on what is working right now.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon Influencer Success Facebook Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠_________________________TOOLS AND RESOURCES FOR CREATORSViral VueMake smarter content decisions & grow faster.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Viral Vue here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Use code STRAHL10 for 10% off for lifeOinkTrack earnings & performance across platforms.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Oink here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Use code STRAHL10 for 10% off for lifeDescriptEdit podcasts & videos faster and easier.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out Descript here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Geniuslinks: Our #1 Deeplinking Pick!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Geniuslinks!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VidiQ: Our #1 pick for YouTube channel Insights!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try VidIQ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Keepa: Makes advanced product research for AIP a breeze!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Keepa⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lasso: Deeplinking for Blogs & YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get Lasso⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kadence WP: Great amazing websites for blogs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Kadence⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.__________________________CONTACTHave a question, collaboration opportunity, or topic request?Email: mike@creatorsleverageguild.com

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Rizz is having an existential crisis after discovering his son's feet are officially bigger than his. The gang dives headfirst into the emotional rollercoaster of watching kids grow up, the weird realization that childhood doesn't last forever, and why parents secretly measure their self-worth against shoe sizes.A family in California is desperately searching for answers after a delivery driver allegedly walked off with their cat. Yes, their actual cat. Not a package. Not a box. The cat. The crew debates whether the world's chillest feline was simply too trusting and whether every pet owner should now be suspicious of compliments from delivery drivers.Then there's the woman who somehow handed over her debit card and nearly ten thousand dollars in cash after falling for an unbelievable rideshare scam. The gang attempts to understand how these scams work while also wondering how many red flags a person can ignore before reality taps them on the shoulder.Meanwhile, an airline passenger claims a cup of coffee caused life-changing injuries in the absolute worst place imaginable. What follows is an in-depth discussion on airplane coffee, turbulence, questionable beverage decisions, and why nobody wants to gamble with hot liquids at 35,000 feet.The conversation takes another turn when Rizz discovers a tick between his toes and immediately starts worrying about Alpha-Gal Syndrome. Because apparently adulthood is just a series of increasingly specific fears.As if that wasn't enough, the crew uncovers one of the strangest side hustles on the internet: cosplay models selling "foot juice" to convention attendees. Yes, exactly what it sounds like. No, nobody is proud of humanity after hearing this story.Rizz finally gets the results from his sleep study. Will he officially become a CPAP guy? Is he about to start "microdosing life support" every night? Or will doctors somehow discover an entirely new category of terrible sleep? The crew weighs in with equal parts concern, medical expertise they definitely don't have, and relentless roasting.Things somehow spiral into a discussion about waking up twenty times a night, cortisol overload, testosterone levels, hormone therapy, NAD shots, and the possibility that everyone on the show is slowly becoming a science experiment. Basically, if you've ever hit your 40s and wondered what happened, this conversation is for you.Then it's on to movie theater controversy as Alamo Drafthouse sparks outrage by replacing their old-school paper ordering system with QR code phone ordering. The crew debates whether phones belong anywhere near a movie screen, whether glowing screens ruin the experience, and if Elijah Wood might be the most passionate movie theater defender on Earth.Meanwhile, Riz and his wife are considering a rare date night at the movies, leading to a surprisingly intense discussion about movie choices, theater etiquette, and whether anyone should ever be playing a game on their phone during a film.In Crap On Celebrities, the gang dives into music festival drama as performers start dropping out of the America 250 celebration while Vanilla Ice somehow remains standing. There's also talk about Riot Fest's loaded lineup, Tom Morello's latest festival announcement, Violet Grohl's debut album, Willie Nelson making chart history, and upcoming movies that might actually be worth leaving the house for.The entertainment world doesn't escape unscathed either. The crew discusses Brad Pitt family drama, Nicolas Cage changing his name to avoid riding the Coppola family coattails, Toy Story 5 preparing to emotionally destroy an entire generation again, and the strange reality that kids today would rather stare at a tablet than play with actual toys.Then comes one of the day's biggest debates: the Mount Rushmore of arena rock. Queen, Journey, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, AC/DC, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, U2, and more all enter the argument as the crew tries to determine which bands truly deserve arena rock immortality.What began as a normal conversation about wedding presents quickly turned into an absolutely ridiculous debate over what happens when a group of radio personalities starts shopping online with zero adult supervision. One minute we're talking about gift registries. The next minute we're researching blow-up dolls, discussing payment plans, comparing shipping options, and wondering whether a fully wrapped mystery package would instantly become the most talked-about item at the reception.Because apparently that's where our brains go.Would the bride find it funny? Would the groom appreciate the joke? Would security escort us from the venue? These are the important questions tackled by your favorite collection of professional broadcasters pretending to be functioning adults.Then things somehow become even more competitive with a packed edition of The Riz Quiz.Listeners step up to test their knowledge against the clock in a rapid-fire battle featuring geography, sports, movies, history, fast food, random facts, and several questions that instantly made people question everything they thought they knew. There were strong performances, surprise eliminations, and at least one answer that will live in infamy among breakfast cereal enthusiasts.We also discover that some questions are a lot easier when you're listening from your car than when you're the one actually under pressure. As always, confidence levels ranged from "I've got this" to "Why did I call in?" in record time.The result is exactly the kind of chaos you've come to expect from The Rizzuto Show: random conversations, questionable logic, competitive trivia, and a group of friends somehow turning ordinary topics into complete nonsense.Follow The Rizzuto Show → https://linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → https://1057thepoint.com/RizzShowHear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.Amazon Driver Caught on Camera Taking Family's Cat During a DeliveryWoman loses nearly $10K after giving envelope of money to Uber driver in Lebanon CountyMan Says He Suffered 'Excruciating Pain' and Scarring After 'Boiling' Coffee Spilled on His Lap During FlightCosplay stars caught hawking truly revolting products at California anime festival — and they sold outShrey Parikh bounces back, battles nerves and dominates spell-off to win the National Spelling BeeMan tries to tear down Butler County home with excavator after argumentCrimeMan Back In Trouble Over Crack PunDrunk driver caught with 'homemade cannon' in VernonFlorida Man Allegedly Smashed Store Window With Chainsaw to Steal Pokémon Cards Worth $12,000Man Turns Himself in for Allegedly Vandalizing Restaurant Deck and Then Taking a Nap After Surveillance Photo Goes ViralPennsylvania man cuts pickleball nets at parks after injury ruined his summerBaked dirt accidentally served at Maine high school supperWearing only a watch, a headlamp and flip-flops isn't a great disguise when trashing a neighbor's motion lightTrespasser rescued after getting stuck in smoking chimney, arrested by Everett policeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

⁠Karen Kirkpatrick⁠ and I met originally on Instagram, but we've since met in person for this interview and for a run.During this episode, sponsored by ⁠Goodr⁠, we talk about:Her Flying Pig Half Marathon recap — the hills, the soreness, the soreness going up and down stairs at work, and nearly PR'ing (seven minutes off!)Being a self-proclaimed "one and done" racer — she's done 28 halfs and almost never repeats a raceThe Disney Princess Half Marathon she did five times when she lived in Fort Myers, Florida — and how she's done nearly every RunDisney race on the calendarRegistering for the Disney World Marathon from her laptop during a teaching conference and nearly screaming out loud when she got inGrowing up in Columbus, Ohio, going to Bowling Green State University for photography and then education, and — surprise — playing ice hockey for the BGSU women's club team (she learned to skate to join)Her diagnosis journey: five doctors told her it was in her head before the sixth (a woman) took her hands and said "I don't think you're crazy"What it's like to live with lupus — the fatigue, the joint pain, the butterfly rash, the lesions, the immune compromise, and how it affects her every day at schoolSelena Gomez as a public face of lupus and why her story resonatesHer mom being the reason she started running — watching her mom do half marathons for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society in her 60s (with a knee replacement) was the nudge Karen neededHer very first half marathon at Columbus in 2014Finding ⁠Carmel Runners Club⁠ through a ⁠Run(317)⁠ event in 2019 and the community she's found there⁠The Rally app⁠ and how messages from her great-niece Evelyn and other family members carried her through the Flying PigTraining for her Disney World Marathon on the Monon — using the Jeff Galloway run/walk methodGetting her Mickey marathon finisher ears — the thing she cared about more than anything elseHer five dogs (Oreo, Morgan, Zelda, Milo, and Zoe) and one Flerken cat (Blondie from Captain Marvel, obviously)Flying Pig being her 28th half — and why she chose itDoctors now telling her she needs to stop at 10K distances, and what her final three races will beBeing tested for multiple sclerosis on top of lupus — tremors, dizziness, balance issues, and what the next steps look like medicallySWTHZ as part of her recovery — infrared sauna + 20-minute cold plunges (yes, 20)Her next two finish lines: the Indy Marathon at Fort Ben in October (for the veterans) and the Columbus Half Marathon to close it all out — with her mom hopefully waiting at the finish line to put her final medal on herPrevious Guests Mentioned⁠Alex Baker⁠ - Episode 6⁠Abby Anderson⁠ - Episode 133Rachel Sinders - Episode 8Sponsor Details⁠Goodr⁠ - Use code ALLYB for $10 off your first order⁠Amazfit⁠ - Use code ALLYB for 10% offOther LinksFollow Karen on Instagram ⁠@lupuswarriorprincess⁠Follow me on Instagram ⁠@allytbrett_runs⁠⁠Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter⁠This is a ⁠SandyBoy Productions⁠ podcast.

TikTok Shop is not a channel you can just “turn on.”In this workshop, Jordan West and Brywinn Travers break down what brands need in place before TikTok Shop can scale, especially if you are trying to move from cold start to real GMV.They cover the hardest part of TikTok Shop growth, why the first $10K is such a grind, what TikTok considers “cold start,” and why getting to around $60K/month in GMV can unlock more support and resources.The big theme:Early GMV is not just revenue.It is feedback.Feedback on your product, your offer, your content, your creator program, your product listing, and your operations.In this session, you will learn:• Why TikTok Shop cold start is harder than most brands expect• How to choose the right 1 to 2 hero products for launch• What makes a TikTok Shop listing conversion-ready• Why copying Amazon listings onto TikTok Shop is a mistake• Why reviews, trust signals, and clean product pages matter so much• Why you need a Shop Performance Score before scaling• Why friends and family purchases are risky• How creator outreach should be judged by signal, not follower count• Why samples are the fuel for your creator engine• How to think about open collabs vs target collabs• Why GMV Max is not an ads problem• What inputs actually determine whether GMV Max can scale• Why TikTok Shop creates a halo effect across DTC, Meta, Google, and other channels• Why brands need to build TikTok Shop like infrastructure, not a side experimentChapters:00:00 Welcome and workshop overview01:02 From $0 to $10K on TikTok Shop01:37 Why cold start is harder than people think03:33 TikTok Shop launch principles05:26 Choosing your hero products07:13 Making your shop conversion-ready08:41 Why product titles need a human touch10:16 Why Amazon listings do not translate directly to TikTok Shop12:39 Shop Performance Score explained13:17 Why not to use friends and family orders14:14 Using approved levers to get verified orders15:22 Why Shop Performance Score matters16:30 Creator outreach and signal18:42 Finding creators who already love your product21:54 Samples and commission strategy23:47 Commission structures by category27:07 Activating your first affiliates28:03 Building deeper creator relationships30:56 GMV Max basics31:39 Why GMV Max is not an ads problem34:22 GMV Max as a magnifying glass37:17 How long top-performing TikTok Shop videos can last38:08 Why the campaign is no longer separate from the shop39:19 Why brands need to create their own content41:37 How to think about ROI and halo effect43:48 Measuring TikTok Shop's impact beyond platform ROAS47:57 Why fundamentals still decide scale50:17 The 5 big GMV Max inputs51:00 Live Q&A54:22 Why founder-led creator onboarding can workWant help building your TikTok Shop operating system?Book a call with Social Commerce Club:https://socialcommerceclub.com/pages/contactApply for the Social Commerce Club Mastermind:https://socialcommerceclub.com/pages/tiktok-shop-os-mastermindSubscribe for more TikTok Shop strategy, creator commerce breakdowns, GMV Max workshops, and social commerce growth playbooks.

Most agents with real estate agent bad habits don't know it yet. They think the market is the problem. It's not.For years the market covered for you. Easy money masked weak skills. Bad real estate agent lead sources still produced. Overspending still worked. That market is gone and the margin for error is shrinking fast. What's left is the truth about how you've been running your business.Here's what we get into:✅ Why the real estate agent bad habits that survived 2020 to 2022 are now the exact things destroying your business in a 7% rate environment✅ The E-shaped economy and why being wildly intentional about who you work with as a buyer's agent is no longer optional✅ How to think about real estate agent resource allocation the way a CEO of a publicly traded company would, because your family are your shareholders and they are watching how you allocate every dollar✅ The $10K vacation vs. the $10K real estate agent lead source decision that separates agents who grow from agents who disappear✅ Why probate leads real estate and off-market strategies are the right places to put your energy when only motivated sellers are moving✅ The real estate agent money mindset shift that changes how you see every spending decision you make from this point forward✅ How a high interest rate real estate strategy actually works when you accept that rates are likely staying where they are or going higher✅ What intentional conversion looks like and why real estate coaching in this environment is an investment not an expenseThe agents who make it through this are not waiting for conditions to change. They are changing. I'm not telling you to do anything I'm not already doing myself.

From Running His is First 10K at 48 To Doing a 72-Mile Ultramarathon At 61, An Endurance Athlete Shows What Is Possible As We AgeWhile in his mid-life, Jeffrey was deep into a successful business career and helping to raise four children. He decided to spend more time on his health. He lost weight and trained for his first 10K at the age of 48.It turns out this wasn't a passing phase or just a hobby. He would go on to run marathons and then enter Ironman and ultramarathon competitions. He reflects back on his journey and encourages others who are approaching or are already in mid-life to take ownership of their health in an inspiring, award-winning book, Racing Against Time: On Ironman, Ultramarathons, and the Quest for Transformation in Mid-Life. “What began as a simple challenge to run a single 10K race turned into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and transformation,” says Weiss. “Within a decade, I pushed way beyond my perceived limits to become an accomplished ultramarathoner and Ironman, showing what can happen when we refuse to let age be a barrier to the things that matter most to us.”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Welcome to the Wednesday Weekly Win, our business breakthrough story series. Each week, we sit down with real entrepreneurs from our Business By Design community who are building digital businesses and creating results that once felt impossible. In this episode, we're joined by Meytal, a professional dancer turned healing movement coach who built a multiple 6-figure membership business in under 3 years. Guess what? She started with zero knowledge of email automation! After a car accident left her unable to dance, Meytal discovered the Feldenkrais method and created a unique fusion of healing and dance. Meytal shares how she scaled from $1K to $10K months in her first year inside BBD, built a team that ran her business during 6 months of cancer treatment, and shifted from massive live launches to automated webinars. Plus, we dive into her heart-centered marketing approach and why the BBD community became the most meaningful self-development journey of her life. This is another real story of clarity, momentum, and the breakthroughs that happen when you finally stop guessing and start following a proven path. From first digital products to 6-figure launches, to building audiences and scaling systems, every conversation reveals the mechanics of what actually creates growth in a digital business. Because when you see someone just a few steps ahead of what you're doing, something powerful happens. James's biggest free training of the year is right around the corner… The Business Breakthrough Experience - and the first live training kicks off June 11th.  And in the weeks leading up to it, we're creating even more opportunities for you to get the coaching, clarity, and momentum your business truly deserves. Starting this June, we're hosting a special series of live panels featuring incredible Digital CEOs—like Meytal—who are in it, doing it, and ready to share what's actually working right now. These aren't just sit-back-and-watch sessions… You'll be able to join us live on Zoom, ask your questions, and get real-time coaching from experts who have been exactly where you are. And the best way to make sure you don't miss a single one? Register for The Business Breakthrough Experience. You'll be the first to know about every panel, every opportunity to get coached, and every new Wednesday Weekly Win episode—so you can stay inspired, take action, and keep moving forward.

#922 What happens when a blind chef decides the world needs better kitchen tools — and builds a six-figure business to prove it? In this episode, we sit down with Debra Erickson, founder of The Blind Kitchen, who shares how she went from losing most of her vision to graduating culinary school, teaching at the Oregon Commission for the Blind, and launching an online store that now carries 125 adaptive cooking tools for people with vision loss. Debra walks us through how she built her audience from zero, why she chose Facebook over TikTok, how she uses services like Aira and AI-powered smart glasses to run her business independently, and the networking moves — from cold-calling national blindness organizations to joining PodMatch — that helped her grow to $7–10K in monthly revenue. She also shares the counterintuitive lesson that changed everything: stop trying to sell solutions, and start asking people what problems they actually have! What we discuss with Debra: + Lost vision, found purpose in cooking + Culinary school as the only blind student + 125 adaptive kitchen tools and counting + Facebook as the most accessible social platform + Cold-calling blind organizations to build early audience + Aira and AI glasses enable independent business management + Newsletter drives consistent monthly sales + Free gift promo codes boost order volume + Hiring people with disabilities on purpose + Know your customer — or fail with good intentions Thank you, Debra! Check out The Blind Kitchen at TheBlindKitchen.com. Email Debra at info@theblindkitchen.com. Watch the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠video podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ of this episode! To get access to our FREE Business Training course go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MillionaireUniversity.com/training⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To get exclusive offers mentioned in this episode and to support the show, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠millionaireuniversity.com/sponsors⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Government subcontracting is where most small businesses leave millions on the table, and in this episode Eric Coffie breaks down the 8 brutal truths he learned the hard way about working under prime contractors. From going broke in 2015 with a $550 payday loan to closing a $4.2 million subcontract four months later, this is the unfiltered playbook on how subcontracting actually works in the federal market. Here is what you will learn: Why confusing prime contractor rules with subcontractor rules quietly kills deals and how to know which FAR requirements actually apply to you The relationship moves that landed a $4 million subcontract with no money in the bank, no bonding, and no employees on payroll How to frame your value to primes as compliance protection instead of paperwork so you stop getting lowballed at 10K on 600K contracts Why the middleman role is the highest paid position on a federal team when you take real responsibility for scope, schedule, and subs below you Where to actually find program managers and decision makers on military bases, at site visits, prime contractor galas, and even Starbucks near the gate EPISODE CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Subcontracting truths most small businesses miss 2:00 - Payday loan to 4 million dollar subcontract story 3:19 - Confusing prime rules with subcontract rules 4:38 - Small hinges swing big subcontract doors 6:32 - Paperwork has zero value without compliance 7:57 - Middleman myth and keeping the team together 9:14 - Where you are does not equal who you are 10:11 - Geography can change your title on jobs 11:13 - Leave the house and show up consistently 13:38 - Tough conversations build unbreakable business bonds 15:30 - Picking one lane to start subcontracting in 20:47 - Target program managers not contracting officers 35:44 - Marketing to primes through galas and golf events Market Intelligence gives you the federal opportunities, agency signals, recompete intel, and pursuit briefs that tell you not just what contracts exist, but which ones to chase and how to win them. Sign up for free Daily Alerts and get opportunities delivered to your inbox before the day starts.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 Today, Iran talks break down over nuclear material; Donald uses another shooting that happened nowhere near him to justify his ballroom; authorities say the risk of a catastrophic explosion at a chemical plant in Southern California has been eliminated; Ugandan health officials report more cases of Ebola virus infections; there have been over 10K court rulings against the Trump administration's immigration policy; Trump is expected to head to Walter Reed again today; and Allison delivers your Good News. Thank You, Mint Mobile Make the switch! MINTMOBILE.com/DAILYBEANS Guest: Joshua Kendall Author and award-winning freelance journalist - history, politics, biography, health care, and neuroscience.JoshuaKendall.com Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned The News Into Art - Out 5/26   The Latest Breakdown:Capitol Officer Sues Blanche over $1.8B Slush Fund StoriesIran Talks Bog Down Over Nuclear Program and Sanctions Relief | WSJ Doctor who survived Ebola highlights risks of Musk's funding cuts | PBS News Shooter killed near the White House was previously charged with trespassing | The Washington Post Southern California chemical tank has a crack that could possibly lower risk of explosion | AP News Heavy caseloads, regrets and surprises: 5 judges who embody the courts' rebuke of Trump's ICE detentions | POLITICO Trump to visit Walter Reed for the third checkup of his second term | NBC News Good TroubleAttend a May Recess Town Hall ⭑ 5 Calls →Form WTAF-8647 →Recall Gov. Jeff Landry - Louisianadeservesbetter.com →STOP the deportation proceedings against Mohsen Mahdawi - Action Network →SusanRogan - how-to-help-win-the-midterms →detentionwatchnetwork.org →FieldTeam6.org →Standwithminnesota.com →Tell Congress Ice out Now | Indivisible, Defund ICE | 5Calls →Congress: Divest From ICE and CBP | ACLU →ICE List  →iceout.org Good NewsThe Red Wine & Blue Network The Positive Painting Project Hot Tina (@hottinaband) • InstagramHot Tina Band - YouTube Fast and Loud - Hot Tina (Original) →Share your Good News & Good Trouble - The Daily Beans →Beans Talk audio -beans-talk.simplecast.com →Email Dana LGBTQ Owned eating establishments in your area - hello@mswmedia.com Subject: “Dana's Project” Subscribe to the MSW YouTube Channel - MSW Media - YouTube Harry Dunn is running for CongressHarry Dunn for Maryland Our Donation Links Blue Wave California - bluewavecalifornia.org/concert The Daily Beans is donating $10,000 and invites you to give what you can to support their life-affirming work - Donate to It Gets Better / The Daily Beans Fundraiser Pathways to Citizenship link to MATCH Allison's Donationhttps://crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonation?ApiKey=pub_86ff5236-dd26-11ec-b5ee-066e3d38bc77&WidgetId=6388736 Join Dana and The Daily Beans in support of Human Rights Campaign http://onecau.se/_ekes71 More Donation LinksNational Security Counselors - Donate, ActBlue.com/donate/msw-bwc, WhistleblowerAid.org/beans Dr. Allison Gill - The Breakdown | Allison Gill, Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com - Bluesky, MSW & The Daily Beans Podcast @muellershewrote - Instagram, MSW Media - YouTube →Federal workers - email AG at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you're going to do, or just vent. I'm always here to listen.  Dana Goldberg - Dana is on Patreon! At Dana's Dugout, @dgcomedy - Bluesky, @dgcomedy - IG, Dana Goldberg - Facebook,  DanaGoldberg.com More from MSW Media - Shows - MSW Media, Cleanup On Aisle 45 pod, The Breakdown | Allison Gill Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That's just one of the perks of subscribing! patreon.com/muellershewrote Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:https://apple.co/3XNx7ckWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?https://patreon.com/thedailybeanshttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/https://apple.co/3UKzKt0 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You could be the best closer in the world. You could have your offer dialed in. You could be saying all the right things on every discovery call.And you're still losing the client.Because the problem isn't the call. The problem is what's happening before the call. And 99% of service providers, even the ones charging $5K, $10K, $15K a month, are completely missing this one page that could change their entire conversion rate.In this episode, I'm breaking down what your post-schedule page is, why it works, and why your discovery call conversion rate isn't where it could be without it.In this episode, you'll learn:The 3 places every service business breaks down (and how to know which one is killing your growth)Why your discovery call conversion rate should be between 40% and 60% (and what to do if it's outside that range)The real reason your sales calls are running 30, 45, 50 minutes when they should be 15What a post-schedule page actually is and the 4 jobs it needs to do for youThe 3 objections that keep service providers from building this page (and why they're all wrong)How adding this one page increased my own conversion rate by 15%If you're sitting at under a 40% conversion rate right now, this is the strategy that can change your entire sales process this week.Mentioned in this episode:Apply for Strategist Society: https://thestrategistsociety.comFrom Chasing to Chosen: https://brandimowles.com/chasing  Predictable Clients: https://brandimowles.com/predictableDM me on Instagram with the word PAGE: https://instagram.com/brandimowlesReady to scale past $10K months?If your sales calls are taking forever, you've raised your prices and suddenly can't find clients, or you're hitting a ceiling you can't break through, I want to get my eyes on your business. Apply for a 1:1 call with me at https://thestrategistsociety.com. We'll find your biggest hole in 15-20 minutes, and you'll walk away with total clarity on your next step.Loved this episode?Take a screenshot, share it on Instagram Stories, and tag me @brandimowles. It helps more service providers find the show.Now go do the dang thing.Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serve-scale-soar/id1477998650Follow Brandi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandimowlesFollow Brandi on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Brandiandcompany

Countdown timers are dying. Not literally. They'll still work. But they're becoming the marketing equivalent of a used car salesman yelling "ACT NOW!" through a megaphone. In this solo episode of The Expert Edge, I break down the shift from dopamine marketing to oxytocin marketing. Ryan Levesque and Ron Reich call it the future of launches. I call it the only way to build a real moat around your business. Here's the thing: AI can write your emails now. It can create your sales pages. It can produce polished content faster than you can say "ChatGPT." So if you're competing on polish, you've already lost. But AI can't build trust. It can't share your scars. It can't send a shaky iPhone video from your car talking about the thing you've never shared publicly before. That's your moat. That's what separates you from the 10,000 other coaches saying the same thing with the same funnel and the same countdown timer. I walk through four strategies to build connection that actually converts. Not hype. Not urgency. Just real human trust that makes people want to work with you. What you'll learn: → Talk to one real customer (not a made-up avatar) - Stop describing demographics. Find Jack. Learn about Jenny. Build your webinar for real people, not "men aged 25-35" → Open the kimono (share the personal stuff you've been holding back) - Send a vulnerable video with no CTA on the last day of your launch. Just you sharing something real → Reveal the roughs (show the sketches, not just the polished product) - Hand-drawn frameworks, messy first drafts, visible stitching. The rough builds trust more than AI polish → Sprinkle some sweat (do the unscalable) - Personal Bonjoro videos, live onboarding calls, real emails. The unscalable is what makes you different Real insights from the episode: Why I still use real deadlines (Premium Private Clients starts June 1st) but don't lean on urgency as the main selling point The "single and ready to mingle" moment (and why playfulness creates oxytocin) How I send personal videos to new clients and why they say "I've never had the founder reach out like this" The vulnerable video strategy for closed cart day (no CTA, just connection) Why showing rough sketches and hand-drawn frameworks builds more trust than perfect AI-generated graphics How live coaching in my programs creates connection AI can't replicate The two types of people joining Premium Private Clients (established coaches adding $15-30K/month, newer coaches who struggled to sell courses) I'm running a six-week coaching cohort called Premium Private Clients. It's the exact system I've used for 17 years to make $300K-$500K a year from a handful of clients. I'm teaching how to attract them, build an audition funnel, convert at 90%, and design a program you actually enjoy. First cohort is 50% off. Limited spots.  >>>PREMIUM PRIVATE CLIENT COHORT: Go to colinboyd.co/highticket and sign up now.  My goal? Help you add $100K-$300K a year with just 2-3 clients at a time. If you're already making $10K/month, there's no reason you can't add $200K a year with this model. Join our next Speak to Convert Masterclass. In this live workshop, you'll discover how to build and launch a high converting presentation that gets you clients every time you present. https://colinboyd.co/speak Discover how to authentically connect with your audience & fill your programs with a Conversion Story - Version 2.0 (AI Edition) is now available. https://www.conversionstoryformula.com Hit the "Follow" button so you don't miss an episode! Love this podcast? Write a review and give it a 5-star rating!  For all the show notes and links: https://www.expertedgepodcast.com/blog/episode322 Connect with Colin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colinboyd/  

What if the pressure you're putting on your fundraising campaign is actually the thing slowing it down?In this episode, I'm talking about something I watched play out on a Little League field this weekend: two coaches, same-age kids, same skill level, completely different energy, and completely different outcomes. And I couldn't stop thinking about how much it looked like what I see inside fundraising campaigns every single week. When you hold too tightly to a goal, when every quiet day feels like failure, when the whole campaign starts to feel like a final exam, that pressure changes everything: your messaging tightens, your team feels it, and your donors feel it. And ironically, the pressure creates the very outcome you were trying to avoid. I talk about what pressure actually does to campaign performance, why three of my clients inside The Purpose & Profit Club® thought they were behind when they were actually ahead, the difference between a dirty win and a beautiful loss, and what it really means to lead a campaign well all the way to the end.Topics:How white-knuckling a fundraising campaign changes the outcome, and not in the way you hopeThe payoff of pressure and why we hold onto it even when it hurts usWhat pressure actually does to campaign pacing, messaging, and team energyWhy three clients thought they were behind, and were actually aheadThe difference between a dirty win and a beautiful loss in fundraisingHow to lead a campaign well without making it a final examFor a full list of links and resources mentioned in this episode, click here.Bloomerang is the complete donor, volunteer, and fundraising management solution that helps thousands of nonprofits deliver a better giving experience and create sustainable, thriving organizations. Combining robust, easy-to-use technology with people-powered support and training, Bloomerang empowers nonprofits to work efficiently, improve supporter relationships, and grow their donor and volunteer bases. Learn more here.Resources:Easy Emails For Impact™: The $5K+ Fundraising Campaign SystemPurpose & Profit Club® Fundraising + Marketing Accelerator   The SPRINT Method™: Your shortcut to 10K fundraisers Instagram, LinkedIn, website , weekly newsletter  [FREE] The Brave Fundraiser's Guide: Stop getting ignored. Start raising more. May contain affiliate links

Ben Ratliff is a former New York Times music critic, a writing professor at NYU, and the author of Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening, longlisted for the National Book Award and named a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, which chronicles what he hears when he brings music into his near-daily runs through the Bronx. In this conversation, Zoë and Brendan talk with Ratliff about why running made him a better listener, and why the optimal-BPM running playlist is, by his lights, beside the point. He makes the case for listening as active attention rather than ambient wallpaper, explains why some of the slowest and quietest music turns out to be the most enlivening to run to, and pushes back on the idea that "good taste" is something you can buy. Along the way: defamiliarizing a song until it sounds brand new, the strange kinship between a long run and a long DJ set, and how a career critic ends up running to everything from jazz to Ice Spice. This episode is brought to you by Running Warehouse, where Zoë gets basically all her summer running gear, vests, socks, hats, shirts, and a frankly irresponsible number of gels, with fast shipping and a return policy run by actual humans. This week's featured race is the FCA Endurance Race in Oakwood, Georgia — a choose-your-own-adventure event on a flat, one-mile paved loop around the University of North Georgia's Oakwood campus. Pick your distance: a 5K, a 10K that detours onto dirt and a stretch of cross-country trail, or a timed race of two, four, six, twelve, or twenty-four hours, with some durations offering a 6 p.m. start so you can run straight into the night. It all happens Saturday, June 6, 2026, and registration stays open right through race day. Sign up at UltraSignup.com. The Trailhead is part of the UltraSignup Podcast Network.

Check out My Birthday Deals here: https://ericrobertsfitness.com/birthdayevent.html On today's episode I go live and answer your questions about calorie deficits, protein, creatine, GLP-1s, hypothyroidism, plateaus, and why you need to stop obsessing over the last five pounds on the scale. I also talk about why I'll never promote glucose monitors for fat loss — even when companies offer me $10K a month to do it — and what you should actually be focusing on instead. Free Calorie Calculator https://ericrobertsfitness.com/free-calorie-calculator/ 20% Off Legion Athletic Supplements Code “ERIC” HERE https://legionathletics.rfrl.co/qj2dy Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@ericrobertsfitness Video Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@EricRobertsFitnessPodcast

I'm going to say something that took me a while to admit.My content got boring.Not bad. Not wrong. Just... safe. Authoritative. Predictable. The kind of content that sounds right and feels like nothing. And somewhere along the way I stopped creating from aliveness and started creating from obligation.If you're nodding — this episode is for you too.Because this isn't just a me problem. This is what happens to every woman who gets good at what she does. You start performing expertise instead of sharing truth. You start sounding like a brand instead of a human. You lose the heartbeat.And your audience feels it. Even when they can't name it.This episode is about finding it again.IN THIS EPISODE— What happens when you start creating for authority instead of connection — and how to tell the difference— Why playing it safe in your content is the same as playing small in your business— What it actually feels like when your content loses its pulse — and the moment you realize it— How to break your own rules and create from aliveness again instead of obligation— What hot, magnetic, converting content actually looks and feels like — and why it has nothing to do with strategyYour content doesn't need a better hook. It needs you back in it.

There's a lot we need to be on top of as coaches to run our coaching practice and businesses well. So how do we thrive in the process? And how on earth do we do it all?! This is what I'm answering in today's episode. In this episode, you'll learn: 1) What the 5 key areas are that you need to be across as a coach; 2) How to sustainably approach these 5 areas to thrive as a coach; 3) The system, framework and process I use to support my clients; 4) How to figure out which area needs your attention right now; and 5) Questions to ask yourself to alleviate the overwhelm and move forward powerfully (and realistically). As coaches we are not perfect humans, we are people devoted to the lifelong work and mastery of our craft - coaching. This episode will explain how you do just that! FURTHER RESOURCES: [Watch] The World Class Coach Workshop here: A Holistic Approach to Building a Thriving, Multiple 6 Figure Coaching Business You Love - www.leticiaringe.com/workshop [Download] The Ultimate Guide for Coaches - 37 pages of straight-talking strategy for building a thriving multiple 6-figure coaching business: www.leticiaringe.com/guide [Get on the Waitlist] Create & Validate a Signature Coaching Offer to $10K: www.leticiaringe.com/validated [Get on the Waitlist] The Only 6 Month Mastermind for Coaches Building a Thriving Multiple 6-Figure Coaching Business That Prioritises Sustainable Growth & World Class Coaching Delivery: www.leticiaringe.com/mastermind Full show notes: www.leticiaringe.com/podcast

Here's a number that should grab your attention: $175 billion. That's the estimated amount in tariff refunds the U.S. government may owe American businesses. Neil Twa, your host on The High Voltage Business Builders Podcast, breaks down how Amazon sellers can reclaim their share. With the CBP's Claims and Processing Engine (CAPE) now accepting refund requests, the opportunity is ripe. Whether you're a seller just starting out or managing a $1M+/month operation, understanding the mechanics of this refund process is crucial. Neil paints two pictures: one of a seller doing $10K/month and another at $100K/month. The same opportunity lands differently based on your scale. With 56,000 importers already registered, many Amazon sellers who qualify haven't filed yet. Neil lays out three actionable moves: start by pulling your import records from 2018-2020. Don't leave money on the table. Ready to audit your AI readiness? Take the free 5-question assessment — voltagedm.com/aiquiz?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=show_notes&utm_campaign=ep276

Damola Oluomo started his real estate journey in 2022, and by staying relentlessly consistent, he has successfully closed 17 deals in the last 12 months, generating over $146,000 in gross income right in his own backyard of Indianapolis. In this Throwback Thursday episode, Brent Daniels sits down with Damola to break down the exact strategies, schedules, and marketing efforts that took him from a struggling beginner to a consistent $10K+ per month wholesaling machine.They dive deep into the myth that wholesaling is "easy" and explore the stark reality that consistent lead generation is the true engine of any real estate business. If you want to cut out the fluff, build unshakeable confidence on the phones, and treat your real estate operation like a real business, this episode is your blueprint. Be a part of the TTP training program now.---------Show notes:(0:00) Beginning of today's episode(1:23) Closing 17 deals in the Indianapolis market over the last 12 months(2:21) Sending a first text campaign and closing a land deal despite interest rate spikes(4:16) Why wholesaling is not easy and the reality of consistent lead generation(6:55) Breaking down Damola's exact schedule and four hours of outbound prospecting(10:37) Expanding into new markets and leveraging a cold caller to triple income(12:02) Understanding the math behind virtual assistant contacts versus personal contacts(14:22) Treating wholesaling as a legitimate business and embracing hard work(19:24) Why Damola prefers building businesses over holding a real estate portfolio(22:17) The concept of Attention Management and protecting your energy and focus(25:51) How clocking into the live Virtual Office transformed Damola's accountability(30:00) Securing a massive $34,000 assignment fee from a tax delinquent cold call(31:20) The 80/20 rule of wholesaling income and weathering the slow seasons(33:20) Navigating inevitable cancellations and generating $146,000 in gross income(38:02) Brent's high-level action plan for effectively auditing VA calls(39:52) Why you need to get loud and overcome social media hesitation----------Resources:DealMachineMojo DialerPace Morby@realbrentdaniels on InstagramTo speak with Brent or one of our other expert coaches call (281) 835-4201 or schedule your free discovery call here to learn about our mentorship programs and become part of the TribeGo to Wholesalingincgroup.com to become part of one of the fastest growing Facebook communities in the Wholesaling space. Get all of your burning Wholesaling questions answered, gain access to JV partnerships, and connect with other "success minded" Rhinos in the community.It's 100% free to join. The opportunities in this community  are endless, what are you waiting for?

5 'banned' methods making $15K monthly (and why creators delete videos about them) Episode Overview Discover 5 AI side hustles platforms are quietly suppressing—and why they're your best online opportunities for 2026. In this episode, we test which AI entrepreneur tactics actually work, which are overhyped, and which could trigger platform bans. You'll learn what Big Tech doesn't want you knowing about make money online strategies, plus the legal framework every parent should understand before diving in. No fluff. Just contrarian insights from 30+ years in the trenches. Tracy exposes 5 controversial AI monetization methods that violate platform terms of service but generate substantial income. From API arbitrage making $15K monthly to voice cloning services earning $10K per audiobook, this episode reveals the legal risks, expiration timelines, and moral considerations of gray-zone AI profits. https://DarkHorseEntrepreneur.com Key Timestamps & Topics 00:00 Opening 02:00 Method #1: API Arbitrage Play ($3K-$15K monthly) 04:00 Method #2: Content Generation with Attribution Loopholes ($5K-$20K monthly) 06:50 Method #3: AI Voice Cloning for Commercial Use ($2K-$10K per title) 11:15 Method #4: AI Training Data Curation (Legitimate - $10K-$30K monthly) 13:00 Method #5: Data Licensing Agreements ($3K-$8K monthly) 14:25 The Underlying Pattern 16:10 Current Method Status Analysis 17:25 Moral Considerations 18:05 Whiskered Wisdom & Closing   Key Legal Frameworks Mentioned Tennessee ELVIS Act: Protects voice as personal identity EU AI Act Regulation 2024/1689: Article 50 transparency requirements California Civil Code 3344: Right of publicity protections NO FAKES Act (pending): Federal protection against unauthorized digital replicas DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act exposure for data licensing   Key Takeaways Technology moves faster than regulation, creating temporary profit windows Visibility increases risk - platforms notice patterns and flag accounts Payment processors quietly rejecting gray-zone AI accounts Moral considerations: Some methods involve deception Sustainable income comes from working with systems, not against them Sponsor Mention Mehro: "Calling All Angels" - emotional, cinematic track available on Spotify/Apple Music https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/mehro_callingallangels?ref=DarkHorseEntrepreneur Resources Mentioned Scale AI Remotasks: Legitimate AI training work Outlier: RLHF contractor network Upwork/Fiverr: Platforms for finding AI training gigs ElevenLabs/Descript: Voice cloning platforms (legal risks noted) Episode Quote "The most dangerous money is the money that feels too easy. When something is making you thousands of dollars a month and you're not sure why it's legal, that's not a business model. That's a countdown timer." Call to Action Sign up for AI Escape Plan newsletter at DarkHorseInsider.com for legitimate, family-friendly AI strategies that protect your time and values.  

The content that actually sells often gets rejected in the first round of brand approval. In this episode of Content Amplified, Chelsea Clark, founder of Momfluence, shares what six years of running creator campaigns for over 500 brands has taught her about the gap between content that performs and content that gets approved. Chelsea explains why influencers are actually terrible at making polished ads, why the "speak to your audience like a friend" line in every brief almost never survives review, and why 80% of influencer-driven revenue never shows up in attribution software. She breaks down how to position creator work as an awareness and content-library play instead of a direct-ROI channel, why campaign-wide promo codes beat per-influencer codes, and the case for retargeting the same audiences with creator content across Meta, TikTok, and email. She also gives a step-by-step zero-to-one playbook for any brand that wants to dip a toe in: find three brands your customer already buys from, mine their tagged content, and gift fifty creators under 10K followers. If you've ever wondered why creator content keeps underperforming in your funnel, this episode names the real problem.About ChelseaChelsea Clark is the founder of Momfluence, a creator platform she has run for the past six years that connects brands with mom creators for content and social campaigns. Momfluence has worked with over 500 brands and roughly 10,000 creators across categories from baby and skincare to tires, mortgages, and services. Chelsea's background isn't traditional marketing, she previously owned a restaurant chain, and she built Momfluence after struggling to find a cost-effective influencer platform focused specifically on moms. She points out that women influence roughly 80% of purchase decisions, which is the demographic bet the whole business is built on.Show Notes- Connect with Chelsea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-clark-momfluence/- Momfluence: https://www.momfluence.co/Text us what you think about this episode!

Why Owning Just 0.1 Bitcoin Could Make You Wealthy One Day - And How $10K Today Could Change Your Financial Future Myles once sold five Bitcoin to pay for a loft conversion. Those coins are now sitting in someone else's wallet and they are almost certainly never selling them. That moment taught him something most people still haven't understood about Bitcoin scarcity — not the theory, but the reality of what is happening right now. 95% of all the Bitcoin that will ever exist has already been mined. Institutions are buying it faster than miners can produce it. Exchange reserves are at a 7 year low. And most people still think they've missed it because they can't afford a whole one. This episode explains why that thinking is wrong — and why owning just 0.1 Bitcoin could matter enormously over the next 10 to 20 years. In this episode: The real scarcity story — lost coins, ETF absorption, exchange reserves at 7 year lows, and why the available supply is far smaller than most people think What a $10K investment today could realistically become — and why the goal isn't to get rich quick but to own a scarce asset before global demand fully arrives Why future wealth may be measured in Bitcoin ownership rather than salary or property — and how the old path to wealth is quietly breaking for millennials If you've got questions and don't really have anyone to talk to about Bitcoin...-- Book a free call: [LINK] -- Follow Myles on Instagram: [LINK] -- Check My Personal Website: [LINK]Most people around you - family, friends, colleagues - don't really get it yet. And the internet is full of hype merchants who just want your attention.Book a free call with Myles. It's a genuine conversation, not a sales pitch. No agenda, no pressure - just a calm 15 minutes to talk through where you are and how to think about this properly.You can a Book a call with Myles here with this link. No Sell. Totally free. Secure your Bitcoin properly I came across MicroSeed because I was looking for a simple way to back up a seed phrase properly. Something small, discreet, and durable without needing loads of extra kit. Most options felt overcomplicated or a bit clunky. This didn't.It's a solid, no-nonsense way to secure your Bitcoin and actually take self-custody seriously.If that's something you've been meaning to sort out, you can check out MicroSeed and use code MYLES for a discount from https://microseed.io/shop/Hit follow, so you never miss the latest in...

If you've been wondering how photographers are booking $10K weddings without shooting 30 weekends a year, this episode is for you.I'm breaking down the exact framework I used to go from 30+ weddings at $3K to fewer weddings, higher income, and my weekends back, and what I teach inside The Wedding Atelier to help photographers do the same.We cover why you're not getting inquiries (it's a positioning problem, not a pricing one), how to attract premium couples through your portfolio, website copy, and Instagram, and the pricing psychology behind restructuring your packages so clients say yes to your highest option.If you're ready to raise your prices to $7K–$10K+ and build a six-figure business with less than 20 weddings a year, this one's for you.

You don't need followers or an ad budget to make money on TikTok Shop. Neil Twa dives into the creator-to-commission model that lets you generate revenue without a following. Two sellers, different scales, same model. One is a husband-and-wife team running a home organization brand on Amazon, pulling in $10K/month. The other, a seven-figure operator, both leveraging TikTok's affiliate marketplace. List your product, set your commission, and let creators do the rest. These three moves work whether you're just starting or scaling your business. The High Voltage Business Builders Podcast breaks it all down.

Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets!This was recorded before Railway suffered a major GCP outage on May 19, despite being a multi-AZ, multi-zone mesh ring, with HA fiber interconnects between their Metal GCP AWS, because workload discoverability was unintentionally still tied to GCP. All has been resolved with a post-mortem.Railway did not start as an AI infrastructure company.It was founded in 2020 years before agents became the default way people thought about deploying software. Jake Cooper, formerly at Bloomberg and Uber, started Railway with a simple obsession: the activation energy to ship something to production should be near zero. Push code, get a URL, iterate. No Docker files, no Kubernetes manifests, no Ansible scripts stacked on Ansible scripts.For years, this was a slow grind. Railway spent its first 18 months hand-acquiring its first 100 users with Jake personally greeting every Discord signup on a second monitor.Today, Railway has raised $124m and is growing very fast. A 35-person team supports 3 million users, adding roughly 100,000 signups a week. Their bare metal data centers have a 3-month payback period vs. renting in the cloud, with 70% margins funding aggressive cloud bursting when needed. The servers they own have actually appreciated in value as RAM prices have climbed basically meaning the value of their hardware now exceeds the capital they've raised.From rebuilding Railway's network overlay over a weekend to moving the vast majority of workloads onto its own bare metal data centers, Jake Cooper is trying to build a new cloud for an agent-native world. In this episode, Railway's founder and “conductor” joins swyx and Alessio to unpack why the next era of software infrastructure is not just “Heroku but newer,” what agents need that humans did not, and why the old deployment loop of Git, PRs, CI/CD, and static cloud resources may be heading for a rewrite.We go deep on Railway's infrastructure stack: own-metal data centers, three-month cloud payback periods, cloud bursting, data center debt, Railpack, Nixpacks, Temporal, feature flags, Central Station, content-addressable filesystems, agent-safe production forks, and why the CLI may become more important than the canvas in an agent world. Jake also shares the founder journey behind Railway, how the company survived losing $500K/month, why it now serves millions of users with only 35 people, and why he believes the pull request is dying.We discuss:* How Railway went from a slow six-year grind to adding 100,000 users a week* How Railway thinks about agents as the next dominant software species* Why agents need version control, observability, compute, storage, and orchestration at 1000x scale* The economics of Railway's own-metal data centers and three-month payback* How Railway uses cloud bursting while scaling its own infrastructure* Why data center debt can be a better tool than venture debt for infra startups* Central Station, Railway's internal system for clustering customer feedback and incidents* Why responsible disclosure and over-communication matter for platforms* Why feature flags, progressive rollouts, and shadow traffic are essential for agents* Temporal's strengths, pain points, and why workflows matter for agents* Railpack, Nixpacks, Nix, and lazy-loaded content-addressable filesystems* Why “cattle, not pets” may change if you can clone the pets* Why Railway is building a new cloud from scratch instead of copying hyperscalers* The solo founder path, focus, writing, and how Jake thinks about company buildingRailway:* Website: https://railway.com/* X: https://x.com/RailwayJake Cooper:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejakecooper/* X: https://x.com/JustJakeTimestamps00:00:00 Introduction: What Is Railway?00:02:07 Jake's Path to Railway00:06:13 Railway's Six-Year Growth Story00:08:52 Rebuilding the Business After the Free Tier00:11:17 Agents as the Next Software Platform00:13:29 Railway's Infrastructure Philosophy00:15:42 Bare Metal, Cloud Economics, and the Compute Crunch00:17:22 Cloud Bursting and Five-Cloud Networking00:20:20 Data Center Debt and Infra Financing00:23:31 Data Centers in Space00:25:24 What Agents Need From Infrastructure00:28:24 CLIs, Canvas, and Agent-Native UX00:35:15 Central Station, Incidents, and Responsible Disclosure00:40:30 Safe Rollouts, SRE Agents, and Production Forks00:45:00 AI SRE, Specs, Code, and Tests00:48:24 Self-Replicating Infrastructure and the New Serverless00:53:18 Heroku, Temporal, and Workflow Engines01:04:07 Railpack, Nixpacks, and Lazy-Loaded Filesystems01:06:01 Coding Agents, Token Spend, and Roadmap Acceleration01:10:56 The Pull Request Is Dying01:12:28 Feature Flags and the Agent-Era SDLC01:16:15 Cattle, Pets, and Cloning Machines01:19:29 Solo Founder Lessons01:24:12 Focus, GPUs, and Building a New Cloud01:28:20 Closing ThoughtsTranscriptAlessio [00:00:00]: Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Latent Space Podcast. This is Alessio, founder of Kernel Labs, and I'm joined by Swyx, editor of Latent Space.Swyx [00:00:10]: Hey, hey, hey. Today we're in the studio with Jake Cooper of Railway.Alessio [00:00:14]: Conductor of Railway.Swyx [00:00:15]: Conductor at Railway. Yeah.Alessio [00:00:16]: Choo-choo.Swyx [00:00:17]: Do you actually have that anywhere, like on your business card?Jake [00:00:20]: We call some of our volunteer moderators conductors. I don't have a business card. We're not that big yet. At some point I will. I got handed a nice business card from the Supermicro folks, and I was like, “Damn, this is pretty official.”Swyx [00:00:30]: Business cards are coming back.Jake [00:00:32]: They're cool. They're hip. The conductor thing is good. We're trying to figure out what we want to call each other internally. Some people think it's super cringe and say, “You don't need a name for people internally.” Some people want to call each other something. We still don't have a really good one.Jake [00:00:55]: We've got New Railcrews, Trainiacs. Nothing has stuck yet.Swyx [00:01:00]: I like Trainiac. Trainiac sounds good. Railwayians. For those who don't know, what is Railway? Let's give people a crisp definition up front.Jake [00:01:09]: Railway is the easiest way to ship anything. You go to the canvas, or you talk with Claude, and you say, “Deploy a Postgres instance, deploy my GitHub repository, run this code,” and you're off to the races.Swyx [00:01:22]: You've got a nice animation on the landing page.Jake [00:01:24]: Thank you. None of my work, by the way. They don't let me touch the design stuff anymore.Jake [00:01:25]: We want to make it trivially easy not just to deploy things, but to evolve applications over time. Most tooling right now stacks entropy on top of entropy: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible scripts, and all these other things. If we can version all of your software and keep track of all the changes, then we can make it trivial to clone environments, fork into a parallel universe, get copies of production data, get copies of any services, make changes, validate them, and collapse them back in without reproducing everything across a staging environment.The Railway Origin Story: From Uber Systems to a New CloudSwyx [00:02:07]: I was looking at your background: Bloomberg, Uber. Nothing immediately stands out as, “This guy is going to found the next great platform as a service.” What prepared you for Railway?Jake [00:02:21]: It was curiosity to keep going deeper. I started out on front-end stuff, working on Wolfram Mathematica and porting it over. Then I briefly moved to Bloomberg, then toward Uber and distributed systems, taking the Jump Bikes systems and moving them to a distributed system built on top of Cadence, the pre-Temporal Temporal.Swyx [00:02:44]: Which, by the way, I'm happy to talk about, pros and cons.Jake [00:02:48]: Totally.Swyx [00:02:51]: But let's do the Railway story.Jake [00:02:52]: It has been a continual step of wanting an experience. Whether it's walking up to a bike, unlocking it, and having it work frictionlessly, or something else, the depth required to make that happen follows from the experience. A lot of the work I do, and a lot of the team does, is in service of that experience. We fundamentally don't care how deep we have to go. We will swim to the bottom of the swimming pool to get the experience.Jake [00:03:17]: I don't have a physics PhD. I did an EECS degree. It has always been about figuring out the next step: how do we get there? That's what led to starting Railway for that experience and then moving all the way to bare metal data centers. I was adding patches to the kernel this week to get the experience there because I can see how much better it can be.Swyx [00:03:49]: Other patches to the Linux kernel this week?Jake [00:03:51]: Yeah. Not upstream. Our fork.Swyx [00:03:52]: That's a flex. Railpack? No, this is different. This is the OS on top of Railpack?Jake [00:03:57]: No, this is an actual kernel patch. It's always literally: what do we have to do to get that experience? Then figure it out. Anything is figureoutable.Swyx [00:04:10]: Would you send the patch upstream, or does it not fit other use cases?Jake [00:04:13]: Maybe. We have to work out the experience internally. It has to do with the storage layer we're building for some of the agentic stuff. Maybe it'll be useful upstream, but it's deeply useful for us internally.Open Source, Forks, and Non-Deterministic VersioningSwyx [00:04:29]: You mentioned open source before. How do you think about starting from open source, and then coding agents letting you do a lot more from forks of it?Jake [00:04:38]: GitHub's original sin is that it's almost a series of broken pointers. You have this thing, then you clone it, and now you've lost the whole upstream. How do we make it trivial for people to modify really small pieces of it?Jake [00:04:51]: We think of Git in a discrete sense: I've either made a change and merged upstream, or I haven't. What would it look like if it were percentage-based, a little more non-deterministic, or a stream of changes that users traverse as a percentage rolled out in general and then rolled all the way up?Jake [00:05:13]: We have the open-source kickback program and let you deploy templates because we want to make it trivial for people to version these shards over time. It solves a large problem around authentication, authorization, and security. NPM has a way to define, “Don't take any new packages.” The ideal end state is that you roll out progressively to users with the minimum impact zone and continue rolling up. JPMorgan should probably be the last one on the patch line, for all our sakes, because our money and livelihoods are there.Jake [00:05:53]: It's okay if Johnny Vibe Coder gets a broken patch because there's so much entropy in the system that the rubber has to meet the road at some point. You have to test at varying levels.The Long Grind: First Users, Free Tier, and Making the Business WorkSwyx [00:06:13]: I wanted to pull up this glorious chart, which is your usage or number of daily signups?Jake [00:06:22]: Daily signups, I think.Swyx [00:06:24]: You started six years ago. It was a slow grind, and now you're on a rocket ship. You say, “Don't doubt your fight and don't quit.” Maybe pick out certain points that were key inflections for the company.Jake [00:06:40]: At the start, it's about getting your first 100 users, hell or high water. We had a website and a support link. The support link was the Discord channel. I had notifications on with two monitors: the monitor I was working on and the other monitor with Discord. If anybody came in, I was immediately like, “Hey, how's it going?” It was rare, so getting those first 100 users to come back was the start.Jake [00:07:14]: Then you build a consultancy factory because users want all these things. You have to go back to the board and ask, “What is the actual product offering I want to build on top of this?”Jake [00:07:28]: VCs want charts that always go up and to the right, but in reality you don't necessarily want charts that look like that. For us, there have been periods of expansion where we add features to test use cases, and periods of compaction where we ask, “If the experience we have is good, how do we make it significantly better?” Maybe we strip out features that don't fit our ICP anymore.Jake [00:07:57]: The boom from 2022 to 2023 came from the free tier. Everybody under the sun was using it.Swyx [00:08:09]: A lot of Reddit bots and Discord bots.Jake [00:08:12]: And crypto miners. When you build an open product on the internet where anybody can sign up, the internet is a horrible place with so many things. You go through periods of asking, “How do I reach as many people as possible?” Then, “How do I fit the exact use case for the people who really matter and are really excited about this specific thing?”Jake [00:08:39]: Then there was a two-year period of making the actual business work. During the free-tier era, we were losing about half a million dollars a month.Swyx [00:08:59]: On a $20 million bank account.Jake [00:09:02]: On a $20 million bank account with maybe $50,000 a month in revenue. That's a horrible business. I don't know how anybody invested. But you have to go through it and say, “We have an experience people love, but the business has to work.”Jake [00:09:17]: There are two schools of thought. You can run the horrible business all the way up with bad margins, or you can go back and make it work. We've always wanted a super lean team. We're 35 people right now. It's very small.Swyx [00:09:36]: Supporting three million already?Jake [00:09:38]: Yeah. We're adding 100,000 users a week right now, so it's growing fast. We don't want to add headcount for the sake of headcount or throw bodies at problems. We want to build systems. It's hard to build systems during expansion because you're adding things to the system because people are asking for them or things are breaking.Jake [00:10:00]: We had to cut off the free users for a little while, rebuild the business, and make sure it worked. We want to reach as many people as possible because software is important. It's become difficult to create things in the physical world, so it's important to make it easy for people to build in the virtual world and have access to creation. But there are legs to that journey.Jake [00:10:30]: You can see divots in the charts. If you follow between 2025 and 2026, it's either summer or winter. People go on holiday with family.Swyx [00:10:50]: It affects that much?Jake [00:10:51]: Yeah. It's kind of B2C and kind of B2B. People are shipping constantly, then they stop. Our activation curve now shows more people activating on weekdays because we have more business users, so it smooths out over time.Agents as the New Interface to DeploymentSwyx [00:11:17]: Was there a point where you started prioritizing AI development or agent development?Jake [00:11:24]: We've prioritized agentic as a top-of-funnel thing. Over the last six months, we've deeply prioritized agentic as a mechanism to build and deploy things because we believe the curve is so steep and that is how people will build and deploy software.Jake [00:11:42]: It almost fundamentally doesn't matter whether this is dot-com or not because we're all on the internet anyway. If agents are going to deploy a bunch of things and we hit an inference wall at some point, we'll fix those problems. The dominant species over the next 10 years is that we've moved from assembly to C to C++ to JavaScript to words. You're going to need to close that loop.Swyx [00:12:13]: When you say this is dot-com, did you mean buying the domain, or the general case?Jake [00:12:17]: I mean the dot-com era, when companies had a huge run-up because people understood the internet was important. Then they hit bottlenecks, fundamental laws of physics, math didn't work, and everybody came back down to earth. But it didn't matter because the internet became so impactful. If you operate on a long enough time horizon, you should build these things anyway because you can see where it's going.Jake [00:12:45]: That's where I think a lot of agent stuff is. You get to a point where you're running thousands of agents in parallel. What is the inference cost? What is the compute cost? How do you make that efficient? How do you coordinate all this? We have issues coordinating humans; we don't even have good tooling for that. Now we have to figure out how to get agents to coordinate, safely version changes, and know when to raise their hand for someone to intervene. Otherwise it becomes an interrupt factory.Railway's Infrastructure Thesis: Network, Compute, Storage, and MetalSwyx [00:13:19]: Let's go right into the technical side. What are the core infrastructure or architectural beliefs of Railway that allow you to do what you do?Jake [00:13:29]: The primitives matter a lot for us. We need network, compute, storage, and orchestration around it. You need control over a lot of those things. We've talked a lot about how we don't really use Kubernetes because we want higher-order control to place workloads in very specific places.Jake [00:13:48]: The reason is that you have to be very efficient with agents: memory reuse and all these other things, or you're going to massively blow up your cost structure. Being able to rack and stack your own servers and build your own metal unlocks performance and cost. Experiences where you're running 1,000 agents in parallel are not massively cost prohibitive.Jake [00:14:13]: Token use and compute use are blowing up. Over time, those things have to get a lot more efficient. You can get a lot of margin to make those experiences solid by building your own metal. That's all in service of offering a differentiated experience to as many people as humanly possible.Swyx [00:14:51]: You have a data center in Singapore.Jake [00:14:53]: Yeah. We have two in every other region now. In Singapore, we're adding a second one in Q3.Swyx [00:14:58]: What's it like? I've never built a data center. Do you go to Equinix and say, “I want some slots?”Jake [00:15:05]: Yeah. Equinix. You basically go and say, “I want power and I want a cage.” They say, “Great, here's what it's going to be.” You rent the cage for a period of time, fill it with racks and servers, and hook up internet to it. That's all the pieces.Swyx [00:15:36]: Then you handle everything else.Jake [00:15:37]: You handle everything else.Swyx [00:15:39]: What's the math versus clouds doing it for you?Jake [00:15:43]: If we rented in the cloud, our payback period when we go to metal is about three months.Swyx [00:15:50]: Which is crazy.Jake [00:15:51]: It's nuts. That's four years of depreciated hardware. You're going to see a lot of this compute crunch because hyperscalers are buying up a lot of stuff. We're working directly with OEMs, resellers, and people building these machines: Supermicro, Dell, and others.Jake [00:16:11]: Upstream, there's a bunch of supply pressure. When we raised our last round, between deploying capital for servers and now, the amount of money we've raised is less than the amount of money we have in the bank plus the value of the servers because the servers have appreciated as RAM has gone up. It's nuts how valuable hardware has become.Jake [00:16:50]: If you look at hyperscalers, they deployed around $80 billion of capital expenditures this year, and next year will be more. That's a massive infrastructure build-out. You look at that and think it's crazy that they're spending way more than the Manhattan Project. But if every person is going to run dozens or hundreds of agents in parallel, you have no conceptual idea how much compute is required to make that experience happen, even if you're deeply efficient and sharing resources. And that doesn't even count inference.Swyx [00:17:22]: How do you plan the build-out? The growth chart is so vertical. Are you usually at 100% utilization as soon as racks are live? How far ahead are you planning?Jake [00:17:33]: We still maintain cloud presence for bursting. We work with AWS, GCP, and a few other clouds. We can rent, and then the moment we get space or power, we compact those workloads off the cloud. We started on the clouds, then built a system to migrate to our own metal. There's nothing that says you can't continually do that again, and that's exactly what we do. We never want to be compute constrained.Jake [00:18:09]: At the start of the year, we actually became compute constrained because one upstream provider wasn't able to give us quota at the rate we needed, and the hardware was slower. I spent a weekend rebuilding our entire network overlay so we could straddle five clouds: Oracle, AWS, ourselves, GCP, and one other one. We can do more than that now.Jake [00:18:38]: We got into a spot where we were trying to pack instances tight because we couldn't get enough compute. That led to a few reliability issues, which are now past us. I made a tweet pointing out that it's becoming harder and harder to acquire compute at the rate these models need to acquire compute. We got bit by it.Swyx [00:19:15]: How do you think about pricing knowing you might not have your own metal available at all times? Are you pricing assuming you need extra margin if you end up going into the cloud?Jake [00:19:26]: Because we've built out our metal data centers, our margins on metal are around 70%. We can deeply subsidize the cloud business if we want to scale at a reasonable rate. We have a few levers: metal, which makes the margins; cloud burst; debt to buy servers; and venture capital. It's an interesting operational problem: how much cash do we have, how much should we raise, how quickly can we deploy it, and can we scale revenue as quickly as we scale compute?Jake [00:20:05]: If we continue making it trivially easy for people to build and deploy, then the faster we close that loop and the more operationally excellent we are with capital, the faster the business can scale. It's almost a straight linear deployment rate.Financing Infrastructure: Hardware Debt, VC, and Operational LeverageSwyx [00:20:20]: I think infra startups raising debt is a tool people don't utilize enough or know enough about. What can you tell us about that? Is it secured against your CPUs?Jake [00:20:32]: It's secured against our hardware.Swyx [00:20:37]: What rates do you get? Who are the lenders?Jake [00:20:39]: We pay prime plus a spread, and we can refinance any of the debt as rates go down. The terms are pretty good. The unfortunate thing is that Twitter has no nuance, so people say, “Venture debt bad.” But as with all things, there are specific tools and areas where you can be deliberate instead of using one tool as a hammer. Venture capital is not the hammer for everything. You have to explore and figure out what works.Swyx [00:21:12]: VC is usually the most expensive financing you can get.Jake [00:21:15]: Yeah. I also think people think about VC incorrectly from a capital-raising perspective. Most people think, “How do I raise as much money as possible from whoever is probably the best I can get at that time?” That's close to right, but what we've tried to do is figure out what unfair advantage we can buy with that equity.Jake [00:21:34]: It's the most expensive equity you're going to give away at that point in time, assuming the company keeps getting better. How do you use it to work with someone stellar who complements you? In the seed stage, I had never started a company. Ray Tonsing had good advice, and I could text him all the time. He was really fast. Awesome.Jake [00:22:01]: Then with John and Erica at Unusual, they said, “You roughly know what you're doing building a product. We'll mostly leave you alone and be available for advice.” Amazing. Then we got to Series A and the business was an operational tire fire because we didn't know how to scale a business. Work with Erica, and Jordan is over at Redpoint, so bonus.Jake [00:22:28]: Now we've raised from TQ and FPV as we're moving into enterprises. Every step of the way, we've asked: who can we partner with at this specific time to unlock the next section of the journey? I don't know enterprise sales. As an engineer, I can eyeball what features we might need, and we have wonderful people internally who can help. But you want boardroom dynamics where everyone is aligned and asking, “How do we win this?” instead of bickering about strategy.Data Centers in Space and the Physics of ComputeSwyx [00:23:31]: You had a tweet about data centers in space. Why no data centers in space?Jake [00:23:37]: It's not “no data centers in space.” My hot take is that I think it is solvable. I've just never seen anybody solve it.Swyx [00:23:49]: You said, “How are you going to dissipate that much heat in a vacuum?” You're making a physics claim.Jake [00:23:55]: I haven't seen anybody prove how you're going to dissipate that much heat in a vacuum. It doesn't mean it's not possible. It just means nobody has brought it up yet.Swyx [00:24:05]: Astrophage.Jake [00:24:06]: I don't know what that is.Swyx [00:24:07]: The Martian thing. Okay, you're very logical.Jake [00:24:09]: It could work. A lot of people are putting the cart before the horse. They say, “We're going to put data centers in space.” Okay, but how? “We have time to figure it out.” It's like in The Martian where they ask how they're going to intercept something and say, “We'll figure it out.”Swyx [00:24:36]: Making a bet on human invention is weird because you blind trust that it can be solved. But with physics, there are first-principles bounds you can put on it. Maybe not. Maybe you're asking to travel time or break a fundamental thermodynamic law.Jake [00:24:57]: I don't know how VCs do this either. How do you know what's not possible and a grift versus what's possible but sounds completely insane? “We're going to put data centers in space.” Coin flip as to which it is, and I guess you'll know in 10 years. That's one cycle.What Agents Need: Versioning, Observability, and 1,000x ScaleSwyx [00:25:23]: Moving back to agents. The branching, fast spin-up, and orchestration you do feels like pre-work that happened to be exactly what agents want. What do agents want differently than humans?Jake [00:25:37]: They want the ability to version things. It's not that different; it materializes slightly differently. Agents want a way to test changes incrementally. Engineers have feature flags. Is there a reason agents can't use feature flags? I don't think so.Jake [00:25:54]: They want version control. Can we use Git or not Git? That one is up in the air. I think something outside Git will emerge for how we version these things over time. They need observability. You need to query what happened, when it happened, which steps failed, traces, logs, metrics, and all the rest. They need network, compute, and storage. They need to write files, save files, iterate on files, and snapshot file systems.Jake [00:26:25]: A lot of what humans needed is in line with what agents need. Branching and forking are not different; we're just moving 1,000 times quicker. It can look like you need something massively different, but what you need is something massively better than what existed. You need orchestration massively better than Kubernetes. You need networking probably better than Envoy. It goes all the way down the stack.Jake [00:26:55]: If the workload profile doesn't change so much as it gets massively compressed because you need thousands of these things, what assumptions change? etcd is going to melt. You need to replace it with something. You can go all the way down the stack and say, “That part has to change, that part has to change, and that part has to change.”Jake [00:27:19]: The interesting thing about the super-exponential curve is that you have to build systems where you can rip out those parts at any time because a new bottleneck might emerge. You get good at parallel agents, and a different part of the system breaks. So it's similar to what humans needed, but at 1,000x scale.Jake [00:27:55]: How do you do code review in the age of agents?Swyx [00:28:00]: You throw more agents at it.Jake [00:28:01]: You don't. But then who reviews for CVEs and all these other things?Swyx [00:28:07]: More agents.Jake [00:28:08]: And that's how we hit the inference wall. You can continually throw agents at the problem, but I think there's a limit to the number of agents you can throw at a problem.CLI, Agent Handles, and Closing the LoopSwyx [00:28:24]: You already had a CLI before it was cool. How is the shape of what you're exposing changing, if at all?Jake [00:28:28]: CLIs have always been cool. The CLI changes because we think about how to give Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, or any model a handhold.Jake [00:28:50]: A CLI is a single command: deploy, get logs, and so on. Things that were prohibitively annoying to humans are not annoying to agents. They're nice. If I handed you a CLI with 40 arguments and 600 flags, you'd think, “I'm never going to use all of this.” But if you hand it to an agent, it says, “This is excellent. I have so many handles to work with.”Jake [00:29:24]: If you're going to expose things to agents that way, you want as many handles as possible where they can get information, query dynamic information, and close the loop quickly. Most problems right now are about how to close the loop as quickly as possible. Where does the agent get stuck, and how can you remove that?Jake [00:29:49]: Telemetry is important. If you can tell where the agent gets stuck from the CLI and say, “12% of people deviate from the happy path because of this, and now I add this argument and drive it down to 2%,” you massively increase the rate of loop closure.Jake [00:30:03]: That's how we think about not just the CLI, but every point in the dashboard. It's a user journey: I hear about Railway. I get something deployed. I get my first green build or aha moment. I see an endpoint, logs, whatever. Then I iterate. The iteration loop is indefinite. The user wants to deploy a new thing, a Postgres instance, change code, and keep iterating.Jake [00:30:36]: If you focus on the iteration loops and what's blocking them from closing quickly, one thing we say internally is: you never want to be waiting on compute anymore. You always want to be waiting on intelligence. If you're waiting on compute, there's a bottleneck that needs to be destroyed because eventually that bottleneck becomes so large that another workflow emerges to change it.Jake [00:31:04]: We've built a product where you push code, build it, and so on. But I fundamentally believe the push-pull loop is going away. We'll get to a point where you make a small change in production, that change is versioned across your infrastructure, you're working alongside copy-on-write versions of your database and infrastructure, and then you merge it in and it's instantaneously live. That's the holy grail of loops. The push-pull-rebuild thing is a point of friction that we're removing entirely.Canvas as Output: Dashboards, Context Anchors, and HyperstructuresSwyx [00:31:43]: It's incredibly fast. If anyone hasn't tried it, that fast feedback is great. My hot take is that Railway was famous for its canvas, which visualizes your infrastructure and lets you manipulate it visually. But that was for humans. For the next phase of growth, Railway CLI is more important than canvas.Jake [00:32:05]: The canvas is funny because it's a mechanism to show changes over time. You're right that previously we used it a lot as an input. Moving forward, its goal is more like an output. You would go to the canvas, make changes, see them, and watch your infrastructure evolve. Now agents have access to the CLI and can make those changes. So the canvas becomes an output: what information does the human need at this moment to make suitable decisions about control requests? Do I approve this or not?Jake [00:32:57]: It also has to be an anchor for your context, a port in the storm. Think of it like layers in a file system. You start with a project, then drill down into services, then into a function or code, because you want to represent the entire thing not just in your head, but in the canvas. Other people can share that representation, think on the same wavelength, and move quickly.Jake [00:33:33]: A lot of organizations get in trouble as they scale because all the context lives in someone's head. “How does this microservice work?” “I have no idea; go ask this person.” Then you have whole categories of products built around context discovery. A lot of that melts away if you have a solid hierarchy and can infinitely nest services, code, context, and everything else all the way down. That's what lets you build these structures over time.Jake [00:34:18]: It's also what lets us build what I've called hyperstructures: things that are way bigger. You look at the Golden Gate Bridge and ask, “How did we build that?” There's a meme that we lost the technology. To some extent, yes, because the coordination that built those things evolved and changed. We lost some of the art of building structure as we jammed everything into Slack.Swyx [00:34:52]: But you jam everything in Discord.Jake [00:34:53]: Same point. It doesn't matter. It's message passing and interrupts, message passing and interrupts.Swyx [00:35:00]: So you're arguing there should be something better and more structured than Slack?Jake [00:35:04]: Yeah. For sure. I think Slack is awful, and Discord is awful too.Central Station: Context Routing, Support, and Incident ClustersSwyx [00:35:09]: This is the equivalent of my mom test. What have you done that has your solution to this?Jake [00:35:15]: Internally, we've built a tool called Central Station that aggregates all the context from our users. Every piece of feedback, every customer support item, everything gets aggregated into clusters. If an incident is brewing, we can determine how many users are affected and break off a discussion based on that.Jake [00:35:40]: That is more helpful than long-running channels where you're trying to decide which channel to put something in. If you can dynamically aggregate information and dynamically route it to the right person based on context, it works better. We know internally that these four people are close to networking. If we see a networking thing, we can drill it down to those four people. If it's with this part, we can look at the commits. This is no longer a manual process internally.Jake [00:36:13]: If you go to station or help.railway.com, that's why we built it. We wanted to scale with a massive amount of leverage by aggregating feedback.Swyx [00:36:27]: This is built in-house?Jake [00:36:28]: Yep.Swyx [00:36:29]: I remember helping out on this one with Angelo in 2023. You scale a lot with a very small team.Jake [00:36:38]: Yeah. We're about 10 times bigger now.Swyx [00:36:40]: You have your full developer code here? Very cool.Jake [00:36:44]: If you go to railway.com/stats, we expose this as a pub-sub-able thing. It's all real-time metrics. There's a way to get it as JSON somewhere if you care.Jake [00:37:01]: We're big on trying to build everything in public and talk about what we're working on. We've had issues in the past, and we'll say, “Here's how we're fixing these things.” We've gotten compliments and flak for incident reports. We're always trying to make them better and talk with people.Incidents, Disclosure, and Progressive RolloutsSwyx [00:37:20]: You had a big one recently. I liked that it was scoped to 3,000. You presumably used Central Station. Talk through what happened and how you address it internally as a team.Jake [00:37:38]: Internally, this one really sucked. It had to do with an upstream provider that didn't do the behavior it said it documented, which is unfortunate given they wrote the RFC for how the behavior should work. We rolled those things out, and Central Station caught it initially when a couple users said caches weren't invalidating. We turned it off immediately.Jake [00:38:03]: When you roll out to a large user base of three million people, you get a lot of disparate behaviors. We tested in staging and had tests, but we hit an edge case. We've hardened those systems, and now we can make that better. But it was a tough one.Swyx [00:38:39]: I always wonder how private disclosure is supposed to work if people find an issue. Are they supposed to contact you first? When you run a platform, these things will happen. What channels should people pursue to quietly resolve it before it becomes a bigger incident?Jake [00:38:59]: There's responsible disclosure. We err on the side of over-disclosing and letting you know something is wrong versus having your provider gaslight you. We've erred on sharing those things more publicly, even if they impact a small subset of users. That's a decision we've made internally. We have four values. One is honor. The honorable thing is to notify people to the widest degree at which they may have been affected or there was an issue, and then confront it head-on: why did it happen, what can we do better?Swyx [00:39:45]: Not the whole user base. That's because of incremental rollouts and other things?Jake [00:39:50]: Yeah. Progressive rollouts.Swyx [00:39:54]: That should be the norm at all large platforms.Jake [00:39:58]: It should. A variety of companies do this. There's the quote that Meta runs 10,000 different versions of Meta. To our earlier point about agents, they need the same thing. They need shadow traffic and all these other things. We've built so much ceremony around production being sacred that we need to make it trivially easy to test different behaviors in a safe environment. Then you can make mistakes in a safe environment.Safe AI SRE: Customer Agents, Forked Environments, and Production ParityAlessio [00:40:30]: Do you see a world where these things get automatically caught, not necessarily by your agent, but by your customer's agent? The cache invalidation issue seems easy to check if you know to look for it.Jake [00:40:44]: It's hard because to determine it, we almost need to hook into your observability infrastructure. That's why we have the template loop on the platform: so you can roll things out progressively. You can roll out to Johnny Vibe Coder initially, or push a shard that someone consumes at their own leisure. Or you can roll it out over weeks: 0.1% of people, 1% of people, early adopters, then all the way up. That's the non-deterministic version control we talked about earlier.Jake [00:41:30]: I believe that's where most things should go, because most companies end up building staged rollout systems in-house. It's the same thing built again and again at every company. There's a massive opportunity to consolidate developer debt.Alessio [00:41:45]: You should have a free tier. Model providers give free tokens if you let them use the data. You could give free compute if someone is the number-one shard that goes out and lets you plug into their observability.Jake [00:41:55]: We do that. That's why we talked about the impact on 3,000 people. We start with lower-impact people. Larger companies on the platform are last to receive those rollouts so they have a version of the platform that's deeply stable.Alessio [00:42:16]: I have three services, so I'm sure I get the first rollout. You can nuke my thing at any time. There are all these SRE agent companies. Observability people also want agents that fix upstream problems. You have your own agent in the canvas now. How do you see that playing out?Jake [00:42:39]: It's the stacking entropy problem. If you don't have primitives to make iteration in production safe, it becomes difficult. If you're an observability provider saying, “Here's the fix to this error,” assume 80% are good and make sense. But in the last 20% long tail of complex issues, if you let somebody stamp it, you create an opportunity for an incident.Jake [00:43:08]: That's why forked environments are important. People have staging, but it always drifts from production. You need primitives, workflows, and experience built first-party on the platform so you can fork any service at any point in time.Jake [00:43:33]: I think of the canvas as a sheet of transparency paper. The agent is a little guy you push up into the canvas. It should say, “I need to copy that service and that service so I can test these two things.” It gets a read-only copy of production. Anything that's PII gets marked as a transform when we clone the database, create a copy-on-write version, or read from it. Then the agent makes changes and asks, “Does this actually work?” as close to production as possible.Jake [00:44:22]: That's how close you have to be, or you get massive drift. The system becomes unstable. You see this with massive systems built on Docker for local, Kubernetes for production, and a specific thing for something else. That complexity slows developers and becomes unstable at scale, making it hard to iterate. We want to compress that way down and say, “As close to prod as possible is where we want to be.”From AISRE Skeptic to Agent BelieverSwyx [00:45:00]: I was texting Erica for questions, and she says you were originally not a believer in AISRE. Have you come around on it?Jake [00:45:10]: I flipped, but I'm still not a believer in AISRE if you don't have the primitives to make it safe. If you unleash AISRE on production infrastructure without safe primitives for copying volumes and making sure things are fine, it's going to nuke your production database. It's not a matter of if, but when. I'm a big believer in making those loops safe.Jake [00:45:33]: I was a deep AI skeptic until 2023. In 2024, I thought, “Maybe I can roughly make this thing do it.” In 2025, I thought, “Now I can hold this.” Over winter break, everybody came back saying, “It's almost impossible to hold this.”Swyx [00:46:01]: Did you see this on the Claude docs? CloudBot? OpenCloud?Jake [00:46:06]: It's gotten to a point where it's harder to hold it wrong than to hold it right. There's a scene in Avengers where Vision picks up Thor's hammer and says it's terribly well-balanced. It self-balances and works well. I'm a deep believer at this point that this will be the dominant species: assembly, C, C++, JavaScript, words.Swyx [00:46:35]: It feels like a big jump.Jake [00:46:37]: It is. But it's not like you abandon CPU-based discrete logic and move straight to fuzzy logic. You need both. Your skills should call code or applications or some static structure. You can use skills to distill what the procedure should be or how the code should act.Jake [00:47:02]: I'm coming to a thesis: you need three points. You need a clear spec defining the system, the code, and the tests. When you say it out loud, if you've been in engineering long enough, you're like, “Of course. That's an RFC, tests, and code.” But they all matter. Having them together lets them reinforce each other: the spec and tests match, but the code doesn't, so reconcile it. Or the tests and code match but the spec doesn't, so reconcile that. That's the iteration loop.Jake [00:47:41]: That's why you're seeing people talk about software factories, docs, and reconciliation. Some of that is architectural astronomy if you don't implement it, but that loop is where most things will end up.Swyx [00:48:07]: For listeners, we've been talking about this on the pod for three years: the holy trinity of specs and tests. Itamar Friedman from Qodo is the reference if people want to look it up.Self-Modifying Infrastructure and the End of Push-Pull-RebuildSwyx [00:48:18]: One thing I want to mention on the OpenCloud idea is self-modification. I don't know how Railway would support it, but I have my OpenClaw, and I just tell it it has the Railway CLI and can do whatever. In theory, whatever capabilities or new infra it needs, it can call the Railway CLI, provision it, and add it to itself. The agent can modify its own infra.Jake [00:48:45]: It's nuts. I have a loop set up where you put the Railway CLI on top of something that runs on Railway. You're authenticated as whatever the current box is, and you can make any changes to it. Then you call Railway deploy, and it deploys itself.Jake [00:49:04]: It's like: “I need to spin up this instance of this environment. I already exist in this environment. Excellent, I have access to a Postgres instance now.” That's where we want to go with agentic, self-replicating infrastructure. That's your loop: iterate in production. You continue making changes. If it works, merge it upstream. If it doesn't, throw it away.Jake [00:49:37]: How do you make throwaway copies trivial to spin up and super cheap? The era of “I have an AWS instance with four vCPU and 16 gigs of RAM” is going to get destroyed. If you do that for agents, you need a thousand of those machines. It's prohibitively expensive compared with what we've spent a ton of time figuring out: the atomic unit of deploy, whether you call it isolates, sandboxes, or something else. Only pay for what you use, spin up instantaneously, and close the loop as quickly as possible.Jake [00:50:15]: If the system can self-replicate safely and say, “This is my environment, I'm making these changes,” it can come back with, “Does this look good? This is a new state of infrastructure given this prompt. I think I've solved it.” Then you go back and say, “Actually, it looks different.” It does the loop again. Then you say, “Cool. Apply.”Swyx [00:50:38]: That's retroactively obvious, which is the most useful kind. Any other comments on agent deployment on Railway?Jake [00:50:51]: It's getting better every day. I'm on X or Twitter. You can always yell at me about the parts not working as well as they should, because plenty of things should work way better.The New Serverless: Stateful, Long-Running, Pay-for-What-You-Use LinuxSwyx [00:51:04]: At this stage, when people want massively or embarrassingly parallel compute, they usually talk serverless. I feel like there's a new serverless compared to the previous five years of serverless. You're in that new bucket. Do you have comparisons or philosophical differences you want to call out?Jake [00:51:31]: It's somewhere in between. It's the ability to run stateful, long-running workflows or executions.Swyx [00:51:42]: Vercel has Fluid Compute, Cloudflare has some container thing, Google has App Runner and others.Jake [00:51:55]: That's where everything is roughly going, and it's why we've been working on this for six years. We believe users need access to a computer: a box that speaks Linux. They need to deploy what they want. Other systems change the surface area of what you can build. For us, users need a computer and need to deploy anything they truly want. That's why we've focused on the primitives: network, compute, storage. If we give you those and expose them so you can run things indefinitely, that's where we believe it's going.Jake [00:52:43]: Twitter has no nuance, so everyone says “servers” or “serverless.” It's always somewhere in the middle: I want to run it for a long time, but I don't want to provision the resource statically or pay for things I'm not using. That's been our thesis from day one: pay only for what you use, run it indefinitely, and it is full Linux.Swyx [00:53:12]: That's why I like the naming of Fluid. It's fluid. Flexible.Heroku, Focus, and Carrying the Torch Without Becoming the PastSwyx [00:53:18]: Another milestone is the Heroku official deprecation. You're one of the presumptive new Herokus. “New Heroku” has been a category for as long as I've been in developer tooling. It's finally happening. What was that like? Any behind-the-scenes of, “This is the moment”?Jake [00:53:42]: You have people where you're like, “You were running stuff on here? You, as this company?” It's crazy that names you would know are running on it and now coming to us saying, “We want to move a lot of this off.”Swyx [00:54:00]: Any behind-the-scenes on why Salesforce let Heroku stagnate?Jake [00:54:05]: I can only guess. It's hard when it's not your business. Salesforce's business is to build a great CRM. That's their focus. Then you acquire a compute business as an offshoot. A lot of early Meta people talk about focus. Boz has a write-up about how in the early days of Meta they had no money, so they were forced to focus. Then they turned on the money tree and had no reason not to split their focus.Jake [00:54:52]: But that dilutes your product. You get offshoots where you ask, “Is this the focus of the business?” If it's not core, it languishes. A lot of companies get in trouble when they split focus because they're fighting a multi-front war, not just externally but internally for alignment. Where are we going? What are we doing? What is our purpose?Jake [00:55:24]: If you're Salesforce-built and mission-driven, you want to work on Salesforce. Heroku is off to the side. It's not core to the business. Getting resources, budget, focus, and alignment internally becomes hard. It was a matter of time.Swyx [00:56:06]: Kudos for them to call it out instead of leaving it unknown.Jake [00:56:12]: Their release was a little odd. They called it out, but they didn't say they were shutting it down. Behind the scenes, I think they issued messages to people saying they should close accounts and that they were going to deprecate and remove things over time.Jake [00:56:30]: It's crazy because some of my first deployment experiences were on Heroku. You start with dragging things into an FTP server, then you try to get a deploy working, and then it's Heroku. It was the on-ramp for us. But the wheel turns. New things emerge. We're happy to carry the torch for a lot of that. But we don't want to be the new Heroku. We want to be the way people build and deploy software, and ultimately the way people monetize software over time.Swyx [00:57:19]: It's still a big crown to be the new Heroku. There are 50 companies that fought for that.Jake [00:57:23]: Everybody is holding some portion of it. We're happy to support people and companies. The platform works differently. The game loop is similar, but we've been dogmatic about where these things are going: primitives, agents, fan-out. Some things fit; some workflows need to change. We have an approximation of Heroku pipelines with the environment system. It's exciting. We've got a ton of people we can support, and it's growing a lot.Temporal, Workflow Engines, and State MachinesSwyx [00:58:12]: I have one more technical question about Temporal. I've sold my shares. You're a power user and one of our earliest customers. I met you through Temporal. You built on Temporal. You have complaints. This may be the most neutral and informed conversation anyone will hear about Temporal without someone working at the company.Jake [00:58:39]: That's fair. I've used Temporal for almost 10 years because of Cadence at Uber.Swyx [00:58:52]: Give people a sense of what Cadence was at Uber.Jake [00:58:57]: Cadence was the precursor to Temporal. It powers trip actions, rides, when you rent a Jump bike or scooter or car. You're running workflows for a period of time and saying, “This ride will run indefinitely until it finishes.” You attach information: you paused in this zone, so add this charge to the bill. When you end the trip, the workflow is done. That experience was powered by Cadence at the time.Swyx [00:59:34]: I used to say it's like programming the entire user journey top-down as one function.Jake [00:59:39]: It's a powerful idea and important. It's also important for the next phase of the agentic journey. You want an agent to do a specific task, be complete or incomplete on that task, and move on to the next thing. You need a way to manage workflows dynamically.Jake [00:59:59]: Temporal was always great in theory, and great when you got it working the way you wanted in production. But it required you to model the entire journey in your head. If you didn't, you could cause issues where replaying the state of the workflow causes non-determinism.Swyx [01:00:25]: Because it works on deterministic workflow history.Jake [01:00:28]: Exactly. I describe it as a jet engine. If you know how to operate it and run it, it's great. But you can't hand it to people trying to build complicated things if they don't have the whole state in their head.Jake [01:00:48]: We run our whole deployment pipeline on top of it. That's a reasonably complicated workflow: pre-commit hooks, signaling, queuing, and all the rest. We ran into the same thing at Uber. As you express a large workflow, it gets more complicated, with more states in the state machine that you have to map back to the workflow.Swyx [01:01:15]: It's a lot of ifs.Jake [01:01:16]: Exactly. At Uber, we built a system for doing the state machine and testing it. We've started to build some of those things here because it's grown heavily. It's not quite love-hate. When it works well, it works super well. But if someone who doesn't have full context puts something into the system that invalidates state or causes non-determinism, or spins off a ton of activities, you have to keep track of underlying SRE knobs like activity slots. Those should scale with memory, vCPU, and so on. It becomes a bear to scale.Swyx [01:02:10]: You need a capable sysadmin running things behind the scenes. If you moved off, what would you do?Jake [01:02:19]: We'd build our own workflow engine. We have a few internally that we've worked on.Swyx [01:02:27]: This is one of those classes of things you typically wouldn't vibe code, but I'm wondering if you can.Jake [01:02:33]: I still don't think you should vibe code it. You still want to run decent tests to make sure it works.Swyx [01:02:39]: Timo didn't invent that from scratch either. There are libraries you can run. On top of that, it's just a state machine that you have to map out. Ultimately, you define the instructions you want and run them through a state machine.Jake [01:03:00]: It's very doable. Workflow stuff is interesting. Restate is doing neat stuff here.Swyx [01:03:10]: You're tied into JavaScript. Are you a JavaScript maxi?Jake [01:03:13]: Internally, we have TypeScript, Rust, and Go. We don't add more languages. Actually, we have a little C because we write BPF code and hooks. But those are the languages.Swyx [01:03:28]: Is this for sidecars?Jake [01:03:32]: No. It's for the networking stack, volumes, and things like that. We use TypeScript a lot because it powers the dashboard, but we're moving a lot of workflow stuff off the dashboard stack and into the infrastructure stack.Railpack, Nixpacks, and Content-Addressable FilesystemsSwyx [01:04:00]: Cool. Any other technical infrastructure stuff? Railpacks?Jake [01:04:07]: We built an engine for determining dependencies based on source code. It's called Railpack. We built the first version, Nixpacks, on top of Nix, and then we moved.Swyx [01:04:17]: People have been trying to get me to adopt Nix and NixOS for four years. Is it ever going to be a thing?Jake [01:04:23]: I don't know. We're excited about it, but it has pain points. Think of it as a stack of versioned binaries at specific slices in time. If you want version X and version Y, you bloat the package space, which blows up image size and makes real-world workloads difficult.Swyx [01:04:53]: But you content-address it and cache it. In theory, there are optimizations.Jake [01:05:00]: In theory, yes. But with a large enough user base and disparate enough machines, you run into a problem Meta described in the XFAAS paper, their internal serverless system. It becomes difficult at scale unless you break out specific runtimes.Jake [01:05:24]: We didn't want to do that because we wanted to truly allow you to deploy anything. That was our initial thing with Nix. But we've moved toward interesting work around content-addressable file systems that can lazy-load anything from any point and page it into memory.Swyx [01:05:48]: Amazing.Jake [01:05:49]: The future is very bright. It's crazy, and it's going to be nuts.Coding Agent Spend, Roadmaps, and Token ROISwyx [01:05:54]: Founder journey stuff?Alessio [01:05:56]: Your cloud usage: you tweeted you're going to spend $300K this month?Jake [01:06:01]: I think we got to $200K.Alessio [01:06:02]: Coding agents?Jake [01:06:03]: Yeah.Swyx [01:06:04]: Across the company?Alessio [01:06:05]: You only have 35 people, so I'm sure they're not all spending $10K a month. What's the distribution?Jake [01:06:10]: I think I'm at about $25K. We have power users all the way down. We came back from winter break, and I basically said, “If you're writing code by hand, you're doing this wrong.” The tools are good enough now that you can move extremely quickly. There are issues and pain points, but you should be reviewing the code you are writing instead of writing it by hand.Jake [01:06:40]: Architectural patterns matter more now than ever, but you shouldn't spend your time generating code you would write. If you know how to write it, ask the agent to write it and reconcile it until it looks like you would have written it yourself.Jake [01:06:58]: People misconstrue my propensity to push people toward agents as connected to our growth and some reliability bumps. They're not necessarily related. The tools are good enough to move extremely quickly and build things way larger than you could before.Jake [01:07:19]: To the earlier point about cooling data centers in space: I don't know. But with software, you can ask, “How would I build block storage from scratch? How would I do these things?” I have ideas because I have history and have read papers. Let me work them out and build massive test benches with thousands of tests, because those are now free to author. If you're not using AI systems to speed-run your roadmap and reconcile your existing system onto the future, you're missing a large point of what's happening.Alessio [01:08:12]: What's the path to spending $3 million a month? Is it bound by ideas and things customers can absorb?Jake [01:08:19]: For most companies, it's bound by deployment at this point. That's why we've seen a massive boom in users and companies, from Fortune 50s down, asking how to get developers to move faster. You'll probably hit your CFO before any technical limits because they'll look at the eye-watering amount of money spent on tokens. Inference costs have to come down, but we're inference constrained now. There will be price discovery around what makes sense for an org to adopt.Jake [01:09:06]: I think you'll end up with the F1 driver concept. If someone is really adept at these things, it makes sense to put them in a $3 million car. If they're not, it probably doesn't make sense. You'll take a few people and say, “You can drive the F1 car. We need to go in this direction. Figure out if it works and prototype it.”Jake [01:09:33]: We've done some of that and vastly accelerated our roadmap. We thought we'd ship something in a few years; now we can probably ship it in a few months because we validated it and don't have to build it incrementally. We can skip steps and move toward our vision.Alessio [01:09:58]: A lot of people are realizing the roadmap doesn't always have a business impact, so they say tokens are too expensive. But if your roadmap were built to make more money by the time you built it, you'd have token pricing for it, the same way you do with sales. You'd spend a billion dollars on sales if you knew you would get $2 billion of revenue.Jake [01:10:19]: Exactly. A naive way to measure this is the percentage of tokens that end up in production. If you can measure impact because those tokens end up in production, that's awesome. But the burden of proof will rise. Internally, we have a growing number of pull requests that haven't merged. The question becomes: how do you get this into production? It's about how quickly you can build and deploy software, which is exciting because that's our whole thing.The SDLC Shift: Prompt Requests, Feature Flags, and Safe RolloutsSwyx [01:10:56]: The SDLC is changing. One thesis is that the pull request is dying. It's going to be the prompt request. Beyond that, code review is also kind of dying if you have all the other systems in place. What else is changing about the SDLC?Jake [01:11:19]: The AISRE and the tools to make it happen. AISRE is pie-in-the-sky aspirational. What does it take to get an AISRE? What tools do you need to build?Swyx [01:11:32]: You should expose your tooling to customers at some point. The Central Station command center.Jake [01:11:39]: We have it for template maintainers. Template maintainers can deploy and maintain templates, and they get feedback. We're going to expose those things incrementally.Swyx [01:11:51]: Clustering around incidents. Everyone has a version of that, but I don't think anyone has solved it.Jake [01:11:56]: I won't say we've solved it internally, but it's gotten so good that we can see incidents forming pretty quickly. At some point, those will be things either someone else builds or we build. We've always built things purpose-built for us. If it makes sense to make it useful for users, monetize it, or turn that loop into a profit center instead of a cost center, we want to do that.Jake [01:12:28]: Pull request is definitely dying.Swyx [01:12:29]: Do you do first-party feature flagging and incremental rollout stuff?Jake [01:12:34]: We have a feature-flagging engine we built internally and will eventually roll out.Swyx [01:12:38]: I don't see it as a user. How come you didn't give us what you have?Jake [01:12:43]: We have to beta test it. We care a lot about the quality of the things. There's plenty we've used internally that doesn't make it all the way through the journey because it fails. It works for one service but not multiple services. We'd have to build it for multiple services and know that if we released it, we'd rebuild it again and again. Some things are worth that, but many inform the roadmap.Jake [01:13:18]: We don't want to dilute the experience by saying, “This works, but only for this service,” unless it's a core initiative. Over the next few months, we'll roll out things that work for a single service, then multiple services, then multiple services across the environment. You have to be deliberate. Otherwise you create broken disparate experiences and support load because people ask how to use the feature.Jake [01:13:52]: It's the earlier expansion and compaction pattern. You expand the company to get features, then compact and smooth them out so the experience is stellar. You told me in the hallway, “It's gotten so much better.” Internally we're saying, “This part really sucks. We need to make it significantly better.”Swyx [01:14:11]: I can attest to that over the last three years watching you build Railway. For listeners, feature flagging is a huge part of Uber culture. So much so that they have too many feature flags and another thing to remove feature flags. Facebook has Gatekeeper. Agents are going to need this. It's fundamental to incremental rollouts. OpenAI acquired Statsig. GPT-5 is routing and flagging through different models.Jake [01:14:56]: It's super important. If the software development lifecycle is going to change because we're doing things 1,000 times faster and 1,000 times more concurrently, what becomes important at scale?Jake [01:15:16]: Before I started Railway, I built a feature-flagging product and tried to sell it. It was an easier version of LaunchDarkly. I ran into a problem: anyone small enough to adopt your technology doesn't care about feature flags, and anyone large enough to need feature flags needs so much scale that you have to build out all the infrastructure. I scrapped it.Jake [01:15:42]: But what is old is new again. Companies are trying to move quickly, but you can't YOLO a vibe-coded thing straight into production. You need to say, “Here's my blast radius, my impact, and I want to shadow it for these users.” Feature flags. You're going to need the tools larger companies built to maintain their structures. Everything gets compressed by 1,000x so everybody can build those structures quickly.Jake [01:16:07]: That's exactly where we are: compressing the software development lifecycle, then expanding it and adding more new things.Cattle, Pets, and Clonable InfrastructureSwyx [01:16:15]: Another term that comes to mind for newer developers is “cattle, not pets.” People treat production like a pet. It has a name. You baby it and keep it alive. With cattle, you can mass farm, roll out, portion parts out, and kill them.Jake [01:16:37]: I think that might change. You can move toward having pets as long as you have a cloning machine for your pets.Swyx [01:16:52]: Yeah.Jake [01:16:52]: If you can snapshot every single thing at every frame, it doesn't matter if something gets obliterated because you have a snapshot of it. The things we've built right now are designed to block changes from the hermetically sealed DevOps line. You have to write a Dockerfile because you nee

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I made $38,000 today. From one sale. One coaching client. A couple of sessions. Seven days ago, I told my Inner Circle group "I'm allowing another $50,000 to flow into my life this month." Not hoping. Not wishing. Allowing. Within seven days, it happened. In this solo episode of The Expert Edge, I break down how to attract high ticket clients. Not just close them. Attract them.  Because when you shift internally, everything external shifts too. Before you roll your eyes and think this is manifesting woo-woo nonsense, let me be clear: this isn't about vision boards and hoping the universe delivers cash to your doorstep. It's about giving yourself permission to receive more money. And most coaches haven't done that yet. You've capped yourself. Maybe it's $5K a month. Maybe it's $20K. Maybe it's $100K a year. Whatever it is, you hit that number and your brain goes "Okay, that's enough. Let's not get greedy." The problem isn't your offer. It isn't your marketing. It isn't your funnel. It's that you haven't decided to allow more money to flow into your business. What you'll learn: → Allow yourself to receive more money - Pick a number that feels like a stretch but doable (not "I hope" but "this is a done deal") → Value outcomes, not features - Stop selling "six coaching sessions" and start selling financial freedom, time with family, emotional peace → Speak to elevated problems - "I need more clients" vs "I have clients but I'm burnt out" (the second person pays 10x more) → Design a program you actually enjoy - How I've made $300K-$500K a year for 17 years with just a few hours of coaching a month → Why mindset is a strategy (not just "mindset stuff") - You can have all the tactics in the world, but if your mindset isn't right, you won't give yourself permission to receive Real insights from the episode: How I made $38,000 in one day from a premium private client Why I choose numbers that feel easy (not lottery-level fantasy) when setting revenue goals The difference between "deserving" money and believing you deserve it How to pivot out of negative mindset throughout the day when refunds, upset clients, and challenges happen Why most coaches cap themselves at a certain income level without realizing it The exact process of living in the result before creating the result How to speak to higher level problems in your messaging to attract premium clients I'm running a six-week coaching cohort called Premium Private Clients. It's the exact system I've used for 17 years to make $300K-$500K a year from a handful of clients. I'm teaching how to attract them, build an audition funnel, convert at 90%, and design a program you actually enjoy. First cohort is 50% off. Limited spots.  Go to colinboyd.co/highticket and sign up now.  My goal? Help you add $100K-$300K a year with just 2-3 clients at a time. If you're already making $10K/month, there's no reason you can't add $200K a year with this model. Join our next Speak to Convert Masterclass. In this live workshop, you'll discover how to build and launch a high converting presentation that gets you clients every time you present. https://colinboyd.co/speak Discover how to authentically connect with your audience & fill your programs with a Conversion Story - Version 2.0 (AI Edition) is now available. https://www.conversionstoryformula.com Hit the "Follow" button so you don't miss an episode! Love this podcast? Write a review and give it a 5-star rating!  For all the show notes and links: https://www.expertedgepodcast.com/blog/episode321 Connect with Colin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colinboyd/  

May 19, 2026: Your daily rundown of health and wellness news, in under 5 minutes. Today's top stories: Fitness First partners with kip for NFC-powered tags blocking notifications and locking users into focus modes while allowing music and fitness apps Meru Health builds diagnostics-driven psychiatry combining metabolic testing, wearables, nutrition, and therapy as antidepressants remain ineffective for 30-50% of patients Nourish raises $100M bringing total funding to $215M, scaling to 10K+ dietitians and 200M covered lives with AI-native metabolic care platform Today's episode is brought to you by AIIR — a modern communications and experiential agency for health, wellness, fitness, and performance brands. From earned media to events and creator-led campaigns, AIIR helps companies sharpen their story, earn attention, and build trust that compounds. Visit https://aiir.agency to learn more. More from Fitt: Fitt Insider breaks down the convergence of fitness, wellness, and healthcare — and what it means for business, culture, and capital. Subscribe to our newsletter → insider.fitt.co/subscribe Work with our recruiting firm → https://talent.fitt.co/ Follow us on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/fittinsider/ Follow us on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/fittinsider Reach out → insider@fitt.co

The Agents #005, Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? Welcome to The Agents, where SaaStr's CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin and Chief AI Officer, Amelia LeRutte share the latest each week on running a company with more agents than humans. It costs $257 a month to run two AI VPs. Jason and Amelia open the books on what 10K (AI VP of Marketing) and QB (AI VP of Customer Success) actually cost to operate, and the number shocked both of them. Most of the heavy lifting is API calls to Salesforce, Bizzabo, and Marketo, which are basically free. The Postgres storage costs pennies. And 95% of the AI calls run on OpenAI Mini at less than a penny each. The fully burdened cost with Clerk, 11 Labs, and Salesforce overhead might hit $500-800/month, but the soft cost of human time dwarfs all of it. Then 10K gets asked point blank: are you a VP of Marketing? Its answer is no, not yet. It says it replaced the bottom half of the marketing org, the analyst, the ops coordinator, the junior content marketer, and a sliver of the VP job. But it's honest about what it can't do: strategy, cross-functional politics, crisis response, hiring. Amelia points out that 10K's current job description is exactly what her job was when she started at SaaStr as Director of Demand Gen. It took her years to get to CAIO. 10K might get there faster.  And SaaStr is putting its money where its mouth is: they're hiring a human marketer whose primary manager would be 10K. Not a thought experiment, a real job posting. Would you take a job reporting to an AI? Then the safety question gets real. Amelia is talking to agents via WhisperFlow while walking around a 40-acre event site during SaaStr Annual load-in, and the production crew started asking her to relay their questions because 10K and QB answer in seconds with correct data. But when QB autonomously emailed 83 sponsors at 12:20am with fully customized check-in emails, Amelia admits she hesitated before letting it rip. Each email was unique to the sponsor, showing exactly what they still owed, their registration codes, and outstanding tasks. The result: fewer inbound questions the next day and more sponsors using the QB chatbot directly. That's an autonomous agent acting on behalf of your company in the middle of the night. Jason and Amelia also tackle the Postgres vs. Salesforce debate that listeners keep asking about. Short answer: not happening for them. Too much history, too many third-party agents optimized around Salesforce, and they're actually consolidating more tools onto the platform, not fewer. They killed Marketo and moved to Marketing Cloud. Plus they built a newsletter auto-builder that replaced a $4K/year tool called Bee. 10K uses Sonnet to force rank articles, builds the HTML, inserts ads, and sends it. Human on the loop, not in it.

Your donors don't need a goodie bag, a raffle prize, an auction item, a t-shirt, or a chicken dinner. If your fundraising strategy is built around giving them something in order to get something back, that's the give-get model, and it might be exactly what's slowing your organization down.In this episode, I'm breaking down the difference between a real SPRINT™ campaign and an old-school fundraising method wrapped in new language. I talk about why events, raffles, auctions, and 5Ks aren't inherently bad, but why building your entire fundraising strategy around them adds friction, drains people's power, and quietly signals that you don't trust the mission to be enough on its own. If you've ever said, "Why don't we just do a raffle?", this episode is for you.Topics:What a SPRINT™campaign actually is, and what it isn'tWhy wrapping an old-school fundraiser in SPRINT™ language doesn't make it a sprintHow events add friction for donors and where the money gets lost in the processThe give-get mentality and why donors don't need to be bribed to giveQuestions to ask before choosing your next campaign vehicleWhy defaulting to events usually means you don't yet trust the ask, and what to do insteadFor a full list of links and resources mentioned in this episode, click here.Bloomerang is the complete donor, volunteer, and fundraising management solution that helps thousands of nonprofits deliver a better giving experience and create sustainable, thriving organizations. Combining robust, easy-to-use technology with people-powered support and training, Bloomerang empowers nonprofits to work efficiently, improve supporter relationships, and grow their donor and volunteer bases. Learn more here.Resources:Easy Emails For Impact™: The $5K+ Fundraising Campaign SystemPurpose & Profit Club® Fundraising + Marketing Accelerator   The SPRINT Method™: Your shortcut to 10K fundraisers Instagram, LinkedIn, website , weekly newsletter  [FREE] The Brave Fundraiser's Guide: Stop getting ignored. Start raising more. May contain affiliate links

OpenAI debuted personal finance tools via Plaid for Pro users. AI startups generate ~$80B in annualized revenue, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89%. ArXiv cracks down on AI slop, Apple's Siri relaunch may still be a beta, and SF vibes are frenetic. OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more (TechCrunch) Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue (The Information) ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (404 Media) Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (Bloomberg) A college senior at Stanford describes how AI has changed classes: cheating using AI "has become omnipresent" with students "fudging just about everything" (NYT) SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth (X / @deedydas) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Geekin' on Walt Disney World Podcast, we're lacing up the running shoes, grabbing a beignet, and heading into a Disney trip that started with runDisney Springtime Surprise weekend — but quickly became about so much more than miles and medals. Curtis is joined by three Geekin' family favorites — Holly, Laura, and Heidi — for a fun, relaxed, and very Disney Geek-style trip report filled with race stories, resort time, lounges, surprise meetups, food talk, cruise talk, and one unforgettable green wig. Because when Holly shows up dressed as Disgust from Inside Out for a runDisney race, you know we're off to a good start. Planning Your Next Disney Adventure? If you're thinking about planning your next Disney vacation and some Epic Universe… My wife Margita and our good friend Auntie Judy are the Travelin' Tiaras — your trusted Disney travel planners. Whether you're booking Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, Universal, or beyond… They'll help you plan a smart, stress-free vacation from start to finish. Already booked? You can transfer your reservation to us and still get expert tips, strategy, and support — and it's a great way to support the show. TravelinTiaras@gmail.com Or reach out on Facebook Messenger. And right now… there are great opportunities for upcoming travel, so it's a perfect time to start planning. Featuring This Week This episode includes: Holly, Laura, and Heidi sharing their runDisney Springtime Surprise weekend A stay at Coronado Springs and a solo stay at Port Orleans French Quarter A 10-miler, a 10K, costumes, character stops, and race-day nerves Surprise Geek meetups with Samantha, Selena, Tori, Joe, and more Food and drink stops at Le Cellier, Nomad Lounge, GEO-82, Beak and Barrel, Homecoming, and Sangria University Flower and Garden Festival bites, beignets, maple popcorn, and more Thoughts on newer Disney experiences like the Zootopia show, updated Buzz Lightyear, and Beak and Barrel A bonus cruise recap aboard Royal Caribbean's Utopia of the Seas RunDisney, Beignets, and Green Hair The episode kicks off with Holly wearing the green wig she used for her Disgust costume during the Springtime Surprise 10-Miler — which pretty much sets the tone for the whole conversation. Holly shares that she went into the race under-trained because of a shoulder injury and made it all the way to mile nine before being swept. But what stands out is her perspective. She knew it might happen, she pushed as far as she could, and she still came away with pride, humor, and yes… the medal. Laura brings the solo-trip energy with a stay at Port Orleans French Quarter, where she enjoyed a slower pace, pool time, peaceful resort moments, and plenty of beignets. She also shares one of the funniest race moments: dressing as a bee for the Winnie the Pooh-themed 10K and trying to drink yellow Gatorade from a hard plastic honey bear bottle mid-race. That's runDisney dedication right there. Heidi took a more relaxed race approach — stopping for characters, enjoying the course, and making memories along the way. Her character stops included Nick and Judy from Zootopia, Boba Fett, Woody and Bo Peep, and Bing Bong. Some people chase personal records. Some people chase character photos. Both are absolutely valid. The Geekin' Family Shows Up One of the best parts of this episode is how the Geekin' family keeps popping into the trip. Holly and Corey meet up with Tori and Joe at Yeehaw Bob over at Port Orleans Riverside — and then get surprised when Samantha and Selena walk in. Later, Heidi gets her own surprise. And Laura talks about that feeling of traveling solo, making it through the expo chaos, and then suddenly seeing “her people” at Nomad Lounge. That's the heart of this episode. Yes, it's a trip report. But underneath the races, snacks, lounges, and Disney details is that bigger feeling we talk about all the time: Disney is better when you've found your people. Food, Lounges, and Disney Geek Favorites Of course, this wouldn't be a Geekin' trip report without food. Holly and Corey enjoyed Le Cellier, including cheddar cheese soup, pretzel bread, filet, and an ice wine flight. Laura sampled tanghulu at the China booth, maple popcorn in Canada, jambalaya at French Quarter, and the crème brûlée croissant at Gaston's. Heidi had several Flower and Garden Festival hits, including duck in France, Caribbean-style chicken, flan, and a fish slider. The lounge talk is strong in this one too. Nomad Lounge remains a Geek favorite for its cozy seating, small plates, drinks, and Animal Kingdom atmosphere. GEO-82 gets praise for cocktails and mushroom flatbread. And Beak and Barrel sparks a fun comparison to Oga's Cantina and Trader Sam's — lots to look at, some cool effects, and maybe one of those places that grows on you over time. New Disney Experiences and a Cruise Bonus The group also shares thoughts on a few newer Disney experiences. Heidi talks about the new Zootopia show at Animal Kingdom and whether it really fits the deeper theme of the park. Laura gives her take on the updated Buzz Lightyear, including the new removable blasters and the joy of feeling like a Space Ranger… even when the score says otherwise. And after the Disney portion of the trip, Holly, Corey, Heidi, and Missy headed out on Royal Caribbean's Utopia of the Seas for a four-night cruise — complete with big-ship entertainment, shows, skating, surfing, ziplining, and a water show set to '80s music. The Real Heart of the Episode The best part of this conversation is not just the race. It's not just the snacks. It's not just the lounges. It's the people. It's the surprise visits. It's the inside jokes. It's the ride photos. It's that feeling of seeing friends you may only get to see a few times a year — but when you do, it feels like a reunion. That's the Geekin' family. And that's why these trip reports always mean a little more than just “here's what we did.” They're stories about connection. Listen to Episode 668 Episode 668 of the Geekin' on Walt Disney World Podcast is available now wherever you listen to podcasts. Come for the runDisney stories. Stay for the beignets, lounges, Flower and Garden snacks, surprise Geek meetups, and one very committed green-haired Disgust costume. Support the Show on Patreon A huge thank you to our Patreon family. Your support helps keep the podcast going and helps cover the costs of producing the show each week. If you'd like to support the show and be part of the Patreon community, visit: patreon.com/GeekinOnWDW Thank you for listening, sharing, supporting, and being part of this wonderful Disney Geek family.The post What Really Makes a RunDisney Weekend Special? It's the People. Holly, Heidi and Laura – Ep. 668 first appeared on Geekin' On WDW Podcast.

If you've ever fantasized about packing up your life, leaving the US, and actually doing the damn thing — this episode is your sign. I'm sitting down with Alicia Sanchez, founder of Felicita & Faustina studio shop, marketing expert with 20+ years in the game (American Express, ESPN, Klaviyo — the girl's got credentials), and now a full-time entrepreneur living her best life in Southern Spain with her wife and six-year-old daughter. She bought a house. In cash. For under $70K. And she wants you to know it's more doable than you think.We get into the real — not the Instagram-filtered version. The financial planning, the digital nomad visa process, what attorneys actually cost (hint: not $10K), the tax reality, and why the thing that changed her life the most wasn't the house or the visa. It was watching her daughter have a childhood. This one's going to make you ask yourself: what's really keeping you?WE GET INTO: 00:38 — Intro: Alicia's back + why this episode exists03:07 — Who was Alicia before all of this?05:23 — What her Dominican grandmothers taught her about money09:03 — Why she said "hell no" to corporate10:35 — Build your business before you quit11:13 — Why corporate stability is a lie15:05 — Why Spain (she lived there before)17:11 — The decision: February 202518:23 — The timeline: pods, visa, house20:41 — Financial planning behind the move22:06 — Buying a house in cash under $70K24:50 — Digital nomad visa explained27:07 — Biggest misconceptions about Spain30:08 — What attorneys actually cost (not $10K)33:07 — Bringing family on your visa34:25 — Documentation you need to qualify36:22 — The tax reality40:50 — How their daughter's life transformed42:33 — What's really keeping you?KEY TAKEAWAYS:Don't wait to quit before you start building — start now, quietly, while you're still employedCorporate "stability" is a mask. You can be laid off tomorrow. Build income outside your W-2The digital nomad visa: apply in Spain (not the US) and get 3 years instead of 1You do NOT need to spend $10K to get your visa. The government fee is set. Be an educated consumerAs a Latino/a, after 2 years on the digital nomad visa, you can switch to permanent residency through your lineageFor the digital nomad visa, max 20% of your income can come from Spain — the rest must come from outside the countryClean, consistent bookkeeping and invoices are your best friend when applyingA 5-bedroom home in Southern Spain — bought in cash, under $70K. Eliminating a mortgage changes everythingSpain does a quarterly tax system. Know this before you goThe lifestyle shift is real. No active shooter drills. No metal detectors. Their daughter just went on a museum field tripYou are one decision away from a completely different lifeEPISODE RESOURCES:Episode 269: How To Be A Money Making Mama | Alicia Sanchez Unlock your Puerto Rican Citizenship Relocation & Immigration specialists in Andalucía – tell them YQD sent you!CONNECT WITH ALICIA:InstagramYouTube TAKE THE NEXT STEP:Yo Quiero Dinero Private MembershipRead my book, Financially Lit!Leave me a voicemailThis episode of Yo Quiero Dinero was produced by Heart Centered Podcasting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Overview Burnout is pushing executives to rethink their careers. But most make one critical mistake: they try to escape too fast. In this episode, Michael D. Levitt speaks with Matt Raad, digital investor and co-founder of eBusiness Institute, about how corporate professionals can transition into digital assets and online businesses without risking their income. This is not about quitting your job. It is about building a second engine of income and optionality. Why Burnout Is Driving the Shift to Digital Assets Burnout is no longer isolated. It is systemic. Key pattern: Mid to senior leaders in large organizations are experiencing sustained overload Pandemic-era changes accelerated fatigue and disengagement High earners are seeking control, not just income The result: Leaders are looking for exit options that do not create financial instability. The Core Strategy: Build Before You Exit Matt outlines a disciplined transition model: Maintain your corporate income Build a digital asset over 2 to 3 years Replace income gradually Exit only when the asset is stable This avoids: Financial pressure Poor decision-making Reactive career moves This is a structured transition, not an escape plan. What Is a Digital Asset Business? A digital asset is a business that can operate with minimal physical infrastructure. Examples: Content-based websites Online courses Affiliate and SEO-driven platforms Acquired online businesses Key characteristics: Scalable Transferable Lower operating costs Location independent This aligns directly with a leadership operating system: build systems that run without constant intervention. The Financial Advantage: Low-Cost Entry, High Leverage Traditional businesses require: Large capital investments Physical locations Staffing overhead Digital businesses: Can start under $10K to $20K Require fewer fixed costs Allow testing before scaling This reduces risk and increases strategic flexibility. The Critical Mistake: Skipping Foundations AI is accelerating business creation. But it is also creating a false sense of competence. Matt emphasizes: AI tools can build faster But they cannot replace business fundamentals Without understanding: Market demand Customer acquisition Conversion systems …AI amplifies bad strategy. AI as a Force Multiplier, Not a Shortcut Tools like CoWork are changing the game: Faster business setup Automated workflows Scalable content creation But the advantage goes to those who: Understand business models Apply AI strategically Build systems, not hacks AI reduces friction. It does not replace leadership. New Opportunity: Digital Advisors for Traditional Businesses One overlooked opportunity: Corporate professionals can become: Digital transformation advisors Online growth strategists AI integration consultants For: Brick-and-mortar businesses Local service providers Traditional industries This creates: Immediate income potential Skill development Entry into digital business ecosystems The Leadership Shift: From Operator to Asset Builder This conversation highlights a deeper shift: Traditional career path: Climb the ladder Increase compensation Increase dependency New model: Build assets Create optionality Reduce dependency This is not entrepreneurship for its own sake. It is control over time, income, and direction. Key Takeaways Do not quit your job to escape burnout Build a digital asset while maintaining income Focus on fundamentals before leveraging AI Use low-cost business models to test and learn Think like an asset builder, not just an employee Action Steps Assess your burnout level Is it role-based or system-based? Identify a digital asset model Content, course, acquisition, or advisory Allocate weekly build time Consistency over intensity Learn core business fundamentals Traffic, conversion, monetization Use AI to accelerate execution Not to replace thinking Guest Links Website: https://ebusinessinstitute.com.au Podcast: Digital Investors LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-raad/

What happens when two former party girls — both hairstylists, both moms, both done playing small — sit down and get real? You get this episode.Misty is joined by Kat, known as The Anti-Hairdresser, for one of those conversations that goes absolutely everywhere — and somehow lands exactly where it needs to. Kat is a UK-based color technician, educator, and social media coach for hairdresser moms who have been in the industry for 20+ years. She's also 16 months sober, neurodivergent, and completely done pretending to be anyone other than herself.In this episode, Misty and Kat talk about:Letting go of your party girl identity — and why it's harder than it soundsSobriety as a stylist and the mirror it holds up to the people around youBeing a neurodivergent mom in an industry that wasn't built for youRebuilding your clientele after it gets ripped away (and hitting 10K in a single month doing it)Why niching down doesn't mean limiting yourself — it means finally talking to YOUR personFiring clients, setting pricing boundaries, and why saying no is actually a superpowerThe connection between self-care, emotional regulation, and showing up better behind the chairGoing back to your inner child to figure out who you actually are This one gets raw, gets funny, and gets honest about what it really takes to build a life and a business you're proud of — without losing yourself in the process.hairstylist personal development podcast, salon owner burnout, beauty industry podcast for stylists, hairstylist business growth

MATRIARCH MASTERMIND IS OPENYou became a mother and your standard changed.The content you were willing to post before. The offers you would have launched. The version of yourself you were okay putting out into the world. You can't do it anymore. Not because you're tired. Because something in you raised the bar.And now you're trying to out-rep your way to results that require a completely different foundation.More content. More offers. More consistency. More volume. More showing up.And it's still not moving.Because more was never the answer. You're pouring into infrastructure that doesn't fit who you became after motherhood rearranged everything. Your edge is there. Your voice is there. Something just isn't translating yet.This episode is about what actually moves it.IN THIS EPISODE— Why your standard changing after motherhood isn't a block — it's the most important data point in your business right now— The trap of volume: why more content, more offers, and more reps is just more exhaustion when the foundation doesn't fit— What's actually missing — and why it's not strategy, consistency, or a better hook— The Influential Code: the truest, most compelling way your power wants to come through — and why when it's dialed in, everything converts differently— Why the infrastructure underneath your business needs to match the woman you actually are now — not the one you were beforeMore isn't it. Sharper is.

ClevelandMoto Podcast 551 Show Notes: Special Guest Myles Gauthier from MotoSmith Garage and Mike Stewart (Fireman Mike) from Virginia.  Last week we were all aboot Mexico and this week we're all aboot Canada. https://youtube.com/live/wrLU7oezjs8Harley is bringing back the 883 Sportster? For under 10K? Pardon me, but isn't the nightster already $9999 and technically VASTLY superior? https://www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle-news/harley-davidson-to-revive-883-sportster/Give yer balls a tug boys...this isn't what we want. KTM SuperDuke 1390 (aka The Beast) 190 HP in a street fighter? https://www.ktm.com/en-int/models/naked-bike/2026-ktm-1390-superdukerr.htmlThat's some solid ad copy right there. BRING BACK THE SV650, but make it taller, and more touring oriented, but don't exactly make a V-strom. And don't make it a parallel twin like you did with the V-strom. https://www.advrider.com/suzuki-announces-sv-7gx-crossover/DGR is this weekend. Are you ready?Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

If you want to scale your real estate or coaching business from $5 million to over $10 million, organic reach alone isn't going to cut it. In this special episode, Brent Daniels sits in the hot seat at a live Coaching Inc. event, interviewed by Storyteller Jet, to drop massive knowledge bombs on scaling through paid traffic and content creation.Plus, if you are stuck at $5K to $10K a month, Brent gives you the undeniable blueprint to hit six figures: get over your fear of other people's opinions, stop being selfish with your knowledge, and start livestreaming. If you want to leave a legacy of teaching and impact, this episode is your masterclass. Be a part of the TTP training program now.---------Show notes:(0:00) Beginning of today's episode(1:24) Brent's origin story and how Rich Dad Poor Dad inspired his entrepreneurial journey(2:20) Evolving from wholesaling and coaching to running a high-level Google Ads agency(4:29) Breaking down the "Alex Hormozi" content multiplication strategy(5:38) Why Meta rewards fresh creatives and why you need 30 to 40 new ads every month(7:03) Using a Video Sales Letter (VSL) to pre-qualify your inbound leads(9:25) How enforcing a minimum ad spend ($5,000/mo) protects your sales team(13:38) Biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when outsourcing their Google Ads to consultants(18:16) Stuck at $5K to $10K a month? Why you need to start livestreaming 10 hours a week(20:00) Overcoming the fear of judgment and accents to build a massive audience online(23:08) Using Zoom and a live Google Doc to control discovery calls(25:27) Why slowing down a prospect by taking live notes helps you gauge if they are a good fit(26:36) How Tom Kroll helps entrepreneurs find their true "why" and avoid burnout(29:51) Why overcoming your fear of judgment is the key to leaving a lasting legacy----------Resources:Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert KiyosakiAlex HormoziMyron GoldenTom KrollJoe McCallJeremy HaynesEcamm LiveStreamYardHubSpot@realbrentdaniels on InstagramTo speak with Brent or one of our other expert coaches call (281) 835-4201 or schedule your free discovery call here to learn about our mentorship programs and become part of the TribeGo to Wholesalingincgroup.com to become part of one of the fastest growing Facebook communities in the Wholesaling space. Get all of your burning Wholesaling questions answered, gain access to JV partnerships, and connect with other "success minded" Rhinos in the community.It's 100% free to join. The opportunities in this community  are endless, what are you waiting for?

Cody Berman reached financial freedom at 25 while spending just $24K a year. During that same stretch, his income doubled three years in a row from $96K to over $1M.In this episode, Cody breaks down the simple but powerful math behind his journey: 11 rental units producing $3,700/month in cash flow, a digital products business generating $10K/month, and $500K invested in the stock market by his mid-20s.We cover:Why margin matters more than what you invest inPercentage-based spending and why dollar amounts can be misleadingHow to get aligned with your spouse on financial freedomThe 4 types of side hustles and which ones actually scaleMonthly money meetings and annual life reviewsWhy increasing income beats obsessing over tax loopholesHow Cody unlearned the scarcity mindset after becoming financially freeCody also shares lessons from his new book, Retire by 30.Get the book: www.retireby30book.comCheck out our first episode together where we break down Cody's digital products business:https://youtu.be/1uJFGuGQ3Bc?si=I-fsVM1km3vYeT2eFollow Cody:Instagram: @CodyDBermanCurious as to how we've bought multiple businesses and built millions in equity? Give this video a watch for a full breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cviipnGtDWI&feature=youtu.beIf you are serious about building a life on your terms and want to surround yourself with people who are actually doing it, go to: https://actionacademy.com?el=action_academy_podcastIf you want to leave corporate America in the next 6-18 months - you should check out our Action Academy Community

Joseph Adams Jr. is a Marine Corps veteran who used to grind 10-hour shifts at Microsoft.Today -- after quitting the IT corporate world -- he's a full-time house flipper in Jacksonville, Florida, with six rehabs behind him, his biggest purchase yet under contract, and a $100K private money raise that closed in under 24 hours off a single text!In this episode, Joseph sits down with Adam Whitney to break down how he went from "I don't know anyone with money" to having lenders text back "how soon do you need it?" — all while building a business his own mom is now investing alongside.He covers:The very first deal that funded everything after it — a $10K family property he resold for $60K (and how he wholesaled it without realizing that's what he was doing)The two-contractor disaster that cost him $30K and four months on his second flip — and the exact moment he should have fired the first guy three weeks earlierAdam's "115% rule" for raising capital that most new flippers get wrong — and why it's the difference between $100K in the account on Monday and $15 on TuesdayThe mindset shift from doing tasks that save money to doing tasks that make money — and the hands-on jobs Joseph had to stop doing himself to actually growHis goal-reset moment: going from "20 deals this year" to "20 deals this summer" — and the three conversations he's having right now to make it happenHow to turn cash flow problems upside down.... and more!What changed for him was getting handed a real playbook for raising capital, plus walking into a room of operators who actually answer the phone when a deal needs a second set of eyes.That room is called 7F Runway. An action-oriented mastermind built for early-stage flippers who are tired of duct-taping deals together one at a time and ready to build a business that pays them consistently.See if it's a fit for where you are: https://www.7figureflipping.com/runwayIf you want to connect with Joseph, reach out to him on Facebook or click this link for Joseph's CalendlyLINKS & RESOURCES1,000 FREE Seller LeadsGet your first 1,000 seller leads FREE from our partner BatchLeads and start closing deals immediately. CLICK HERE: http://leads.getbatch.co/mztQkMr7 Figure Flipping UndergroundIf you want to learn how to make money flipping and wholesaling houses without risking your life savings or "working weekends" forever... this book is for YOU. It'll take you from "complete beginner" to closing your first deal or even your next 10 deals without the bumps and bruises most people pick up along the way. If you've never flipped a house before, you'll find step-by-step instructions on everything you need to know to get started. If you're already flipping or wholesaling houses, you'll find fast-track secrets that will cut years off your learning curve and let you streamline your operations, maximize profit, do MORE deals, and work LESS. CLICK HERE: https://hubs.ly/Q01ggDSh0 7 Figure RunwayFollow a proven 5-step formula to create consistent monthly income flipping and wholesaling houses, then turn your active income into passive cash flow and create a life of freedom. 7 Figure Runway is an intensive, nothing-held-back mentoring group for real estate investors who want to build a "scalable" business and start "stacking" assets to build long-term wealth. Get off-market deal sourcing strategies that work, plus 100% purchase and renovation financing through our built-in funding partners, a community of active investors who will support and encourage you, weekly accountability sessions to keep you on track, 1-on-1 coaching, and more. CLICK HERE: https://www.7figureflipping.com/runway Connect with us on Facebook and Instagram: @7figureflipping Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.