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Josh Zolin
🚨NEW Episode with @DavidMeltzer just dropped
David is one of the most respected voices in personal growth, leadership, and business. He’s a globally recognized speaker, author, entrepreneur, coach, and Chairman of the Napoleon Hill Institute.
In this short episode, we go deep on the invisible stuff that holds high performers back: the meaning you assign to your past, the difference between surrender and quitting, and the daily non-negotiables that create real results.
Key ideas we cover:
- Why the “meaning of the past” can cap your self-image
- The “Stop, Drop, Roll” framework for getting back into alignment
- Non-negotiable behaviors, and why consistency beats intensity
- The trap of “I’ll be happy when” and what to replace it with
- Why asking for help is the ultimate form of humility
Connect with David - @DavidMeltzer
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Build The Business Everyone Wants To Buy
If you are building a company and feel like growth is getting harder, this episode is a reset.
Adam Coffey is a veteran, former GE leader, and CEO who has built multiple companies for private equity, generating billions in exits. In this conversation, Adam breaks down the real CEO playbook: managing process not minutia, building leaders, setting a higher bar for growth, and how private equity actually works when it is done right.
We cover:
- The shift from operator to conductor
- Why great leaders schedule real thinking time
- When to replace an underperformer
- The rule of 72 and why 10% growth is not enough
- How private equity creates the market founders sell into
- Why your first exit is not the finish line
- The “death of the click” and how AI is reshaping lead generation
The full conversation with Adam is LIVE now
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🚨Episode 6 live NOW! Everything They Don't Tell You with guest Philip Atkinson. This was a wildly fascinating conversation. Check it out below.
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start today. not “someday.”
🚨 Episode 5 of Everything They Don't Tell You with guest Al Levi is out now
Al is a retired contractor, educator, author, speaker, and system-building expert known as “The 7-Power Contractor.” After helping run and grow his family contracting business, Al retired at age 48 and committed to helping other contractors scale with less stress and more success.
In the episode:
- Momentum beats perfection.
- Systems > slogans: document, train, repeat.
- Seven powers: planning, ops, staffing, sales, sales coaching, marketing, finance.
- People need the why before the what.
- Funnel your ideas to a focused top five.
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🚨NEW episode with Rob Connelly of Henny Penny - https://youtu.be/IeLwey9FSRA
He gave the company to the employees. Rob Connelly turned Henny Penny into an employee-owned company. In the latest episode, I sit down with Rob to break down his companies ESOP, why it changes behavior on the floor, and how long-view leadership with real accountability actually works.
like, subscribe, comment. it helps more than you think. 🙏
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Episode 2 of "Everything They Don't Tell You" is live with Mitchell Osmond (Dad Nation). We talk presence, the Preparation Pause, and why the lowest heart rate in the room wins. Watch here → https://youtu.be/aaik2PuuhEY
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