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SaaS Dads Season 3, Episode 3: He Died Twice, Then...

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2026/10/08

SaaS Dads is back with Dakota Routh, 4X SaaSPRENEUR Award Winner, the man behind Agency Support for HighLevel, and CEO of White Label Suite.But this episode starts somewhere very different from SaaS. In 2015, Dakota experienced a serious medical emergency after years of stomach problems. His gallbladder had ruptured, he later developed sepsis, and during the ordeal his heart stopped twice. His wife and children were there for part of that experience, and Dakota shares what it was like waking up

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64:37

SaaS Dads Season 3 Episode 2: From Failed Agency to...

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2026/10/01

Gary introduces Chase as one of HighLevel’s most senior people, and for good reason, Chase has been with HighLevel for almost seven years and has held multiple roles across customer success, content and education, sales and marketing, and product marketing.In this episode, Gary and Chase go back through that journey. Chase talks about starting out as a high school English teacher, moving into digital marketing, building an agency that ultimately failed, finding the right business partner, growing a

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61:53

SaaS Dads Is Back! Season 3, Episode 1: Surviving...

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2026/09/25

Season 3 of SaaS Dads starts with Bryce DeCora from CloseBot returning to the podcast with Gary Capps.Bryce was Gary’s first guest when SaaS Dads originally launched, and in this episode they revisit the conversation that helped inspire the podcast in the first place, what it is really like balancing life as a SaaS founder, a dad, and someone trying to keep building a business in a fast-changing market. Gary and Bryce talk openly about family, business, AI, customer support, SaaS growth, product

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45:10

SaaS Dads S2/E16: She Toured the World in a Flying...

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2026/06/25

Most people pick a lane.Molly Mahoney picked several and somehow made them all work. Professional musical theater performer. National tour of Chitty Bang Bang. Knitting and crocheting business. Camera confidence coach. Messenger bot expert. AI educator. Broadway producer. Oh, and mum to two boys aged 12 and 14 who between them have sold $1 drawings on Facebook Live, presented at business events in their backyard, and done a live stream with a SamCart co-founder to build a sales page at age 11.

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61:14

SaaS Dads S2/E15: The SaaS Opportunity Nobody Is...

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2026/06/19

Two SaaS dads walk into a conversation about AI, kids, school, personal brand and the future.Neither of them has any answers. And somehow that's the most valuable episode we've done all season. Danny Clarke is back for Season 2. Fresh from Costa Rica where they were both speaking at an event. Three kids aged 14, 12 and 10. A business he's built around finishing work at 2PM so he never misses a moment with his son on the football pitch. And a head full of questions about what the hell any of

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62:34

SaaS Dads S2/E14: He Quit Amazon to Build With His...

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2026/06/11

Most people dream about quitting their corporate job. Kunal actually did it.Senior software engineer at Amazon. Stable salary. Everything covered every month, and he walked away to build something with his wife Ruheene that most people told him was a risk not worth taking. His dad was the only one who said go, and now they're building Brandpod together, multiple SaaS products, a team, clients, and two kids aged eight and eleven who are already getting involved in the business in their own ways

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54:36

SaaS Dads S2/E13: FBI Raided His House, $10M NFL...

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2026/06/04

Most people have one rock bottom moment.Russ Ward had several. Got his girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Flew to Las Vegas and got married weeks later. Got kicked out of three colleges. Joined the Navy at 21 just to force himself into a job he couldn't quit. Then built a bootleg DVD empire from his basement that made him $2-3 million over 10 years. Then the FBI raided his house. The NFL sued him for $10 million. The IRS hit him with a $119,000 tax lien. His merchant accounts froze. His

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58:42

SaaS Dads S2/E12: He's Leaving Australia After 16...

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2026/05/28

Most people build a business to afford a better life.Vit built one so he could actually live it. 16 years in Australia. Australian citizen. Thriving SaaS agency. The HighLevel Experience podcast. A life that most people in the HighLevel community would look at and go… that's it. That's the dream. And he's walking away from all of it. Not because things went wrong. Because something more important finally got loud enough to listen to, family. His parents. His wife's parents. His five year old son

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45:39

SaaS Dads S2/E11: She Nearly Had a Heart Attack… Then...

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2026/05/21

In 2024 Jay-cee Tan nearly died.Not dramatically. Not suddenly. Just quietly burning out trying to hold everything together while her VA business was falling apart around her. 100 VAs. Down to 50. Down to 20. Then gone. Her doctor looked her in the eye and said if you don't stop you will drop dead. She had two little girls at home. A husband who believed in her. And absolutely nothing left in the tank. Most people would've stopped. Jay-cee got back up. She opened her laptop, started teaching

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65:58

SaaS Dads S2/E10: He Built a $100M Business… Then...

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2026/05/14

Most people build a business to make money.Leon built one to never be trapped again. 12 and a half years in the military working on F-18 fighter jets and explosive ordnance. Then 17 years growing a paintball business to nearly $100 million in revenue across 57 locations worldwide. Then COVID hit. A business partnership fell apart. And a payout he was owed never came. Everything he'd built with people he considered brothers.. gone. Most people would've taken a job. Played it safe. Licked their

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68:10

SaaS Dads S2/E09: He Got Scammed, Hit by COVID &...

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2026/05/07

Most people wouldn't start a business in a 26-foot RV.Joel did. Two young kids. A homeschooling wife. A dinette table for a desk. And a brand new VA business launching in the middle of it all. But here's the thing nobody talks about when they romanticize the laptop lifestyle. It's not always a beach or a cafe. Sometimes it's your wife hiding in the bedroom six feet away so she doesn't interrupt your Zoom call. Sometimes it's your kids tugging on your shoulder mid-pitch. Sometimes it's getting

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58:31

SaaS Dads S2/E08: He Worked 20 Hours a Day for 6...

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2026/04/30

Most people want the laptop lifestyle.Balint actually built it. Right now he's traveling across Europe with his wife and two and a half year old daughter. Vienna one week. Budapest the next. Working 4 hours a night while his family sleeps. Making $30K a month. With one VA. In 10 hours a week. But here's what nobody talks about. To get there he locked himself in a room for six months. Working 20 hours a day. His wife handled everything, the baby, the house, the nights, all of it. He missed the first

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45:08

SaaS Dads S2/E07: She Landed in Australia With $45,...

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2026/04/22

Imagine leaving everything you know.Your career. Your family. Your comfort. Priya packed up her life, with her husband and two little boys, and landed in Australia with $45 in her pocket and a one way ticket. No safety net. No family around. No plan B. She had a PhD. Three degrees. Nine years as a university lecturer back in India. And her first job in Australia was at a betting call center getting sworn at by Aussie punters all day. 😅 Most people would've gone back home. Priya kept

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55:30

SaaS Dads S2/E-06 : His Gym Closed in COVID, Wife...

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2026/04/16

Most people talk about pressure breaking them.Jackson Chen let it build him. COVID hit. His gym shut down overnight. Income gone. A baby on the way, three teenagers in private school in Sydney, a landlord demanding $20,000 in 30 days, and a wife who was pregnant and needed him present while he was quietly drowning. Most guys would've collapsed, or taken a job or both. Jackson did something different. He opened his laptop, figured out HighLevel from scratch, didn't even know what a webhook was and

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52:26

SaaS Dads S2/E - 05 : He Lost It All in COVID… Then...

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2026/04/08

Imagine spending 23 years building something and watching it disappear in months.That's exactly what happened to Kalvin Morris. A multi million pound recruitment business. Gone. Savings draining. Three daughters looking at you like you've got the answers… and you're not sure you do. Most people would've taken a job. Play it safe. Nobody would've blamed him. But here's the thing about being a dad, "safe" doesn't exist anymore once you've tasted building something of your own. You can't go back. You

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53:24

SaaS Dads S2/E - 04 : She Was a Teen Mom on Welfare,...

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2026/04/01

This episode hit me in ways I didn't expect.Sherist Rodriguez got pregnant at 18. Divorced with a 2 year old and a newborn by 21. No college degree. Grew up on welfare in a home full of trauma and abuse. Her kids spent their nights and weekends in a hospital doctor's lounge because she was working every hour she had just to keep them fed. She didn't know what a depression was until she was already deep in one. Years later the stress caught up and she had a full nervous breakdown. Then a traumatic

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52:18

SaaS Dads S2/E - 03 : We Got 900+ Clients Together,...

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2026/03/26

Real talk, working with your spouse sounds like a dream until you're fighting about business stuff at 11pm in bed with a laptop between you.Clay and Carly built Review Harvest together. 900+ clients. Real revenue. But nobody talks about the messy part. The awkward salary conversations. The moments where you can't tell if you're having a business meeting or a marriage argument. The fear of "what if this tanks and we lose everything?" This episode gets into all of it. In this episode you'll

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53:13

SaaS Dads S2/E - 02: He Built 3 Businesses, Almost...

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2026/03/19

This one's different 🔥Michael Reimer spent 30 years as a firefighter. He trained rescue teams around the world. He was at Ground Zero after 9/11. He built a company with 300 employees, while still working his day job. But he was gone 300 days a year. And it was eating his family alive. So he walked away from the money. Started over. Built a marine business working on mega yachts for celebrities. Then stumbled into High Level and AI four years ago and now he's built over 2,500 voice AI agents for

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62:39

SaaS Dads S2/E - 01: The Immigrant Kid Who Swore He'd...

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2026/03/11

This one got heavy real quick 😳Nuno moved to the US at five years old. Didn't meet his dad until that day. His mom didn't speak English. They ended up sleeping in a small Volkswagen in one of the most dangerous cities in America. His mom cried every night. Years later he swore he'd never become an entrepreneur because he watched his dad fail at business over and over again. So he went corporate. Worked his way up. Bank of America. Capital One. Three hour commute each way. Repaired cell phones in a

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SaaS Dads E/12-12: The Billion-Dollar Balance,...

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2025/11/12

You’re scaling your SaaS. Your inbox is a war zone. Your kid just wants five minutes.Sound familiar? 🎙️ This episode goes inside the mind of Shaun Clark, Co-Founder & CEO of HighLevel, the guy who built a billion-dollar rocketship and raised a son who’s cold-pitching businesses at 12. No sugarcoating. No hype. Just the brutally honest reality of what it takes to build something massive without burning down your family in the process. You’ll hear how Shaun balances scaling one of the

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