Max Amini is a very funny guy. He's sold out Madison Square Garden and is one of the most-viewed comedians on social media. But when he started out in stand-up, no agent or manager wanted to sign him, so he built his own touring machine from scratch. In this episode, he tells Dan how he thinks about comedy, and how he built the team that takes him around the world and sells out theaters.Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:03 Max's childhood and his dad's funny bone 2:45 Choosing UCLA over auditioning in New

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio,Apple Podcasts,Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio,Apple Podcasts,Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time

Welcome back to Lending Leadership, your go-to source for growth, leadership, and connection in the mortgage industry.In today’s episode, we dive deep into the art and science of building trust both in business and beyond. We’re thrilled to have R. Scott Armstrong, author of the forthcoming book From Asshole to Ally, join us for a rich, no-holds-barred conversation about how the smartest professionals can sometimes undermine their own success by prioritizing answers over curiosity.Scott draws on his

Spencer Matthews has changed since his Made In Chelsea Days.He was a terrible employee. Hotels, nightclubs, bars, a stint as a forward foreign exchange broker in the City. None of it stuck. Then he got sober, found nothing worth drinking between a gin and tonic and a sparkling water, and built CleanCo to fill the gap. Today he runs CleanCo and the Untapped podcast, is a three-time world record holder, and has run 30 marathons in 30 days and seven Ironmans on seven continents in 21 days. He is

Building something bigger for your life is hard enough. It gets even harder when the people closest to you question your decisions, doubt your plans, or want you to stick with what's safe. That tension between chasing your goals and keeping the approval of the people you love can leave you feeling pulled in two directions.In today’s Q&A Wednesday episode, Omar and Nicole tackle a question sent in by Conor, who wants to know how to build a business when family members aren't supportive. Through

Want to charge higher fees, secure upfront marketing payments and make price and offer negotiations easier? In this episode, I break down price anchoring — a simple psychological principle that can completely change how homeowners and buyers perceive a number. We look at how to use anchoring when discussing your estate agency fee, presenting marketing packages, negotiating offers and having price reduction conversations. The important lesson is that people rarely judge a number in isolation. ...

OK, OK, you know I hate click bait. But Jeff Goldblum really did help Eli land his first clients—for piano lessons.Wait, what?! On this episode of the Build Your Copywriting Business podcast, Eli generously shared how he started copywriting before he even knew it was a career (that's where Jeff Goldblum comes in) and how he's using humor (definitely check out his LinkedIn!) to land clients. The takeaway? Leave "playing it safe" for the generic AI copywriting. If you want to stand out, and

For the first five to six years of his first recruiting business, Mike Kelly did everything himself. Cold calls, interviews, client meetings, even payroll. He began handing off the work when he asked himself: what's the highest and best use of my time?Mike is the Founder and CEO of Conexus Advisors and has grown and exited three professional services businesses. In this conversation, he shares how Conexus reached $65M in revenue, with 50 internal team members and 230 consultants working on client

Access your Executive Meeting Visibility Guide.What to Say When You’re Challenged in an Executive MeetingYou prepare for weeks, present your recommendation, and then an executive asks the one question you did not anticipate. Within seconds, you are speaking faster, adding disclaimers, and retreating from the very recommendation you came to defend.An unexpected question is not proof that you were unprepared. Senior leaders ask questions to test risk, evaluate thinking, and participate in decisions

When I was 13 years old, a single story changed the course of my life.But to understand it, I need to take you back in time to a strange experiment from decades ago.Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga was studying patients who had their corpus callosum surgically severed. His experiments led him to hypothesize that the left hemisphere has a specialized system he called The Interpreter, whose responsibility is to find clear cause and effect.Its job is simple: To take scattered, seemingly random

This week, Morgan, Michael and The Podfather break down the book Good to Great by Jim Collins. Inside are lessons that have shaped how we've built Oakwyn from the ground up. We unpack Level 5 leadership, finding the right people, and staying focused on your “Hedgehog". Learn why small, consistent actions create lasting momentum. Listen in and go from good, to great!

What can Cloudflare do for you? While at KCDC in Kansas City, Richard chatted with Bob Fornal about how his organization uses Cloudflare - not just for content delivery or DDoS protection, but also edge compute - and more! Bob talks about moving workloads between the client and server, where Cloudflare Workers can run some code and save time while staying secure. This leads to a broader conversation about introducing these tools to your organization - it's not likely something web developers will

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Last updated: 2026-09-17 What’s the one app in your stack that, if it died tomorrow, would take thousands of notes with it? I treat that as a business risk. Relying on a single, aging platform is the kind of dependency that looks fine until management changes and features stagnate. Evernote is the example. The usual […]

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Gary Janzen is a dedicated Christian minister and missions leader with more than four decades of experience in pastoral ministry, youth leadership, international missions, and non-profit leadership.From serving as a youth pastor and associate pastor to leading humanitarian work in Rwanda, Gary now oversees missionaries in about 50 countries as Executive Director of International Christian Mission Services.In this inspiring conversation, Gary shares:• Growing up in a construction family and the

Michael Grayson is a nurse, cancer survivor, and author of Blaze of Resurrection. His story is one of deep resilience, recovery, and finding meaning through some of life’s hardest seasons.Growing up surrounded by addiction and loss, Michael later battled a gambling addiction, built a career in nursing, and endured the heartbreaking loss of both of his parents to cancer. Then he himself was diagnosed with a rare form of esophageal cancer.Through surgery, grief, trauma, and recovery, Michael