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The Status Quo Is Your Biggest Competitor — Jorge Chavez on Selling Without Selling
Topaz Sales Consulting’s Jorge Chavez on why the status quo is every seller’s real competitor, why you don’t have to ask for the order, empathetic listening, and closing the gap between sales and marketing.
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Design Your Life on Purpose — Ameera Virani on Habits, Visibility & Wealth
Life-design coach Ameera Virani of The Designed Life on why designing your life is a responsibility, the internal thermostat that pulls founders back, work-life harmony over balance, the time audit, and the fear of being fully seen.
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Julika Novkova on the Human Side of Small Business
Business psychologist Julika Novkova on why rigidity blocks creativity, the freeze response in business, authenticity as alignment, and why ‘without action, business is just having a good idea.’
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George Rivera on Building a Business You Can Step Away From
Founder Dad Tables creator George Rivera on the deathbed sentence that changed everything, why founder dads have a dependency problem (not a time problem), and the playbook that cut his week to 30 hours.
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Jared Harman on Running a Full-Service Agency in the AI Era
One Group Agency founder Jared Harman on where AI actually adds value, why human connection is the differentiator, and the messy truth that marketing has no pricing standards.
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Txldian The Destroyer on the Smoke and Mirrors of the Music Business
Independent artist Txldian The Destroyer on leaving a Sony deal to go fully independent, treating music as a business, AI in creative work, and why ‘the real always rises to the top.’
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Brad Poulos on Building a Business That Runs Without You
Entrepreneurship educator Brad Poulos on lean startups, delegating outcomes instead of tasks, funding paths beyond VC, and the ‘Barbados test’ for whether you own a business or just your job.
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Matt Tyner on Why Marketing Makes the Promise and Operations Keeps It
Bone Dry Roofing CMO Matt Tyner on the only constant in 15 years of marketing, why home services over-rotated to digital, and a week-one action list to start building trust in your market.
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Cecily North on Building a Travel Agency — and Why AI Can’t Replace a Human Agent
Traveling North Agency founder Cecily North on the question that launched her business, why friends and family make the worst first clients, and the one thing ChatGPT can’t do when your trip falls apart.
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Can Doing Good Be Good Business? 4 Founders Answer
Four founders — Luke Mickelson of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, Bruce Ashford of The Ashford Agency, Matt Tyner of Bone Dry Roofing, and accessibility consultant Rebecca Prejean — on whether doing good is actually good business.