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DecaMillionaire Decoded
by cawq
No fluff. No theory. Just real conversations with real business owners doing real numbers. Hosted by entrepreneur and exit strategist Justin Goodbread, DecaMillionaire Decoded helps service-based business owners scale past $10 million in enterprise value. Each episode delivers hard-earned strategies, honest insights, and tactical advice from those who have built, scaled, and exited companies at a high level — and from experts who coach them. Through direct interviews and expert breakdowns, Justin walks listeners through the Relentless Framework: Foundation, Examination, Execution, Exit, and Freedom. Whether you're already generating 6- to 7-figures or building toward your own 8-figure breakthrough, DecaMillionaire Decoded will help you turn chaos into clarity—and frustration into freedom. New episodes drop every Monday and Thursday. Subscribe now and start scaling with clarity and confidence. While all the insights shared are for educational purposes, remember to seek advice fro
Episodes
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Hard Work, Guesswork, or Framework: How to Take Your Practice from $1M to $3M
In this episode of Decamillionaire Decoded, Justin addresses why so many financial advisors who break through the $1M revenue mark get stuck and struggle to reach $3M . Moving away from the exhausting cycle of "hard work and guesswork" or fragmented DIY methods, Justin explains why true scale...
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Building an Entity with an Identity: Bridging the Execution Gap, with Renee Russo
In this episode of Decamillionaire Decoded, Justin sits down with award-winning exit planner Renee Russo to discuss how to build a business with its own unique identity . Renee shares her personal entrepreneurial journey and breaks down how founders can bridge the "execution gap" between where…
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How I Make My Clients Rich Against Their Will
In this episode of Decamillionaire Decoded, Justin exposes why the vast majority of financial advisors never cross $1M in revenue and explains how he helps his coaching clients build wealth systematically. Moving past the "sandcastle effect" - where revenue fluctuates and growth relies merely on...
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3 Financial Advisor Business Models
In this episode of Decamillionaire Decoded, Justin challenges the industry myth that financial advisors must choose between high income, calendar freedom, or enterprise value . Drawing from his personal journey - from building a lifestyle practice to launching an RIA from scratch and pursuing a…
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Fortune Favors the Bold: From a $500 Launch to a Multi-Million Dollar Exit, with Mitch Skyar
In this episode of Decamillionaire Decoded, host Justin Goodbread sits down with Mitch Skyer, a seasoned entrepreneur and Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA). Mitch shares his journey from co-founding a transit technology company with just $500 to navigating a multi-million dollar acquisition...
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Enemies of the DecaMillionaire
In this episode of Decamillionaire Decoded, Justin explores the mental and operational traps that prevent financial advisors from scaling their practice past $10 million in enterprise value. Drawing from a vivid personal experience in a pitch-black West Virginia coal mine and timeless principles...
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How Financial Advisors Can Run a Discovery Meeting That Closes Itself
In this episode Justin reveals how financial advisors can stop endlessly chasing prospects and engineer a "discovery meeting" process that converts up to 80% of leads without relying on owner charisma or decades of experience. He breaks down why the traditional model of relying strictly on...
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Secrets of the Top 1% of Financial Advisors
In this episode of Decamillionaire Decoded, host Justin Goodbread reveals how the top 1% of financial advisors and business leaders break away from the remaining 99% by operating from an "inner world" of vision, identity, and aligned values rather than reacting to external market conditions. He...
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How to Build a Personal Brand as a Financial Advisor
In this episode of Decamillionaire Decoded, Justin addresses the critical missing link holding financial advisors back from reaching $10M+ enterprise value: personal branding. Moving beyond credentials, marketing, and analytical checklists, Justin explains why true scale requires advisors to drop...
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The Top 1% of Financial Advisors
In this episode of the Decamillionaire Decoded Podcast, host Justin reveals the "dirty little secret" behind the top 1% performers and decamillionaires: a willingness to fail fast and fail often. He breaks down the brutal math of success, explaining why high achievers must embrace high output and...
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The Midas Touch Part 8: Guarding Your Thoughts for Maximum Impact
In this episode Justin reveals why most business owners struggle to prosper: a lack of disciplined thinking. Drawing on foundational scriptures, Justin explains how your thoughts hold an inevitable trajectory toward either abundance or lack. Learn how to audit your thought life, dismantle…
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The Ultimate Attraction Tool For Financial Advisors
Most financial advisors rely on easy LinkedIn posts or family Facebook comments, missing out on YouTube - the ultimate client attraction tool. In this episode Justin explains why YouTube is uniquely built to make your long-form content binge-worthy and evergreen, keeping your dream clients…
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$10,000,000 happens when you "Go Pro"
In this episode Justin addresses why 80% of financial advisors remain stuck in mediocrity - never breaking $1 million in revenue - and reveals the single decision required to "go pro." Drawing on pivotal advice from industry legend Rick Edelman, Justin contrasts amateur practice habits with...
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How to Get Clients From YouTube Without Going Viral
Many financial advisors view YouTube as stressful and time-consuming, but with just a few hours a week, it can unlock millions in revenue and enterprise value. In this episode, Justin reveals his step-by-step YouTube framework designed to turn casual viewers into ideal clients. Learn how to ditch...
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YOU DON'T NEED TO GO VIRAL: How Financial Advisors Build Eight-Figure Practices With the Right Audience, Not the Biggest One
Stop chasing viral trends and algorithm hacks. In this episode Justin reveals why standard YouTube advice fails financial advisors and explains how to build a high-converting channel tailored for true practice growth. Drawing from his journey scaling and exiting an eight-figure RIA, Justin breaks...
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The Leverage Grid: Escaping the Back Office to Scale Your Practice
Are you drowning in your back office ? Most financial advisors stall not from a lack of marketing, but because they spend 70% of their week trapped in non-revenue-generating administrative weeds . In this episode, Justin introduces the Leverage Grid and the game-changing One-Touch Protocol…
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Profiling Your Way To Freedom
In this episode of the Decamillionaire Decoded Podcast, Justin tackles the scaling bottleneck plaguing financial advisors making under $3 million in revenue . To break out of the daily grind and achieve true freedom, Goodbread introduces a framework mapping the eight core areas of business onto…
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Scaling from Scratch to a Multi-Million Dollar Machine, with Kyle Kuyat and Jacob Gardner
In this episode of The Decamillionaire Decoded Podcast, host Justin Goodbread sits down with Kyle Kuyat and Jacob Gardner to discuss breaking through the "advisory doldrums" where 80% of financial advisors stall. After executing a hard reset of their independent RIA, Kyle and Jake scaled their...
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Momentum Over Accountability
Most financial advisors are trained to believe they need accountability partners, deadlines, and standard check-ins to hit their goals . In this episode Justin argues that the exact opposite is true: traditional accountability is what keeps advisors stagnant . While average advisors search for an...
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The Midas Touch Part 7: The 3 Habit Traps That Will Destroy Your Business
While most business advice focuses heavily on what you should do, true success also hinges on what you must refuse . In this episdoe, Justin states a harsh biblical reality: God will not bless what He has already cursed . When business owners fall into certain behavior patterns, spiritual and...
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Delegate Your Way to Freedom
Many financial advisors successfully build a practice only to realize they have created their own prison. Sitting at the epicenter of everything - handling scheduling, emails, employees, frustrated clients, and compliance - means the business has ultimately just become a demanding job. To achieve...
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The Secret Element of a Presold Client Meeting
Most financial advisors walk into a prospect meeting relying on their presentation, credentials, and charisma to close the deal . If you are counting on the sales meeting itself to secure a new client, you have already lost . The prospect meeting is not where the sale happens; it is where the…
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Consistency Over Perfection: A Blueprint for DecaMillionaire Marketing
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread tackles the common myths keeping financial advisors from growing their practices, revealing how his coaching business achieved massive scale in just one year . Justin breaks down the exact marketing framework that…
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The Monster in the Mirror: Balancing Eight-Figure Success with a Healthy Home, with Larry Hagner
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread welcomes Larry Hagner, founder of The Dad Edge, for a raw and hard-hitting conversation about the personal cost of professional success. The episode centers on a profound realization Larry had 12 years ago: he had…
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Stop Catching Mudfish: How to Build a Hyper-Targeted Advisory Practice
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread breaks down a major misconception in the financial services industry: the idea that word-of-mouth referrals and general networking are sustainable growth strategies. Justin argues that depending solely on referrals is a...
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The 5 Lies Keeping Advisors Stuck
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread tackles the fundamental roadblocks keeping financial advisors from reaching major revenue milestones. He argues that reaching a million dollars in revenue isn't about working harder or being smarter; rather, it requires...
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The Midas Touch Part 6: Why Withholding Resources Leads to Business Poverty
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread shares another powerful "God's success secret" centered around the contrasting principles of stinginess and generosity. Addressing Christian business owners, he challenges conventional social media advice and provides a...
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The 97 Page Advantage - Why most Marketing Agencies are a waste of money for Financial Advisors.
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread tackles a major statistical contradiction in the financial services industry: while the vast majority of advisors claim to specialize in high-net-worth clients, very few actually narrow their focus enough to achieve…
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The Nine Elements: Handing Over the Keys to Your Business Engine
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread explains how lack of standardized processes can cost a business millions of dollars. To prevent time waste and inefficiency, Justin introduces a proprietary "nine-element framework" designed to serve as an operating...
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Top Gun Leadership: Lessons from the Cockpit to the C-Suite, with Matthew "Whiz" Buckley
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread sits down with Matthew "Whiz" Buckley, a former Top Gun fighter pilot and entrepreneur . The conversation explores the intersection of elite military training, high-stakes leadership, and the psychological hurdles of...
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STOP CHASING CLIENTS - How to Have Clients Line Up at Your Door
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread addresses the common struggle of the boring financial advisor and the trap of "commission breath". To reach the $10 million enterprise value mark, advisors must decentralize themselves from the business and move beyond...
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Lessons from a DecaMillionaire Buyback: From Kitchen Table to Global Retail and Back Again, with Jodi Scott
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread sits down with Jodi Scott, the founder of Green Goo, to discuss her extraordinary journey from brewing herbal remedies in her kitchen to building a global first-aid brand, losing it all in a corporate collapse, and...
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100 to 10 Million: The Math Behind Your DecaMillionaire Valuation
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread dismantles the myth that business growth requires broad appeal and massive client volume . Instead, he argues that reaching a $10 million enterprise valuation is possible with just 100 ideal clients - provided the...
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The Midas Touch Part 5: The Work Ethic Christians Talk About But Rarely Do
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread delivers a direct and challenging message to Christian business owners regarding work ethic. He argues that while many entrepreneurs claim to value hard work, they often fall into laziness and chaos, preventing them…
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I Interviewed One of My Employees
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread and his long-time colleague Raquel dive into the emotional and practical hurdles of transitioning from a controlling founder to a leader who empowers a team to run the firm. The conversation is a vulnerable look at what...
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Why You'll Never Scale a Business While Failing at Home, with Jesse Carstairs
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread welcomes Jesse Carstairs to discuss a truth that many high-achieving entrepreneurs ignore: true business success is impossible without success at home. The episode shifts the focus from balance sheets to the "home…
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What Do You Want? Designing Your Life-Giving Business
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread addresses the sobering reality of the financial services industry: 90% of advisors fail within their first three years, and of those who survive, 80% get stuck in the "no-man's land" between $360,000 and $1 million in...
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How to Own Your Industry and Scale to $100M, with Richard Wilson
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread interviews Richard Wilson, the founder of the Family Office Club, the world's largest investor club. Drawing from his experience working with over 7,500 centimillionaires (those with $100M+ net worth) and billionaires,...
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The Art of Converting Clients With or Without Human Interaction
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, Justin Goodbread addresses the "epicenter" problem - the common trap where a financial advisor is the sole driver of their firm's sales and operations. He outlines a strategic framework for building a convert phase that allows a business to...
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Back to the Playbook: Raise Prices Without Losing Customers
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread takes a nostalgic yet highly practical trip down memory lane. Using the metaphor of the "DeLorean" from Back to the Future, Justin revisits core financial principles he taught years ago on his original show, Financially...
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The Midas Touch, Part 4: The Firstfruits Framework for Eight-Figure Success
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread delivers a provocative message to Christian business owners: your money problems are rarely financial - they are almost always spiritual. He argues that issues like poor cash flow, thin margins, and a lack of clients…
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The Fee Mistake That Breaks Growing Advisory Firms
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, Justin dives into a critical but often avoided topic: fee structures. He argues that many financial advisors are sitting on tens of thousands of dollars in untapped revenue because they are operating with fee models they inherited or were…
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The Secret to Radically Scaling Your Financial Advisor Practice
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, Justin addresses a common frustration for financial advisors: knowing exactly what to do to grow, yet resisting the very actions that lead to a breakthrough. He shares the personal secret that allowed him to scale his own RIA to an...
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How FAs Take a Real Vacation Without Your Inbox Hijiacking Your Life
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, Justin Goodbread addresses a silent killer of both business growth and personal relationships: the Email Trap. He challenges financial advisors and business owners to stop being "glorified administrative assistants" to their own inboxes and...
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The DecaMillionaire VSL Framework: Why Most Advisors Stay Stuck at $1 Million
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread breaks down the exact framework he used to take a startup Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) from inception to an eight-figure valuation in just 49 months. He challenges financial advisors to move past mediocrity and...
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The Website Grader: Using AI to Solve Your Client Conversion Problems
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, Justin delivers a wake-up call to financial advisors and business owners who are still using outdated marketing strategies. 80% of financial advisors struggle to break the $1 million revenue mark - this is usually because the owner is still...
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Midas Touch, Part 3: Why Your Business Growth is Tied to Your Integrity
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread discusses a simple yet often overlooked "success secret": the power of radical obedience to God's word in business . He argues that many Christian business owners struggle with scarcity, worry, or stagnation because…
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Why Smart Advisors Never Break $1 Million
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread addresses financial advisors and business owners who feel stuck at a revenue plateau . He delivers a counterintuitive message: the very thirst for knowledge and credentials that helped build their initial success is now...
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Character Over Content: Why Integrity is the New Business Currency for 2026, with Dan Romer
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, host Justin Goodbread is joined by Dan Romer, a multifaceted leader who serves as a pastor, business owner, husband, and father of seven. They discuss how a leader's internal character and spiritual alignment are the true drivers of external...
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The Real Reason Successful Business Owners Are Stuck
In this episode of the DecaMillionaire Decoded podcast, Justin explores the common experience of feeling stuck in business growth . He argues that when entrepreneurs hit a plateau, it is rarely due to a lack of talent or strategy; rather, it typically stems from internal misalignment or personal...
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No fluff. No theory. Just real conversations with real business owners doing real numbers. Hosted by entrepreneur and exit strategist Justin Goodbread, DecaMillionaire Decoded helps service-based business owners scale past $10 million in enterprise value. Each episode delivers hard-earned strategies, honest insights, and tactical advice from those who have built, scaled, and exited companies at a high level — and from experts who coach them. Through direct interviews and expert breakdowns, Justin walks listeners through the Relentless Framework: Foundation, Examination, Execution, Exit, and Freedom. Whether you're already generating 6- to 7-figures or building toward your own 8-figure breakthrough, DecaMillionaire Decoded will help you turn chaos into clarity—and frustration into freedom. New episodes drop every Monday and Thursday. Subscribe now and start scaling with clarity and confidence. While all the insights shared are for educational purposes, remember to seek advice fro
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