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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast

by Hala Taha | Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing | YAP Media Network

YAP is the must-listen podcast for driven entrepreneurs and high achievers who are hardcore about business, personal growth, and achieving their potential. Hosted by Hala Taha, self-made entrepreneur and CEO of YAP Media, this #1 entrepreneurship podcast features mini-masterclasses with business icons and industry legends like GaryVee, Alex Hormozi, Mel Robbins, Reid Hoffman, Kevin O’Leary, and Codie Sanchez who help you profit in all aspects of life—from boosting sales and beating algorithms to biohacking and productivity. Whether you’re launching a startup, scaling your business, running a side hustle, or upgrading your mindset, every YAP episode delivers actionable advice that WILL help you profit. Listen, Learn, and Profit with the Young and Profiting (YAP) podcast! For ad inquiries, please reach out to: Network+[email protected]

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  1. From $75 to a $1.2B Public Company: How Payam Zamani Built His Business Empire | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E10

    After taking his business public at a $1.2 billion valuation, Payam Zamani learned that chasing rapid growth can weaken a company when profitability gets ignored. That lesson shaped his holding company, One Planet, which he built around profit, discipline, and purpose. Today, One Planet owns,...

  2. GaryVee: Leverage AI in Business Now, Before Your Competition Outflanks You | Artificial Intelligence | E416

    AI is reshaping business fast, but GaryVee believes true adoption will happen more slowly than most people expect because he has seen this pattern before. He pushed e-commerce in 1996 and personal branding in 2008, only to watch both take years to become mainstream. Now, he sees the same…

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  3. Ben Nemtin: Stop Waiting for Motivation and Start Checking Off Your Bucket List Today | Mental Health | YAPClassic

    Ben Nemtin’s mental health unraveled under the pressure to succeed in school and rugby, until anxiety and depression left him unable to function. His recovery started with one choice: surround himself with people who inspired him. That mindset shift led Ben and three friends to create The Buried...

  4. Close the Cybersecurity Backdoors Hackers Use to Target Your Business | Entrepreneurship | Abed Hamdan | Presented by Bitdefender

    Entrepreneurs often assume hackers only target big companies, but small businesses can be easier targets than they realize. A weak password, compromised vendor, or poorly managed access point can expose customer data, disrupt revenue, and damage trust. In this episode, presented by Bitdefender,...

  5. Dr. Will Cole: Fix Your Cellular Health to Reclaim Energy, Slow Aging, and Perform at Your Best| Health & Wellness | E415

    Despite living a health-conscious lifestyle, Dr. Will Cole found his body overwhelmed by grief after his father's sudden death and burnout from years of running a clinic, writing books, and hosting a podcast. This constant stress and loss revealed how little resilience his body had left and…

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  6. Lewis Howes: Break Free From Fear, Shift Your Mindset, and Stop Sabotaging Success | Mental Health | YAPClassic

    Lewis Howes embarked on a self-healing journey and completely shifted his mindset after realizing that childhood trauma, fear of judgment, and the need to prove people wrong were fueling his success but leaving him emotionally exhausted. Even after building a successful business and podcast,...

  7. Jim Kwik: How to Protect Your Brain Health, Memory, and Focus in the Age of AI | Mental Health | E414

    Jim Kwik’s brain health challenges began at age five, after a childhood injury left him struggling to read, learn, and remember. Once labeled “the boy with the broken brain,” he spent years discovering how memory, focus, and learning can be trained. Now, AI, smartphones, and constant distraction...

  8. Jean Chatzky: Women Are Getting Richer. Here’s What It Means for Money and Business | Finance | YAPClassic

    Determined to fix her messy personal finances, Jean Chatzky built a career from journalism to investing on Wall Street and back to financial media, learning how money works. Along the way, she saw a major economic shift taking shape as women began earning, inheriting, and controlling more wealth....

  9. John Paul DeJoria: The Business Mindset That Turns Setbacks Into Billion-Dollar Success | Entrepreneurship | Lost Files

    John Paul DeJoria launched his startup, Paul Mitchell, with just $700 after his investor pulled out, leaving him to convince skeptical suppliers, distributors, and clients to trust an unproven brand. Raised in poverty and hardened by years of door-to-door sales, he had already learned to expect...

  10. Anthony O'Neal: Tired of Living Paycheck to Paycheck? Break the Money Habits Blocking Your Financial Freedom | Finance | E413

    Financial freedom felt out of reach for Anthony O’Neal at 19, when he was homeless and $35,000 in debt after spending money he didn’t have to look successful. Years later, he was earning six figures but lost his job with only $400 to his name, proving that even high earners can be broke if they...

  11. Rick Hanson: The Neuroscience of Happiness and How Mindfulness Improves Brain Health | Mental Health | YAPClassic

    Dr. Rick Hanson proves the power of positive neuroplasticity in his own journey from a teenager with an anxious mindset and deep unhappiness to an expert on positive brain change and resilience. Wanting to understand why people suffer needlessly led him to study psychology, neuroscience, and...

  12. This Ex-Doctor Turned Career Regret Into a $2M Business Helping Healthcare Workers Pivot | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E9

    Before Rami Wehbi pivoted into entrepreneurship, he was stuck in a medical career he no longer wanted and $400,000 in student debt. After leaving residency, he gave himself three years to build a new path. In that time, he founded MatchDay Health, a business helping healthcare professionals pivot...

  13. Dave Asprey: Biohacking Secrets to Eliminate the Energy Drains Sabotaging Your Success | Mental Health | E412

    Dave Asprey's health was collapsing by the time he reached Silicon Valley. After hitting 300 pounds in college, he battled chronic fatigue, brain fog, arthritis, and pain, often forcing himself through work when he could barely think. He has since spent around $2.5 million to restore his wellness...

  14. Kipp Bodnar: The Unfair Digital Marketing Advantage That Drives Faster Business Growth | Marketing | YAPClassic

    Kipp Bodnar built his marketing career by spotting opportunities others missed. That instinct helped him rise to Chief Marketing Officer at HubSpot in just five years and grow HubSpot’s blog from 200,000 to 1.5 million monthly readers in one year. In this episode, Kipp shares the content…

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  15. How This Former Teacher Went From Earning $500 a Week to Building a $2M Business | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E8

    Lisa Woodruff never imagined she’d build a multimillion-dollar business from an everyday skill. After leaving her teaching career at age 40, she started by charging clients to organize their homes before transforming that hands-on service into Organize 365, a company that now helps thousands of...

  16. Tiffany Carter: The Million-Dollar Mindset Mistake That Cost Me Everything | Mental Health | E411

    Tiffany Carter's self-healing journey began after she lost $1 million in three months. Although she appeared confident and successful, years of childhood trauma, people-pleasing, and low self-worth were silently shaping her relationship with money and business. Determined to break that cycle, she...

  17. Daniel Pink: Turn Your Biggest Regrets Into the Ultimate Self-Improvement Tool | Human Behavior | YAPClassic

    Regret is an emotion deeply rooted in human nature, but it may be your greatest tool for personal development. After his daughter’s college graduation prompted him to reflect on his own missed opportunities, Daniel Pink spent two and a half years studying what thousands of people around the world...

  18. Dr. Tim Spector: The Truth About Diet, Gut Health, and Why Calories Fail | Health & Wellness | E410

    After decades of human health research, Dr. Tim Spector believed our genes largely determined why people got sick, gained weight, or aged the way they did. But 30 years of studying identical twins revealed something unexpected: people with the same DNA could respond to the same foods in…

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  19. Matt Abrahams: Think Fast, Talk Smart! The Mindset That Helps Entrepreneurs Beat Speaking Anxiety | Human Behavior | YAPClassic

    Mindset matters just as much as communication skills when speaking under pressure. Up to 85% of people report feeling nervous in high-stakes communication situations, but Stanford communication expert Matt Abrahams teaches that confident communicators aren't born; they're trained. In this…

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  20. This Startup Plans to Save a Million Lives Using Your Toilet | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E7

    Scott Hickle built Throne Science around a startup idea most investors thought was too unconventional: a device that transforms your toilet into a health tracker, monitoring your health as effortlessly as a smartwatch. After nearly 100 investor rejections, he and his team kept refining the…

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  21. Forbes Riley: Pitch Like a Pro! Sales Secrets That Get People to Say Yes | Sales | E409

    Having generated over $2.5 billion in product sales, hosted nearly 200 infomercials, and built a multimillion-dollar online business, Forbes Riley has spent decades mastering the psychology of getting people to say "yes," earning her the title "Queen of Pitch." In this episode, Forbes shares the...

  22. Ryan Holiday: Think Like a Stoic, Timeless Leadership Principles for Modern Entrepreneurs | Leadership | YAPClassic

    Ryan Holiday's approach to leadership was shaped through patience and years of unglamorous work. After dropping out of college at 19, he apprenticed under bestselling author Robert Greene, learning writing, research, persuasion, and human nature before becoming the marketing director of American...

  23. This Mom Turned a $750 Etsy Side Hustle Into a $50M Wellness Brand | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E6

    Starting a business was never part of Luna Aziz's plan. After struggling with low milk supply as a new mom, she began experimenting with her own herbal formulations and sharing them on Etsy. She had no investors, no marketing budget, and no plan beyond helping other moms. Then one customer's...

  24. Ryan Hawk: Daily Leadership Habits That Shape Who You Become | Leadership | E408

    Ryan Hawk learned one of his most important leadership lessons the day his college football coach told him another player gave the team a better chance to win. The moment stung, but it reshaped his mindset about success and taught him that hard work only matters when it creates real value. That...

  25. Brandon Dawson: 9-Figure Founder Reveals the Real Reason Businesses Stop Scaling | Entrepreneurship | YAPClassic

    Brandon Dawson scaled his business from zero to $75 million, but behind the success, he was losing control. After taking the company public at 29, he watched investors sell it out from under him and learned that growth is not sustainable without the systems and leadership to support it. He…

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  26. John Paul DeJoria: Business Lessons That Turned a $700 Startup Into Billion-Dollar Brands | Entrepreneurship | E407

    John Paul DeJoria is proof that entrepreneurs can build extraordinary businesses without extraordinary resources. After experiencing poverty, homelessness, rejection, and the collapse of the funding he needed to launch John Paul Mitchell Systems, he kept going with just $700, selling door to door...

  27. Tom Bilyeu: The Secret to Surviving Any Setback in Business | Entrepreneurship | YAPClassic

    Tom Bilyeu faced failure long before he achieved business success. After his senior thesis film fell apart, the future he had imagined for himself suddenly felt out of reach. Instead of letting that moment define him, he rebuilt his belief system around learning, feedback, and skill-building, a...

  28. How One Book Generated $7 Million for This Business | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E5

    Chandler Bolt built a $10 million business by challenging one of the biggest myths in publishing: that authors can only make money from book sales. As the founder of SelfPublishing.com, Chandler has helped many entrepreneurs use books to generate leads, attract high-value clients, and scale their...

  29. Naveen Jain: The Business Mindset That Makes Money Follow You | Entrepreneurship | E406

    Entrepreneurship often begins with the goal of making money, but Naveen Jain believes chasing money is the worst way to get rich. After losing his father to stage four pancreatic cancer while building Moon Express, he realized success means little unless it helps solve the real problems causing...

  30. Mel Robbins: Take Back Your Power in Business and  Life with This Mindset Shift | Productivity | YAPClassic

    Mel Robbins spent years stuck in a controlling mindset, trying to micromanage the people and moments around her. Then, at her son’s prom, her daughter gave her the blunt reality check she needed: stop trying to manage everyone and simply “let them.” Those two words became The Let Them Theory, a...

  31. Zack Kass: Should You Be Scared of AI? Former OpenAI Leader Reveals the Truth | Artificial Intelligence | E405

    Most people see artificial intelligence as a threat to humanity, but Zack Kass believes we're worried about the wrong things. As a former leader at OpenAI, Zack has spent years studying how technological breakthroughs reshape society and why every major innovation is met with fear and resistance....

  32. Leila Hormozi: The Leadership Mindset That Changes How You Operate in Business and Life | Leadership | YAPClassic

    Leila Hormozi mastered self-leadership early, parenting herself through her mother's addiction as a child. That struggle spiraled into alcohol abuse and six arrests in eighteen months, until her father's warning that she could die forced her to rebuild her life through deliberate behavior change....

  33. The 5-Step Test That Can Save You From Buying the Wrong Business | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E3 | Part 2

    Too many aspiring entrepreneurs spend years saving for business ownership, only to invest in an opportunity that was never the right fit. Alex Smereczniak has seen buyers focus on passion, hype, or income potential before asking whether a business matches their skills, lifestyle, and financial...

  34. Natalie Ellis: Is Your Business Trapping You? How to Build One That Runs Without You | Entrepreneurship | E404

    Entrepreneurship gave Natalie Ellis the success she had always wanted, but behind the scenes, BossBabe started to feel like a business she could not step away from. When motherhood, burnout, and a difficult co-founder split forced her to slow down, she realized the freedom she built the company…

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  35. Fred Reichheld: How to Build a Business Customers Can't Stop Recommending | Entrepreneurship | YAPClassic

    The true engine of business growth is customer loyalty, and Fred Reichheld has spent decades proving it. While working at Bain & Company, he noticed that businesses with obsessive customer focus were crushing their competitors, yet no one was measuring the loyalty behind those results. So he...

  36. The Underrated Business Model That Creates More Millionaires Than the NFL | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E3 | Part 1

    Starting a business from scratch is not the only path to entrepreneurship, and Alex Smereczniak learned that through franchising. After building and exiting his first franchise business, he saw how confusing, outdated, and commission-driven the franchise-buying process could be. Spotting those…

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  37. Will Guidara: The Leadership Strategy Behind the World’s Best Restaurant | Leadership | E403

    One leadership decision helped Will Guidara transform Eleven Madison Park from the lowest-ranked restaurant on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list into the number one restaurant in the world. While most businesses competed on products, pricing, and technology, Will became obsessed with something...

  38. Steven Kotler: The Psychology of Aging Well and Why Your Best Years May Still Be Ahead of You | Health and Wellness | YAPClassic

    Steven Kotler once believed physical and mental health decline was an inevitable part of aging, until peak performance science challenged his assumption. To test the research, he learned to park ski at 53 and discovered that the right training and mindset can dramatically improve brain health,...

  39. How a $99 Fitness Program Turned Into a Seven Figure Business | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E2

    Entrepreneurship became Tara LaFerrara’s way forward after she got laid off from her corporate job and had to decide whether her fitness and content creation side hustle could become a real business. With a small online following and plenty of uncertainty, she learned the ins and outs of business...

  40. Dr. Chris Palmer: The Mental Health Discovery That Transforms How Entrepreneurs Perform | Mental Health | E402

    Mental health care has a silent crisis, and Dr. Chris Palmer has spent 30 years watching patients exhaust medication after medication with little relief despite world-class treatment. His search for answers became the foundation of his brain energy theory, a framework that proposes an entirely…

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  41. Dr. Mark Hyman: The Secret to Aging Backwards and Improving Your Health | Mental Health | YAPClassic

    Dr. Mark Hyman’s health broke down in his thirties when chronic fatigue syndrome and heavy metal toxicity left him struggling to function. Conventional medicine, the very system he was trained in, had no real answers for him. Forced to search deeper, he discovered functional medicine, used it for...

  42. How This Addictive Cheese Brand Turned Startup Mistakes Into a $20M Empire | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E1

    Starting a business from scratch is hard enough, but Rebel Cheese co-founder Kirsten Maitland did it by borrowing against her home, only for COVID to hit three months later. With no outside investors and everything at risk, she pivoted from a physical restaurant to an online business, learning...

  43. Jessie Inchauspé: The #1 Diet Change That Will Transform Your Energy & Health | Health and Wellness | E401

    Jessie Inchauspé was struggling with her mental health when a glucose monitor revealed something she never expected: her worst days often aligned with bigger glucose spikes. That discovery changed how she ate, pushed her deep into the research, and eventually became the foundation of her work as...

  44. Dr. Benjamin Hardy: The Mindset Shift That Stops You From Feeling Like a Failure | Mental Wealth Series | E4

    When Dr. Benjamin Hardy’s mental health took a serious hit after publishing his first book, it made no sense on paper. He had achieved a lifelong dream by landing a multi-six-figure deal, yet still felt like a failure because he did not make the New York Times bestseller list. That moment…

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  45. Dave Asprey: The Father of Biohacking on How to Unlock Limitless Energy to Power Your Business | Health and Wellness | YAPClassic

    Dave Asprey didn’t become the father of biohacking overnight. He once weighed 300 pounds, battled chronic fatigue, and spent 18 months in the gym with nothing to show for it. Realizing his biology was quietly working against him, he redesigned his diet, recovery protocols, and hormonal health…

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  46. Dr. Andy Galpin: Fitness Lies Exposed! The No-BS Guide to Fixing Your Health & Performance | Health | E400

    Health advice is everywhere, but Dr. Andy Galpin has seen high performers chase trends while missing the real problems holding them back. Instead of fixing poor sleep, low energy, and chronic stress, they keep adding routines that don’t move the needle. In this episode, Dr. Andy breaks down why...

  47. Gretchen Rubin: Turn Failed Resolutions Into Goals That Stick | Productivity | YAPClassic

    Goal setting can feel frustrating when year after year, you keep trying but have little to show for it. Gretchen Rubin saw how this pattern drains motivation and realized that standard productivity advice often overlooks personality. Through her Four Tendencies framework, she explains why…

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  48. Shadé Zahrai: The Dangerous Mindset Secretly Holding Entrepreneurs Back | Mental Wealth Series | E3

    Your mindset is sometimes the biggest threat to your success as an entrepreneur. For Shadé Zahrai, self-doubt and imposter syndrome followed her from corporate life into entrepreneurship. She later realized these struggles were rooted in psychological patterns she calls “mind pits” and “inner...

  49. Gretchen Rubin: The Hidden Patterns Controlling Your Life and Habits | Human Behavior | E399

    Human nature often pushes us to follow paths that look right on paper, even when they no longer serve us. For years, Gretchen Rubin pursued a prestigious law career that looked perfect on paper, until she realized she lacked passion and was simply drifting through life. That moment led her to…

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  50. Mike Rowe: How to Land Six-Figure Opportunities Doing “Dirty Jobs” | Career | YAPClassic

    When it comes to career success, Mike Rowe has a contrarian message most entrepreneurs need to hear: stop chasing passion and start chasing opportunity. Before becoming a TV icon, he spent years jumping between industries, side hustles, and freelance gigs, working nearly 200 jobs. That…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

YAP is the must-listen podcast for driven entrepreneurs and high achievers who are hardcore about business, personal growth, and achieving their potential. Hosted by Hala Taha, self-made entrepreneur and CEO of YAP Media, this #1 entrepreneurship podcast features mini-masterclasses with business icons and industry legends like GaryVee, Alex Hormozi, Mel Robbins, Reid Hoffman, Kevin O’Leary, and Codie Sanchez who help you profit in all aspects of life—from boosting sales and beating algorithms to biohacking and productivity. Whether you’re launching a startup, scaling your business, running a side hustle, or upgrading your mindset, every YAP episode delivers actionable advice that WILL help you profit. Listen, Learn, and Profit with the Young and Profiting (YAP) podcast!

For ad inquiries, please reach out to: Network+[email protected]

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