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Relationships Over Ads
You Don’t Need a Big Audience
Story Before Platform
Real Beats Scripted
Don’t Sleep on the Boomers
Into the Ditch
From Discovery to Retention
Not a Content Studio
The Third Audience
Tend Your Wisdom Garden
The Booster Rocket
A Relationship Group, Not a Networking Group
Sold Out in 25 Minutes
Two Speaking Markets
They're Not Stealing Your Face
The Bait and the Song
Aim Small
A Smaller Community, Really Dialed In
Your Content Is a Storefront
Live Is the Point
A Personality With a Point of View
The Offline Bet
Start With the Story
Maybe You Don't Need a Bottle
When Everyone's a Creator, No One Is
Where Are Your People?
Plant the Flag
Report from the Frontier
Start With a New Story
People Love to Be Sold To
Lead the Whole Industry
A Different Font
Take Them on a Field Trip
Guardian of the Culture
Operator, Authority, Icon
A True Icon: Remembering Dolly Parton
Be the Mast
What Would Your Pop-Up Be?
The Attractive Nuisance
Trophies and the Troll
The Clear Ask
Become the Center of Gravity
The Joy Compass
The Cake Is Already Baked
What's Your Repeatable Format?
A Stage With No Rules
Which Lane Are You In?
Beware enfeeblement
Whose God Are You Serving?
Credibility, Not Visibility
They Never Know Your Name
Don't Surrender the Struggle
Put It in Your Pocket
Kudos to Warren
Invest in Your Point of View
The Youngest One in the Room
Sample from the Buffet
Show Us Something
Write the Letter
Game Recognizes Game
Tissue Box Posts
Nobody Wants a Fan Base of Bots
How to Look Two Inches Tall
The Response, Not the Catastrophe
The Stage Is Already in Front of You
MattGPT
Forget the Hero's Journey
Stir the Broth
Tell Me a Story
Raise Your Tower
Your Moment in the Orchestra
What You Do Is Fungible
The Gun Company That Built the Typewriter
The Summer Recession
The Entrepreneur's Loss
Small Leaps, Big Flavor
Crawl, Walk, Run
Wagons Optional
Learning Forward (Not Bouncing Back)
51, Grateful, and Balancing Confidence with Humility
The Pivot to Friday
Wheels Up: Takeoff, Landing, and the Most Dangerous Part
Soda Fountains, AI Editors, and Getting Better at Humaning
21 Years Since the First YouTube Video
Backstage: The Rebrand and a New Dinner Concept
Pineapple-Shaped Cheese, Six-Pound Goldfish, and Raising the Floor So You Don't Drown
When Your Friend Calls and Says "Yeah, I Listened to Your Episode—I'm Caught Up"
Building a World in One Hour (And Why Two People Can Do It Faster Than One)
The Titanic, Fear Mongering, and Why Feedback Is a Gift (Even When It Lands Differently)
From Coolio to Icons: Why Everything Passes (And What That Means for the Next Thing)
There's an Opinion for Everything (So Trust Your Gut and Prioritize Anyway)
The Cold Start Problem (And Why You Just Do It Anyway)
Oklahoma, Storytelling, and Why In-Person Still Hits Different
When Sunday Morning Work Feels Like Joy (Not a Chore)
Being the Best Dance Partner (So the Other Person Shines)
Put the Call In (And Trust the Answer Will Come)
People Are Just People (Even in Gray Suits at M&A Meetings)
What's the Point?! (And Other Questions Worth Asking About Everything You're Doing)
The People Who Show Up When Your Energy Shifts
The Relentless Power of Next Right Thing