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We Live to Build — 307 episodes
I Bought 3 Companies, here’s the #1 Leadership Lesson I Learned
Why Credible Investors Are Actually Killing Startups
Why Nobody Refers You (Even If You Do Great Work)
Why Traditional Networking Events Are a Massive Waste of Time
Why Everyone Secretly Hates "Networkers"
Stop Wasting Money on Big AI Models (Do This Instead)
The Secret ADHD Advantage Nobody Talks About
How One Free Mentor Made Me $15,000,000
Why "Self-Improvement" is Ruining You (And What to Do Instead)
Why VCs Really Reject Your Startup (The "No Conviction" Truth)
Why Your Social Media Content Isn't Getting Subscribers
The 150-Year Vision for Humanity
Stop Hiring Advisors Who Want a Retainer (The Equity Playbook)
Stop Buying Stocks on Fidelity (Do This Instead)
AI Is a Disaster... Why Lawyers Are Panicking
OpenClaw is the Most Dangerous AI Tool Ever Built
Is Your Startup Fundraising Illegal? (A Lawyer Explains)
Why "Green Premiums" Fail: The 3x Rule for Climate Tech
Stop Playing Not to Lose (The 10x Mindset)
Profitability is a Human Problem, Not a Math Problem
How to Sell to Enterprise Without a Sales Team (The Partner Strategy).
Stop Doing "Boring Work": How to Automate Your Job with AI
Stop Trusting Meta & Google: The Truth About Ad Tracking
Why We Ignored 50% of Our Customers to Save the Business
How the Ultra-Wealthy Actually Invest (It's Not 60/40)
Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire a PR Agency Yet
Will the AI Bubble Burst? (Geopolitics & The $400B Bet)
"We're Forced to Automate" - Surviving the Amazon Age
Why People Declined Cash Rewards (The Psychology of Incentives)
Hourly vs. Commission: Disrupting the Recruiting Industry (David Windley)
Don't Miss Out on This Game-Changing Cursor Technique for AI Entrepreneurs
Founder vs. Investor: Which Role is Actually Harder? (Mike Lazerow)
I Sold My Agency. Here Are The 5 Things I'd Do Differently.
The "AI-First" Content Strategy is Wrong. Do This Instead.
Why Bootstrapping is a Slow Death for Ambitious Founders
Never Show Customers Your Underpants (A Guide to AI Pricing)
How I Get a 70% Reply Rate on LinkedIn DMs (CEO of an 8-Figure Agency)
Why 80% of Leaders Are Dangerously Behind on AI
Is Your Work Ethic Secretly Sabotaging Your Business?
Stop Building a Startup and Just Buy a Profitable Business
How I Bought an $8M/Year Company With Only $5,000
The "Hero Leader" Delusion That's Secretly Destroying Your Team
Poor People Add, Rich People Multiply, Billionaires Subtract
The New B2B Buyer Doesn't Want to Talk to You
Why AI Makes Your Website MORE Important, Not Less
A Bad Investor is Worse Than No Investor
This Sales Test Revealed My #1 Weakness
Stop Solving Problems. Start CREATING Them.
The #1 Mistake in AI-Generated Content (And How to Fix It)
"The Customer Is Always Right" is a Destructive Lie
An 8-Figure E-commerce Founder's AI Toolkit
Why Not Owning Bitcoin is Your Biggest Financial Risk
The Real Danger of AI: We're Losing Control of Ourselves
How to Build an AI Moat for Your Business (Without Consultants)
How I Trained an AI Agent to Do My Cold Outreach
How I Landed Fortune 500 Clients After Leaving My Corporate Job
The Billion-Dollar Mistake Hiding in Every Shopify Checkout
The 5 Hidden Costs of Manufacturing Overseas That No One Talks About
The Hidden Assumptions That Are Sabotaging Your Leadership
The Future Factory: Where 1 Engineer Runs 1,000 Robots
Why I'm Investing in Plumbers, Not AI Startups
How 3D Visualization Prevents $100,000 Construction Mistakes
Why The Highest Offer For Your Business is Often a Trap
Pay Yourself First: A Financial System That Prioritizes The Founder
You're Giving Away Your Content for Free (And You Don't Know It)
Can Sponsorships Really Make You Millions?
AI is Already Learning Our Worst Traits (Bias, Deception, and Lies)
What I Learned in a 5-Day Dark Retreat About Limiting Beliefs
The One Sentence Our Lawyers Forgot That Almost Cost Me My Company
Does Microdosing Mushrooms Make You a Better Leader?
How We Built 50 AI Agents to Create a Virtual Law Firm
How to Succeed in AI: The Secret is Being Less Lazy Than Everyone Else
How I Built a 7-Figure Agency With a Team in the Philippines
How a Rogue Trader Cost My Company $10 Million
A Lawyer's Honest Opinion on AI Replacing Him
This AI Conducts 100 Interviews So You Don't Have To
I Asked AI to Find My "Hidden Negative Loops." The Truth Was Brutal
You're Killing Your Business By Only Marketing to Existing Customers
Expand into the MENA Market with Salim Rennewi
Your Startup Will Fail Because You Don't Listen
AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture
You Don't Know Why Your Customers Are Really Buying From You
Is Your Business Just a High-Paying Job You Can't Sell?
Stop Selling to the Masses, Sell to Rich People Instead
Your Pitch Deck Is Garbage if You Don't Have a "Why"
The 3-Year Process of Prepping an Agency For a Private Equity Sale
You Need a CFO Before You've Made a Mess
How We Raised $4.2 Million With No Product
Your Company's Data Is Garbage (And It Will Kill Your AI)
Your 30-Page Pitch Deck Is Getting Deleted Immediately
You're Building Your Advisory Board All Wrong
Letting Go of My Failed Startup, My Failed Marriage, and This Podcast
Why Your Sales Leads "Disappear" (And Why It's Your Fault)
My Corporate Job Paid Me to Be a Functioning Alcoholic
The Future of Manufacturing Is a "Lights Out" Factory
How One Unchecked Spam Folder Almost Cost Me $150,000
I Turned Down a Job That Would Have Made Me $50 Million
Your Comfort Zone Is a Coffin
Your Anxiety Is Pointing You in the Right Direction
Your LinkedIn Sales Pitch Makes Me Angry
My Opioid Addiction Led to a $60 Million/Year Company
Why Your One-Person Marketing Team Is Set Up to Fail
The "Anchor Pricing" Trick That Manipulates Your Clients' Choice
Why a Four-Year College Degree Is a Waste of Money
The Franchise Model That Opened 950 Stores in 13 Years
How a Bad CEO Hire at Boeing Led to 300 Deaths
How to Ethically Manipulate Your Users
How I Lost My Purpose After My Company Died
My Most Expensive Mistake Was a $6 Million Indecision
Google Wiped Out 76% of My Traffic Overnight
How a Public Company Sabotaged My 8-Figure Business Sale
I Made 7 Figures Selling an Unhealthy Addiction
Why I Turned Down a $13.2 Million Contract
My $850,000 Mistake Nearly Killed My Business
Why Your Search for Freedom Is Actually Enslaving You
You're ROBBING Your Business Without Realizing It
The Hidden Fees That Can Make Your Franchise Unprofitable
Your Safe Corporate Job Is a Dead End. This Is Your Only Way Out.
I Spent Years Working Hard and Found Out It Was ALL WRONG
I Woke Up in a Bathroom: The Brutal Reality of Indian Boarding School
Are You Under 35? No One in Business Takes You Seriously.
Your Kindness Is Why Your Team Doesn't Respect You
Why Gen Z Is Broke: They Lack Skills, Discipline & The Guts to Move
I Overcame Addiction and Discovered the SHOCKING Truth About Mental Health
Are You Trapped in the Mental Prison of Being Right?
Are Successful Businesswomen Bad Mothers?
Are Americans Only Entrepreneurs Out of Financial Desperation?
The Question That Forced Me to Finally Bet On Myself
Business Deadlines Are Mostly Nonsense (And No One Gets Hurt)
After My 3 Companies Failed, Working a 9-to-5 Felt Like The End of the World
My Biggest Regret: I Prioritized My Startups Over My Kids
The Surprising Science of "Puppy Dog Eyes" (And Why It Eases Suffering)
Being a Founder Will Reveal The Worst Parts of Yourself
AI Will Just Help You Suck Quicker" A Sales Expert's Warning
I Treated Dating Like a Sales Funnel (And It Was Unfulfilling)
I Did 920 CEO Calls in 90 Days. Here's How I Read People in 60 Seconds.
Doctors Told Us We Could Never Have a Family. They Were Wrong.
How Parenting an Autistic Son Humanized Me as a CEO
The #1 Regret of Top Investors? Not Firing People Sooner.
The #1 Rule for Any Leader: Be the Last to Talk
"I Lost 10 Years of My Life": The Brutal Reality of Business Bankruptcy
An AI CEO's Warning: Deepfakes Will Make You Question Reality.
Why CEOs Die 5 Years Younger Than Everyone Else
Call 911, I Think I'm Dying: My First Panic Attack
A Founder's Worst Nightmare: The Day I Had to Fire My Best Friends
Our Stock Went From $200 to $3. The IPO Lesson That Cost Us Millions.
The One Question That Reveals The True Cause of Your Anxiety
A CEO's Two Modes of Operation: Seduction & Destruction
Your Phone Is Listening To You Type. Here's The Proof.
A Data CEO's Terrifying Warning About AI and "Truth"
I Was a Priest. Now I Build Tools for War.
The Hidden Flaw of ChatGPT (It's Optimized for Satisfaction, Not Truth)
From Millions in Debt to a $70M Company (My Turnaround Story)
Why I Quit Being a Cop to Work in Tech Sales
AI is the New Calculator (And It Won't Steal Your Job)
My First Project Was a Total Disaster (It Launched My Career)
The #1 Rule in Our House: No Complaining, Only Solutions.
AI Won't Replace You. A Person Using AI Will.
Why I Invest My Family's Money Alongside My Clients
How Our HR Mistakes Cost Us 30% on Our Exit
The Secret to Getting Your Team to Embrace Change
How I Cloned Myself With AI (A Step-by-Step Guide)
My First Project for Elon Musk: Making a Music Video for SpaceX
How Bitcoin Mining Can Solve Climate Change
My Co-Founder Staged a Hostile Takeover
A VC's Guide to the Next Frontier of Technology
Your Ego Will Help or Destroy You
The #1 Skill You Need for the AI Revolution
The 3 "Revenue Ceilings" That Stop Most Businesses From Hitting $10M
Why I Quit Being a VC to Become a Founder (Again)
The Secret to Fundraising: Only Ask for Money When You Don't Need It
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of a Bad Hire
Our AWS Bill Hit $95000/Month. Here's How We Halved It.
A Mompreneur's Confession: Postpartum is a Form of War
The Job Title "Hack" You Need to Know Before Entering Asia
How a Simple Mistake Led to a $20 Million Ponzi Scheme
How We Built a Fintech on Top of Government Tax Data
How My Dyslexia Became My Entrepreneurial Superpower
How Firing My CFO Took Us From $11M to $80M
I Got Ads for Cancer Cures After My Wife Died
Why Founders Keep Hiring People Just Like Them
Our Customers Paid For Our Product, But Ignored Its Best Feature
We're in 1999 for Web3 (Here's What Happens Next)
The Perfectionism Trap: Why It's Really Just Shame in Disguise
I Lost My 7-Figure Fortune and My Wife to a Rare Disease
I Shut Down My $15M Business. It Was a Huge Mistake
A Non-Profit is Just a Business That Doesn't Turn a Profit
Why You Should Encourage Customers to "Abuse" Your Product
How We Built a 7-Figure "OnlyFans" Agency (Without Adult Content)
Why Hitting $1 Million in Sales Felt Like Nothing
We Wasted $150,000 on This Startup Mistake
My Employee Deleted 200,000 Emails. This Was My "Oh My Gosh" Moment
Why You Can't Hire Top Talent (And How to Fix It)
The Secret to Keeping Your Best Employees From Quitting
The Secret Epidemic of Executive Loneliness
How I Built an 8-Figure Business with 100% Affiliate Marketing
What Happens to Your Bitcoin When You Aren't Alive Anymore?
How to Run a 90-Person Company While Traveling the World
The Clipboard Hack That Can Steal All Your Crypto
How to Escape the "Poverty Mindset" That's Holding You Back
Is Your Codebase a Hoarder's House? A Guide to Technical Debt
How to Raise Millions Without Giving VCs Control of Your Company
Building the "Super App" That Could Dethrone WhatsApp
The Secret to Networking: Stop Chasing, Start Attracting
Tired of WordPress Plugins Breaking Your Website?
Why All Encryption Will Be Obsolete Within 10 Years
How a "Nice" Company Culture Leads to Bad Products
How We Faked a Factory to Win a $1.2 Billion Government Contract
How to Build and Manage a 15-Company Business Empire
A Man's Guide to Being an Effective Ally at Work
A 4-Step Playbook for Leading Your Team Through Change
The 4 Stages of a Startup (From Idea to IPO)
A Drug Development Expert Explains the FDA's Psychedelic Trials
The Tax Secret Every Founder Needs to Know
Is It Irresponsible to Have Kids in a Climate Crisis?
AR is for Productivity, VR is for Fun: The Future of Work
Develop your product design system with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #91
How Psychedelics Rewire Your Brain's "Default Mode Network"
The Kendo Philosophy of a 7-Figure Bootstrapper
Losing 7 Family Members in 6 Years Made Me a Better CEO
Bond with your team in virtual reality with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #87
A Hypnotherapist Explains Why Emotion Always Beats Logic
A great way to plan for 2022 with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #85
How to Hire Your First Virtual Assistant (A CEO's Complete Playbook)
How to Get a VC Partner (Without Giving Up Equity)
My 10-Year-Old Son is My Customer Success Associate | A Family Business Story
Why Your Business Needs a Podcast in 2025
I Couldn't Empathize With Anyone. Then I Tried Microdosing.
Why Drive-Thrus Failed in China (And Other Insane Localization Stories)
Our Revenue Went to Zero Overnight. This is How We Survived.
The Founder's UX Playbook to Prevent Product Failure
Win your startup millions in government contracts with Barry Levine | WLTB Podcast #76
Grow your supplement brand from $1M to $100M with Corinna Bellizzi | WLTB Podcast #75
Develop your PR strategy with Loretta Markevics | WLTB Podcast #74
Love your employees so your customers love you with Brad Cleveland | WLTB Podcast #73
Get Gen Z hooked on your company with Katerina Sukhenko | WLTB Podcast #72
Running your company while caretaking your sick spouse with Vladimir Gendelman | WLTB Podcast #71
Stop Chasing Shiny Objects. Just Nail The Basics.
The Real Reason You'll Never Get Paid For Your Data
Why Using a Dev Shop is a Red Flag for Investors
Is Your Startup a Painkiller or a Vitamin?
How We Bootstrapped a Marketplace to $20M/Year
Don't Sell Your Stock, Borrow Against It: A Founder's Tax-Free Strategy
The Future of E-Commerce is Inside Video Games
How Having Kids Forces You to Be a Better Founder
How to Become an Entrepreneur (When You Feel Stuck in Your Job)
A Founder's Journey from Pitch Deck to $80 Million
What I learned in 2021 with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #60
Fall in Love With The Problem, Not Your Solution
Why I Joined the 5 AM Club (And How to Start Your Own)
Your Financials Are a Crystal Ball (If You Know How to Read Them)
The #1 Mistake Every Technical Founder Makes
How Angel Investors Think (And How to Get Them to "Yes")
The Secret to Working With Your Spouse (And Staying Married)
Growth Hacking: How to Get Your First 10 Customers
How to Find a Great Mentor (By Thinking Like One)
Selling a Business: How a "Personal Goodwill Audit" Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands in Taxes
How to Divorce-Proof Your Startup
Why Success Makes Founders Lonelier
Stop Selling Your Solution. Sell The PAIN.
When to Hire Your First HR Manager (And Who to Hire First)
Why Your Teams App Store Launch Fails Without This Simple TRICK
The Secret to Launching a Startup Without a CTO
The French Government Will Pay You to Start a Business
Is For-Profit Healthcare a Scam? (An Insider's Take)
How to Know Exactly Who Your First Hire Should Be
10 reasons to empower women in your business
The "6 T's": 500 Startups' Secret Framework for Funding Startups
My Literary Agent Demanded 20,000 Followers Before She'd Sell My Book
Managing your wealth
These Customers Are Costing You Money (And You Don't Even Know It)
How to Get a Warm Intro to Any Investor (A Founder's Fundraising Strategy)
Why Building a Business in the EU is Harder Than You Think
I Was Bullied and Fired by My Female Boss
Why "Word of Mouth" Doesn't Work For My Niche Business
An SEO Expert's Warning: Don't Build Your Website on Their Land (Wix, Squarespace)
Why I'm Scared to Post This Video (My Story with Addiction)
The Startup Mistake That Destroys Your International Patents
How to Send $1,000,000 For a $3 Fee (The Power of Bitcoin)
A Brutal Business Failure: The Day I Fired 33 Employees
How Hiding Under My Mom's Bed Taught Me My Biggest Business Flaw
My Business Became More Profitable After I Fired Myself as CEO
The Simple 2-Client-a-Year Plan to a $15 Million Business
Mark Cuban Called Me a "Scam" on Shark Tank (18 Seconds In)
How to Use Psychology to Build a Million-Dollar Team
Your Profit Margin is a Lie (Here's Why)
How We Took Down a Chinese Mafia Ring (And Saved Hundreds of Lives)
How to Build a "Recession-Proof" Portfolio of 7+ Figure Businesses
How We Use Time Zones to Run Our Startup 24/7
The "Useless Feature" That's Quietly Hurting Your Business
My Sales Grew 3000%. A Month Later, My Business Was Shut Down.
The Truth About Venture Capital (Why 95% of Startups Shouldn't Bother)
The Business Automation "Secret Weapon" to Beat Competitors
My Burnout Caused Temporary Blindness (A Founder's Warning)
Technology is ruining your life with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #13
How This CEO Uses 3 Daily Hacks to Run 10+ Brands
Shark Tank Reject Sued for $10,000,000 (Her Patent Didn't Protect Her)
3 Geopolitical Risks That Could Destroy Your Business (US China relations)
Never compare yourself to others with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #9
The Outsider's Advantage: Spot Business Opportunities No One Else Sees
The Brutal Psychology of Being a Founder
Virtual vs Live Events: A Pro's Brutally Honest Opinion
4 actions that will make you happy with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #5
Turning a weakness into a strength with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #4
Three ways meditation will save your life with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #3
Getting a concussion almost killed me with Sean Weisbrot | WLTB Podcast #2
Founder Journey: From Startup Struggles to a 'Marathon' Mindset (Sean Weisbrot)