#865 The TMBA Podcast Is Going on Hiatus
Dan's stepping away from the mic for a while. No return date yet. He explains what's behind the pause. Sponsor: wayfront.com/tmba Thanks to...
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20 of 868 episodes#864 The 10 Behaviors Killing Your Business — Masked as Productivity
Dan’s on the road this week, so we’re resurfacing one of our most-downloaded episodes — still holds up. New episode back next week. Some of...
#863 How One Side Project Built a Ten-Year Business
This one's a bit of a TMBA throwback — a story about how to leverage the skills you already have to build a business and life that fits your...
#862 The Two-Week Startup
Brian O'Connor spent three years building a 40,000-person Twitter following, launched product after product into that audience, and made alm...
#861 One Niche, One Funnel, Over $50K/Month Profit
At his lowest point, Jan Roos was $240,000 underwater. He had a full sales org, a director, reps, ad spend — and was barely breaking even. S...
#860 How Direct Mail Built a Multi-Million Dollar Business
Robert Dow buys and sells raw land across Texas and Oklahoma — mostly sight unseen, almost entirely through direct mail. It's a lean operati...
#859 Building a $6.5M Remote Agency in 5 Years — LevelUp Leads
Dan interviews John Karsant, founder of Level Up Leads, a 73-person outsourced SDR agency doing about $6.5M/year revenue, built while living...
#858 Paying for Growth in 2026
Is 2026 the year you finally run paid ads? Something shifted at DC Mexico this year — more founders than ever are seriously considering paid...
#857 AI and the High-Margin Agency: What's Working in 2026
Dan and Ian are joined by Jeff Picaro of meetwingman.com to recap lessons from the DC Mexico event and share five trends for 2026 in bootstr...
#856 "Trust is the New Currency" — Hot Takes from 200 Founders in Mexico City
Dan and Ian just got back from DC Mexico — 4 days in Mexico City with 200 founders, a third of whom run $1M+ businesses. Three ideas worth s...
#855 Hard Questions, Easy Business
Most founders already know what's wrong with their business. The fix is usually simple but scary. So instead of doing the one hard thing tha...
#854 5 Simple Ways Agencies Are Using AI
Dan and Jeff Pecaro (meetwingman.com) share five practical ways agency founders are using AI right now—sharpening positioning, analyzing sal...
#853 AI Is Useful. Now What?
Dan and Ian break down the real use cases they’re seeing inside DC companies right now — not theory, not hype, but the actual workflows foun...
#852 I Wasted $40K on an AI Agency. Here's What I Built Instead
Aaron Anderson runs a link building agency — 8 years in, fully remote, team of 10. A year ago, his business was in negative growth. He decid...
#851 $1,000,000+ Recurring Revenue — No Employees!
Most founders assume scaling means hiring. Jesse Hanley built a 7-figure SaaS and refused to. From Japan, Jesse runs Bento — a profitable em...
#850 We Got Claude-Pilled
After a week of going all-in with Claude and agentic AI, Dan and Ian share what happened when they plugged AI directly into their company wo...
#849 Advanced Personal Finance for Entrepreneurs
We're often great at making money, terrible at managing it. Multi-exit entrepreneur David McKeegan joins us to discuss personal finance buil...
#848 The $10K Projects You Never Do (AI Just Changed That)
Dan talks with Taylor Pearson about a new wave of “agentic AI” tools like Claude Code — and how founders are using them to tackle projects t...
#847 From Semi-Retired to 1.3 Million Views on YouTube ft. Richard “RJ” Jalichandra
A semi-retired 6-time CEO accidentally went viral on YouTube, and turned it into a real business case study. Dynamite Circle member and DC B...
#846 Can Your Business Beat the S&P 500?
Dan and Ian hop on the mic to talk about spending money to make more money in your business, getting financial assistance with AI, how to de...