Episodes

  • #2277 My Body Tutor: Remote Coaching as a Service

    #2277 My Body Tutor: Remote Coaching as a Service
    Jul 9 2025
    Ever wish someone would text you every day to make sure you stuck to your goals? That’s exactly what Adam Gilbert built — first for fitness, now for business. He’s the founder of My Body Tutor and DoneDaily, two remote coaching services powered by daily accountability. I invited him to share how he turned simple check-ins into a multi-million dollar company.

    Adam Gilbert was a personal trainer who was frustrated by seeing clients not follow through on the diet and exercise programs they committed to.

    So he offered to be their accountability buddy by text. The service he created, My Body Tutor, was profitable from its first month and continues to generate millions 18 years later.

    His latest company, DoneDaily, offers a similar accountability and coaching program for entrepreneurs.

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  • #2276 Close: The $50 Million / Year CRM

    #2276 Close: The $50 Million / Year CRM
    Jun 18 2025
    How is Close doing so well in the CRM space against such big competitors? The answer: focus. Instead of chasing enterprise clients or trying to build a CRM that does everything from web hosting to calendaring, Steli Efti focused on sales teams at small and mid-sized businesses. And he built a product with a tight set of features focused on more client conversations and less data entry.

    Steli Efti is the co-founder and CEO of Close, a CRM platform designed to eliminate manual data entry and make sales more human and efficient. Before launching Close, he co-founded Elastic Sales (a sales-as-a-service agency) and SwipeGood (a charitable micro-donation startup)

    Fun fact—he once said he spent six years following up twice a year to finally buy the domain close.com.

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  • #2275 He’s doing SEO on ChatGPT

    #2275 He’s doing SEO on ChatGPT
    May 12 2025
    Have you noticed how AI search results are now linking to websites? Today’s guest runs an SEO agency that helps his clients’ sites show up in those chat responses. I invited Chirag Kulkarni founder of Taco to talk about how he’s doing it and how he built his agency.

    Chirag Kulkarni is the founder and CEO of Taco, an AI-powered SEO firm helping brands dominate emerging search platforms. Chirag and his team are building Taco into the go-to partner for companies navigating the shift from Google to generative search.

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  • #2274 1440: $20+mil / year newsletter

    #2274 1440: $20+mil / year newsletter
    Apr 29 2025
    After closing a company that failed, Tim Huelskamp decided to keep it simple. He launched an email newsletter that briefed smart people about the day’s top news. Today his company, 1440, has over 4 million subscribers and generates over $20 million in annual revenue

    Tim Huelskamp is the co-founder of 1440, the fact-focused daily newsletter. Tim and his team are building 1440 into a trusted source for intellectually curious readers who want an inch-deep, mile-wide view of the world.

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  • #1964 The $900M flip of Answers.com

    #1964 The $900M flip of Answers.com
    Jul 29 2020
    Joining me is an entrepreneur who bought a public company and sold it just three years later. The company he bought was Answers.com. I want to find out what he did in those three years that allowed him to sell it for over $900M. My guest today is David Karandish. He is currently the co-founder of Capacity, an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company focused on helping teams.

    David Karandish is the co-founder of Capacity, an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company focused on helping teams.

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  • #2273 What happened to our partnership?

    #2273 What happened to our partnership?
    Mar 5 2025
    Before I partnered with Jesse Pujji, we were buddy-buddy. Texting all the time. When we got started, we got excited about the world of possibilities for our company. Now? Something is missing. I asked him about it. And about where he put his money, why he’s not launching more companies now, what he’s building with AI, and more.

    Jesse Pujji is the founder of Gateway X, the venture studio. Jesse & Andrew are building Bootstrapped Giants, a resource for ambitious, unfunded founders.

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  • #1963 How to use acting techniques to get waaaaay inside your audience’s head

    #1963 How to use acting techniques to get waaaaay inside your audience’s head
    Jul 27 2020
    Today’s guest works with coaches, consultants, and service providers to help them get clients.  I want to find out how he turned a 3-step system into a business. Russell Ruffino is the founder of Clients on Demand, but he spent the first 10 years of his career as an actor. We’ll find out how that background actually helped him unlock a hidden superpower.

    Russell Ruffino is the founder of Clients on Demand, which helps coaches, consultants, thought-leaders and service pros attract the right clients, at the right price, anytime they want.

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  • #2272 Aux: >$10mil advising private equity

    #2272 Aux: >$10mil advising private equity
    Feb 21 2025
    When Kasey Grelle heard that private equity companies paid marketing agencies to evaluate companies they wanted to buy, she spotted a business opportunity. That realization became Aux Insights, the firm that’s become “the office of the CMO” for private equity companies. Listen to how they got clients & built their business.

    Kasey is a former reporter who founded Aux Insights, a global advisory firm that acts as the office of the CMO for private equity firms, specializing in digital growth strategy and marketing diligence. When she’s not scaling businesses, she’s up before dawn at 4 AM, savoring the quiet magic of early morning work before the chaos of her three-kid household kicks in.

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