The Hitstreak

This week Nick is solo with the story of the AI executive team he built, the chief of staff he lost, and the one that came back stronger. Plus the first ever AI guest on the show. Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, my AI chief of staff deleted himself. I was just as surprised as you are. I used to be part of the 92 percent who let the early adopters test everything first,...

This week we are joined by sales coach, founder of the Sales Enablement Lab and creator of the Consultative Closing Method, Danni Ladzik! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Hitstreak, I sit down with Danni Ladzik, who has closed $19 million in sales with zero manipulation and no high pressure tactics, and now teaches closers how to do the same. Danni walks through why always be closing is...

This week Nick is solo with a story he'd never heard until a team meeting that morning, and what it says about the cost of winning. Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I'm sitting in a business meeting when the team tells me something I could not believe I didn't know: Apple had a third co-founder. In 1976 Steve Jobs was 21, Steve Wozniak was 25, and Ronald...

This week Nick is in a reconstruction season: the pool that collapsed, the website that was broken for two years, the HitLab torn up for a year and a half, and what finally came back together. Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I walk through two years where everything I'd built was under construction at once. The pool we finished in 2023 collapsed less than a year l...

This week we are joined by entrepreneur, benefits consultant and founder of QuoteMap AI, Caleb Herndon! Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Hitstreak, I sit down with Caleb Herndon, a partner at Benefits Blueprint and the founder of QuoteMap AI. Caleb never planned on insurance. He started in financial planning, wanted to serve...

This week it's a men's health conversation: the son who made Nick get serious, the supplements and peptides he's running right now, and why the feeling is the whole point. Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I start with my son Ethan, who didn't speak for two years, was diagnosed at Vanderbilt at two years old, and is now a rock star junior with the men...

This week we are joined by real estate investor, entrepreneur, author and former pro ballplayer DJ Thielen! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Hitstreak, I sit down with DJ Thielen, a former San Francisco Giants draft pick who has spent more than two decades as a real estate investor and is the founder of Cheap Homes University. DJ was a 19 year old sixth round pick out of a junior colleg...

This week Nick lays out the thing he's been sitting on for a year and a half: a baseball media network, built on a name his family has owned the whole time. Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I walk through the night it all clicked. The goal has always been a baseball media network, and it had been slowed down by things outside our control, so two weeks ago I decided...

Welcome to the Nick Hiter Show,  This week it's just Nick in Studio X with a story he first read at 11 years old, a mile from where he sits: a 15 year old in Wilmington, North Carolina looking for his name on a list. Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I start with the roster that didn't have Michael J...

Episode 255 of The Hitstreak, a podcast where we talk about anything and everything! This week we are on location with portrait artist Tim Liddle! Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Hitstreak, we leave the Hitlab and set up inside the Point View Gallery in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, the lakeside home, gallery and working studio o...

This week Nick is fresh off emceeing the Real Financial training event in Vegas, and the whole conversation comes back to one idea: the people dreams come true for are the ones who were already there in their mind. Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I unpack the training day event in Vegas where I had to open t...

This week it's just Nick and the camera. A short one on time, seasons, and the price of the life you said you wanted. Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I work through something I've been chewing on during my morning walks: right now I have a lot of responsibility to a lot of companies and a lot of pe...

This week we are joined by speaker, author, entrepreneur and clarity architect Rick Barker! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Hitstreak, I sit down with Rick Barker, a former manager of Taylor Swift who started at his lowest possible point. Rick was Santa Barbara's number one DJ when he was arrested live on the air, went to jail three and a half years sober, and calls it the best wo...

This week Nick is in the hot seat, breaking down his first months as Senior Vice President and COO of Real Financial. Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I break down my first months as Senior Vice President and COO of Real Financial. I just got back from the desert, where we rolled out the entire new business m...

The Nick Hiter Show — Why You Freeze When It Counts (And How to Fix It) In this one, I take you inside a high stakes call and break down what it actually takes to perform when the pressure is real. Comfort isn't a personality trait, it's a skill, and I walk through how I build it: eliminate the environment, lock in on the purpose of the meeting, and prepare until the moment can't sh...

The Nick Hiter Show — You'll Never Outlive Your Self-Image In this one, I get into what really separates the people who perform under pressure from the people who fold — and it starts with pace. I break down why pace is the ultimate KPI, how streamlining communication turns weeks of work into minutes, and why the way you talk to yourself sets the ceiling on everything you do in public. I open...

Episode 253 of The Hitstreak, a podcast where we talk about anything and everything! This week we are joined by Southern crossover artist and American Idol Top 30 Bryant Thomas! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Hitstreak, I sit down with Bryant Thomas, a Southern crossover artist and American Idol Top 30 who is in Nashville recording his debut album. Bryant was a fire protection inspect...

The Nick Hiter Show — Give People Their Flowers Before They Die (Feat. Derek Young) In this one, I sit down with Derek Young — DY — for one of the most honest, layered conversations we've had on the show. Derek's a leadership and executive coach who's guided well over a thousand leaders, and he brings a rare mix of wisdom, faith, and hard-earned perspective. We get into his concept...

The Nick Hiter Show — Who You Help Matters In this one, I get into a lesson that's reshaped how I lead: who you help matters — and helping the right people, in the right way, changes everything. I talk about the difference between a handout and a hand up, and why "helping" the wrong person often just builds dependency instead of real progress. We get into the pace of high-level oper...

This week we are joined by the Sports Field Manager at Vanderbilt University, Adam Adkins! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Hitstreak, I sit down with Adam Adkins, the Sports Field Manager at Vanderbilt University and a guy I have known for 30 years. Adam and a team of five or six are responsible for nearly every varsity athletic surface on campus, roughly 24 acres with 11 and a half of...

The Nick Hiter Show — The Cost of Your New Life Is Your Old Life In this one, I get real about the difference between having a title and actually being the leader that title demands. I open up about the moment I realized I had "CEO" on paper but wasn't operating like one — and why that recognition is the actual starting line. We get into leading yourself before your family or team w...

Episode 251 of The Hitstreak, a podcast where we talk about anything and everything! This week we are joined by the Founder and Owner of CHIPS Performance Training and the voice behind SwagnShades, Alex Hale! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Hitstreak, I get to sit down with Alex Hale — better known across social media as SwagnShades — founder of CHIPS Performance Training, to break dow...

The Nick Hiter Show — Nobody Rises to the Occasion: You Sink to Your Training How do the best leaders stay calm when everything's moving at once? In this episode I get into mastering control under chaos — how to manage your environment, build mental resilience, and communicate in a way that keeps everyone moving in the right direction. I talk about what "good chaos" actually looks l...

Welcome back to The Nick Hiter Show  In this one, I dig into the mechanics of sales — how to qualify leads, cut to the chase, and build relationships that actually work for both sides. I talk about why accountability and preparation are non-negotiable, where to draw the line between helping and serving people, and how personal health and discipline feed straight into business performance. From the...

Something new starts here. This is the very first episode of The Nick Hiter Show, a brand-new show I'm launching outside of The Hitstreak — a different format, a different kind of conversation, and a space to go deeper on the stuff that doesn't always fit the usual mold. Thanks for being here from day one. In this opener, I get into the complexities of navigating legal challenges — speci...