7-Figure Leap with Dustin Riechmann

What do you do when the business looks fine on paper and still feels heavier every month? Dustin Riechmann sits down with Ezra Max, a rabbi, former EMS chief, and leadership advisor who helps entrepreneurs reclaim agency inside complexity. Ezra breaks down the four Cs he uses with founders and leaders: clarity, choose, commit, cultivate. He shows how each one plays out when the pressure is real, f...

What do you do when the work that looks great on paper no longer feels right? Career coach Ben Fox joins Dustin Riechmann to talk about burnout, identity, and the difficult decision to leave a job or change direction in your business. Ben shares how he helps clients calculate their financial runway and choose a Goldilocks quit date that gives them enough time to prepare without staying stuck indef...

Your next client may never visit your website. They're asking ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity who can solve their problem, and if AI can't clearly tell who you are and who you serve, you simply don't show up. In this episode, Dustin sits down with AI visibility strategist Cassie Egli of Straight Forward Consulting and Marketing, who learned this lesson the hard way. When she split her agency into t...

How much can one well matched podcast interview change a business? Corey Ganim joins Dustin Riechmann to share how he moved from Amazon wholesale into AI services, then built a community teaching others to find their first or next AI services client. Corey explains his $1,000 AI assessment, which helps a business owner identify three to seven practical AI opportunities with the potential to save a...

What does success look like when growth, impact, and personal fulfillment all matter? In this conversation, Dustin Riechmann sits down with Alex Judd, founder of Path for Growth, to explore a more durable answer: success is faithfulness. Alex shares how leaders can make clearer decisions without trying to control every outcome, why wisdom requires humility and community, and how mission driven fou...

What if the next level of success is not bigger, faster, or more automated? In this replay, Dustin Riechmann sits down with entrepreneur and author Ryan Levesque to explore the tension ambitious business owners feel after growth starts working. Ryan shares his journey from building and selling businesses to choosing a more grounded life in Vermont, where his family raises much of their own food an...

Most entrepreneurs are building a business and quietly calling it a retirement plan. Amelia Meisenheimer joins Dustin Riechmann to explain why that math usually fails, since only about 30% of businesses ever actually sell, and what to build instead. Amelia grew up inside her family's manufactured housing business, bought her first rental property shortly after college, and went on to run a propert...

Dr. Ryan Williamson spent the better part of two decades becoming a neurologist, a Navy officer, and the doctor people call when a brain is bleeding, and then realized he was meeting patients decades too late to actually help them. In his second visit to the show, he walks Dustin through the full arc of turning deep expertise into a real business: the years of quiet dissatisfaction while the paych...

Building a remote team should create more freedom, but for many entrepreneurs it does the opposite. Every decision comes back to the founder, communication gets scattered, and even capable contractors wait for direction instead of owning outcomes. Remote leadership expert Madi Waggoner joins Dustin Riechmann to explain why this happens and how to change it. Drawing on 15 years of experience, Madi...

In this replay of one of our most requested solo episodes, Dustin Riechmann makes the case that every coach, consultant, and agency owner needs a signature framework, and then shows you exactly how to build one. Dustin walks through why a named, repeatable process is the single most valuable asset in a coaching business: it creates clarity for your audience, positions you as the authority, and let...

Most entrepreneurs do not need more time for marketing. They need to protect the right time. In this solo episode, Dustin Riechmann shares the Profit Power Hour, a simple practice for giving the first hour of your workday to activities that can create revenue. He explains why proactive growth work gets buried beneath email, meetings, client needs, and other urgent demands, then shows how to choose...

If you keep waiting until you feel ready to become more visible, you may be postponing the very action that could unlock your next stage of growth. In this solo episode, Dustin Riechmann breaks down three common myths that keep accomplished entrepreneurs from using podcast guesting effectively: believing you need a large audience, assuming you must be famous or have decades of experience, and chas...

Many founders become successful because they learn how to sell, but the same strength can eventually limit the business. In this episode, Dustin Riechmann talks with Steve Caton of Alteza Solutions about recognizing when founder led sales has become a bottleneck and making the transition to a sales team without losing the trust, values, or passion that made the company successful. Steve explains w...

Dustin sits down with Kenneth Kollasch, founder of Kenneth Coaches, to unpack the fast, practical wins Kenneth experienced after joining Podcast Profits Accelerator. Kenneth shares the story behind his unusual entrepreneurial path, from professional soccer dreams to ballroom dance championships, franchise business experience, StoryBrand certification, and business coaching for small business owner...

What happens when you finally hit the number you've been chasing and it feels like nothing? Dustin sits down with executive coach Hannah Soto, a serial entrepreneur who built a production company creating ads for Apple, Google, and the Olympics, to unpack the gap: the space between where you are today and where your ambition wants to take you. Hannah shares why hitting $2 million in annual revenue...

Positioning is everything, and in this episode Dustin sits down with positioning coach Chris DuBois, founder of Dynamic Agency OS, to unpack the 11 elements that determine whether your business gets chosen or simply gets compared on price. Chris explains why being "the only" in your category no longer works, since the market copies anything successful almost overnight, and why the real advantage c...

Dustin Riechmann sits down with repeat guest and business bestie John Meese for something a little different: a live coaching session on launching a book the smart way. John is about to release Sold Out Coach, his complete playbook for earning $10,000 or more per month through group coaching in just 90 minutes per week, and Dustin walks him through a podcast guesting strategy designed to turn that...

This highlight episode brings together some of the most powerful conversations from recent seasons of the Seven Figure Leap podcast. Patt takes us inside his obsession with storytelling, breaking down why imperfection is the ingredient most creators are too afraid to use and how a single YouTube video about an incomplete Pokémon collection turned into a masterclass in human connection that earned...

In this collection of standout conversations from the Seven Figure Leap podcast, Dustin Riechmann sits down with three brilliant entrepreneurs — Marc, Caleb, and Justin Welsh — to tackle the questions every online business owner is wrestling with right now: How do you use AI without losing your creative edge? What's actually holding you back from scaling to seven figures? And why is community your...

If you've ever felt burnt out, stuck, or like you want to burn down what you've built — you're not broken, you're misaligned. In this episode, Dustin sits down with Mike Grinberg, founder of Proof Point Marketing, who reveals why the founder is always the constraint in a founder-led firm — and what to actually do about it. Mike unpacks his "Owner's Clarity" framework, built around four core constr...

Dustin Riechmann breaks down the simple but powerful math behind turning podcast guesting into a six-figure marketing channel. Speaking directly to growth-minded entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, and service-based business owners, Dustin explains why appearing on the right podcasts can outperform traditional interruption-based marketing by putting your message in front of warm, trusting audienc...

In this solo episode of 7-Figure Leap, Dustin Riechmann makes the case that we're living in a "trust recession" — an online world so loud, crowded, and AI-saturated that attention has become cheap while trust has never been more valuable. Drawing on a recent client who bought after silently lurking on LinkedIn (never liking, commenting, or sharing), Dustin argues that followers are lagging indicat...

Dustin Riechmann sits down with StoryBrand-certified guide and marketing strategist Katie Weiss of Golden Edge Strategies to tackle the single biggest reason talented founders, coaches, and consultants stay invisible: they refuse to own one problem. Katie shares how a sudden life upheaval — leaving a decade-long career on Capitol Hill and starting over as a single mom — taught her that clarity isn...

Dustin breaks down why celebrating wins is not a fluffy mindset exercise but a practical growth strategy for entrepreneurs scaling toward seven figures. Drawing from his own experience building Seven Figure Leap to seven figures in less than two years, Dustin explains how a focus on wins helps founders train their attention toward opportunity, avoid the trap of constantly measuring themselves agai...

If you've ever said "I'm really good at what I do, but I'm not very good at marketing," this episode is for you. Dustin Riechmann breaks down why experts, coaches, and consultants should stop trying to be full-time content creators and start borrowing trust from other people's audiences instead. He explains how podcast guesting, speaking on stages, and guest training in communities generate higher...