The Investor's Guide To Joy

In this episode, Jen Kelly shares how a company unlocked $22 million in pipeline by refining lead nurturing and sales strategies. Paul Graham discusses growth mindset, customer diversification, and effective marketing tactics for business success. Timel...

Larry G. Dix II shares his transformative journey of self-awareness, the importance of delegation, accountability, and living intentionally to maximize success and fulfillment in business and life. Timeline 00:00 Introduction and the importance of self...

In this episode, Paul Graham and Richard Boyd discuss the critical role of financial management and fractional CFOs in scaling businesses from five to thirty million dollars. They explore real-world stories, misconceptions about CFOs, and how AI is tra...

In this episode, Paul sits down with Elisabeth Bykoff ex-PwC, 10-year venture veteran, and founder of Boxsy, to break down why most founders start the fundraising process completely wrong, whether you actually need to raise at all, and how an AI COO pl...

JD Rockefeller invented the family office in 1882 because every advisor he had was working in a silo and nobody was talking to each other. Most business owners today have the exact same problem. Dale Montgomery oversees a virtual family office with 70+...

An advisor came to Perry Woodin and said his client had 50 crypto wallets. When they looked closer, they found 150. With dozens of digital assets across them that the client didn't even know existed. Perry Woodin is the co-founder of Node40, a digital ...

It's not a magic robot. It's an LLM call on a while loop. Mike Vanamburg has built AI agents for companies across industries — from cannabis dispensaries to bookkeeping firms to his own business — and the lesson he keeps learning is the same every time...

He had a booming business in 2024. Great profit. Cash in the bank. Then he launched a new product, hired new employees, bought new vehicles and within a year had lost everything he'd saved and was calling banks to ask about hardship assistance. Richard...

Most business owners invest in real estate the same way they run their business in the early days doing everything themselves, trusting their gut, and skipping the team that would actually get them to scale. Matthew Owens is a CPA who quit his firm in ...

People spend three to five years saving $100,000 then lose it in three to five months chasing the wrong oil and gas deal. Courtney has personally invested in over 100 wells and manages a portfolio of nearly 100 more, and she's seen it all: dry holes, f...

AI isn't a search engine. It's not Google. And the executives treating it like one are missing the entire shift. Dov Levin works with executives and small-to-medium businesses to implement AI the right way starting with mindset, not the most expensive ...

One outage. One hour. $1.5 million in lost revenue. That's the reality for enterprise companies running fragmented databases across multiple clouds, tools, and teams with no single place to see, manage, or fix any of it. Janardhan, founder of DBaaS Now...

You bought the short-term rental. You're paying 20% to a property manager. And somehow, you're still stressed, still losing money, and still getting a text at 2AM about a broken microwave. Taylor Jolly has managed short-term rentals across Texas and se...

Marc Walton has lived through the dot-com boom, the 2008 crash, the crypto run of 2020, and a gold bull market that delivered 300% gains on a single miner, all while trading Forex for 15 years from a sun-soaked island in Portugal. In this episode, he a...

Michael Schiltz spent 14 years mastering sales including carrying a $12M quota at Dell before moving into consulting to help founders do the one thing most can't: step out of the sales seat and build a system that scales without them. In this episode, ...

Steven Nunez left corporate after 10 years, put six figures into his first build, and now owns and operates multiple full-service laundry centers across Central and South Florida all managed remotely from New Jersey. In this episode, he breaks down the...

Joe Feminella, entrepreneur and founder of First Round on Me, gets raw about what it really takes to raise $5M+ across multiple company pivots, no Harvard degree required. In this episode, Joe breaks down how a single investor conversation changed ever...

In this episode, host Paul Graham sits down with Curtis Clough, a seasoned educational leader and superintendent, to discuss the critical intersection of K-12 education, workforce development, and economic growth. Curtis shares his unique "trifecta" pe...

Is your leadership style adding or multiplying? In this episode, Paul Graham sits down with Tim 'Coach' Scholze, a seasoned leader who climbed from the mailroom to the executive suite, to discuss why most CEOs fail when they focus solely on the data. T...

Are you building a billion-dollar company with a thousand-dollar mindset? In this episode, Paul Graham sits down with Eric Nghiem, founder of The Cashflow Doctor, to dissect the financial "hiccups" that sink tech startups during due diligence. Eric sha...

In this episode, Max from CloudGo.ai explains how companies bleed millions in cloud spend. Discover how to audit your environment to ensure your tech stack is ready for VC due diligence or a single engineer becoming a point of expensive failure. 00:25 ...

In this relaunch episode, I share why I paused the show for nine months to shift from "making noise" to creating real transformation. Discover how to grow your net worth without losing your identity or your family, as you transition from a moneymaker t...

In this episode of The Investor’s Guide to Joy, Paul Graham sits down with business strategist Jimmy Rios to unpack major SBA rule changes coming June 1, 2025, and what they mean for business owners looking to sell, scale, or bulletproof their companie...

In this episode of The Investor’s Guide to Joy, Paul Graham sits down with cost-reduction expert Shawn Stratton to uncover how business owners can save thousands without sacrificing service quality. From telecom audits to waste management, Shawn breaks...

In this episode of The Investor’s Guide to Joy, host Paul Graham sits down with Shawn Stratton of Schooley Mitchell to uncover how businesses can boost profitability by slashing hidden operating costs without sacrificing service. From waste removal to ...