7-Figure Mentor

Most Pilates instructors teach the same classes for years and never build anything bigger. That's leaving a business on the table. Carla, founder of HIIT Pilates in Sydney , went from magazine advertising to Pilates instructor after her second baby. Within six months of launching, she had two studios . Then a three-month COVID lockdown shut her doors, and she used it to write a teacher traini...

Most business owners write a book, stick it in a drawer, and move on. That’s leaving a fortune on the table. Tenita Johnson has written 26 books . One of them, When the Smoke Clears , became a stage play , then a full movie in September 2026, and now a series is in the works. In this episode, Tenita shows you how to pick the right book to write , how to finish it in 60 days without typing a word f...

You built the business. You hit the goals. So why does home feel like a war zone? Tim Arrigo went from shooting heroin on the streets of Los Angeles to helping over 5,000 couples fix their relationships. Today he coaches successful men who are crushing it at work but struggling with their wives. In this raw, no-holds-barred talk, Tim explains why the same drive that makes you great in business is...

Nothing moves in your company without you, and you're quietly proud of it. David Bishop says that pride could cost you the business. David ran a $3 billion a year distribution business for MGM and Sony and helped launch DVD and Blu-ray. Now he coaches CEO founders through the jump from "I do everything" to leading a real team. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why the habits that g...

Everybody says you need to be "AI first." Max Dunn says that's how you lose your customers. Max founded Silicon Publishing 26 years ago. His team built the tools behind the photo books, greeting cards, wedding invites, and book covers you make on Shutterfly, Hallmark, Minted, and Amazon . Some days they put out 30 million pieces . He has also been hit by almost everything that can g...

Think you're underrated by the VA? You might be right. Marine veteran Robert Pinero got stuck in his girlfriend's car because his back hurt so bad he couldn't get out. The VA had him at 20% . A second doctor's exam put him at 40% , plus 20% on each leg for a problem nobody had caught. That's when he realized the system was broken. Now his company, Veterans Educating Vetera...

What if the fastest way to fix your income isn't doing more… it's doing less of the wrong thing? Isabelle Fox started in a brothel at 18, making a few hundred bucks a booking with zero control over her income. Within a few years, she became the highest-charging escort in Australia at $2,000 an hour. Now she runs Escort Academy , where she coaches adult industry workers to build steady, p...

What if you could own a website that local businesses pay you rent for every single month? Kyle spent 10 years in TV working the Super Bowl halftime show and big award shows. The pay was great when he worked, but he had zero control of his income. Then he tried dropshipping, affiliate marketing, and day trading. None of it stuck. In 2019 he found a simple idea: build a website, rank it on page one...

Forrest Jinks started by fixing up a house so he could buy a truck. He had zero construction experience , so he stood outside Home Depot and asked painters questions in the parking lot. Today he manages $550 million . In between, he lost a piece of land worth $1.3 million and sold it for $425,000 . That crash taught him the rules he still runs his company by twenty years later. This episode is the...

Dr. Sterling Carter opened his first physical therapy clinic in 2007 thinking that if he was the most skilled doctor in the room, patients would just show up. They didn't. He spent years bumping his head, working 60 to 80 hours a week, doing the treatments, the scheduling, and the bookkeeping himself. Then he brought in his twin brother Stephen, an MBA who had never treated a patient in his l...

In 2023, Lauren Lucas watched her real estate team shrink from 7 agents to 3 when rates nearly doubled overnight. Most people would have shut it down. She went the other way. She spent 18 months learning AI off YouTube, rebuilt her business around automation, and grew over 30% the next year with less than half her team. That turned into 150+ keynotes and workshops around the world in 14 months. In...

Most owners think a bad month means they need better closers. Josh Long has spent 18 years proving that's almost never the problem. In this episode he breaks down why he starts every diagnosis at the moment the contract gets signed, why chasing "pain" on sales calls is a low-level move that costs you money, and why $5 million in revenue is the most miserable place a business can sit...

Jay Cameron spent 45 years believing what he was told about Africa. Then he pulled up Google Earth one night, looked down at Accra, and saw swimming pools and luxury homes. That single moment ended one story and started a whole new business. Today Jay has been to 56 countries, holds three passports, and has taken almost 3,000 people around the world. In This Episode, You'll Learn: Why Jay say...

George Wiseman spent 30 years sitting on a technology he thought was only good for welding torches and fuel savers. Then a customer told him it did something else entirely. He didn't believe her. He kept not believing her for nine more years. By the time he tested it on himself, his wife was gone. This episode is that story, plus the part almost nobody in the hydrogen space will say out loud:...

What happens to your shop the week you go on vacation? If the answer is "nothing," you don't have a business. You have a job with employees. In this episode, Evan sits down with Clayton from Scorpion , a family company out of Cloverdale, Indiana that's spent over 30 years helping regular people get into the automotive accessory business without dropping $50,000 to $80,000 on fr...

Most people think a life insurance policy pays out because someone died. That is not true. In this episode, life insurance claim attorney Stephie Prestridge explains the part nobody tells you: a policy pays out because the claim survived a review . Not because your person is gone. Because the paperwork lined up. Stephie did not plan on this career. She went to law school because someone told her s...

Most teachers plan the whole year in advance. Then they teach it exactly as planned, no matter what the students in front of them are actually doing. Douglas Fisher says that's backwards. Plan backwards, teach forward. In this episode, Doug breaks down the four phases of learning he and his colleagues built out of an old reading theory called the gradual release of responsibility . It started...

Most of us grew up believing the same thing: you get sick, you go to the doctor, they fix you. Dr. Joe Jacko spent 36 years inside that system . He's board-certified in internal medicine and sports medicine . In this episode he explains why that simple story leaves a lot out. This is not a doctor-bashing episode. Dr. Joe is clear that medicine does a ton of good . His point is more useful tha...

Most people think they did everything right. They maxed the 401(k). They didn't touch it. They followed the plan. Barry James Dyke says that plan was built for Wall Street first and for savers second. Barry started at Prudential about 40 years ago and was named rookie of the year . Then he spent the next four decades taking the whole system apart. He wrote The Pirates of Manhattan , which has...

You've hit every goal you set. The house. The car. The revenue number you swore would make you feel done. And you still can't turn your brain off. You sit at dinner with your family and your body is there but your head is somewhere else. You check your phone 10 minutes into your kid's baseball game and nothing even buzzed . You end the day exhausted but you can't point to one b...

Tim James was about to be handed the keys to a multi-million dollar business . On paper, he'd won. Inside, his body was falling apart. Eczema bleeding through his dress shirts. His gut bleeding for two and a half years. His energy gone. Then one class flipped a switch and changed his whole life. In this episode, you'll learn how to spot the real root of low energy, gut issues, and skin p...

Most people visit Italy and see the same postcards everyone else does. Joseph Walker spent 30 years finding the Italy hiding underneath it. A sunken Roman city off the coast of Naples, wines you can only taste in tiny local pockets, and forgotten kingdoms no guidebook mentions. In this episode, he shows you how to travel Italy like an explorer instead of a tourist. What You'll Learn How Josep...

Most successful people have already "won." The money, the house, the safe neighborhood. But almost all of them carry one quiet doubt they never say out loud: if things went bad, could I actually protect myself and the people I love? In this episode, close protection specialist Sam Rosenberg breaks down why even the toughest, most accomplished people freeze in a crisis, and the simple ski...

Amanda was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader finalist working in private equity. Training every day. Eating clean. Doing everything right. Then her body shut down in two months . 35 pounds on. Gut swollen four inches . Estrogen in the post-menopausal range in her 20s . Brain fog so bad she went from nine productive hours a day to two. Six doctors told her she was fine. In this episode Amanda breaks dow...

Most people think retirement is the finish line. Cross it and you're free. But there's a quieter fear nobody says out loud... what happens to my money when I don't have a paycheck coming in anymore? In this episode, Robby breaks down the exact system he built after watching his own family almost lose everything in 2008. He was on Wall Street when Lehman Brothers blew up. He watched...