OverPressure Podcast

The Overpressure Podcast’s latest episode features Bart, a Utah-based entrepreneur who calls himself the “Side Hustle Samurai” and asks the same question of everything that crosses his path: how can I monetize this? The habit started when his dream of joining the FBI to chase serial killers died after the eye surgery he got during a summer on his dad’s New Mexico farm automatically disqualified hi...

The Overpressure Podcast’s latest episode features Luke, a farm kid from Twin Falls, Idaho, who had a good sales career and a family he loved but still felt something was missing. Success, he realized, doesn’t mean fulfillment. That changed in 2012, when he heard at church about local kids sleeping on the floor and built them a bunk bed with his Boy Scout troop. The best material is the second bed...

The Overpressure Podcast’s latest episode features Kelly, a Delray Beach, Florida-based entrepreneur who grew up about 45 minutes outside Philadelphia and spent 10 years in the Fortune 500 world, where she was promoted seven times in eight years. Today she runs a portfolio of six companies, has been on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies, has appeared on the NASDAQ building, and is the...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Joshua, co-founder of Intrinsi, a full-stack marketing agency based in Lancashire in northwest England. His path to entrepreneurship started from what he calls failing school and leaving with nothing. He talked his way into college anyway, then cycled through dead-end jobs, growing comfortable and then uncomfortable enough to move on, all whi...

The Overpressure Podcast’s latest episode features Matthew, a Houston-based attorney who works in estate planning, business structuring, and tax strategy. His route into the field was anything but direct. He spent three and a half years as a pre-med student before a paper cut during a summer organic chemistry class made him realize he didn’t even like blood. He closed the book, walked out, moved t...

The Overpressure Podcast’s latest episode is a solo episode from host Austin Holmes, a former Navy explosive ordnance disposal technician who points out that defusing bombs sounds exciting until you realize 90% of the job is paperwork and preparation. Today he’s president of Raptor and runs his businesses alongside his wife, Heather, whom he met in San Diego. After the military, he joined her firm...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Carly, a Southern California coach and consultant whose first business lesson came in fourth grade, when she got in trouble for selling things at school. She took two things from it: people value good things, and she wasn't going to give them away for free. After a rocky start at community college, where a career advisor told her the pat...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Julia Rock, a Las Vegas-based leadership expert who spent her corporate career in finance at two of the biggest companies in the world, JPMorgan Chase and ExxonMobil. Her business began almost by accident. In college she wrote resumes and coached friends, family, and classmates for free, and she kept doing it as a hobby after starting her car...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Katie, a Dallas-based operator and founder of FRX, a fractional operations firm whose 14 advisors have worked with about 3,200 companies in recent years. As a COO for different founders and visionaries, she kept running into the same two things. The traditional COO role was outdated, and new COOs walked into companies full of fear, where staf...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Mart, a Desert Storm-era veteran from Fort Worth, Texas, who is building Hero Haven, a nonprofit designed to treat veterans and their families in one place. His path there started with watching close military friends struggle with the aftermath of service. About seven years ago he joined a nonprofit serving veterans and first responders with...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Peter, a business coach joining from across the pond who spent 16 years at McDonald's, a company he calls the grandfather of the turnkey business, before buying and selling a restaurant of his own. He never planned to become a coach. Between careers, he agreed to explore a coaching franchise, did his due diligence, found the franchise pa...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Nancy, a retired nurse and author from the Toledo-Detroit border area who's been writing since she was four years old and still gets called back into nursing work decades after retiring. Her father was a charismatic government photographer with a photographic memory who danced at weddings and ran the church, yet something unspoken happen...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Faisal, a high-performance coach based in Canada who's worked with over 2,000 clients across 11 years, built on a personal history he doesn't shy away from sharing. In his early 20s, addiction and self-destructive behavior brought him to a moment outside a subway station, throwing up, seeing blood on the floor, and watching stranger...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features James, who started out as a freelance content writer during the early days of SEO, cutting his teeth on subjects as unglamorous as garage door openers and personal injury law before an unlikely phone call from his business partner rerouted his entire career. A self-described "off the grid billionaire," serial inventor John Hoffman,...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Annikka, an operations specialist who started as a virtual assistant in 2008, at 18, putting herself through college in the Philippines before most of the world had any concept of what remote work even was. Eighteen years later she's managed people across 23 countries and now runs both a virtual assistant agency and a sister OBM (Online...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Mike, a self-described "reluctant entrepreneur" who spent 34 years building an electronics manufacturing company he never actually set out to start. In the late 1980s, working in the industry, he came up with a way to eliminate a soon-to-be-banned ozone-depleting chemical from a manufacturing process entirely, rather than chase the...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Andrew, founder of Tech Rescue, a nearly 80-person tech support company built on a deliberately contrarian bet: while every competitor races toward bots and AI-driven customer service, Tech Rescue's entire business model rests on the simple promise that a real human picks up the phone. Andrew proved it live on air, dialing the company&ap...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Willie, a coach based in Boise, Idaho, who grew up dyslexic and knew early on he wanted to write and teach, just not through the traditional classroom model that made his own schooling so hard. His junior year 504 plan meeting, a conference room full of teachers and administrators laying out accommodations he'd need for the year, stuck w...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Steve, a 70-year-old executive and relationship coach who's lived his whole life within a few miles of his childhood home in Westbrook, Maine. He still gathers with high school friends every three months, backed by decades of shared history, though as he puts it, "you can't be a messiah in your own town." At 21, a broken e...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Alan, an engineer-turned-coach who followed the traditional path perfectly, WPI, corporate tech, six-figure income by his mid-20s, until a head-on car accident at 26 forced a reckoning. His birth father died in a car crash at 28, when Alan was 2. Surviving his own crash became the second chance his father never got, and it pushed him straight...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Eric, a former Baptist pastor who applied to the FBI before 9/11, got pulled in because the Bureau suddenly needed people who could talk to Muslims, and ended up spending over two decades as an agent, including 15 years as a SWAT operator, making more than a thousand arrests along the way. He didn't leave ministry for lack of love he lef...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Doug, a West Point grad who served during the Cold War drawdown of the '90s, watched his unit transform from a rarely-deployed "Fort Cartoon" outfit into a fully mobile force under the Army's Force 21 modernization, and left active duty in 1998 into a corporate world that, in his words, promised "everything you like a...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Ange, a copywriter who grew up moving constantly as an RAF kid in Malta, went to Singapore 30 years ago to teach English on what was supposed to be an 18-month stint, and instead built a copywriting agency there for two decades right as the industry itself went from nonexistent to essential to disrupted by AI, all within her career. The best...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Chip Schulz of Schulz Leadership Development, who got laid off from a job in LA 28 years ago, packed five cats, two or three dogs, and his wife into a 19-foot travel trailer, and drove cross-country to North Carolina arriving unable to spell "consultant" and starting his coaching business almost by accident. It later turned out his...

The Overpressure Podcast's latest episode features Dr. Chase Spears, who spent 20 years as a military public affairs officer after what he calls "God's idea of a practical joke gone way too far" a career neither he nor his family ever expected. He grew up loving news and broadcasting, planned to go into newsroom management, graduated in 2001 into the worst possible job market f...