Super Entrepreneurs Podcast

What if the idea you're most attached to is the very thing holding your business back? Mike Gomoll knows what it's like to change direction. He started Joey's Song, a nonprofit supporting epilepsy research, with a modest goal: raise $500 and help another family facing what his own family had experienced. Mike and his wife lost their son Joey to a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome, short...

Can someone spend 14½ years behind bars and learn something about freedom that many of us never notice on the outside? In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast , Shahid Durrani sits down with Fleet Maull , founder of Heart Mind Institute and author of Radical Responsibility , for a thoughtful conversation about the invisible prisons we carry within ourselves. Fleet entered federal prison...

What happens when AI makes polished content easy for almost everyone? We get more content, more competition for attention and a much bigger question around who we actually trust. In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, Shahid Durrani sits down with Jenna Guarneri , Founder and CEO of JMG Public Relations and author of You Need PR , to explore what building real authority looks like in...

What if your ROAS looks healthy while your advertising is quietly hurting profitability? In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, Shahid Durrani sits down with Hal Smith, founder of H Street Digital , a performance marketing agency focused on helping outdoor and DTC e-commerce brands scale profitably. Hal explains why return on ad spend can be misleading when founders don't separate new...

What does it actually take to grow from five employees to nearly 6,000 without giving up ownership of your company? In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, Shahid Durrani sits down with Pranav Dalal, founder and CEO of Office Beacon, to unpack the 25-year journey behind one of the most interesting stories in global remote staffing. Pranav started Office Beacon after the dot-com crash,...

What if the best way to make a sale is to stop trying to convince people? In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, Shahid Durrani speaks with Cam Tolman, founder of Pitch Down, about authentic sales, buyer psychology, trust, and the deeper human side of business development. Cam shares how he went from avoiding sales to becoming a top-performing salesperson and eventually building his o...

Chris Miles became financially free at 28. Then his world changed. During the financial crisis, Chris went more than $1 million into debt, relied on public assistance, gave up his Mercedes, lost his home, and faced collection calls while trying to keep his business and family afloat. Instead of filing for bankruptcy, he says he eventually worked his way through the debt and rebuilt his financial l...

What happens when the cost of college keeps rising while AI makes knowledge available almost instantly? That question sits at the heart of this conversation with John Fees, founder of GradGuard , a company approaching $100 million in sales after a 15-year journey to help protect college students and their families from financial risks many don't realize they're taking. John explains something surp...

Richard "Rick" Veach knows what it feels like to succeed, lose it, and have to build all over again. At 35, Rick says his net worth had reached $5 million. By 36, it had fallen to negative $1.5 million. He went through full bankruptcy with three young children at home and had to return to an industry he'd previously left just to begin rebuilding. But that wasn't the end of his entrepreneurial stor...

What happens when your business grows—but every decision, problem, and question still comes back to you? At some point, working harder stops being the answer. In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast , Shahid Durrani sits down with Lindsay White , founder of High Voltage Leadership , fractional people/HR expert, leadership coach, and people strategy specialist, to explore one of the most...

What does it really take to stay calm when everything around you is telling you to panic? For Sam Rosenberg , that question became deeply personal when, as a young college bouncer, a man pulled a gun and pointed it directly at his face. Sam was physically capable, athletic, and accustomed to confrontation—but in that moment, he froze. The experience taught him something that would shape the next t...

What happens when hard work gets you somewhere, but your beliefs, financial habits, and systems aren't ready to keep you there? Digna DeLeon-Morris knows that experience firsthand. She came to the United States at 17 searching for the American dream, built a career in corporate America, became an entrepreneur, made millions with her husband and then, as Digna shares in this conversation, lost it a...

What happens when millions of viewers begin moving away from expensive streaming subscriptions and toward free, ad-supported entertainment? In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast , Shahid Durrani sits down with Vikrant Mathur , Founder and CEO of Future Today, one of the pioneers in the FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television) industry. With more than 120 million app downloads acr...

AI is changing the world faster than ever-but are we preparing the next generation for what's coming? In this thought-provoking episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast , Shahid Durrani sits down with Matt Dalio , founder of Endless Studios , to discuss why creativity, entrepreneurship, and problem-solving may become far more valuable than traditional technical skills in an AI-driven economy. Ra...

What happens when the founder of a $10M SaaS company admits that business growth has slowed down? Is AI really replacing jobs, or is it creating an even bigger opportunity for entrepreneurs? In this episode, Dean Matthews—founder of OnTheClock, a software platform trusted by thousands of businesses—shares what he's seeing after more than two decades of building SaaS. From starting at his kitchen t...

How to Choose the Right Business Partner (Like Choosing a Spouse) | Building a Chocolate Company from Zero Revenue | Chef Brandon Olsen & Michael Held In this episode, Chef Brandon Olsen and Michael Held share exactly how they chose each other as business partners and built a chocolate manufacturing company in Canada from zero revenue. They currently operate out of a 16,000 square foot warehouse w...

In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, Jermane Cheathem shares how he closed over $50 million in sales without ads, a sales team, or a personal brand. Learn client acquisition, strategic partnerships, high-ticket sales, lead generation, networking, business growth, sales psychology, and proven strategies to get more clients. Jump to any topic using the chapters below.   🔔 Super Entre...

What if your car could earn you a full-time passive income while you sleep? In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, we sit down with Rei Vardi, the founder of Eon, who turned a single Tesla into an 8-figure EV rental marketplace—all without raising a single dollar of outside capital. Rei shares the incredible story of bootstrapping a startup from a college dorm room to managing 3,500+...

In today's episode, we sit down with Mark A. Pitman, leadership coach, nonprofit fundraising expert, and author of The Surprising Gift of Doubt, who has trained over 27,000 leaders across every major economic crisis of the last 25 years. Mark runs Conquer Leadership Group and works with CEOs, nonprofit founders, and new managers who are stuck - not because they lack skill, but because they don't y...

The Next 5 Years Will Change Everything - AI, Jobs, Robots & The End of Work As We Know It What if I told you the job you have today might not exist in 5 years? In this jaw-dropping conversation, entrepreneur and AI strategist Gary breaks down exactly what's coming - and why most people are completely unprepared. We cover: → Why your job is NOT as safe as you think → The 5 industries AI will compl...

Most AI content sounds fake. Here's why - and how to fix it. Robert Scheinfeld spent 37 years as a world-renowned coach before discovering something about AI that nobody in the industry talks about. It is not about better prompts. It is not about automation. It is about the hidden game underneath everything — and once you see it, your results change forever. In this episode you will learn: Why you...

This episode covers entrepreneurship, business growth, credit card points, airline miles, travel hacking, AI business opportunities, social media trust building, creator economy strategies, and modern business mindset frameworks. Most people are losing money every day without realizing it — not because they don't earn enough, but because they don't understand how to create and capture value. In th...

Why do 40–60% of high-ticket sales end with the customer doing nothing? According to strategic thinking expert Simon Bowen, it's not because your product is bad — it's because buyers no longer know how to make confident decisions. In this episode of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, Simon Bowen explains the psychology behind influence, sales, decision-making, strategic thinking, and why most modern bus...

Is your business stuck? Here's the exact diagnosis. Most founders think they need more strategies, more content, more marketing channels. But $6M founder Ali Hafizji — CEO of Wednesday, an AI-native product engineering company that has worked with multiple unicorns — says the opposite is true. In this episode of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, Ali reveals the framework he uses to diagnose any stuck b...

What does it take to walk away from a six-figure career, take an 80% pay cut, and build a $17 million business from scratch — then sell it back to the very company that inspired you? In this episode of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, host Shahid Durrani sits down with Darren Spicer - Founder & CEO of Clutch Coffee Bar, QSR consultant, keynote speaker, and 2x advisory board member - to unpack the real...