The Real Jason Duncan Podcast

In Episode 374 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, the freest people Jason has ever met, no rules, no limits, nobody to answer to, were some of the most stuck people he’s ever met. This past week, just about everybody was celebrating exactly that kind of freedom. And it’s a lie. Real freedom was never about doing whatever you want. In this solo Wednesday episode drawn from his What’s Real newsletter...

In Episode 373 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, for years, Jerome Moore believed that people who thought differently than him politically held fundamentally different values. Then he spent years sitting across from hundreds of people, one slice of deep dish pizza at a time, and found out that wasn't true. Jerome Moore is an Emmy-nominated TV producer and host, born and raised in Nashville, Tennes...

In Episode 372 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, you signed your name, walked out on your own, and called it freedom. So why does it feel like the business owns you instead? Two hundred and fifty years ago this week, Thomas Jefferson sat in a hot rented room in Philadelphia and signed a document that could have gotten him hanged. That signature didn’t make anybody free — not that day. The actual w...

In Episode 371 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most companies believe they lost a top hire because the offer wasn't big enough. Kip Knippel has spent over a decade inside the rooms where those offers get made — and he says that assumption is the exact reason companies keep losing the people they need most. Kip Knippel is the founder of Kip Search, an executive recruiting firm built around a beli...

In Episode 370 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason delivers the truth that most high earners aren’t ready to hear at the halfway point of the year. You hit a number or you missed one. Either way, you’re probably telling yourself the same story. That the next milestone is where life actually starts. That the next zero buys the freedom. That the next deal closes the gap between the life you’re l...

In episode 369 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most high earners are sprinting toward a number that will never set them free — and the worst part is, everything around them says they're winning. Edward Collins, president and CEO of Up Level by Design, learned this truth the hard way. The year he finally hit seven figures in revenue, his accountant handed him a $352,000 tax bill — and in that sin...

In Episode 368 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason addresses one of the hardest golden cages a parent can see — because the bars are made of good intentions. You watch your kid struggle. Every cell in your body wants to step in and fix it. And that urge feels exactly like love. That’s the gold. The cage is what happens to a kid who never has to carry anything hard. Because the more you shield...

In episode 367 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most entrepreneurs believe AI is the great differentiator, the tool that will finally give them the edge. Jonathan Aberman spent decades at the center of the technology world watching that belief quietly destroy the one thing businesses actually compete on. Jonathan Aberman is an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation strategist who has helped launc...

In Episode 366 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason asks the question most entrepreneurs can’t answer honestly. Not what did you do yesterday — what did you actually get done? Because those are two very different questions. And the gap between them is where the lie lives. Busy and productive are not the same thing. And somewhere along the way, busy became a virtue — a badge we wear to prove we’...

In episode 365 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, you were probably told that college is the price of success. Ali Hemyari never paid it and spent twenty years building the proof that it was never true. Ali Hemyari is the founder of Nashville K-9, recognized by Bloomberg as one of the world's greatest canine training facilities, the only civilian in the state of Tennessee to complete the police-man...

In Episode 364 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason delivers one of the most uncomfortable truths a business owner can hear — and most don’t hear it until it’s too late. You have a number in your head. A number you’ve decided your business is worth. And there’s a very good chance that number is wrong. Not because your revenue is bad. Not because your team isn’t solid. But because buyers don’t b...

In episode 363 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Tom LeNoble discusses how he built careers at Facebook, Walmart, HP, and Verizon — the jobs most people spend their whole lives chasing. And then his body started breaking down. More than once. Life-threatening. And in those hospital rooms, stripped of every title he had built his identity on, he found out the truth his business cards had been hidin...

In Episode 362 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason confronts one of the most sincere lies an entrepreneur can believe – that presence, impact, and transformation can wait until later. The business will get there. The margin will come. And then you'll finally show up the way you're supposed to. Later never comes. Jason Duncan has watched this trap play out in the lives of some of the most accom...

In episode 361 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason speaks with DJ Carrol. He mowed grass in high school, borrowed $300 from his mom and grandma, built a company to three million dollars in revenue, and called it proof that outworking everybody was the answer. It wasn't until years later, after losing a six-figure business and a half a million dollars in real estate at 27, that Coach DJ Carroll...

In episode 359 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most entrepreneurs think they're fighting the right battle — pointing at the cartels, the traffickers, the monsters on the news — and telling themselves that if good people fight hard enough, evil stays over there. Paul Hutchinson walked into over 70 undercover rescue missions across 15 countries, sat across from traffickers in the darkest rooms on...

In episode 358 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, we have the Anniversary Audit, and if you're an entrepreneur who has ever pointed to the business as proof that you love your family, this one is going to be uncomfortable in the best possible way.   Jason Duncan has been married to his wife, Kristie, for 31 years as of today. And for too many of those years, he confused paying the bills with showin...

In episode 357 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most people spend their whole lives waiting for the "it factor" to show up — the natural talent, the X factor, the thing that separates the successful from the rest. Dr. Justin Moseley sat on the bench, panicked through a college speech class, and believed for decades that success was for other people. Then he figured out the lie — and built one of...

In Episode 356 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, many entrepreneurs discover too late that the very thing they built their identity around — being the go-to person, the problem solver, the irreplaceable expert — isn't leadership. It's a trap. And if you've ever felt proud of being the one everybody needs, this episode was made for you. Jason Duncan spent years building a multimillion-dollar busine...

Most entrepreneurs chase success and call the cage they build a career — Jason Duncan hit $1M EBITDA, landed on the Inc. 5000 twice, and realized he was more trapped than he'd ever been in his life. In this solo episode, Jason introduces the brand new era of the Real Jason Duncan Podcast — formerly known as The Root of All Success — and the central concept that will drive every conversation going...

Jason Duncan built a seven-figure business, then lost it all in one year because it depended on him, and discovered how to exit without selling. In this special episode, host Anthony sits down with Jason Duncan, author of Exit Without Exiting and founder of The Exit, a mastermind helping entrepreneurs build businesses that don't need them. After hitting a million-dollar EBITDA and preparing to sel...

Most people think you need engineers, funding, and a technical background to build a tech company — Dr. Alex Mehr spent two years at NASA calculating how not to blow up spacecraft, then left to build a dating app, and $258 million later he's proving all of that is no longer true. In this episode of The Root of All Success, Jason Duncan sits down with Dr. Alex Mehr, former NASA research scientist,...

In this episode of The Root of All Success, Jason Duncan sits down with Dr. JC Doornick ("Dragon"), health transformation coach, author, speaker, and creator of the Interface Response System (IRS). After 17 years as a chiropractor with deep specialization in neuroscience and human behavior, treating high-profile clients in NYC, JC walked away from clinical practice to pursue something bigger: help...

Most people think burnout means you need to work less; Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth discovered it's actually a polarity you need to manage, not a problem you need to fix. In this episode of The Root of All Success, Jason Duncan sits down with Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth, co-founders of Missing Logic and creators of the Polarity Intelligence framework. After 30 ye...

Most people trust the system to manage their money. Rod Roudi walked away from tech to build Bitcoin Park and is now redefining financial freedom in Nashville. In this special episode of The Root of All Success, recorded live at The Standard Club in front of the Leadership Society, Jason Duncan sits down with Rod Roudi, co-founder of Bitcoin Park (a mission oriented community campus for Bitcoiners...

Most people stay miserable in careers they hate. Casey Berman walked away from law 20 years ago and built a half-million-dollar coaching business helping hundreds of unhappy attorneys do the same. In this episode of The Root of All Success, Jason Duncan sits down with Casey Berman, former attorney, entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of Leave Law Behind, a nationally recognized coaching platform. C...