The Relentless Pursuit of Winning Podcast

🔥 Excerpt "Market value fuels the ego, makes you feel like a big deal. But income fuels the yacht." ⚡ TL;DR Steve Selengut spent 40 years building a portfolio management system that most financial advisors never teach and Wall Street rarely promotes. In this conversation, he walks through the mechanics of income investing, why founders are uniquely positioned to understand it, and what it takes...

🔥 Excerpt "Your brain is either working for you or quietly working against you." ⚡ TL;DR Eric Collett and I explore how brain health shapes clarity, resilience, and execution. We walk through practical ways to improve performance through sleep, nutrition, movement, stress management, and measurable data. 📄 Show Notes Brain health shows up in every decision, every conversation, and every moment...

🔥 Excerpt "$700,000 went to my competitor before he even realized what he had lost — and that client was already his." ⚡ TL;DR Most entrepreneurs look outward for growth while ignoring what's already inside the business. Stacey Hylen joins the show to break down her Hidden Profits framework — how to recover revenue from past clients, leverage AI without losing your edge, and build a business tha...

🔥 Excerpt "It's not about how it feels, it's about how it flows." ⚡ TL;DR This conversation with Devrinn Paul explores how setbacks become catalysts for growth when approached with discipline, vision, and accountability. Through coaching, business experience, and personal leadership, he outlines how consistency, clarity, and self-leadership shape long-term success. 📄 Show Notes Turning setbacks...

🔥  Excerpt "A tool is not a capability. A standalone tool is not integrated with your core data sources — there's a lot that goes into creating a capability that goes way beyond the adoption of a specific tool." — Jacob Andra ⚡  TL;DR Building AI that ships requires moving beyond tools and into integrated systems. Jacob Andra explains how organizations create real value by aligning AI capabiliti...

🔥 Excerpt "We need to fill our brains with information from the physical world so we can outpace AI creatively." ⚡ TL;DR Reed Hansen shares how early exposure to entrepreneurship shaped his view of ownership, risk, and accountability. He reflects on buying a marketing agency, learning through real client pressure, knowing when to stop forcing an idea, and using marketing automation and AI with d...

💡 What does faith driven entrepreneurship actually look like after 30 years? Larry Silver calls it being God-employed...and the results are hard to argue with. 🔥 Quote "I owed $300,000 and I raised $300,000 for a film. That should have been impossible." - Larry Silver ⚡ TL;DR Larry Silver sold souvenirs outside Eagles games at age 8, put himself through NYU on straight commission, navigated a b...

🔥 Excerpt I want people to think outside the box and see the opportunities they can create for their companies. ⚡ TL;DR Rick sits down with Natalie Boehm to explore how epilepsy, disability, and employment intersect in the real world. The conversation looks at stigma, workplace readiness, community impact, founder responsibility, and the discipline required to build organizations where people ca...

🔥 Excerpt "No matter what comes your way, you're going to figure it out. I didn't believe that for decades — I always went straight to worst case. What changed everything was learning to question whether those thoughts were even real." ⚡ TL;DR What does resilience look like when you strip away the toughness narrative? Lisa Dy gave me an answer I wasn't expecting, and the uncommon thinking she sh...

🔥 Excerpt "I would have worked just as hard, but I would have been far more present in the moments that mattered most at home." ⚡ TL;DR Kevin Rice shares what it took to build a business through uncertainty, specialization, leadership pressure, and personal sacrifice. This conversation explores the difference between delegation and abdication, the cost of burnout, and how winning begins to chang...

🔥 Excerpt "Happiness is an inside job." ⚡ TL;DR In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Mike Hayes and Dr. Jeffrey Garner to explore redefining happiness as something grounded in presence, gratitude, inner alignment, and a clear sense of worth. We talk about why achievement, approval, possessions, and constant striving leave so many founders depleted, and how joy becomes possible when we make...

🔥 Excerpt "Real resiliency is I'm choosing intentionally to chase after this. And I embrace whatever comes with that." ⚡ TL;DR Dr. Hillary Cauthen shares how high performers can stay sharp without losing themselves by building consistent coping routines, clarifying core values, and designing team cultures that treat care as a performance asset, not a crisis response. 📄 Show Notes Leading with C...

🔥 Excerpt "Do hard sh*t." ⚡ TL;DR Brent Widman breaks down leadership coaching as disciplined execution with real accountability, not advice from the sidelines. We talk about ego as fear of asking for help, how goals differ from expectations, why perfectionism slows momentum, and how high performers can build a sustainable rhythm without burning out. 📄 Show Notes Leadership coaching is not abou...

🔥 Excerpt "Even if you have the best solution in the world, if people are not bought into it, it does not matter." ⚡ TL;DR James Shin shares how servant leadership is built through integrity, compassion, and clear communication. He explains how steady development, strong mentorship, and disciplined reflection create durable teams and long term results. 📄 Show Notes Micro wins matter because lea...

🔥 Excerpt "What did the market get wrong and what are you going to do differently?" ⚡ TL;DR Danny Nathan breaks down how founders can turn innovation from a slogan into a system. We talk about defining innovation in plain terms, building a culture that protects learning, using staged investment gates to test ideas fast, and designing disruption by challenging market assumptions. 📄 Show Notes In...

🔥 Excerpt "If you want something bad enough, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse." ⚡ TL;DR Phil Risher shares how he built momentum through disciplined habits, clear scoreboards, and consistent content, then reinvested profit to buy back time, remove bottlenecks, and scale service businesses with focus and integrity. 📄 Show Notes Playbook for growth is the central thread of this co...

🔥 Excerpt "You wake up every day, and you make a choice: am I gonna work to make today a good day or a bad day?" ⚡ TL;DR The Optimism Blueprint is about choosing disciplined hope in leadership. Mike Baker explains how founders can acknowledge fear, avoid empty positivity, rely on community, and take daily action even when outcomes are uncertain. 📄 Show Notes Mike Baker's "Optimism Blueprint" ca...

🔥 Excerpt "I sleep really well now because I've met the person solving it. It's the entrepreneur that is saving the world." ⚡ TL;DR Jim Beach shares how his career moved from building and selling a fast growing computer camp business to teaching entrepreneurship through rapid startup bets, then into spotlighting environmental entrepreneurs who solve real problems through paying customers, discip...

🔥 Excerpt "We should just accept what we truly want. If we do that, our dreams aren't as far as we think they are." ⚡ TL;DR Joseph Rutakangwa breaks down how founders build stability by treating every role like a value engine, defining the real customer through buying behavior, and building a company operating rhythm that ties weekly execution to measurable outcomes. He also shares why he wrote...

🔥 Excerpt "Emotions happen before the thought, and until you release what is stored in the nervous system, strategy stays blocked." ⚡ TL;DR Rochelle Carrington breaks down why founders can know the strategy, keep executing, and still feel stuck. She explains how Emotional Release targets the emotional patterns embedded in the nervous system that shape focus, decision making, sleep, and stress re...

🔥 Excerpt "What if the thing you gave up on was never meant to be given up on, and it's still waiting for you." ⚡ TL;DR Breaking limiting beliefs requires more than motivation. In this conversation, Rick Torrison shares how faith shaped his understanding of belief systems, identity, and the inner narratives that quietly direct behavior. The episode explores how unchallenged beliefs create ceilin...

🔥 Excerpt Culture isn't an assembly of perks or policies. It is how people experience leadership when things get uncomfortable. ⚡ TL;DR TJ Butler shares how founders build an employee retention culture by taking responsibility for leadership behaviors, communication rhythms, and people systems that scale. This episode explores the benefits of Fractional HR, why retention is rarely an HR problem...

🔥 Excerpt "Motivation will go away. Discipline is doing the work even when you don't want to." ⚡ TL;DR Marc Fitzwater, retired Green Beret and founder of I-68 Consulting Group, shares how pride refined by grace, discipline over motivation, and unwavering service shape leadership, entrepreneurship, and community impact long after military service ends. 📄 Show Notes Protector begins as a calling....

🔥 Excerpt "Put down the microscope and pick up the mirror." ⚡ TL;DR Dr. Greg Stewart shares how emotional intelligence shapes leadership, marriage, and personal recovery by helping you name negative emotions, measure what is actually at stake, and do the inner work before you try to fix the people around you. 📄 Show Notes Emotional intelligence is not a soft skill. It is the line between a lead...

🔥 Excerpt "You do not manage people, you lead people." ⚡ TL;DR Jordan Modiano and I talk about what it means to lead people while running multiple missions at once. We break down fear versus anxiety, how values guide decisions when the answer is not obvious, and why clear communication protects teams from speculation. Jordan also shares how his daughter inspired Races for Autism and why founders...