Travis Makes Money

On this episode, producer Eric shares a clip from Travis Chappell's appearance on the Closers Network podcast. Travis grew up in a fundamentalist Christian community in Southern California and earned a ministry degree. Then he found out he loved door-to-door sales and made six figures selling solar in his early twenties. In 2017 he moved into podcasting. Since then he has coached, consulted, and r...

Michael Rangel is the founder of Novo, a modern banking platform designed for small and independent businesses. After seven years in finance, Michael saw firsthand how traditional banking made managing money unnecessarily complicated for small business owners. Since launching Novo in 2016, he has helped build a platform serving more than 250,000 small businesses across all 50 states. In this episo...

In this special episode of the Travis Makes Money Podcast, producer Eric pulls a conversation from Travis Chappell’s appearance on the Monetizing Your Message Podcast. Travis shares how he built a podcast business generating nearly a quarter-million dollars in sponsorship revenue, landed interviews with people like Shaquille O’Neal, and learned to turn a small, engaged audience into a thriving bus...

Danial Jiwani is a writer, speaker, and investor focused on wealth creation, decision-making, and resilience. He's the author of The 52 Laws of Wealth and Buffett's Two-Step Stock Market Strategy, with five self-published books selling more than 80,000 copies worldwide. In this episode, Danial shares how his passion for investing began as a teenager, why he chose self-publishing over traditional p...

Travis Chappell, entrepreneur and podcast host, shares his insights on the Insurance Dudes Podcast about building a successful business, growing an audience, and creating a life aligned with your own goals. After spending years in door-to-door sales, Travis took a pay cut to pursue podcasting full-time, eventually turning his show into a powerful tool for building relationships and creating opport...

Keith Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Goodstream, an AI-native portfolio intelligence platform that helps private capital investors track investments and analyze complex financial documents without manual data entry. A founder and CEO for more than 30 years, Keith has launched seven companies and spent nine years running Payability, where he managed portfolio companies and more than $6 billion...

Travis Chappell, host of the Travis Makes Money podcast, joins Chris Hill on Money Unplugged to share the money lessons that shaped his approach to business, wealth, and financial freedom. From growing up with a frugal real estate agent father to building businesses as a teenager and earning six figures in door-to-door sales before turning to podcasting, Travis explains how his early experiences i...

Ryan White is the founder and CEO of Social Revelation, an Instagram authority and positioning firm that has served more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and brands since 2017. With an audience of more than 3 million on Instagram and experience helping experts build their online presence, Ryan has spent nearly a decade figuring out what actually works in social media. In this episode, he shares how he gre...

In this episode, Travis Chappell is joined by producer Eric for an unfiltered conversation about money, consumer culture, and the ways businesses and organizations pressure people to spend. From a viral Shake Shack kiosk video that appears to raise prices when a customer declines to tip to the growing use of buy now, pay later services, Travis and Eric discuss where convenience crosses the line in...

Andrea Petrone is an executive coach who has spent more than two decades working with senior leaders at companies including Shell, Unilever, Takeda, EssilorLuxottica, and PwC. After coaching more than 250 CEOs and C-suite executives, he recognized a common challenge: leaders often lose touch with their identity when the pressure rises. In his new book, Reinvention at the Top: The Playbook for CEOs...

In this episode of the Travis Makes Money Podcast, Travis and producer Eric sit down for a conversation about subscription fatigue, frustrating customer experiences, and a new policy in New York City designed to make canceling subscriptions easier. They discuss Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new click-to-cancel rule, share their own experiences trying to escape unwanted gym memberships and activity-tracki...

Rakesh Kumar is a professor and John Bardeen Faculty Scholar in computer engineering at the University of Illinois and a renowned expert on semiconductors. His research has helped shape the chips powering the phones, tablets, and computers we use every day, and he has advised chip companies, startups, governments, and intelligence firms. In this episode, Rakesh breaks down the fascinating history...

In this two-part conversation, Travis Chappell dives into the nuanced decisions couples face around career, parenting, and societal expectations. Picking up from part one, Travis explores what it means to support a partner, balance personal ambition, and navigate cultural pressures around stay-at-home roles, both for women and men. This episode blends practical advice, personal anecdotes, and cult...

Celeste Durve is a founder, writer, and speaker exploring the intersection of emotional intelligence, personal development, and modern success. She is the founder and CEO of Viper, a national staffing, talent, and experiential advisory firm, and the creator of Smart is Sexy, a rapidly growing media platform and Substack community with more than 300,000 readers. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Celest...

On this episode of Travis Makes Money, Travis sits down with his in-house producer to unpack how modern couples can navigate money, marriage, and identity when traditional gender roles are flipped or blurred. Drawing on Travis’s own journey with his wife Jackie—from dual incomes to traditional roles and back again—they explore what actually works for a relationship financially and emotionally, bey...

Marko Mandaric is a technology entrepreneur and former visual effects artist whose work has appeared in major Hollywood productions, including The Avengers. A self-taught computer enthusiast who built his first computer at nine and sold his first website at eleven, Marko has spent his career turning technical skills into business opportunities. After working in VFX and co-founding a consumer autom...

In this co-hosted episode, Travis and Eric riff on TED vs. TEDx, the evolution of “thought leadership,” and why people love to critique things that have genuinely helped millions. They also dig into how ideas spread today, the difference between real credibility and checkbox credentials, and why simple, boring actions still beat fancy labels when it comes to actually making money. On this episode...

Julian Blair Baldwin is an author, leadership thinker, and founder of Cohere Leadership Group who helps leaders bridge the gap between their values and their actions. After more than 20 years in corporate leadership, including serving as a senior vice president at a $34 billion company, Julian has developed a framework for building trust, navigating personal growth, and leading with consistency. H...

Travis Chappell and producer Eric sit down for a conversation about spending money on the things that bring you genuine joy. From vintage James Bond movie posters and signed Star Wars memorabilia to Pokémon cards with the kids, they explore why not every purchase needs to generate a financial return. Travis shares how collecting can reconnect you with childhood interests, create unexpected connect...

Dana K. White is the author of Procrastinators Get Stuff Done and Decluttering at the Speed of Life, a Wall Street Journal bestseller with more than 500,000 copies sold. After struggling to manage the clutter in her own home, Dana developed practical, reality-based strategies to help people move from feeling overwhelmed to taking action. Through her five-step anti-procrastination process, she teac...

Travis Chappell and his producer Eric break down one of Jeff Bezos’s biggest business lessons: obsess over the customer experience instead of getting distracted by competitors. From marketing campaigns that miss the point to once-dominant tech companies that failed to evolve, they explore what it takes to build a lasting business. They also discuss why collaboration can be more valuable than compe...

Brandon Willington is an entrepreneur, marketer, and author of Fuck Your Agency, a book that teaches business owners how to generate their own leads instead of relying on marketing agencies. After starting out as a DJ and music producer, Brandon accidentally built a marketing agency before realizing that most small and medium-sized businesses could get better results by learning to run their own a...

Travis Chappell and producer Eric are back for another episode of the Travis Makes Money Podcast, breaking down the internet’s latest controversies and what they reveal about business, branding, and consumer perception. From a debate over whether sports fans should give caught baseballs to kids to OnlyFans’ attempt to attract mainstream creators, Travis and Eric explore why context matters, how au...

What if most relationships don't fail because of a lack of love, but because nobody ever taught us how to love well? In this preview episode of Travis Makes Friends, Travis sits down with Jimmy Knowles, who got to a breaking point seven years into his marriage. Only after hitting that rock bottom did he pick up his first book on relationships. One book turned into two years of studying what a stro...

Travis Chappell and his producer Eric are back in the studio for a conversation about behavioral science, social proof, marketing, and the internet's obsession with outrage. After reacting to a viral clip featuring behavioral scientist and bestselling author Jon Levy, they explore why familiarity can shape what we trust, buy, and believe. From the Mona Lisa's rise to worldwide fame to the importan...