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80% of the Workload Done Before a Human Touches It
What if 80% of the work in your industry could be done before a human ever gets involved? In this episode, Sean sits down with Ray Meiring, a founder rethinking the proposal process from the ground up...
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Happiness Found Him Through a Crappy Movie at 2AM
What if the secret to happiness wasn't a grand epiphany, but a bad movie playing at 2AM? In this episode, Sean sits down with Ben Narasin, a veteran venture capitalist who has backed companies like LendingClub, Rippling, and Omada Health, to explore what decades of investing at the highest level tea
88,000 Businesses Later, He Found 11 Biomarkers for This
What if the real reason most businesses fail isn't strategy or market fit, but the behavior and value system of the owner themselves? In this episode, Sean sits down with Jay Aldebert, a business consultant who has studied patterns across 88,000 businesses and identified 11 biomarkers that predict w
1 Out of 100 Sellers Does This. He Built 8x Pipeline Doing It.
What if the single move almost no seller bothers to make is the one that multiplies your pipeline by eight? In this episode, Neal Goyal, a go-to-market leader who built 8x pipeline at Postpilot in just eight months, breaks down exactly how he did it using LinkedIn in a way that only one out of every
60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team
What if the key to unlocking your team's potential wasn't hiring better people, but simply removing the friction slowing them down? Shelton Mercer III joins Sean to share how a shift from a 60-day process to a 60-minute one completely reframed how he thinks about the people around him and what they'
He Built LLMs in 2016 and Still Trusts Gut Over AI
What if the key to smarter business decisions isn't more data, but knowing when to trust yourself over the algorithm? In this episode, Sean sits down with Robert Indries, a builder and investor who was working with large language models back in 2016, long before AI became a boardroom buzzword. Rober
He Presented from the Hip on Stage and Invented a World First in 90 Days
What does it actually take to back yourself when the whole world seems to doubt you? In this episode, Sean sits down with Travis McGregor, a technology pioneer working to reinvent how the world handles security from the cloud to the edge, including building a world-first innovation in just 90 days.
She Woke Up One Morning and Knew She Had to Buy A $50M Company
What does it actually take to back yourself when no one else believes in you? In this episode of We Live to Build, Sean sits down with Stacie Shifflett, a self-taught entrepreneur and subject matter expert in federal government procurement and acquisition, who shares the raw story of orchestrating a
Who Are We Marketing to When 90% of White Collar Jobs Are Gone?
What happens to marketing, consumer culture, and the businesses built around them when AI eliminates 90% of white collar jobs? In this episode, Sean sits down with Zachary Rischitelli to explore how networking, relationship-building, and human connection are becoming the most durable competitive adv
His Former Boss Later Became His Employee
What does it really take to break through a revenue plateau and build a business that outlasts your mistakes? In this episode, Ephraim Ebstein, an MSP entrepreneur who scaled past seven figures, shares the hard lessons he learned the long way. You will hear how developing financial literacy with the
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I've known Sean for a few years, and he's a really great man who's helped me tremendously. I love listening to his podcast because I get to know more about him and his businesses, and the guests businesses are really fascinating too!
Sean is an excellent host! His passion to bring entrepreneurs together shines through his work. We truly are #strongertogether and shows like this help foster connection.
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