HeyJaredBreaking the Barrier
Most entrepreneurs and leaders keep their faith and their business in separate rooms. The best ones don't.Breaking the Barrier is a video podcast where host Nick Madden sits down with successful founders and executives who refuse to compartmentalize.
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The Business Wasn't Working, Neither Was He: Love Your People, Build the System, Fund the Mission (opens the original)
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Ben Davis sits down with Nick Madden to break down how a 24-year-old with three years of experience walked away from the number-two seat at a fast-growing insurer, signed an SBA loan two weeks before Lehman Brothers collapsed, and opened a luxury barbershop club on the day of his son's second open-heart surgery. Ben built The Gents Place with his wife into a national membership-based barber and business club through franchising, and along the way learned the hard lessons of brick-and-mortar: the
Going Viral Is Luck. Partnerships Are the Plan: The Trust Problem, GTM Playbook, Faith as Your OS (opens the original)
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==== Breaking the Barrier is Sponsored by US Digital Partners (founding sponsor). Find out how US Digital Partners helps chip away at your goals by delivering a customized roadmap of marketing tactics and methodically at www.usdigitalpartners.com ==== Bahigh Acuna sits down with Nick Madden to break down the part of a business most founders overlook: the go-to-market. Bahigh was Spotify's first man on the ground in Mexico when music streaming sounded like a scam ($9 a month for millions of songs
Lost the Biggest Account of His Life, Then Grew 40X: $750K on the Shelves, Survival Mode, Holy Hour (opens the original)
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==== Breaking the Barrier is Sponsored by US Digital Partners (founding sponsor). Find out how US Digital Partners helps chip away at your goals by delivering a customized roadmap of marketing tactics and methodically at www.usdigitalpartners.com ==== ABOUT Phil Berry sits down with Nick Madden to break down how a distributorship doing $400,000 a year, bought on a cashed 401(k), became a health company running near $100 million. Berry spent his first five years in survival mode, juggling payable
AI Made Execution Cheap. Judgment Is Now Priceless: A Catholic Founder's AI Playbook (opens the original)
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Episode description Raul Hernandez Ochoa sits down with Nick Madden to break down what AI actually changes for a business owner. Raul — founder & CEO of Do Good Work, who's helped generate $50M+ in revenue and overseen $25M+ in ad spend across teams in 12+ time zones — argues the real prize isn't cutting costs. It's 'net-new value': taking a client past 'finished,' and building a locally-owned AI 'harness' on your own IP so you point your best hours at the problems only judgment can solve. Along
Marine Officer to $11M Media Mission: The $10 Donor, Win Souls Not Arguments, No Neutral Ground. (opens the original)
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Episode description Christopher Check, president of Catholic Answers, sits down with Nick Madden to break down what it means to run a mission like a business — and why faith and work were never two separate fields. A former US Marine Corps artillery officer and nearly two-decade media leader, Check has helped grow the largest lay-run Catholic apologetics apostolate to its best year ever, and he talks candidly about measuring excellence by transformed lives, the stewardship owed to a widow's-mite
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