A video podcast · The rounds get hotter, the questions get harder

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The show where 8-figure DTC founders and operators sweat out the truth. The real numbers. The expensive mistakes. The margin math nobody posts on LinkedIn.

5 rounds. The intensity climbs, the questions sharpen. Every episode is funny and entertaining, with strategies worth stealing on Monday.
The premise

Discomfort is a truth serum

Everyone posts their wins and hides their P&L. We do the opposite. Every round the intensity climbs and the questions get sharper, until the rehearsed answer cracks and the real one comes out.

The format

Five rounds. It only gets harder.

Usually it's hotter and hotter hot sauce. Sometimes sour candy. Sometimes something else entirely. The premise never changes: the rounds get hotter, the questions get harder.

01Mild

The Warm-Up

Easy question, easy heat. We find out who you really are before the sweating starts.

Intensity
02Building

What's Actually Working

The one tactic moving the needle for you right now. With a real number attached, not a vibe.

Intensity
03Serious

The Margin Round

Real CAC. Real margins. The revenue figure you would never say sober. This is the one people came to hear.

Intensity
04Brutal

The Mistake Round

The bet that blew up. The hire you kept a year too long. The lesson that cost you real money, so it doesn't cost the viewer theirs.

Intensity
05Max

The Last Word

Your spiciest take on this industry. The thing everyone in DTC believes that you think is dead wrong. The hill you'll die on.

Intensity
What comes out

The stuff DTC founders and operators never say out loud

Not another polished founder interview. Real receipts, on camera, from people who actually built the thing.

Real CAC True margins The failed launch Actual revenue Burnout, unfiltered The number you'd never post
Who's in the chair

Not for the media-trained

There are a hundred polished founder interviews and they all blur together. The chair is for the people who go there.

Profile 01

8-figure DTC and e-commerce founders and operators.

Profile 02

Not afraid to offend, get vulnerable, and say what everyone's thinking.

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A point of view sharp enough to make the room uncomfortable.

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Built enough to have nothing left to prove.

If you play it safe, this isn't for you. And we both know it.

The first batch

Handle the heat?

Filming the first episodes August 3rd. A handful of seats, hand-picked.

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