Ep 24: What do you do when life leaves you broke, humbled, and sleeping on your mother’s floor with $8K to your name

For Kevin Jacobson Jr., the answer wasn’t hustle harder. It was become better—from the inside out.

In this wildly raw and energizing episode, Kevin shares how he went from seven-figure success… to losing everything… to building again with more purpose, faith, and freedom than ever before.

We talk about how AI is changing business, why kindness is Kevin’s superpower (even when life has been brutal), and what most people get wrong about ambition, faith, and “playing small.”

Whether you’re rebuilding after a hard season, or chasing your next big thing, Kevin’s story will remind you why betting on yourself is always the way out.

🎧 Listen in to discover:

✔️ The mindset shift that pulled Kevin out of rock bottom

✔️ Why unwavering faith…not just hustle…is the secret weapon most entrepreneurs ignore

✔️ How to spot the opportunities hidden inside life’s worst moments

✔️ The truth about AI, success, and staying kind in a cutthroat world

Kevin is one of the most generous, real humans in this space, and his insights will light a fire under you. Hit play and let’s go.

Why listen?

🔥 You’re ready to stop playing small (and need a push).

🔥 You want to build success without losing your soul.

🔥 You crave an honest conversation about faith, failure, and forging a new path.

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Ep 23: What if your next big move wasn't behind you, but ahead of you, even if you're in your 40s, surrounded by snack wrappers in a minivan full of kids?

In this powerhouse episode, we sit down with Rachel Miller—marketing strategist, mom of six, and “collector of businesses”—as she shares her unconventional journey from coaching 27,000+ business owners to creating her own AI-powered software...without a lick of coding experience.

In this episode, Rachel unpacks how she went from viral content queen to tech founder, all while homeschooling and juggling orthodontist visits. She shares how parenting a child with epilepsy forced her to rebuild her business and her life with more intention, flexibility, and resilience.

She talks about the moments that shaped her entrepreneurial path, including a mentor telling her she had no business building a software company and how she turned that doubt into fuel. She walks us through why she built tools out of pure necessity, how she grew a 4-million-strong following without paid ads, and what it means to sequence your life the way busy moms do every day.

Whether you’re launching your first funnel from a parking lot or battling imposter syndrome in your mid-40s, Rachel reminds us all: You’re not too old, you haven’t missed your shot, and it’s never too late to build something world-changing.

This episode is for anyone who’s been told they missed the ground floor—and is ready to build the whole building anyway.

Why listen?

If you're juggling ambition with everyday chaos—or wondering if it's too late to start something big—this episode is your permission slip.

Rachel shares:

🔥 Why age and experience aren’t barriers—they’re superpowers.

🔥 How she built a tech company from the ground up (with zero coding skills).

🔥 The systems she created to scale her business and be present for her six kids.

🔥 The power of doing business the “mom way”—resilient, efficient, and scrappy.

🔥 Why starting on the ground floor can actually be your biggest advantage.

🎧 Hit play to learn how to build smarter, dream bigger, and rewrite the rules on your own terms.

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Pagewheel - Rachel’s AI Funnel Builder

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Ep 22: You may know her as the queen of cookies behind Lolly’s Home Kitchen—but this isn’t a sugar-coated success story.

In this heart-cracking episode, Lauren Anderson shares the raw truth behind her wildly successful business: a story born not out of strategy, but survival. After her newborn son was diagnosed with a critical heart defect, Lauren’s world turned upside down. As her son fought for his life in the hospital, Lauren was just trying to keep her family (and herself) from drowning. That’s when cookies came in—not as a business, but as therapy.

From there? Everything changed.

In this vulnerable and deeply personal conversation, Lauren opens up about:

• Becoming a heart mom overnight—and how it changed her identity forever

• The near-collapse of her marriage and the unexpected moment that saved it

• Why royal icing became a lifeline and how her cookie biz has now reached 50,000+ students

• • How to advocate when someone you love can't speak for themselves
  • Her bold (and sometimes spicy) takes on money, service, food dyes, tariffs, and yes—even student loans

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  This is the interview everyone needs to hear—not just for the entrepreneurs and cookie-lovers, but for anyone trying to make sense of the struggle, stay married through grief, and still hold space for joy.

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  Tune in for:

  • A conversation that will stretch your heart

  • Unfiltered truths about trauma, motherhood, and finding peace

  • A reminder that healing doesn’t always look like therapy—it might look like a piping bag

  
  

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  Instagram: @lollyshomekitchen

  Check out her cookie classes, recipes, and heart-filled community at lollyshomekitchen.com

  
  

  
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Ep 21: You’re not lazy. You show up. You love your family. But something’s broken—and you feel it. Maybe you feel like no matter what you do, it’s never enough. If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you.

In this sobering and empowering episode, we sit down with Tanner Wendell, a former tech leader who walked through the fire of divorce, fatherhood, therapy, and personal reinvention—and came out with a mission: to help men become not just providers, but powerful, present leaders at home.

As the founder of Family OS, Tanner has worked with hundreds of high-performing men to shift their approaches to marriage, sex, parenting, and emotional leadership. What he shares in this episode isn’t fluff—it’s the hard truths that most people are afraid to say out loud.

Whether you’re newly married, in a rough patch, or just trying to be a better partner and parent—this is the wake-up call (and roadmap) you didn’t know you needed.

Why listen?

If you’re questioning what it means to show up as a partner, healing parts of yourself, or trying to build something real in your relationship, Tanner shares:

• The real reason emotional leadership starts with managing your own energy
• The myth of the “perfect parent” and why stewardship matters more than control
• How to create a Family Vision and Constitution that unites your household
• Why healing childhood wounds is key to showing up as a better partner
• The one shift every man can make that changes how his wife responds to him

🎧 Listen now—and take the first real step toward changing the story at home.

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Ep 20: What if the thing you’re most tempted to downplay… is actually your superpower?

Susan Leonardson—ClickFunnels ambassador, Funnel Hacker TV co-host, and co-founder of Geek Out—joins Sarah to unpack one of the most common mindset traps in entrepreneurship: “I don’t have a good enough story.”

In a world obsessed with extreme rags-to-riches narratives, Susan’s steady, stable upbringing almost made her feel disqualified from success. But what she’s learned is this: your story doesn’t have to be dramatic to be powerful. And your version of freedom is worth designing—no matter where you started.

This episode is a beautiful unraveling of the belief that trauma is required for transformation. Susan walks us through her earliest money memories, how scrappiness shaped her leadership, and the personal pivot that led her to build a thriving continuity community—without flashy funnels, overnight success, or viral stories.

It’s raw. It’s real. It’s ridiculously relatable.

🎧 In this episode, you’ll discover:

✔️ Why “not having a story” might be your biggest asset

✔️ The difference between honoring your past vs. repeating it

✔️ What Susan learned from watching her parents build a business—and why she chose a different path

✔️ The real reason some entrepreneurs should aim for scrappy over shiny

✔️ Why “launch and learn” is the most freeing strategy you’re not using

If you’ve ever struggled to tell your story because it’s not “tragic enough” or felt pressure to dramatize your journey to be taken seriously—this conversation will free you.

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Ep 19: What happens when a preacher’s kid with a knack for writing sermons nearly lands in jail—twice—before becoming a leader in AI automation?

In this raw and inspiring episode, we sit down with Joshua Collier, founder of Levrg AI, to unpack his unlikely journey from small-town Tennessee to building a six-figure AI tech company.

Josh opens up about the personal crash that nearly cost him everything — ministry, marriage, even his life. From leading in public to unraveling in private, he shares how hidden struggles with addiction and self-worth collided with a calling that felt too heavy to carry.

This isn’t a typical redemption story. Just raw process, real faith, and a brutally honest look at what happens when your calling nearly crushes you—and what it takes to walk out the other side not as a star, but as a servant.

Whether you’re leading a business, a ministry, or just trying to stay sober for another week—this one will shake you, steady you, and remind you: God can still use broken tools to build eternal things.

Why listen?

In this episode, we dive deep into the raw and real side of leadership and personal struggles. If you’ve ever faced burnout, battled hidden challenges, or wondered if grace is still possible after failure, this one’s for you. Here’s what you can expect:

🔥Hear the real story behind burnout in leadership

🔥Understand how addiction can hide in plain sight

🔥Discover how healing and accountability work together

🔥Be reminded that grace is still available—even after failure

🎧 Tune in, discover the journey from faith to fortune, and unlock the secrets to entrepreneurial triumph.

Connect with Joshua and check out the books he talked about:

• • Joshua Collier
  • https://www.levrg.ai/
  • Free community: https://go.levrg.ai/ghl
  • The Celebration of Discipline
  • Never Split the Difference

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Ep 18: What happens when a quiet nudge from God turns into a full-blown mission to save a family on the other side of the world?

Andrea Befus thought she was just good at maps, spreadsheets, and hospitality. What she didn’t realize was that her unique combination of skills would one day lead her to orchestrate a covert rescue mission for a family in Afghanistan—and redefine her entire sense of purpose.

In this moving and wildly inspiring conversation, Andrea shares her unexpected journey from corporate mapping geek to entrepreneurial Airbnb maven, and the one headline that cracked her open and set her life on a different course. But this episode goes far beyond business—Andrea opens up about marriage, motherhood, faith, and how to know when it’s time to pivot, even if everything seems “fine.”

Whether you're a seeker, a mother, a builder, or someone in-between, this conversation will shake loose something in you. It's about divine discomfort, staying in motion, and the quiet courage to answer a call that doesn’t make logical sense—but makes a spiritual one.

🎧 Listen in for:

🔥 Why feeling “comfortable” might actually be your sign to move

🔥 Andrea’s wild story of helping a family escape the Taliban—with nothing but her laptop

🔥 The tension between ambition and motherhood—and how she reconciles both

🔥 What to do when God feels silent (and why it might be you, not Him)

🔥 The surprising way she uses ChatGPT for spiritual mindset breakthroughs

💡 This episode is for anyone who’s ever thought, “There’s got to be more than this,” and is ready to trade comfort for calling. You will leave this episode more grounded in who you are and more clear on what you’re here to do.

🔗 Connect with Andrea Befus:

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Ep 17: In this gripping and vulnerable episode, host Sarah sits down with tax strategist and entrepreneur Preston Anderson, founder of Anderson Tax, who’s made it his mission to help business owners legally hold onto more of their money.

But this isn’t your typical finance episode.

Preston opens up about the near-death of his newborn son, whose life hung in the balance after a diagnosis of congenital heart defects. What followed was two years of hospital stays, emergency surgeries, a devastating call to "say goodbye," and a moment that shattered everything he thought he knew about work, purpose, and legacy.

Whether you're a business owner wanting to pay less in taxes legally, a parent facing unimaginable challenges, or simply someone hungry for a deeper sense of purpose, this episode delivers the raw truth. No fluff. Just one man’s journey from burnout and hustle to clarity and impact.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry—and you’ll definitely rethink what “winning” in business really means.

Why Listen:

You'll walk away with more than tips—you'll leave with perspective. The kind that sticks with you and shifts how you show up in work and life.

🔥Clarity on redefining success — beyond hustle culture and toxic productivity.

🔥Real talk on grief and burnout — and how to grow through it, not just go through it.

🔥Insight on building a life-giving business — one that aligns with your values.

🔥Encouragement to slow down — without feeling like you're falling behind.

🔥A reminder that you're not alone — especially if you’re tired of chasing “more.”

🎧 Tap in to discover how one pivotal moment reshaped everything he knew about success.

Connect with Preston and check out the books he talked about:

• Connect with Preston on FB

• ⁠https://www.anderson.tax⁠

• Russell Brunson’s Community: ClickFunnels

• Grant Cardone: https://grantcardone.com

• The Gap and The Gain

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