Million Dollar Grit

Julie Chenell

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Welcome to Million Dollar Grit, the podcast that dives deep into the world of entrepreneurship, where tenacity meets strategy, and dreams meet reality. Here, we explore the raw, often overlooked truths of what it takes to succeed in business and in life. It's not just about the glossy success stories - it's about the grit it takes to get there.

-23 h

A Personal Update After A Crazy Week!

This one's personal — I'm unpacking the wild weekend behind me after Jessie Jean gave me a shout-out on her Instagram story and my following jumped from about 17,900 to over 21,600 almost overnight, along with an inbox full of coaching applications I'm still working through. I talk about what it's actually like to be flooded with brand-new people after years of going deep with a smaller, tight-knit community, the free resource I put together to help new followers get to know me fast, and a small real-time experiment I ran between a polished, mathy reel and a raw, unfiltered story that did something I didn't expect.

17 min
-6 j

Consider the Source Before You Follow the Advice

The worst business advice you'll ever take won't come from a troll — it'll come from someone you hired, polished and confident and completely wrong. In this episode I get into why the things that actually harm your business never look harmful (the cop with the badge still has a gun), why I tell my clients that ideas are guilty until proven innocent, and how to hold two true things at once: you don't want advice from someone who's never lived your life, and a great coach doesn't have to have walked your exact path. Then I give you the actual filter I run before I let anyone change my plan — because confidence is the cheapest thing in the world to fake, and a track record is the hardest.

14 min
22 juin

The Only Wrong Move in Business Is Doing Nothing

There's exactly one wrong move in business, and it isn't picking the wrong name, launching the wrong offer, or running the wrong marketing strategy — it's doing nothing, and in this episode I make the case that a messy, half-baked, even wrong attempt will always work in your favor over the perfect plan you never execute.

12 min
11 juin

Problem First Building: The AI Workflow Framework That Ends the Dopamine Spiral

I just wrapped the first in-person AI & Sheep workshop at my farm, and I couldn't let these takeaways leave my brain before I got them on record. The truth is, most people are losing ground to AI, not gaining it — they're in the dopamine pool, working longer, building more, and not seeing a single dollar of return. So before anyone goes another week adding tools and workflows to their life, I want to share the core philosophy I teach: if AI isn't making you more money or buying back your time, it's a distraction. This episode walks through Problem First Building — starting with a specific, rantable problem instead of a vague goal — and the 1-2-3 Framework I use to deconstruct every workflow step by step.

10 min
3 juin

The #1 Thing To Learn From Jessi Jean's Viral Launch

I recorded this one from my car — a little hat tip to Russell Brunson, who taught me that "in the car" beats "not at all" — because I had something I couldn't wait to break down: the launch my client Jessie Gene just ran on Instagram, and what it actually teaches the rest of us. I met Jessie back in the ClickFunnels Two Comma Club days when I was a head coach and she was running a binge and disordered eating recovery program, and even then she had this rare combination of high standards and magnetic transparency. Fast-forward through her walking away from a 150,000-follower account to start completely over — beating the sunk cost fallacy that traps most people — building a new account to 400,000 followers in five months, and launching her YAP Challenge to hundreds of sales a day on FG Funnels. Here's the thing I want you to take away: a big following does not equal big money, and her conversion rate wasn't even special — six or seven percent, same as everybody else. The difference was that her content drove over 35,000 people to that sales page. So the real lesson is a multiplication problem. It's not marketing plus traffic, it's marketing chops times traffic — and if either number is zero, your launch is zero. This episode is for the marketer who has a great offer and great copy but only a hundred people looking, and for the content creator with the audience but not the marketing skills to monetize it. You need both. Most people have exactly one.

15 min
25 mai

Is Everything Negotiable? The Two Muscles Most People Never Build (with Aryeh Sheinbein)

This is a candid conversation with friend, client, and business partner Aryeh Sheinbein. I have two real-time negotiations on my desk right now (a post-divorce mortgage refinance the bank told me had only one path, and a $10K non-refundable sheep deposit I'd already mentally written off), and partly because Aryeh is one of those rare people whose default assumption is that almost every "this is the price" is actually an opening position. What started as a casual conversation turned into a working framework — the two negotiation muscles most people never build, and the one filter that tells you which one to use. We get into Aryeh's $20 baseball-card arbitrage at age 12, his 60-day-late home builder, the Walmart end-cap standoff over a $30 pricing error, the Amex deal he settled for fifty cents on the dollar, and his co-investor who keeps asking for discounts — each one demonstrating a different rule. The flip in the episode comes near the end: I assumed "non-refundable" meant the conversation was closed. Aryeh's reframe was that when the other side breaks their part of the deal first, the deposit clause loses some of its teeth — and there's almost always room to open the conversation. By the end of the recording I'd talked myself into emailing the sheep seller. If you're someone for whom negotiation doesn't naturally dawn — if you read "non-refundable" or "this is our price" and just accept it — this episode is going to reframe what you've been leaving on the table.

42 min
19 mai

Action + Ignoring: The Two-Skill Operating System Behind Fast Execution

This episode started with a client of mine watching me sell out four in-person workshops in three days and asking — completely seriously — how the heck I take action so fast. Her honest answer was that she'd need six to eight business months to put together something similar. So I broke down what's actually happening, and it's not what most people think. Fast execution isn't about being braver, more energetic, or wired differently. It's a two-part skill: action (doing the next thing in front of you) and ignoring (refusing to entertain the other 17 problems at the same time).

15 min
11 mai

What I brought home from the 17th DI mastermind

I just got back from three days in New Haven at the 17th Digital Insiders mastermind — 40 entrepreneurs in one room, and somehow these events keep getting better than the last one. In this episode I walk you through the keynote from Michael Roderick on aspirational vs. excellence buyers, the member shares from Emily Green on $15 paid workshops, Amber Housley on the 34 webinars it took before hers converted, Aryeh Sheinbein on a deeply personal credit card story, and Brittany Long on delivering a full done-for-you funnel in 60 minutes using Claude. From there I get into my halftime report on what's still working in 2026, the Three Overs framework I taught on day two, and the Get It Done day where we built AI-powered daily sales rituals — and watched the most skeptical person in the room close a $1,200 sale within 60 minutes of building hers. By the end of three days, three themes kept showing up: discomfort is the price of growth, AI is infrastructure not a project, and being in a room with the right people compounds everything else. If you've ever wondered what a real mastermind is actually supposed to do for your business — or you want to hear how I'm bringing some of this work to my farm this summer with two-day workshops called AI and Sheep — this is the episode for you.

23 min

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Welcome to Million Dollar Grit, the podcast that dives deep into the world of entrepreneurship, where tenacity meets strategy, and dreams meet reality. Here, we explore the raw, often overlooked truths of what it takes to succeed in business and in life. It's not just about the glossy success stories - it's about the grit it takes to get there.

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Julie Chenell
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