BigDeal

Codie Sanchez
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You can change your life and make a dent on the world. This podcast uncovers the unfiltered lessons from the smartest minds straight to you, in conversations so honest you feel guilty listening in. We believe the current way of thinking is not working. The average person has become unhappy, unhealthy and financially struggling. You are not that person. This podcast will kick you in the shin with truth and tactics they should have taught us but gatekept. Hosted by Codie Sanchez, entrepreneur, investor and reformed journalist. You are a BigDeal to us.

  1. 6 days ago ·  Video

    It’s Boring, But This One Habit Will Make You a Millionaire

    You've been chasing the next thing. The next idea, the next strategy, the next opportunity that finally feels exciting enough to stick with. Here's the truth: the reason you're not rich yet isn't because you haven't found the right thing. It's because you keep quitting the last thing before it compounds. Most people don't fail because they pick wrong. They fail because they reset the clock every time Tuesday starts looking like Monday. They mistake boredom for a signal to move when boredom is actually the price of admission. The people who build real wealth aren't the ones who never get bored. They're the ones who don't let boredom make their decisions. In this episode, you'll learn: Why almost nobody gets rich doing something exciting and how sticking with something boring is the actual difficulty that separates winners from everyone else The Replit story: how Amjad spent eight years looking stupid, laid off half his company, and kept going until AI showed up and turned his business into a $9 billion company Why Steve Jobs spent years grinding on NeXT, a company that flopped by every measure, and how that failure became the foundation for Apple's comeback The BORED framework: Better information, Opportunity changed, Results changed, Exhausted, or Destination, and how to tell if you're making a smart pivot or just resetting your compounding clock Why you're not bored, you're finally becoming competent, and how confusing competence for boredom is the single biggest reason people quit right before they win ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: The Boring Truth About Getting Rich Nobody Wants to Hear (00:00:36) The Compounding Clock: Why Tuesday Looking Like Monday Is Actually Winning (00:01:50) The Replit Story: Eight Years of Looking Stupid Before Becoming a Billionaire (00:03:08) Steve Jobs and Next: When Your Biggest Failure Becomes Your Foundation (00:04:39) Early Stage Is Guessing: Why Forecasts Don't Matter and Grit Does (00:05:15) The SpaceX Principle: Less Than 10 Percent Odds and Launching Anyway (00:06:13) You're Not Bored, You're Finally Becoming Competent (00:07:34) Cliff Asness and AQR: Surviving When Everyone Said Your Strategy Was Dead (00:08:46) The BORED Test: How to Know If You Should Pivot or Stay (00:09:12) Don't Let Boredom Make Your Decisions: Where All the Money Actually Is ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    It’s Boring, But This One Habit Will Make You a Millionaire

  2. 15 Jul ·  Video

    How to Use AI to Make Money, Grow Your Business, and Be More Productive | Geoff Woods

    You've been staring at AI like it's a magic trick you'll never understand. You've watched everyone else claim they're 10x more productive while you're still Googling how to write a better prompt. Here's the truth: AI isn't going to replace you because it's smarter. It's going to replace you because someone else learned how to use it and you didn't. Geoff Woods is the author of The AI Driven Leader and has spent years teaching normal people how to use AI to solve real problems, not just write better emails. He's worked with venture backed companies, public corporations, and CEOs racing toward exits, and in this episode, he's breaking down the exact framework that turns AI from a glorified search engine into a strategic thought partner that makes you think better, work faster, and solve problems you didn't even know you had. In this episode, you'll learn: The CRIT framework: Context, Role, Interview, Task, and why this four step process is the difference between AI slop and superhuman output Why asking AI questions is the worst way to use it and how making AI interview you instead unlocks insights you'd never think to share The 80/20 rule of AI: why most people waste time automating tasks that don't matter and how to identify the 20% that drives 80% of your results Why cognitive decline is the greatest risk with AI that nobody's talking about and how to use it in a way that makes your brain stronger, not weaker The AI board: how to build custom personas of Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, and your future self to advise you every single day Stop treating AI like a shortcut. Start treating it like a thought partner. The people who master this won't just work faster. They'll think differently. Thanks to SoFi for sponsoring this episode! Looking for funding to help grow your business? Get started at SoFi.com/Codie. #SoFiPartner #ad ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: AI as a Thought Partner, Not Just an Assistant (00:01:14) The 300 Million Dollar Board Meeting: How AI Transformed a Hostile Relationship (00:06:30) The CRIT Framework: Context, Role, Interview, Task (00:11:20) The Saving Face Consortium: How AI Saved a Manufacturing Company from Bankruptcy (00:15:38) The Three Skills You Must Master to Harness AI Without Being Replaced (00:18:14) Speech to Text and Advanced AI Hacks: Playing AI Against Itself (00:22:29) The Sticky Note Trigger: How to Actually Change Your Behavior with AI (00:25:07) Agentic AI: The 18th Domino You Should Not Start With (00:29:05) The 80-20 Framework: Identifying What Actually Matters in Your Business (00:31:49) The Death of Entry-Level Work and What Skills Will Survive AI (00:34:34) Daycare Employees Versus Department Chairs: Own Your Job or Lose It (00:37:14) The AI Leadership Culture: Training People to Prioritize Without You (00:41:21) The Steve Jobs Manifesto: Using AI for World-Class Creative Output (00:43:28) Creating Your AI Writing Persona: The 20 to 50 Email Upload Method (00:47:13) Building Your AI Board: Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, and Your Future Self (00:51:10) The Greatest Risk Nobody Talks About: Cognitive Decline and Mental Atrophy (01:00:49) Voice of Customer Agents and Real-Time Sales Coaching That Actually Works (01:03:37) The 30-Day CRIT Challenge: One Thing to Do Right Now to Transform Your Life ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    How to Use AI to Make Money, Grow Your Business, and Be More Productive | Geoff Woods

  3. 6 Jul ·  Video

    How to Speak with the Richest 1%

    You've been waiting for access. Waiting for someone to notice. Waiting for permission to enter the rooms where real wealth gets built. Here's the truth: the 1% didn't get there by being the smartest. They got there by knowing how to speak the language, earn trust before they needed it, and stay grounded when everyone else started lying to them. This episode breaks down the exact framework for breaking into circles you don't belong in yet, staying there once you're invited, and becoming the person everyone wants to keep around. Because networking advice for broke people doesn't work when you're trying to reach people who already have everything. The game changes. And if you don't know the new rules, you'll get one shot and never get called back. In this episode, you'll learn: Why most people go negative on the first call and never get a second one, and how the relationship balance equation decides who gets re-invited and who gets ghosted How trust is built on someone's worst day, not their best, and why showing up during the fire without asking for anything after is how you earn loyalty that lasts decades Why success makes people worse at reading the truth and how to engineer channels where disagreement is rewarded instead of punished The mum effect: how every layer of your organization softens bad news until reality becomes unrecognizable, and why asking what's missing is more important than asking how'd we do The REAL framework: Respect their time, Earn trust, Ask for truth, Live in reality, and how mastering these four moves makes you impossible to ignore and irreplaceable once you're in Stop waiting for the door to open. Start becoming the person they can't afford to leave outside. ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: Nobody in the 1% Got There by Being the Smartest First (00:00:28) Respect Their Time: Why Broke Person Networking Advice Stops Working (00:01:59) The Relationship Balance Formula: Deposits Minus Withdrawals (00:03:02) Never Make an Introduction Without Permission: Double Opt-In or Die (00:04:40) Earn Trust on Their Worst Day, Not Their Best (00:07:43) Give to Get: The Growth Kit and Why Customers Need Value First (00:08:52) Ask for Truth: Success Quietly Makes Honesty Impossible (00:10:54) The Emperor Maximilian Story: How Paranoia and Flattery Destroy Empires (00:12:12) Spot the Leader Surrounded by Sycophants and Become the Counterpoint (00:13:34) Live in Reality: Uncovering the Stack of Compounding Lies (00:16:59) The Pulse System: Track Your Numbers Against Projection in Real Time (00:17:25) Sun Tzu's Spies: Real Knowledge Only Comes From Eyes on the Ground (00:19:04) Eyes to Eyes: Go See For Yourself, Nobody Read Your Slack (00:19:44) The REAL Framework: Respect, Earn, Ask, Live ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    How to Speak with the Richest 1%

  4. 30 Jun ·  Video

    You're Wasting Your Life (Here's How To Fix It)

    You're doing everything yourself. You're answering every email, attending every meeting, and somehow still ending every week exhausted with nothing meaningful to show for it. Here's the truth: buying back your time isn't a luxury you earn after you get rich. It's actually how you get rich in the first place. This episode breaks down the exact dollar per hour math that decides what to delegate first, the three person hiring ladder tied to your revenue, and the Four D’s framework that stops your calendar from filling up with everyone else's priorities. Because time is the only asset you can't make more of. And if you don't value yours, nobody else will either. In this episode, you'll learn: Why billionaires refuse to do $20 an hour tasks and how the dollar per hour rule forces you to stop lighting money on fire every week The Four D's: delete, defer, delegate, do, and why most people start at delegate and end up paying someone to do work that should never have been done at all The FREE system: favors, remote, executive, envoy, and how to build your support ladder from zero to chief of staff without wasting money on the wrong hire Why your open door policy is killing your productivity and how to replace come talk to me with send me a brief so half your meetings solve themselves Block it, batch it, assign it: the three calendar rules that stop your team from hijacking your time and force them to carry the weight of their own work Why swooping in to save the day robs your team of the lesson that would make them great and how letting them drop the ball teaches more than your rescue ever could Stop being your busiest employee. Start protecting the one asset you'll never get back. Your time isn't something you spend. It's something you invest. If you're looking for people who think like owners instead of employees, check out Athena. Stop going at it alone. → http: // Athena.com/codie-sanchez (http://athena.com/codie-sanchez) ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: Buying Back Your Time Is How You Get Rich, Not a Reward (00:01:03) The Billionaire Lesson: Why Getting Your Own Gas Is a Poor Person's Mindset (00:02:17) The Delegation Myth: Why If I Don't Do It, It Won't Get Done Right Is Costing You Millions (00:04:47) The Dollar Per Hour Rule: Stop Setting Money on Fire (00:06:06) The Four D's Framework: Delete, Defer, Delegate, Do (00:07:21) Build Your Ladder: The FREE System for Hiring Support (00:09:08) Remote Assistants: The Highest Leverage Hire You're Not Making (00:12:59) Kill Your Open Door Policy: Walk the Factory Floor, Don't Let It Walk to You (00:14:15) Send Me a Brief: The Jeff Bezos Six-Page Rule and Forcing People to Think Before They Speak (00:15:47) Frontline Data: Brad Jacobs' Two Blunt Questions and Finding Truth in Compounding Lies (00:17:27) Block It, Batch It, Assign It: Negotiating Your Calendar Like a CEO (00:18:58) Let Them Carry the Weight: Why Swooping In Robs Your Team of the Lesson That Makes Them Great (00:20:28) Getting Tougher on Your Time: The Clean No to Almost Everything Else ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    You're Wasting Your Life (Here's How To Fix It)

  5. 22 Jun ·  Video

    It Took Me 39 Years to Realize What I’ll Tell You in 14 Min

    You've been waiting for the right moment to start. For things to feel easier. For someone to tell you you're ready. But here's the truth: the pain of regret will always hurt more than the pain of failure. And the only way forward is through. This episode is 14 minutes of the lessons that took 39 years to learn. From getting fired and heartbroken to losing half a business overnight, these are the moments that built everything. The hard truths about cutting out losers, betting on yourself, and learning to smile when pressure shows up. Because winners don't avoid the fight. They get excited by it. In this episode, you'll learn: Why getting fired or pushed out is often the greatest gift you'll ever receive and how it forces you to finally bet on yourself Why losers don't like winners and how hanging around people who haven't built anything guarantees you won't either How getting into rooms where you're the dumbest person changes everything and why asking how you can help opens doors you didn't know existed The pressure test: how winners react when the vice grips them and why learning to smile when it shows up is the only way to build something real Why regret is a greater disappointment than failure and how the worst thing that can happen isn't losing, it's never trying Stop waiting. Start moving. The person you're meant to become is on the other side of the thing you're avoiding. ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: The 30-Year Truth About What Actually Matters (00:01:04) The Winding Path: Why Getting Fired Was the Greatest Gift (00:02:17) Heartbreak and the Decision to Choose Yourself (00:02:50) The Grit Factor: God Gives You What You Can Handle (00:03:13) Cut Them Out: Losers Don't Like Winners (00:04:34) Work Harder Than a Crackhead: The Obsession Test (00:05:50) Get in Rooms Where You're the Dumbest: The 100 Million Dollar Lesson (00:07:03) Your Light Shines on Someone Else's Darkness: Setting Boundaries (00:08:18) Do Not Be Afraid: Faith, Flow, and Killing the Mosquitoes (00:09:58) Winners Love Pressure: The Mexico City Story and Game Time Mentality (00:12:32) Regret Is Greater Than Failure: The CEO Who Almost Lost Everything ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    It Took Me 39 Years to Realize What I’ll Tell You in 14 Min

  6. 15 Jun ·  Video

    Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai

    The best investors in the world aren't gambling. They're copying. They're patient. And they're finding asymmetric bets where the downside is capped and the upside is unlimited.Mohnish Pabrai is a legendary investor who turned $1 million into $14 million in five years by openly copying Warren Buffett's playbook, and now manages $1.4 billion using the exact same principles that built Berkshire Hathaway. No secret formulas. No complex algorithms. Just discipline, patience, and the willingness to look for weird things that make no sense.In this episode, you'll learn:* Why you don't need original ideas to make money and how shameless cloning beats innovation every time* The 10 bet rule: why concentrating your investments in a few great businesses outperforms diversification by 10x* Why selling too early is the biggest mistake investors make* The downside protection framework: how to structure bets where you can't lose more than 10% but could gain 100x* Why most people fail at investing because they chase what's popular instead of looking for anomalies that make no sense ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: Never Sell Your Winners Too Early (00:00:34) The Laws of Investing: Why Buffett Wrote the Physics of Money (00:01:04) Spend Less Than You Earn: The Nonlinear Power of Compounding (00:02:02) The 168 Hour Week: Don't Quit Your Job, Build Your Side Venture (00:03:46) Entrepreneurs Don't Take Risk: The Upside Without Downside Framework (00:08:12) Selling Skills and Unique Value Propositions: The Only Two Things That Matter (00:09:58) Shameless Cloning: Why Original Ideas Are Overrated (00:15:43) The 650K Lunch: How Warren Buffett Led to a Friendship with Charlie Munger (00:18:12) From One Million to Fourteen Million in Five Years: The Buffett Approach in Action (00:23:51) If Wealth Is Lost, Nothing Is Lost: Surviving 2008 and the Character Test (00:26:08) Finding 100-Bagger Investments: The Turkish Company That Went 100X (00:27:11) When to Sell: Only When It's Egregiously Overpriced (00:29:59) Looking for Anomalies: The Mental Model for Total No-Brainers (00:31:57) The Level 3 Communications Bet: Tripling Money on Fixed Income (00:36:31) Pokemon Cards and Rembrandts: Understanding Asset Classes and Circular Competence (00:41:30) The Truth Framework: Why Lying Weakens You and Honesty Creates Strength (00:47:26) Screening CEOs: The Competitor Question That Reveals Everything (00:49:35) A Day in the Life: Managing 1.4 Billion with Four People (00:52:57) Warren's Pinball Business: The Blueprint for Finding Great Business Models (00:55:58) Ambitious But Lazy: The Filter for Two-by-Four Business Opportunities ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai

  7. 7 May

    How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky) | Eric Jorgenson on Naval Ravikant

    (Note: we had a technical issue that affected the first 12 minutes of Eric’s camera feed, so you’ll see a bit more wide cam than usual in the beginning. Our apologies!) Why is it that people with half your talent and twice your luck seem to be winning all the time? Because they understand leverage. And you're still trading hours for dollars. Eric Jorgenson spent a decade studying Naval Ravikant, one of the most influential entrepreneurs and thinkers in Silicon Valley, and distilled his wisdom into his classic book “The Almanack of Naval Ravikant”. In this episode, we break down the exact frameworks Naval used to build wealth, happiness, and freedom without getting crushed by the game everyone else is playing. In this episode, you'll learn: Why leverage is the only game that matters now and how code, media, and capital separate the rich from everyone else "Productize yourself” — the two word formula that unlocks specific knowledge and makes competition irrelevant Why hard work is overrated and judgment is the real multiplier that creates 100X outcomes The four types of luck, from blind to built, and how to engineer serendipity into your destiny Why rising above status is the ultimate form of freedom If you're an owner and this conversation about leverage resonates with you, learn the profit levers to find hidden cash in your business in my free Masterclass → https://contrarianthinking.biz/4cEHuZI ___________ [FLIGHTCAST_CHAPTERS] ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. 21 Apr ·  Video

    The 7 Money Rules From the Richest Man Who Ever Lived

    What if the richest man who ever lived wasn't a tech genius, a Wall Street titan, or a Silicon Valley disruptor? What if he was a 16 year old bookkeeper who studied invoices like scripture and built a $400 billion fortune by doing the opposite of what everyone else thought was smart? John D. Rockefeller became the wealthiest human being in history not by chasing oil wells, but by controlling the choke points everyone else ignored. He bought boring businesses, borrowed aggressively, moved before windows closed, and built a system so efficient that breaking it apart only made him richer. His playbook wasn't luck. It was discipline, leverage, and ruthless clarity about where real money gets made. In this episode, you'll learn: How Rockefeller became the greatest borrower of his generation and why hesitation is its own kind of risk The transportation edge nobody saw that gave him a 10 cent per barrel advantage and $50,000 a year in extra profit The Cleveland Massacre and how he bought 23 companies in 28 days using transparency and data instead of aggression Why discipline was his real competitive advantage and how his chaotic childhood shaped every habit he built Why the next generation of billionaires will be built in boring industries that nobody thinks are glamorous Rockefeller squeezed EVERY dollar of profit from his businesses. Find profit already inside your business in my live 90-min masterclass → https://contrarianthinking.biz/4cEHuZI ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: The Cleveland Massacre (00:02:06) The Bookkeeper: Do the Plumbing (00:04:02) The Greatest Borrower: Opportunity Has a Clock (00:06:18) The Edge Nobody Saw: Control the Choke Point (00:10:06) The Cleveland Massacre: Negotiate with Numbers, Not Opinions (00:12:48) The Monopoly and the Mask: Control What You Can Control (00:15:13) The Reinvention: Build Freedom, Not Just a Business (00:17:43) The Real Playbook: Build the Machine That Buys Companies (00:19:07) Closing: The Framework for Buying Boring Businesses ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You can change your life and make a dent on the world. This podcast uncovers the unfiltered lessons from the smartest minds straight to you, in conversations so honest you feel guilty listening in. We believe the current way of thinking is not working. The average person has become unhappy, unhealthy and financially struggling. You are not that person. This podcast will kick you in the shin with truth and tactics they should have taught us but gatekept. Hosted by Codie Sanchez, entrepreneur, investor and reformed journalist. You are a BigDeal to us.

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    Codie Sanchez
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    157
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