Biz Meds

Darris & Saad

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Tired of drowning in productivity hacks and endless distractions? Welcome to The Biz Meds Podcast, where entrepreneurs and business owners find their remedy amidst the chaos. Hosted by Darris and Saad, each episode delivers insightful and actionable Minimum Effective Dose strategies to cut through the noise and ignite meaningful change in your business. Join us weekly for a dose of clarity and growth in the journey of entrepreneurship

5D AGO

$14,000 a Year for One F****ing Spreadsheet

You know you have operational drag. You've heard us talk about automation. You know things could be faster, cheaper, less manual. But you're still not doing it — because you don't know which thing to start with. In Episode 103, Darris and Saad stop talking theory and hand you the formula. We walk through exactly how to calculate your operational drag cost — frequency × time × labor rate — and run the numbers on a real client where one manual reconciliation task is eating six hours a week and $14,000 a year. A Claude license that could handle it costs $20 a month. You do the math. We also get into why business owners don't automate even when they know they should, the cognitive bias of needing to "see it and touch it," and why hiring more people to do more manual work just compounds the drag. Also: we need to talk about Cheryl. Cheryl's been doing the same task for 15 years. Cheryl lost her purpose a long time ago. Give Cheryl something better to do — or have the conversation you've been avoiding. In this episode: The operational drag cost formula you can calculate on a napkinA real example: $14,000 a year for one weekly reconciliation taskThe first question nobody asks: should this process even exist?Why "I need to touch it" is a cognitive bias, not a business reason$100K–$200K a year in drag costs is the low end for most businessesThe operational drag calculator is in development — DM us for early accessResources: DM us for early access to the Operational Drag Calculator CONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching

24 min
MAY 6

Two Years In: Business, AI, and Everything That's Pissing Us Off

Two years of Biz Meds. Same microphones. A lot less hair. No framework today — just two guys in matching black shirts with their blood boiling about the state of the world. In Episode 102, Darris and Saad go completely off script. We get into Anthropic's Project Glasswing and what it means when an AI finds security exploits that humans never knew existed — and why your small business is just as exposed as the tech giants. Then we shift into why standards have collapsed across the board: education systems pumping out useless diplomas, societies rewarding people for showing up instead of performing, and new graduates bringing ego instead of grit. We talk about the thanklessness of business ownership, why most people quit after doing one hard thing, and why the only variable you actually control is whether you keep going or don't. This is the double black shirt episode. Maximum effective dose. In this episode: Project Glasswing and why AI security should be on every business owner's radarNothing connected to the internet is bulletproof — including your businessStandards have dropped and nobody's willing to say it out loudThe difference between knowledge and wisdom and why young ego is a liabilityBusiness ownership is solving problems nobody thanks you for — every single dayYou own a job or you own a business. Know which one and stop pretending.CONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching

27 min
APR 29

If I Had to Scale 30M Again, I'd Start Here

Scaling $30 million in under 18 months was a monumental feat. It was also way harder than it needed to be. In Episode 101, Darris and Saad break down the three things that would have compressed that timeline and saved a massive amount of burnout. First: manage your cognitive load and get into flow state — because nothing else works if you're tapped out. Second: automate the repetitive, low-value work dragging your operation down. Third: use AI to accelerate both — not as a magic pill, but as a tool that finds leverage faster. If Ep. 97–100 were about the why and how of automation and AI — this one's about the order you attack it in and why the sequence matters. The frameworks haven't changed since episode one. The tools just got faster. We also talk about the time two people spent 12-hour shifts routing 350+ vehicles in Excel. And why your phone needs to be called an Ultra Max Plus for you to even notice it exists. Both of those things are the same problem. In this episode: Why flow state is the foundation and has to come firstAttention spans have dropped to 8–47 seconds and what that means for youThe client spending every month on the exact same accrual cycleHow unresolved frontline problems backfill all the way up to the ownerUsing AI to audit your tech stack and find where you're duplicating effortThe sequence matters: cognitive load, then automation, then AICONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching

30 min
APR 22

AI Isn't the Problem. How You Use It Is.

You're using AI in your business. But are you actually thinking about what it gives you — or are you scrolling to the last paragraph and running with it? In Episode 100, Darris and Saad get into the risk nobody's warning you about: not that you're using AI, but that you're training yourself to stop thinking. We break down why skipping the reasoning, never fact-checking, and blindly applying AI outputs is compounding into bad decisions across your business. We also draw the line between offloading low-value decisions to protect your cognitive load and surrendering your critical thinking entirely — because one scales you and the other leaves you unable to answer a single hard question when it matters. 100 episodes in. In Ep. 93 we called out the AI hype machine. This one's for the people who got past the hype but walked into a different trap — trusting the tool without questioning the output. Somewhere out there, someone is asking ChatGPT whether to go to McDonald's or Dairy Queen. That tells you everything. In this episode: The "scroll to the summary" habit that's wrecking your decision-makingWhy AI without context gives you confident wrong answersThe compounding risk of never questioning what AI tells youExpertise + AI accelerates you. No expertise + AI buries you.The difference between smart offloading and intellectual abdicationWhy "we won't need school" is the laziest take in the AI conversation

19 min
APR 15

You're Still Hiring Like It's 2015

You just posted a job listing for work that software could handle in seconds — and your competitor hired one person with AI skills who's outproducing your whole team. In Episode 99, Darris and Saad break down why the way you hire, the way you use AI, and the way you lead all come down to one skill: orchestration. We get into why traditional role-based hiring is bleeding businesses dry, how the gap between companies that get this and companies that don't is widening by the week, and what happens to your valuation when a buyer realizes your entire operation runs on manual processes and outdated roles. If Ep. 97 and 98 were about why and how to automate — this one's about who you need on the other side of it. Fair warning: Saad let Claude respond to messages on his behalf. It started booking coffee meetings without asking. Guardrails matter. In this episode: Why how you treat AI is a mirror of how you run your businessThe shift from filling roles to hiring people who can orchestrateAutomation vs. AI — they're not the same and you need to know the differenceTools you're already paying for that you're barely usingThe skill acquisition curve nobody wants to hear aboutWhat happened when Claude went rogue on Saad's calendarCONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching

27 min
APR 8

How to Automate the Right Things in Your Business

You know automation can help your business. But where do you actually start — and how do you make sure you're not automating the wrong things? In Episode 98, Darris and Saad take the AIM framework off the whiteboard and into execution with a practical four-step process: map your current steps, evaluate the tools and tech you already have, understand what the change actually looks like before you commit, and calculate whether the ROI justifies the investment. Along the way, we share real client examples — from dropping unnecessary software subscriptions to saving 50+ hours a week of manual effort — and explain why sometimes the best automation decision is realizing the process shouldn't exist at all. This is the episode where frameworks become operational. In this episode: A four-step process for implementing automation the right wayThe sticky note method for mapping any business processWhy you probably already have tools you're underutilizingHow to pressure-test your solution before committing to itThe real ROI calculation most business owners skipWhy automation redirects people to higher-value work instead of replacing themCONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching

22 min
APR 1

Reduce Operational Drag: Why Automation Beats Hiring

You feel stuck. There's a ceiling you can't see. And every time you try to solve it by hiring more people, things just get slower, more complicated, and more expensive. You think the problem is headcount when it's really cognitive load and operational drag. In Episode 97, Darris and Saad make the case for automation as the lever most business owners overlook. We walk through the AIM framework (Automation, Insight, Mastery), share real client examples where a few hours of setup eliminated days of manual work every month, and challenge you to ask the question that changes everything: should this process even exist? We also get into why companies that aren't thinking about this are already being left behind — and what happens to your valuation when someone comes to buy a business that still runs on hand-bombed spreadsheets and paper copies. In this episode: Why cognitive load is the invisible ceiling holding your business backUsing AI as a tool to unload and process your thinkingThe AIM framework and where automation actually fitsReal client results: hours of setup replacing days of manual workWhy hiring more people usually makes operational drag worseThe one question that strips away 25–35% of non-value workCONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching

30 min
MAR 25

If You Can't Prompt AI, You Can't Lead People

The way you prompt your AI is the way you lead your people. And if you keep getting garbage back from both… it's time to look in the mirror. In Episode 96, Darris and Saad make the case that your prompting ability is the number one predictor of how well you communicate as a leader. We break down why most business owners skip context, assume everyone knows what's in their head, and then blow up when nothing comes back the way they wanted — whether they're talking to ChatGPT or their team. We also share two immediately actionable tactics: a feedback loop that will change every conversation you have, and a single prompt that teaches you what you've been leaving out. Fair warning: if you've ever rage-typed at an AI in all caps, you're in good company. In this episode: Why your AI conversations are a mirror of your leadership styleThe context gap that's costing you hours of reworkA real client example of solving the wrong problem at the wrong levelThe 1-3-1 framework for sharper problem solvingThe feedback loop trick that immediately upgrades communicationOne prompt to ask your AI that reveals your blind spotsCONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching

17 min

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Tired of drowning in productivity hacks and endless distractions? Welcome to The Biz Meds Podcast, where entrepreneurs and business owners find their remedy amidst the chaos. Hosted by Darris and Saad, each episode delivers insightful and actionable Minimum Effective Dose strategies to cut through the noise and ignite meaningful change in your business. Join us weekly for a dose of clarity and growth in the journey of entrepreneurship

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Darris & Saad
Years Active

2024 - 2026
Episodes

103
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Explicit
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