Hello Chaos

Jennifer Sutton

Every day, entrepreneurs all over the world roll out of bed and say: Hello, Chaos. And more often than not, we’re having that conversation in our own heads. It’s time to crack the dialogue wide open. Hello Chaos is a weekly podcast dedicated to entrepreneurs and founders, published every Sunday. It is another platform brought to you by OrangeWIP. It is a megaphone and round table created specifically to welcome bright, stubborn, visionary minds to a conversation founders have been craving. Here, founders have permission to vent—or be vulnerable. To bring the wildest ideas. Their greatest obstacles. And find a national sounding board for solutions. Here, we want founders show off—or allow them to speak their truth. To meet challenges head-on. To make hyper-local community connections. And share “aha!” and “oh shit” moments. Welcome to Hello Chaos. Founders, it's time to unmute yourself.

  1. 4d ago

    Ep. 218 Maggie Bilby - Rich Families Fail By Gen Three

    Every founder eventually runs into the same math. If a business cannot survive without you in the room, you have not built a business, you have built a demanding job. Maggie Bilby watches that failure play out at the highest stakes imaginable, inside families worth thirty million dollars and more, where fortunes quietly vanish by the third generation not from bad investments, but because nobody taught the next generation how to actually hold what they inherited. Twenty years in traditional wealth management gave Bilby the industry playbook, until an ultimatum forced her into a career she never chose. A decade later she noticed a pattern in her clients and built a business around it, launching Gen2 Advisors a little over a year ago. Founders will recognize the rest: the pressure to scale past your own hours, and the discipline of building an exit strategy before you need one instead of scrambling for it later.  Here is what a year of building that on purpose taught her. 1️⃣ Your niche is already inside your client workYou do not find a niche by brainstorming it, you find it by noticing who keeps showing up. Maggie Bilby spent a decade in generalist wealth management before she realized one specific type of client kept gravitating toward her, and the work she loved most was the work they responded to most. She built Gen² Advisors on that pattern instead of ignoring it. Miss that signal and you keep doing broad, forgettable work while someone else builds the focused business you were sitting on the whole time. 2️⃣ Money without judgment does not survivePassing down wealth is easy. Passing down the judgment to hold it is the part almost nobody does. Bilby calls it the translation problem, and the reason family fortunes vanish by the third generation is not bad communication, it is that nobody trains the next generation to actually hold power. She has watched it wreck fifteen hundred tire dealerships and thirty million dollar families the exact same way. If you are building something to hand off one day and you are only transferring the asset and not the judgment, you are not building a legacy, you are building a countdown. 3️⃣ Stop hiring your way out of a bottleneckBilby's firm was capped by how many hours she could personally sit across from a client, so instead of stacking headcount she started writing, turning advice she used to give one on one into something clients could absorb without her in the room. That single shift freed her calendar enough to waitlist new clients on her own terms. Founders who try to scale by adding more of themselves usually just build a bigger, more expensive version of the same bottleneck. Find the thing that can carry your judgment without you physically present, and that is what actually scales. Timestamps 0:00 Meet Maggie Bilby and why families quietly lose it all1:18 The real reason she walked away from traditional wealth management3:38 The pattern she could not ignore that built her entire business6:13 The ultimatum that forced her into the career she almost refused7:43 What nobody warned her about the first year of running her own firm9:21 Why so many businesses survive one generation and collapse the next12:33 The three generation curse every founder should know before they exit18:03 The real reason inherited wealth and inherited businesses fall apart20:54 The question that breaks even the most successful founders25:39 Why she started turning away clients instead of chasing more31:02 The writing lesson that stopped her from burning out at scale34:17 Her five item rule for staying focused without losing her mind38:25 The four word sentence from her daughter that changed her business48:30 The advice she gives every founder who feels like they are drowning1:00:12 Why protecting yourself is the same as protecting your business1:04:51 Where to find Maggie Bilby and Gen2 Advisors If you are building something you actually want to outlive you, Maggie is the kind of person worth following before you need her. WebsiteLinkedInSubstack Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your network. We encourage you to join our community HERE and connect with us on social media for the latest updates and more great content. Connect With Us: LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

  2. Sep 6

    Ep. 217 Megan Rosen - She Escaped Client Hours And Built A Startup

    Megan Rosen spent a decade building other people's businesses before she let herself build her own. She helped her family's construction company break into franchising, then took an Illinois food brand from nine family owned locations to a private equity buyout, and somewhere inside all that expertise she noticed something she couldn't unsee. The tools she kept building for other founders were the product she should have been building for herself. That realization became Pallas OmniStack, a patent pending AI platform Rosen built with her co founder Ashley Walsh, born out of a simple problem. An agency client went viral overnight and drowned in a thousand unqualified leads with no way to sort the real ones from the noise. What started as a voice qualifier turned into a full operating system for founders who can't outspend bigger competitors on marketing, and now it's expanding into wearables built for healthcare, memory care, and neurodivergent kids. None of that growth came free. Rosen nearly signed away her leverage to an investor who wouldn't put his own name on the paperwork, a reminder that the fastest way to lose your business is to protect it a little too late. Here's what she wants every founder building past their limits to take with them. 1️⃣ Your product is already hiding in your service work Megan didn't set out to build software. She kept solving the same lead qualifying problem for one client, then a second, then a third, until the fix became the business. Most founders are sitting on a version of this right now and don't see it because they're too busy delivering the service to notice the pattern underneath it. Miss it, and you keep trading hours for money while somebody else eventually builds the tool you already invented. 2️⃣ The red flag shows up before the money does An investor wanted Megan's trust before he'd offer any of his own. He refused to sign her NDA, then sent one back with a hidden commission clause buried inside it. She almost let someone talk her out of trusting her own read on the deal. Ignore that instinct and you don't just lose money, you lose control of the thing you built. 3️⃣ You can't scale what only you can answer Megan gave every client her personal cell number and paid for it in burnout. Real growth started the moment she made herself less available, not more. If you're still the bottleneck for every decision, question, and 9pm text, you don't have a company, you have a very demanding job. Set the boundary or stay stuck being the whole business by yourself. Timestamps 0:00 Meet Megan Rosen and the two businesses she is building right now 7:04 How a family construction company turned into a marketing agency and an AI startup 14:57 The moment the product stopped being an idea and became real 16:15 The fake investor who wanted her to sign his NDA instead of hers 26:59 What actually makes running this business worth it 28:40 How she and her co founder split the work without breaking the partnership 30:23 What building this company taught her that she did not expect 32:51 Why she cannot function without running every single day 37:51 The two things she would change if she could start over 42:01 The one word she uses to describe this journey and the next one 44:19 The best advice she ever got, and the advice she gives every founder now 46:50 Where to find Megan, Pallas OmniStack, and Rosen Walsh Megan turned the fix she kept building for her clients into a patent pending company, so if you want to see where she's taking it next, find her here. WebsiteLinkedInInstagramPersonal Instagram Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your network. We encourage you to join our community HERE and connect with us on social media for the latest updates and more great content. Connect With Us: LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

  3. Aug 31

    Ep. 216 Joy Foster - Scaled to £2.2M & Still Couldn't Read the Numbers

    Joy Foster built a company that helped 16,000 women rebuild their working lives. She also ran it for years without knowing what a P&L was. TechPixies was winning awards and climbing past £2.2 million in revenue while its founder was still learning the money on the fly, the same founder who'd run her very first business straight out of her personal bank account. That's the gap nobody warns you about. You can build something people genuinely love and still have no real idea how to keep it alive. Joy is the founder and CEO of TechPixies, the UK training company that's helped thousands of women return to work, change careers, and start businesses of their own. And she's living proof that being great at building a thing and knowing how to run it are two entirely different skills. TechPixies is her third company, and every one before it taught her something the hard way. The business that worked but wouldn't scale. The cash flow math she picked up mid payroll instead of on day one. The 150k loan she took in 2021 just to keep her team paid, the one she's still paying back. Somewhere in there she stopped doing every job she could do with her eyes shut and started building the systems, the hires, and the blunt weekly questions that let a company run without its founder propping it up. If you're caught between the version of your business that got you here and the version that's meant to carry you forward, you'll see yourself in Joy's story. It's financial literacy, scaling without losing the plot, and the uncomfortable morning you realize the bottleneck is you.  Here's what stood out. 1️⃣ You can't outrun the numbers you avoid Joy scaled TechPixies past £2.2 million and still didn't know what a P&L was for years. She ran her first company straight out of her personal bank account and learned cash flow mid payroll instead of before it. Revenue hid the problem right up until it couldn't anymore. If you keep treating the money as somebody else's job, you're not delegating, you're gambling, and the bill always lands at the worst possible moment. 2️⃣ Stop doing the job you could do asleep The second Joy spotted a task she could handle with her eyes shut, she knew it wasn't hers to keep. That's the exact work founders cling to, because it feels productive and it feels safe. But every hour you pour into the thing you've already mastered is an hour the whole business sits and waits on you. The bottleneck isn't the market or the team. It's the founder who won't let go. 3️⃣ People won't buy confidence, so sell the result TechPixies hands women their confidence back, but Joy learned fast that confidence doesn't sell. People won't pay for a feeling they can't picture. They pay for the concrete skill that gives them the feeling. Lead your offer with the transformation instead of the tangible thing that creates it, and you'll pour everything into a pitch nobody reaches for, no matter how real the outcome is. Timestamps 00:00 The messy middle nobody puts on LinkedIn 01:03 The moms who wanted what she built for their sons 03:31 The business that worked but refused to scale 07:48 The money mistakes she made before she knew the rules 09:15 The quiet terror of making payroll every month 11:10 How to sell something people don't know they need yet 20:00 The hiring test that shows who you'll have to fix 21:44 From £29k to a million and completely buried in it 28:13 The system that broke the second she looked away 32:14 The bottleneck was her the whole time 33:35 The two questions she asks herself every Friday 36:22 The £150k loan she took just to keep everyone paid 39:20 The one book she wishes shed read on day one 49:39 The hidden cost of scaling faster than you should Joy doesn't dress any of this up, which is exactly why she's worth keeping an eye on. WebsiteLinkedInInstagramYouTube Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your network. We encourage you to join our community HERE and connect with us on social media for the latest updates and more great content. Connect With Us: LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

  4. Aug 23

    Ep. 215 Dr. Maria Nemeth - The Expert Who Got Taken by a Ponzi Scheme

    She was the expert everyone called when they needed answers. A clinical psychologist who trained psychiatrists and coached leaders. And she still handed 35,000 dollars to a man she'd known for three months, after a little voice and half her friends told her not to. It was a Ponzi scheme. She lost all of it. Then the local paper called her, the professional, to ask what kind of person falls for these things. She was the person. And instead of hiding, she said it out loud and let them print it. That's where Dr. Maria Nemeth's real work started. The embarrassment became a bridge. People stopped seeing the untouchable expert and started calling her about their own money, their own fear, their own mess. Out of that came The Energy of Money, a spot on the Oprah show, and eventually the Academy for Coaching Excellence, which she's run for 26 years. Along the way she rebuilt how she thinks about the whole game. Success as clarity, focus, ease, and grace instead of the grind that leaves you empty. Leadership as empowering people instead of doing everything yourself. Progress as small sweet steps instead of big promises you can't keep.  If you're building something and carrying something you'd rather nobody knew, this one lands close to home. 1️⃣ Say the embarrassing thing out loud  Maria lost 35K to a scam and her instinct was to hide, same as anyone. The turn came when she let the paper print it. Suddenly people trusted her more, not less, and they started opening up about their own money. The thing you're most ashamed of, named plainly, is usually where your credibility and your real connection to people begin. Keep hiding it and you stay alone with it. 2️⃣ Your job stops being the work and becomes the people  Early on it's all on you. If you want to eat a fish tonight you catch it yourself today. But the founders who stay stuck never make the next shift, which is empowering the people around them. Maria trains leaders on something no management class teaches, how to make someone feel capable and trusted before you ever hand them anything hard. People don't leave companies. They leave managers who never learned this. 3️⃣ Redefine success before it burns you down  The grind version of success runs on hard, harder, hardest until you run out of steam. Maria swapped it for a cleaner one. Doing what you said you'd do with clarity, focus, ease, and grace. Ease means the next small sweet step, not ten promises you'll break by Friday. Founders who chase the big heroic push tend to stall. The ones who take one real step a day tend to arrive. Timestamps 00:00 The messy middle nobody posts about 01:11 Meet the psychologist who coaches thousands 03:20 The check she never should have signed 04:49 The little voice she ignored 05:18 It was a Ponzi scheme 06:00 The reporter who called the expert 08:15 I got taken too 09:15 Why telling the truth changed everything 13:02 Building an academy the right way 22:15 Catch your own fish today 28:29 The green lens for leading people 33:20 A definition of success that won't burn you out 44:31 Nevertheless, I'm willing 52:35 The one piece of advice she leaves founders If a coach who trains other coaches redefined success after losing everything, her work is worth a closer look. WebsiteLinkedInInstagram Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your network. We encourage you to join our community HERE and connect with us on social media for the latest updates and more great content. Connect With Us: LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

  5. Aug 16

    Ep. 214 Ryan Schwartz - Your Steady Paycheck Is Lying to You

    The loudest players in Ryan Schwartz's world win with billboards, billion dollar claims, and referral schemes that would turn your stomach. Ryan walked the other way. He's a personal injury attorney in Atlanta who's run his own firm for 12 years, and he built the whole thing on the one asset none of that can buy. His reputation. No gimmicks, no jingles, no paying his way onto a billboard. Just people who remembered how he treated them and sent the next one his way. What started in criminal defense grew case by case into a referral machine, a spider web of clients who trusted him and passed his name along. He learned to delegate without losing control, to spot the client who'd wreck his week before signing them, and to treat his team so well that paralegals fled surveillance heavy firms to work for him. Founders will feel the tension underneath it all. The pull to grow loud and fast against the slower bet that being genuine compounds. Ryan's proof you can build a real business on word of mouth, without paid ads, without selling a version of yourself you don't recognize. Here's what stuck with us. 1️⃣ Your Steady Paycheck Is a False Safety Net Ryan's been on his own for 12 years and the thought that carries him through every hard day is simple. It could be worse. He could be working for someone who can cut him loose the second he stops being useful. The security a lot of founders quietly miss is often an illusion, because you're expendable to a company in a way you're never expendable to your own business. If you're still pricing the leap by what you're giving up, you're valuing the wrong thing. Freedom you control beats safety someone else can revoke. 2️⃣ Being Genuine Is a Growth Strategy, Not a Nicety Everyone in Ryan's field wins loud. Billboards, billion dollar claims, gimmicks. He built a full caseload on none of it. Every client came from a referral, a business card, someone who remembered how he treated them. That's slower than buying attention, but it stacks, because people forget what you said and never forget how you made them feel. Skip the reputation work to chase quick visibility and you build the kind of pipeline you have to keep paying to refill. 3️⃣ Basic Respect Is the Cheapest Retention You'll Find Ryan's paralegals came from big firms where they got watched by webcam and docked pay for bathroom breaks. He gave them flexibility and trust instead, and they were floored a lunch break was even allowed. The part founders miss is that he can delegate because he knows how to do every job himself, so trust never means flying blind. Treat people like they're disposable and you'll spend your life rehiring. Treat them well and they'll run the machine while you build. Timestamps 00:01 The messy middle nobody posts about 00:46 Why he couldn't work for anyone else 02:04 The stuff nobody warns you about before you go solo 04:09 The one thought that gets him through every bad day 05:37 How a side referral became a whole practice 08:42 The delegation lesson he's still learning 12:34 Spotting the client who will wreck your week 15:19 Why his team left the billboard firms for him 17:22 The underground game most people never see 19:14 The billboard trick that works on all of us 22:12 Why he refuses to play the industry's game 28:36 The spider web that built his whole client list 36:08 The lunch advice he never forgot 38:02 The win he wants a year from now Ryan would rather earn your trust than buy your attention, so if that's the kind of business you want to build, go connect with him. WebsiteLinkedInInstagram Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your network. We encourage you to join our community HERE and connect with us on social media for the latest updates and more great content. Connect With Us: LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

  6. Aug 9

    Ep. 213 Debbie Simmons - You Didn't Burn Out Because You're Weak

    Most of what the world calls founder success is just survival mechanisms wearing a nicer outfit. Control, hustle, urgency, being the one who holds it all together. Debbie Simmons ran on those for years and built a multimillion dollar organization from nothing. Then her body shut down and handed her a lesson she couldn't outwork. Debbie is the CEO of AnchorPoint and the mind behind a framework she calls the architecture of trust. She gets specific about the defaults that quietly run your company under pressure, the org chart exercise that shows you where you're the bottleneck, and the brutal work of letting go so the thing you built can survive without you. If scaling has ever felt like carrying more instead of building something that holds, this one lands close to home. Here's what stood out. 1️⃣ You didn't burn out because you're weak Founders love to blame themselves when they hit the wall. Debbie ran a multimillion dollar organization until her body shut down, and the lesson wasn't that she lacked grit. Life got bigger and her structure stayed the same. Keep answering that with more hustle and you're just paying a trust tax in dollars, speed, and your own health until something finally gives. 2️⃣ Write your name in every box, then get out Draw the org chart you'd need at ten times your size. Now write your name in every box you're actually doing today. You'll see it instantly. You are the whole company, and that's exactly what caps it. Your job is to work your way out of your own job, because a business that only runs on you can only grow as far as you can carry it. 3️⃣ The biggest growth has to happen in you You can hire the COO, draw the perfect system, and still wreck it by stepping in every time something breaks. Debbie learned the real work was calming herself down enough to let the structure hold. Every time you jump back in, you teach your team the answer is always you. Let go, or you stay the bottleneck and the whole thing quietly dies the day you try to step away. Timestamps 00:00 Why the messy middle breaks strong founders 01:56 The loss that rebuilt her definition of impact 04:40 She built it all on herself until her body quit 08:25 You did not burn out because you are weak 11:19 The five defaults founders fall into under pressure 14:22 The three things missing when a company stalls 16:20 Name your default and the fix gets obvious 18:11 The hidden trust tax draining your speed and money 23:00 The org chart trick that reveals your real bottleneck 27:02 Why companies rarely survive two years past the founder 31:18 The growth that has to happen in you first 34:27 The injury that forced her to finally stop 42:45 Two words that carried her from surviving to flying 47:13 Clarity beats adrenaline every single time If your business still runs entirely on your back, Debbie has both a framework and a free book to help you build something that can hold without you. WebsiteLinkedInInstagramFree Gift Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your network. We encourage you to join our community HERE and connect with us on social media for the latest updates and more great content. Connect With Us: LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

  7. Aug 2

    Ep. 212 Brian Samson - He Made $10M and Learned the Wrong Lesson

    Making a lot of money can teach you the wrong lesson about yourself. Brian Samson turned about two thousand dollars into more than ten million in revenue, ran sixty recruiters, and walked around convinced he was exceptional at sales. He says it plainly now. He wasn't. Then the market shifted, the business went with it, and he had to figure out what was actually his. What he built next is the interesting part. Brian didn't grow up around business owners, took five or six years to work up the nerve to try anything, and ended up building his first team in Buenos Aires with no playbook and inflation eating the math. Today he runs Plugg Technologies with around a hundred people across Latin America, and his hiring filter has almost nothing to do with cost. He doesn't document his processes. He can't tell you what tomorrow's problem will be. So he hires for something most founders never think to screen for, and it happens to be the same thing that decides which roles AI takes first. Here's what founders should pull from it. 1️⃣ A good market will fake your competence Brian went from about two thousand dollars to over ten million in revenue and decided he was great at sales. He wasn't. The money was flooding into VC backed companies and he happened to be standing in front of it, and when that dried up the business went with it. If you can't separate your skill from your conditions, you'll scale the wrong one, and you'll find out which was which at the worst possible moment. 2️⃣ Hire for ambiguity, not for cheap Brian doesn't document anything. He chases things and he doesn't know what tomorrow's problem is, which means anyone he hires has to move without a script. That's the filter most founders skip because they're comparing hourly rates instead of asking whether this person can operate when nobody tells them what to do. Cheap and process driven looks great on a spreadsheet right until you're paying twice for the same work, and it's the exact profile AI is coming for first. 3️⃣ Your best year should fund the next thing When the money was pouring in, Brian did what founders do and hired ten expensive people in the States to build an empire on top of it. Months later the market cracked. The only thing that saved him was quietly using part of that surplus to start something else instead of pouring all of it back into the business that was already working. Treat a great run as a window and not a new baseline, because the window closes and it never gives you notice. Timestamps 00:00 The nearshore bet most US founders have never considered 05:48 Five years of imposter syndrome before he'd try anything 09:42 The no that turned into two million dollars 13:42 Buenos Aires with no playbook and no safety net 17:08 Two thousand dollars turned into ten million in revenue 19:34 He thought he was a great salesperson and he wasn't 20:04 The founder's trap of hiring big when things go well 21:26 When the need disappeared the business went with it 23:54 The number two who keeps the trains on time 32:20 Why documented process breaks founders who don't document 34:45 A rough hand builds the exact people you're looking for 37:55 The roles AI takes first and the ones it multiplies 41:00 He had it in him the whole time and was just afraid 47:28 Stop fixing the commas and go get a customer Brian told us every message submitted through his website goes straight to him. So if you're making a hiring decision, now's the time to reach out. WebsiteLinkedInInstagramYouTube Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your network. We encourage you to join our community HERE and connect with us on social media for the latest updates and more great content. Connect With Us: LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

  8. Jul 26

    Ep. 211 Gary Acevedo - Your Business Is Stuck Where You Are

    Gary Acevedo can look at a room and tell you what is about to go wrong in it. Not the strategy, the thing underneath. He has spent forty years on this, starting from a first year of college where he was brilliant, capable, and a week from a nervous breakdown. What pulled him out became the work. He founded Rise Leadership Group and The Awakening Retreat around a claim most founders resist on instinct. The business is stuck exactly where the founder is stuck, and effort does not fix that. The résumé is real. AT&T hired him on the spot after forty five minutes. He has taken a client from a million a year to seven. But the useful part is what he learned along the way, which is that everyone runs one of two theaters in their head and most people live almost entirely in the one built from fear. That is where the ego lives, and the defensiveness, and the procrastination you cannot explain to yourself. Jennifer pushes on it from the brand side, since Bright Marketing renamed their whole system to brand therapy after realizing the blocker was never strategy. It was leaders too afraid to pick one. Gary gives the tools away here. Three of them stuck with us. 1️⃣ You get scared, you get busy, and it makes everything worse When pressure hits, the instinct is to push. More effort, more hours, more grinding. Gary spent decades watching that reflex tank people's productivity instead of saving it. His fix sounds soft until you try it. Three breaks a day where you do something that actually lights you up, because you come back to the problem as a different person. Skip it and you keep solving today's problem with yesterday's exhausted brain. 2️⃣ You are not afraid of failing. You are afraid of what success would prove. Everybody says rejection is the big fear. Gary says that one is nothing compared to the fear of success. Push hard enough and you start pressing against the story you made up as a kid about what is wrong with you, and some part of you does not want to find out it is true. That is why smart people stall out right before the thing they say they want. If you keep almost getting there, look at what you would have to believe about yourself if you actually did. 3️⃣ Criticism does not fix anyone, including you There is a parent and a child in your head. When the parent is critical, the child does one of three things. Caves, rebels, or freezes. Jennifer named the version she sees in companies every week and called it functional freezing. Teams stuck in analysis, leaders who cannot commit, everyone waiting for permission. The move is turning that critical voice into a compassionate coach, because all pain is just asking for a correction. Keep criticizing and you will keep wondering why nothing changes. Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome to Hello Chaos 01:18 The breakdown that started everything 04:46 Flyers around town and no idea what he was doing 05:30 Why selling feels gross and enrollment does not 07:09 The coaching that took a client from 250k to 70k a month 09:07 The invisible thing every room has and most leaders ignore 12:17 The two theaters running inside your head 13:23 Working harder is why your numbers are down 14:44 Three recesses a day, even for the busiest people 15:02 The answer is never in your circumstances 16:36 Build the ending first, then everything else 19:39 How to melt your favorite jerk 20:37 The stranger he refused to let off the hook 25:35 The exercise that changes a sales floor in five minutes 29:38 The workshop nobody would leave 33:57 Why Jennifer started calling it brand therapy 35:37 The fear that is bigger than rejection 36:37 The parent and the child living in your head 39:01 Criticism is the fastest way to keep yourself down 41:35 Five to one, and seven to one at home 42:31 The teenage nightmare who got into seven PhD programs 45:06 How to hang up the phone on a bad thought 48:57 The one skill that moves you up in any company 52:11 What still moves him after all these years 56:53 One word for the whole journey Gary has spent forty years helping people get out of their own way, and this is where you go if that sounds like something you need. WebsiteLinkedInInstagram Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your network. We encourage you to join our community HERE and connect with us on social media for the latest updates and more great content. Connect With Us: LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

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Every day, entrepreneurs all over the world roll out of bed and say: Hello, Chaos. And more often than not, we’re having that conversation in our own heads. It’s time to crack the dialogue wide open. Hello Chaos is a weekly podcast dedicated to entrepreneurs and founders, published every Sunday. It is another platform brought to you by OrangeWIP. It is a megaphone and round table created specifically to welcome bright, stubborn, visionary minds to a conversation founders have been craving. Here, founders have permission to vent—or be vulnerable. To bring the wildest ideas. Their greatest obstacles. And find a national sounding board for solutions. Here, we want founders show off—or allow them to speak their truth. To meet challenges head-on. To make hyper-local community connections. And share “aha!” and “oh shit” moments. Welcome to Hello Chaos. Founders, it's time to unmute yourself.