Hello Chaos

Jennifer Sutton
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  • Entrepreneurship

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. 3d ago

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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 Plug 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

  4. 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

  5. Jul 19

    Ep. 210 Kashaun Cooper - Pressure Doesn't Change You. It Reveals You.

    Kashaun Cooper used to get written up at work for pushing back on every process anyone handed him. Now founders pay him to build the exact thing he used to hate. That's not a fun contradiction, that's the whole story. He didn't wake up one day and become a systems guy. He just figured out something most people never do, that hating structure and needing structure were never the same fight. Kashaun runs the Five Stages of Yes Leadership and Development Institute now, and he built it off one lesson that took him years to actually feel: discipline wasn't the problem, design was. He worked hard, stayed consistent, checked every box the books told him to check, and his results still wouldn't hold. If you've ever grinded for months and gotten nowhere or caught yourself doing the same thing you swore you'd stop doing, this one's going to land close to home. Kashaun and Jennifer get into why your business falls apart the second real pressure shows up, why nobody on your team seems to know who actually owns anything, and why burnout usually has less to do with working too hard and more to do with working without a system underneath you. Here's what stuck with us. 1️⃣ You Don't Have A Discipline Problem Kashaun worked hard for years and stayed disciplined, and his results still stayed shaky. The real shift came when he stopped grinding harder and started building a system he could run on his worst day, not just his best one. He calls it bettering your best, one specific action, done at a set time, every day, whether he feels like it or not. Keep chasing motivation instead of designing the routine and you'll stay inconsistent no matter how hard you try. 2️⃣ Pressure Doesn't Break People It Reveals Them The moment pressure hits, decision speed, ownership, and emotional stability are the first three things to crack, and they crack fast. Kashaun watched a restaurant manager who ran fine on a normal Tuesday completely unravel during a rush he knew was coming every single week. Pressure didn't create that behavior, it just showed everyone what was already sitting underneath the calm. Audit your own defaults now, before the next crisis forces your team to watch you find out in real time. 3️⃣ Stop Obsessing Over One Deal Start Planting Fifty Kashaun calls it regulated ambition, and it's the antidote to the anxiety that comes from staking your whole identity on a single outcome. He plants dozens of seeds at once, some slow, some fast, so when an email gets ignored for eight months and then suddenly gets a reply, he barely notices because he wasn't waiting on it. Founders who fixate on one deal, one client, or one launch burn themselves out watching a pot that was never going to boil on their schedule. Spread your bets, stay patient, and let the ones that are ready do their work on their own timeline. Timestamps: 00:00 Why every founder feels like they are improvising chaos on purpose 01:00 The system hater who built his whole business on systems 06:06 The leadership advice that only works when nothing is going wrong 09:01 Are you a carrot an egg or a coffee bean under pressure 10:41 The first thing that breaks on a team the second pressure hits 15:14 The restaurant manager who taught him exactly what not to do 16:16 You are setting the weather whether you mean to or not 19:02 The social media lie about what building a business actually feels like 20:56 The real competition every founder is fighting is in the mirror 24:49 The moment he realized discipline was never the answer 32:19 Why effort without structure is just delusion 34:55 Pressure does not create behavior, it exposes it 46:39 Why planting fifty seeds beats betting everything on one 52:11 The two sentences of advice every founder needs to hear Kashaun spent years turning pressure into something predictable, so if you're tired of guessing what's going to break next in your business, go see what he's built. WebsiteLinkedInInstagramPodcast As mentioned in the episode, here’s the short Pressure System Index assessment 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. Jul 12

    Ep. 209 Frank McShane - Their Downtime Was Costing $23,000 an Hour

    Frank McShane spent years leading other people's companies before deciding he was done working for someone else's vision. Instead of taking the easy path back into a big firm with someone else's risk tolerance, he bet that most business owners are chasing the wrong fix, hunting for more customers when the real problem was sitting inside their own P&L the whole time. What makes Frank different is his patience. He does not walk in and start talking. He listens, understands why things are the way they are, then asks one uncomfortable question backed by the client's own numbers. That approach turned a 700 million dollar business bleeding 70 million a year into a 500 million dollar business making 70 million, and it is the same move he ran recently at a paper mill, where he uncovered they were losing 23000 dollars for every hour of downtime they had been quietly measuring in minutes.  Here is what every founder can take from how he does it. 1️⃣ Not all revenue is good revenue Frank ran the numbers at a fuel distribution client and found 11 percent of their customers generated 80 percent of their profit. The other 71 percent barely moved the needle, but still ate up massive time and attention. If you are treating every customer the same because they all show up on the revenue line, you are working just as hard for the wrong people as the right ones. Pull your own numbers and see who is actually paying your bills. 2️⃣ Stop pitching, start doing Frank's sales process used to drag until a colleague told him to quit presenting and just start consulting in the first meeting. Show the client what you can do instead of explaining it, and the decision gets made a lot faster. A quick no beats a long yes every time, and most founders waste months chasing the long yes because they are scared to hear the quick no. 3️⃣ Data only works if it embarrasses someone Frank did not walk into a paper mill and tell them what was wrong. He asked one question, what does an hour of downtime actually cost you, and let the answer do the damage. Turns out it was 23000 dollars an hour, and they had been measuring it in minutes, which made it look small. If you want people to change, do not hand them your opinion. Hand them their own numbers and get out of the way. Timestamps 00:00 The founder who walked away from two exits to start over solo 00:41 What nobody tells you about the sales process when you go out on your own 04:02 The advice that cut his sales cycle in half, start consulting before you start selling 06:58 Why he named his company after the fastest way to waste your own time 09:39 The referral shift that changed his entire business model 10:50 The peaks and valleys problem every solo consultant hits and never talks about 14:13 The 700 million dollar business that was losing 70 million a year, and what fixed it 16:13 11% of customers, 80 percent of the profit, the number that stops every room 17:45 The one spreadsheet trick that makes companies see their own waste instantly 22:44 What happens when he lets AI do the analysis his clients used to pay him for 25:05 The one word he uses to describe eight years of building this on his own 27:04 Why retirement scares him more than the business ever did 30:31 The line from his father that changed how he runs every client engagement 34:11 The number his client didnt know was costing them 23000 dollars an hour If your P&L has more waste hiding in it than you want to admit, Frank's the guy who'll find it before you do. WebsiteLinkedIn 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. Jul 5

    Ep. 208 Robin Ferguson - You're Living Someone Else's Life and Don't Know It

    Robin Ferguson has started more things than most people will in a lifetime. A neonatal ICU. An urgent care. A church. A leadership coaching program that grew to 25 coaches. And then, at a milestone birthday, she finally started something for herself. Three months in, hitting walls with no guaranteed income and her partner in the same boat, she walked to a park with a journal. What came out of that sitting wasn't a new strategy. It was a question she couldn't shake. Whose life am I actually building? That question became The Phoenix Effect. Robin's a coach and speaker who works with leaders and entrepreneurs who are good at what they do but aren't sure it's actually theirs. This conversation gets into what resilience looks like when it's not a personality trait but a daily decision, why high achievers stay buried in busyness long after it stops working, and what happens when a founder finally puts passion, purpose, skill, and livelihood in the same room. If you've ever felt like you were executing someone else's version of your life without realizing it, this one's going to hit. Key Takeaways: 1️⃣ You're not burned out. You're building the wrong story. Most founders assume the hard part is the market, the model, or the money. Robin Ferguson found out it's something older than any of that. The stories you absorbed from family, culture, teachers, and media are quietly running your business decisions right now. If you never stop to ask which ones are actually yours, you will keep grinding toward a version of success that was never yours to begin with. 2️⃣ Resilience isn't something you have. It's something you choose. Robin expected to be resilient going into her own business. What surprised her was that it's not a switch you flip once. It's a decision you make every single morning, especially when there's no guaranteed income and the people closest to you are in the same boat. Founders who treat resilience like a personality trait get blindsided. The ones who treat it like a daily practice build something that lasts. 3️⃣ The pivot that looks like failure is usually the signal. Three months into her business, Robin hit a wall. Instead of pushing harder, she walked to a park with a journal and sat in the quiet. What came out of that wasn't a new strategy. It was the book she'd been putting off for years. The hardest stretch of her founder journey opened the door she actually needed to walk through. If something keeps not working, the answer might not be more effort. It might be a different direction entirely. Timestamps:  00:00 When you realize you have been starting things your whole life 02:45 Leaving a stable career to bet on yourself 06:00 Three months in and hitting walls 08:30 How a park bench and a journal changed everything 11:00 The stories you inherited that are quietly running your life 14:30 Resilience is not a personality trait it is a daily decision 17:30 How to use your calendar like a founder not an employee 21:00 What you wish people recognized about the way you work 24:00 Ikigai and building a business around your reason for being 27:00 Why high achievers stay busy even when it stops working 30:00 Learning to receive help when you are wired to do it yourself 33:00 Intentions over goals and staying open to unexpected doors 36:00 The one word that defines Robin's founder journey 38:00 Where to find Robin and The Phoenix Effect If you're ready to question the story you've been building from, here's where to find Robin. WebsiteLinkedIn 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. Jun 28

    Ep. 207 Ken Miller - He Lost 20 Years to Addiction and Prison. Here's What He Built Next

    Ken Miller shouldn't be where he is. Twenty years on the streets. Three stints in prison. A crack addiction that nearly took everything. And yet here he is running multiple businesses, generating $700K a year, mentoring founders all over the country, and talking about kindness like it's the most practical business skill he's ever developed. His story isn't an exception to the founder journey. It's an extreme version of what every founder faces: fear, finance, and family pulling against the version of yourself you're trying to become. What Ken built on the other side of that rock bottom isn't just success. It's a system. Most founders aren't struggling with control, they're struggling with fear dressed up as control. A solopreneur caps out around $250K not because of the market but because of what they won't let go of. And the most courageous thing you can do in business and in life is stop acting the way you feel. This one's for every founder who knows they need to scale but keeps finding reasons not to. Here's what Ken unpacks in this conversation. 1️⃣ What You Call Control Is Actually Fear Most founders think they have a delegation problem. Ken reframes it completely. The reason you won't hand off tasks isn't because you're a perfectionist or a control freak. It's because you're scared. Scared the business will slip, the quality will drop, or you'll lose your grip on something you've bled to build. Until you name it as fear you can't actually move past it. 2️⃣ Busy Isn't the Same Thing as Forward Ken calls it vertical action versus horizontal action. Treading water is still movement but it isn't progress. If you're spending four hours a day on social media, answering emails, and doing tasks that don't require you specifically, you're not building. You're surviving. The audit is simple: look at your calendar and ask honestly whether what's on it is actually moving you toward the goal or just keeping you feeling productive. 3️⃣ You Don't Have to Act the Way You Feel This one came from Ken's mom and it took him 20 years to fully understand it. Founders feel fear every single day. Fear of the wrong hire, the slow month, the pitch that didn't land. But feeling it doesn't mean you have to lead with it. The most courageous thing you can do is make the next right move even when everything in you wants to freeze. That's not toxic positivity. That's the actual work. Timestamps 00:00 From Homeless to $700K: Ken Miller's Origin Story 07:24 What Founders Get Wrong About Virtual Assistants 10:25 The $250K Ceiling Every Solopreneur Hits 13:00 Delegation Is Not the Problem. Fear Is. 17:00 Learn Do Delegate Automate: The Framework That Scales You 23:00 Treading Water vs. Moving Forward: Know the Difference 31:49 Two Things Ken Would Change to Grow Faster 34:38 Four Businesses, One Mission 37:41 What 20 Years Homeless Taught Him About Business 44:24 How to Shrink Your Fear and Expand Your Capacity 47:08 Courage, Kindness, and the Legacy Worth Building 49:41 Why Ken Chose Good Over Great 52:22 The Financial Advice Every Founder Needs to Hear If Ken's story or framework resonated with you, here's where you can follow his work and reach out directly. 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.

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  • Creator
    Jennifer Sutton
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    220
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2022 Orange Wip
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    Hello Chaos