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

Aug 12

More AI Won't Get You More Leads

You bought the AI tools. You're producing more marketing than ever. And your leads haven't moved — because everyone else bought the same tools, used the same prompts, and shipped the same average output. Your prospects can tell. In Episode 110, Darris and Saad tackle the constraint roughly 70% of businesses share: demand. Not enough leads coming through the door. We cover the tale of two vape shops — one scaling with a $100K marketing budget, one quietly closing with none — why AI turned marketing into a checkbox instead of a thinking exercise, and the random-number experiment that exposes exactly why your AI-generated marketing sounds like everyone else's. Then the practical core: the two-minute test that tells you whether your real problem is demand or delivery, the four ways leads actually get generated, and the one ratio that decides whether your marketing is building a business or burning money. Sales hasn't changed — it's still the transfer of value over a bridge of trust. What's changed is how fast you can produce garbage on the way there. Plus: a marketing specialist who built, scaled, and sold their own business is joining the podcast soon. Consider this the primer. In this episode: The tale of two vape shops and what separates themWhy everyone's AI marketing sounds identical (the random number story)The LinkedIn button Saad has been using ruthlesslyThe two-minute test: demand constrained or supply constrained?The core four ways to generate leads — and why scattered focus means no focusThe CAC-to-LTV math that decides if your marketing actually works
Aug 5

WTF is SharePoint (And Are You Using It Wrong?)

You're probably paying for SharePoint right now. If your business runs on Outlook or Teams, it's already there — the tool everyone knows exists and nobody wants to touch. Most businesses either ignore it or dump their old file server into it and call it a migration. Both are expensive mistakes. In Episode 109 — the first-ever Biz Meds guest episode — Darris and Saad sit down with Marvin Hidalgo of MH365 Solutions, a 15-year SharePoint veteran who once managed over 2,000 sites for enterprise energy companies. Marvin explains what SharePoint actually is in terms anyone can understand, walks through the three mistakes he fixes more than any others, and shares the story of a small business that had no idea their customers could see their private quotes and files. Then the conversation lands on the thread from Episode 108: your AI outputs are only as trustworthy as the data underneath them — and for most businesses, that data lives in SharePoint, in whatever condition you left it. Marvin's line of the episode: AI didn't create your information problem. You just handed it a microphone. In this episode: What SharePoint actually is — the kitchen analogy that finally makes it clickHow to know if you already have it (you probably do)The three mistakes nearly every business makes, from folder dumping to phantom permissionsWho should actually own SharePoint (hint: it's not IT)Why SharePoint is never a technology problem — it's a people problem in a technology costumeThe connection between your data hygiene and every answer your AI gives youResources: Find Marvin Hidalgo — MH365 Solutions on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marvin-h-87079179/
Jul 29

If AI Isn't Making You Money, It's Not Working

Everyone's telling you AI will solve your problems — every vendor, every creator, every booth at every conference. Meanwhile you're paying for tools you can't trace to a single dollar of new revenue. The test is brutally simple: is AI making you more money? If not, it's not working. In Episode 108, Darris and Saad take stock of where AI for business actually stands right now. We cover the conference moment where one exhausted buyer summed up the entire market in a single question, why "MVP AI tools" are ego projects in disguise, and the NVIDIA CEO's token-spending advice that lands differently once you remember who profits from it. Then the centerpiece: a fast-scaling client whose AI-stitched shipping process produced different results every single run — and why the real fix required stepping all the way back to a question nobody had asked. Plus the three numbers from one of the best business books ever written that instantly expose whether any project — AI or otherwise — deserves your money. We're not anti-AI. We use it daily. We're anti-lighting-money-on-fire. In this episode: The money test that settles every AI purchase decision in one questionWhy the market is flooded with AI products built by people who've never run anythingDemand constrained or supply constrained — how to know which one you areThe client story: when AI Frankensteins your process instead of fixing itThe unglamorous data work that has to happen before AI can help you decide anythingThree metrics that expose whether a project adds profit or just adds costResources: Constraint identification tools launching soon — stay tuned
Jun 17

You're Not Busy. You're Distracted.

It's 2 PM and you can barely keep your eyes open. You've been "working" since 7, you've touched fourteen things, and none of them moved your business forward. The problem isn't your work ethic. It's that you're fighting a war on your attention — and losing without knowing you enlisted. In Episode 107, Darris and Saad do the math on how much truly focused work you get done in a month. The number is brutal, it's backed by research, and it explains why you feel busy all day and behind all year. Then we get into flow state — the real neuroscience, not the 4 AM cold plunge version — and the One Month Day: the framework Darris built after burning out so badly he couldn't stay awake past lunch. Saad shares his first-person account of using it on a deadline everyone said was impossible, including the part where he thought Darris was a crazy person for suggesting it. You've had days where everything clicked and time disappeared. Those weren't flukes. There's a formula. In this episode: The focused-work math that explains why you're always behindWhat every single interruption actually costs you (it's not the minute it takes)Why multitasking is making you worse at everything you care aboutThe flow formula — without the productivity-guru lifestyle attachedWho the One Month Day works for, and who it honestly won'tWhy your first attempt will suck and why that's part of the designCONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching
Jun 10

Your Business Has No Systems. Start With This One.

Be honest: if you disappeared for two weeks, would your business keep running — or would everything stop and wait for you? If it's the second one, you don't have a business. You have a job with extra steps. In this episode, Darris and Saad break down why systems are the difference between owning a business and being owned by one. We get into the mindset that keeps owners trapped at the center of everything they built, the starting point for your first system — no software, no budget, no consultant required — and the hiring trick that documents your entire operation while you onboard new people. We also cover the difference between delegating and abdicating (most owners do the wrong one and call it the right one), and what happens to the rock stars you hire when your mindset is the ceiling. You didn't go into business to do payroll at 11 PM. This episode is about getting back to whatever it was you actually saw when you started. In this episode: The question that reveals whether you own a business or just a jobWhy you became the bottleneck without ever deciding toThe simplest possible system — and why pilots trust their lives to itThree books that will crack your thinking open (one you can finish in a weekend)The hiring trick that builds your systems library for freeDelegation vs. abdication: the distinction that changes everythingCONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching
Jun 3

Does Your Business Need a Jarvis?

Everyone wants one. An AI that handles everything — monitors your business, makes decisions, runs 24/7 without you lifting a finger. Tony Stark had Jarvis. You have ChatGPT and a LinkedIn feed full of people telling you they have 20 agents running their business. But here's the thing they're not telling you: even a fictional genius billionaire didn't give his AI full control. In Episode 105, Darris and Saad use the Jarvis analogy to break down what AI agents can actually do for your business and what happens when you hand them the keys without guardrails. We get into why people are blindly surrendering control because they're sold on convenience, the real cost of running agents you don't understand, and why the human-in-the-loop isn't a nice-to-have — it's the only thing standing between you and a very expensive disaster. The takeaway: be more Tony, less dependent on Jarvis. In this episode: What Jarvis actually did vs. what people think AI agents doWhy giving AI full access to your systems is a terrible ideaThe real cost nobody mentions when they flex their agent setupsThe early computer security parallel we're repeating right nowWhy convenience without context is the most expensive shortcut you'll takeBe more Tony: guardrails, parameters, and the human in the loopCONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching
May 27

WTF is Vibe Coding (And Should You Care?)

Everyone's talking about vibe coding. Your feed is full of people who built an app over the weekend using AI. But as a business owner doing under $30M — does any of this actually matter to you? In Episode 104, Darris and Saad break down what vibe coding actually is, where it fits the AIM framework, and whether you should care. We cover the real security risks that nobody flexing their weekend projects is mentioning — silent failures, prompt injection, and building things you don't understand — and walk through real examples of where it makes sense and where it'll burn you. We also share the story of a weekly report that consumed three days from the three most senior people on the team, and how the fix had nothing to do with better code. Vibe coding can be really awesome. It can also wreck your business. The difference is whether you have enough context to know what you're building and why. In this episode: What vibe coding actually is — explained for business owners, not developersWhere it fits the AIM framework and how it reduces operational dragThe security risks and silent failures nobody is warning you aboutWhy the person doing the vibe coding matters more than the code itselfA real example of a report that ate 50% of the leadership's weekOne prompt you can use right now to reduce the risk of anything you've builtCONNECT WITH US: Free Masterclass: https://www.myvelocitybusinesscoach.com/breakthrough Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdarrisperzan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velocitybusinesscoaching
May 20

$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

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

110
Rating

Explicit
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