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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

4d ago

Most of the Internet Is Fake. Stop Marketing Like It's Real. Special Gues: Kiran Patil

You're creating content for humans. You're buying ads to reach humans. The problem: a massive share of the "people" on the internet aren't people. And every marketing dollar you spend pretending otherwise is a dollar spent performing for machines. In Episode 112 — the guest episode we've been teasing for weeks — Darris and Saad sit down with Kiran Patil, who spent seven years running cold email agencies, a white-label SaaS he later sold, a content agency built to engineer virality, and an ad-buying operation across the Middle East and North America. Now that he's out of the agency game, he's talking. We get into dead internet theory and what it actually means for a business owner's budget, the underground economies where engagement is bought and sold by demographic, the bot networks that governments and entire industries quietly run, and the leaked platform practice that rewrites everything you've been told about going viral. Then the turn: what Kieran would actually do if he were starting from zero today — and why the honest answer is boring, systematic, and exactly what works. The fundamentals didn't die with the real internet. They're the only thing that survived. In this episode: Dead internet theory, translated into business-owner termsThe most common marketing advice — and why it's the biggest fluffWhy your paid ads may be performing for an audience that can't buyThe engagement economy nobody shows you: panels, networks, and manufactured trendsThe most honest marketing channel and who it's actually forWhat a seven-year insider would do differently starting todayResources: Constraint identification tools launching soon — stay tuned
Aug 19

AI Isn't Your Problem. It Isn't Your Solution Either.

Every business owner is in one of two camps right now: "AI will save my business" or "AI is all hype." Both camps are looking at the wrong thing. If you're stuck in the day-to-day and can't find the energy to grow, the tool was never the problem — and it was never going to be the fix. In Episode 111, Darris and Saad break down the pattern that keeps owners stuck: the burning "fix this exact thing" request that's really a symptom of something upstream, why solving the symptom ends up costing more, and the ownership-vs-outcome mindset that separates businesses that scale from businesses that stall. We get into the companies that skipped the data race five years ago and are now wondering why their AI doesn't work, what duct-taping your operations together with Claude actually looks like, and why hiring more people or buying more tokens are both the wrong answer. Then the practical close: how to start acquiring AI skills when every model, tool, and LinkedIn post is shouting something different. The question never changes. What problem are you actually solving, is it the right one, and are you solving it the right way? In this episode: The client request Saad dreads most — and why he takes the job anywayOwnership vs. outcome: the mindset behind every business that stallsWhy AI is a calculator and what that means for your bad dataIf you're just now building dashboards, you're already five years behindWhy owners resist the right fix — and the one move that changes their mindHow to start with AI when everything feels like the NFT crazeResources: Constraint identification tools launching soon — stay tuned
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

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

112
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