Founder Fires

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Founder Fires is for the builders, the risk-takers, and the ones figuring it out as they go. Hosted by Iggy Odighizuwa, this podcast is raw, real, and all about what it takes to build something big. There is no fluff, just straight-up lessons from the trenches, personal stories, hard truths, and conversations with other founders who are eating glass and still showing up. Whether knee-deep in your startup or still dreaming from the sidelines, this is your spot to learn, get inspired, and stay grounded in the chaos. Let's build, fire and all.

  1. Jul 29

    AI Appointment Setters vs Human Setters: The Real Numbers

    Most founders do not have an AI problem. They have a broken sales process that AI exposed. This year, our sales department collected $5.1 million in cash, booked 5,020 calls, and closed 684 deals with just eight human closers. No human setter team. This AI setter handled almost everything before the sales call. In this episode, I break down the actual numbers behind the system, including the four KPIs we track to determine whether AI is producing revenue or just creating activity: → Response rate → Response-to-CTA rate → Lead-to-CTA rate → Lead-to-book rate I also explain why a few lost leads during AI training are not always a red flag. Sometimes it is simply the cost of building a system that can eventually handle thousands of conversations without adding more headcount. The bigger mistake is automating a process that has never worked manually. If your offer is unclear, your messaging is weak, or your team has no consistent follow-up process, AI will not hide those problems. It will expose them faster. In this video, you will learn the manual-first framework we use before automating, the benchmarks we use to evaluate AI sales performance, and the exact line between what humans should still handle and what AI should take over immediately. Humans should close. AI should qualify, follow up, nurture, confirm, re-engage, and move leads through the pipeline. If your business generates 1,000 or more leads per month and people are still doing that work manually, you are not protecting the customer experience. You are paying humans to do work a system should already be doing. Book a free Charlie ai demo at ➡️ https://www.charlieai.io/freedemo and see how Charlie ai can plug into your sales process. Earn a damn good living. Leverage AI. Have business on your terms.

  2. Jul 21

    Your Closers Aren't Inconsistent. Your Management System Is.

    Your sales team is the last unpredictable variable in your entire revenue engine, and it's costing you more than you think. Your ads are running.  Your AI appointment setter is booking the calls.  Your lead management system is working on the pipeline.  But if your closers are showing up without a daily system, skipping script drills, ignoring film review, and leaving pipeline money on the table, your revenue operations will never be truly predictable.  The problem isn't your offer or your high-ticket sales funnel.  It's that you've never operationalized what your closers do between calls. $1M/month for three straight months.  In this episode, I break down the exact closer checklist behind it, and the framework I'm using to scale it to $1.5M by Q3. What you'll learn: ✅Why new closers must drill the script out loud 10 times a day and how it builds the conviction that closes high-ticket deals faster than any technique ✅My 3-step film review method (audio only → video only → combined) that exposes the hidden leaks in your sales conversion rate ✅How I turn a pipeline into a structured daily revenue activity: confirmations, no-show follow-ups, referral check-ins, and case study drops ✅Why the gap between an amateur and a master closer comes down to subconscious processing, and how to systematically close that gap on your sales floor ✅The Monday–Friday management cadence I run to keep my entire sales team performing at a predictable, forecastable level Comment 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗥 below, and I'll send you the exact closer fundamental checklist we use across our 8-figure portfolio. Want the full AI lead management system and revenue automation platform behind $1M+ months?  Book a demo at ➡️➡️ charlieai.io  Not subscribed yet?  We document real numbers, real mistakes, and real systems behind building 8-figure companies with AI, hit subscribe so you don't miss what's coming next.

  3. Jul 9

    The 5-Stage AI Pipeline Behind $4.3M in Cash (Zero Human Setter)

    I am going to be straight with you. If you are generating inbound leads right now and you do not have a system managing every single stage of your pipeline, you are bleeding money.  Most businesses are not losing sales because their ads or closers are failing. They are losing them in the gaps between a lead entering the pipeline and actually taking a sales call. Applications are abandoned. Calls are canceled. No-shows are never rebooked. Old leads sit untouched. Qualified prospects disappear after saying, "Let me think about it." I have been documenting how we fixed those gaps in real time.  Year to date, the company I have been building on this channel has collected $4.3 million in cash from $850,000 in ad spend, with zero human setters.  In this video, I am breaking down exactly how that system is built. Here is what you are going to walk away with: The exact 5-stage pipeline map I use to deploy Charlie AI inside a high-ticket sales process Why most people plug in AI and get zero results, and what separates them from the businesses actually seeing a return. How my team averages a 25% lead-to-book rate while most businesses sit closer to 10% The specific agents I have running at each pipeline stage, from no-show rebooking and database reactivation to NPS referral generation How to know whether your business is actually ready for AI, and what to focus on first if it is not Want the exact playbook I use to map out and prime a sales pipeline for AI? Comment "PLAYBOOK" below, and I will send it straight to you. Ready to plug Charlie into your pipeline? Book a demo at charlieai.io If you are not subscribed yet, what are you doing?  Hit subscribe and follow along as I document the process of building a real eight-figure company powered entirely by AI setters!

  4. Jun 26

    The bulletproof formula that took us to $1M/Month

    Most founders celebrate a great month.  The best founders predict it…  90 days in advance, down to less than 10% variance. Here's exactly how we did it! In December 2025, we built a single spreadsheet that forecasted we'd collect $1M last March.  We hit $1.1M.  That's not luck…  that's the difference between running a business on feelings versus running it on math. In this video, I break down the bulletproof revenue forecasting formula behind one of his portfolio brands scaling from $165K/month to over $1M/month, and the exact four inputs that make it work.  You'll learn about the $100K communication mistake that nearly derailed everything, and how one simple weekly habit keeps the entire operation on track. If your revenue feels unpredictable, inconsistent, or impossible to scale…this is the video that changes that. If you're serious about hitting consistent revenue records, not just for one great month…  this framework is your starting point.  Like, subscribe, and drop a comment with your biggest forecasting challenge.  And if you want access to the actual Revenue Forecast Calculator we use, book a free demo at charliei.io

  5. May 27

    Damani fired his sales team, and his AI closed $80K

    Damani fired his entire sales team in 2024. Two months later, he was back to six-figure months as a team of one. This conversation pulls back the curtain on how a drum coach went from selling $20/month memberships to closing $80K months with zero salespeople on payroll.  You'll hear the exact moment he realized his sales team was the bottleneck, not the solution, and why most founders are funding the wrong side of their business.  He breaks down the pricing pivot that 15x'd his revenue per customer overnight, and the AI workflow that now runs his entire pipeline while he sleeps.  If you're still hiring setters, closers, or VAs to patch leaks in a broken system, this episode will save you six figures and eighteen months of pain. If you're still bleeding revenue on a sales team that can't close consistently, stop.  Watch this all the way through, then check the link below to see how Charlie can run your pipeline the same way it runs his.  The founders who move first are the ones eating in 2026.

  6. May 26

    SalesCon 2026: How I Did $2.7M with Zero Setters?

    I was leaking $620,000 a month out of my sales pipeline and had no idea. I gave this keynote at SalesCon this year and broke down the film I finally sat down and watched on my own business.  The 5  places revenue was hemorrhaging out of my pipeline every single day. The three lies I believed about AI that kept me stuck for years. And the simple math that proved my sales team wasn't the problem. My system was. This is the exact breakdown that took one of our brands from $2.2M in all of 2025 to $2.7M in the first 3.5 months of 2026. Same offer. Same market. Zero human appointment setters. If you've ever felt like you're leaving money on the table or like scaling what you're doing is going to burn you out, this one's for you. The 5 revenue leaks costing high-ticket businesses six figures a month The back of napkin math to calculate your own pipeline leak in under 60 seconds The three lies about AI I had to kill before I could scale The Buyer IQ framework that weeded 91% of bad fit leads off my calendar  The five agent architecture I run across every business I build How we went from 2 closers to 8 and did $2.7M in cash collected without a single human setter? If 80% of your sales process depends on humans, you're losing money you don't have to lose. Stop pouring water into a leaky bucket.  Book a no-pressure demo with my team to see if Charlie is a fit for your business: https://demo.ai-setters.com/optin---lead-management  Earn a damn good living. Leverage AI. Have business on your terms.

  7. May 5

    Our AI Setter Produced $1,105,680 In Cash Collected From Sets Closed

    $165K a month to $1.1M cash collected. Same business. Same offer. One playbook. In this episode, I break down the exact system we used to 7x a portfolio company's monthly cash collected in under 90 days. Not revenue.  Not pipeline. Cash in the bank. We spent $160K on ads to collect $1.1M, a near 10x return on cash that most founders chase for years and never hit.  You'll see why revenue ROAS is a vanity metric, why scaling from $1M to $2M overnight is the fastest way to sabotage everything you just built, and the four-stage optimization sequence we run before we ever touch the scale button. I walk through the AI lead management playbook we deploy across the sales pipeline, the 8-figure optimization framework (audience verification, message optimization, conversion optimization, scale), and the altitude sickness problem nobody warns you about when you finally crack the code.  Stop letting human setters bottleneck your pipeline.  If you're doing $50K+ a month with cold traffic, Charlie's AI setter can do what mine just did, produce sets that turn into closed cash, not just booked calls that ghost. Watch this before you spend another dollar trying to scale. Book your Charlie demo at charlieai.io before your competitors deploy this on you first. Earn a damn good living. Leverage AI. Have business on your terms.

  8. Apr 21

    The secret system behind my $463K to $1M month

    We went from $463K to nearly $1M in 30 days, with zero human setters! Let me show you exactly how. Most founders think scaling revenue means scaling headcount.  That thinking kept me stuck for years, and it's probably keeping you stuck right now. In this video, I'm breaking down the complete system behind one of the most radical single-month jumps I've ever had, the 5 pillars I use to build a championship team, the 4 behavioral core values that automatically filter out the wrong people, and the AI infrastructure I use to run appointment setting on full autopilot.  This is the exact framework I'm running inside a real eight-figure operation right now, and I'm documenting every single piece of it for you. You'll walk away knowing how to set expectations that eliminate team dysfunction before it starts, how to build a group identity that makes great people want to stay, how to create decision-making frameworks that don't require you in every room, and how to practice intelligent failure, the exact skill that turned a $100K mistake in February into a million-dollar March. If you're building a high-ticket business and you're serious about scaling without burning yourself or your team out, watch this all the way through.  Then grab my AI Lead Manager Playbook below. It's the starting point for everything I teach here. Earn a damn good living. Leverage AI. Have business on your terms. ⬇️ Get the AI Lead Manager Playbook: https://demo.ai-setters.com/optin---lead-management  Book a demo here: https://demo.ai-setters.com/optin-playbook-192642

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Founder Fires is for the builders, the risk-takers, and the ones figuring it out as they go. Hosted by Iggy Odighizuwa, this podcast is raw, real, and all about what it takes to build something big. There is no fluff, just straight-up lessons from the trenches, personal stories, hard truths, and conversations with other founders who are eating glass and still showing up. Whether knee-deep in your startup or still dreaming from the sidelines, this is your spot to learn, get inspired, and stay grounded in the chaos. Let's build, fire and all.

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    Iggy
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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