The Grant Owen Podcast

Grant Owen
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Success is the hook, not the topic. And we want to see why the people we respect are the way they are. On The Grant Owen Podcast, the host sits down with the world's most resilient people to uncover the stories you've never heard. These aren't tactical business interviews. They are raw, unfiltered conversations about overcoming tragedy, the philosophies that forge unbreakable character, and the true "why" that drives extraordinary people to do impossible things. This is a podcast about the human spirit.

  1. Oct 29 ·  Video

    Billionaire: If I Lost Everything, Here’s How I’d Make $10K in 90 Days

    Vic Keller has built 17 companies, sold nine, and spent his career learning how to turn a good idea into an actual business. In this episode, he maps out the path from making your first dollar to building an eight-figure company: find real pain points, build trust before you sell, reinvest profits, create predictable revenue, and stop building a business that depends entirely on you. Vic breaks down how he made his first million by selling tire-pressure monitors to car dealerships, what he did when a product failure left 1,600 tires flat, why net income matters more than EBITDA while you are operating, and how to hire people who can help you scale. He also shares what working alongside billionaires taught him about competition, curiosity, generosity, and why the best businesses are built around great people. Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan. -------------------- Chapters: 00:00:00 What You Must Unlearn to Make Your First Dollar 00:01:31 How to Find Your First Customers 00:05:11 From $10K to $100K: Build a Real Business 00:06:07 Rich Is Loud, Wealth Is Quiet 00:10:18 The Founder-Dependence Trap 00:11:42 How to Build a Business You Can Sell 00:15:05 Build an Opportunity Top Talent Wants 00:17:54 How Vic Made His First Million 00:20:21 A Product Failure That Left 1,600 Tires Flat 00:22:32 How One Industry Led to Ten Companies 00:23:15 Train Your Customers, Not Just Your Team 00:26:28 The Skill That Scales Every Business 00:28:22 The Character, Competency, Chemistry Framework 00:31:54 The Flywheel From Seven to Eight Figures 00:33:32 Why AI Makes Eight Figures More Attainable 00:35:51 What Separates Seven-Figure and Eight-Figure Founders 00:38:01 What Vic Learned From Billionaire Partners 00:41:29 What Real Wealth and Generosity Look Like 00:46:40 The Secret to Retaining Exceptional Talent

  2. Oct 17 ·  Video

    I Asked a Former Gang Member to Prove God Is Real

    Johnny Chang joined a gang at 12. Three months later he was sent on a mission to hurt someone. That life led to 13 years in prison. And when he got out, he was lost and didn't know what to do with his life. This is the Johnny Chang interview. Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan.

  3. Oct 5 ·  Video

    Therapist: Why People Cut Off Their Families

    Should you cut off your toxic family members? Why are people going NO CONTACT? Matthias Barker, therapist and founder of Estrangement.com, joins Grant for a nuanced conversation about adult children going no contact, parents trying to reconnect, and what actually helps families repair trust. They unpack narcissism, parental alienation, divorce, family roles, in-law tension, grandparent relationships, and why a label alone does not tell you what to do. Matthias explains why estrangement is rarely as simple as choosing a villain, how trauma, attachment, culture, religion, and political differences shape family conflict, and when a boundaried partial relationship can be healthier than all-or-nothing contact. This episode is for anyone navigating family estrangement, no contact, difficult parents, or a path back toward connection. Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan. Chapters: 00:00:00 The fastest path to family estrangement 00:01:30 What narcissism actually is 00:05:30 Is your parent a narcissist? 00:07:16 Why millennials choose no contact 00:10:09 When family estrangement became visible 00:12:09 Are we judging old parenting by new standards? 00:15:24 Family culture, respect, and boundaries 00:20:01 How estrangement differs across generations 00:21:00 When grandparents ignore parents’ boundaries 00:22:08 Grandparent visitation rights and family pain 00:25:20 Who is hurt by family estrangement? 00:26:34 Inherited trauma vs. victim mentality 00:32:05 What trauma really means 00:33:05 Emotional abuse, chronic contempt, and trauma 00:39:09 When parents say, “I did my best” 00:41:21 Marriage, in-laws, and family loyalty 00:45:22 Should a husband prioritize his wife or mom? 00:49:58 Can estrangement lead to deeper family bonds? 00:51:03 Is politics really causing estrangement? 00:55:11 Identity, religion, and staying connected 01:00:25 Religious trauma vs. attachment trauma 01:01:40 Divorce, alienation, and the road to estrangement 01:02:09 Helping parents and adult kids find common ground 01:04:44 Healing enough for a relationship 01:06:28 The case for a boundaried partial relationship

  4. Sep 20 ·  Video

    9-Figure Founder: Here's Exactly How I Did It

    Brian Burt, founder and CEO of Canopy Management, joins Grant to share the path from living out of a car and launching a windshield-repair business at 19 to building an agency that received a nine-figure acquisition offer. He explains the mindset shifts, failures, and practical moves that helped him build durable enterprise value. Brian lays out an actionable roadmap for starting a business, earning your first $10K and $1M, finding a profitable audience, creating a high-value offer, hiring A players, leading teams, performance-based marketing, AI automation, agency roll-ups, and M&A. This conversation is for founders who want to turn attention, expertise, and systems into a real business. Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan. Chapters: 00:00:00 Brian Burt’s journey to entrepreneurship 00:06:07 Starting an auto glass business at 19 00:11:41 The path to your first $10K 00:19:03 Attention, audience, and monetization 00:21:31 Rebuilding after an SEO agency collapse 00:24:21 Community-led courses and the first millions 00:27:17 Deliver results in advance 00:28:56 Finding a business through your algorithm 00:33:39 The leap from $10K to $1M 00:38:34 Failure, focus, and choosing one business 00:42:54 Building Canopy and enterprise value 00:48:04 Growing from founder to CEO 00:51:02 Hiring A players and building culture 01:05:41 Intrapreneurs and a lateral AI team 01:09:58 Delegation and the 70% rule 01:14:47 Performance-based pricing and growth offers 01:19:42 Building for an exit with AI 01:27:52 Private equity vs. M&A 01:31:00 Roll-ups and Canopy’s first acquisition 01:40:06 EBITDA, multiples, and agency valuation 01:47:14 Keeping the drive without ego 01:50:49 Leadership mistakes at 100-plus employees 01:55:22 AI, attention, and the next wave 01:59:11 Grit, fatherhood, and inner certainty

  5. Sep 9 ·  Video

    Find the Richest Person You Know. Then Do This.

    Josh Suggs and Luke Thorburg built StreetTalk by turning a simple idea into one of the most effective paid-social ad formats on the internet. Josh went from sleeping on a friend's couch and walking through Washington Square Park with a microphone to creating street interview ads for major consumer brands. Today, StreetTalk produces 1,200 new ad creatives a month and interviews more than 5,000 people for brands looking for real social proof, authentic reactions, and performance creative that does not feel like an ad. In this episode, Josh and Luke sit down with Grant to break down how they built the company from scratch, why street interview ads convert, and how they scaled an offer that brands could not ignore. They talk about dropping out of college, making nearly $300K during a summer of street interviews, surviving the backlog that almost broke the business, merging sales with operations, building a team, getting enterprise brands to pay upfront, and the mindset behind their relentless drive. This is a masterclass on finding an offer, building leverage, creating content people trust, and going all in before you feel ready. Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan. Chapters: 00:00:00 The 18-Year-Old Blueprint 00:05:47 From Magician to StreetTalk Founder 00:10:05 Why Josh Dropped Out of College 00:13:39 When the Business Broke 00:18:46 The Internet Version of Door Knocking 00:22:09 Why Josh and Luke Joined Forces 00:27:36 The Growth Model That Funded the Agency 00:32:01 Why You Need a Complementary Co-Founder 00:38:15 How StreetTalk Makes 1,200 Ads a Month 00:43:22 Building a New Category in Advertising 00:47:04 What Makes Street Interview Ads Work 00:51:07 The B2B Influencer Marketing Playbook 00:56:14 College or Entrepreneurship 01:03:39 The Quality That Makes You Unstoppable 01:10:30 Why Family Became the End Goal 01:16:29 Running Toward or Away From Something 01:22:31 Inside the StreetTalk Production Process 01:27:20 Advice for Your 18-Year-Old Self

  6. Sep 4 ·  Video

    The Future of Social Media Marketing (Do This Before 2027) ft. Alex Garcia

    How do you build a personal brand, content team, and social media strategy from $0 to $100K a month? I sit down with Alex Garcia, better known as House of AG, to map out the exact content-marketing playbook for founders, creators, and brands trying to grow through organic content. Alex is the co-host of Sweat Equity, alongside Brian Blum, and the founder of House of Distribution, where he helps brands turn content into a real growth engine. They break down how to build a personal brand without a big budget, the short-form video metrics that actually matter, and how to create a content strategy before you have a full creative team. Alex explains how to test content ideas, improve retention, use visual hooks, tell better stories, and turn ordinary moments into shareable social media content. Then they walk through the exact creator-team structure to build at every level: your first hybrid videographer at $5K, an editor at $10K, a creative director and producer at $50K, and a full entertainment-studio model at $100K. If you want to build a brand, scale organic social media, and create content that drives business growth, this is the roadmap. Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan. Chapters: 00:00:05 Level 1 Building a Personal Brand With No Budget 00:03:35 Skip Rate Is Your Most Important Metric 00:07:31 How to Read Your Retention Graph 00:10:13 The Best Formats to Test When You Have No Budget 00:13:39 How to Find a Story in Your Everyday Life 00:16:15 Why You Should Post Even When You Feel Embarrassed 00:18:58 Level 2 Your First $5K Content Hire 00:23:35 How to Train a Creator When You Are Not Creative 00:29:31 Every Moment Can Be a Story if You Shoot It Right 00:33:16 Content for Followers Not Just New Followers 00:35:54 Level 3 Scaling Content With a $10K Budget 00:40:02 Why Aesthetics Matter More Than You Think 00:45:24 How to Make Great Content With a Small Budget 00:47:19 The $10K Budget Test and Scale System 00:49:17 Level 4 World Building With a $50K Budget 00:55:46 The $50K Team Producer Set Designer and Customer Accounts 01:02:30 Organic Content Is the Nucleus of Your Brand 01:05:49 Level 5 Building an Entertainment Studio at $100K

  7. Aug 28 ·  Video

    I Made $2.5M Without Relying On Motivation ft. Brandon Carter

    Brandon Carter grew up on the South Side of Chicago, was sent to military school, watched his father build and lose a multi-million-dollar business, then built his own seven-figure online fitness company from scratch. In this episode, Brandon sits down with Grant to break down the rules he lives by: how to make failure impossible, why most people waste more time than they realize, how he built a fitness business before social media made it easy, and the one decision from Alex Hormozi that tripled his revenue. They also get into the side of success people do not talk about enough: why your environment determines so much of your future, how to avoid spreading yourself across too many businesses, why confidence is not the same as courage, what real masculinity looks like, the habits and vices that hold ambitious men back, his approach to managing bipolar disorder, and the exact fitness framework he gives Grant to put on muscle. This is a conversation about discipline, money, fatherhood, health, and becoming somebody your kids can admire. Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan. --- Chapters: 00:00:00 How to Make Failure Impossible 00:09:45 Growing Up Poor on the South Side of Chicago 00:14:21 Making Money and Keeping Money Are Different Skills 00:17:30 Why His Dad Made Him Believe He Could Get Rich 00:22:29 The Books That Started His Online Fitness Business 00:26:25 How He Went From Personal Trainer to Seven Figures 00:31:39 Every Level Is a New Devil 00:37:28 Why You Become the People You Spend Time With 00:44:15 Alex Hormozi Told Him to Shut Down Everything 00:48:25 How to Spend Money Without Raising Your Lifestyle 00:55:43 Why Masculinity Is Not Cruelty 00:59:45 Raising Kids Who Admire You 01:05:01 Stop Acting Like a Victim 01:10:27 The Math of Fitness and Business 01:13:35 How to Build a Business While Working Full Time 01:17:48 What a Successful Man Should Avoid 01:21:34 The Habits of Successful People 01:26:34 His Meditation Practice and Managing Bipolar Disorder 01:32:26 The Simple Framework for Building Muscle 01:38:16 Pigeons vs Eagles

  8. Aug 19 ·  Video

    She Gained 100K Followers in 30 Days (Here's How)

    Jen Gottlieb went from a struggling actress in New York to building a media company, writing a book, speaking on stages, and becoming one of the loudest voices in the visibility space. But none of it started when she felt ready. It started when she was broke, heartbroken, living in a tiny room with six other actors, and made one promise to herself that she would keep. In this episode, Jen breaks down the habits that make success hard to avoid, why most people burn out making content, and how to stop changing yourself for the algorithm. We talk about her difficult adolescence, the affirmation that rebuilt her self-trust, why you are not too much, the difference between an open wound and a scar, how she met her husband, what it really means to know your worth, and why the only way to get clarity is to start before you are ready. Thank you to our sponsor: Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan. --- Chapters: 00:00:00 The Three Inputs That Make Failure Impossible 00:03:28 From Actress to Public Speaker 00:07:52 The Chaos That Taught Her to Trust Herself 00:14:57 Why the Algorithm Is Telling Women Who to Be 00:19:31 How to Stop Creating Content for Approval 00:24:39 You Are Not Too Much 00:27:39 The Difference Between an Open Wound and a Scar 00:31:33 The HOPE Framework for Creating Content 00:35:47 Mixing the Woo With the Work 00:42:04 What It Really Means to Know Your Worth 00:50:10 Start Before You Are Ready

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Success is the hook, not the topic. And we want to see why the people we respect are the way they are. On The Grant Owen Podcast, the host sits down with the world's most resilient people to uncover the stories you've never heard. These aren't tactical business interviews. They are raw, unfiltered conversations about overcoming tragedy, the philosophies that forge unbreakable character, and the true "why" that drives extraordinary people to do impossible things. This is a podcast about the human spirit.

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  • Creator
    Grant Owen
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
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