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. 12h ago ·  Video

    Why Cale Owen Left "Gym Launch"

    Cale Owen was eight weeks from shutting his gym down, making $30K combined with his wife, and had just gotten a job to keep the lights on. Then he found Gym Launch, went all in, and eventually became CEO of the company. Then he walked away. This is what happened in between. In this episode, Cale sits down for one of the most honest conversations about building a business, losing yourself in it, and figuring out what actually matters. You'll hear about the home birth that almost took his daughter, going from 33 gym members to selling out a six-week challenge in one night, what it felt like to hit $1 million in his bank account and immediately want ten more, the moment his wife told him he was a shell of who he used to be, and why he resigned from one of the fastest growing companies in the fitness industry. This is a conversation about money, identity, faith, and what it means to run a good race. Chapters: 0:00 There's More to Life Than Scaling Your Business 1:15 Were You Always This Driven 1:36 The Gym That Lost $3K a Month 3:32 Eight Weeks From Shutting the Doors 3:58 Getting a Job to Keep the Gym Alive 4:18 Combined Tax Return Under $30K 4:40 Failing as a Husband and a Father 6:32 Finding Gym Launch and Calling Alex 6:57 The First Time He Heard Alex Hormozi 8:06 Opting In and Testing the Nurture Sequence 9:20 First Lead 30 Minutes After Launching Ads 11:16 17 People Show Up the First Night 11:56 We Made More Today Than the Last Two Months 13:07 Going to the First Mastermind 13:26 Home Birth Gone Wrong 14:08 Why He Went Back to Work on Monday 16:43 The C-Section Story and Not Sleeping 18:25 She Trusted Me 20:07 High Performers Never Think They Could Have Done More 21:46 The Interview Process That Changed His Career 23:33 Advice for Young Men: Learn Inside Someone Else's Company 25:03 Getting Into Strategy Meetings as a Sales Manager 26:34 We Could Just Do This Ourselves 28:13 Becoming CEO of Gym Launch 29:57 Long Way From Not Being Able to Feed Your Kids 31:29 Setting a $5K Monthly Personal Income Goal 33:17 Breaking Down Goals Into Quarterly Targets 35:05 Building a Free Gym Management System 36:45 The World's First Free Gym Management System 38:21 Getting Friction From Private Equity 40:02 We Did Not See Eye to Eye 41:51 There's Got to Be More Than This 43:23 His Wife Left the Company First 44:52 Working 60 Hours a Week and Always On 45:09 The 5 to 7 Rule They Never Broke 46:19 The Birthday Trip Golf Game and Hard Questions 47:21 Three People in His Family Were Professional Athletes 48:36 My Proudest Moment Was Being Prepared for a Presentation 48:53 You Are a Shell of Who You Were a Year Ago 49:47 His Kids Were Starting to Feel It 50:22 Physically Present Mentally Somewhere Else 51:16 He Put In His Resignation 51:42 The Call With Layla 52:32 She Said She Didn't Think He'd Last More Than a Year 53:35 What He Did After He Left 54:29 Buying Into Wolf Gyms Franchise 55:37 Solving for Lifestyle Not Scale 56:35 What Would Alex Do in Your Situation 57:28 He Only Works With People Who Take Action 58:22 I Don't Know What the End Play Is 59:04 5 to 10 Clients One on One That's It 1:00:03 I Don't Know What God Is Calling Me to Do 1:01:53 What Grace Actually Means 1:03:37 When You Invite Jesus In It Changes Everything 1:04:19 The Day He Saw $1 Million in His Bank Account 1:05:13 God Said You're Never Going to Be Satisfied 1:06:09 95% of Those Calls Could Have Been an Email 1:06:51 I Was Always Chasing the Next Number 1:08:41 What Would You Say to a 20 Year Old Chasing Money 1:10:13 Optionality Is Not the End Game 1:11:46 Money Promises Security But It's Lying to You 1:13:24 What Game Do You Actually Want to Play 1:14:10 What Would You Say to Yourself Before Your Second Kid 1:14:17 Just Take the Next Step 1:15:50 What Do You Want Your Kids to Say About You 1:15:54 That I Ran a Good Race 1:16:48 You Can Do Whatever You Want to Do 1:18:38 Maybe Pastoral Ministry Isn't the Craziest Idea

    1h 19m

  2. Jul 2 ·  Video

    Cole Gordon: How to Go From $0 to $2.5M/Month in 12 Months (The 5 Phases)

    Cole Gordon tells me how to make money. In this episode, he breaks down the exact path from zero to nine figures, level by level. You'll hear why learning to sell inside someone else's company is a faster path to wealth than starting your own, what it actually felt like to hit $3.9 million a month and still be miserable, the $150K conversation with Patrick Bet-David that changed how he thinks about his business, the three things that keep great employees from leaving, and why he launched five initiatives at once and nearly killed his momentum. This is one of the most tactical and honest conversations about building a real business. Chapters: 0:00 Over $100M Cash Collected 0:10 Level 1 Zero to $10K 2:51 The First $10K and Bartending at Night 4:05 Reading How to Get Rich During a Bar Shift 5:23 Find a Fast Growing Company and Learn the Most Valuable Skill 7:15 First 30 Days on His Own He Did $100K 9:20 Go Where the Action Is Not Where the Stability Is 12:24 The Habit You Need to Break to Get Out of the Cycle 14:12 Level 2 $100K a Month 19:46 Why He Hit $100K a Month So Quickly 22:32 Zero to $2.5M a Month in Under Two Years 38:55 Level 3 Managing the Front Lines 44:09 Tormenting People Into Greatness and Why He Stopped 47:18 Smoothing Out the Edges With Coaching 51:12 Three Things That Keep Great Employees From Leaving 54:00 The Mistake After Hitting $1M a Month 54:48 $3.9M a Month and Still Not Happy 56:17 The $150K Conversation With Patrick Bet-David 58:10 The Big Mistake That Cost Him Momentum 1:07:00 Level 4 Managing the Managers 1:22:44 Level 5 Nine Figures and Beyond 1:25:19 Going Upmarket and Changing the Pricing Model 1:27:34 The One Step Away Rule 1:29:33 The One Step Away Rule Applied to His Business 1:33:07 Your Executive Team Should Be Entrepreneur Level 1:34:21 Do You Fire Fast 1:34:26 Red Flags and Pattern Recognition 1:36:07 What He Wants His Team to Say About Him 1:37:08 When Did Purpose Start Mattering More Than Money 1:38:44 Marriage and What He Thinks It Will Change 1:39:30 He Wants Three Kids 1:39:52 Being a Present Dad and Having It All 1:40:32 An Integrated Life Not a Balanced One 1:40:48 The Trait That Makes Him Impossible to Bet Against

    1h 43m

  3. Jun 24 ·  Video

    Dan Martell: How to Use AI Better Than 95% of the World

    Dan Martell has built and sold multiple software companies. He wrote Buy Back Your Time. And he thinks most people are using AI completely wrong. I asked him how to actually make money with it. In this episode, Dan breaks down the exact playbook for making money with AI at every level, from your first dollar to $10M and beyond. You'll hear why only 5% of the world has ever paid for AI and why that's the biggest opportunity alive right now, the one text message that made Dan's friend Sarah her first $10K, the Replacement Ladder framework for using AI to grow any business, why nobody buys AI but everybody buys trust, the AI tool stack Dan actually uses every day, and what happened when he shut his entire company down for two days to run an AI hackathon. This is the most practical AI business conversation you'll find. Chapters: 0:00 Only 5% of the World Has Ever Paid for AI 0:46 The Easiest Thing to Sell With AI Right Now 1:56 The Marcus and Sophie Framework 4:24 Theory of Constraints and the Right Problem to Solve 5:33 What Is the Number One Constraint in Any Business 7:13 How to Leave Your Job and Go All In 8:27 Business Is Simple Find a Problem and Solve It 9:08 Stop Getting Ready to Get Ready 9:33 The Sarah Story One Text and $10K 9:53 Pull Up Your Phone and Message Your Contacts 11:05 Dan's Son Noah Gets His First Client at 800 a Month 12:41 Would You Rather Be the Best Employee or the Best Employer 13:59 What Other Services Can You Sell With AI 14:44 Sales Is Not Talking It's Asking 17:01 What to Do When You Hate Your Business 18:40 Pain and Pleasure Are the Only Two Motivators 19:13 They Haven't Made It a Must Yet 20:29 Make It a Must Not a Nice to Have 21:06 The Jen Story and the Gasping Moment 22:17 How to Find Your First 10 to 15 Clients 28:38 The Personal Brand Play 33:06 Vision Is What AI Cannot Do 34:55 Hard for Computers Easy for Humans 36:13 Level 2 Making Your First Million With AI 37:18 The Replacement Ladder Framework 37:39 Admin First Then Delivery Then Marketing 39:09 Why Marketing Is the Biggest AI Category 39:32 Why You Should Keep Sales for Yourself 40:00 Level 5 Leadership and AI Agents 41:41 What a Fully AI Systems Business Looks Like 43:13 The Gym Owner With Three Locations 46:16 Shutting Down the Company for Two Days 46:37 Teaching the Whole Team to Code in Claude 49:28 Wayne the 62 Year Old Who Made $12K a Month 52:38 I Only Share What Actually Works 53:21 Whisper Flow and Talking to Your AI 56:41 Claude Chat Claude Coworker and Claude Code 57:57 The Claude Browser Extension 58:49 Claude Code Is Not Just for Developers 1:00:06 How to Migrate Your AI Memory Across Tools 1:01:08 Level 3 $1M to $10M and the Brand Play 1:02:05 Nobody Buys AI They Buy Trust 1:03:25 Brand Is Association and Association Is Trust 1:05:12 A Million Followers Is $10M in Activated Revenue 1:07:03 How to Keep AI From Becoming Slop 1:07:42 Human in the Loop 1:08:16 The 10 80 10 Rule and Why AI Is Now the 80 1:10:01 The Team Built Solutions That Made Their Jobs Obsolete 1:11:45 Dan's Free AI Curriculum for Your Team

    1h 13m

  4. Apr 30

    He Made $100K/Month at 21. Then Quit. Here's Why ft. Luke Alexander

    He grew up with no internet, a father removed by police, and welfare in rural Ohio. By 24, he'd built close to 8 figures. I asked him how and what it cost him. In this episode, Closer Cartel founder breaks down the real path from nothing to eight figures — the sales skills that started it, the info business that scaled it, and the identity crisis that nearly ended it. We're covering the full arc: what it actually takes to close at the highest level, why the info industry rewards the wrong behavior, how a panic attack in a Miami shower changed everything, and what he's building now with Kendo — an AI sales platform he believes will eventually replace human sales reps entirely. You'll hear about closing a $15K deal while being cussed out at 20 years old, why hitting $100K a month felt emptier than expected, the moment he realized he'd built a business he was ashamed of, a spiritual experience so strange he almost didn't tell it, and why he walked away from everything in 2024 to start over. This is an honest conversation about money, identity, faith, and what it actually means to build something you're proud of. Try out Kendo for yourself: https://www.kendo.ai/?via=grant Chapters: 0:00 - Close to 8 Figures: Where It Started 4:39 - Growing Up With No Internet in Rural Ohio 7:21 - Leaving Home to Save His Family 9:13 - Dropping Out With $500 and a Laptop 21:18 - Shutting Down the Agency and Learning to Sell 27:08 - Moving to Miami and Launching Closer Cartel 31:01 - The Character He Had to Play (And Started to Hate) 47:15 - Burnout, Depression, and Losing Passion for the Money 53:28 - Why Info Rewards the Wrong Behavior 56:02 - The Shower Moment: Spiritual Warfare in Miami 1:04:29 - Living in Alignment: Faith in Practice 1:12:18 - Why He Walked Away and Built Kendo 1:27:21 - How Kendo Works: AI Sales Training and Management 1:36:09 - Genetics, Potential, and the Real Red Pill 1:39:53 - Vision at 30: $100M, a Wife, and a Life Worth Living

    1h 54m

  5. Apr 9 ·  Video

    Top 0.1% YouTube Expert Gameplan (0-10m Subscribers) w/ Vexian

    Vexian has studied over 6,000 YouTube channels and 100,000 videos. I asked him how to go from zero to 10 million subscribers. In this episode, Vexian breaks down the exact roadmap from your first upload to the diamond play button. No theory, just the system he's used to grow channels across every niche. We're covering all five levels: what the game actually looks like at each stage, the mistakes that keep people stuck, and why most of what you think about growing on YouTube is wrong. You'll hear why education beats entertainment for your first 1,000 subscribers, how the impression snowball works and why consistency is compound interest, the backend strategy most creators completely ignore between 10K and 100K, the "How to Win on YouTube" matrix that explains why some channels explode while others plateau, what viral vectors are and how one word can take a video from 5,000 views to 25 million, and what separates the people who hit 10 million from everyone else (it's not talent). This is the most complete YouTube growth playbook in a single conversation. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Level 1: 0 to 1,000 Subscribers 07:08 - Level 2: 1,000 to 10,000 Subscribers 42:37 - Level 3: 10,000 to 100,000 Subscribers 01:12:00 - Level 4: 100,000 to 1,000,000 Subscribers 01:38:10 - Level 5: 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Subscribers

    1h 52m

  6. Apr 2

    EASY 2026 Instagram Strategy (5 Minutes A Day) ft. Jaden Young

    This is the Jaden Young Content Strategy approach. Anyone that wants to make money from social media needs to think this way. Check out his full content system here: http://contentscalegameplan.com Chapter Breakdown: 0:00 - The 5 Content Styles That Require Zero Editing 4:45 - Level 1: Too Scared to Start (And How to Fix It) 7:12 - Why Going Viral Won't Make You Money 11:09 - Stop Copying — Steal Principles Instead 15:16 - The Pre-Post Checklist: Hooks, Stories & the 24-Hour Rule 21:17 - Ugly Videos Make More Money Than Pretty Ones 24:50 - Level 2: Stuck at 10K and Burning Out 27:08 - The Chart Method: 90 Content Ideas in 30 Minutes 33:16 - The Metrics That Actually Matter (Shares Beat Likes) 37:14 - How to Build a Content Series That Compounds 42:49 - Level 3: The Internal Database & The New Floor 50:03 - The Follow Game: What Actually Gets You Followers

    58 min

  7. Apr 1

    The Voice In Your Head Is Keeping You Poor ft. Jeremy Haynes

    This is the Jeremy Haynes mindset. Anyone that wants to make money needs to think this way. Chapter Breakdown: 00:00:00 - Introduction: The $100K Trap 00:07:45 - Why Most People Stay Broke 00:15:30 - Identity as the Foundation of Wealth 00:23:15 - The Propaganda You Feed Your Brain 00:31:00 - Pain as Your Greatest Teacher 00:38:45 - From $12K to $550K: The First Year 00:46:30 - Breaking Through Self-Imposed Limits 00:54:15 - Speed, Execution, and Low Tolerance 01:02:00 - The God Factor: Faith and Transformation 01:09:45 - Leading Your Family Through Expansion 01:17:30 - Shoot the Gap: Death and Urgency 01:25:15 - Final Thoughts: Becoming the Example

    48 min

  8. Jan 31

    Pregnant. Unemployed. Built 8-Figure Business Anyway w/ Dylan Jahraus

    This is Dylan Jahraus. And she went from making $14 an hour at Zappos to building a 7-figure Etsy empire while raising kids and moving across the country as a military spouse. She proved that you can scale a business to multiple 6-figures even when your husband is deployed on a submarine and you're working 16-hour days in pajamas. If you want to learn how to turn side hustles into a real income stream and build a business that gives you time, location, and financial freedom, this Dylan Jahraus podcast is for you. Dylan Jahraus shares her full story of success, from getting rejected by corporate jobs (even Crate & Barrel wouldn't hire her as a cashier) to hitting $140,000 in her first year on Etsy. She breaks down how to scale from $10,000 a month to selling your brand for 7-figures, why working for yourself is always better than climbing the corporate ladder, and the real truth about what it takes to build a business as a mom. This is the unfiltered blueprint for going from dog walker to 7-figure entrepreneur and why exceptional employees make exceptional business owners. 00:00 - intro 01:23 - I moved cities to find my husband 03:13 - when your identity is wrapped up in your career 04:07 - our date nights were promoting my dog walking business 06:13 - I made $10k/month on Etsy in 4 months 09:44 - why I worked 16-hour days when he deployed 13:04 - Covid blew up e-commerce & I took advantage 18:06 - our tolerance for pain is our biggest strength 28:15 - how to scale past $100k on Etsy 45:05 - 60% of moms want to start a business right now 49:07 - why bad partnerships hold women back 53:33 - what to do when you're paralyzed by fear

    55 min
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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
    13
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
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    The Grant Owen Podcast

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