The Check-In

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Business owners talk honestly about their business, then come back every month to say how it went. Most business shows end at the advice, and you never hear what happened next. This one has a sequel. Each guest tells it straight: how they got here, what is working and what is not. Thirty to forty-five minutes, no script and no pitch. Then we check in with them every month, so you hear the real follow-up from the same person, not a tidy story told afterwards. If you have ever been the one doing every sales call yourself, or watched good leads go cold because nobody replied in time, you will recognise yourself in a lot of these. Hosted by Austin Coveney. Made by Revline. Follow along on Instagram at @the.checkin_pod. Want to come on the show? book.revlinehq.com/apply

  1. 5d ago

    From Trading Floor to Supplement Founder

    Tobias Nolli co-founded Nutri One, a personalised supplement company, after a decade of trading commodities. Tobias Nolli spent a decade trading commodities like fertilisers before going sober and getting his life in shape. He kept forgetting which supplement to take while travelling 150 days a year as a trader, and customs stopped him 20 to 30 percent of the time for carrying pills. He and his co-founder spent six months negotiating with suppliers to find a middle ground on a smaller, personalised batch. They dropped their marketing agency and started running their own ads and email marketing instead. Regulation was a major obstacle, since every European country had a different regulation to follow for a personalised supplement. He is working on producing in the US so Nutri One can serve customers there without the current one to two week transit delay. Follow Tobias Instagram: https://instagram.com/mynutrione Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:19 From trading to sober reset 1:46 Solving his own supplement problem 3:52 The regulatory wall in Europe 5:04 Why the US market waits 8:29 Finding a supplier for a personalised formula 9:42 Two and a half years to first sale 12:06 Dropping the agency for in house ads 24:15 Subscriptions and the real dropout rate --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

    From Trading Floor to Supplement Founder

  2. 6d ago

    A Dating App Built to Be Closed

    Aleksandar walked in a year into turning a decade of hobby coding into an actual business. From Slovenia, self-taught on a dying laptop, he now builds automations, SaaS and websites for other companies, and has just launched his own app, Tremble: a dating tool with no messaging, no swiping and no feed, built specifically to push people offline and into real conversations. What got found on air was how little of that journey matches the version sold on Instagram. His first ever client took four months of daily cold emails and web-scraped leads to land. A separate contract took five months from first message to signature. He is candid that AI can write the script and the demo, but it cannot make anyone open it, and he worries it is quietly teaching people to stop learning rather than just saving them time. What he committed to: plan the moves rather than just waiting, but never let planning become an excuse not to act, because repeating a bad action gets you nowhere and inaction guarantees regret. Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:17 Hustler, Son, Coder 1:28 Gaming, Logos And A Dead Laptop 4:37 Going Legit: Opening The Company 6:37 Tremble: An App You're Not Meant To Open 10:57 One Thing Or Everything At Once 15:06 What AI Can't Teach You 20:28 The Four-Month Wait For A Yes 26:00 Freedom And The Childhood Porsche 29:19 Plan It, Then Just Try --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

    A Dating App Built to Be Closed

  3. 6d ago

    Decommitting From Baseball to Go All In

    Maxwell Kouzes turned a TikTok shop side hustle into five-figure months by age 17. In May this year he decided to commit to a junior college to play baseball. He realised staying on that path meant he might never get the chance to grow the business again. He decommitted from the college and baseball to go all in on his agency and mentorship. He now runs a UGC agency and mentorship from Chicago at eighteen, without working for anyone else. He plans to scale the mentorship and agency further and launch his own product, using what he has learned about marketing on TikTok and Instagram. Follow Maxwell Instagram: https://instagram.com/kouzes_ Chapters 0:00 From baseball to TikTok shop 3:04 Building the UGC agency 4:10 Decommitting from baseball 9:48 Cold outreach and word of mouth 14:05 Launching the mentorship 17:31 Christian's $8,000 video 21:51 What still needs fixing --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

    Decommitting From Baseball to Go All In

  4. 6d ago

    From Fired Twice to Fully Booked

    Jared Goodman was fired twice from corporate social media roles before he built his own agency. Jared Goodman grew up a neurodivergent kid obsessed with cameras, music and editing photos before he ever had a job title for it. He spent five years at a corporate social media role before being let go, then was let go again from a second corporate job. Both firings traced back to a rigid corporate structure that did not suit how his neurodivergent brain worked. After the second firing he decided on the spot to stop chasing corporate jobs and build his own business instead. He called people he knew for work, landed one contract, then built out his LinkedIn, Instagram and a website to grow from there. A year into it, Jared has generated 100,000 dollars in gross profit running his business alone. He is testing AI search for client acquisition, trying to get recommended when people ask for social media help. Chapters 0:00 Jared's introduction 1:23 Childhood and middle school teasing 7:29 Finding marketing in college 9:37 Fired after five years 11:23 The second firing 16:44 First contract and the business begins 21:30 The hundred thousand dollar figure 23:49 The five year vision 27:15 Trying AI search for leads 29:24 The biggest solopreneur mistake --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

    From Fired Twice to Fully Booked

  5. 6d ago

    From Teen Mum to AI Agency Founder

    Dejerae runs her AI agency with one employee after a bad hire forced her back into doing the build herself. Dejerae had her son at eighteen, joined the workforce and became an entrepreneur from that moment. She hired a full stack developer who totally messed up a client's product, forcing her to rebuild it herself and spend an extra two months salvaging the relationship. After the setback she stopped marketing while she got stuck doing the product build-out herself. Without clients to serve, she used the gap to focus on business growth and started building dashboards that bring all of a client's automations into one place. She began rebranding her business around this dashboard push to get back into the market. She now runs her agency with one employee, building custom AI systems for each client. She plans to keep releasing dashboards that connect all a client's tools, marketing automations, analytics and accounting into a single view. Follow Dejerae Instagram: https://instagram.com/scalinginstilettos TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@scalinginstilettos Chapters 0:00 Having a son at eighteen 2:40 From operations director to agency founder 8:31 Building a second brain for clients 16:36 Open source AI agents and security fears 21:02 No end goal, just working forever 24:23 The hire that went wrong 28:13 Rebuilding with dashboards 30:31 Advice on grace and leadership --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

    From Teen Mum to AI Agency Founder

  6. 6d ago

    The Offer That Arrived on New Year's Eve

    Basit got his first sales offer on 29 December, then felt fear instead of excitement. Basit grew up in Ireland after his family moved from Nigeria when he was about one year old, and travelled abroad for competitions as a young athlete. He put that hunger into sales and made 700 euros in his first week on a real estate offer. When the agency behind that offer split from the company, Basit felt it was time to move on to something else. He wants to move into in person events and talks, teaching the psychology behind sales rather than just the skill. Chapters 0:00 First steps online 7:57 The offer arrives at Christmas 9:37 700 euros in week one 11:23 Scaling to 350k a month 17:28 Mentoring his roommate 21:20 Leaving to run his own offer 30:35 Training his brother to 35k 32:01 The next goal --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

    The Offer That Arrived on New Year's Eve

  7. 6d ago

    The Decision to Sell What AI Cannot

    Daria Mavrenkova shut down her two-year-old marketing agency's direction days ago to launch Blue Mango AI. Daria Mavrenkova spent 20 years in marketing and sales before opening her own boutique marketing agency in Brussels two years ago. She saw AI taking over marketing work and had been using AI heavily in her own business long before the public hype around it. Follow Daria Instagram: https://instagram.com/daria_mavrenkova YouTube: https://youtube.com/@AIwithDariaM TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@dariamavrenkova_blumango Chapters 0:00 Daria returns with news 0:42 From marketing agency to Blue Mango AI 1:53 Why AI is taking over marketing 5:48 Real AI work versus AI slop 9:48 The new offer for business owners 15:05 Spotting what AI should automate 23:58 The paperclip theory 29:18 Minority Report and predicting crime 32:50 The next steps for Blue Mango --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

    The Decision to Sell What AI Cannot

  8. 6d ago

    Why Did Business School Nearly Kill His Agency?

    Maher took out a loan on his father's name to pay for a $2,000 course after his parents called him a donkey. Maher moved to Sweden from Syria as a child with his family, with no money, resources or jobs. He had no money of his own, so he and his older brother took out a loan on his father's name to pay for it. He agreed to repay the loan over 24 months using the $120 a month he received from the government for studying. He landed his first client, a gym in Sweden paying $600, six weeks after investing in the course. Maher now runs a business consultancy helping online high-ticket sales and service providers scale. Maher wants to build his own university teaching entrepreneurship, where students study for three to five years while running a business and earn a proper degree. Chapters 0:00 Moving to Sweden from Syria 2:28 Finding the stock market 8:13 Choosing business over football 12:28 The Swedish ad that changed everything 14:44 The loan on his father's name 20:31 Dropping out of university 49:58 The agency falls apart 53:24 Building a consulting business 55:18 The plan for a university --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

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Business owners talk honestly about their business, then come back every month to say how it went. Most business shows end at the advice, and you never hear what happened next. This one has a sequel. Each guest tells it straight: how they got here, what is working and what is not. Thirty to forty-five minutes, no script and no pitch. Then we check in with them every month, so you hear the real follow-up from the same person, not a tidy story told afterwards. If you have ever been the one doing every sales call yourself, or watched good leads go cold because nobody replied in time, you will recognise yourself in a lot of these. Hosted by Austin Coveney. Made by Revline. Follow along on Instagram at @the.checkin_pod. Want to come on the show? book.revlinehq.com/apply

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    Revline
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    35
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    Explicit
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