Million Dollar Grit

Julie Chenell
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  • Entrepreneurship

Welcome to Million Dollar Grit, the podcast that dives deep into the world of entrepreneurship, where tenacity meets strategy, and dreams meet reality. Here, we explore the raw, often overlooked truths of what it takes to succeed in business and in life. It's not just about the glossy success stories - it's about the grit it takes to get there.

  1. 12h ago

    The Danger of Taking Action

    Action taking is one of the most valuable personality traits in entrepreneurship — money loves speed, idea to implementation, failing forward — and it's probably a big part of why you're where you are. But in this episode I want to unpack something I'm seeing constantly in coaching: the moment you try to grow, scale, or push through a plateau, that same trait becomes hazardous. This one's for the fast movers who don't resonate with the perpetual planners, and still can't figure out why they're not where they want to be.

    The Danger of Taking Action

  2. 6d ago

    Stop Reinventing The Wheel! The 5 Containers That Each Build a Million-Dollar Business

    A client told me recently that the strategy I gave them was premature — that I couldn't possibly know their business well enough after a 15-minute call to hand them a plan, and honestly, I understand why it looks that way. But what I have that most people don't is the vantage point of hundreds of private clients, and after all of that pattern recognition, I can tell you there are really only five containers that reliably create predictable revenue online: the high-ticket asynchronous coaching model, the weekly live webinar to a $500–$2,000 offer, the webinar to an application for a $2,500–$5,000 program, live launching, and the biweekly paid workshop. In this episode I walk through all five — the pieces and parts that make each one actually work, the price band each one lives in, and the real downside of each — and then I get into what I think is the actual problem: AI will happily generate you a 50-page marketing plan that looks official and is way, way too complicated, and you will build it, because it looks right. The truth is you need to do one thing really well long enough for it to cook — burner on high, not on low while you anxiously watch the pot — and the thing that trips people up is mistaking the simplicity of the strategy for the simplicity of the execution. If you're sitting on a plan you'd never have built without AI writing it for you, this one's for you.

    Stop Reinventing The Wheel! The 5 Containers That Each Build a Million-Dollar Business

  3. Jul 27

    Can You Sell Courses Sustainably?

    Someone DM'd me and asked whether selling courses can ever really be sustainable, and I realized we're all using that word to mean something we never say out loud — what she was actually asking is the mortgage test: can I put this income on a loan application, book the vacation, buy the car, and trust that it won't get snatched out from under me? Don't forget to subscribe to my email list! https://emailsbyjulie.com

    Can You Sell Courses Sustainably?

  4. Jul 13

    What Content Creators & Business Owners Can Learn From Each Other

    My lead pipeline just flipped — for 10 years about 80% of my clients have been business owners, and in the last two weeks it's been about 80% content creators, all because of traction on Instagram. And it got me thinking about how each side is staring at the other with envy: business owners wish they had the creator's reach, and creators wish they had the owner's offers, email list, and body of work. In this episode I make the case that each side is holding exactly half of a complete business — creators have mastered speaking to the masses (a real skill set that takes hours a day, not 15 minutes), and owners have the IP, frameworks, and proprietary mechanisms that survive an algorithm change.

    What Content Creators & Business Owners Can Learn From Each Other

  5. Jul 6

    A Personal Update After A Crazy Week!

    This one's personal — I'm unpacking the wild weekend behind me after Jessie Jean gave me a shout-out on her Instagram story and my following jumped from about 17,900 to over 21,600 almost overnight, along with an inbox full of coaching applications I'm still working through. I talk about what it's actually like to be flooded with brand-new people after years of going deep with a smaller, tight-knit community, the free resource I put together to help new followers get to know me fast, and a small real-time experiment I ran between a polished, mathy reel and a raw, unfiltered story that did something I didn't expect.

    A Personal Update After A Crazy Week!

  6. Jun 30

    Consider the Source Before You Follow the Advice

    The worst business advice you'll ever take won't come from a troll — it'll come from someone you hired, polished and confident and completely wrong. In this episode I get into why the things that actually harm your business never look harmful (the cop with the badge still has a gun), why I tell my clients that ideas are guilty until proven innocent, and how to hold two true things at once: you don't want advice from someone who's never lived your life, and a great coach doesn't have to have walked your exact path. Then I give you the actual filter I run before I let anyone change my plan — because confidence is the cheapest thing in the world to fake, and a track record is the hardest.

    Consider the Source Before You Follow the Advice

  7. Jun 22

    The Only Wrong Move in Business Is Doing Nothing

    There's exactly one wrong move in business, and it isn't picking the wrong name, launching the wrong offer, or running the wrong marketing strategy — it's doing nothing, and in this episode I make the case that a messy, half-baked, even wrong attempt will always work in your favor over the perfect plan you never execute.

    The Only Wrong Move in Business Is Doing Nothing

  8. Jun 11

    Problem First Building: The AI Workflow Framework That Ends the Dopamine Spiral

    I just wrapped the first in-person AI & Sheep workshop at my farm, and I couldn't let these takeaways leave my brain before I got them on record. The truth is, most people are losing ground to AI, not gaining it — they're in the dopamine pool, working longer, building more, and not seeing a single dollar of return. So before anyone goes another week adding tools and workflows to their life, I want to share the core philosophy I teach: if AI isn't making you more money or buying back your time, it's a distraction. This episode walks through Problem First Building — starting with a specific, rantable problem instead of a vague goal — and the 1-2-3 Framework I use to deconstruct every workflow step by step.

    Problem First Building: The AI Workflow Framework That Ends the Dopamine Spiral
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Welcome to Million Dollar Grit, the podcast that dives deep into the world of entrepreneurship, where tenacity meets strategy, and dreams meet reality. Here, we explore the raw, often overlooked truths of what it takes to succeed in business and in life. It's not just about the glossy success stories - it's about the grit it takes to get there.

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  • Creator
    Julie Chenell
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    112
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Million Dollar Grit

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