Grow Your Video Business with Ryan Koral

514. Your Audience Can Tell When It's AI with Ryan Levesque

Confession: I bought Ryan Levesque's first book, Ask, way back in the day, so getting to sit down with another Ryan to talk about his new one, Return to Real, was a treat

513. You're Working Like a Caffeinated Octopus with Jordan Raynor

513 Overview Jordan Raynor's back on the show, and this time he's fresh off cutting more than half his revenue on purpose to make room for bigger goals. He and Ryan get

512. Why I Stopped Chasing $5,000 Video Clients

512 Overview Two days after wrapping the Onward Summit, Ryan sits down solo to unpack what he learned from a room full of filmmakers. He talks about why showing up as y

511. Filmmakers Pick the Price and It Worked with Isaac Haines

Isaac Haines is a composer in rural Alberta who sells his whole catalog straight to filmmakers with a one-time, pay-what-you-can lifetime license. Recording from his truc

510. He Charged $3,500 a Day When Others Got $350 with Blue Melnick

Blue Melnick accidentally started a video business in 2008 when filming one event for a friend turned into five clients. Today he owns and operates Sage Event Management

509. The $20,000 Offer That Wasn't About the Video with John Meese

John Meese has spent a decade helping experts get paid for their advice instead of their effort — and this conversation is a direct challenge to how most video business o

508. Podcast Guesting Is a Six Figure Sales System with Beth Nydick

Beth Nydick spent her career behind the camera — the Tonight Show, national TV, producing other people's stories — before realizing she'd stopped creating for herself. In

507. Write This Before You Make Your First Hire with David Hoyt

David Hoyt spent nineteen years working alongside John Maxwell before landing at The Table Group, Patrick Lencioni's consulting firm, where he now helps leaders master th

506. Your Mission Is More Important Than Your Mug with Andrew Cardy

Andrew Cardy spent nine years building a video company with his wife, sold it to a marketing agency in 2023, and walked away in 2025 to figure out what he actually wanted

505. A Monthly Half Day Rewired Her Whole Business with Lindsey Weigle

Lindsey Weigle has spent twelve years helping business owners navigate transition, and she recently took her own advice by narrowing Blue Water Advisory down to one thing

504. The First Hire That Gives You Your Life Back with Ricky Norris

Ricky Norris spent a decade shooting documentaries overseas before trading the airports for a San Diego studio, a wife, and three daughters. Now he's running Kilometer Ze

503. Why Being a Goofball Wins You More Clients with Mark Ostach

Mark Ostach is back on the show, and this one wanders in the best way. We get into why our attention spans are measurably shrinking, why he's "pro-presence" instead of an

502. Stop Giving Away Your Best Ideas for Free with Tara Turkington

Tara Turkington has spent a decade building a photography business, and now she's eyeing the jump into video — but she's stuck on the same things that trip up almost ever

501. She Cut the Channel Eating 80% of Her Time with Laura Higgins

Laura Higgins spent a year pouring 80% of her time into a YouTube channel that generated about 5% of her results. So she killed it — and her business immediately had a re

500. Being Authentic Cost Me Money and I'd Do It Again with Ryan Koral

Ten years. 500 episodes. In this solo celebration episode, I go back to how this whole thing started — a course launch, a Pat Flynn binge, and a production team begging m

499. Stay Three Steps Ahead of Your Competitors with Liz Slade

When COVID wiped out her entire client base overnight, Liz Slade didn't fold—she reinvented two businesses and went on to transform an entire industry with better video.

498. Build Systems That Beat Blank-Page Syndrome with Eric Braker

Eric Braker of Twin Pine Creative is about a year and a half into building his creative agency with his brother—and like a lot of us, he's stuck doing every single job at

497. How Getting Skinny Saved My Studio Over 10K a Month

After 22 years in business, I hit that all-too-familiar wall where I'd fallen out of love with the whole thing again. In this solo episode, I get honest about the self-im

496. The Storytelling Secret Most Filmmakers Miss with James Harrington

In this episode I sit down with my friend James Harrington, founder of the Ugandan Water Project, for a conversation that's way more about your business than you'd guess

495. Matter More So You Can Hustle for Attention Less with Jay Acunzo

Most video business owners are stuck chasing reach when what actually grows a business is resonance. In this episode, storytelling and speaking strategist Jay Acunzo join