The David Guttman Podcast

#91 How Getting Fired Built MTA Consultancy | Chris Mader

He doubled a company's revenue to $150M once. Then he got called into an office and told it was his last day. If that has ever happened to you, you already know the feeli

#90 The Cornell MBA Who Says The Paper On The Wall Did Nothing | Joshua Lindsey

I tore up my Wharton MBA on camera a couple of months ago, so I was curious what Joshua Lindsey would say about his. He was making 50 thousand dollars a week at 25, had a

#89 Why Everything Around You Is Quietly Building Who You Are | Ruh Fahim

When Ruh Fahim sat across from me, every blood panel he'd ever taken came back "fine," yet he'd once had brain fog so bad he couldn't finish a sentence. We got into how t

#88 How A 20-Year-Old With No Degree Bought An Aston Martin In Cash | Frank Lopinski

In this episode, I talked with Frank Lipinski, who bet on himself instead of college, built real wealth in crypto by twenty, and learned that money solves far fewer probl

#87 What Wrestling Teaches You In Business | Tom Ryan

Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan,  the man who brought the Buckeyes their first national title, sat down with me and hit me with a claim I couldn't shake: hand hi

#86 Choose Your Suffering Before It Chooses You |Kyle Vadis & Chase Pettey

I always thought the thing keeping people stuck was their circumstances, until I realized most of us are the wardens of our own prison, holding the keys the whole time. I

#85 How Rob Koll Built a Wrestling Dynasty With No Money | Rob Koll

Rob Koll is one of the winningest coaches in college wrestling history, and he lived inside the Foxcatcher mansion with John du Pont before the murder that shocked the sp

#84 Why Trading Your Time for Money Is Keeping You Broke | Adriana Martin

 I sat down with Adriana Martin, who landed in the U.S. at 21 with nothing but five jobs and a $6-an-hour gig babysitting two windup toys at a mall door. What blew me awa

#83 Here's Why You Keep Self-Sabotaging Without Even Realizing It| Michael Mahoney

You might think self-sabotage is a discipline problem. That if you just wanted it badly enough, you'd stop repeating the pattern. But the truth is the opposite: your brai

#82 He Told Me One Sentence That Finally Made Me Get Sober | Jonathan Parsons

I used to think the people who turn their lives around are the ones with the most willpower, but Johnny Parsons convinced me it's the opposite. When I sat down with the v

#81 He Built Billion Dollar Companies By Selling Everything Except The Team | David Royce

My guest today sold the same company four times and built over a billion dollars in exits doing it, in pest control, of all industries. David Royce walks me through how h

#80 The Illusion of Job Security and How He Discovered True Freedom | Jeremy Montoya

Is your fear of instability actually keeping you trapped? In this episode, I sat with entrepreneur Jeremy Montoya who explored the illusion of security and how this might

#79 No AI by 2030? You Won't Have a Business | Brad Hart

Brad Hart made over a million dollars in a single month, then walked away. Now he's giving small business owners a hard deadline: adopt AI before 2030, or you won't have

#78 What 5 Exits Taught Me About Business | Mike Koenigs

Mike Koenigs has exited five companies, written 19 bestselling books, and built entire businesses in a single week using AI, and in this episode, he explains exactly how

#77 How to Hire Right (Most Founders Get This WRONG) | Maddie Thompson

At 13, Maddie Thompson cold-messaged 150 fashion brands, got one reply, flew to Calgary with her mom, and spent three years having her designs manufactured and sold in st

#76 How AI Rewrote Its Own Code To Survive | David Avrin

Anthropic reportedly ran kill-switch tests on its own AI and in over 70% of cases, the AI rewrote its own code to stay alive. I sat down with David Avrin to unpack what t

#75 The Partner Red Flags Nobody Warns You About | Alan Hidalgo

Alan Hidalgo built four businesses across rideshare, marketing, e-commerce, and online education before turning 28 and got screwed over enough times along the way to buil

#74 Stop Saving Your Kids From Failure | Trystan Trenberth

You think rescuing your kids is love? Trystan Trenberth spent years thinking the same thing, until a therapist friend's single question forced him to see that his daughte

#73 The Side Hustle That Took Over Her Life | Chloe Kosco

At 20, Chloe Kosco was just making things for herself in the corner of her college apartment. Then her first drop sold out in seconds, and everything changed. Learn what

#72 Why Being a Business Owner Doesn't Make You an Entrepreneur | Vince Ricci

There’s a moment Vince Ricci describes where time froze: a gun in his back outside his own home, his wife and newborn daughter inside, and two armed strangers waiting for