Beyond A Million

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Brad Weimert, founder of Easy Pay Direct, interviews world-class entrepreneurs to explore tactics & strategies to build 8, 9, and 10-figure brands. Learn more at: https://beyondamillion.com/ All business is the same… but nobody really feels that way. The truth is – the BUILDING blocks of business are consistent across the board. Marketing, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Taxes... Apply to all businesses. With more than 30,000 businesses flowing through Easy Pay Direct (and the data behind them), Brad Weimert has found a litany of world-class experts to break down what's working - and what's not. With clients like Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Hal Elrod and Grant Cardone, Easy Pay Direct is an amazing pool of knowledge and experience to pull from. Watch, Listen, and learn while you hear experts pull back the curtain and share cutting-edge marketing strategies, the latest sales techniques, the operational tools and tactics that make it all work, and the tax strategies that keep your money in your pocket. Whether you're pushing through your first startup and learning the ropes, you're an established 8 or 9-figure brand, or you've made an exit and are thinking about your next chapter… Beyond a Million will stretch your mind. Be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss a new episode!

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August 20, 2026Episode 24258 min

242: She Made Tens of Millions Buying the Neighborhoods Everyone Avoided with Britnie Turner

Britnie Turner built her real estate career by deliberately going where other investors wouldn't—high-crime neighborhoods, overlooked properties, and land that banks didn't even want to finance. That approach eventually helped her make tens of millions of dollars. But what interested me was why she was willing to make bets that looked irrational to almost everyone around her. Britnie went from waitressing, living in her car, and working for free to becoming one of Nashville's biggest rehabbers, developing entire communities, and eventually owning a private island in the British Virgin Islands. Along the way, she built her businesses around a much bigger mission than simply making money. We talk about what founders miss when they only pursue obvious opportunities, why conviction can matter more than having the perfect plan, and how building wealth gave Britnie the resources to take on problems far bigger than real estate, including disaster relief and human trafficking through Aerial Recovery. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NRW3DtCg5eM Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

August 13, 2026Episode 2411 hr 4 min

241: The AI Shift That Will Change How You Run Your Company with Thanh Pham

Thanh Pham has spent 15 years studying productivity, and over the last five he's gone deep on implementing AI inside real companies. That means he's seen the difference between AI that actually changes how a business operates and AI that simply helps someone finish a task a little faster. That's the problem we dig into. If you're still using AI to shave a few minutes off work you were already doing yourself, you may be missing the bigger shift: changing who does the work in the first place. We talk about what Thanh hands to AI versus a person, how AI is changing the roles founders should be hiring for, and why companies that get this right could start moving dramatically faster than everyone else. We also get into what separates a million-dollar founder from entrepreneurs running much larger companies, why Thanh deliberately blocks several hours every week for something most founders never put on their calendar, and where human judgment still matters even as AI takes over more of the execution. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8jr0wVYCDtw Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

August 6, 2026Episode 2401 hr 11 min

240: How to Build a Business That Runs Without You with Jeremy Shapiro

A lot of founders hit seven figures and assume they've built a business. But if sales slow down, decisions stall, or customers feel the difference whenever they step away, they may still be self-employed. Jeremy Shapiro has built companies across SaaS, ecommerce, technology, and services. He's seen the same pattern repeatedly: The hustle that creates momentum early on eventually becomes the thing holding the business back. We talk about why founders stay trapped in low-value work, how technology can quietly create more complexity, and why growth often stalls when you keep relying on the same channel, habits, or people. We also get into niche strategy, the hidden costs of building your own software, what separates a valuable mastermind from an expensive networking group, and why an SOP is useless if another person can't produce the same result. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1_P-QPKxfO4 Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

July 30, 2026Episode 23943 min

239: How to Escape City Taxes and Real Estate Regulations with Julie Drenner

I bought a lake house in Austin and discovered I was paying city taxes even though the city wasn't providing water, sewer, trash collection, or electricity. Julie Drenner helped me legally remove the property from Austin's tax rolls. But that uncovered another problem: the city could still regulate what I build, how I remodel, and how I use the property through its extraterritorial jurisdiction, or ETJ. If you own, develop, or invest in real estate, these overlooked jurisdictional rules can quietly affect your taxes, construction timelines, rental income, and resale value. Julie explains where property owners may be losing control, why cities have little incentive to make these rules easy to understand, and what every investor should investigate before buying or developing their next property. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vtxGRN4XDko Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

July 23, 2026Episode 23855 min

238: He Built an 8-Figure Software Company AI Still Can't Replace with Dean Guida

Dean Guida started Infragistics at 23 to build UX/UI tools for professional software developers. Thirty-seven years later, the company operates across six countries, its software is used by more than two million developers, and its customers span the entire S&P 500—including Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Exxon, Intuit, and Bank of America. But AI can now generate functional software in minutes. So what prevents a company like Infragistics from becoming obsolete? I wanted to understand which parts of software AI will commoditize, where lasting competitive moats will still exist, and why Dean believes the idea that software is disappearing has been dramatically oversold. We also talk about how he built a multi-8-figure company without outside capital, why he might raise money if he started again today, and what founders need to build once grit alone is no longer enough to scale. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3hogPdPFiX8 Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

July 16, 2026Episode 2371 hr 1 min

237: How to Build Category-Defining Brands in Any Industry with Jim Donnelly

Today I'm talking to Jim Donnelly, a founder who has built and scaled businesses across travel, real estate, wellness, and longevity medicine. He built an online travel community with 300,000+ members that later rolled into Travelocity. He developed luxury real estate that still holds Charlotte's record for price per square foot. He co-founded Restore Hyper Wellness and helped scale it to 225+ locations. Now, he's building Humanaut Health, a longevity medicine company with $10M-per-clinic potential. But the interesting part isn't just what Jim has built. It's how he keeps moving into completely different industries and finding the opportunity before everyone else sees it. A lot of founders fail when they jump categories because they assume the same playbook will work again. Jim sees it differently. He's clear about what transfers from one business to the next, what doesn't, and why the best opportunities are often hiding inside big categories that already exist. We get into how he builds brands people actually care about, why he'd rather have fewer customers who love him than more customers who only like him, and the biggest lessons he learned after raising $140M in private equity. Watch on YouTube: Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

July 9, 2026Episode 23652 min

236: Geoff Woods on Why Most Founders Are Using AI All Wrong

Today I'm talking with Geoff Woods, author of The AI-Driven Leader and founder of AI Leadership, about why so many founders are using AI on the wrong problems. Geoff helped drive Jindal Steel & Power's market cap from $750M to $12B in four years, and one of his points really stuck with me: you don't get beyond a million because you write great emails. But that's exactly how a lot of entrepreneurs are using AI right now. Writing emails, cleaning up inboxes, building random agents, and mistaking activity for leverage. That's the trap. AI can make you feel productive while you point all that horsepower at work that doesn't actually move the business forward. Geoff walks through what it looks like to flip that: using AI as a strategic thought partner instead of an errand boy, why most leaders are skipping steps they haven't earned yet, and how to think about AI in a way that improves decision-making, focus, and team performance. Geoff also shares what he learned helping scale a multi-billion-dollar company, why letting the right fires burn is part of leadership, and the move his assistant made to rewrite her own job description and 100x her role. If you've been treating AI like a faster Google, this conversation will reframe what it can actually do for you as a founder. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/beMjviX1_B8 Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

July 2, 2026Episode 2351 hr 9 min

235: Bootstrapping a $100M Supplement Brand with Matt Gallant

Today I'm talking to Matt Gallant, co-founder of BioOptimizers, a supplement company generating $10M a month with a larger mission to help people live healthier for longer. Matt started with a simple realization: if he could get great at marketing, he could build a business in almost any category. That belief eventually led him into health, supplements, and BioOptimizers—but not without some hard-earned lessons along the way. We talk about the moment the business nearly fell apart, how Matt thinks about creating maximum customer value, timeless marketing principles, and the question he believes every entrepreneur needs to ask as markets get more crowded and customers become harder to win. Watch on YouTube: Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

June 25, 2026Episode 23453 min

234: Cameron Herold Shares the Hiring Mistakes Costing Founders Millions

Today, Cameron Herold (Founder of COO Alliance) is back on the podcast to talk about one of the biggest reasons companies stop scaling: bad hiring. We get into why impressive resumes can be misleading, how to tell if someone has actually done the work, and the hiring mistakes that quietly cost companies years of progress. Cameron also breaks down why most entrepreneurs are never properly trained to interview, how he thinks about screening for culture, and what founders miss when they rely too heavily on resumes, references, and gut feel. We also talk about the side of entrepreneurship people rarely admit in real time: burnout, loneliness, identity, alcohol, retirement, and what happens when the business stops giving you the same hit it used to. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SCNzMOVeO48 Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook

June 18, 2026Episode 23333 min

233: From a 9-Figure Exit to a $10 Billion Data Center with Jason Van Gaal

AI isn't just creating a software boom, it's creating an infrastructure crisis. As demand for AI explodes, the real bottleneck isn't chips or models anymore. It's power, cooling, permitting, and the ability to build data centers fast enough to keep up. Jason Van Gaal has spent more than a decade solving exactly that problem. After building and exiting multiple data center companies — including one of the largest Canadian tech exits of 2019 — Jason is now taking on his biggest project yet: building a $10 billion AI data center campus in Alberta powered by its own energy infrastructure. In this episode, we break down the future of AI infrastructure, why data centers are becoming power companies, the realities of scaling massive industrial projects, and what Jason learned from building, exiting, and starting over again. Key Takeaways with Jason Van Gaal From Two Exits to a $10B Swing Hire People Better Than Yourself Cutting Build Time to 120 Days Financing 400% Growth Without Imploding How He Invests After the Exit Why He Came Out of Retirement Why Alberta Won the Build Busting the Data Center Water Myth Noise, Infrasound, and Tinfoil Hats What Happens If Approvals Fail Why He Stays in His Lane Why Scaling Fast Is a Trap Learning Just in Time vs Just in Case Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eRR-PLNkVtQ Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook