361. The Hustle Myth: Why Outworking Everyone Is a Golden Cage

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast · May 25, 2026 · 49m

In episode 361 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason speaks with DJ Carrol. He mowed grass in high school, borrowed $300 from his mom and grandma, built a company to three million dollars in revenue, and called it proof that outworking everybody was the answer. It wasn't until years later, after losing a six-figure business and a half a million dollars in real estate at 27, that Coach DJ Carroll realized the hustle wasn't the strategy. It was the cage.

Coach DJ Carroll is a speaker, entrepreneur, author of The Hunter Head Game, and the creator of the Access Attention AI Framework. He built…