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The Real Jason Duncan Podcast
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast is a conversation about what's actually real. Every guest gets the same question at the center of the episode: what did you use to believe that turned out to be completely wrong? The people in the chair have earned a point of view. Entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, pastors, investors, builders of things that worked and things that didn't. They talk about the lies they were told by family, culture, or their own industry, the years they spent believing them, and what…
Episodes
- The Real Jason Duncan Podcast
410 - Your “Average Return” Is NOT What You Earned
Somebody can honestly tell you he averaged 25% a year on your money, and you can still have exactly what you started with. This is the Wednesday Special…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast409 - Paying Cash Is the Most Expensive Way to Buy
Paying cash is the most expensive way to buy anything. Worse than a loan, worse than a credit card. The man who manages my own money said that to my face, and…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast408 - “You’re Either Growing or Dying” Is a LIE
Cities use "you're either growing or you're dying" to justify the next subdivision, and business owners use it to set next year's sales goal. Your own body…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast407 - The Doctor Said I Was Fine
You feel off. Tired all the time, running on fumes. So you get checked out, and the doctor says you're fine. And you believe it, because who argues with a…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast406 - Why the Customer Is NOT Always Right
Everybody in business has been told the customer is always right. Herb Kelleher didn't buy it. When a woman Southwest's staff called Pen Pal wrote in to…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast405 - Why Does Building a Home Have to Be Hell?
Everybody who's ever built or renovated a house tells the same story. The blown timeline, the blown budget, the contractor who stopped answering the phone. And…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast404 - Nice Guys Do NOT Finish Last
You've heard that nice guys finish last since you were a kid. Leo Durocher, the man who gets credit for it, never said it. In 1946 he said the nice guys were…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast403 - Is 100% the Wrong Goal?
Your life blows up. Diagnosis, divorce, the business goes under, whatever it is. And the first thing you do is try to get back to who you were before…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast402 - Malcolm Gladwell Got This One Wrong
The 10,000-hour rule came from one study of violin students in Berlin, published in 1993. The man who ran that study spent the rest of his life saying Malcolm…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast401 - Are Rich People Really Evil?
You know how rich people got rich. Somebody got cheated, somebody smaller got stepped on. My guest grew up believing every word of that, then became a…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast400 - You Can't Buy Back Your Time. No One Ever Has.
Benjamin Franklin wrote "time is money" in 1748 as advice to a shopkeeper about a wasted afternoon. America turned it into a way of life, and the research says…
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399.Does Running a Business Ever Get Easy?
Every business owner believes there's a stage where it finally gets easier. Build the systems, hire the right people, and one day the thing runs without you…
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398. Retirement Is a Government Program
Somewhere in your phone or on a whiteboard in your office, there's a number and a date. The number is what you think you need. The date is when you finally get…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast397. Is Loyalty Overrated?
Work hard enough and stay loyal to what you built, and it will work out. Rich Tarity believed that right up until he sat down with his two business partners at…
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396.Money Isn't the Root of All Evil
Somebody wealthy gets caught doing something rotten, and within a day you'll hear it. See? Money is the root of all evil. It gets said with a little…
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395. You Don't Need the Big City to Build the Big Business
You've heard this rule your whole career. If you want to build something real you have to be where it's happening, in a city that matters, close enough to the…
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394.Stop Saying Everything Happens for a Reason
The deal dies three days before closing. You've got four months in it, you've already told your wife, and somebody who cares about you says the thing everybody…
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393.The One Sin the Church Won't Forgive
In the church, there's one sin everybody calls forgivable and then treats like it isn't. Divorce. Jim Lange believed that for years, built his life around it…
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392.You're Not Getting More Done
In April of 2007, Arianna Huffington collapsed in her office, hit her desk on the way down, and broke her cheekbone. Her doctors tested her for everything. The…
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391.Why Profit Should Come Before People
The most repeated formula in business says you build a company in this order: people first, then product, then process, and profit comes last. Neil Amrhein…
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390. When Did Money Last Change Your Life?
Most people can name the last time more money genuinely changed their life. What almost nobody can explain is why it stopped, or why they kept chasing the next…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast389.School Never Taught You How to Learn
Somewhere around age twelve, you were told that school would teach you how to learn. It didn't. Sabrina Sussman has two degrees and runs a $3.1 billion…
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388. The Old Dog Can Learn. He's Just Too Loaded Down to Try
"I'm too set in my ways." You've said it. I've said it. And it sounds like a man who finally knows himself. It's a lie, and your own brain proves it. In this…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast387. Revenue Won't Make Your Company Sellable
She ran the numbers on more than a hundred businesses for sale, and kept seeing the same thing: founders with growing revenue who were certain that made their…
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386. The Multitasking Lie: Why Doing More at Once Gets Less Done
I teach focus for a living, and this week I became the exact problem I'm about to warn you about. Laptop open, three AI tools running, jumping between all of…
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385. Your Business Might Be Unsellable ft. Mark Hartmann
In Episode 385 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, every business owner believes the same lie: if it's profitable, it's sellable. The man who sells companies for…
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384. Money CAN Buy Happiness
Here’s the Spotify description for this episode: In Episode 384 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, think about the last time a bill showed up that you couldn’t…
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383. Charisma Isn't a Gift, It's a Skill
In Episode 383 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, you either have it or you don’t. That’s what the world believes about charisma. And the woman who literally…
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382. “Follow Your Passion” is Terrible Advice
In Episode 382 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason built a company that made millions of dollars and couldn’t have cared less about what it actually sold…
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381. Addiction Is Not a Willpower Problem
In Episode 381 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, one of the most common beliefs about addiction sounds like wisdom. People struggling with substance abuse just…
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380. Your 401k Isn‘t Freedom
In Episode 380 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, picture the number at the top of your 401k. It’s a good number. It’s bigger than it was a few years ago. It…
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379. More Clients Won't Make You Rich
In Episode 379 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, the golden rule in coaching is simple. More clients equals more success. More revenue, more impact, more proof…
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378. Charisma is A Gift, Not A Skill
In Episode 378 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, years ago you decided you’re just not a people person. Not a natural up front of people. And you’ve been…
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377. Happy Wife, Happy Life Is A Lie
In Episode 377 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, you've heard it your whole life. Happy wife, happy life. It sounds like love. It sounds like wisdom. It sounds…
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376. Smart Owners Think They Don’t Need A Business Coach
In Episode 376 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, there’s something standing in the middle of your business right now in plain sight. You’ve walked past it a…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast375. Why the Right Words Won't Win the Sale
In Episode 375 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most salespeople are optimizing the wrong game. They’re perfecting the mechanics — the right words, the…
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374. Real Freedom Was Never About Doing Whatever You Want
In Episode 374 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, the freest people Jason has ever met, no rules, no limits, nobody to answer to, were some of the most stuck…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast373. Why Different Politics Doesn't Mean Different Values
In Episode 373 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, for years, Jerome Moore believed that people who thought differently than him politically held fundamentally…
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372. Being Your Own Boss Didn’t Make You Free
In Episode 372 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, you signed your name, walked out on your own, and called it freedom. So why does it feel like the business…
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371. The Compensation Lie: Why You Cannot Buy A-Players
In Episode 371 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most companies believe they lost a top hire because the offer wasn't big enough. Kip Knippel has spent over a…
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370. More Money Won't Free You
In Episode 370 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason delivers the truth that most high earners aren’t ready to hear at the halfway point of the year. You hit…
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369. Stop Chasing Revenue and Start Building Wealth
In episode 369 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most high earners are sprinting toward a number that will never set them free — and the worst part is…
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368. The Protection Lie
In Episode 368 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason addresses one of the hardest golden cages a parent can see — because the bars are made of good…
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367. Why 95% of AI Investments Fail to Deliver Real ROI
In episode 367 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most entrepreneurs believe AI is the great differentiator, the tool that will finally give them the edge…
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366. Busy is Not Productive
In Episode 366 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason asks the question most entrepreneurs can’t answer honestly. Not what did you do yesterday — what did you…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast365. The College Lie: Why a Degree Isn't the Price of Success
In episode 365 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, you were probably told that college is the price of success. Ali Hemyari never paid it and spent twenty years…
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364. Your Business Might Be Worth Zero
In Episode 364 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason delivers one of the most uncomfortable truths a business owner can hear — and most don’t hear it until…
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363. The Title Was Never You: Surviving the Identity Cage
In episode 363 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Tom LeNoble discusses how he built careers at Facebook, Walmart, HP, and Verizon — the jobs most people spend…
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362. Later Never Comes
In Episode 362 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, Jason confronts one of the most sincere lies an entrepreneur can believe – that presence, impact, and…
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361. The Hustle Myth: Why Outworking Everyone Is a Golden Cage
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…
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359. 70 Missions, 7,000 Kids, One Brutal Truth
In episode 359 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most entrepreneurs think they're fighting the right battle — pointing at the cartels, the traffickers, the…
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358. The Anniversary Audit
In episode 358 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, we have the Anniversary Audit, and if you're an entrepreneur who has ever pointed to the business as proof…
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357. The Mindset Lie Holding You Back
In episode 357 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, most people spend their whole lives waiting for the "it factor" to show up — the natural talent, the X factor…
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356. You're Not the Expert. You're the Bottleneck.
In Episode 356 of The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, many entrepreneurs discover too late that the very thing they built their identity around — being the go-to…
The Real Jason Duncan Podcast355. The Lie That Started Everything
Most entrepreneurs chase success and call the cage they build a career — Jason Duncan hit $1M EBITDA, landed on the Inc. 5000 twice, and realized he was more…
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354. Why 83% Of Businesses Listed For Sale Never Sell
Jason Duncan built a seven-figure business, then lost it all in one year because it depended on him, and discovered how to exit without selling. In this…
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353. Why 2025 Changed Everything for Entrepreneurs Without Technical Skills
Most people think you need engineers, funding, and a technical background to build a tech company — Dr. Alex Mehr spent two years at NASA calculating how not…
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352. How suicide taught me to choose differently
In this episode of The Root of All Success, Jason Duncan sits down with Dr. JC Doornick ("Dragon"), health transformation coach, author, speaker, and creator…
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351. Why Working Less Won't Fix Burnout For Entrepreneurs
Most people think burnout means you need to work less; Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth discovered it's actually a polarity you need to manage…
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350. How A Tech Executive Built Nashville's Bitcoin Revolution
Most people trust the system to manage their money. Rod Roudi walked away from tech to build Bitcoin Park and is now redefining financial freedom in Nashville…