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500: The BIG 500th Episode Twist: My WIFE Takes the Mic To Discuss Business Family And Life

For the 500th episode and our 20th wedding anniversary, my wife Jen Chou joins me to talk about how we built Bumblebee Linens together, kept our marriage strong, and stayed present for…

499: How the World’s Most Successful People Turn Adversity Into Advantage With Ezra Firestone

Ezra Firestone lost his business partner and Boom's on-camera face in seven days, then had his best year ever. Here is exactly how he rebuilt.

498: Top 5 Most Profitable Side Hustles You Can Start Today (With No Money) – Family First Friday

The five side hustles with the highest profit margins you can start today, ranked by profitability and how fast they make real money.

497: The 3 Step Plan To Ditch Regret And Tap Into Your Massive Potential With Jon Acuff

New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff on the mindset shifts, motivation portfolio, and small-step tactics that actually turn potential into results.

496: Forget China! How To Import From India And Save 37% On Your Products – Family First Friday

Overall labor costs in India run 37% cheaper than China. Here is how to find Indian suppliers, negotiate prices, and safely place your first order.

495: How To Make An Extra $100k This Year By Optimizing Your Financial Stack With Bill D’Alessandro

Bill D'Alessandro shares the exact bank, credit card, and cash-flow moves that add $100K to an e-commerce P&L without changing your product or ads.

494: The Blueprint For Making $100K+ With A Shopify Store – Family First Friday

The exact three-part Shopify store blueprint I teach my students: build trust for conversions, capture email and SMS, then drive traffic. Follow it and a seven-figure store is realistic.

493: The Easiest, Maintainable Way To Run Ads For Your Online Store With Brett Curry

Brett Curry of OMG Commerce runs $100M/year in ad spend. Here is his exact Google Performance Max playbook for ecommerce stores, from asset groups to product feeds to what to launch first.

492: How To Find A $5000/Mo Product To Sell In 10 Minutes – Family First Friday

The exact 4-tool product research process I use to find $5K/month products before spending a dollar on inventory: Jungle Scout for Amazon, Ahrefs for Google, Zik Analytics and Terapeak for eBay.

491: The Future Of Ecommerce In The Face Of AI And Other Changes With Mike Jackness And Toni Herrbach

Mike Jackness and Toni Herrbach on the real future of ecommerce: DTC vs Amazon, sourcing agents vs Alibaba, tariffs, India, defensible moats, and the exact playbook to survive an AI-driven shopping experience.

490: BEWARE! The 4 Absolute Worst Businesses To Start In 2023 – Family First Friday

Retail arbitrage, Amazon wholesale, AliExpress dropshipping, and brick and mortar are the four worst businesses to start today. Here is why each one falls apart and what to do instead.

489: The Most Important Strategies To Grow Your Business This Year With Phil Taylor

Phil Taylor grew FinCon from 200 attendees to 3,000 and from six figures to seven. Here are the 7 strategies he used to grow the business year after year.

488: AI Powered Strategies To Make $274/Day Selling On Amazon (Step By Step) – Family First Friday

Use ChatGPT and Jungle Scout to find a product, differentiate it, source it, and write a high-converting Amazon listing. A step-by-step AI workflow for new Amazon sellers.

487: Student Story – Making 6 Figures Selling Card Games And Board Games With Jesse Funk

Jesse Funk sells six figures a year in card and board games on Amazon. Here is the exact demand-capture playbook he uses to launch, source, and price his games.

486: Easy 5 Step Guide To Starting A Dropshipping Business (The Legitimate Way) – Family First Friday

The legit 5-step way to start a dropshipping business: pick a real niche, find real US wholesale suppliers, build a real store, drive free traffic, then private label your winners.

Advertising Amazon Blogging Buying/Selling Companies Digital Products Ecommerce Email Marketing Income Reports Podcasting & YouTube Product Sourcing Productivity Selling Books Search Engine Optimization Social Media Software And Services Student Stories

485: Copy-Proof Your Products! How To Prevent Evil Sellers From Stealing Your IP With Steve Weigler

Steve Weigler of Emerge Counsel breaks down the exact IP protection stack ecommerce sellers need (trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret) and how to take down Chinese copycats.

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Podcasts On Advertising

493: The Easiest, Maintainable Way To Run Ads For Your Online Store With Brett Curry

Brett Curry of OMG Commerce runs $100M/year in ad spend. Here is his exact Google Performance Max playbook for ecommerce stores, from asset groups to product feeds to what to launch first.

414: How To Get Into Oprah And Other Magazines For Free With Andreea Matei

Andreea Ayers got into 200+ magazines without a PR agency. Here is the exact pitch template, subject lines, timing calendar, and response rates for getting free press.

409: A Template For Creating Powerful And Persuasive Ads With Cody Iverson

Cody Iverson breaks down the modular ad framework his agency uses to build hundreds of converting video ads: elements, segments, and multivariate testing explained.

392: Screw Apple! Timeless Facebook Ad Strategies That Always Work With Jordan Menard

Jordan Menard has spent over $100M on ads. Here is his angle creation process, the word cloud research method, and why broad targeting beats lookalikes now.

391: Apple Destroyed Facebook Ads. Now What? With Nick Shackleford

Nick Shackelford has spent $85M on Facebook ads. Here is how to measure performance when the reporting is broken, plus what targeting works now.

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324: Molly Pittman On Happiness, Relationships And Facebook Ads

Molly Pittman found 150+ new interests for Boom and helped scale ad spend to $30K a day. Here is why interest targeting beats relying on lookalikes alone.

Podcasts On Amazon

553: Amazon & TikTok Join Forces! How Google’s Legal Woes Could Change E-Commerce Forever

What the Amazon-TikTok and Amazon-Pinterest deals mean for sellers and creators, plus how Google's antitrust monopoly ruling will reshape ecommerce and blog traffic.

552: The Hidden Cost of Selling on Amazon: New Fees And Policy Changes With Yoni Mazor

Amazon slashed the FBA lost-warehouse reimbursement window from 18 months to 2 months, effective October 23. Here is what changed, what it costs sellers, and the exact steps to reclaim what you…

522: Is Selling On Amazon FBA Worth It In 2024? Here’s The UGLY Truth

Amazon FBA is still worth it in 2024, but only if you go all in. Here are the new fees, refund math, Temu pricing pressure, and inventory traps every seller needs to…

505: The Blueprint For Building The Largest Amazon Sellers Network With Athena Severi

Athena Severi built the Titan Network and China Magic from scratch by hosting dinners and cruises. Here is her networking playbook for Amazon sellers who hate networking.

503: A Fun And Profitable Side Hustle That No One’s Talking About (No Traffic Required) With Liz Saunders

The Amazon Influencer Program lets you earn commissions on shoppable videos placed on Amazon product listings, with top earners pulling $10K to $15K a month.

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487: Student Story – Making 6 Figures Selling Card Games And Board Games With Jesse Funk

Jesse Funk sells six figures a year in card and board games on Amazon. Here is the exact demand-capture playbook he uses to launch, source, and price his games.

Podcasts On Blogging

626: The Content Strategies That Will Die In 2026 (And What’s Taking Over)

AI faceless channels, summarize buttons, and influencer fatigue are killing the old content playbook. Here are the 2026 content strategies actually working (and the ones about to die).

614: The Hidden Rules of Brand Deals That Influencers Never Talk About

The real playbook for influencer brand deals: how to price, negotiate, protect your channel, avoid net-90 traps, and build a media kit that closes.

584: Traditional Media Is Dying – Why Building An Audience Matters More than Ever

Traditional media is collapsing while content creators dominate. Why you should build your own audience now, plus the video podcast and creator playbook.

583: Google’s Algorithm Update DESTROYED Affiliate Sites… Now What?

Google's algorithm updates gutted pure affiliate blogs. Here is where the affiliate dollars actually live in 2026, and how to negotiate deals that pay.

564: Blogging Is Dead…Or Is It? What’s Actually Happening With Google

Standalone blogs are getting crushed by Google, but ecommerce blogs are winning. Toni Herrbach and I break down what changed, who benefits, and what to do now.

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563: Email Marketing Hacks To Drive Engagement and Sales

Email marketing for content businesses, from picking one focused lead magnet to weekly text emails and affiliate offers that actually convert.

Podcasts On Buying/Selling Companies

419: Meet The Woman Who Makes $50M With Boring Businesses w/ Codie Sanchez

Codie Sanchez runs a $50M portfolio of boring businesses like laundromats and ice vending. Here is how to find, finance, and buy a small business with little or no money down.

369: How To Get Top Dollar For Your Business, FBA Rollups & More With Joe Valley

Joe Valley of Quiet Light breaks down ecommerce valuation multiples, the add-backs most sellers miss, and why FBA aggregator offers are rarely the best deal.

299: How To Buy An Online Business The Right Way With Chris Guthrie

Quiet Light broker Chris Guthrie explains what multiples online businesses sell for, how SBA loans work at 10% down, and how he tripled a site's profit in a year.

280: How To Prepare Your Business For Sale And What Multiples To Expect With Thomas Smale

FE International founder Thomas Smale breaks down what ecommerce, SaaS, and content sites sell for, what raises your multiple, and how the sale process actually works.

136: How To Sell An Online Business And Why Spencer Haws Sold Long Tail Pro

Today I’m thrilled to have Spencer Haws back on the show. If you don’t remember him from Episode 54, Spencer runs the popular blog NichePursuits.com where he teaches others how to start…

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135: How To Buy A Company And Use Amazon To Triple Your Profit With Dana Jaunzemis

Today I’m really excited to have Dana Jaunzemis back on the show. Dana is someone who I met through Andrew Youderian and she’s actually in a private group that I meet with…

Podcasts On Digital Products

Digital Products

404: The Most Creative Teaching Business That I’ve Ever Seen With Kalyan Mazumder

Kalyan Mazumder built Prepmedians by marketing to teenagers instead of parents. Here is the TikTok strategy, free-trial funnel, and pricing behind it.

Digital Products

338: How To Make Millions As An Artist With Arree Chung

Arree Chung enrolled 4,700 students in one summer selling online courses. Here is the free-week funnel, the Facebook ad math, and why his first business failed.

294: Grant Baldwin On How To Scale A Niche Business By 3X

Grant Baldwin tripled The Speaker Lab to seven figures. Here is his 5-step framework for booking paid speaking gigs, plus the webinar and phone funnel behind the growth.

Digital Products

271: The Top 5 Best Entrepreneurship Books Of All Time With Mani Vaya

Mani Vaya reads seven books a week and summarizes them for a living. Here are his five essential books for online entrepreneurs and what each one is actually for.

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253: How To Make Millions Teaching Blackjack Card Counting With Colin Jones

Colin Jones won $4M counting cards, then built a bigger business teaching it. Here is his SEO, YouTube funnel, and video mini course strategy.

Podcasts On Ecommerce

659: The #1 App In America Just Became Amazon’s Worst Nightmare

Amazon blocks AI shopping agents like Meta's Muse to protect a $68 billion ad business. Here is why that move hurts Amazon sellers and what to do about it.

658: She Built a 7 Figure Clothing Brand With Just $5K in Bartending Tips

How to sell clothing on Amazon when Chinese sellers own the low end: Sharona Ozeri built a 7-figure resort wear brand from $5K in bartending tips. Here is her playbook.

657: Can Ecommerce Brands Still Grow Without Social Media in 2026?

Bumblebee Linens has grown for 18 years without social media. Toni Anderson argues new sellers cannot skip it. Here is the honest answer for your stage and personality.

656: The Reddit AI SEO Playbook Just Stopped Working

Reddit's citations in ChatGPT fell 86% overnight the same week Reddit joined the S&P 500. The gamification playbook that agencies charged $20K a month for is over.

655: Ex Amazon Employee Reveals Where Sellers Are Quietly Losing Money

Where ecommerce sellers lose money: successful Amazon-only sellers now net low single digits, and the leak is fees that never appear as a line in their books.

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654: AI Does 80% Of My Job Now, But Here’s What It Sucks At

What AI cannot do for your business: supply missing context, judge creative work consistently, or hold instructions across a long task. Everything else, hand off.

Podcasts On Email Marketing

585: What’s Actually Working in Email Marketing Right Now (Real Examples)

Email newsletter strategies that work in 2025: local newsletters, viral content frameworks, monetization models, and the hidden boomer audience.

427: This Old School Marketing Tactic Converts Like Crazy With Mike Epstein

Mike Epstein of PostPilot explains how postcard marketing beats iOS-crippled Facebook ads and email decay, with real ROI numbers (16X to 26X) and campaigns to run.

423: A Controversial Way To Grow Your Email List Fast With Adam Robinson

Visitor identification tools like GetEmails match anonymous website traffic to real email addresses at ~40% resolution for $0.05-$0.25 per lead. Here's exactly how it works and whether it's legal.

408: A Strategy That Gives 10X Better Returns Than Email With Adam Turner

SMS subscribers generate roughly 10x the revenue per person as email subscribers. Postscript CEO Adam Turner breaks down frequency, welcome flows, and list building.

283: How To Segment Your Email List The Right Way With Alexandra Edelstein

Klaviyo's Alexandra Edelstein explains RFM segmentation, why unengaged subscribers send your emails to spam, and the two-hour setup that fixes most email programs.

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275: Email Marketing Takeaways From Klaviyo Boston Day 1 With Toni Anderson

Takeaways from Klaviyo Boston: how to branch abandoned cart flows by customer value, use predictive data, A/B test inside a flow, and why pre-headers lift open rates.

Podcasts On Income Reports

Income Reports

241: How My Blog Performed In 2018 – Year End Review

My wife just closed the books for 2018 and in this episode, I’m going to do a year end review for MyWifeQuitHerJob.com including all of the projects that I’m currently working on.…

Income Reports

240: Year End Report – How My Online Store Performed In 2018

My wife just closed the books for 2018 and in this episode, I’m going to breakdown the highlights and lowlights of the year for BumblebeeLinens.com. What You’ll Learn How to overcome bumps…

Income Reports

218: Mid Year Report: How My Online Store Performed In The First Half Of 2018

A failed inspection cost my store four months of inventory. Here is what supplier quality control mistakes cost me and how we kept sales flat anyway.

192: How My Blog Performed As A Business In 2017 With Steve Chou

How a blog earned seven figures in profit on 1.35 million in revenue, the four income streams behind it, and why I deleted hundreds of old posts for SEO.

191: How Our Ecommerce Store Performed In 2017 With Steve Chou

I phoned every shopper who abandoned a cart in my store. Their answers led to auto-applied coupons, cheaper monogramming, and a 20% revenue year.

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148: How We Grew Our Ecommerce Store By 22% In 2016 With Steve Chou

My wife just closed the books on BumblebeeLinens.com for 2016 and I’m happy to say that we had another year of double digit growth. In this episode, I go over in detail…

Podcasts On Podcasting & YouTube

609: Forget Apple Podcasts. This Is Where Listeners Really Are

YouTube is now the #1 platform for weekly podcast listeners. Here's why you should launch your podcast on YouTube, how to structure the channel, and the editing stack that makes it hands-off.

580: Is Starting A Podcast Worth It In 2025? Here’s Our Take

Is starting a podcast worth it in 2025? Here is the honest answer after 10 years of running one, including when to pick YouTube instead.

479: Monetize Your Voice: How To Turn A Podcast Into A Multi 6 Figure Business With Ryan Michler

How Ryan Michler turned Order of Man into a multi six-figure business with a 1,200-member paid brotherhood, and the exact playbook to launch a paid community.

400: Special Episode! Steve And Jen Chou Get Interviewed By Toni Herrbach

After 400 episodes over 8 years, the podcast's biggest return was never downloads. Here is why a podcast is the best networking tool in business, and how to run one.

399: How Podcasters Are Getting Rich And The Secret To Growing An Audience With Joe Saul Sehy

Joe Saul-Sehy grew Stacking Benjamins to 180K weekly downloads. Here is why you should sell ads from episode one, how to price sponsorships, and what actually grows a show.

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178: How To Create A 7 Figure Podcast With 3M Downloads Per Month With Jordan Harbinger

Why podcast ads pay less than you think, what CPM rates actually look like, and why a product beats sponsorship at every audience size. With Jordan Harbinger.

Podcasts On Product Sourcing

467: Vietnam: The Untold Gold Mine For Sourcing You’ve Been Ignoring With Jim Kennemer

Jim Kennemer of Cosmos Sourcing shares how to find Vietnam suppliers, what MOQs to expect, what Vietnam does better than China, and how to vet factories.

453: How To Uncover Your Competitors’ Secrets And Find Good Suppliers With David Applegate Of ImportYeti

David Applegate of ImportYeti shows how to search US import records for free to find the exact factories your competitors use, then pitch those suppliers so they actually want you as a…

450: Insider Tips On Finding The Best Factories And The Lowest Prices For Your Products With Kian Golzari

Kian Golzari has sourced from 500+ Chinese factories for the NBA, Olympics, and Kobe Bryant. Here is his step-by-step Alibaba playbook, factory-vetting checks, and price-negotiation hacks.

448: The Future of Ecommerce Product Sourcing: What You Need to Know With Nathan Resnick

Sourceify's Nathan Resnick on where to source products in 2023: China vs Vietnam vs Mexico, Section 321, price negotiation, and freight rate resets.

341: How To Fight Back Against Chinese Counterfeits With Steven Weigler

File your trademark and copyright in China, not just the US. IP attorney Steven Weigler explains what patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets protect.

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254: Meghla Bhardwaj – Global Sources Vs Alibaba And How To Find The Best Suppliers

Meghla Bhardwaj of Global Sources explains how the two platforms differ on vetting, trading companies, and MOQs, plus how to work Asian trade shows.

Podcasts On Productivity

600: She Couldn’t Find Her Tribe So She Built One From Scratch. Here’s How With Toni Herrbach

How Toni Herrbach and Liz Saunders used ChatGPT to plan pillars, content, lead magnets, pricing, and TikTok scripts for their new paid community.

593: Why So Many Entrepreneurs Hit A Wall And How to Break Through

Feeling stuck in your business even when things are working? Here is the 5-step reset Toni and I use to break out of a rut and find direction again.

573: Forget Resolutions—Here’s the Secret to Building Habits That Stick

Most New Year's resolutions fail by the second Friday in January because they set outcomes you cannot control. Here is the systems-and-habits playbook we use instead.

559: The Brutal Truth About Playing It Safe And Why It’s Holding You Back With Chase Jarvis

How to stop playing it safe and build a career you love, using the 7-lever framework Chase Jarvis lays out in Never Play It Safe.

558: How To Be More Productive Than 99% Of The Population

The productivity hacks Toni and I use every day, no software required. Routines, time-blocking, tiny experiments, batching, and knowing your peak hours.

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557: Why You’ll Never Get Anywhere In Business If You Don’t Stop THIS Habit!

How to beat shiny object syndrome in your business, with field-tested rules Toni and I use to stay focused on one profitable thing at a time.

Podcasts On Selling Books

460: Insider Tips for Snagging a Traditional Book Publishing Deal And Becoming A Best Seller With Jeff Goins

Jeff Goins breaks down how to get a traditional book deal, what a book proposal actually contains, why you need an agent, and what it really takes to hit a bestseller list.

459: Unexpected Twists On My Book Publishing Journey – A Behind The Scenes Look | Family First Friday

Behind the scenes of my three-year book publishing journey: why I went traditional, how I landed a six-figure advance with HarperCollins, and the four-prong bestseller launch strategy.

430: How To Make Money In a Downturn When No One Is Hiring With Charlie Hoehn

Charlie Hoehn on the TAG method, playing for a living, and building a recession-proof career by giving free work to dream clients before they hire you.

421: How Authors Make Millions In The Book Business With Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz breaks down real book business economics: royalty splits, mid-six-figure licensing deals, why advances matter more than bestseller lists, and what actually sells books.

287: Chandler Bolt On How To Quickly Grow A Self Publishing Book Business to 8 Figures

Over 70% of books now sell on Amazon, and you need no publisher to get there. Chandler Bolt breaks down royalties, launch teams, Amazon ads, and when traditional wins.

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211: How To Self Publish A Book And Sell It On Amazon With Chandler Bolt

Chandler Bolt on how to self publish a book on Amazon: the 90-day timeline, launch team strategy, free-to-paid pricing ladder and covers that actually sell.

Podcasts On Search Engine Optimization

575: Google Search Is Collapsing — Do This Now Or Lose All Your Traffic

Google faces two threats: AI search from ChatGPT and Perplexity, and an antitrust ruling that could gut its default-search deals. Here is what will actually happen to your traffic.

543: Google Search Is Dying. Here Are Your Best Traffic Alternatives

Google search is declining fast. Here are the traffic alternatives (email, YouTube, TikTok, TikTok Shop, Pinterest) that ecommerce brands and bloggers should double down on right now.

475: Proven Strategies To Grow Your Traffic 4X in 6 Months And Rank #1 In Search With Jeff Oxford

Jeff Oxford's four-pillar ecommerce SEO framework that took Bumblebee Linens from a Google penalty to 4X more organic traffic in six months.

365: 1 Second Page Load Speeds And 90+ Core Web Vitals With Steve Chou

My store loads in 1.2 seconds with a 90+ Core Web Vitals score despite running a dozen plugins. Here is every optimization ranked by actual impact.

358: The Ultimate Website Audit Checklist With Ian Cleary

Ian Cleary audits websites for a living without fixing them. Here is his process for SEO, conversion, and branding audits, plus how much links still matter.

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329: Sam Oh On How To Do YouTube SEO And Rank In Search

Sam Oh grew the Ahrefs channel past 150K subscribers with YouTube SEO. Here is how to research keywords, judge competition, and build audience retention bumps.

Podcasts On Social Media

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Podcasts On Software And Services

Software/Services

401: How To Make $1.5 Million Per Month Investing In Real Estate With Brandon Turner

Brandon Turner built a $300M real estate portfolio investing less than half a percent of his own money. Here is house hacking, the 4 ways real estate pays, and funds.

257: The Right Way To Outsource Your Business With Nathan Hirsch

Nathan Hirsch ran 500,000 products with VAs. Here are the three hiring levels, what each costs, and the three mistakes that ruin outsourcing.

158: How Noah Kagan Grew Sumo.com To An 8 Figure Company

Noah Kagan on changing pricing seven times in two years, why he regrets waiting 18 months to charge, and how customer cancellation data drives product decisions.

Software/Services

140: How To Bootstrap A 7 Figure Webinar Software Company With Omar Zenhom Of Webinar Ninja

Today, I’m really happy to have Omar Zenhom back on the show. Now Omar is someone who I met at a private mastermind meeting led by John Corcoran and he was actually…

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136: How To Sell An Online Business And Why Spencer Haws Sold Long Tail Pro

Today I’m thrilled to have Spencer Haws back on the show. If you don’t remember him from Episode 54, Spencer runs the popular blog NichePursuits.com where he teaches others how to start…

Podcasts On Student Stories