Kayvon Kay

What Selling a Company for $100M Really Teaches You (Lessons From GoldMine Co-Founder)

6 views · 10h ago · 45:36

This episode originally aired on October 21st 2025. Introducing FROM THE VAULT, a new miniseries where we're bringing back the best episodes from Season 1. The conversations that challenged the way we think, pushed us to ask better questions, and reminded us what it really takes to grow, lead, and build something meaningful.

Topics: Two mentors, one in sales and one in technology · Quitting a sales job to build GoldMine on $5,000 · How CRM lost the relationships it was built around · Selling an unknown product through Novell resellers and Mark Cuban · Years in an apartment before the office on the ocean · When resellers tap out: editors, stories, and PC Magazine awards

📰 Mentioned news: Article on substack.com

Charging $10K Is Scaring Off the Clients Ready to Pay You $50K (Why Most Experts Undercharge)

38 views · 1w ago · 48:20

This episode originally aired on October 4th 2025. Introducing FROM THE VAULT, a new miniseries where we're bringing back the best episodes from Season 1. The conversations that challenged the way we think, pushed us to ask better questions, and reminded us what it really takes to grow, lead, and build something meaningful.

Topics: Five businesses sold and the move into premium markets · Coaching clients to results while earning almost nothing · Why Kayvon runs four clients instead of thirty · The roofing contractor who got his life back · A $52K strategy offer becomes $413K · The expert gateway offer and its three forms

How to Rebuild Your Business After Losing Everything Overnight (A $100M Navy Veteran’s Playbook)

71 views · 2w ago · 49:06

This episode originally aired on October 14th 2025. Introducing FROM THE VAULT, a new miniseries where we're bringing back the best episodes from Season 1. The conversations that challenged the way we think, pushed us to ask better questions, and reminded us what it really takes to grow, lead, and build something meaningful.

Topics: The Navy, 10,000 service members, and the road to $100M · Childhood trauma and why success left it unresolved · Whisper messages and selling leads at $20 each · Google’s Penguin update wipes out page one · Back to $50K a month with paid traffic · Why teaching can earn more than doing

Kevin Trudeau Explains Why Attitude Beats Strategy Every Time + Who Profits From Keeping You Asleep

128 views · 3w ago · 1:16:09

This episode originally aired on November 4th 2025. Introducing FROM THE VAULT, a new mini series where we're bringing back the best episodes from Season 1. The conversations that challenged the way we think, pushed us to ask better questions, and reminded us what it really takes to grow, lead, and build something meaningful.

Topics: Kayvon introduces Kevin · Kevin’s background, from infomercials to Natural Cures · The contempt of court sentence · The PsyOps playbook: division, chaos, then the prescription · Kevin on the Brotherhood · The 40 point algorithm and why dreaming big comes first

How to Remove the Hidden Blocks Killing Your Wealth, Relationships, and Freedom

66 views · 4w ago · 1:01:31

Every wall between you and more money, better relationships, and real freedom was built by you, and most people spend their whole life defending it instead of removing it. Meir Ezra has spent decades inside prisons, boardrooms, and private islands finding the exact pattern that keeps high performers stuck no matter how much they fix on the surface. If your income, your relationships, or your sense of self keeps hitting the same ceiling, the reason is in this conversation.

Topics: Why relationships determine how much wealth you can actually hold · The principle: the more you hide, the less you have · Kayvon pushes back: what about the people who "sin" and still run the world · The billionaire who had everything except his children · "I've made peace with my sins": why justification blocks awareness · The real definition of a sin, and why it has nothing to do with religion

How AI is Raising the Bar at Every Job (Most People Haven't Felt It Yet)

181 views · 1mo ago · 41:46

Guest: Sean Campbell

Your team is already being measured against a standard you didn't set. AI raised the bar, and the founders who haven't noticed are about to miss opportunities because of it. Kayvon sits down with Sean Campbell, who has spent three decades watching how people adopt technology, who embraces it and who stalls. Sean sees the pattern in his classroom, in boardrooms and in the companies he helps rebuild around AI.

Topics: How AI is raising the bar at every job · Sean's path from teaching tech adoption to teaching AI · How to stay current when AI changes every day · Why you should read what you disagree with · Banning AI in schools versus the global race · Critical judgment in a generation raised on AI

How Nike Built the Stories Behind Kobe and LeBron (And What Every Brand Can Learn From It)

102 views · 1mo ago · 33:58

Most people who stall out in their careers never find out why. They did the work and hit the numbers, then watched someone else get the room, the budget, and the title. The rules that decided it were never written down, and nobody was going to hand them over.

Topics: Arturo's work with Kobe, LeBron, and Quincy Jones · From NBA Latin America to VP of Marketing for Nike Basketball · Why every great marketer is a storyteller first · Getting embedded with athletes and Kobe's "bottling better" legacy · "Are you curious or are you committed?" · The 2008 Olympic team and the 4 a.m. workouts

Why Emotional Energy Is the Real X-Factor in Scaling a Business (Not Strategy)

73 views · 1mo ago · 1:04:16

Most founders think strategy is what separates the businesses that scale from the ones that stall. It isn't. Lee Benson built an aerospace maintenance company from zero to over 100 million dollars with no outside investors and sold it for a 21.6x EBITDA multiple, in an industry where an 8x is considered a strong exit. He says the real driver wasn't the strategy. It was something almost nobody tracks.

Topics: The three inputs: material, emotional, and spiritual value creation · Emotional energy as the X-factor for leaders · How to raise your emotional energy on a scale of one to ten · Building an intentional leadership culture · The leadership traits that actually move the needle · Why 80 to 90 percent of leadership development spending is wasted