14 Oct 2026 · 14 minNew
Tired of Your Own Business? What 16 Years of Fixing Businesses Taught Me
It usually costs less to fix it than to close it. Five steps and a 30 day test that change the model, so you can keep the business.
- New episodes
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 9 min
- Latest
- 14 Oct 2026
- Language
- English
Latest episode
Earlier episodes 29 most recent
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1 Oct 2026 · 4 min
$30K a Month to $300K a Month in 30 Days
In this video James shows you the move, the two things that stop most founders from making it, and the same switch he made in his own business in 2009.
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16 Sep 2026 · 44 min
The Donkey on the Bridge: The One Thing Your Business Is Waiting Behind
Eighteen years of recurring income later, James Schramko shows founders how to find the one thing their business is stuck behind and take it out.
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4 Sep 2026 · 37 min
Trapped in Your Own Business? The Model That Frees You (Two Decades of Receipts)
The model that frees you from a business you can't step away from, dates included.
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1 Sep 2026 · 14 min
Own The Racecourse Part 6 of 6 - Ready
In this episode: Why the platform shift that hit social feeds is about to hit the whole content layer, search included Two operators watching the same shift land, one owns the ground under them, one doesn't A podcast guest's Facebook group that lost its organic reach overnight, and what he built instead Why judgment, not content, is the one asset AI can't flood or copy Running a business on three one hour group calls a week, one messaging app, and a roughly $100/month AI subscription Why lean beats efficient when the shift you're bracing for can't be scheduled The one question the whole…
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27 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Own The Racecourse Part 5 of 6 - The People Who Return
This episode shows the roster: names, dates and outcomes going back further than most of this industry has existed.
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25 Aug 2026 · 23 min
Own The Racecourse Part 4 of 6 - Sell Without Hard Selling
That's the starting point for Part 4 of Own The Racecourse: Sell Without Hard Selling.
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12 Aug 2026 · 18 min
Own The Racecourse Part 3 of 6 - The Business That Runs Without You
This part is about where output really comes from, and the systems that carry a business without the owner holding it up.
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5 Aug 2026 · 15 min
Own The Racecourse Part 2 of 6 - Subtract to Grow
Part two of Own the Racecourse is called Subtract to Grow: what James cut, how he knew, and why addition is the easy part.
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30 Jul 2026 · 12 min
Own The Racecourse Part 1 of 6 - Building on Someone Else's Land
Don't just be the horse running the race.
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21 Jul 2026 · 12 min
The Day I Read 16 Years of My Own Calls
What survived: the client who compounds, the deletion pattern, and the 10-year return cycle.
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14 Jul 2026 · 4 min
The Burned-Out Founder Who Was Just Underpriced
Two client stories on pricing and offer count, and what to simplify first.
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7 Jul 2026 · 9 min
Everyone's Selling Shovels. I Published the Map.
They are no closer to the water than the person who walked down barefoot.
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23 Jun 2026 · 4 min
He Was Turning Away Leads for 18 Months. Then He Did This.
One question changed that. He has now exceeded $100K a month.
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11 Jun 2026 · 3 min
He Had $180K Clients and Zero Sales on His New Offer
Why fixing the marketing won't work when the offer is the problem.
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9 Jun 2026 · 6 min
Why Most AI Projects Fail Before AI Gets Involved
The constraint moved off the model months ago. Here's where it went.
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2 Jun 2026 · 6 min
He Walked Away from $5 Million and Didn't Ask Permission
What changed in every decision he made after is what this episode is about.
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29 May 2026 · 10 min
Why Smart Founders Change the Wrong Things
This episode covers the engine vs vehicle diagnostic: how to tell what to protect and what to cut before the cost is locked in.
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26 May 2026 · 7 min
My $59 Client Cost More Than My $1,800 Ones
Here is how to tell them apart before it costs you.
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21 May 2026 · 7 min
Why Your AI Setup Is Making You Busier
This episode covers what I got rid of, why the market is flooding with fabricated AI systems right now, and one question to run against everything in your current setup.
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19 May 2026 · 12 min
Your AI Answered the Wrong Question Perfectly. You Didn't Notice.
James Schramko on the frame error and the one check that catches it before the session opens.
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15 May 2026 · 9 min
You Hate Your Week. The Answer Isn't Someone Else's Lifestyle.
Copying a lifestyle business model won’t fix your week. The schedule is easy to replicate. Everything underneath the schedule is not. James shares the story behind the donkey on the bridge, from a knife-wielding boss in a Mercedes-Benz dealership in 2004 through building a 67-person business to a seven-figure operation running on 10 hours a week. He draws a clear line between operators who’ve inhabited a model over decades and those performing one they recently arrived at, and gives you the diagnostic for identifying the actual constraint in your own business. If your week doesn’t match the…
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13 May 2026 · 19 min
You Might Be Adding AI to the Wrong Business
James shares the deletion principle and the one question he asks before recommending any AI integration.
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11 May 2026 · 4 min
He Hit $1M by Saying No to 80% of His Ideas
How to find what's holding your best month back.
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5 May 2026 · 9 min
The 6 Steps Between Payment and First Result Most Businesses Skip
Here's how to find which ones you're missing.
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30 Apr 2026 · 9 min
The Clients Who Need Me Least Get The Best Results
Here's the pattern that separates them from the ones who stay stuck.
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29 Apr 2026 · 10 min
Every Tool I Cancelled Made My Business More Enjoyable
Here's the full breakdown.
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24 Apr 2026 · 2 min
He Moved a Button and Added 9000 Euros a Year
It was not the prompt. It was the judgment behind it.
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- Publisher
- James Schramko
- Language
- English
- Category
- Business
- New episodes
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 9 min
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
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