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Jamin's Podcast

by Jamin Brazil · English · Business

Twenty-minute conversations with founders and operators about what actually happened. Scaling, systems, career. One guest, one confession, one thing you can use Monday morning. Hosted by Jamin Brazil, 3x founder with 4 exits, who's sat in the founder seat, the CEO seat, and the COO seat, and know

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 30 min
Latest: 6 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026 · 30 min

My attorney said don't call him. I called. | Kai Fuentes, CEO of Ebony Marketing Systems

Kai Fuentes founded Ebony Marketing Systems in 2011 and runs it as CEO. She sits on the boards of the Insights Association and AAPOR, and she is a second-generation researcher who learned the business from the back of her mother's Volvo, dropping off surveys and picking them up. Ask her what most CEOs running insights firms are missing and you get one word, three times: systems. The confession. A client she had been following up with for five years finally said yes, and asked EMS to staff transit intercept work in three new states. She said yes, hired fast, and skipped the HR function she…

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E9 · 22 Sep 2026 · 40 min
Disruption hits you at your strongest | Jeffrey Cole, Disrupters at the Gate
Jeffrey Cole founded the World Internet Project in 1999 and has tracked what technology does to daily life ever since, 27 years across 35 countries. He directs the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, and his new book with Harlan Lebo, Disrupters at the Gate, is out now. He has spent three decades telling companies what was coming for them. The confession: he got the predictions right and the timelines wrong. Fifteen years bullish on driverless cars, and we are still not there. In his words, "I've been really right in my predictions, but not as good in my timeline of predictions."…
E8 · 4 Sep 2026 · 23 min
Two hours is the whole workday | Steve August, ADHD Entrepreneur Accelerator
Steve August founded Revelation, an early digital and mobile qualitative research platform, grew it to twenty people in Portland, and sold it to FocusVision in 2014. He was diagnosed with ADHD at 54, after the startup, after the exit, after building a coaching practice. Today he runs the ADHD Entrepreneur Accelerator. The confession: he built a pure software company for a market that wanted service, and he wasn't the operator his own business needed once it passed twenty people. The cost: he found out standing in a hallway at Procter & Gamble. A client raved about the project, so he asked…
E7 · 28 Aug 2026 · 43 min
Customers don't change when you're right | Stephen Mugford, former head of strategy at Capital One
Stephen Mugford was there in the early days at Capital One, spent 21 years there deciding which outside research was worth paying for, and now, as co-founder and CEO of Flashpoint AI, he is building the thing he used to buy. The confession: he has always overestimated how fast customers will change their behavior, and underestimated how long it takes. The cost: value propositions with unarguable economics that went nowhere. The same wall showed up again at Flashpoint, twenty-five years later, when a client team loved the work and still couldn't sell it upstairs because leadership wanted…
E6 · 21 Aug 2026 · 24 min
Annual contracts hide the truth for 11 months | Rob Snyder, author of The Power of Pull
Rob Snyder is the author of The Power of Pull and a Fellow at the Harvard Innovation Labs. His argument is that most founders spend years pushing a product at a market that was never pulling, and that almost everything taught about early customer discovery trains you to look for the wrong signal. Rob followed the playbook for two years. Customer interviews, discovery research, all of it. Nothing worked. Then his company took off for reasons he couldn't explain, going from zero to a few million in revenue in two years, and he's been reverse-engineering why ever since. The confession: when…
E5 · 16 Aug 2026 · 31 min
What current product should we kill? | Rohit Bhargava, author of Non-Obvious
Rohit Bhargava, three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books and founder of the Non-Obvious Company, on why seeing what others miss is a learnable habit, not a talent. Before the bestseller lists and keynotes in 32 countries, Rohit spent 15 years leading marketing strategy at Ogilvy and Leo Burnett. In this episode he breaks down the SIFT method behind his upcoming CRC keynote, explains why he killed a trend report that was still working after ten straight editions, and gets honest about the part of the journey that didn't go to plan. The confession: At the agency, the side…
E4 · 14 Aug 2026 · 33 min
Why your best work dies in the deck | Jenny Wood
Jenny Wood, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It and a former Google executive who spent eighteen years going from an entry-level job to running operations, on why the barrier to business impact isn't a lack of insight, it's the hesitation to act on it. Along the way Jenny founded Own Your Career, one of Google's largest internal career-development programs, built as a side project while she held a full operations role. In this episode she gets into the three fears that stop people from acting, the difference between a truth and a tale, and the…
E3 · 7 Aug 2026 · 47 min
Most research dies in the darkness | Joe Lazer, author of Super Skill
Joe Lazer, best-selling author of The Storytelling Edge and Super Skill, on why storytelling gets more valuable as AI gets better, and what to do differently the next time you present research nobody acts on. Joe was an early leader at Contently, where the inbound engine his team built drove over 90% of revenue as they scaled to 50 million in annual sales. His newsletter on storytelling and AI reaches nearly 200,000 subscribers, and his workshops have helped Marriott, Chase, Caseware, and Dell put their own storytelling to work. The confession: As Contently scaled and he was getting pulled…
E2 · 7 Aug 2026 · 30 min
Companies don't transform, people do | Rishad Tobaccowala
Rishad Tobaccowala, best-selling author of Rethinking Work and Restoring the Soul of Business and former Global Chief Strategist and Growth Officer at Publicis Groupe, on why we've crossed from transformational times into tectonic ones, and why the leaders who thrive will be the most human, not the most technological. Over nearly four decades at Publicis, across two eras and a dozen companies, Rishad helped the world's biggest brands navigate change from the inside. In this episode he lays out the five tectonic shifts reshaping business, three reasons leaders get the technology question…
E1 · 7 Aug 2026 · 23 min
You make more than $25 an hour | Kristin Luck
Kristin Luck, founder and board chair of Women in Research and President of ESOMAR from 2021 to 2023, on the work founders keep doing that nobody is paying them to do. Kristin has spent two decades building and selling research companies, and now sits on the other side of the table advising the founders coming up behind her. In this episode she gets specific about what it costs to be the person who can't stop doing everything, and what to ask your team when you finally decide to stop. The confession: You make more than twenty-five dollars an hour. Why are you cleaning the bathroom? The cost:…
6 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Welcome to Jamin's Podcast
Twenty-minute conversations with founders and operators about what actually happened. Scaling, systems, career. Every episode is one guest, one confession, and one thing you can use Monday morning. No highlight reels, no frameworks invented after the fact. Just the part where it went sideways and what it cost. Hosted by Jamin Brazil, 3x founder with 4 exits, who's sat in the founder seat, the CEO seat, and the COO seat. First episodes drop August 18.

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Publisher: Jamin Brazil
Language: English
Category: Business
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 30 min
Latest episode: 6 Oct 2026
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