Season 1, Episode 81 · Proven Podcast
Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill
9 Sep 2026 · 59 min
Season 1, Episode 81 · Proven Podcast
9 Sep 2026 · 59 min
Charles goes one on one with David Goldhill, founder and CEO of Sesame, former president of television at Universal Studios, and author of Catastrophic Care, to tear apart why American healthcare costs so much and what it would actually take to fix it. They walk through why the United States covers 40 percent of the world's healthcare spending while making up just 3 percent of the population, why insurance companies and government payers killed normal pricing, and why the fix isn't one big policy swing. It's a shift back to treating patients like customers. The conversation covers the real…
by Charles Schwartz · English · Business
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S1 · E83 · 10 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 6 minNew
John R. Miles graduated from the Naval Academy and spent years supporting special operations teams, including SEAL units, on ships and in high-risk missions. He later ran technology teams at Dell and Lowe's, and he now writes books and hosts the Passionstruck podcast. Charles talks with him about what he learned leading people where mistakes cost lives and where they only cost money. When John started at Lowe's, the team he inherited ranked last in the company's employee survey. He explains what he found when he talked to the people on that team, why they had stopped speaking up, and the…
S1 · E82 · 7 Oct 2026 · 43 min
Michael Ramsey co-founded Strong Pilates seven years ago. It now has 120 locations in 15 countries and brings in about $75 million a year. He opened his first franchise at 26 and later sold his stake in six of them, so he has seen both sides of the model. Charles sits down with him to talk about why more people will turn to franchising as AI takes over skilled jobs. Most people think a franchise is passive income. Michael says it isn't, and he explains what you're really buying and why your first unit rarely makes you rich on its own. They also cover why some brands fall apart after 25…
S1 · E81 · 1 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
Charles sits down with Mark Roberge, tech entrepreneur, Harvard Business School professor, and founding Chief Revenue Officer of HubSpot, to break down what AI is actually doing to sales, scaling, and the way companies get built. From the real numbers behind AI adoption to the frameworks that separate companies that scale successfully from the ones that stall out, Mark shares why growth isn't about working harder. It's about measuring the right things before you push the gas. Together, they dive into the four phases of AI in the workplace, why chasing revenue too early can kill product…
S1 · E82 · 17 Jun 2026 · 53 min
In this eye opening episode, Charles sits down with Garrett Gunderson, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and financial educator to challenge the conventional wisdom surrounding money, taxes, and wealth creation. Growing up in a coal mining town and learning painful lessons from his first bad investment at just 18, Garrett spent the next two decades uncovering why so many of the beliefs people hold about money are fundamentally flawed. What he discovered changed not only his own financial future, but the way thousands of entrepreneurs approach wealth. From debunking common myths about…
S1 · E75 · 3 Jun 2026 · 1 hr
Garrett Gunderson grew up in a coal mining town, made his first bad investment at 18, and spent the next two decades figuring out why almost everything people believe about money is wrong. Now he's written the books, built the business, and works with the entrepreneurs and high earners who are tired of being told to just wait it out. Charles and Garrett get into the real problems with how most people handle money, from the three myths that keep even hard workers broke, to why the wealthy spend their time managing risk instead of chasing it, to the tax moves that the average business owner…
S1 · E79 · 20 May 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Jeff Byers turned a $1.8 million Department of Defense contract into a sports nutrition brand trusted by every NFL team, nearly every pro and college sports program in the country, and a long list of operators inside the world's most performance-driven environments, all while disrupting a $200 billion supplement industry where the average competitor is winning on hype and losing on quality. Now he is opening up the playbook on exactly how he did it. Charles and Jeff dig into the real mechanics of building a category-leading brand in a category where customers have learned to assume the…
S1 · E78 · 6 May 2026 · 48 min
Cem Atik built a portfolio that generated over two billion dollars in revenue without founding a single company from scratch, scaled a SaaS business from barely seven figures to forty-five million in twelve months, and now runs one of Europe's most active acquisition and growth operations buying distressed e-commerce and SaaS businesses and turning them exit-ready. Now he is pulling back the curtain on exactly how it works. Charles and Cem get into the real mechanics of acquiring and scaling businesses that other operators have given up on, from identifying the unit economics that separate a…
S1 · E77 · 22 Apr 2026 · 53 min
Victor Damasio built one of Brazil's longest-running masterminds, grew an audience of 700,000 on Instagram, and helped hundreds of professionals turn their expertise into high-ticket income, all without recording a single polished course. Now he is bringing that playbook to the United States for the first time. Charles and Victor get into the real mechanics of monetizing what you already know, from landing your first paying mentee without a following, to charging what your time is actually worth, to running a group program that people renew year after year. Victor breaks down the…
S1 · E76 · 10 Apr 2026 · 54 min
As a co-founder of Hims and Hers, Joe helped take a direct-to-consumer healthcare brand public at a $1.6 billion valuation. Now as CEO of Dutch, he is reshaping how pet owners access veterinary care through telemedicine. Joe has spent 15 years learning what it actually takes to build something that lasts, and in this episode, he holds nothing back. Charles and Joe dig into the real mechanics of building a venture-backed business, from knowing when to burn everything down and start over, to hiring the right kind of crazy, to leading a team through failure without losing them. Joe breaks down…
S1 · E76 · 1 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Most people think cybersecurity is complicated. MK Palmore disagrees. With 32 years in the federal government, two decades as an FBI special agent, and executive roles at both Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks, MK has seen every angle of the threat landscape, and his message is simple: the basics will save you. Charles and MK go deep on what everyday consumers and small business owners are getting dangerously wrong about their digital security, why a data breach can be the last thing a company ever survives, and how the adversary is quite literally banking on your laziness. MK also gets…