Soft Skills, Hard Truths: Building, Leading, and Letting Go with Cameron Herold and Joe Polish
Release Date: 06/27/2025
The Joe Polish Show
Randi Zuckerberg reveals the story of creating Facebook Live and the lessons she learned navigating Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship, and opportunity overload. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: Randi Zuckerberg tells the REAL story of how she created Facebook Live Randi's simple "Pick 3" time management secret that can 10x your productivity The technology that makes Randi's life easier (PLUS: Randi's biggest passion...) 3 emerging industries every entrepreneur should be looking into and following closely How (and why) Randi is helping encourage and catalyze...
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Jason Fladlien reveals how to sell ethically, scale globally, and create transformations that last long after the transaction. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: The Real Reason People Don’t Buy (Even When They Should): Jason’s insight into why your most qualified prospects hesitate—and how to ethically help them say yes without pressure or manipulation Why the Best Sales Happen After Someone Says No: How Jason leveraged follow-ups in his own business that others neglect—and why staying with a customer longer than anyone else wins the sale The Fear Beneath...
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Dr. Nasha Winters, an integrative oncology expert and cancer survivor, shares her groundbreaking approach to cancer care, focusing on the importance of metabolic health and environmental factors. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: Why Dr. Nasha Winters says the real cure for cancer has been buried since the 1920s—and the ancient cellular truth modern medicine refuses to face 26,500 people die from cancer every day—and that number is projected to double by 2030. What’s causing the explosion? It’s not your genes... "I wasn’t fighting to live. I just wanted to...
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Dr. Benjamin Hardy reveals how setting “seemingly impossible” goals can transform the way Entrepreneurs think, scale, and operate. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: Why most goals are lies—and how false timelines are secretly sabotaging your business (PLUS: What Elon Musk does differently that makes his goals inevitable..) The single biggest mistake smart entrepreneurs make when scaling (Hint: It’s not about working harder—it’s about questioning THIS) The surprising reason most companies never scale—and how to 10X faster by raising your...
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Jonathan “J Cron” Cronstedt reveals how he scaled Kajabi to $2B—and the failures that shaped him. A fast-paced dive into strategy, leadership, and staying human in a high-tech world. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: How to Manufacture Luck, Avoid Bad Advice, and Build a Business That Lasts: Billion-Dollar Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur with Jonathan Cronstedt and Joe Polish The Billion-Dollar Bullseye Formula: How Jonathan Cronstedt cracked the code on scaling businesses at warp speed—and why most entrepreneurs never make it past the first hurdle....
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Jonathan “J Cron” Cronstedt reveals how he scaled Kajabi to $2B—and the failures that shaped him. A fast-paced dive into strategy, leadership, and staying human in a high-tech world. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: How to Manufacture Luck, Avoid Bad Advice, and Build a Business That Lasts: Billion-Dollar Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur with Jonathan Cronstedt and Joe Polish The Billion-Dollar Bullseye Formula: How Jonathan Cronstedt cracked the code on scaling businesses at warp speed—and why most entrepreneurs never make it past the first hurdle....
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Cameron Herold shares how to find, hire, and empower a world-class second-in-command to scale your business. From Vivid Vision to the real reason meetings suck, Cameron reveals the systems and mindset shifts that create unstoppable operational teams. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: How Cameron hired 800 franchisees—and trained them to recruit 8,000 people—in just 4 months, year after year. (Including the obscure system that made it possible.) The Hidden Hiring Mistake That Fools Even Seasoned Entrepreneurs: Why "knowing how" isn’t enough—and how one...
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Cameron Herold shares how to find, hire, and empower a world-class second-in-command to scale your business. From Vivid Vision to the real reason meetings suck, Cameron reveals the systems and mindset shifts that create unstoppable operational teams. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: How Cameron hired 800 franchisees—and trained them to recruit 8,000 people—in just 4 months, year after year. (Including the obscure system that made it possible.) The Hidden Hiring Mistake That Fools Even Seasoned Entrepreneurs: Why "knowing how" isn’t enough—and how one...
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Michael Erath reveals the five obsessions that drive elite business performance and sustainable growth. From recovering after a $45M business collapse to building a customizable operating system, Michael shares powerful lessons every Entrepreneur should hear. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: How Michael Erath lost a $45 million company—but walked away with a better business model, a better marriage, and a blueprint for building elite organizations. (Here's the system that turned a betrayal and bank fraud into one of the most valuable leadership toolkits...
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Garnet Morris shares his powerful journey from millionaire hotel tycoon to bankruptcy at 40—and how he rebuilt his life by embracing humility, self-awareness, and strategic partnerships. With lessons on legacy, health, generosity, and business mastery, this conversation explores the inspiration behind Garnet’s upcoming book and the values that guide his extraordinary success. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: How going bankrupt at 40 forced Garnet to rethink everything—and sparked the most profitable chapter of his life... Why “bricks” are the...
info_outlineCameron Herold shares how to find, hire, and empower a world-class second-in-command to scale your business. From Vivid Vision to the real reason meetings suck, Cameron reveals the systems and mindset shifts that create unstoppable operational teams.
Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode:
- How Cameron hired 800 franchisees—and trained them to recruit 8,000 people—in just 4 months, year after year. (Including the obscure system that made it possible.)
- The Hidden Hiring Mistake That Fools Even Seasoned Entrepreneurs: Why "knowing how" isn’t enough—and how one candidate ran for his car mid-interview when Cameron called his bluff.
- The ‘Detail-Oriented’ Test You’ve Never Heard Of: One question that reveals who actually lives what they preach.
- Why most HR departments are wired to reject your best sales candidates—and what to do instead if you want to build a high-performing team.
- Why vivid vision isn’t a ‘nice to have’—it’s the missing piece in every operational system on the planet. (And how it transformed 1-800-GOT-JUNK into a world-class culture machine.)
- The 12 soft skills every leader must master—and why almost none of them can be outsourced to AI.
- How to spot, coach, and scale your second-in-command...even if you're not ready to give up control. (PLUS: Cameron’s blueprint for the COO–CEO relationship that drives results.)
- What almost bankrupted 1-800-GOT-JUNK at $100M—and how ego, not economics, nearly tanked the company.
- Profit Sharing Gone Wrong: How Cameron’s team accidentally created entitlement—and why true performance alignment requires more than incentives.
- The Truth About Golden Handcuffs: Why the best retention strategy isn’t equity, perks, or bonuses—it’s understanding what each A-player truly wants.
- How to stop being a ‘Seagull CEO’—swooping in, crapping on the plan, and flying away. Here's Cameron’s elegant system to keep founders focused without killing momentum...
- The One Agreement Cameron Had With Brian Scudamore: How he gained decision-making power—without needing constant permission. (And how you can use it to scale leadership without losing control.)
- Why the best COOs will drive you crazy—and why that’s a feature, not a bug. (Plus: how to decide when it’s time to upgrade your #2.)
- The Tattoo That Reframes It All: “None of this sh*t matters.” Why Cameron believes your job, your company, and your to-do list aren’t what’s important—and how to build a business that honors life, not escapes it.
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