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The $1M Model That Lets You Work 3 Days a Week

Chris Dufey Podcast

Release Date: 12/16/2025

If You Feel Behind in Life, Watch This. show art If You Feel Behind in Life, Watch This.

Chris Dufey Podcast

→ Work with me: How coaches do $1M/yr working 2-4 hrs/day (free video) https://youtu.be/d9zJAysyS7c → Try Rainmakers OS for $1 (14 days) The AI that runs client acquisition for you. Builds your offer. Writes your content. Hands you the ads and funnels already winning. https://wearetherainmakers.com/testdrive → Free training: How the top coaches sign 5 to 20 dream clients a month https://wearetherainmakers.com/demo In this episode, I'm breaking down the "by now I should have" mindset that quietly punishes so many ambitious people, and the 4 keys I use to stop beating myself up and...

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Chris Dufey Podcast

How to install the AI-powered client acquisition machine that books 5-20 high-value clients/month. Watch the full breakdown → https://wearetherainmakers.com/demowatch gem: $2,200/hr consulting → $1. Test drive the full Rainmakers OS (AI agents + 161 playbooks + 24/7 VirtualChris) → https://wearetherainmakers.com/testdrive One coach did $318K in 30 days. Another did $566K with zero ad spend. A new coach signed 101 clients with 600 Instagram followers. Your BS detector went off. Good. In this video I'm pulling up my Mac and we're doing the research together. Real clients. Real numbers....

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My team builds you a $167K/month client machine in 8 weeks. You just approve it. Interested? → In this video, I'm taking you inside a private consulting session with one of our clients, breaking down his exact funnel, his real numbers, and the three highest-leverage moves that will take him from consistent to completely dialed in. -- Ok, quick intro if we haven't met. I'm Chris Dufey. I run The Rainmakers. We help coaches and consultants do $1M/yr working 2-4 hours a day. Couple years ago I was sleeping on a couch. Wife pregnant. Daughter on the way. She showed up on time. I did not....

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My team builds you a system to scale from $100K to $1M/month without burning out. Interested? →https://jointherainmakers.com/demowatch?cluid=cl8141r7cz27kr018b0788-680d-4785-ab5d-c63b4f1af9f4 In this episode, I'm breaking down the exact 7 lessons that allowed me to build a 7-figure business in 63 days and how you can apply them to yours. After selling my last company for multiple seven figures, I decided to do things differently. I wanted to build a business where I could earn the money I want, work with people I love, do work I love, AND have freedom and time with my family. Here are the 7...

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My team builds you a system to scale from $100K to $1M/month without burning out. Interested? →https://jointherainmakers.com/demowatch?cluid=cl8141r7cz27kr018b0788-680d-4785-ab5d-c63b4f1af9f4 Most people think sovereignty means living off-grid or escaping the system. They're wrong. In this conversation, I sit down with Tucker Max — bestselling author, founder, rancher — for one of the most honest conversations I've had about what it actually takes to build a life on your own terms. Not the Instagram version. The real one. Tucker didn't start with a ranch, a school, and years of food...

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My team builds you a system to scale from $100K to $1M/month without burning out. Interested? → I was sitting in a cafe in Bali when a WhatsApp message came through. A letter of intent. Final terms. I scrolled to the number and just stared. Five weeks later, clean exit. No earn out. No gold handcuffs. The buyer didn't want me. They wanted what I built. And what I built wasn't a personal brand. It was a business. But two years before that message, I was stuck at $40K a month posting daily, running webinars, sending DMs, launching challenges and still couldn't predict what next month looked...

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My team builds you a system to scale from $100K to $1M/month without burning out. Interested? →  Most coaches hit $100K/month and then get completely stuck. Not because they lack talent. Not because the market dried up. Because they're trying to do everything themselves, and that model has a ceiling. In this video, I'm breaking down the exact strategies I've uncovered from over 220 hours of consulting six, seven, and eight-figure CEOs, what actually works, what kills momentum, and how the coaches who break through to $1M/month think and operate differently. Most founders believe the lie...

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If you’re a coach or consultant stuck on calls, solving every problem, and still waiting for freedom, this is for you.

I’ve built and sold coaching businesses, scaled new ones to $200K months in under 90 days, and helped 7–9 figure founders grow clean, profitable companies that don’t depend on them.

This podcast is about building a business that gives you your life back. No "hustle" or productivity hacks, just real systems that work.

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In this episode:

00:00 Tired of working hard with no freedom?
00:13 Who I am and what we do
00:32 Why I started this channel
00:41 Million-dollar growth after non-compete
00:50 Agency to $200K/mo in 90 days
00:56 Consulting 7–9 figure businesses
01:11 Success but still stuck
01:20 You’re the bottleneck
01:35 Business shouldn’t feel like a job
01:51 The endless growth trap
02:03 Scaling something you hate
02:21 The one new rule
02:28 What this channel isn’t
02:48 A cleaner, low-stress model
03:18 Is this channel for you?
03:30 Simple scaling, no extra headaches
03:47 What’s working right now
04:02 What to do next
04:30 Welcome to the new way

👋🏼 If this is our first time meeting, I’m Chris Dufey, founder of The Rainmakers.

We help coaches and creators scale to $1M Profit with tiny teams and only working 2-4 hours a day.

A few years ago, I was sleeping on a couch, scrambling to build a business before my first daughter arrived.

She showed up. I wasn’t ready.

Now, I’ve got four kids, homes in Bali and Australia, and I build 7- and 8-figure businesses that don’t depend on me.

This podcast is for founders who want simple, scalable businesses that buy back time.

Don't forget to subscribe, and let’s build a business you actually enjoy running.