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Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
30 episodes
Dave Asprey: Biohacking Secrets to Eliminate the Energy Drains Sabotaging Your Success | Mental Health | E412
Aug 17, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min
Dave Asprey's health was collapsing by the time he reached Silicon Valley. After hitting 300 pounds in college, he battled chronic fatigue, brain fog, arthritis, and pain, often forcing himself through work when he could barely think. He has since spent around $2.5 million to restore his wellness and upgrade his biology, learning along the way that long-term success depends on protecting energy, not pushing through with willpower. Today, having generated more than $1 billion in revenue across hi…
Kipp Bodnar: The Unfair Digital Marketing Advantage That Drives Faster Business Growth | Marketing | YAPClassic
Aug 14, 2026 · 48 min
Kipp Bodnar built his marketing career by spotting opportunities others missed. That instinct helped him rise to Chief Marketing Officer at HubSpot in just five years and grow HubSpot’s blog from 200,000 to 1.5 million monthly readers in one year. In this episode, Kipp shares the content marketing strategies that actually work today, how to spot overlooked opportunities, and the secrets to scaling your business through customer relationships and AI. In this episode, Hala and Kipp will discuss:&n…
How This Former Teacher Went From Earning $500 a Week to Building a $2M Business | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E8
Aug 12, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
Lisa Woodruff never imagined she’d build a multimillion-dollar business from an everyday skill. After leaving her teaching career at age 40, she started by charging clients to organize their homes before transforming that hands-on service into Organize 365, a company that now helps thousands of people run their households more effectively. In this episode, Lisa shares how she grew from charging $40 an hour for in-home organizing to building a $2 million education company. She also explains how e…
Tiffany Carter: The Million-Dollar Mindset Mistake That Cost Me Everything | Mental Health | E411
Aug 10, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min
Tiffany Carter's self-healing journey began after she lost $1 million in three months. Although she appeared confident and successful, years of childhood trauma, people-pleasing, and low self-worth were silently shaping her relationship with money and business. Determined to break that cycle, she rebuilt her identity and launched ProjectME, where she helps entrepreneurs discover their self-worth and create wealth. In this episode, Tiffany explains how unresolved wounds can sabotage your su…
Daniel Pink: Turn Your Biggest Regrets Into the Ultimate Self-Improvement Tool | Human Behavior | YAPClassic
Aug 7, 2026 · 54 min
Regret is an emotion deeply rooted in human nature, but it may be your greatest tool for personal development. After his daughter’s college graduation prompted him to reflect on his own missed opportunities, Daniel Pink spent two and a half years studying what thousands of people around the world regret most. In this episode, Daniel explains the psychology of regret and how entrepreneurs can use it to make better decisions, take bolder action, and build a life with fewer “what-ifs.” In thi…
Dr. Tim Spector: The Truth About Diet, Gut Health, and Why Calories Fail | Health & Wellness | E410
Aug 3, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
After decades of human health research, Dr. Tim Spector believed our genes largely determined why people got sick, gained weight, or aged the way they did. But 30 years of studying identical twins revealed something unexpected: people with the same DNA could respond to the same foods in completely different ways. That breakthrough led him to uncover the powerful role of the gut microbiome and co-found ZOE, a company focused on personalized nutrition and gut health. In this episode, Dr. Tim expos…
Matt Abrahams: Think Fast, Talk Smart! The Mindset That Helps Entrepreneurs Beat Speaking Anxiety | Human Behavior | YAPClassic
Jul 31, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
Mindset matters just as much as communication skills when speaking under pressure. Up to 85% of people report feeling nervous in high-stakes communication situations, but Stanford communication expert Matt Abrahams teaches that confident communicators aren't born; they're trained. In this episode, Matt shares practical strategies to manage communication anxiety so entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals can think faster and speak smarter in every business conversation. In this episode, Hala an…
This Startup Plans to Save a Million Lives Using Your Toilet | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E7
Jul 29, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min
Scott Hickle built Throne Science around a startup idea most investors thought was too unconventional: a device that transforms your toilet into a health tracker, monitoring your health as effortlessly as a smartwatch. After nearly 100 investor rejections, he and his team kept refining the product, driven by a mission to detect early signs of diseases like colorectal cancer before symptoms appear. That persistence helped them raise $4 million in seed funding. In this episode, Scott shares how en…
Forbes Riley: Pitch Like a Pro! Sales Secrets That Get People to Say Yes | Sales | E409
Jul 27, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min
Having generated over $2.5 billion in product sales, hosted nearly 200 infomercials, and built a multimillion-dollar online business, Forbes Riley has spent decades mastering the psychology of getting people to say "yes," earning her the title "Queen of Pitch." In this episode, Forbes shares the Ultimate Pitch Formula that helped her make billions, teaching entrepreneurs how to confidently communicate their value, build instant credibility, and win people over in seconds. In this episode, Hala a…
Ryan Holiday: Think Like a Stoic, Timeless Leadership Principles for Modern Entrepreneurs | Leadership | YAPClassic
Jul 24, 2026 · 58 min
Ryan Holiday's approach to leadership was shaped through patience and years of unglamorous work. After dropping out of college at 19, he apprenticed under bestselling author Robert Greene, learning writing, research, persuasion, and human nature before becoming the marketing director of American Apparel at just 21. Those experiences laid the foundation for his rise as a bestselling author and one of the world's leading voices on Stoicism. In this episode, Ryan shares how Stoicism can help entrep…
This Mom Turned a $750 Etsy Side Hustle Into a $50M Wellness Brand | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E6
Jul 22, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
Starting a business was never part of Luna Aziz's plan. After struggling with low milk supply as a new mom, she began experimenting with her own herbal formulations and sharing them on Etsy. She had no investors, no marketing budget, and no plan beyond helping other moms. Then one customer's recommendation in a Facebook breastfeeding group generated dozens of orders overnight, turning her side hustle into Legendairy Milk, a $50 million wellness brand. In this episode, Luna shares how entrepreneu…
Ryan Hawk: Daily Leadership Habits That Shape Who You Become | Leadership | E408
Jul 20, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min
Ryan Hawk learned one of his most important leadership lessons the day his college football coach told him another player gave the team a better chance to win. The moment stung, but it reshaped his mindset about success and taught him that hard work only matters when it creates real value. That truth shaped his career and became the foundation of his latest book, The Price of Becoming. In this episode, Ryan shares leadership skills that help entrepreneurs improve every day, build trust, lead thr…
Brandon Dawson: 9-Figure Founder Reveals the Real Reason Businesses Stop Scaling | Entrepreneurship | YAPClassic
Jul 17, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min
Brandon Dawson scaled his business from zero to $75 million, but behind the success, he was losing control. After taking the company public at 29, he watched investors sell it out from under him and learned that growth is not sustainable without the systems and leadership to support it. He started over with a new playbook and has since built multiple nine-figure businesses, including Cardone Ventures, which he co-founded. In this episode, Brandon reveals why 97% of businesses fail and shares how…
John Paul DeJoria: Business Lessons That Turned a $700 Startup Into Billion-Dollar Brands | Entrepreneurship | E407
Jul 13, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min
John Paul DeJoria is proof that entrepreneurs can build extraordinary businesses without extraordinary resources. After experiencing poverty, homelessness, rejection, and the collapse of the funding he needed to launch John Paul Mitchell Systems, he kept going with just $700, selling door to door and creating products so good people wanted to reorder them. Those hard-earned lessons helped him build two billion-dollar brands and inspired his new book, Success Unshared Is Failure. In this episode,…
Tom Bilyeu: The Secret to Surviving Any Setback in Business | Entrepreneurship | YAPClassic
Jul 10, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
Tom Bilyeu faced failure long before he achieved business success. After his senior thesis film fell apart, the future he had imagined for himself suddenly felt out of reach. Instead of letting that moment define him, he rebuilt his belief system around learning, feedback, and skill-building, a shift that later helped him build Quest Nutrition into a billion-dollar business and launch Impact Theory. In this episode, Tom shares how entrepreneurs can use failure as feedback to make better decision…
How One Book Generated $7 Million for This Business | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E5
Jul 8, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Chandler Bolt built a $10 million business by challenging one of the biggest myths in publishing: that authors can only make money from book sales. As the founder of SelfPublishing.com, Chandler has helped many entrepreneurs use books to generate leads, attract high-value clients, and scale their businesses. In this episode, Chandler breaks down how one of his books generated $7 million in revenue for his business and reveals how to choose a profitable book idea, launch it successfully, and turn…
Naveen Jain: The Business Mindset That Makes Money Follow You | Entrepreneurship | E406
Jul 6, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Entrepreneurship often begins with the goal of making money, but Naveen Jain believes chasing money is the worst way to get rich. After losing his father to stage four pancreatic cancer while building Moon Express, he realized success means little unless it helps solve the real problems causing people to suffer. That mindset led him to build Viome and reshape his life’s work around human health. In this episode, Naveen shares how entrepreneurs can think counterintuitively, solve bigger problems,…
Mel Robbins: Take Back Your Power in Business and Life with This Mindset Shift | Productivity | YAPClassic
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Mel Robbins spent years stuck in a controlling mindset, trying to micromanage the people and moments around her. Then, at her son’s prom, her daughter gave her the blunt reality check she needed: stop trying to manage everyone and simply “let them.” Those two words became The Let Them Theory, a practice for releasing what is outside your control and putting your energy back where it belongs. In this episode, Mel shares how to stop reacting to everyone else, take action before motivation shows up…
Zack Kass: Should You Be Scared of AI? Former OpenAI Leader Reveals the Truth | Artificial Intelligence | E405
Jun 29, 2026 · 1 hr 55 min
Most people see artificial intelligence as a threat to humanity, but Zack Kass believes we're worried about the wrong things. As a former leader at OpenAI, Zack has spent years studying how technological breakthroughs reshape society and why every major innovation is met with fear and resistance. In this episode, Zack explains why people are wired to fear AI, why society may be blaming the wrong forces for many of today's problems, and how artificial intelligence could transform the future of wo…
Leila Hormozi: The Leadership Mindset That Changes How You Operate in Business and Life | Leadership | YAPClassic
Jun 26, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min
Leila Hormozi mastered self-leadership early, parenting herself through her mother's addiction as a child. That struggle spiraled into alcohol abuse and six arrests in eighteen months, until her father's warning that she could die forced her to rebuild her life through deliberate behavior change. Today, she runs a portfolio of companies that generate over $250 million in annual revenue. In this episode, Leila shares her secret to acting despite fear and anxiety and the leadership skills that hel…
The 5-Step Test That Can Save You From Buying the Wrong Business | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E3 | Part 2
Jun 24, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Too many aspiring entrepreneurs spend years saving for business ownership, only to invest in an opportunity that was never the right fit. Alex Smereczniak has seen buyers focus on passion, hype, or income potential before asking whether a business matches their skills, lifestyle, and financial reality. In Part 2 of this How We Profit episode, Alex shares his five-step framework for evaluating franchise opportunities and breaks down real business models that can help entrepreneurs build wealth th…
Natalie Ellis: Is Your Business Trapping You? How to Build One That Runs Without You | Entrepreneurship | E404
Jun 22, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
Entrepreneurship gave Natalie Ellis the success she had always wanted, but behind the scenes, BossBabe started to feel like a business she could not step away from. When motherhood, burnout, and a difficult co-founder split forced her to slow down, she realized the freedom she built the company for was no longer reflected in how the business ran. So she rebuilt BossBabe into a business designed for freedom; one that could scale without needing her at the center of it all. In this episode, Natali…
Fred Reichheld: How to Build a Business Customers Can't Stop Recommending | Entrepreneurship | YAPClassic
Jun 19, 2026 · 55 min
The true engine of business growth is customer loyalty, and Fred Reichheld has spent decades proving it. While working at Bain & Company, he noticed that businesses with obsessive customer focus were crushing their competitors, yet no one was measuring the loyalty behind those results. So he created the Net Promoter Score (NPS), giving entrepreneurs a way to measure customer loyalty and retention. In this episode, Fred shares how companies like Costco, Apple, and Chick-fil-A create lasting loyal…
The Underrated Business Model That Creates More Millionaires Than the NFL | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E3 | Part 1
Jun 17, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
Starting a business from scratch is not the only path to entrepreneurship, and Alex Smereczniak learned that through franchising. After building and exiting his first franchise business, he saw how confusing, outdated, and commission-driven the franchise-buying process could be. Spotting those gaps led him to build Franzy, a data-driven marketplace that helps aspiring entrepreneurs buy franchises with more transparency. In part 1 of this How We Profit episode, Alex breaks down the realities of r…
Will Guidara: The Leadership Strategy Behind the World’s Best Restaurant | Leadership | E403
Jun 15, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min
One leadership decision helped Will Guidara transform Eleven Madison Park from the lowest-ranked restaurant on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list into the number one restaurant in the world. While most businesses competed on products, pricing, and technology, Will became obsessed with something most companies overlook: how people feel. In this episode, Will shares his philosophy of unreasonable hospitality and reveals why customer experience is a powerful business advantage. He explains the le…
Steven Kotler: The Psychology of Aging Well and Why Your Best Years May Still Be Ahead of You | Health and Wellness | YAPClassic
Jun 12, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
Steven Kotler once believed physical and mental health decline was an inevitable part of aging, until peak performance science challenged his assumption. To test the research, he learned to park ski at 53 and discovered that the right training and mindset can dramatically improve brain health, creativity, and performance well beyond midlife. In this episode, Steven unpacks the science behind cognitive decline and shares how entrepreneurs can stay sharp, motivated, and high-performing at any age.…
How a $99 Fitness Program Turned Into a Seven Figure Business | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E2
Jun 10, 2026 · 52 min
Entrepreneurship became Tara LaFerrara’s way forward after she got laid off from her corporate job and had to decide whether her fitness and content creation side hustle could become a real business. With a small online following and plenty of uncertainty, she learned the ins and outs of business operations, ultimately scaling her $99 programs into a seven figure fitness brand. In this episode of How We Profit, Tara shares the realities of building a coaching business from scratch, how she bounc…
Dr. Chris Palmer: The Mental Health Discovery That Transforms How Entrepreneurs Perform | Mental Health | E402
Jun 8, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
Mental health care has a silent crisis, and Dr. Chris Palmer has spent 30 years watching patients exhaust medication after medication with little relief despite world-class treatment. His search for answers became the foundation of his brain energy theory, a framework that proposes an entirely new way of understanding and treating mental illness. In this episode, Dr. Chris breaks down the science of mental health and metabolism, explaining how the brain's ability to produce and use energy may be…
Dr. Mark Hyman: The Secret to Aging Backwards and Improving Your Health | Mental Health | YAPClassic
Jun 5, 2026 · 54 min
Dr. Mark Hyman’s health broke down in his thirties when chronic fatigue syndrome and heavy metal toxicity left him struggling to function. Conventional medicine, the very system he was trained in, had no real answers for him. Forced to search deeper, he discovered functional medicine, used it for self-healing, and later reversed his biological age by more than two decades. In this episode, Dr. Mark shares how entrepreneurs can take control of their health, slow aging, and use small daily habits…
How This Addictive Cheese Brand Turned Startup Mistakes Into a $20M Empire | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E1
Jun 3, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min
Starting a business from scratch is hard enough, but Rebel Cheese co-founder Kirsten Maitland did it by borrowing against her home, only for COVID to hit three months later. With no outside investors and everything at risk, she pivoted from a physical restaurant to an online business, learning e-commerce, logistics, and marketing on the fly. Years of relentless work eventually led to a Shark Tank deal with Mark Cuban that fueled massive business growth. In this episode of How We Profit, Kirsten…
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