Million Dollar Grit

Welcome to Million Dollar Grit, the podcast that dives deep into the world of entrepreneurship, where tenacity meets strategy, and dreams meet reality. Here, we explore the raw, often overlooked truths of what it takes to succeed in business and in life. It's not just about the glossy success stories - it's about the grit it takes to get there.

Million Dollar Grit is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 113 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Million Dollar Grit, a business show with 113 episodes published.

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  Episode #112

  The Danger of Taking Action

  Sep 7, 202623 minS1

  Action taking is one of the most valuable personality traits in entrepreneurship — money loves speed, idea to implementation, failing forward — and it's probably a big part of why you're where you are. But in this episode I want to unpack something I'm seeing constantly in coaching: the moment you try to grow, scale, or push through a plateau, that same trait becomes hazardous. This one's for the fast movers who don't resonate with the perpetual planners, and still can't figure out why they're not where they want to be.

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  Episode #111

  Stop Reinventing The Wheel! The 5 Containers That Each Build a Million-Dollar Business

  Sep 1, 202613 minS1

  A client told me recently that the strategy I gave them was premature — that I couldn't possibly know their business well enough after a 15-minute call to hand them a plan, and honestly, I understand why it looks that way. But what I have that most people don't is the vantage point of hundreds of private clients, and after all of that pattern recognition, I can tell you there are really only five containers that reliably create predictable revenue online: the high-ticket asynchronous coaching model, the weekly live webinar to a $500–$2,000 offer, the webinar to an application for a $2,500–$5,000 program, live launching, and the biweekly paid workshop. In this episode I walk through all five — the pieces and parts that make each one actually work, the price band each one lives in, and the real downside of each — and then I get into what I think is the actual problem: AI will happily generate you a 50-page marketing plan that looks official and is way, way too complicated, and you will build it, because it looks right. The truth is you need to do one thing really well long enough for it to cook — burner on high, not on low while you anxiously watch the pot — and the thing that trips people up is mistaking the simplicity of the strategy for the simplicity of the execution. If you're sitting on a plan you'd never have built without AI writing it for you, this one's for you.

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  Episode #110

  Can You Sell Courses Sustainably?

  Jul 27, 202612 minS1

  Someone DM'd me and asked whether selling courses can ever really be sustainable, and I realized we're all using that word to mean something we never say out loud — what she was actually asking is the mortgage test: can I put this income on a loan application, book the vacation, buy the car, and trust that it won't get snatched out from under me? Don't forget to subscribe to my email list! https://emailsbyjulie.com

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  Episode #109

  What Content Creators & Business Owners Can Learn From Each Other

  Jul 13, 20269 minS1

  My lead pipeline just flipped — for 10 years about 80% of my clients have been business owners, and in the last two weeks it's been about 80% content creators, all because of traction on Instagram. And it got me thinking about how each side is staring at the other with envy: business owners wish they had the creator's reach, and creators wish they had the owner's offers, email list, and body of work. In this episode I make the case that each side is holding exactly half of a complete business — creators have mastered speaking to the masses (a real skill set that takes hours a day, not 15 minutes), and owners have the IP, frameworks, and proprietary mechanisms that survive an algorithm change.

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  Episode #108

  A Personal Update After A Crazy Week!

  Jul 6, 202617 minS1

  This one's personal — I'm unpacking the wild weekend behind me after Jessie Jean gave me a shout-out on her Instagram story and my following jumped from about 17,900 to over 21,600 almost overnight, along with an inbox full of coaching applications I'm still working through. I talk about what it's actually like to be flooded with brand-new people after years of going deep with a smaller, tight-knit community, the free resource I put together to help new followers get to know me fast, and a small real-time experiment I ran between a polished, mathy reel and a raw, unfiltered story that did something I didn't expect.

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