The Fifth Quarter Show

What do the world’s most successful founders do when the pressure is at its peak? They win in the Fifth Quarter. 🏟️ In a world of loud "hustle culture," The Fifth Quarter focuses on the quiet moves, deep minds, and game-changing conversations that actually move the needle. Hosted by Bilal Hanjra, this show goes beyond the surface to reveal the grit, soul, and strategy required to scale a business in today’s landscape. Whether you are navigating the journey from $1M to $10M or building for the long haul, we bring you the blueprints of intentional operators who thrive when the stakes are highest. Just the moves that matter.

The Fifth Quarter Show is a business podcast hosted by Bilal Hanjra, with 9 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Bilal Hanjra hosts The Fifth Quarter Show, a business show with 9 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  5th Quarter Podcast Steve Harward Full Episode

  May 16, 20261h 18mS1

  <p >Steve Harward is the founder and CEO of Prime Corporate Services, a company he built to over nine figures in annual revenue. No paid advertising. No aggressive sales tactics. No cold outreach. Just relationships. In 13 years, he's gone from a barely-made-it-through-high-school kid from a trailer park to running a business that fields 400–600 one-on-one sales appointments a day — built on a philosophy he calls "Win by Giving." He started the company with his mom and two brothers. They're still there. He got up at 5 AM in Utah to be here.<br><br>In this episode, we get into:<br><br>"Win...

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  How This Founder Made and Lost $1.2M By His 21st Birthday, Jeremy Newsome, RealLife Trading

  May 6, 202653 minS0

  <p>Jeremy Newsome is the founder of RealLife Trading, one of the largest trading education platforms in the world, teaching hundreds of thousands of people how to trade safely. At age seven, he watched Forrest Gump, sold blackberries door to door, saved $1,300, convinced his dad to match it, and bought Apple stock. That investment would be worth $40 million today. He turned $400K into $1.2M trading silver by age 20 — then lost it all on his 21st birthday. He's completed three Ironmans, co-hosts the Broke to Awoke podcast, and sits on the board of Aerial Recovery, the world's largest anti-human trafficking organization, wh...

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  Episode #7

  Elk Ridge CEO, Lame Kinikini: The Creative Finance Playbook That Built a $75M Portfolio

  Apr 2, 202658 minS1

  <p>Lame Kinikini is the founder and CEO of Elk Ridge Investments, an alternative investment firm managing over $75 million across real estate, short-term rentals, creative finance, and asset-backed lending. He's closed more than 200 creative finance deals, built Elk Ridge into an eight-figure company in under five years, and now mentors over 100 students through his Fearless Investors community. But he didn't start with money — he started knocking doors.</p><p>In this episode, we get into:</p><p>- From $40K summers to six-figure seasons — how door-to-door sales at Vivint built the mental fortitude behind everything<br />- "Tell me I can...

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  "Once You Do This, You Become Unstoppable": Jess Mah, 9-Figure Founder & Venture Studio CEO

  Mar 19, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>Jess Mah built a six-figure business in middle school, dropped out of high school at 15, and at 19 became one of the youngest women accepted into Y Combinator. On paper, she was a Silicon Valley prodigy — Forbes and Inc 30 Under 30, venture-backed, scaling fast. But in 2012, the bank balance was heading toward zero, the product wasn't working, and she fired her team just to survive. She rebuilt inDinero into a hundreds-of-employees company at a nine-figure valuation, stepped out of the CEO seat on her own terms, and now runs a venture studio building companies across AI, fintech, and bioelectrical therapies targeting ca...

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  Episode #5

  Building The First AI Native Holding Company: Infinity Constellation CEO, Brennan Pothetes

  Mar 6, 20261h 1mS1

  <p>Brennan Pothetes is a fintech operator who built and sold Butter Insurance to Odeko, then got tapped to create something that's never been done before — the first AI native holding company. Infinity Constellation launched in May 2025 with $17 million, eight AI companies already post-revenue, and a thesis that the entire venture model is broken. He calls it Y Combinator meets Berkshire Hathaway.</p><p>In this episode, we get into:</p><p>- Why he believes too much capital has killed more companies than it's helped<br />- "Headcount kills" — the core pillar that makes his CEOs solve with technology befo...

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