The Real Jason Duncan Podcast

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast is a conversation about what's actually real. Every guest gets the same question at the center of the episode: what did you use to believe that turned out to be completely wrong? The people in the chair have earned a point of view. Entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, pastors, investors, builders of things that worked and things that didn't. They talk about the lies they were told by family, culture, or their own industry, the years they spent believing them, and what finally changed their mind. Host Jason Duncan is an entrepreneur, author of Exit Without Exiting , and founder of The Exiter Club™. He asks direct questions and doesn't let easy answers slide. Every episode ends the same way: what do you know now that you wish the world knew? New episodes every week.

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast is a business podcast hosted by The Real Jason Duncan, with 394 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

The Real Jason Duncan hosts The Real Jason Duncan Podcast, a business show with 394 episodes published.

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  Episode #398

  398. Retirement Is a Government Program

  Sep 30, 202613 min

  Somewhere in your phone or on a whiteboard in your office, there's a number and a date. The number is what you think you need. The date is when you finally get to stop. But say the word retire out loud and try to describe what it actually means for a Tuesday in your life. Most people can describe the picture from the commercial. Very few can describe the Tuesday. Jason traces where the idea actually came from, and corrects the version almost everybody repeats wrong. Germany set the first pension age at seventy, not 65. Bismarck was 74. America didn't copy him, and the number came out of an actuarial calculation about what was affordable. Nobody in that story ever asked what a good final chapter looks like for a human being. It was a benefit built for industrial workers whose bodies had been used up, and roughly ninety percent of covered German workers left on disability before they ever reached seventy. The alternative isn't working until you drop. It's building something that produces without you standing in it. Show Notes Full blog post: https://therealjasonduncan.com/articles/398 Episode page: https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast/398 Subscribe to What's Real?: https://therealjasonduncan.com/articles Book Jason to speak: https://therealjasonduncan.com/speaking Get the book: https://therealjasonduncan.com/book The Real Jason Duncan Podcast: https://therealjasonduncanpodcast.com Sponsor - Dubb: https://therealjasonduncan.com/dubb Numbers 8:23-26 Proverbs 6:6-8 Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealjasonduncan YouTube: https://youtube.com/therealjasonduncan New episodes every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #397

  397. Is Loyalty Overrated?

  Sep 28, 202639 min

  Work hard enough and stay loyal to what you built, and it will work out. Rich Tarity believed that right up until he sat down with his two business partners at a Philadelphia cheesesteak joint and slid a separation agreement across the table. Rich Tarity has spent 27 years building technology companies. He has founded, scaled, and exited multiple businesses, including one he grew past $10 million in revenue. Today he is the co-founder and CEO of truCX and the bestselling author of The Intelligence Within, a book about getting organizations out of thinking that stopped being true a long time ago. But the lie he came on this show to take apart is the one that cost him the most, and it is the one nobody warns you about, because it does not look like a lie. It looks like character. He started his first company at 26, two months after buying his first car and his first townhome. He brought in the VP of sales who had hired him, then another top rep, and split the cap table into thirds. Three and a half years later he was doing most of the selling and most of the building, and the resentment was stacking up faster than the revenue. He took a fair buyout at one of the least profitable points in the company's history, sat out a full year on a non-compete, and started over. Six months into the new business, with two employees, he was at $1.5 million in revenue with a seven-figure Viacom deal and accounts including Clarks, CEI Group, MTV and CMT. In this conversation, Rich walks through the lunch where he ended the partnership and what he had to stop believing about himself to say it out loud. He explains why splitting equity into equal thirds at 27 was a mistake he would never repeat, and how he now decides who earns equity based on value creation instead of revenue generation alone. Jason connects it to a concept called escalation of commitment, where a decision stops working and you respond by committing harder. Rich names what finally replaced loyalty for him, and it is not ruthlessness. In the closing minute he makes a case that curiosity beats experience, and takes a swing at another business lie most people never question: that the customer is always right. CONNECT WITH RICH TARITY Website: richardtarity.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rtarity Email: rt@richardtarity.com truCX: trucx.net Book: The Intelligence Within, available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and Audible Subscribe to What's Real?: therealjasonduncan.com/articles Book Jason to speak: therealjasonduncan.com/speaking Get the book: therealjasonduncan.com/book The Real Jason Duncan Podcast: therealjasonduncanpodcast.com This episode is sponsored by Dubb, the video sales platform Jason has used since 2018. Get started at therealjasonduncan.com/dubb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #396

  396.Money Isn't the Root of All Evil

  Sep 23, 202611 min

  Somebody wealthy gets caught doing something rotten, and within a day you'll hear it. See? Money is the root of all evil. It gets said with a little satisfaction, usually by people who don't have much of it, and almost nobody who says it has ever looked up the verse they're quoting. Jason walks through First Timothy chapter six the way Paul actually wrote it, including the progression Paul builds from false teaching to using godliness for financial gain to wanting riches to loving money. Then he puts the dropped words back. Paul never said money is bad. He said the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. From there it stops being a theological argument. Money is something human beings invented. In Mesopotamia five thousand years ago a silver shekel was fixed by decree against a measure of barley, and coins didn't show up for another twenty-four centuries. A human agreement has no will, no intent, and no moral weight of its own. The turn most people miss is that the love of money is fully available to people who don't have any. An empty bank account is no protection from it at all. Show Notes Full blog post: https://therealjasonduncan.com/articles/396 Episode page: https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast/396 Book a call with Jason: https://therealjasonduncan.com/talk Sponsor – Bank on Yourself: https://therealjasonduncan.com/bankonyourself 1 Timothy 6:3-10 Proverbs 30:8-9 Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealjasonduncan YouTube: https://youtube.com/therealjasonduncan Subscribe to What's Real? – Jason's weekly newsletter: https://therealjasonduncan.com/articles New episodes every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #395

  395. You Don't Need the Big City to Build the Big Business

  Sep 21, 202630 min

  You've heard this rule your whole career. If you want to build something real you have to be where it's happening, in a city that matters, close enough to the right people that they know your face. Cory Blumenfeld built an audience of 70,000 people and the company he runs today from a block off the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Cory Blumenfeld has started five companies and raised close to $5 million along the way. Today he runs BlueMoso, which matches business owners with virtual assistants so they can get their time back. His team is in the Philippines. One of his business partners is in Finland. He lives in Mexico. Nobody is in the same room, and that is the whole point. For his first three companies he believed the opposite. He was in Toronto, in health tech, in the startup programs everybody told him were the ones that mattered. He lost two hours a day to a commute, lived at home because rent was impossible on an entrepreneur's salary, and budgeted every trip down to the dollar. He and his co-founder once drove to Boston in a single day through a snowstorm because they couldn't afford the plane tickets. Nothing came of it. They flew out of Detroit when it was cheaper. Every investor they had access to was in Toronto, because access meant coffee. COVID broke it. He wasn't allowed to leave the house, his Canadian company sold into the US market, and the border was closed. Building relationships online stopped being a preference. He moved to Playa del Carmen, started posting on LinkedIn with zero followers, and built every relationship he has today from there. He tells Jason he has been more successful living abroad than he ever was in the city, and explains how being in a big city quietly locks your thinking to one geography. Jason doesn't accept the lie as submitted, and says so on tape. He lives thirty minutes outside Nashville and still believes physical proximity does something real. That pushback produces the sharpest turn in the episode. Cory reframes it: the people this lie actually costs are not the ones already in the city. They're the ones in small towns who won't start until they move, and that is five years of not building. Jason names it as an angle he hadn't considered and gets on board with it out loud. They also get into where venture money actually goes and why those hubs are loosening, how AI is making it cheaper to start a business and more crowded to run one, and the single thing Cory says matters most for a business owner in 2026: create content, so people already know who you are before you ever reach out. Connect with Cory: Website: bluemoso.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/coryblumenfeld Instagram: @coryblumenfeld TikTok: @cory.blumenfeld Substack: substack.com/@coryblumenfeld Email: hello@bluemoso.com Subscribe to What's Real?: therealjasonduncan.com/articles Book Jason to speak: therealjasonduncan.com/speaking Get the book: therealjasonduncan.com/book The podcast: therealjasonduncanpodcast.com This episode is sponsored by Dubb. Get started at therealjasonduncan.com/dubb. New episodes every Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #394

  394.Stop Saying Everything Happens for a Reason

  Sep 16, 202612 min

  The deal dies three days before closing. You've got four months in it, you've already told your wife, and somebody who cares about you says the thing everybody says. Well, everything happens for a reason. Jason takes that sentence apart. Not the theology of it, and not whether God authors every event, but what the phrase actually does to the person hearing it, and what it does to you when you say it about your own life. Because we don't only say it to other people. We say it to ourselves after the hire we knew was wrong, the contract we didn't read, the client we kept three years too long. And the moment we do, we hand our own decisions to God and turn ourselves into passengers in our own failures. There's a truer version, and it costs more. There's a reason to be found inside everything that happens. Napoleon Hill called it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit, and a seed isn't a benefit. It's the possibility of one, and it rots in the package if nobody plants it. Read the full post: https://therealjasonduncan.com/articles/394 Book a call with Jason: https://therealjasonduncan.com/talk New episodes every Wednesday. Show Notes Full blog post: https://therealjasonduncan.com/articles/394 Episode page: https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast/394 Book a call with Jason: https://therealjasonduncan.com/talk Sponsor – Bank on Yourself: https://therealjasonduncan.com/bankonyourself Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich Proverbs 25:20 Job 2:13 Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealjasonduncan YouTube: https://youtube.com/therealjasonduncan Subscribe to What's Real? – Jason's weekly newsletter: https://therealjasonduncan.com/articles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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