The David Guttman Podcast

He doubled a company's revenue to $150M once. Then he got called into an office and told it was his last day. If that has ever happened to you, you already know the feeling. Chris Mader ran an $85M company to $115M as interim CEO. The board had already promised him the job in writing. Then the founder needed $4M in payroll cuts, and Chris got the call anyway. I asked him how you rebuild after doing it exactly right and still losing the seat. Chris was Player of the Year in the minors. The next year he led his team in every offensive category and still got released. He turned that into MTA Consultancy, built on a rule you will recognize: he will not work for a leader he cannot believe in. You probably cannot walk away from a bad boss tomorrow. Chris built a business so he never has to again.

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Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction: excelling and still getting cut

00:18 - Choosing baseball over football as a kid

03:55 - Recruited to Rollins College against his will

06:29 - Make the adjustment: Coach Boyd Coffee

13:11 - Drafted 49th round, toughest out over Derek Jeter

16:07 - Released after leading the team in every stat

19:27 - Walking away from baseball crying at 25

22:37 - Baseball is not a meritocracy

26:02 - Rebuilding identity through sales

28:37 - Thirty years scaling companies to $115M

31:06 - Told he did nothing wrong, never works for anyone again

34:25 - Starting MTA Consultancy at 52

38:44 - Servant leadership, curiosity and humility

45:42 - How much of the CEO job is therapy

46:38 - Why 97.5 percent of people resist change

56:16 - Forty clients, only three that did not work

57:09 - Scaling toward $1M with an EA and AI

1:04:24 - Mentorship versus coaching versus discipline

1:08:00 - Why 80 percent of men say yes and half the women do

1:10:52 - Pick your boss, not the job

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I tore up my Wharton MBA on camera a couple of months ago, so I was curious what Joshua Lindsey would say about his. He was making 50 thousand dollars a week at 25, had already helped put close to 30,000 ATMs across the Western United States, and then went back and paid his own way through an Ivy League executive program at 28. He hung the paper on the wall and told me he still isn't sure it did anything for him beyond letting him tell his friends he'd done something too. We get into how he went zero to 12 million in his first year on his own, what it cost him when his partners went rogue, and why he thinks a first-time entrepreneur is better off buying a business than starting one. If you're weighing a degree against a few years of actually doing the work, start here.

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Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction: what a kick in the teeth teaches you

01:42 - Furniture stores and a feast-or-famine childhood

02:12 - Selling Scout-O-Rama tickets door to door

03:34 - The fitness sales mentor who taught him to ask questions

04:30 - Why he still loves sitting through a timeshare pitch

07:22 - The promise he made himself at 26 about predatory selling

09:43 - Value systems, ethical shortcuts and top-line pressure

12:16 - The reverse merger he says he only half earned

13:12 - 30,000 ATMs across the Western United States

14:06 - Tearing up a Wharton MBA on camera

14:48 - The Cornell executive program and the paper on the wall

17:41 - Begging his daughter not to go to college

18:16 - Fifty thousand to travel or two hundred thousand in Bitcoin

20:17 - Informational interviewing and the dietitian test

22:55 - The 17-year-old AI CEO and the cop who asked for a job

25:48 - Whether the alumni network is still worth anything

28:11 - Why 75 percent of his developer hires are self-taught

30:45 - Zero to 12 million in the first year

34:10 - Fifty thousand a week at 25 and the partners who went rogue

39:20 - Telling a real friendship from a positioning one

42:20 - The two founders who insisted on giving him equity

48:33 - Buying a business versus starting one from scratch

52:44 - True equity for every employee, four-year vesting, one-year cliff

55:17 - The businesses under 20 million with no budget at all

57:44 - The advice three billionaires gave instead of a business plan

1:02:20 - The blind spot successful men share

1:05:10 - Ten years without an unkind word

1:07:32 - Why he enjoys conflict in conversation

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When Ruh Fahim sat across from me, every blood panel he'd ever taken came back "fine," yet he'd once had brain fog so bad he couldn't finish a sentence. We got into how the real problem wasn't in his labs but in the walls of his house, the food on his plate, and a story he'd carried since childhood. It's one of the clearest cases I've heard for why no one will ever care about your health more than you do.

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Timestamps

00:00 - ​Intro of Show

02:29 - Afghanistan to a racist Canadian town

03:38 - Pushed into medicine by his father

05:37 - Mold, gut infection, and stress

07:26 - Why three doctors get it wrong

11:25 - The 80/20 rule and ownership

13:01 - A shoulder that kept dislocating

14:10 - Telling his father he quit medicine

16:21 - The family you do not choose

24:00 - Carnivore, keto, testing everything

28:00 - Guilt stored as ulcerative colitis

29:57 - A society that is not mentally healthy

34:54 - The racist kid on the patio

38:33 - Survival mode, bread and rice

41:18 - DMT and accepting his own death

43:38 - Psilocybin and the prediction engine

47:02 - Identity as skin versus clothing

50:50 - Meeting Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

55:38 - Observer versus participant

58:09 - Who he refuses to coach

1:00:48 - Billion Body and final message

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In this episode, I talked with Frank Lipinski, who bet on himself instead of college, built real wealth in crypto by twenty, and learned that money solves far fewer problems than most young men assume. We break down the simple twenty-minute-a-day habit that can lift you into the top 5% at almost anything, the brutal math that makes college one of the worst investments around, and the dating illusions guys cling to. He also shares the loss of his father, gone just six weeks after diagnosis when Frank was nineteen, and how it changed the way he values time, money, and everything in between.

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro of Show

01:12 - Meet Frank Lipinski

01:59 - Why he skipped college

04:00 - The FaZe house that inspired him

05:00 - Failed businesses and a Facebook ban

07:07 - Conflict with his dad

09:30 - Discovering crypto in 2017

12:00 - Why college is the worst ROI

13:46 - AI, jobs, and the talent stack

17:45 - Taking a year off after crypto

23:43 - Moving to Scottsdale

25:10 - Med spa business and dating

33:40 - The dating market truth

46:27 - Losing his father at 19

53:01 - Marriage, kids, and tradeoffs

59:38 - Rapid-fire questions

1:01:13 - Why success can make you miserable

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Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan, the man who brought the Buckeyes their first national title, sat down with me and hit me with a claim I couldn't shake: hand him almost any seventh grader, and if that kid fully commits, he'll be winning 75% of the time by his senior year. We got into the system behind that, from the "marbles in a jar" principle to walking on at Iowa when Dan Gable didn't even know his name. But the part that stayed with me was how a man nothing in wrestling could break found his way through the hardest loss a parent can face, and the "chosen suffering" philosophy that carried him.

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro of Show

01:23 - Meeting at Iowa wrestling camp, 1983

05:04 - Cut from basketball, finding wrestling

08:38 - Jay Robinson and 120 workouts in 30 days

09:35 - Why wrestling rewards preparation

10:43 - The marbles-in-a-jar principle

11:35 - Leaving a full ride at Syracuse

17:28 - Walking on at Iowa, Gable, the Steiners

22:13 - First head job at Hofstra, two scholarships

26:31 - Why great coaches were great wrestlers

29:21 - The three C's: competence, connection, character

31:32 - Losing his five-year-old son

35:41 - Ohio State as a new beginning

45:35 - Wrestling as training for business and life

50:07 - Recruiting: green flags and red flags

52:20 - Logan Stieber and emotional control

55:06 - Writing "Chosen Suffering"

1:00:07 - Suffering as a synonym for love

1:04:07 - The research behind his faith

1:11:22 - Competing with a hand sewn shut

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