Build or Break

Lucy Aharish was the first Arab Muslim woman to anchor the news in Hebrew on mainstream Israeli TV. On October 7, while her husband — Fauda star Tsahi Halevi — headed south with his unit, she helped steer a rescue team to 12 people trapped in a Kfar Aza safe room. She's interviewed a Hamas official and a sitting president, and this year she faced a mob outside her own apartment.

In this episode of Build or Break, Lucy sits down with Daniel Lubetzky to talk identity, extremism, and courage. She opens up about growing up the only Arab Muslim girl in a Jewish town, and catching her best friend writing "filthy Arab" on the school wall — then making her face her every day instead of having her expelled. She breaks down the difference between Islam and Islamism, why citizen journalism is costing us the ability to agree on basic facts, and what happened when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put her in his campaign ad.

Plus: the Mexican Inquisition and the Hava Nagila audition that landed her in World War Z. 

00:00 Intro

01:58 From Nazareth to Dimona 

07:42 Being the Only Muslim in School 

11:34 "I have a complex identity" 

15:55 The '90s terror wave

19:09 The graffiti, the principal, and Grandpa Menachem 

24:10 "She was my best friend" 

31:33 Criticizing her government and Hamas 

39:41 "Is Israel a racist country?" 

47:13 What makes a great interviewer 

51:08 October 7: "This is not a drill" 

1:05:57 Lucy vs. Netanyahu, and the mob at her door 

1:12:06 The Mexican Inquisition

1:19:47 Build or Break 

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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery; Rob Naylor

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Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky
Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

How did The Diary of a CEO go from 40 downloads to 120 million a month? Steven Bartlett sits down with Daniel on Build or Break to break down exactly how he created one of the most popular podcasts in the world. He walks us through the failed 18-month bet that eventually cracked it, and how the show now runs in 20 languages with zero human translators involved.

Beyond the growth story, he and Daniel get genuinely candid about a rough patch in his relationship with his fiancée and how they worked through it, compare what it's actually like sitting on Shark Tank versus Dragon's Den from the inside, and dig into how he thinks about investing — including the "paper wall" framework he uses to judge whether a limit is real or just assumed.

Steven Bartlett built The Diary of a CEO from a self-funded, no-sponsors show recorded at his kitchen table into one of the biggest podcasts in the world — over 120 million downloads a month, roughly 30 million of them in languages other than English, translated and voice-cloned entirely by AI. 

Timestamps:
00:00 Cold Open
00:55 Guest Intro
01:35 Podcast Philosophy & The Diary of a CEO Origin Story
16:22 Inside the Diary of a CEO Machine
18:04 Depth, Vulnerability & the Craft of Listening
35:22 Shark Tank vs. Dragon's Den
39:47 The Mexican Inqusition
51:25 Pushing on Paper Walls
55:19 Build or Break

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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/

Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/

Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky
Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

Jamie Siminoff was personally bankrupt before Shark Tank even aired. When Kevin O'Leary offered him $700K for 10% of his company, he walked away with no deal. Amazon bought that company, Ring, for $1.15 billion.

In this episode of Build or Break, Jamie breaks down the actual mechanics behind the story most people only know the headline version of: why he turned down Mr. Wonderful on national TV, how everything almost fell apart before Shark Tank even filmed, and what he says now about first-night sales numbers that most founders get wrong. He also gets into the failed products before Ring (including an email he sent Nest's founder that changed his approach), what Ring's Fire Watch tool did during the Palisades fires, and why the app has reunited millions of lost dogs with their families.

Daniel Lubetzky sits down with Jamie for an unfiltered conversation about rejection, conviction, and fish tanks. Fish tanks? Yes, fish tanks. 

00:00 Cold Open & Intro
0:58 Meet Jamie Siminoff, the Garage Inventor Turned Billion-Dollar Founder
8:13 The Doorbot Era: Pre-Sales, Debt, and Desperation
11:41 Shark Tank: The Pitch That Almost Saved Him
22:00 The November Miracle: When Everything Changed
26:22 From DoorBot to Ring: Rebuilding Everything in Nine Months
28:54 The Safety Pivot: When Crime-Solving Became the Mission
34:43 The Mind of an Inventor: From Fish Tanks to Floodlights
47:32 Life at Amazon: The Entrepreneur in the Machine
55:21 The Mexican Inquisition: Jamie Sets a New Record

1:01:58 Build or Break?

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Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/

Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky

Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

Andrew Yang was right about the 2024 election. He was right about AI. He was right about MATH. When he talks, you better pay attention!

I sat down with Andrew Yang for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from personal to political and back again — getting bullied as the only Asian kid in his school, quitting a prestigious law firm five months in, and building the "Yang Gang" from a fringe campaign into a national movement built on a $3 million baseball cap. Andrew opens up about the hardest year of his life — becoming a father to a son later diagnosed as on the autism spectrum — and connects it directly to why he ran for president. He breaks down why 94% of Congress never loses reelection despite a 10% approval rating, why he quit the Democratic Party in 2021, and why investors will fund almost anything as long as it has "AI" in the name. Along the way: the real story behind "MATH," his viral Cupid Shuffle moment, and a live demonstration of my favorite party trick/pain tolerance tester I brought over from Mexico!

Andrew is funny, blunt, and still relentlessly early on the things everyone else eventually catches up to. Watch the full interview now.

0:00 – Cold open & Intro

2:05 – Getting bullied as the only Asian kid in school

4:40 – Quitting his law career & his first failure

9:12 – The roots of his entrepreneurship

13:32 – Investors who'll only fund you if you slap "AI" on it

19:55 – The real origin story of "MATH"

24:45 – Gerrymandering, primaries, and why Congress doesn’t work

39:04 – Andrew’s vision for an independent presidential primary

44:57 – His two biggest lessons for anyone running for office

48:50 – His biggest professional regret

54:38 – What Andrew’s doing now

58:23 – Mexican Inquisition and Toques

1:08:06 – Rapid-fire: Build or Break round 

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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/

Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/

Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky

Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

Chris Paul opens up about the night his grandfather was murdered — and the 61-point game he played right after that could have broken Michael Jordan's state scoring record.

CP3 sits down with me for a conversation that goes past the highlight reel — the jump ball trick he used for 20 years that referees never called, the night in 2005 he learned his grandfather had been beaten to death, and his next game where he scored 61 points and then deliberately threw the ball out of bounds, just shy of a state record.

Chris talked with me about the Clippers exit he calls "one of the most disrespectful things I've endured," why he turned down a third Olympics to be with his family, the five hand surgeries and 16 screws that came with 21 years in the league, and building his snack brand Good Eat’n the same way he built a Hall of Fame career: one rep at a time.

Show Notes: 

Insane CP3 comp, including the triple steal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRowTV3zfn4

CP3 suspends the laws of physics - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QHsntNaDZh0

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Chris Paul Family Foundation: https://www.instagram.com/chrispaulfamfdn/

CP3 Camps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Paul_Camps

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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/

Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/

Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky

Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

Kendra Scott started her first company to give hats to cancer patients. It failed. With $500, a spare bedroom, and a newborn baby, she started again, and this time built one of the most recognizable brands in America.

Kendra Scott sits down with me for a wide-ranging, funny, and unexpectedly emotional conversation — from getting bullied so badly in middle school she ate lunch in a bathroom stall, to the stepfather whose battle with brain cancer inspired her first (failed) business, to the ten years she spent unable to get a single investor to write her a check.

Kendra opens up about building Kendra Scott out of a spare bedroom with a newborn on her hip, why she named the company after herself almost by accident, the "worst boss" who taught her the most, and what it's really like behind the scenes as the newest full-time Shark on Shark Tank. She also talks candidly about launching her second brand, Yellow Rose, why she'll never franchise, and the advisor-turned-first-investor she lost far too soon.

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Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/

Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky

Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

Kevin O'Leary opens up about the $12.9M card he wore to the Oscars, what he did that almost ended his engagement, and the moment his stepfather told him he'd never make it.

Before Shark Tank, before "Mr. Wonderful," Kevin O'Leary was a kid getting told by his stepfather that he wasn't good enough to be a photographer. In this episode of Build or Break, Kevin sits down with Daniel Lubetzky for a conversation that goes far past the TV persona — the $12.9M sports card he bought on a hunch (and turned down $21M for), the night he had to tell his fiancée he cheated, firing his best friend in the early days of his first company, and the "signal vs. noise" framework he learned from Steve Jobs that still runs his entire day.

You’ve never seen Mr. Wonderful like this. I’VE never seen him like this. This is Kevin without the edit — brutal honesty about business, marriage, grief, and the stepfather he says made him who he is.

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Show Notes:

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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/

Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

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Build or Break Team: 

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• Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider
• Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin
• Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black
• Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned
• Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose
• Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

My friends Steven Bartlett, Andrew Yang, Kendra Scott, and Jason Alexander all agree: this time I may have gone too far. Subscribe to Build or Break to hear the rest of our stories.

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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/

Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/

Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky
Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

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12 icons. One story you think you know.

Mark Cuban got fired. Kevin O'Leary got fired. Chris Paul got released. Kendra Scott failed before she built a billion-dollar company. Every guest on this show has a moment where it could've gone either way.

Build or Break is a new interview series from Daniel Lubetzky — founder of KIND Snacks, Shark Tank investor — sitting down with the people who've been closest to the edge and asking what it took to keep going when everyone else would have quit.

This trailer features conversations from upcoming episodes with Mark Cuban, Kevin O'Leary, Chris Paul, Andrew Yang, Steven Bartlett, Fareed Zakaria, Robert Rodriguez, Jason Alexander, Jamie Siminoff, Kendra Scott, Ben Sasse, and Melva Wallace.

3 episodes drop 9/3, then weekly on Tuesdays starting 9/15. Subscribe so you don't miss them.

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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/

Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/

Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky
Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen

Chris Paul. Steven Bartlett. The moment before everything almost fell apart.

I'm Daniel Lubetzky — founder of KIND Snacks, a Shark Tank investor, and a "confused Mexican Jewish social entrepreneur." I started KIND with one bar and a hundred rejections. Now I'm building the most ambitious project of my life: a podcast about what it actually takes to build something — and the moments almost nobody talks about, when it nearly broke you instead.

This is Build or Break.

In this series, you’ll see Chris Paul reveal the moment he went into shock. Steven Bartlett, host of Diary of a CEO, open up about his early struggles. Kevin O'Leary on his greatest personal trial. Andrew Yang on living up to the expectations of immigrant parents. Plus Mark Cuban, Kendra Scott, Fareed Zakaria, Jason Alexander, Lucy Aharish, Robert Rodriguez, Jamie Siminoff, Ben Sasse, and Melva Wallace — builders, investors, and leaders who've all faced the same decision: build, or break?

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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/

Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/

Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery

Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/

Build or Break Team: 

Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky
Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider

Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin

Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black

Associate Producer & Social Media: Taylor Larned

Booking & Scheduling: Kayla Rose

Network Relations: Julianna Cohen