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Health isn't separate from business, it's the vehicle that lets you actually enjoy whatever you build. In this episode of Founders Garage, Dan Go breaks down why founders track every business KPI but haven't stepped on a scale in months, why aging accelerates hard in your 40s and 60s, and why sleep is the last thing he fixes with clients, not the first.

We get into the theory of constraints applied to your body, why 2 sets to failure beats 5 sets of junk volume for busy founders, the exact sleep protocol (environment, routine, timing) that fixed Dan's own nocturia, and the 5-step audit anyone can run on themselves this week, no DEXA scan required. If you've built the business but you're running on fumes, this one's for you.

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AI Isn't a Bubble, You're Just Bad at Prompting

Cooper Simpson scaled a venture studio from 0 to 14 companies and $9M in revenue and he's here to tell you the entire startup playbook just got rewritten. Again.

In this episode, Dean sits down with Cooper to break down why execution is dead, prioritization is the new moat, and why building products for humans to use is already the wrong play the future belongs to products agents use.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - You're Using AI Wrong

00:55 - How Cooper Got Into AI

03:57 - Apps Are Being Built for the Wrong User

08:27 - Never Build What AI Companies Will Build

14:38 - Find the Pain Point, Get Paid

20:02 - The 3 Moats That Still Matter

25:20 - The $2,000/Month Idea Anyone Can Copy

29:24 - 100 Days of Content Changed His Life

45:00 - The Biggest Prompting Mistake People Make

46:19 - Will AI Take Your Job?

51:36 - Is AI a Bubble?

56:10 - The One Prompt to Start With Today

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Most people think growth comes from adding more. More habits. More goals. More work. But what if the real breakthrough comes from removing what doesn’t matter?

In this episode of Founders Garage, we break down The Subtraction Habit; the mindset shift that simplifies your focus, sharpens your decisions, and actually drives results. If you’ve been feeling stretched, distracted, or stuck… this is the conversation you need.

What we cover:

•⁠ ⁠Why doing less leads to more results

•⁠ ⁠How to identify what’s actually holding you back

•⁠ ⁠The discipline of cutting what doesn’t matter

•⁠ ⁠Building clarity in business and life Founders Garage is where real conversations happen, no fluff, just perspective that moves you forward.

The Founders Garage podcast exists to bring value, insights, inspiration and resources to founders and entrepreneurs all across the globe - that are in the arena, building valuable companies, and having to learn and expand their skill sets and abilities to get to the next level.

We aim to shed more light on the things that you can't really Google. To provide insights from rooms that are worth being in, and unpack the challenges and triumphs in businesses of all stages. 

The Founders Garage name is kind of a play on words, as the "garage" is where founders and innovators start and build their businesses from scratch, and it is also a place you go to tune up and increase performance. 

There are many podcasts & options with our finite time, so we thank you for giving us a moment of it, we aim to always bring value first, to earn that attention. 

Hosted by @DeanSutton - a serial founder with multiple exits, who took his last two companies public in Canada.

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