Rebellious Times Podcast

Tim Lidman moved from Stockholm to London at 18 to become a rock star and ended up in tech sales. He built and sold Think Tank to Accenture, spent four years there as a partner, then started Clyde to bring AI into consulting. Here is what he saw inside big consulting, and why he keeps his own kids away from the same technology.

Tim Kilroy burned out and shut down his first agency. He went on to build and exit more, and now he coaches other agency founders. In this episode he explains what he would change about pricing, delegation and selling, and why he says there is no work-life balance, just life.

Jacob Piasecki co-founded an NIL agency out of a college townhouse in 2021, right as the rules changed to let college athletes finally get paid. In this episode, he explains how that industry actually works, from donor-funded collectives to seventeen-year-olds suddenly supporting their family's mortgage, and why the agency business is still, at its core, about people.

A retired Air Force general who flew the C-17 is now building fireproof, waterproof walls, and warning anyone who'll listen about where surveillance technology is headed. Brigadier General (Ret.) Blaine Holt joins the show to talk about his path from the cockpit to Xeriant, what his company is actually building, and why he believes the real fight right now is between sovereignty and globalism.

Corey Apirian has spent two decades solving one problem: getting inventory closer to the customer. In this episode, the CEO of DaVinci Micro Fulfillment explains why the old model of one giant warehouse is breaking down, what a micro fulfillment center actually looks like, and why he named his company after Leonardo da Vinci.

Bruna Lima left agency life for a Brazilian village with no gas station and no hospital, and it changed how she thinks about branding for good. She built Branders Studio from there, now serving US clients from a quiet village outside Warsaw, Poland. This episode covers what she learned moving between Brazil, Austin, and Poland, and why she thinks almost nothing in marketing is actually urgent.

Daniel Certner spent a year and looked at almost 1,000 businesses before he found the one he wanted to buy. Now he owns Fleet Packaging, sourcing custom packaging for US brands from factories in 30 countries. On this episode, he breaks down what a real business acquisition actually looks like, from spotting a red flag in a seller to why he still trusts the diligence process he leaned on three years ago.

Bas Janssen built a software platform that turns a brand's strategy into hundreds of pieces of quality-gated content, without the "AI slop" that comes from a single ChatGPT prompt. He and Chris talk through the shift from Google rankings to LLM visibility, why structure beats speed in AI content, and how agencies are using programmatic SEO to scale without falling apart.

Tino Triste traded a stint in the Portuguese Marines for a career that took him from photography to SEO to building his own app with AI, without ever learning to code. He explains how he took over development of Flutura, a CBT therapy platform he built with his wife, and why he thinks the real skill now is managing AI instead of just prompting it. A personal one for Chris too: Tino shares his hometown of Bolton, UK.

Katie Cleary spent years searching for someone who understood what she was going through. After being diagnosed with autoimmune thyroid disease following her second pregnancy, she found almost no support built for moms managing chronic illness, so she built it herself. Now the founder of Autoimmune Mom, Katie joins the Rebellious Times Podcast to explain what autoimmune disease actually is, why it takes women years to get diagnosed, and the advice she wishes someone had given her sooner: stop comparing yourself to moms who aren't fighting the same battle.