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Boris Sanchez started his first business at seven years old, running a food delivery hustle inside his own school in Colombia. That entrepreneurial streak nearly got cut short when his mother, a prominent attorney who had won a case against Pablo Escobar's cartel, received threats against the family. They fled the country with about $3,000 and started completely over in the United States — his mother went from practicing law to sweeping floors while Boris worked odd jobs, sold pool cues on eBay, ran a car dealership, and paid his own way through college and an MBA in London. He eventually found his way into real estate, working as a mortgage loan officer before moving into hard money lending, house flipping, and commercial deals. By 2019 he had scaled to over 725 units and a million square feet of rentable space across apartments, self storage, and retail. Now, after three years of quiet development, he's just launched Reidy AI — an AI-powered real estate platform that delivers instant, unbiased property appraisals and connects investors with a network of thousands of lenders and buyers. He breaks down how the platform works, the biggest mistakes new investors make, and why he believes you don't need cash to start building real wealth in real estate.

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Marc never went to college. He started out as a teenager pushing wheelbarrows of cement for a family pool builder, just to learn how construction actually worked. In his early 20s he became a Houston firefighter, working only nine days a month so he could use the rest of his time to build a construction business on the side. That business grew into spec homes, custom builds, and fee-based projects for investors who wanted a builder with real skin in the game. He walks through exactly how he raised his first capital from a landlord with spare cash, how that grew into a rotating pool of ten to fifteen investors who now earn fifteen to twenty percent annually, and the costly lesson he learned during Covid when he sold three properties early out of uncertainty and left half a million dollars on the table. He also breaks down the financial mechanics almost nobody explains publicly — how construction loans and draw schedules actually work, why he never lets money from different projects touch each other, what banks really look for before funding a build, and why job site cameras have saved him from stolen materials, broken windows, and workers who won't own up to mistakes.
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Mike Stratton grew up on 10 Mile Road just outside of Detroit with a single 21-year-old mom, no money, and no exposure to anything beyond blue collar work. He dropped out of traditional school early, got certified as a personal trainer at 17, and decided he would never work for a salary. What followed was over a decade of grinding through fitness, sales, industrial machinery, and recruiting before he found his way back to the one industry that actually aligned with who he was. He co-founded Marek Health during Covid with less than $100,000 and built it into a 150-person telehealth operation that serves thousands of patients across all 50 states. He gives Shawn Lynch the full breakdown, how he built the business from zero, why most doctors still do not understand hormone optimization, how he recruits physicians who are not afraid to evolve their practice, and why he believes the traditional medical system is built around the minimum, not the optimal. He also talks about burnout, the mistakes he made as a leader, why he almost destroyed his company culture, and what he would do differently if he was starting Marek from day one.
 
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Ryan Stewman built a 3,000 member mastermind with tiers priced at $3,000, $10,000, and $60,000 a year. Then he shut all of it down. Not because it was failing because it was draining him dry. He walked away from coaching entirely and launched Closer Capital, a business lending operation that now moves between $4 and $6 million a month with margins nobody in the coaching world can touch. He gives Shawn Lynch the full breakdown: why the mastermind model is a trap disguised as success, how he built the lending business from zero volume to a few million a month, and why passive income is a lie that real estate investors keep telling themselves. He also goes deep on AI, the 8 billion robots Elon is building by 2033, why America will likely be off the dollar before 2030, and how the government is openly selling insider trading access for $130,000 a month. This is the conversation most people in business are too scared to have.

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New construction real estate paid Eric Crutchfield four times what his first flip paid, and he has been building ever since. Eric walked out of prison with 150 dollars in his pocket. Today he has around 140 million dollars of development in progress, and he gives Shawn Lynch the full blueprint, from an empty lot all the way to a sold home.

Every stage is covered. You will hear how to underwrite a lot before you ever make an offer, why the comparable market analysis is a builder's compass, and the napkin math rule of buying land at 20 to 25 percent of the finished home value. Eric covers construction loans, hard money lenders, and using business credit and credit repair to cover a down payment when you have no savings. He explains permits, vetting subcontractors, getting three to five bids on any line item over 5,000 dollars, padding a budget so overruns do not kill the deal, and the 20 to 30 percent margins that make ground up development beat flipping. He also explains why he is unwinding nearly 100 single family rentals and calls them the worst investment of his life.

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Most people are taking peptide therapy completely wrong, and Dr. Justin Hogan, a functional medicine physician, joins host Shawn Lynch to explain why. Together they break down BPC 157, TB 500 and GLP 1 weight loss drugs and what actually works.

The conversation goes deep into how peptides actually work inside the body, covering growth hormone secretagogues like CJC 1295, Ipamorelin and Tesamorelin, recovery peptides like BPC 157 and TB 500, longevity focused compounds like Epithalon and NAD, and the real science behind GLP 1 and GIP medications such as semaglutide and tirzepatide. Shawn and Dr. Hogan unpack why nutrition, hormone optimization and gut health have to come first, how to avoid wasting money on unregulated research peptides, and the exact questions you should ask any provider before starting a protocol. Whether you are chasing weight loss, faster recovery, better sleep or long term longevity, this episode hands you a real framework instead of Instagram hype.

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Confidence is not something you are born without, it is a skill most people were never taught, and that is exactly the gap Shawn Lynch and confidence coach Julee Gracey close in this conversation. If you have ever frozen up in front of a camera, gone blank mid sentence, or told yourself you are just not a confident person, this episode will change how you think about all of it.

Julee Gracey grew up on a farm before becoming a business coach, keynote speaker, and author of Highly Confident, and she has spent years teaching entrepreneurs and everyday communicators how tonality, pacing, and the power of a well placed pause can completely change the way a message lands. Throughout the episode, Shawn and Julee break down why confidence is something every person is born with rather than something you either have or do not have, how to get comfortable on camera using simple tricks like standing up and picturing a friend's face behind the lens, why cutting filler words like um and uh takes consistent practice rather than a single fix, and how storytelling, body language, and vulnerability turn an ordinary presentation into one people actually remember. Julee also shares the exact communication skills she teaches inside her Confidence on Camera Academy, along with practical advice on setting boundaries, saying no without guilt, and pricing conversations that build trust instead of pressure.

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In this episode of the Success Formula Podcast, host Shawn Lynch sits down with former 7-Eleven and Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes to unpack the real decisions behind two of the biggest turnarounds and one of the most misunderstood collapses in American retail history. If you have ever wondered how a $4 stock became a $40 stock, or what really happened inside the boardroom as Blockbuster fought Netflix for survival, this conversation pulls back the curtain.

Jim Keyes explains how he used raw data and individual store level analytics to break ten years of declining sales at 7-Eleven, why Blockbuster intentionally kept new releases out of stock, and how the 2008 financial crisis derailed a streaming deal that could have beaten Netflix to the punch. Shawn Lynch and Jim dig into the mindset behind embracing change, the concept that change equals opportunity, and the leadership framework of change, confidence and clarity that Jim used to turn around two Fortune 500 companies. They also explore what Jim calls the caveman brain, the natural resistance to change that holds so many leaders and teams back from making the decisions that actually grow a business.

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Business scaling destroys most founders for one reason: they are the bottleneck and not the glue holding everything together. Randa Carrabba joins Shawn Lynch to explain what it really costs to keep control of every decision yourself, and what happens to your revenue, your health, and your family the moment you finally let go.

Randa takes us from a town of 876 people to becoming one of the fastest-growing Aggie-owned businesses by age 27, then straight through the layoff, the storefront closure, and the 1.4 million dollar app build that ended with her husband, her team, and her therapist removing her from her own operations. She breaks down how full-body progressive overload training grew “Powher Fit” into a seven figure fitness brand in under 18 months, why her empowerment coaches are everyday women instead of certified trainers, and how she now helps women founders move from 20,000 dollar months to 100,000 dollar months by restructuring the business instead of stacking more onto their plate. Shawn and Randa also dig into founder burnout, lean profit over vanity revenue, and the difference between being busy and doing the work that actually moves the needle.

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Truth BBQ was built on two thousand dollars, zero sleep, and a decade of obsession, and this episode of Success Formula pulls back the curtain on exactly how it happened. Host Shawn Lynch sits down with Leonard Botello IV and Abbie Botello, founders of Truth BBQ, to unpack how they turned a two-table shack in Brenham into one of Houston's most awarded barbecue restaurants, and why this conversation matters right now for anyone building something of their own.

Leonard and Abbie walk through the early days of running Truth BBQ on almost no sleep, the two thousand dollar smoker pit that started it all, and the discipline required to earn a spot on the Texas Monthly Top 50 Barbecue list. They talk candidly about surviving the pandemic, the tax and insurance mistakes that nearly sank the business, the hardest hiring lessons they learned while scaling a small barbecue joint into a Houston institution, and why they have deliberately chosen not to expand into multiple locations. Shawn digs into how authenticity, word of mouth, and relentless consistency built a brand that Michelin, Texas Monthly, and thousands of loyal customers now recognize.

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