The Check-In

Luke Pisacane sent the same volume of cold emails for eight months and his revenue never moved.

Luke Pisacane started a pay per lead business in his frat house in his senior year of college, saved from working at Jersey Mike's. He sent the same number of cold outreach emails every month for eight straight months and his revenue stayed completely flat. A mentor looked at his Stripe account and pointed out it had been the same for nine months. Luke doubled and tripled his email volume, the exact change the mentor told him to make.

Luke wants the mentorship to reach $100,000 a month within a couple of months, and his info product to scale to seven figures a month.

Chapters
0:00 Starting a pay per lead business
2:12 Senior year with no social life
4:33 Losing friends to the grind
12:42 Stagnant for eight months on cold email
15:14 The mentor who read his Stripe account
19:57 Deciding to teach what he built
24:28 Launching the mentorship
28:57 Advice on taking messy action

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Daden Gabrysz had a client named Jake close a $60,000 deal on one call after deleting a single belief.

Daden Gabrysz worked at LA Fitness making $15 an hour before buying a $27 sales training book. He stopped attaching his worth to his income and traced results back to the beliefs showing up on his calls. He realised that the missing piece was not more technique but the inner belief work behind every call. He now coaches closers in sessions of 12 to 15 hours spread across five days.

He plans to build a community for closers over the next 12 months so the change from each session holds.

Chapters
0:00 Performance coach for closers
1:10 Fifteen bucks an hour at LA Fitness
6:37 Capped at ten grand a month
10:23 Why sales ability is not inborn
15:37 Jake closes a sixty grand deal
20:12 Fifteen hours instead of years of therapy
21:30 Building a community of closers
24:27 The advice he would give himself

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Joey Lewand built an Iron Man coaching business from college and doubted why a 50 year old client would sign with him.

Joey Lewand got into endurance sport through his father, who used to race these events, and started his coaching business about a year ago. Joey now works with 10 to 25 athletes at a time depending on the season.

Joey plans to merge his business with another Iron Man coach by the end of 2026 and start in person training camps.

Chapters
0:00 Meeting Joey Lewand
1:10 From intern to online coach
8:00 Finding the biggest mover
11:10 From powerlifting to triathlon
13:47 Hiring a business coach
18:05 Beating imposter syndrome
21:58 Advice on consistency and failure
23:54 Where to find Joey

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Casper ran ads for his mum's accounting company for free, and she insisted on paying him for the work.

Casper started by running ads for his mum's accounting company while still trying e-commerce on the side. She insisted on paying him, and he realised that was the only thing actually making him money. He went all in on the marketing agency and spent a month doing around 6,000 cold calls. He booked two meetings, one showed up, and that person became his first client at £3,000 a month.

He plans to ramp up ad spend and hire people to manage LinkedIn and cold call so the business runs without him.

Chapters
0:00 Who is Casper
1:09 Years of failed business models
1:47 His mum insists on paying him
2:09 Six thousand cold calls in a month
3:46 Figuring out the first client
4:10 Running ads to scale
6:10 Moving into consulting
11:07 Launching the mentorship
14:12 Revenue goals and next steps
19:57 Why cold calling still works

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Cruze Gomez walks in as a five-year drop shipper who started at nineteen, selling products through Meta and TikTok after leaving home and choosing entrepreneurship over school.

He lays out the gauntlet: kicked out at nineteen, sleeping in a 400 square foot garage, quitting a cereal sales job when his bank hit $8,800, losing his ten thousand dollar buffer to failed product tests, then rebuilding on shark slides, an electric razor rebrand, and a SundaySkin pivot.

The conversation lands on what he now wants from himself: less pump and dump, more team, and a brand that earns the foundation he has spent five years fighting for.

Chapters
0:00 The 400 Square Foot Garage That Started Everything
5:17 The Six Thousand Dollar Webinar He Could Not Afford
10:57 The Drunk Forty-One Year Old Who Forced The Quit
15:21 Saving Ten Grand And Walking Away From The Cereal Route
20:22 Shark Slides, Shopify Holds And The Day Money Finally Moved
24:56 Christmas Day, Fifty Six Grand And The Empty Success After
28:31 Meeting Dennis In New York And The Twenty Percent Scam That Followed
39:42 Matcha Collagen, Blind Apartment Hunting And A Stolen Goyard
55:11 The Real Goal Now, Hire A Team Worthy Of The Vision

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Domenico worked in a warehouse from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m., carrying boxes of powder up and down stairs.

Back in Sheffield with no money, he spent six months on bad offers making $1,000, $500 or nothing. Domenico went from minus 15 dollars to a seven point eight K paycheck in the same month after taking the offer. Mason and his sales manager onboarded him on a call that same day with no interview process.

Domenico plans to hit 25,000 dollars a month by following a reverse-engineered tracking sheet of daily non-negotiables. He is not leaving his room in Bali until those daily numbers are hit.

Chapters
0:00 Warehouse boxes to closer
2:11 Quitting for Thailand
3:48 Meeting Mason in the gym
6:04 Six months in Sheffield
6:55 The offer that changed everything
8:53 Locking in at the Bali villa
10:35 Spotting a good offer
12:51 The 25k a month plan
21:18 The diamond mining mindset

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Daria left a 10-year corporate job after it was sold, and rebuilt her marketing career as the founder of a boutique agency in Brussels.

She had more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience but could not figure out her service offering at the start. She scrapped her website and her strategy two or three times before she focused the agency purely on marketing. Two years in, Daria runs the agency from Belgium with a solid client base built around her lifestyle.

Over the next six months to a year, she will pivot her focus to customers outside Europe who want to enter the European market.

Chapters
0:00 Two years in Brussels
1:32 Finding the right service
4:54 Push to go independent
9:32 Her marketing style
14:15 Client fit and relationships
19:49 Advice on difficult clients
22:35 Goals for the next year
28:15 Final advice for marketers

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Ibrahim was a boy walking to the shop in Nigeria when a car pulled up, a gate opened, and a mansion appeared behind it.

Ibrahim grew up poor in Nigeria, where property meant wealth to him from childhood. He worked his way up at the largest property investment firm in the city of London, then quit in 2021 to build his own Airbnb business. He took a family hit when his mother went into intensive care and was made to feel bad for asking for time off, while his wife was pregnant. He jumped into building an Airbnb business in 2021, and his first two and a half months produced no deals while bills kept coming. He now runs ads for his own students and secured three properties in one week when he tested the campaign himself.

He plans to double the business over the next year by turning the marketing up now that the product is built out. He is also working to reduce his mentorship price from £4,000 to lower the barrier to entry.

Chapters
0:00 The gate in Nigeria
2:46 Walking into every agent
3:44 Leaving the corporate world
4:30 How property has changed
10:18 Why landlords are selling
12:23 Why Airbnb makes sense now
13:44 Why he started coaching
15:55 The mentorship offer
18:41 Avoiding bad courses
24:21 Partnering with landlords
26:32 Running ads for students
28:48 What has changed in two years
31:52 Goals for the year ahead
35:16 Advice to his younger self
38:28 Advice for new entrepreneurs

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Lev started in online business two years ago with dropshipping, then moved into marketing because everyone was doing it.

His first client, signed through cold DMs, was a pretty negative experience. He spent a year with an empty profile, scared to post content and worried what his friends would think. He tried cold DMs, cold calling and cold email, then settled on posting organic content mixed with ads. He moved from streetwear brands to luxury clothing brands, which had clearer standards and bigger budgets. Lev now runs an agency in Dubai focused on luxury clothing brands and is starting to delegate work to others.

For the next quarter, Lev plans to filter out demanding and sceptical clients and double down on luxury brands that understand marketing.

Chapters
0:00 Who is Lev
0:33 From dropshipping to marketing
2:34 Switching to organic content
5:11 Moving into luxury brands
7:50 Undercharging trap
10:23 Too many agencies
13:04 Where AI fits in
18:29 Delegating and hiring
24:03 Next quarter and beyond

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Jaden started a marketing business in late 2024 in Louisiana.

He kept the business faceless through 2025 and found people could not trust a brand with no face behind it. A client with impossible expectations disputed his payment, pulling him through a full chargeback fight. He started posting his face on TikTok in early 2026 and inbound leads came in fast. He raised his entry package from $400 to $525 and started firing the clients stuck on old prices.

Over the next four to five months he plans to scale up client quality and build a five to ten person outreach team.

Chapters
0:00 Starting at fourteen
2:05 First client through family
3:18 Cold DM to cold call
4:21 Going face-led in 2026
5:54 TikTok growth playbook
7:12 Raising the offer
9:30 Firing bottom-tier clients
12:20 Building systems in Go High Level
18:47 Setbacks with low quality clients
22:01 Next six to twelve months
26:00 Never get comfortable

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