Cut The Tie | Own Your Success
Cut The Tie | Own Your Success reveals how high performers think, decide, and overcome obstacles—so you can apply one actionable idea each week. Each short episode (<10 minutes) features one guest, the tie they cut, and a concrete step you can use now. For the full story, every episode links to the complete YouTube interview. Insights focus on four areas where people “cut ties”: Finances, Relationships, Health, and Faith. Guests span operators and outliers—CEOs, entrepreneurs, executives, athletes, creators, scientists, and community leaders—people who’ve cut real ties and can show you how. Do this next Follow the podcast (or visit podcast.cutthetie.com) Play your first episode Leave a 5-star review Share with a friend who’s ready to cut a tie Own your success. Cut the tie. Thomas Helfrich Host & Founder
Episodes
Cut The Tie Podcast with Eshan Patel
What does success look like when you are 17, still in high school, and already building like a seasoned founder?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Eshan Patel, a high school junior, 1600 SAT scorer, and founder of Foundora who has already raised over $100K in seed funding. Eshan shares how a year volunteering in India changed his perspective on opportun...
Cut the Tie Podcast with John Teichert, Brigadier General (ret)
What happens when a lifetime of structure, service, and leadership gives way to the question, “What comes next?”
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich welcomes back John “The Dragon” Teichert, a retired Air Force leader, former fighter pilot, test pilot, speaker, author, and national security expert. Together, they explore what success looks lik...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Balki Kodarapu
What happens when a company knows it needs technical leadership but does not need a four hundred thousand dollar CTO sitting in a chair full time?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Balki Kodarapu, a fractional CTO who helps founders and CEOs scale engineering teams without overhiring or overbuilding. Balki breaks down why most companies do not fail b...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Elizabeth Wu
What happens when the people ultimately responsible for a company’s survival are the least informed about its biggest risk?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Elizabeth Wu, a lifelong entrepreneur, IT auditor, and inventor who has spent four decades building businesses without ever working for someone else. Elizabeth breaks down why data breaches keep h...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Michelle Griffin
What happens when founders try to save money by handling HR themselves and end up risking everything they built?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Michelle Griffin, founder of Griffin Resources, to unpack one of the most dangerous blind spots in small and midsize businesses. HR mistakes rarely show up as problems at first. They show up later as law...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Dan Rosenblatt
What happens when performance stops working and success still feels hollow?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Dan Rosenblatt, founder of Seventy Two Ministries, commercial insurance business owner, and coach to business leaders who feel deeply out of alignment. Dan’s story cuts straight to the heart of what many high performing men experience but rar...
Cut The Tie Podcast with John Brink
What does success really look like when you are eighty five years old, still building companies, competing in bodybuilding, writing books, and hosting hundreds of podcasts?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with John Brink, an entrepreneur, author, and podcaster whose life story spans war time Europe, immigration to Canada with almost nothing, decades of busi...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Rob Rene
What happens when the life you planned disappears in an instant, and the system you trusted starts to look broken? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Rob Rene to talk about faith, health, and purpose, and how anger can either consume you or become fuel for meaningful action.
Rob shares a deeply personal journey that includes surviving a near fatal accident,...
What if the biggest thing holding you back financially is not your income, your discipline, or your business, but the system you were handed without ever questioning it?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Mark Willis, a Certified Financial Planner who challenges the default American money playbook. Mark explains why banks quietly control most people’s financial lives, how debt and cash bot...
What happens when leadership advice sounds good on paper but fails the moment real pressure shows up? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Dr Rosie Ward to unpack why quick fixes, check-the-box training, and surface-level leadership development continue to fail modern organizations.
Rosie explains why disruption is not slowing down, why human behavior is the real bottleneck in scaling leader...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Kelly Dowd
What happens when success stops being about metrics and starts being about meaning?
In this thoughtful and deeply human episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Kelly Dowd, Nigerian-American designer, author, and founder of Design Inc., to explore identity, creativity, and the courage it takes to silence noise.
Kelly shares his journey from fashion, pageantry, and corpo...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Brian Carmody
What happens when critical infrastructure grows faster than the systems meant to support it? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Brian Carmody to explore the unseen strain data centers are placing on power grids across the country—and why relying on the grid alone is becoming a liability.
Brian shares how his journey from the military to corporate leade...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Patrice Lynn
What happens when you have spent decades trusting yourself, building skills, and creating your own path, and then you realize it is time to walk away again, even without a clear plan?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Patrice Lynn, a lifelong entrepreneur, trainer, and personal development expert who is leaving her State of California role after f...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Justin Kuyper
For decades, hedge fund and private equity strategies were reserved for institutions and ultra-wealthy investors. In this episode of Cut The Tie, host Thomas Helfrich sits down with Justin Kuyper, founder of OpenVest, to break down why access to sophisticated investment strategies has been limited—and how technology and regulation are finally changing that reality.
Justin shares ...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Henry Yoshida
Most executives spend decades earning, saving, and investing money without ever truly understanding where their capital sits or how much control they actually have over it.
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Henry Yoshida, CEO and co-founder of Rocket Dollar, to unpack the mindset shift that separates passive investing from intentional ownership. Henry...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Chuck Hall
What if the way you see the world differently is exactly what makes you a better leader?
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Chuck Hall, a business coach and organizational consultant who brings a rare and powerful perspective to leadership. Diagnosed as autistic, Chuck explains how his ability to recognize patterns, communicate directly, and remember conv...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Robert Kennedy III
Most business owners are exhausted from pitching, cold outreach, and trying to prove their value. Robert Kennedy III believes the real problem is not effort. It is communication.
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Robert shares his journey from high school teacher to entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of Kinetic Communications. He explains why storytelling and connection outper...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Erin Khan
Construction is one of the most critical industries in the world—and one of the hardest to change. Erin Khan has spent her career working directly inside that tension.
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Erin shares her journey from civil engineering to leading construction innovation initiatives, and eventually launching her own consulting practice. She explains why technology adoption ...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller has lived on the front lines of sales. Cold calls. Door knocking. Endless outreach. The grind most people never see but everyone feels.
Then the game changed.
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Ryan explains why modern outreach is broken, how over-automation has destroyed trust, and why AI only works when it amplifies human judgment instead of replacing it. From building an...
Cut The Tie Podcast with Jeff Burningham
Jeff Burningham has lived on the front edge of success. Serial entrepreneur. Venture investor. Builder of billion-dollar businesses. A candidate for governor. A life defined by scale, momentum, and achievement.
Then the stage collapsed.
In this episode of Cut The Tie, Jeff shares how stepping away from business and politics forced him inward and why the rise of artificial intell...
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