DissedMedia: A Startup Story
DissedMedia: A Startup Story is a podcast that chronicles the start of DissedMedia and takes listeners along for the journey starting from the first week the company was founded. This podcast is about what a founder goes through trying to start a business and is meant to be a learning tool for anyone interested in starting a business of their own. Listen as founder Ben Olmos and his co-founding board work to take DissedMedia from concept to reality.
Episodes
Kurt Uhlir has spent a career watching companies confuse activity with progress, and on this episode of Dissed Media he sits down with Ben Olmos to explain what servant leadership actually looks like once a company moves past the idea stage and into the hard, unglamorous work of scaling. Uhlir currently serves as chief marketing officer of Easy Home Search, and across a career that includes an $880 million IPO, dozens of acquisitio...
Jack Oujo spent eight years chasing a Major League umpiring career before a release letter ended it at age 30, broke and with a baby on the way. He turned that setback into one of the most successful careers in wealth management, and in this episode he shares the exact strategies behind it.
How do you get an AI search engine to recommend your podcast? Mitch Carson, known as the instant celebrity maker, joins the show to answer that question and walk through 40-plus years of media experience, from radio and television to podcasting and AI search visibility. Mitch and Ben break down the podcast workflow that keeps a show running consistently, why most po...
Growth without protection is a trap. Attorney and asset protection coach Scherrie L. Prince joins Ben to break down the asset protection strategies entrepreneurs skip until something goes wrong, from choosing the right entity structure to building an estate plan that actually matches your business.
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Kati Peterman, founder of Your FRX, has worked with over 1,200 businesses and helped them scale into multiple seven and eight figure revenue. In this episode she breaks down the SIPOC framework her team uses with every client, covering suppliers, input, process, output, and customer journey, and explains why response time is the single biggest revenue leak she sees ...
On this episode of Dissed Media: A Startup Story, Ben talks sales motivation and sales execution with Drewbie Wilson, founder of Call The Damn Leads and five-time author who has generated over $15 million in sales. They dig into why most business leaders don't have a lead problem, they have an execution problem, and how self discipline outside of work builds sales c...
How do you monetize a podcast and turn it into a real business? In this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, host Ben Olmos talks with Adam Torres, founder of Mission Matters and host of 15 shows with thousands of interviews behind him. Adam breaks down how to monetize a podcast from day one through live events, book publishing, PR, and paid guest experiences instead of waiting on downloads and CPM. He shares his journey from a...
Some of the most knowledgeable professionals in their fields are nearly impossible to find online. In this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, host Ben Olmos sits down with Ashley Smith, a former realtor of 18 years turned personal branding strategist who studies what she calls the proof gap, the distance between what you know and what shows up when someone sea...
Most founders lose their best hours to the back office. Chore founder and angel investor Adam Spector explains how back office outsourcing hands HR, finance, compliance, payroll, and bookkeeping to a fractional team that runs all of it for you, so you get your time back for product and customers.
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What does it actually take to reinvent yourself after your career pulls the rug out from under you? Andrew Brummer found out at 53 — no degree, no external network, and a company that was winding down after a decade of his best operational work. In this episode, he breaks down how he rebuilt from scratch, why he became a double author and co-founder of multiple companies, and what it means to make yourself operationally dispe...
What if your next client already trusted you before they ever called your office? That's the outcome Dennis "DM" Meador has been engineering for attorneys and professionals for the past two years, and it starts with a podcast.
Dennis is the founder of The Legal Podcast Network and The Authority Podcast Network. He has built a system that runs 250 shows and produces 350 episodes a month with a team of 75. His approach flips the trad...
What separates a business that scales from one that stays stuck? In episode 76 of Dissed Media: A Startup Story, Ben Olmos sits down with Mark Gordon, founder of Integrated Go-To-Market Solutions, to break down the go-to-market strategy that turns struggling companies into growth machines.
Mark grew ...
Wondering how to patent an idea and protect your intellectual property before someone else profits from it? In this episode of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, host Ben Olmos talks with patent attorney Austin Bonderer, who brings 25 years of experience, more than 700 secured US patents, and an insider's view from his years as a USPTO patent examiner.
What if you could step away from your business for a month and come back to find it ran perfectly without you?
In this episode, Ben Olmos sits down with Ral West, an entrepreneur who spent 25 years building a Hawaii travel company into a charter airline flying 35,000 passe...
What if the biggest obstacle to your success isn't your strategy, your market, or your competition but the beliefs you inherited before you ever started a business?
Randy Gage knows this firsthand. He went from a jail cell as a teenager to becoming a Speaker Hall of Famer,...
In Episode 20 of DissedMedia: A Startup Story, host Ben reflects on a challenging period for his media company, DissedMedia. He openly shares his journey through personal hardships, such as the loss of his father, which affected his momentum and motivation. Despite these setbacks, Ben continues to explore ways to grow his business and connect with his niche audience. In this episode, he emphasizes the value of persistence, the impo...
Welcome to another episode of DissedMedia's Startup Story, where we dive deep into the journeys of entrepreneurs and the businesses they’ve built and scaled. In this episode, we’re thrilled to have Herb Cogliano, an International Executive Business Coach and seasoned entrepreneur, who shares his insights on the Scaling Up methodology and its transformative impact on businesses.
Show Notes:
- [00:00:00] Introduction ...
Ben and Alan discuss their journey with DisedMedia, including recent guest contributions, the focus on daily content publication, and efforts to optimize the website for search engines. They highlight the use of social media tools for content distribution, the importance of SEO, and their goal to reach operational break-even. They also touch on feedback from the community, the potential of content to make a positive impact, and fut...
Ken Arrington discusses his journey from a successful corporate sales job to living a life of mission and faith. Ken shares his experiences with the commercialization of churches, emphasizing the importance of separating the profit motive from the purpose motive, especially in nonprofit organizations. He talks about his disillusionment with the business model many churches adopt and his efforts to serve communities genuinely withou...
Episode 16 of "DissedMedia A Startup Story" features Ben Olmos and his co-host Alan Landry who are joined by board members Keith Watts and special guest Danyelle Jinks. This episode focuses on Danyelle's professional journey and her expertise in change management and coaching. Key themes include the challenges and strategies of managing change in organizations, Danyelle's career path, the unique challenges faced by women and people...
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