The Real Jason Duncan Podcast

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast is a conversation about what's actually real. Every guest gets the same question at the center of the episode: what did you use to believe that turned out to be completely wrong? The people in the chair have earned a point of view. Entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, pastors, investors, builders of things that worked and things that didn't. They talk about the lies they were told by family, culture, or their own industry, the years they spent believing them, and what finally changed their mind. Host Jason Duncan is an entrepreneur, author of Exit Without Exiting, and founder of The Exiter Club™. He asks direct questions and doesn't let easy answers slide. Every episode ends the same way: what do you know now that you wish the world knew? New episodes every week.

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October 26, 2026 • 37 mins
Everybody who's ever built or renovated a house tells the same story. The blown timeline, the blown budget, the contractor who stopped answering the phone. And everybody in the business says the same sentence about it: that's just how it is. It isn't. Construction is complicated. Chaos is a choice somebody made. Jasmine and Jed Chambers started JASPER, a luxury design-build company in Nashville, in 2020. Jed has worked in constru...
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You've heard that nice guys finish last since you were a kid. Leo Durocher, the man who gets credit for it, never said it. In 1946 he said the nice guys were in seventh place, and when Baseball Digest reprinted the column that fall, somebody changed "seventh" to "last." In this episode, Jason reads this week's What's Real? article and puts the saying to a real test. Back in 1980, a political scientist named Robert Axelrod set up ...
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October 19, 2026 • 39 mins
Your life blows up. Diagnosis, divorce, the business goes under, whatever it is. And the first thing you do is try to get back to who you were before. Everybody does. It doesn't work. You're not getting that person back, and the people who actually recover are the ones who stop trying. Nir Peled was on a video call in his home office when the stroke hit. He faked a bad internet connection so he wouldn't have to speak, and by the ...
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October 14, 2026 • 15 mins
The 10,000-hour rule came from one study of violin students in Berlin, published in 1993. The man who ran that study spent the rest of his life saying Malcolm Gladwell misread it. Jason has read every book Gladwell has written, and Outliers might be his favorite. So when he went looking at the research behind the most famous idea in it and found out the number was an average, half the top violinists hadn't reached it, and those s...
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October 12, 2026 • 38 mins
You know how rich people got rich. Somebody got cheated, somebody smaller got stepped on. My guest grew up believing every word of that, then became a millionaire himself and found out who's actually funding the help he used to need. Anthony Trucks went into foster care at three years old and was adopted at fourteen. He grew up in a house where the rule about money got said out loud, more than once: if somebody has a million dolla...
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Benjamin Franklin wrote "time is money" in 1748 as advice to a shopkeeper about a wasted afternoon. America turned it into a way of life, and the research says it's been costing us ever since. This is episode 400, and the first Wednesday edition Jason has ever put on video. Every hundred episodes he's done something different, and this time he opens with why the show exists at all: what he noticed in 350 interviews with successfu...
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Every business owner believes there's a stage where it finally gets easier. Build the systems, hire the right people, and one day the thing runs without you. Erik Huberman has spent twelve years building a company that has scaled more than 5,000 brands, and he says that stage does not exist. Erik Huberman is the founder and CEO of Hawke Media, which he started with no outside money in 2014 and still owns 100 percent of today. Bef...
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September 30, 2026 • 13 mins
Somewhere in your phone or on a whiteboard in your office, there's a number and a date. The number is what you think you need. The date is when you finally get to stop. But say the word retire out loud and try to describe what it actually means for a Tuesday in your life. Most people can describe the picture from the commercial. Very few can describe the Tuesday. Jason traces where the idea actually came from, and corrects the ver...
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September 28, 2026 • 39 mins
Work hard enough and stay loyal to what you built, and it will work out. Rich Tarity believed that right up until he sat down with his two business partners at a Philadelphia cheesesteak joint and slid a separation agreement across the table. Rich Tarity has spent 27 years building technology companies. He has founded, scaled, and exited multiple businesses, including one he grew past $10 million in revenue. Today he is the co-fo...
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September 23, 2026 • 11 mins
Somebody wealthy gets caught doing something rotten, and within a day you'll hear it. See? Money is the root of all evil. It gets said with a little satisfaction, usually by people who don't have much of it, and almost nobody who says it has ever looked up the verse they're quoting. Jason walks through First Timothy chapter six the way Paul actually wrote it, including the progression Paul builds from false teaching to using godl...
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You've heard this rule your whole career. If you want to build something real you have to be where it's happening, in a city that matters, close enough to the right people that they know your face. Cory Blumenfeld built an audience of 70,000 people and the company he runs today from a block off the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Cory Blumenfeld has started five companies and raised close to $5 million along the way. Today he ...
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The deal dies three days before closing. You've got four months in it, you've already told your wife, and somebody who cares about you says the thing everybody says. Well, everything happens for a reason. Jason takes that sentence apart. Not the theology of it, and not whether God authors every event, but what the phrase actually does to the person hearing it, and what it does to you when you say it about your own life. Becau...
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September 14, 2026 • 42 mins
In the church, there's one sin everybody calls forgivable and then treats like it isn't. Divorce. Jim Lange believed that for years, built his life around it, and then ended up on the other side of the line he'd spent his whole life telling himself never to cross. Jim Lange is a coach, a speaker, and the number one bestselling author of The Happy Wife Happy Life Deception. He leads Kingdom Factor roundtables for more than 70 Chr...
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September 9, 2026 • 11 mins
In April of 2007, Arianna Huffington collapsed in her office, hit her desk on the way down, and broke her cheekbone. Her doctors tested her for everything. The diagnosis came back as burnout. What almost nobody repeats is what she said afterward, and it wasn't about her health. She said her performance would actually have improved if she'd committed to unplugging and recovering. She isn't saying she should have built a smaller com...
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September 8, 2026 • 43 mins
The most repeated formula in business says you build a company in this order: people first, then product, then process, and profit comes last. Neil Amrhein hired 4,800 people living by that formula. Today he builds in the exact reverse order, and people come last. In this episode, Jason sits down with Neil Amrhein, founder of My Goat, a Nashville software company using semi-autonomous robotic mowers to disrupt commercial lawn care...
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September 2, 2026 • 10 mins
Most people can name the last time more money genuinely changed their life. What almost nobody can explain is why it stopped, or why they kept chasing the next number anyway. Jason opens with a scene from his last year teaching school, doing budget math at a McDonald's counter while his son hunted for the most expensive thing on the menu. Then he traces what happened after the money showed up: a thirty-eight thousand dollar teachi...
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August 31, 2026 • 43 mins
Somewhere around age twelve, you were told that school would teach you how to learn. It didn't. Sabrina Sussman has two degrees and runs a $3.1 billion program, and she says the skill her whole career runs on is one no classroom ever taught her. Recorded live at the Standard Club in front of the Leadership Society, this episode starts with the lie and lands in the middle of everything happening in Nashville right now. Sabrina is t...
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"I'm too set in my ways." You've said it. I've said it. And it sounds like a man who finally knows himself. It's a lie, and your own brain proves it. In this Wednesday Special Edition, I take apart one of the most comfortable excuses people give for why they've stopped growing: you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I start with the settled brain science. Neuroplasticity proves your capacity to learn and change doesn't shut off a...
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She ran the numbers on more than a hundred businesses for sale, and kept seeing the same thing: founders with growing revenue who were certain that made their companies valuable. The buyers writing the checks didn't agree. In this episode, Jason sits down with Muriel Touati, founder of Exit 3D Studio and author of The Valuation Gap: What Buyers See That Sellers Miss. Muriel spent a year on the buyer's side of the table, and she te...
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I teach focus for a living, and this week I became the exact problem I'm about to warn you about. Laptop open, three AI tools running, jumping between all of them all day, and getting less done on every single one. Multitasking feels like productivity, especially now that AI has made it easier than ever to run five things at once. But it's a lie, and in this Wednesday Special Edition I break down exactly why. I walk through the S...
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