Everything They Don't Tell You
Everything They Don’t Tell You is candid business podcast for growth-minded leaders and entrepreneurs focused on the truth about business, leadership, and becoming who you're meant to be. Hosted by Josh Zolin, Everything They Don't Tell You goes beyond surface tips to the mental, emotional, and human challenges behind scaling and leading well. Featuring conversations with John Lee Dumas, Amy Morin, David Meltzer, Dr. Gay Hendricks, Blake Erickson, Dr. Robert Glover, Ken Rusk, and more. New episodes drop every Tuesday.
Episodes
September 15, 2026 • 93 mins
The man who spent his career keeping elite athletes healthy nearly lost his own life because he missed what was happening inside his own body.
Justin Roethlingshoefer has worked with Stanley Cup champions, Olympians, and some of the best athletes in the world. His job was to keep them at their peak. Then his doctors told him he wouldn't live to see 35.
Four precancerous polyps. A bleeding precancerous ulcer. And a body that looke...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
September 8, 2026 • 94 mins
Exhaustion is not proof that you are working harder. It may be the reason your best work is getting worse.
In this episode, Josh sits down with Dr. Michael Breus, widely known as The Sleep Doctor, to unpack what high performers consistently misunderstand about sleep.
Dr. Breus explains why entrepreneurs often sleep differently, how your chronotype affects the best time to focus, create, exercise, and recover, and why the time you w...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
September 1, 2026 • 32 mins
Why does getting older make us more afraid that we will never reach our potential?
In his first ETDTY solo episode, Josh Zolin examines four forces behind that pressure: legacy, proof, joy, and impact. He explores why some forms of ambition are rooted in fear, why others come from love, and how constantly moving the goalpost can make even meaningful success feel empty.
This is a personal examination of achievement, self-worth, al...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
August 25, 2026 • 59 mins
Why do people say yes when they don't want to?
And what separates influence from manipulation?
Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion and Pre-suasion, joins the show to break down the seven universal principles that shape human decision making.
This conversation isn't about tricks or tactics. It's about trust. It's about how people really make decisions, how leaders move people without manipulatin...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
August 18, 2026 • 77 mins
What if the way you speak is not fixed?
Speech and communication coach Myles Usher Doyle has worked with some of the most recognizable voices in podcasting, health, and digital media, including Chris Williamson of Modern Wisdom, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, and Heidi Somers.
In this episode, Myles joins the show for a conversation about voice, presence, fear, and the hidden reason so many capable people struggle to be heard.
Myles explains ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
August 11, 2026 • 98 mins
When the thing you built becomes your identity, losing it can feel like losing yourself.
Anthony Trucks spent 13 years turning himself into an NFL player. Then football disappeared, and the identity underneath it nearly collapsed too.
His business struggled. His marriage fell apart. He lost his health, his status, and nearly himself.
In this conversation, Anthony and I unpack the invisible machinery of identity: why we confuse ours...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
August 4, 2026 • 91 mins
Most founders start a business to create freedom. Then they build one that cannot function without them.
I started this conversation with a question I have had to ask myself:
Why do so many founders say they want to scale, then build a company that cannot function without them?
Cameron Herold knows the cost of that contradiction.
At 34, his health, marriage, family life, and business were all under extraordinary pressure. He thoug...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
July 28, 2026 • 96 mins
Most people aren't stuck because they don't know what to do. They're stuck because doing it requires them to confront the truth. Nick Anderson knows what it means to move through the thing you never thought you could survive.
At 10 years old, Nick lost his father to suicide. Years later, his wife was struck by a car while they were taking a walk and did not survive. Nick was left to raise two young boys while battling grief, depres...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
July 21, 2026 • 87 mins
The fears you recognize may not be the ones controlling you. Executive leadership coach and author Hortense le Gentil joins Josh Zolin to uncover the hidden beliefs, inherited expectations, and "mind traps" quietly shaping how we lead and live.
Hortense explains why perfectionism can become a trap, how fear of failure disguises itself as ambition, and why having more success, money, or power rarely silences the internal battle. She...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
July 14, 2026 • 65 mins
At 42, Brad Leavitt had a stroke that changed the way he thinks about time, pressure, family, and leadership. In this episode, he and Josh talk about the wake-up call that forced him to rebuild his life with more intention.
Brad Leavitt is the founder of AFT Construction and host of The Brad Leavitt Podcast. In this episode of Everything They Don't Tell You, Brad joins Josh Zolin for a raw conversation about leadership, pressure, h...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
July 7, 2026 • 95 mins
Rachel Medina built a seven-figure business after 40, after divorce, and after unimaginable loss. This conversation is about grief, faith, hustle, stewardship, and what success can never replace.
Rachel Medina is an entrepreneur, podcast host, TEDx speaker, and mentor to women everywhere.
In this episode, Rachel joins Josh Zolin for a raw conversation about rebuilding life and business after loss. She shares how she built a seven-f...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
June 30, 2026 • 66 mins
Dr. Eben Alexander was a neurosurgeon who believed the brain created consciousness. Then a seven-day coma changed everything he thought he knew about death, identity, and why we are here.
In this episode of Everything They Don't Tell You, Josh Zolin sits down with Dr. Eben Alexander, neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven, to explore one of the most profound questions we can ask: what happens when this life ends?
Dr. Alexander ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
June 23, 2026 • 78 mins
Blake Erickson made serious money young. He experienced retirement at 26. Then he realized something most entrepreneurs never want to admit: Success can feel empty when you're playing the wrong game.
In this episode of Everything They Don't Tell You, Josh Zolin sits down with Blake Erickson, New York Times bestselling author and founder of scaling.com, for a raw conversation about focus, ego, purpose, leadership, and what it actual...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
June 16, 2026 • 95 mins
What if the biggest thing holding your business back is you?
In this episode of Everything They Don't Tell You, Josh Zolin sits down with Charles Gaudet to talk about the founder trap, predictable growth, leverage, systems, and what it really takes to build a business that can run without you.
Charles breaks down why hard work alone is not enough, why word of mouth and referrals eventually hit a ceiling, and how founders can start ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
June 9, 2026 • 75 mins
Morgan Haynes is the CEO of Tribal Health, a national healthcare organization focused on bringing advanced care models to underserved rural and Indigenous communities.
In this episode of Everything They Don't Tell You, Morgan joins Josh Zolin for a raw conversation about leadership, identity, alignment, and what feminine leadership really means.
This is not a conversation about gender.
It is about the traits leaders are often taugh...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
June 2, 2026 • 76 mins
Most business owners think they have a money problem. Claudio Gambin says the real problem is usually structure, strategy, and the owner becoming the bottleneck.
In this episode of Everything They Don't Tell You, Josh Zolin sits down with Claudio Gambin of GFG Solutions to talk about the truth behind money, taxes, growth, risk, and legacy for business owners.
Claudio breaks down why so much financial advice misses the mark for entr...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
May 26, 2026 • 109 mins
Most owners are not broke because they refuse to work hard. They are broke because they refuse to face the numbers.
In this episode of Everything They Don't Tell You, Josh Zolin sits down with Ellen Rohr for a raw, practical conversation about the money side of business and the personal responsibility that comes with owning the numbers.
Ellen breaks down why business is simpler than most owners make it, why sales, profit, and cash ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
May 19, 2026 • 18 mins
Entrepreneurs chase freedom, but most of them build themselves a harder job. John Lee Dumas breaks down what freedom really takes: discipline, systems, boundaries, and the courage to say no.
John Lee Dumas, founder of Entrepreneurs On Fire and author of The Common Path to Uncommon Success, joins Josh Zolin for an incredible conversation about freedom, discipline, and what most entrepreneurs misunderstand when they start building a ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
May 12, 2026 • 86 mins
Most leaders are trained to have answers.
Warren Berger believes the better leadership skill is learning how to ask the right questions.
In Episode 21 of Everything They Don't Tell You, Josh Zolin sits down with Warren Berger, author of The Book of Beautiful Questions and A More Beautiful Question, to talk about the underestimated power of questioning in leadership, business, creativity, and life.
Warren explains why questions are ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 28, 2026 • 104 mins
Most people think being a "nice guy" means being kind, generous, and easy to get along with.
Dr. Robert Glover sees it differently.
In this episode of Everything They Don't Tell You, Josh sits down with Dr. Robert Glover, author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, to unpack the hidden patterns behind approval-seeking, people-pleasing, covert contracts, shame, anxiety, resentment, and dishonesty.
This conversation goes way beyond relationships...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Popular Podcasts
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.