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  • From $90 A Week Underground To Co-Founding E! Entertainment | Larry Namer

    From $90 A Week Underground To Co-Founding E! Entertainment | Larry Namer
    Oct 9 2026
    Larry Namer is the Co-founder of E! Entertainment. He started his career splicing cable wires under the streets of Manhattan for $90 a week. A few years later he cofounded E! Entertainment.

    Everyone told him and his partner Alan Mruvka that regular people don't start TV networks. You had to be Disney or Fox. They heard no around 157 times.

    The going rate to launch a network back then was $60 to $100 million. After three and a half years, they got $2.5 million.That wasn't enough to buy real cameras, so they bought used sales training gear, hired 11 employees and 31 interns, and climbed the fence at the Academy Awards when they got denied press credentials. Three years later they had 1,100 employees. Today E! Entertainment is in 142 countries.

    What we covered:
    → How E! Entertainment launched on a fraction of what every other network spent
    → Climbing the Oscars fence and asking Tom Cruise about his shoes
    → Putting cameras in Howard Stern's radio studio while everyone laughed
    → The television.com failure where more viewers meant bigger losses
    → Why Larry is betting vertical video becomes the main way we watch by 2030

    Larry didn't know the rules, so breaking them never slowed him down. A lot of what E! Entertainment became started right there.

    If this episode got you thinking about where TV is headed, Larry wrote the whole thing down. His new book, Two Minute Television: The Future of Television Fits in Your Pocket, lays out why he's betting vertical video will become the main way we watch by 2030.

    Larry, thank you for taking the time to do this.

    *Chapters*
    00:00 Intro
    01:14 The idea everybody rejected 157 times
    06:12 Climbing the Oscars fence with sales training cameras
    10:18 From $90 a week under Manhattan to running cable in LA
    15:51 Firm but fair, the management lesson that stuck
    17:23 Becoming E! Entertainment, Talk Soup, and cameras on Howard Stern
    21:16 Celebrating Hollywood and growing to 1,100 people in three years
    24:32 Off Script, Peking duck, and cooking as therapy
    30:02 Why vertical video wins by 2030
    33:17 The television.com failure and planning for the downside

    *Connect with Larry Namer*
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-namer/
    https://www.instagram.com/larrynamer/
    https://www.instagram.com/larrynamertv/
    https://www.facebook.com/larry.namer/


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    37 min
  • What Would It Take For You To Walk Away From A 6-Digit Career? | Marco Savone

    What Would It Take For You To Walk Away From A 6-Digit Career? | Marco Savone
    Oct 2 2026
    Marco Savone co-founded Scusa Media, a revenue agency helping home service and construction companies turn leads into closed jobs. Before any of that, he spent two years working with stage four cancer patients at the University of Michigan Cancer Hospital.

    He got into two medical schools after failing the MCAT twice. At the same time, his uncle's small liquor brand was starting to take off, and Marco had to pick one. He walked away from medical school. Years later, he turned down a six figure pharmaceutical sales job too, choosing the harder, less certain path both times.

    He bet on himself instead. He learned to sell the way a doctor treats a patient. Diagnose first, then prescribe. That mindset built Scusa Media into an agency getting contractors real, qualified leads and the systems to close them. One client landed 115 qualified leads in three months and got so busy they had to turn work down.

    What we covered:
    → Why Marco walked away from medical school and a six figure pharma job
    → The "selling like a doctor" framework that changed how he closes deals
    → How Scusa Media generates and converts leads for contractors
    → Why he believes we're moving from an attention economy to a trust economy
    → Building the 1% Event and bringing free, high level events back to Detroit

    Entrepreneurship is personal development wearing a business suit. Every fork in the road Marco talks about here came down to betting on himself before he had any proof it would work.

    Thanks to Marco for making the time and for being so open about every version of the plan that didn't survive contact with real life.

    *Chapters*
    00:00 Intro
    01:42 What Scusa Media Does
    03:11 From Football to the Cancer Hospital
    08:00 The Family Liquor Brand That Started It All
    10:34 Two Medical Schools and One Impossible Choice
    12:46 Commission Only and $100K in Two Months
    16:00 Turning Down the Six Figure Pharma Job for Good
    19:20 Selling Like a Doctor and Building the Agency
    22:10 Inside the Home Services Playbook and a Real Case Study
    29:33 Building the 1% Event and What Comes Next

    *Connect with Marco*
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosavone/
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/scusa-media/
    https://www.instagram.com/itsmarcosavone/
    https://www.facebook.com/marcosavone6/

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    42 min
  • Why Nights and Weekends Aren't the Price of Success | Craig Ceccanti

    Why Nights and Weekends Aren't the Price of Success | Craig Ceccanti
    Sep 25 2026
    Craig Ceccanti built Pinot's Palette from one location in 2009 to 150 across the country, then exited the business in 2020. Now he installs the same operating system in other people's companies.
    For years he ran things by working harder than everyone else. He calls it "Craig OS." He held every title, head of tech, head of marketing, head of finance, and the business hit a ceiling because of it. It took a friend handing him the book Traction, and two years of actually running the system, before he'd admit the mess he'd built.

    Nine months into installing EOS, he watched his own company outperform the version he used to run himself, and he got his nights and weekends back with his twin daughters. Now he's an EOS implementer, one year in, still learning what he calls his own second job. Coaching founders through the same ego he had to let go of first.

    What we covered:
    → Why the founder becomes the bottleneck, and how to see it before your team does
    → Vision, traction, and health, the three things every EOS company runs on
    → Why buying an old, boring business beats starting a flashy new one
    → Asset sales, earn outs, and the deal terms that actually protect you
    → What private equity firms are quietly rewarding when they buy a company

    The founders who get furthest are the ones willing to admit they're the problem before somebody has to tell them.

    Craig, thank you for making the time and handing us this much value in under an hour.

    *Chapters*
    0:00 Intro
    1:00 Meet Craig Ceccanti: Pinot's Palette to EOS
    4:36 The Ego That Made Him the Bottleneck
    6:49 What a Business Operating System Actually Is
    11:40 Franchising Pinot's Palette: The Real Tradeoffs
    21:12 Why Buying a Business Beats Starting One
    28:29 Deal Structure: Asset Sales, Earn Outs, and Risk
    37:42 Signs Your Company Needs an Operating System
    39:52 One Year In: Wins as an EOS Implementer
    45:15 Why You Shouldn't Self-Implement EOS

    *Connect with Craig Ceccanti*
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigceccanti/
    https://www.linkedin.com/school/rice-business/
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/eos-worldwide-llc/
    https://www.instagram.com/craigceccanti/
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    52 min
  • 25 Years in Mortgages, What AI Will Never Replace | Ted Edginton

    25 Years in Mortgages, What AI Will Never Replace | Ted Edginton
    Sep 18 2026
    Ted Edginton has spent 25 years doing mortgages the hard way. In person, on the phone, at the closing table.

    He started this business straight out of Michigan State, driving around town with paper checks for his clients' loans. One blew right out his car window on Hall Road. He turned around, got it reprinted, and still made it to the closing.

    That's basically been his whole career since. He built a team with 60 years of combined experience between them, and every client still gets treated like the actual person they are, not a number moving down a pipeline. He calls it working the bookends. First time buyers figuring out how to afford housing on one side. Retirees trying to downsize without blowing their budget on the other. Both need someone willing to sit down and ask what's really going on.

    Here's what we got into.
    → Why AI can quote you a rate but it can't tell you what your family actually needs
    → The real math behind why home prices keep climbing even when nobody feels ready
    → The occupancy fraud he's watching lenders push on people right now
    → Why getting treated like a commodity is costing people the house they actually want

    Clients keep telling Ted the same thing after their first conversation with him. Nobody else brought this up. That's not luck. That's 25 years of listening before he ever starts talking.

    Thanks to Ted for making the time to sit down and talk shop. If you're anywhere near Troy or Woodward, go find him at Rate. If you're not, email TedE@rate.com and tell him we sent you.

    *Chapters*
    00:00 Intro
    01:00 Cold Open: A TRT Story and Life's Priorities
    04:48 Community, Belonging, and the Power of an Invite
    08:09 Serving Clients in Ways AI Can't
    11:21 Ditching the Commodity Mindset
    15:17 The Steak N Shake Job That Built a Work Ethic
    22:03 Real Flexes, Real Character
    29:20 The Real Math Behind Buying a Home Today
    36:23 Diligence, Trust, and Spotting Fraud
    47:12 Compassion, AI as a Tool, and Closing Thoughts

    *Connect with Ted*
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/tededginton/
    https://www.instagram.com/ted_edge_mortgage/
    https://www.facebook.com/ted.edginton

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  • The Mistake That Keeps You Out Of The Room With Powerful People | EO Detroit Founder John Anderson

    The Mistake That Keeps You Out Of The Room With Powerful People | EO Detroit Founder John Anderson
    Sep 14 2026
    John Anderson started the EO Detroit chapter in a conference room in 1996 with two other guys and no money. He's now a business coach, an author, and one of the most connected people in Michigan.
    He used to deliver mortgages by hand as a mailroom clerk making $30,000 a year. One man in that office, the chairman of the board, pulled him aside and told him he was going to do great things. That single sentence rerouted the rest of his life.

    From there he built relationships with people like Vern Harnish, David Brandon, Bill Ford Jr, and Peter Diamandis, using one rule he's never broken. He wrote a book called Replace Retirement. And now he's chasing a new goal that sounds impossible on paper: making Michigan one of the top five states to live and work in.

    What we covered:
    → How he built EO Detroit from three members into a 30 year run
    → The rule he's followed for 30 years before ever asking a powerful person for anything
    → Why he wrote a book about disrupting the entire idea of retirement
    → The Everest story that made him walk away from his own company
    → His new moonshot to make Michigan a top five state in the country

    You are one call away from a relationship that changes everything. John has spent 30 years proving that's not a saying, it's just true.

    Thank you to John for driving in from Grand Rapids and giving us an hour of stories most people never get to hear. And a specific thank you to Tim Bryson at Sandler for making this connection happen in the first place.

    *Chapters*
    00:00 Intro
    01:00 How EO Detroit got started
    06:05 The mentor who changed everything: Mr. Cooper
    12:05 Landing Bill Ford Jr. and the power of service
    19:06 Why he calls himself a people connector, not a coach
    21:15 Peter Diamandis, moonshots, and the 2% rule
    28:11 Attention, distraction, and the bee analogy
    34:41 Making Michigan a top five state to live and work
    41:26 The Everest story that changed his career
    48:34 How to dream bigger without the fear

    *Connect with John Anderson*
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanderson12/
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ceo-advantage/


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    1 ora e 2 min
  • This Investor Owns 250 Doors… Here's the ONE He'd Buy Again | Peter Skaggs

    This Investor Owns 250 Doors… Here's the ONE He'd Buy Again | Peter Skaggs
    Sep 4 2026
    Peter Skaggs runs a mortgage company and a 250 door real estate portfolio, and he built both at the same time without quitting his day job.

    He bought his first investment property in 2007. Then 2008 happened. By 2011 the house had lost half its value. He held on anyway. For fourteen years. He also spent years chasing apartment complexes, land, and short term rentals before realizing he was collecting real estate, not building a portfolio.

    He sold that crashed property in 2021 for almost double what he paid. That experience is where his framework came from. Buying power, staying power, growing power. Now he teaches busy professionals how to build a 10 to 20 property portfolio that runs quietly in the background while they do everything else.

    What we covered:
    → Why he chose single family homes over apartments, storage units, and short term rentals
    → What actually happened when he held a crashed property for fourteen years
    → The real numbers behind reaching financial freedom with 10 to 20 rental properties
    → Why Airbnbs make sense as a lifestyle asset, not a starting point
    → The framework he built after making almost every mistake in the book

    The people who get rich slowly in real estate are the ones nobody writes books about. Peter has spent 20 years proving that boring wins.

    Thanks for making the trip and handing over 20 years of lessons in under an hour.

    *Connect with Peter Skaggs*
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/petertskaggs/
    https://www.instagram.com/petertskaggs/
    https://www.facebook.com/petertskaggs/

    *Chapters*
    00:00 Intro
    01:25 Peter's 250 door portfolio and 20 years in real estate
    02:32 Collecting real estate versus building a real portfolio
    05:23 Where beginners should start: single family, Airbnb, or apartments
    10:14 The real numbers behind financing your first rental
    14:21 The freedom flywheel: how 10 to 20 properties add up to financial freedom
    23:07 Buying right before the 2008 crash and holding for 14 years
    27:23 The expensive mistakes that led to his framework
    31:54 Real estate funds and syndications versus owning it yourself
    38:56 Airbnbs as a lifestyle asset and the free deal analyzer tool

    Thank You for Watching The Dillon England Show!


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    51 min
  • What Every Michigan Business Owner Should Know Before They Get Sued | Brandon Grysko

    What Every Michigan Business Owner Should Know Before They Get Sued | Brandon Grysko
    Aug 21 2026
    Brandon Grysko spent seven years wearing a badge before he ever put on a suit.

    He started out chasing a fireman's paycheck, landed in EMS, and then his dad, a career sheriff's deputy, pointed him toward policing instead.

    Brandon started noticing he liked the union side of the job more than the job itself. Contract negotiations. Discipline hearings. The parts that looked a lot like law.

    Now he runs Fausone & Grysko, a business law firm in Northville, Michigan, and he still thinks like a cop every single day he practices.

    We covered a lot of ground in this one.
    → Why he left police work, and what his wife's sleep had to do with it
    → What actually happens in your body during a high stress police encounter
    → The one line cops can say that stops a traffic stop from escalating
    → Why "defund the police" is usually the wrong question
    → What most business owners get wrong before they end up in a lawsuit

    Here's what stuck with me. Most people either love cops or hate cops, and Brandon just wants people to be honest about what the job actually requires of a person's body and mind before they judge the split second decisions made inside it.

    Thanks to Brandon for making the drive up from Northville and giving us way more time than one episode of cop stories, faith debates, and business advice. Appreciate you, brother!!

    *Chapters*
    00:00 Intro
    01:00 Meet Brandon Grysko and Unlocking the Law
    04:15 A friendship built on theology and disagreement
    08:14 From firefighter dreams to EMT to cop
    12:44 What people get wrong about police and stress
    15:12 Good cops, bad cops, and accountability
    19:07 Is "defund the police" the wrong question
    24:08 The one line that changes a traffic stop
    30:24 Why Brandon left the badge for law school
    33:47 Running a law firm like a business, not just a practice

    *Connect with Brandon*
    linkedin.com/in/brandon-grysko-✝️-b11b43a8
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/fausone-grysko-plc/
    https://www.facebook.com/FausoneGryskoPLC

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    42 min