198: Everything I Learned After Losing $40M with Levi Benkert – 8FE
He lost $40 million in 2008… and built a real estate empire from the rubble. Today’s guest, Levi Benkert, went from running coffee shops to flipping houses, losing $40 million in the 2008 crash, relocating his family to Ethiopia to run an orphanage and start businesses, and then returning to the US to build a […]
197: How We Grew 50% Without Hiring a Single Person – Pat Dillon – 8FE
What happens when you’ve built multiple companies, lost control, got burned by partners, and then finally get it right? Patrick Dillon has done it all. He’s built several digital agencies, and even a janitorial company. He’s taken on investors, lost equity, made painful pivots, and come out the other side with a lean, wildly profitable […]
196: Why Your Offer Sucks (And How to Fix It) with Jake Setterlun – 8FE
How do you make an offer so irresistible that you don’t even need a sales team to sell it? Jake Setterlun is 29, runs four different companies, and somehow manages to make offer-building look easy. He started out doing Facebook ads for real estate agents, but everything changed when he figured out what makes an […]
195: MULTI 8 Figure SEO in 2025 and Beyond w/Andy Kolodgie – 8FE
Is SEO really dead… or are you just doing it wrong? Andy Kolodgie has already built a multi–eight-figure business by mastering SEO in a space most people think is too competitive: real estate. And he’s only 29! Andy started out wholesaling but quickly realized it wasn’t his game. With a background as a Navy software […]
194: How a 25-Year-Old Built a $25M Hospitality Empire from Nothing w/ Sava Lelcaj – 8FE
She didn’t have a plan. No investors. Not even a laptop. At 25, Sava Lelcaj had 60 days to figure out her next move after losing the lease on her 10-table café. Most people would’ve played it safe. She didn’t. Instead, she convinced investors, who’d just lost money on the space, to hand her the […]
193: Billion-Dollar Founder Shares His Secret Weapon From the Swiss Army – 8FE
What could a Swiss Army officer possibly teach you about building and selling companies worth hundreds of millions? Turns out – everything. Today’s guest, Sam Goodner, took the discipline and precision he learned in the Swiss Army and applied it to entrepreneurship. He founded Catapult Systems, scaled it through two major recessions, and eventually sold […]
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