You Don’t Have a Business Until You Can Leave It: Notes From My Conversation With Brad Poulos

Twenty years in SEO taught me the difference between owning a business and owning a job — but Brad Poulos gave me the language for it. On the Barbados test, delegating outcomes, the SaaS expansion trap I watched from the inside, and why local service businesses now need two skill stacks.

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Paul Pape Turned the Tables on Me Mid-Interview — and the Consulting Lessons Are Real

I’ve interviewed hundreds of business owners and consultants across my podcast network, and Paul Pape’s approach to consulting is genuinely unlike anything I’ve come across. Paul is the barkeep and game master at Gamify Business — he converts business problems into role-playing game mechanics so that clients who can’t engage with traditional frameworks can actually learn and make progress.

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Grant Simmons: What 30 Years of SEO Looks Like When the Algorithm Doesn’t Know Itself

Grant Simmons has been in SEO since the mid-90s. In this conversation he articulates the entity SEO framework, EntityMap.org, what the antitrust docs confirmed about engagement signals, and why the reporting gap is the real problem nobody has solved.

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What Greg Digneo Taught Me About Flipping the SEO Budget — And Why I Agree

Greg Digneo runs Content Guppy, a B2B SaaS SEO agency, and his take on where search is heading tracks closely with what I’ve been seeing from the consulting side. Here’s what the conversation on the Unscripted SEO Podcast taught me about the budget flip, the interview-first content model, and why email marketing just got a second job.

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What a Nonprofit Consultant Taught Me About Marketing (That Most SEOs Miss)

I’ve been doing SEO for nearly 20 years. I’ve sat across from hundreds of small business owners and walked them through keyword strategies, link building, technical audits — the full playbook. And I’ll be honest: for most of that time, I thought marketing clarity was someone else’s department. Then I had Bruce Ashford on the

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Jason Wade on AI Visibility, Entity Engineering, and the SEO You’re Still Not Doing

Unscripted SEO Podcast | Host: Jeremy Rivera | Guest: Jason Wade, Ninja AI When Jason Wade of Ninja AI sat down with host Jeremy Rivera on the Unscripted SEO Podcast, the conversation went straight to the heart of what most SEOs are still getting wrong: they’re optimizing for search engines that already understand them —

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