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Hosted by Dustin Riechmann, the 7-Figure Leap Podcast is the show that helps you leverage rich relationships & smart strategies to take your business to the next level. Join us every week as we bring you inspiring stories and practical strategies from successful entrepreneurs who are on the path to achieving 7-figure success. Whether you're looking to start your own business, grow an existing one, or simply improve your mindset and lifestyle, we've got you covered. Hit the follow button and get ready to take that leap!
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- 5 days ago59 min
Why Your Next Level May Require You to Quit with Ben Fox
What do you do when the work that looks great on paper no longer feels right? Career coach Ben Fox joins Dustin Riechmann to talk about burnout, identity, and the difficult decision to leave a job or change direction in your business. Ben shares how he helps clients calculate their financial runway and choose a Goldilocks quit date that gives them enough time to prepare without staying stuck indefinitely. Dustin opens up about leaving his engineering career and, years later, rethinking his role as a business owner after reaching a seven figure run rate. Together, they explore boundaries, family conversations, faith, and the freedom to treat your next move as an experiment rather than a permanent verdict. If you are building a business while working a full time job or wondering what needs to change in the business you already have, this conversation will help you take a practical first step.Chapters: When a Successful Job Feels Soul Crushing Burnout and Career Misalignment for Entrepreneurs Leaving a Secure Job for a Family Business Dustin’s Plan to Leave Engineering Why Ben Quit His Startup Job Calculate Your Financial Runway Before Quitting From Career Change to a Fractional CTO Business Set Boundaries and Commit to a Quit Date Entrepreneur Burnout and the Shift to Leadership Plan Your Next Move With the Goldilocks Quit DateLinks and ResourcesWebsiteBen Fox on LinkedInDustin on LinkedIn7 Figure LeapThanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to 7-Figure Leap? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
- 1 weeks ago45 min
Why AI Won't Recommend Your Business (And How to Fix It) with Cassie Egli
Your next client may never visit your website. They're asking ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity who can solve their problem, and if AI can't clearly tell who you are and who you serve, you simply don't show up. In this episode, Dustin sits down with AI visibility strategist Cassie Egli of Straight4Ward Consulting & Marketing, who learned this lesson the hard way. When she split her agency into two brands, her online presence turned into a mixed message, her referrals slowed to a trickle, and AI stopped recommending her. By reverse engineering what was already working for her clients, she went from a dry spell to fully booked in eight weeks. Cassie walks through her Visibility Stack framework (Positioning, Proof, Path, and Pulse), explains what has and hasn't changed from old school SEO to answer engine optimization, and shares why podcast guesting, LinkedIn, and fresh third party proof now carry more weight than backlinks ever did. If you're a coach, consultant, or service business owner who has grown mostly through referrals, this conversation shows you how AI is quietly vetting those referrals and the simple changes you can make this week to become the recommendation.Chapters: Will AI recommend you? What decides if you show up or stay invisible Cassie's pivot: how splitting into two brands dried up her referrals SEO vs AEO: what still matters and what changed Why podcast guesting and third party proof win "position zero" AI is the new referral filter vetting your warm introductions The Visibility Stack framework: Positioning, Proof, Path, Pulse Why narrowing your niche and sharing pricing helps AI recommend you Quick wins: clear positioning up top and FAQs on every page The AI Visibility Prompt Checklist and the Position Zero Challenge How to test your AI visibility without false positivesLinks and ResourcesPosition Zero Challenge:Listeners can use code PZCDUSTIN for 25% off the Position Zero Challenge: https://s4.marketing/position-zero-challenge/AI Visibility / Visibility Stack Download:I also created a link specifically for your listeners so they can download the resource we discussed: https://sqr.co/dustinriechmann/Link.tr.eeCassie Egli on LinkedInDustin on LinkedIn7 Figure LeapThanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to 7-Figure Leap? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
- 2 weeks ago1h 7m
Stop Guessing What to Sell. Let Customers Show You. with Corey Ganim
How much can one well matched podcast interview change a business? Corey Ganim joins Dustin Riechmann to share how he moved from Amazon wholesale into AI services, then built a community teaching others to find their first or next AI services client. Corey explains his $1,000 AI assessment, which helps a business owner identify three to seven practical AI opportunities with the potential to save at least five hours a week, and how that can lead to collaborative implementation support. He also talks candidly about a community launch that missed its target, the podcast appearance and assessment template that brought in thousands of leads and helped reveal what the audience really wanted, and the decision to reposition around making money with AI. Along the way, Corey shares how to test a business partnership before formalizing it, why the right podcast audience matters more than audience size, how interviews can grow into deeper partnerships, and how a smaller niche show became his biggest consulting opportunity to date. For consultants, agency owners, and entrepreneurs looking to grow with more focus, this is a practical reminder to take action, listen for market signals, and build on the relationships that create momentum.Chapters: - From Amazon wholesale to AI services - The $1,000 AI assessment and AI concierge model - Testing a business partnership before making it official - Paid discovery, free mini assessments, and community growth - What a disappointing launch taught Corey about his audience - The podcast appearance that brought thousands of leads - Turning guest appearances into partnerships - How a smaller niche podcast led to a major proposal - Podcast guesting, backlinks, and AI search visibility - Future plans and where to find CoreyLinks and ResourcesCorey Ganim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/Website: https://returnmytime.com/Dustin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinriechmann/7 Figure Leap: https://7figureleap.com/Thanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to 7-Figure Leap? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
- 3 weeks ago50 min
Why Your Business Is Stuck (And How to Fix It) with Alex Judd
What does success look like when growth, impact, and personal fulfillment all matter? In this conversation, Dustin Riechmann sits down with Alex Judd, founder of Path for Growth, to explore a more durable answer: success is faithfulness. Alex shares how leaders can make clearer decisions without trying to control every outcome, why wisdom requires humility and community, and how mission driven founders can build companies that create impact beyond the founder. If you are scaling a business while trying to stay grounded in your purpose, this episode offers practical perspective for leading with conviction, freedom, and responsibility.Chapters: Why success is faithfulness Alex Judd’s path from leadership work to Path for Growth How a longer time horizon changes what matters Success, fulfillment, and obedience How to discern your next business decision God’s will, moral clarity, wisdom, and freedom Grace, mistakes, and the real job of a leader Finding wisdom through humility and community The Path for Growth business model Building a business that creates impact without depending on the ownerLinks and ResourcesWebsite: https://www.pathforgrowth.com/Alex Judd on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-judd-00103643/Dustin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinriechmann/7 Figure Leap: https://7figureleap.com/Thanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to 7-Figure Leap? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
- Oct 6, 202643 min
(Replay) What Does It Mean to Return to Real? with Ryan Levesque
What if the next level of success is not bigger, faster, or more automated? In this replay, Dustin Riechmann sits down with entrepreneur and author Ryan Levesque to explore the tension ambitious business owners feel after growth starts working. Ryan shares his journey from building and selling businesses to choosing a more grounded life in Vermont, where his family raises much of their own food and spends more time connected to what matters. For coaches, consultants, and expert entrepreneurs, this conversation is a reminder that scale is not the only goal. Ryan explains how getting clear on what you are optimizing for can change the way you build your company, spend your time, and show up for the people you love, while offering practical ways to bring more real life into a business that still depends on screens.Chapters: Why this replay matters and the idea behind Return to Real Meeting Ryan and the values that matter beyond business credentials Ryan's path from a small online business to the Ask Method The slow road to meaningful revenue and entrepreneurial freedom A failed sale, burnout, and a new question about life Discovering permaculture and moving the family to Vermont Building a farm that feeds the family Simple practices for spending less time on screens Creating memorable experiences with your family What are you optimizing for in this season of business Ryan's Digital Contrarian and writing with a human voiceLinks and ResourcesASK Method: https://askmethod.com/The Digital Contrarian Newsletter: https://ryanlevesque.net/newsletterWebsite: ryanlevesque.netASK Method®: askmethod.comRyan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlevesque/Dustin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinriechmann/7 Figure Leap: https://7figureleap.com/Thanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to 7-Figure Leap? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
- Sep 29, 202638 min
The Wealth Strategist Who Says Stop Betting On An Exit with Amelia Misenheimer
Most entrepreneurs are building a business and quietly calling it a retirement plan. Amelia Meisenheimer joins Dustin Riechmann to explain why that math usually fails, since only about 30% of businesses ever actually sell, and what to build instead. Amelia grew up inside her family's manufactured housing business, bought her first rental property shortly after college, and went on to run a property management firm and real estate brokerage overseeing more than 450 properties. When she remarried in 2021 and moved to England as a military spouse, it was the personal assets she had stacked for a decade, not the business, that gave her room to breathe. In this conversation she names the four mistakes she sees most often in six and seven figure businesses: banking everything on a future exit, running a company that holds no real assets, leaving tax strategy to a CPA who only records history after the fact, and never moving money from the business side to the personal side. She then walks through her Wealth Flywheel of vision, strategy, and build, why the plan has to fit your actual life instead of somebody's Instagram reel, and how cash planning is the step that makes every clever tax move possible. If you are deep in delivery mode and your net worth is basically your business, this is the conversation that reframes what you are working toward.\Chapters: Why your business is not the inheritance you think it is Growing up in the family business and learning money at the dinner table Buying rental property at 22 and why time beats timing The wealth gap nobody warns entrepreneurs about Online businesses have no assets and almost no write offs The 4 biggest wealth mistakes business owners make The Wealth Flywheel: vision, strategy, and build What a wealth quarterback actually does for a business owner Taking back your retirement account and making your first trade The swim instructor lesson every founder needs to hearLinks and ResourcesWebsiteAmelia Misenheimer on LinkedInDustin on LinkedIn7 Figure LeapThanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to 7-Figure Leap? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
- Sep 22, 202658 min
He Built a Business in 2 Years After Losing His Best Friend with Dr. Ryan Williamson
Dr. Ryan Williamson spent the better part of two decades becoming a neurologist, a Navy officer, and the doctor people call when a brain is bleeding, and then realized he was meeting patients decades too late to actually help them. In his second visit to the show, he walks Dustin through the full arc of turning deep expertise into a real business: the years of quiet dissatisfaction while the paychecks kept coming, the loss of his lifelong best friend in 2024 that finally forced him to act, writing The Incredible Brain in under a year, launching a coaching program that was harder than he expected, and then hearing the same piece of customer feedback so many times that he rebuilt the entire model into Transcend Health, a telehealth concierge practice that opened its doors in June. Along the way he explains the neuroscience of why building a business feels so uncomfortable, why that discomfort is literally the feeling of your brain rewiring, and why the hardest thing a physician has to unlearn is the belief that you must be perfect before you can do anything. If you have real subject matter expertise and you know there's a bigger way to use it, this conversation is the honest version of what that transition looks like.Chapters: The belief experts have to unlearn before they can build anything Why hospital medicine stopped being enough for a high performing neurologist Purpose, impact, and the stories that keep him showing up The loss in 2024 that finally turned the idea into action Writing The Incredible Brain and what a book actually does for your business Happiness, striving, and the myth of arriving at the next title First coaching clients, word of mouth, and the reality of running a community Following someone else's playbook and the customer feedback that changed everything Inside Transcend Health: labs, imaging, wearables, and AI assisted care Who the practice serves and how to build something that runs without youLinks and ResourcesWebsiteRyan Williamson on LinkedInDustin on LinkedIn7 Figure LeapThanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to 7-Figure Leap? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
- Sep 15, 202646 min
How to Build a Team That Runs Without You with Madi Waggoner
Building a remote team should create more freedom, but for many entrepreneurs it does the opposite. Every decision comes back to the founder, communication gets scattered, and even capable contractors wait for direction instead of owning outcomes. Remote leadership expert Madi Waggoner joins Dustin Riechmann to explain why this happens and how to change it. Drawing on 15 years of experience, Madi shares the three defaults of remote work, the practical structures that make invisible information visible, and the simple communication habits that reduce friction across a growing team. Dustin also opens up about restructuring the 7 Figure Leap team, replacing task focused roles with true ownership, and moving from bottleneck to trailblazer. If you are scaling from six to seven figures and want a team that can make decisions, solve problems, and keep moving without everything passing through you, this conversation offers a clear place to start.Chapters Why remote leadership feels harder than it should The three defaults of remote work Creating spaces that make hidden information visible Connecting live conversations with asynchronous communication How founders become the center of every decision Moving contractors from tasks to true ownership Navigating difficult team transitions with clarity Who thrives on a growth oriented remote team Using ownership snapshots to reveal hiring gaps The five Liberated Leader archetypesLinks and ResourcesWebsiteMadi Waggoner on LinkedInDustin on LinkedIn7 Figure LeapThanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to 7-Figure Leap? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
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