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Building a business doesn't have to mean burning out. Join John Hazel of Hazelize and Kevin Miller of Coder Conversations as they document the real journey of scaling a service business through automation, systems, and strategic frameworks—while bootstrapping a SaaS product. From AI implementation to building a team, crafting messaging to revenue architecture, we cover the technical tactics and strategic thinking that create sustainable growth. No hype. No overnight success stories. Just honest conversations about what actually works when you're building something that lasts.
Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
23 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
23 episodes
since Feb. 12, 2026
episodic
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Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
Let’s talk about the psychology of leadership overwhelm — why going top-down makes stress worse, what the GTD framework actually teaches us about getting clear, and how entrepreneurs can move from reactive chaos to proactive control.
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Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
John breaks down a bottleneck every manager eventually runs into: AI agents stall out waiting on approvals and permissions in a way human team members usually don't, and it's easy to become the thing slowing everything down. He explains why a sol…
Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
John gets honest about what it actually looks like to juggle running a business with his wife, who also runs her own, while raising a four-year-old. He talks through the late nights he still pulls to hit a flow state, why there's no perfect answe…
Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your BusinessJohn walks through how he's been putting Claude's scheduled routines to work, from watching a product page for restock alerts to building a daily briefing on the people he's about to meet with, pulling from his email, notes, and tasks. He breaks do…
Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
John shares what happened when he handed part of his hiring pipeline to Claude Cowork and it stepped outside its intended approval settings, sending test projects to candidates on its own. He walks through what went wrong, why he still followed t…
Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
John and Jordan Hall get real about the constant tug-of-war between building a business and showing up for family, covering time audits, Dan Martell's buy back time, and why some seasons call for 80/20 instead of 50/50.
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Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
John sits down with Jordan Hall, an 8-year production company owner, to talk about why so many businesses look successful on the outside while running without a firm foundation underneath. They dig into the airplane model, prioritizing your highe…
Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
In this episode, John breaks down David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology — how to capture, clarify, and organize every input in your life into a system you can actually trust.
Learn about horizons of focus, context-based next actions,…
Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
On this episode, let's talk about the Four Disciplines of Execution, the framework that turns a wildly important goal into consistent action through lead measures, scorecards, and real accountability.
Second, let's connect execution to the bigge…
Build Systems, Create Leverage, Scale your Business
John breaks down the Airplane Framework, adapted from Donald Miller's Business Made Simple model: your business as an airplane, with leadership as the cockpit, marketing and sales as the two engines, products and services as the wings, overhead a…
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