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500th Episode!!🔥 HATE Mail! Jay Shares it ALL!! | Ep. 500
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- May 1, 2026
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- 736
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Summary
Partner with Jay: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/contact ㅤ Pre-order Jay Schwedelson's new book, Stupider People Have Done It (out June 9, 2026). All net proceeds are donated to The V Foundation for Cancer Research, let's kick cancer's butt: https://www.amazon.com/Stupider-People-Have-Done-Marketing/dp/1637635206 ㅤ Subscribe to Jay's newsletter for weekly marketing tips and tactics: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/newsletter ㅤ Register for Eventastic (FREE + VIRTUAL!) https://www.eventastic.com ㅤ Register for GuruConference (FREE + VIRTUAL!) https://www.guruconference.com ㅤ Connect with Jay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/ Check out Jay's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@schwedelson Check out Jay's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayschwedelson/ Ask Jay anything: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/ask ㅤ Leave a comment and follow the show, it really helps us out! ㅤ Five hundred episodes in, and the celebration is reading hate mail. Jay Schwedelson cracks open a year's worth of nasty unsubscribes, brutal reviews, and one dagger that reads "no one would miss this if you stopped." Somewhere between the salmon complaints and the "man card" insult, there's an actual point about why turning some people off is the cost of being worth listening to. ㅤ Best Moments: (00:38) Why the early hour-long interviews almost killed the show before it started (02:04) The exact reply that goes back to every mean unsubscribe (03:03) Pushing back on the AI environmental damage hate mail (04:45) The weekly salmon dinner finally gets explained (05:56) The "man card" insult that earned a permanent place in the hall of fame (09:07) The case for doing one small thing every single week so you never stop learning