{"podcast":{"title":"Beyond A Million","slug":"beyond-a-million-4835442","podcast_index_feed_id":4835442,"rss_url":"https://bradweimert.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://beyondamillion.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/1/a/7/31a75134bbdc7c4427a2322813b393ee/beyond_a_million_-_brad_weimert.jpg","author":"Brad Weimert","episode_count":254,"summary":"Brad Weimert, founder of Easy Pay Direct, interviews world-class entrepreneurs to explore tactics & strategies to build 8, 9, and 10-figure brands. Learn more at: https://beyondamillion.com/ All business is the same… but nobody really feels that way. The truth is – the BUILDING blocks of business are consistent across the board. Marketing, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Taxes... Apply to all businesses. With more than 30,000 businesses flowing through Easy Pay Direct (and the data behind them), Brad Weimert has found a litany of world-class experts to break down what's working - and what's not. With clients like Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Hal Elrod and Grant Cardone, Easy Pay Direct is an amazing pool of knowledge and experience to pull from. Watch, Listen, and learn while you hear experts pull back the curtain and share cutting-edge marketing strategies, the latest sales techniques, the operational tools and tactics that make it all work, and the tax strategies that keep your money in your pocket. Whether you're pushing through your first startup and learning the ropes, you're an established 8 or 9-figure brand, or you've made an exit and are thinking about your next chapter……","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T18:17:10.728869+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-a-million-4835442"},"episode":{"title":"237: How to Build Category-Defining Brands in Any Industry with Jim Donnelly","slug":"237-how-to-build-category-defining-brands-in-any-industry-with-jim-donnelly","published_at":"2026-07-16T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-a-million-4835442/237-how-to-build-category-defining-brands-in-any-industry-with-jim-donnelly","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-a-million-4835442","url":"https://beyondamillion.com/audio/jim-donnelly-build-category-defining-brands","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bradweimert/237_-_How_to_Build_Category-Defining_Brands_in_Any_Industry_with_Jim_Donnelly-2.mp3?dest-id=2974040","summary":"Today I'm talking to Jim Donnelly, a founder who has built and scaled businesses across travel, real estate, wellness, and longevity medicine. He built an online travel community with 300,000+ members that later rolled into Travelocity. He developed luxury real estate that still holds Charlotte's record for price per square foot. He co-founded Restore Hyper Wellness and helped scale it to 225+ locations. Now, he's building Humanaut Health, a longevity medicine company with $10M-per-clinic potential. But the interesting part isn't just what Jim has built. It's how he keeps moving into completely different industries and finding the opportunity before everyone else sees it. A lot of founders fail when they jump categories because they assume the same playbook will work again. Jim sees it differently. He's clear about what transfers from one business to the next, what doesn't, and why the best opportunities are often hiding inside big categories that already exist. We get into how he builds brands people actually care about, why he'd rather have fewer customers who love him than more customers who only like him, and the biggest lessons he learned after raising $140M in private equity. Watch on YouTube: Let's Connect: Website | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook","meta_description":"Today I'm talking to Jim Donnelly, a founder who has built and scaled businesses across travel, real estate, wellness, and longevity medicine. He built an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3663,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-a-million-4835442/episodes/237-how-to-build-category-defining-brands-in-any-industry-with-jim-donnelly/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-a-million-4835442/237-how-to-build-category-defining-brands-in-any-industry-with-jim-donnelly.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}