{"podcast":{"title":"Optimized Entrepreneur","slug":"optimized-entrepreneur-7658241","podcast_index_feed_id":7658241,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/EMTZM4067693296","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/optimized-entrepreneur","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c3a59fb2-637a-11f1-86e0-0b230728c90a/image/faa883e298c9fae1f59ed1c473709a86.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Myia and Jeremy Hanson","episode_count":24,"summary":"Optimized Entrepreneur is a podcast for entrepreneurs who want to build profitable, scalable businesses without burning themselves out in the process. Hosted by Jeremy Hanson, this show focuses on the real operating system behind business success: the entrepreneur themselves. Most business podcasts focus on tactics—marketing hacks, growth tricks, and surface-level strategies. Optimized Entrepreneur goes deeper. Each episode explores how personal capacity, emotional regulation, decision-making clarity, discipline, and systems thinking directly determine whether a business grows sustainably or collapses under pressure. This podcast is built for small business owners, service business operators, blue-collar entrepreneurs, and multi-business owners who want long-term success without chaos, exhaustion, or constant firefighting. Jeremy draws from over two decades of real-world experience building and operating multiple service-based businesses. Episodes combine practical business insights with personal development principles that apply in the real world—not theory, not influencer advice, and not Silicon Valley hype. 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Surviving it — with your life, your family, and your integrity intact — that's the game nobody's teaching. Tactical. Real. No guru fluff. That's The Jeremy Hanson Podcast. Visit www.jeremyhanson.pro and www.optimized1.com for more. He went from $55K to $750K in one year — and it destroyed his life. Jeremy breaks down the entrepreneur trap nobody talks about. entrepreneur podcast business mindset fast money dangers entrepreneurship failure money and character business growth mistakes entrepreneur trap income and discipline wealth mindset podcast small business lessons entrepreneur success business lifestyle inflation money management entrepreneur building a business Jeremy Hanson podcast what happens when entrepreneurs make money too fast why fast money ruins e…","meta_description":"What happens when your income explodes before your character is ready to carry it? 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