{"podcast":{"title":"Ray Edwards Show","slug":"ray-edwards-show-643941","podcast_index_feed_id":643941,"rss_url":"https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/2148043728/feed","website_url":"https://rayedwards.mykajabi.com/podcasts/ray-edwards-show","image_url":"https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/site/810/podcasts/dd4c0436-045e-4a45-8215-47de748be2fe.png","author":"Ray Edwards","episode_count":707,"summary":"Ray Edwards is a sought-after Copywriter, Author, Speaker, and Communications Strategist. His clients include Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Jeff Walker, Robert Allen, and more. On this show, Ray helps you start, run, and grow their Internet-based businesses. The show includes interviews with well-known experts like Michael Hyatt, Jeff Goins, Dan Miller, Cliff Ravenscraft, Michael Stelzner, Amy Porterfield, Don Miller, and many others.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-21T20:18:12.108627+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-edwards-show-643941"},"episode":{"title":"Going Broke Made Me Rich","slug":"going-broke-made-me-rich","published_at":"2026-06-04T10:23:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-edwards-show-643941/going-broke-made-me-rich","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-edwards-show-643941","url":"https://rayedwards.mykajabi.com/podcasts/ray-edwards-show/episodes/2149213411","audio_url":"https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/medias/2149213411.mp3","summary":"How Going Broke Made Me Rich A while back, I lost everything. Not \"everything\" the way people say it after a rough quarter. I mean I opened my banking app one day and saw a number with no digits in front of the decimal. Zero. The kind of zero that makes you sit very still for a minute. I'd been earning a million dollars a year. And then I wasn't earning anything at all. Here's the strange part, and it's the reason for this post and the episode it goes with: losing it might be the best thing that ever happened to me. If you've ever been afraid of losing what you've built — or you're in the middle of losing it right now — stay with me. \"The recent unpleasantness\" I've started calling it that, with a little wink, \"the recent unpleasantness\" (what's that movie? Anyone know?). It began with Parkinson's. Then the pandemic, which was not a gentle season for anyone running a business. Then shoulder surgery. Then brain surgery — and I want you to notice I just dropped \"brain surgery\" in next to \"shoulder surgery\" like I was listing errands. Add a few business decisions I'd love to have back, some personal ones I'd file in the same drawer, medical bills that arrived looking like phone numbers, and overhead that had grown to the size of a small kingdom. Underneath all of it, quietly, a crisis of faith. Not a wobble. A genuine dark night of the soul, the kind St. John of the Cross wrote about, where God seems to have left the room and shut the door, and you stand in the dark wondering if any of it was ever real.  At the bottom of it, I declared bankruptcy. I'm not telling you this to perform my suffering. I'm not complaining. We're rebuilding, and I'm a new man — by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I mean that as plainly as I can say it. So here's the question I had to…","meta_description":"How Going Broke Made Me Rich A while back, I lost everything. Not \"everything\" the way people say it after a rough quarter. I mean I opened my banking app…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":780,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ray-edwards-show-643941/episodes/going-broke-made-me-rich/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-edwards-show-643941/going-broke-made-me-rich.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}