{"podcast":{"title":"The Business Method: Interviewing Billionaires, Billion Dollar Founders & the World’s Most Successful People 🎧🔥","slug":"the-business-method-interviewing-billionaires-billion-dollar-founders-the-world-s-most-successful-people-1026342","podcast_index_feed_id":1026342,"rss_url":"https://TheBusinessMethod.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://thebusinessmethod.podbean.com/","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2202907/TBM_Podcast_Art_Official.png","author":"Chris Reynolds","episode_count":666,"summary":"Most people will never get five minutes with someone who’s built a billion-dollar company. The Business Method Podcast gives you dozens of them. Chris Reynolds sits down with billionaires, billion-dollar founders and high-level operators to uncover how the top 0.01% think, build, scale, and lead. With 600+ episodes since 2015, the show goes far beyond surface-level success stories, diving into the mental models, strategic decisions, failures, breakthroughs, and operating principles behind extraordinary companies and lives. Guests have included Jeff Hoffman, co-founder of Priceline; Drayton McLane, former owner of the Houston Astros and billionaire entrepreneur; Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle; Monty Moran, former CEO of Chipotle; Geoffrey Kent, founder of Abercrombie & Kent; Janice Bryant Howroyd, founder of ActOne Group; Jason Fried, founder of Basecamp; Roland Frasier, investor and entrepreneur with 24+ exits; and other elite founders, investors, and operators.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T18:22:39.261551+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-business-method-interviewing-billionaires-billion-dollar-founders-the-world-s-most-successful-people-1026342"},"episode":{"title":"HP#191 | Filtering Through the Mind of a Billion-Dollar Woman","slug":"hp-191-filtering-through-the-mind-of-a-billion-dollar-woman","published_at":"2024-08-14T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-business-method-interviewing-billionaires-billion-dollar-founders-the-world-s-most-successful-people-1026342/hp-191-filtering-through-the-mind-of-a-billion-dollar-woman","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-business-method-interviewing-billionaires-billion-dollar-founders-the-world-s-most-successful-people-1026342","url":"https://TheBusinessMethod.podbean.com/e/hp191-filtering-through-the-mind-of-a-billion-dollar-woman/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/vupuirhy7jv4ry7e/HP_191_Filtering_Through_a_Billion-Dollar_Woman_s_Mindb6na2.mp3","summary":"2-10 minute high-performance clips delivered to you Monday & Friday from our top interviews I love incredibly successful people that still have the down-to-earth human touch. It is really enjoyable to talk with them and understand why they are who they are. Today’s guest is one of those people and yet so much more. Janice Bryant Howroyd is the founder The ActOne Group and she is the very first African-American female to found a billion dollar company, and yes you heard me right, a billion dollar company. What is even more impressive about Janice is that speaking with her was like talking to an old friend. She is incredibly relatable and really a caring and authentic human being. Contact Info: Website: thebusinessmethod.com/ Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/TheBusinessMethod Google Podcasts: bit.ly/TheBusinessMethodGooglePodcasts Spotify: bit.ly/SpotifyTheBusinessMethod Amazon Music: bit.ly/AmazonTheBusinessMethodTranscript: Chris: Do you ever wonder how a billionaire thinks? How do they process all those crazy thoughts that go through their head on a regular basis? Well, I was curious, so I asked one. And the person I ask is Janice Bryant. Howroyd the first black woman to build a billion dollar company. Want to hear what she has to say. Let's hop into it. Going back to what you mentioned earlier in the interview, when you talked about your mind bouncing around all the time, Ray asks, how does Janice keep her mind in check and stay focused when it's all over the place and you see the world as a kaleidoscope? Janice:Ain't trying to do that Ray for chance. That's a failure from your perspective. I have no interest in organizing this beautiful mess. I love it. I thrive in it. What I do have though is Discipline. Discipline around initiatives and discipline around behaviors. So I…","meta_description":"2-10 minute high-performance clips delivered to you Monday & Friday from our top interviews I love incredibly successful people that still have the do…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":558,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-business-method-interviewing-billionaires-billion-dollar-founders-the-world-s-most-successful-people-1026342/episodes/hp-191-filtering-through-the-mind-of-a-billion-dollar-woman/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-business-method-interviewing-billionaires-billion-dollar-founders-the-world-s-most-successful-people-1026342/hp-191-filtering-through-the-mind-of-a-billion-dollar-woman.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}