Why entrepreneurs need mentors, not coaches
Cameron Herold
May 13, 2026
Communication
9
Resilience & grit
5
- Coaches ask questions; mentors give shortcuts from real experience
- Founders hide their worst struggles — payroll, firing friends, embezzlement
- Map your specific gap, then find a specialist who has solved it
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Six Stoic rules for pursuing excellence in daily life
The Daily Stoic
May 7, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
8
- Seeking discomfort deliberately is how real growth happens.
- Ego is the single biggest barrier to learning anything new.
- Every obstacle is training — turn setbacks into fuel for excellence.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stop giving mental space to people who don't deserve it
The Daily Stoic
May 6, 2026
Identity & self-belief
8
Resilience & grit
7
- Difficult people take your actions — don't let them also take your thoughts
- Don Draper's 'I don't think about you at all' is the Stoic ideal
- Taking others' behaviour personally adds self-inflicted suffering
The most important five minutes of your work week
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
May 1, 2026
Culture building
9
Management
7
- 51% of employees are crying at work amid AI anxiety
- A good-news check-in builds psychological safety and equal voice
- Personal sharing creates the team connection Google's research demands
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Practice being broke before quitting your job
Tim Ferriss
April 30, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Bootstrapping
6
Goal setting
5
- Simulate your worst-case financial life before you ever quit
- Proving you create on weekends is proof you actually care
- Quit last — with a backlog, a shoot date, and a deadline
Core values only count if you fire people for breaking them
Cameron Herold
April 24, 2026
Culture building
9
Management
6
- 95% of employees can't recite their company's core values
- Values without termination risk are just aspirational decoration
- Enforcing values publicly — even against a VP — builds real culture
The number one key to effective marketing is a weekly meeting
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
April 24, 2026
Growth hacking
8
Processes & SOPs
6
- Marketing and sales meetings must be separated to work.
- Steve Jobs held a three-hour weekly marketing session, personally chaired.
- Build and actively work an influencer list every single week.
Long-term planning
YouTube
The 100X question: the most powerful strategy prompt for your team
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
April 17, 2026
Long-term planning
9
Goal setting
6
- One question reveals constraints your team has never noticed
- 100X thinking forces pivots that 10X planning never surfaces
- Work backwards from 100X — you'll land far beyond 10X
Business operating systems
YouTube
Hitting the Ceiling: a podcast for entrepreneurs who've hit their limits
EOS Worldwide
April 17, 2026
Business operating systems
10
Management
6
- The moments entrepreneurs never talk about have a name.
- Five abilities — simplify, delegate, predict, systemize, structure — break the ceiling.
- Built for founders who are stuck and know they're the bottleneck.
COO Alliance: Peer Experience Fills the Gap When Yours Runs Out
Cameron Herold
April 15, 2026
Case studies
9
Management
7
Community building
5
- Outgrowing your own experience makes decisions feel like guesses.
- Peer COOs provide real-time, trust-backed answers to live problems.
- Alliance prompted a hard personnel call that lifted A-player retention.
COO Alliance: how peer access saves hundreds of thousands
Cameron Herold
April 8, 2026
Case studies
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
- One peer conversation averted a $500K software mistake
- Metrics coaching unlocked KPIs the team didn't know to track
- Peer network ends the isolation of being a lone operator
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
AI is the biggest business opportunity most founders are ignoring
KeyPersonOfInfluence
April 5, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business models
6
- Over 80% of people have never touched AI — you're still early
- Every business is now a new opportunity when AI is applied correctly
- Ignoring AI means leaving your most powerful leverage on the table
Work-life balance
YouTube
Why entrepreneurs trade freedom for a high-paying trap
Cameron Herold
April 3, 2026
Work-life balance
8
Identity & self-belief
6
- Most founders forget freedom was the point — money isn't
- The flywheel of proving yourself becomes its own prison
- Three reasons to start a company; most never reach the third
How posting weekly as a personal brand puts you in the top 1%
KeyPersonOfInfluence
March 22, 2026
Social media
9
Branding
7
- Only 1% of users post weekly — algorithms reward them with amplified reach.
- Business brand accounts get 20x less reach than personal brand accounts.
- Attention is business currency; posting as yourself unlocks it.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
The number one key to greatness: study the greats
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
March 20, 2026
Identity & self-belief
8
Vision & mission
5
- Michael Jackson studied every number one hit before recording Off the Wall
- Greatness is built by obsessively learning from those who've already achieved it
- Build an advisory board of giants — then study everyone you can