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The Joe Polish Show

The Joe Polish Show

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Joe Polish's journey from overcoming personal challenges to founding Genius Network®, one of the world's most influential groups for entrepreneurs, is nothing short of inspiring. His expertise has empowered thousands of businesses, generating hundreds of millions in revenue for his clients. Beyond his entrepreneurial endeavors, Joe is a passionate philanthropist. Through initiatives like Genius Recovery, he strives to change the global conversation around addiction, promoting compassion and effective treatment. As the host of top-ranked podcasts such as I Love Marketing, 10xTalk, and Genius Network, Joe continues to share invaluable wisdom with audiences worldwide. These are the most important conversations Joe has ever had.Copyright Joe Polish All Rights Reserved Economics Social Sciences
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  • From Spiritually Bankrupt to Joy as a Baseline: A Conversation with Omani Carson and Joe Polish

    From Spiritually Bankrupt to Joy as a Baseline: A Conversation with Omani Carson and Joe Polish
    May 22 2026
    If you have ever built something successful and still felt like something was off, this conversation is for you. Joe Polish sits down with Omani Carson, the founder and chairman of Carson Group (a national wealth platform managing over 50 billion dollars in assets), the founder of Omya, and the co-founder of the Dreamweaver Foundation. What makes this episode different is not what Omani has built. It is what he has been willing to question. Here's what you're about to discover in this conversation: Why Omani says he was "spiritually bankrupt" while everyone else thought he had the most amazing life on the planet.The exact moment he realized no number in his bank account was ever going to make him feel safe, and the moment he finally stopped sprinting toward the next one.The eleven-year-ago turning point that finally cracked open the only operating system he had ever known.The three-year separation from his wife Jeannie that nearly ended a 44 year marriage, and the work they each did to come back together.Why the medicine is never the medicine, and the post-experience work that most people skip and then complain that nothing changed.The bag of ingredients practice Omani uses to decide what he carries forward in life and what he gives grace to and leaves behind.Why he says joy is now a baseline, not a peak experience, and what that has actually done for his ability to run a multi-billion-dollar firm.Why the last 60 days of business at Carson Group produced more than the first 30 years of the company combined, and what that has to do with frequency.The Bert Weiss trick that has saved Omani thousands of yes decisions he would have later regretted (PLUS: the f*** yes or f*** no filter he and Jeannie run on everything).The Six Most Vital Ones discipline and the 30 year goal blueprint that gives you the ability to act when motivation is not present.The Dreamweaver Foundation, the 1.6 million seniors it has already served, and why end-of-life dreams might be the highest-leverage charity work there is.Wu Wei, the Tao Te Ching idea of flow not force, and what it actually looks like to run a multi-billion-dollar operation on it. If you'd like to join world-renowned Entrepreneurs at the next Genius Network® Event, apply today for your invitation to attend at https://geniusnetwork.com. Show Notes Becoming Tate Omani (The Name Change Behind the Conversation) Ron Carson, now Omani Carson, took the Lakota name Tate Omani from indigenous chiefs he hosted at his Nebraska healing ranch. The translation is "walking into a stiff wind."The part he was afraid he would lose by killing off the old identity was his drive. What he discovered is that the drive moderated, but did not disappear, and a whole new world opened up on the other side of it.Omani now lives in what he calls "creator mode," outside the savior-victim-perpetrator drama triangle, and treats every choice as an ingredient he decides whether or not to carry forward. The Money Treadmill: $10,000 to $100,000 to $1,000,000 to Nothing Omani grew up on a Nebraska farm during the farm crisis. He watched his father cry for the only time in his life when the family went broke. He decided on the spot he was never going to be poor.First it was 10,000 dollars in the bank. He got there. He felt the same. Then 100,000 (he still remembers the exact balance, down to the cents). Then a million. Each number arrived, and each number meant nothing.He kept sprinting anyway. He was in the office at 4:00 or 4:30 am. He worked seven days a week. He told himself he was doing it for the family. Jeannie tells him now: that was not the truth. The Loss That Cracked the Old Operating System Open Eleven years ago, Omani's mother died. She was the one person whose love he believed he could not lose no matter what he did.When she was gone, the floor went out from under everything that had been keeping him propped up. The marriage couldn't hold the weight of it. He and Jeannie separated for three years.Both of them, separately, did the work. They worked with the same therapist out of Chicago, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and reentered the marriage as different people. Karosh, the First Medicine Journey, and the Chocolate Bar on New Year's Eve Dr. Laura referred Omani to a man named Karosh in Venice, California, for a week of unplugged, no-phone, no-business inner work. On the way out the door on day five, Omani asked Karosh whether he would be a candidate for plant medicine. Karosh's answer: "The medicine will call you when it is ready for you."On New Year's Eve, the doctor sent Omani a psilocybin chocolate bar to try in a quiet moment. Omani ate the whole bar, then asked the doctor whether that was right. It was not. He spent the next hour with his fist down his throat trying to throw it up while his wife drove him to Walgreens looking for ipecac.His first formal journey in January: 14 grams of mushrooms, 120 milligrams of MDMA, and 5-MeO-DMT. He walked out lighter than he had felt in his entire ...
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    1 hr
  • Storyteller Overland: An Adventurous Conversation with Jeffrey Hunter and Joe Polish

    Storyteller Overland: An Adventurous Conversation with Jeffrey Hunter and Joe Polish
    May 8 2026
    Jeffrey Hunter built Storyteller Overland from a blank slate in November 2018 to over 200 million dollars in revenue in just four years, on Mercedes Sprinter and Ford Transit platforms, with what may be the most rabid customer community in the recreational vehicle industry. He sits down with Joe Polish at Genius Network to break it all down, from the origin story to the build philosophy to what the van life is really doing for the people who choose it. Here's what you're about to discover in this conversation: The story behind Storyteller Overland and why Jeffrey started his adventure van companyWhat the van life is all about (PLUS: How Jeffrey engages with his adventure-loving customers)How to create an even more E.L.F. (Easy, Lucrative and Fun) life with an Overland StorytellerThe role of storytelling in the world of Overlanding and inspiring stories Jeffrey has heardWhy the van life is not about "what you drive" but about embracing "what's driving you"How to integrate running a business and having outdoor adventures (Advice for striking a balance)Jeffrey shares the 4 elements that helped Overland Storyteller grow and scale so fastHow Storyteller Overland is different, unique, and special from other recreational vehiclesThe most surprising thing Jeffrey learned as he was building Overland Storyteller If you'd like to join world-renowned Entrepreneurs at the next Genius Network® Event, apply today for your invitation to attend at https://geniusnetwork.com. Show Notes The Origin Story Behind Storyteller Overland Jeffrey and his partners spent 15 years in the second-stage automotive custom industry building luxury Sprinter products. He calls it successful, but not particularly satisfying. There was conspicuous consumption baked into the previous business that he wanted to leave behindPrivate equity bought out the previous partnership, the rest of the founders went on a journey that eventually sold to Fox, and Jeffrey was free to chase the Van Life and Overland community he had been quietly watching emergeStoryteller launched in November 2018. By March of 2019 the team had three provisional patents (later granted both nationally and internationally), a focused floor plan and feature set, and two production-ready prototypes that they took live at the RVIA gathering. The press release went out the same day they walked the floor How Joe Got Pulled Into the Van World It started with Ben Altadonna telling Joe he gets more done in his Sprinter van in a Whole Foods parking lot than in his 11,500 square foot building. Ben is now on his third one and lives in it most of the time, even when conferences offer to put him up at a hotelJoe rented a Sprinter from Outdoorsy (the Airbnb for Sprinter vans, now over 2 billion in revenue) to take to his ghost town of Cleator, Arizona, then went to Overland Expo to scout in personAt a Mercedes booth, Joe asked one photographer who has been around the whole space which van company was best. The answer was Storyteller, and the reason was the community. That single conversation set up the meeting with Jeffrey and the eventual two-hour Zoom that led to this podcast Van Life vs. Overland (and Why Storyteller Sits in the Middle of the Venn Diagram) Van Life became the catch-all hashtag on Instagram for nomadic, free-spirited people with portable skill sets. Many of Storyteller's customers are high-income coders from the Bay Area doing income arbitrage. As Jeffrey puts it, it is not how much you make, it is how much you keepOverland is the more rugged, more disciplined community. Jeffrey calls them the philosopher kings and queens of off-roading. The technical definition is self-contained, self-directed, vehicle-assisted (or vehicle-reliant) travelStoryteller intentionally sits in the Venn diagram overlap. They bring the warmth and hominess of Van Life and the ruggedness, capability, and self-contained sustainability of the Overland community into one platform Why It's Called Storyteller (and the Story Behind the Name) The team led with "what's the point?" instead of "what's the product?" The point was helping people become the heroes of their own story for the benefit of themselves, their families, and the world around them. The name became inevitableJeffrey's wife Lisa was not initially sold on starting another company. But she had a recurring phrase she used with their niece McKaylen, "shut your storyteller," and the moment Jeffrey suggested the name, Lisa took ownership of it. Her fingerprints are on the company from the first sentence The Four Disciplines That Helped Storyteller Scale So Fast Listen longer than anyone else. Jeffrey credits the entire ramp to hyper-focused listening to what the market and the community were actually saying, instead of guessingSolve at scale instead of one-off. The team realized that everything they would want in their own van could be solved at scale if they built a van company instead of a van. That single shift changed the business ...
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    35 mins
  • We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance with Peter Diamandis, Steven Kotler, and Joe Polish

    We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance with Peter Diamandis, Steven Kotler, and Joe Polish
    Apr 24 2026

    Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler share their new book We Are as Gods. The thesis is exactly as big as the title. We suddenly have godlike capabilities in AI, longevity, genetics, and robotics. The only question that matters now is whether we are wise enough to handle them.

    Here's what you're about to discover in this conversation:

    • Why Peter and Steven say biblical-scale miracles are now what they call "Tuesday morning," and the exact categories of technology that are already delivering them
    • Ray Kurzweil's jaw-dropping prediction about the next ten years, the Dario Amodei prediction about doubling human lifespan, and the humanoid robots you will be able to buy for the price of a used car
    • The cascade Steven nicknamed "exponential leadership syndrome," the ten-step chain that is quietly crushing founders and CEOs right now, and the one neurobiological antidote that unwinds it
    • Universe 25, the $800,000 mouse experiment every Entrepreneur needs to know about before AI removes any more friction from your life
    • The Five Great Forks of humanity, and the single mindset choice that decides which side of the fork you end up on
    • The one thing you have to do before you ever touch an AI tool again. Get this wrong and you will quietly make yourself dumber in about thirty days
    • Peter's full longevity stack, the number one predictor of how long you will live, and why optimism is worth an extra fifteen percent on your lifespan according to the National Academy of Sciences
    • What twenty-seven years of friendship with Elon Musk has taught Peter about what actually drives world-changers, and why it has nothing to do with the money
    • Steven's rule for launching anything that matters. He calls it "above the line of super credibility," and it is why most book launches, foundations, and movements quietly die on arrival

    If you'd like to join world-renowned Entrepreneurs at the next Genius Network® Event – then apply today for your invitation to attend at https://geniusnetwork.com.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
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