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Darren Lee
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    #340 Temple Naylor - The Ultimate Guide To Closing High-Ticket Clients (Full Breakdown)

    31/08/2026 | 59 mins.
    Watch this next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkldfWDCuM

    "I've never read a single sales book. Never."

    Temple Naylor sold Cole Gordon's $24K offer and ran a portfolio of 65 client accounts, most of them doing $100K to $300K a month. He coaches 63 business owners now. He's 28, he grew up in a mobile home, and he dropped out of high school and taught himself to code because there was nothing else within walking distance.

    I wanted to know what actually separates good closers from great ones. His answer isn't a technique. He thinks most people plateau because they keep buying sales training long after the thing holding them back stopped being sales.

    If you're already decent on calls and can't work out what sits between you and great, this is the conversation.


    Apply to Work with Voics: https://events.voics.co/coaches

    Join Aura: https://app.aura-app.ai/sign-up

    0:00 Intro
    1:20 Why sales skill has a ceiling
    4:30 People buy coaches, not coaching
    6:53 Diagnosing one problem, not nine
    7:33 The one thing frame
    10:36 Join Aura
    12:12 How to pitch end to end
    13:00 The four pillars, and weaving in and out
    16:11 The questions that lose deals
    18:58 From a mobile home to teaching himself to code
    25:09 How he actually got good: brutality
    26:51 The cold call he recorded at 19
    30:22 Scripts, coachability and sounding human
    36:07 Why $300K a month is still a B2C buyer
    39:59 Front end vs back end offers
    40:44 The renewal data that changed his mind
    47:09 The sunk cost pitch
    50:46 Payment plans and meeting people where they are
    53:16 How he runs a back end pitch
    56:05 The blindside
    59:09 Nobody actually has objections
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    #339 Christian Schuette - The Actual Systems to Scale a Business in 2026

    20/08/2026 | 49 mins.
    Watch this next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkldfWDCuM

    “You’re solving the right problem — but in the wrong order.”

    Christian Schütte advises 7 and 8-figure founders, including Will Brown. In this episode he doesn’t get interviewed — he runs a live advisory session on me and finds the constraint I’d been ignoring for months.

    We map every role I play. He pressure-tests my $30M exit until it falls apart. And he explains why most founders are busy every day while the number never moves.

    Apply to Work with Voics: https://events.voics.co/coaches
    Join Aura: https://app.aura-app.ai/sign-up

    0:00 Intro
    1:04 The hardest parts of business
    2:20 Identity and your roles
    7:00 Why bad feedback hurts
    8:57 Sponsor: Aura
    10:34 Why not every client makes it
    21:49 Advisory vs coaching
    25:33 Direction instead of goals
    26:44 Why Darren wants an exit
    34:58 Finding the real constraint
    38:01 Getting honest with yourself
    39:30 The Golden Hour
    44:48 Closing open loops
    47:46 Document the journey
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    #338 Özkan Akkilic - The CEO Behind 75,000 Businesses: "You Are The Blocker"

    14/08/2026 | 1h 5 mins.
    Watch this next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkldfWDCuM

    Most coaches never scale. Not because their offer is bad — because they never stop being the product.

    Özkan Akkilic has a view of this that almost nobody has. He's the co-founder and CEO of Ablefy (formerly Elopage), the platform running over 75,000 online businesses — which means he can see, in real numbers, exactly who breaks through and who stalls.

    His estimate: only 20–30% ever make it to the next level.

    If you're stuck somewhere between $20K and $100K a month and working harder every month to stay there — this one's for you.

    Apply to Work with Voics: https://events.voics.co/coaches
    Join Aura: https://app.aura-app.ai/sign-up

    0:00 Preview & Intro
    2:53 Launch-Based Businesses Have An Expiry Date
    6:47 The Niches Making Money Right Now
    10:10 The Roadmap From Zero To £1M
    11:27 Sponsor: Aura
    13:03 The One-To-One Coaching Trap
    17:19 The Decision To Go (One-Way Door)
    20:01 You're Just An Overpaid Freelancer
    24:38 Clarity, Vision, And Ozkan's 2013 Bet
    31:54 Comfort Kills More Businesses Than Competition
    37:03 What Clients Actually Need Most
    42:19 Why Aura And Ablefy Partnered Up
    48:53 The Sales Rep Commission Nightmare
    1:01:19 Why Small Businesses Need Better Tools Than Big Ones
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    1 Year Building a Software Company (The Brutal Reality)

    09/08/2026 | 29 mins.
    Watch This NEXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkldfWDCuM&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA

    A year ago I moved from consulting into software. This is what actually happened — the numbers, the mistakes, and the things I'd do completely differently.

    No highlight reel. Six figures in ARR, pushing seven, with the goal of eight — and every expensive lesson it took to get here.


    Apply to work with Voics: https://events.voics.co/coaches

    0:00 – The numbers and the goal
    2:15 – Why build Aura at all
    3:41 – Sales intelligence vs. a CRM
    5:06 – Pre-sell before you build
    7:48 – Public launch and the activation problem
    10:10 – The engineering hires that changed everything
    12:38 – Using Aura to grow Aura
    15:22 – Acquisition lessons from painful pivots
    18:03 – Learning paid ads the hard way
    22:18 – Events and alliances as the edge
    26:04 – Iterate fast and build to sell
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    #337 Cameron England - The 20 Year Old Making $700k/month With His AI Agency

    02/08/2026 | 50 mins.
    Join Aura today: https://app.aura-app.ai/sign-up

    At 20, Cameron England built his agency entirely on paid ads. No organic, no posting. $50–100 a day in, clients at around $400, $1,000 up front and $1,000 every month after that.

    "I don't want to be right, I just want to make money."

    He started posting at 15 documenting a business he hadn't built yet, spent four years in the trenches running a marketing agency for medical clinics, and now runs a second business teaching agency owners the same path.

    This one is about the mechanics. Why he dropped cold outbound the moment he learned paid. Why organic is what Darren calls "business on easy mode" — and why Cameron thinks depending on either paid or organic alone is a mistake. What actually broke when he poured money into ads: fulfilment, hiring, all of it.

    If you're running an agency or a coaching business and you're stuck deciding instead of doing, this one's for you.

    0:00 Why your pain tolerance sets your income ceiling
    1:12 The popcorn effect — 5 years of nothing, then everything
    4:04 Student vs expert: which one actually gets paid
    7:19 Selling vapes at 14, shaving his head at 15
    9:50 Join Aura
    11:26 How he cracked paid ads and killed cold outbound
    16:24 Why 90% of beginners stay stuck at $10K a month
    22:18 Reputation over growth spurts
    23:58 The offer he refused to scale
    26:34 The cost of condensing 10 years into 3
    35:41 Turning down $120K a year at 16 on a gut feeling
    42:51 When Instagram shut him down
    46:42 Leading by example

    CAMERON ENGLAND
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Cameron.England
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamcameronengland/
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Weekly podcast episodes with the sharpest minds in the world to help you live a richer & more fulfilling life. Previous guests include Luke Belmar, Justin Waller, Sahil Bloom, Gad Saad, Peter Schiff, Stirling Cooper, Jack Hopkins, Sadia Khan, Matt Gray, Daniel Priestley, Richard Cooper, Justin Welsh, Arlin Moore and more.
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