What happens when an entrepreneur who helped build the e-commerce internet, bets his entire next company on the one thing everyone else is racing to automate away?

Brent Peterson, founder, host of the Talk Commerce podcast, and the endurance athlete behind 34 marathons and an Ironman, taught himself software, went all in on building his company Magento in 2009, and grew it with his wife Susan, into a globally recognized agency before selling in 2021. Then, instead of coasting on a beach in Hawaii, he made a contrarian bet: that humans belong at the center of content creation, right as the rest of the world handed it all to AI.

In this episode, Brent gets refreshingly honest about the chapter few entrepreneurs want to talk about, what it feels like to sell your company and then work for someone else. He shares how he once ran a lifestyle business for four hours a day, and why he is convinced that AI will not replace you. He now builds human-led content with a simple rule: a human reads it; before a human reads it. Plus the daily streak he has kept alive for more than 1,500 days, and what it taught him about building anything for the long term.

Connect With Brent

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentwpeterson/
• Talk Commerce podcast: https://talk-commerce.com
• EO Visionary Voices podcast: https://eovoices.com
• Content Basis: https://www.contentbasis.io
• Content Cucumber: https://contentcucumber.com

Justin Nassiri has lived more reinventions than most. Naval Academy engineer, nuclear submarine officer, Stanford MBA, three-time founder. In this episode, he sits down with Sarah to talk about the conviction at the heart of everything he's built: leading publicly isn't vanity; it's leadership, and the leaders worth hearing from are often the ones who'd rather just do the work.

They get into the counterintuitive truth: Almost none of the 400+ executives Justin coaches wanted the spotlight. Why bringing your full self is what draws people in. Justin shares a hundred-million-dollar decision that you can learn from, the belief he carried for years and had to unlearn. What success feels like from the inside now. Also, the daily mantra that moves him from stuck to "I'll figure it out." If you've ever told yourself you'd share your voice once you were ready, this is the one for you.

If you've ever told yourself you'd share your voice once you were ready, this is the one for you.

Connect with Justin:
LinkedIn: Justin Nassiri
Email: justin@executivepresence.io
Personal Website: =www.justinnassiri.com
Company Website: executivepresence.io

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What if the difference between the life you have and the life you want comes down to a single word?

In this episode of Rock Your Brain, Rock Your Life, we sat down with Case Kenny, host of the podcast New Mindset, Who Dis?, keynote speaker, and best-selling author. With two degrees in languages, which is where the obsession with words traces back to, he has grown into one of the most listened to self-improvement shows out there, including an Apple Podcasts top 30 show.

You'll hear Case redefine optimism in a way that has nothing to do with butterflies and rainbows.

Real optimism, he argues, is the belief that things can change. People can change, emotions can change, industries can change, and so can you.

He shares how he rebranded patience as faith because patience felt too passive for his ambition, and how that single reframe became a quiet anchor through years of building his company.

Case opens up about the moment he quit his cozy senior sales job after eight years to become an e- commerce entrepreneur. How he experienced hockey stick growth selling guided journals using paid ads, and then watched the Apple iOS privacy changes nearly take his e-commerce business down while he was cutting $300K inventory checks. He talks honestly about rejection (which he says is 80% of the work of being an entrepreneur, even with close to 2 million followers), about the "end of history illusion" that tricks us into thinking we're done evolving, and why the least permanent thing about yourself is yourself.

If you've ever felt the tension between ambition and peace, between grinding and trusting, this conversation will give you the words and the reframes to hold both.

Press play. Grab a red felt pen and a piece of paper. You'll be taking notes within minutes.

Check out Case Kenny:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/case.kenny/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@casekenny

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CaseKenny

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casekenny/

Website: https://www.casekenny.com

Podcast - New Mindset, Who Dis?:

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-mindset-who-dis/id1383599078

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2BpUjzy5FMqos6H9ILK103

iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1319-new-mindset-who-dis-30674891/