The Smith Sense Podcast gives listeners insider access into the real-life struggles, ideas, and strategies of successful entrepreneurs and business leaders. Whether you're building a business, a team, or a way of life... Smith Sense includes you in the real-life conversations that the leadership and self-help books and blogs never address. This is the story of what really works, told from the trenches from actual business leaders struggling with your same challenges every day.
Latest episodes
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33 min
When A Founder Should Step Aside
As Matt closes the door on his CEO days with Royalty Exchange and moves into a Chairman position, he speaks with Antony about when is it the right time to step aside and let someon…
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1 h 07
Digital Nomads, Independent Thinking, and Why Bobby Casey is Optimistic
Matt chats with Bobby Casey from Global Wealth Protection about digital nomads, working from home and independent thinking https://smith.substack.com/
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34 min
Distribution is King
This week Antony and I discuss a topic that’s too often overlooked by entrepreneurs: distribution. Whether you’re selling beef jerky or digital services, getting your product in fr…
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42 min
Killing Innovation
The economic fallout from COVID-19 is highlighting one challenge that entrepreneurs face all time: regulation stifles innovation. Entrenched interests You don’t have to look farthe…
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50 min
Covid-19, Fedcoin, and the Future of Western Civilization
My good friend and mentor Doug Casey joins me on the podcast again to discuss world events, politics, U.S. monetary policy, and why Fedcoin isn’t as far-fetched of an idea as it so…
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47 min
Performative Entrepreneurship
On this week’s episode of the podcast my friend and colleague Antony Bruno joins me to discuss a fascinating academic research paper that concludes the cottage industry around entr…
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46 min
Frame
My business partner and friend Gary Young joined me on the podcast to discuss “frame,” a term we use to describe someone’s point of view on the world. We discuss how entrepreneurs…
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38 min
The Power of the Overton Window
How do ideas that were once unthinkable become accepted policy? In this conversation with Royalty Exchange cofounder Gary Young, we discuss the Overton window — the range of polici…
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22 min
Just Cause
In his best-selling book The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek writes that there are fundamentally two ways of interacting with the world. In one view — the one traditionally taught in bu…
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58 min
Hiring and Firing
How to attract talent, pick the right candidates, retain star employees and say goodbye People are a business’s biggest asset and the thing most companies spend the vast majority o…
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31 min
Operational Friction
In a previous episode we discussed market friction, which I described as the heart of all entrepreneurial opportunity. This week we’ll discuss operational friction, which is centra…
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47 min
Team Building
Every entrepreneur needs to develop skills managing teams. Your management style will evolve over time, and you’ll find some styles work better than others depending on the environ…
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46 min
Market Friction
Market friction is at the heart of all entrepreneurial opportunity. When you’re looking for a business idea, consider the things that keep people from doing what they want to do. T…
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48 min
Side Hustle
As with any business, a side hustle boils down to creating recognized value for others. When you create obvious value for someone else, you can get paid. The more value you create,…
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50 min
The Money System - A Conversation Doug Casey
In this conversation with my friend and mentor, Doug Casey, we discuss the money system, it's history, and how it's set up to the detriment of most Americans. We talk about how the…
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37 min
Gambits
Look closely at just about any successful enterprise and you’ll see gambits they made along the way — small bets on an unclear future that, however unlikely, would produce outsized…
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45 min
Why Stoic?
The ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, particularly among entrepreneurs, that’s only increased in the wake of a global pandemic. (The Ti…
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49 min
The Secret to Successful PR
My views on PR have changed as I’ve learned to use it strategically for my business. Antony Bruno, our director of communications at Royalty Exchange and my co-host on this podcast…
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33 min
The Turkey Problem
As we’re seeing with the Covid-19 crisis, assessing risk and responding when things go wrong are critical skills for entrepreneurs. The problem is, this is very hard for us to do.…
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35 min
The Fatal Leadership Mistake
One of the most irresponsible things you can do as an entrepreneur is fail to have a substantial cash buffer to withstand changes. That’s exactly the situation small businesses—and…