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Corbin Cowan explains how he connected with Board of Advisors after leaving a disappointing Florida mastermind while trying to turn around a near-bankrupt company. This lead to deals, meeting Kevin Harrington, selling that company, and later helping a med tech referral raise about $18 million and go public on Nasdaq. Corbin describes his Founders First Advisory, which prioritizes increasing what founders personally take from their businesses, starting with a tax strategy using an Inflation Reduction Act investment tax credit program (about 35%–40%) and bonus depreciation, structured to eliminate current-year income tax and potentially recover about 75% of taxes paid over the prior three years.

01:06 Founders First Advisory
02:03 Board of Advisors Origin
03:23 Deals and Exits Through BA
04:13 Who He Serves
04:43 Tax Product Overview
06:55 How the Credit Works
08:07 Eligibility and Intake
09:54 Found Money and Peace
11:00 Reinvest or Pocket It

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Corbin Cowan is the founder and CEO of Founders First Advisory (also known as Founder First Advisory), a financial advisory firm dedicated to helping founders, business owners, and high-income earners reduce tax friction, align their advisory teams, and optimize after-tax wealth.

https://www.corbincowan.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/corbincowan/

From the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas, George Wright III interviews Tucker Bern, who helps manage a complex family office spanning multiple industries and chose to focus on simplifying AI for real business use. Bern created Caddy, a locally installed “command center” built on Claude that uses a personalized intake to learn a user’s needs and then supports tasks like email triage, calendar/meeting prep with web research, diligence, reporting, workflow automation, and even software building, with about 100 built-in skills including an “auditor” to review and dry-run code. He shares examples of replacing tedious job-review work and helping a non-coder build a lead-scraping app in 2.5 days, emphasizing output gains beyond 20% without aiming to cut staff.

00:00 Get 20 Percent More
00:38 Show Intro And Guest
01:56 Why Focus On AI
04:02 Meet Caddy Platform
05:10 Setup And Intake
06:36 Real Workflow Wins
07:15 Skills And Auditor
08:20 Who Benefits Examples
11:49 Productivity Not Layoffs
13:49 Security And Ownership
15:26 How To Use Daily
17:48 Why You Must Adopt
20:49 Vision And Passion
22:15 Where To Learn More

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Tucker Bern is a dynamic entrepreneur and investment leader who currently serves as the CEO of a specialized AI Automation company and President of Bern Investment. At 29, Tucker manages a family office with nine figures in capital following the landmark 9 figure sale of his family’s 1,200-employee enterprise in 2025. His AI firm provides cutting-edge voice, text, and automation solutions for diverse sectors, including medical, accounting, and the trades (HVAC, roofing, pest control, etc). A versatile strategist, Tucker also leads business development for the family’s functional wellness brand, which they successfully scaled from zero to over seven figures in just 18 months across Iowa and Texas. Combining high-level capital stewardship with a "boots-on-the-ground" approach to tech innovation, he focuses on leveraging automation and strategic investment to drive rapid growth and operational excellence.

Links: meetcaddy.com, [email protected].
https://createassistants.ai/
https://www.instagram.com/thetuckerbern/

George Wright III interviews Christie Steiger of Innovative Wellness Center about optimizing health for high achievers through comprehensive lab work, individualized functional medicine, and quantum hair analysis to identify cellular stressors like mold, parasites, viruses, toxins, and nutrient deficiencies. Christie shares how chronic symptoms such as fatigue, gut issues, headaches, insomnia, anxiety, brain fog, and weight gain often go unresolved in traditional care, and explains their clinic’s approach, including targeted IVs and education via the Zyra Life Coaching Collective. They discuss peptides as cellular signaling tools, warning against unregulated online sources and emphasizing provider oversight, pharmacy-grade products, proper cycling, and personalized “stacks.” Christie describes reversing her own Health issues and being told she’d “forever have diabetes,” and recommends annual comprehensive labs plus at least one quantum test to establish personal benchmarks and trends.

00:00 Exhausted and Unwell
00:54 Welcome and Big Theme
01:53 Christie’s Origin Story
03:09 Who They Help
04:33 Labs and Root Causes
05:45 Quantum Testing Explained
09:04 Gut Fatigue Sleep Issues
10:38 IV Drips and Coaching
11:41 Peptides Basics and Risks
14:47 Popular Peptides and Stacks
15:48 Going National With Education
17:14 Christie’s Turnaround Story
19:34 Where to Start Testing
21:40 How Often to Test

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Christie Steiger is the Founder of Innovative Wellness Center and the reigning Mrs. Iowa 2025, dedicated to revolutionizing patient care through the principles of functional and integrative medicine. With over six years of experience in the health sector, including her tenure as a Functional Medicine Consultant at Zyra Life, Christie specializes in a comprehensive approach that merges Integrative Family Practice, Holistic Pain Management, and Longevity Treatments. At her center, she leads a team providing cutting-edge solutions such as Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), PRP, and advanced laser aesthetics. A graduate of the health and financial sectors with a background in business development, Christie empowers individuals to achieve transformative wellness by aligning innovative technology with deep-rooted holistic health values.

Innovative Wellness Center
🌐 https://innovativewellness.center

https://www.instagram.com/christie_steiger
https://www.youtube.com/@ChristieSteiger
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christie-steiger-a2443446/

George Wright III explains that lasting success comes from small actions repeated consistently, not intentions, motivation, or one big decision. He connects prior themes—clarity, focus, discipline, and identity—to show how identity shapes behavior and habits automate it to create long-term results. He defines habits as automatic behaviors formed through the habit loop of cue, routine, and reward, emphasizing that environment often shapes behavior more than willpower. To build better habits, he recommends starting small, using habit stacking by attaching new behaviors to existing routines, controlling the environment to make good habits easy and bad habits hard, tracking activity, and reinforcing identity by keeping promises to yourself. He warns against trying to change too much, relying on motivation, unrealistic goals, and quitting after one missed day, and challenges listeners to commit to one habit for 30 days.

00:00 Small Things Compound
00:27 Intentions vs Habits
01:06 Foundation and Identity
01:52 Why People Struggle
02:36 Define Habits Clearly
03:19 Momentum and Compounding
04:24 The Habit Loop
05:51 Build Better Habits
06:51 Environment and Tracking
07:54 Identity and Sabotage
09:13 30 Day Habit Challenge
11:02 Wrap Up and Next Steps

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You Don’t Need More Leads: Fix the Conversion Leak with Authority and Reputation

George Wright III introduces an article by his partner Jerome Knyszewski of Authority Magazines/Valiant CEO arguing that most businesses don’t need more leads—they have a conversion problem caused by “unconverted credibility.” Citing data (21% average sales win rate, 2.35% average website conversion vs. 11%+ for top sites, and a $92-to-$1 spend imbalance favoring acquisition over conversion), the episode explains that marketing creates desire but prospects then compare options in a retargeting ecosystem, so winning depends on reputation, authority, credibility, and positioning. With nearly all consumers reading reviews and reviews influencing most purchase decisions, the key is how you show up during comparison. Personal brand is framed as “architecture of reassurance,” a compounding asset built through earned media, testimonials, thought leadership, and consistent visibility, and George invites listeners to share the episode and watch for Jerome’s upcoming podcast appearance.

01:45 Why Leads Mislead
03:16 Fix the Leaky Bucket
04:21 How Competitors Steal Demand
06:14 Winning the Comparison Moment
09:25 Personal Brand Defined
10:56 Reputation as an Asset
12:12 Scale After Trust
13:57 Authority Is the Strategy

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