Founder Fires is for the builders, the risk-takers, and the ones figuring it out as they go. Hosted by Iggy Odighizuwa, this podcast is raw, real, and all about what it takes to build something big.There is no fluff, just straight-up lessons from the trenches, personal stories, hard truths, and conversations with other founders who are eating glass and still showing up. Whether knee-deep in your startup or still dreaming from the sidelines, this is your spot to learn, get inspired, and stay grounded in the chaos. Let's build, fire and all.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFounder Fires is for the builders, the risk-takers, and the ones figuring it out as they go. Hosted by Iggy Odighizuwa, this podcast is raw, real, and all about what it takes to build something big.
Founder Fires is hosted by Iggy. The show has published 36 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How a Saxophone Coach Hit His First $25K Month Without a Sales Team" (22 October 2026, 39 minutes), "How They Doubled Revenue Without Hiring a Bigger Team" (15 October 2026, 31 minutes), and "Coach Kelly's sales team was maxed out, but CharlieAI broke the bottleneck" (8 October 2026, 33 minutes).
Founder Fires publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 23 minutes across 36 episodes.
Booking probability for Founder Fires is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Founder Fires requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Founder Fires's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Founder Fires are Business & Management Consulting and Photography, Polling & Other Services. Founder Fires has a business audience.
Iggy hosts Founder Fires, a business show with 36 episodes published.
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Episode #20
Patrick Garcia was getting leads. Following up with all of them was another job—and he was already doing every other job in the business. As the founder of SaxLab, Patrick sells a year-long saxophone coaching program...
Episode #19
Tony and Arin's business was growing. So was the amount of time it took to keep it running. Leads were coming in through DM ads, and Arin was handling conversations herself. Replying. Following up. Booking calls. At one...
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800 to 1,000 workshop registrations a week. A sales team that couldn't keep up. Coach Kelly already had a proven offer, human setters, and human closers. But keeping up with incoming leads meant more outreach and...
Episode #16
Most musicians learn by copying. They copy chords. They copy styles. They copy the player they want to sound like. But copying only gets you so far. Vaughn Brathwaite built Gospel University around a different idea...
Episode #15
What if the revenue you're chasing is already sitting inside your CRM? Most businesses keep spending more on ads, buying more leads, and pushing their sales team harder. Meanwhile, thousands of old leads are sitting...
Episode #14
Most founders do not have an AI problem. They have a broken sales process that AI exposed. This year, our sales department collected $5.1 million in cash, booked 5,020 calls, and closed 684 deals with just eight human...
Episode #13
Your sales team is the last unpredictable variable in your entire revenue engine, and it's costing you more than you think. Your ads are running. Your AI appointment setter is booking the calls. Your lead management...
Episode #12
I am going to be straight with you. If you are generating inbound leads right now and you do not have a system managing every single stage of your pipeline, you are bleeding money. Most businesses are not losing sales...
Episode #11
Most founders celebrate a great month. The best founders predict it… 90 days in advance, down to less than 10% variance. Here's exactly how we did it! In December 2025, we built a single spreadsheet that forecasted we'd...
Episode #11
<p >Damani fired his entire sales team in 2024. Two months later, he was back to six-figure months as a team of one.</p> <p >This conversation pulls back the curtain on how a drum coach went from selling $20/month...
Episode #10
<p >I was leaking $620,000 a month out of my sales pipeline and had no idea.</p> <p >I gave this keynote at SalesCon this year and broke down the film I finally sat down and watched on my own business. </p> <p >The 5...
Episode #9
<p >$165K a month to $1.1M cash collected. Same business. Same offer. One playbook.</p> <p >In this episode, I break down the exact system we used to 7x a portfolio company's monthly cash collected in under 90 days. Not...
Episode #8
<p >We went from $463K to nearly $1M in 30 days, with zero human setters!</p> <p >Let me show you exactly how.</p> <p >Most founders think scaling revenue means scaling headcount. </p> <p >That thinking kept me stuck...
Episode #7
<p >We didn't hire more setters. We didn't run more ads. We just built the right system, and in the first 10 days of March, it collected $330K. </p> <p >Most founders scale by throwing bodies and budget at problems...
Episode #5
<p >I've collected over $70M in cash across 6 eight-figure brands since 2020. This is the exact framework behind every single one of them, and I'm putting it all on the table.</p> <p >Most founders are scaling too...
Episode #5
<p >You're spending money to get leads booked on your calendar, and half of them aren't showing up. That's not a lead problem. That's a show rate problem, and it's quietly killing your revenue.</p> <p >Last month, the...
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<p >Most businesses I work with are generating leads, but bleeding them out before they ever reach a sales call. This funnel is what fixed that.</p> <p >I took one account from $80K a month to $573,175 collected in 30...
Episode #20
<p >I built a fitness business that did hundreds of sales a month. Then I shut it down.</p> <p >Here's why: we were essentially running a promotional company. </p> <p >Zero recurring revenue. Zero resigns. We started...
Episode #19
<p >What do you do when you're leading a team, building something bigger than yourself, and you don't feel qualified to do any of it?</p> <p >I deal with this on a regular basis. I don't feel like I'm good enough to be...
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<p >Look, I'm not going to sugarcoat it - there was a season where I thought we were done.</p> <p >$250K in refunds in 45 days. Crypto losses that wiped us out. </p> <p >A lawsuit that drained us dry. </p> <p >I had to...
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