
How to break free
Melissa Banks spent 17 years in an abusive marriage before she rebuilt her life from scratch. No money. No plan. Two sons depending on her. What came next became a lesson in something most people miss when they talk abou

Hosted by John Biggs · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 178 episodes
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When you're going through Hell, keep going." This is a podcast about failure and how it breeds success. Every week, we will talk to amazing people who have done amazing things yet, at some point, experienced failure. By exploring their experiences, we can learn how to build, succeed, and stay humble. It is hosted by author and former New York Times journalist John Biggs. Our theme music is by Policy, AKA Mark Buchwald. (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/policy/) www.keepgoingpod.com
John Biggs hosts Keep Going, a business show with 178 episodes published.

Melissa Banks spent 17 years in an abusive marriage before she rebuilt her life from scratch. No money. No plan. Two sons depending on her. What came next became a lesson in something most people miss when they talk abou

Daniel Burrus has spent decades talking about the future, but the most useful thing he said on Keep Going had nothing to do with AI or technology. It had to do with regret. Before he built six companies, before the bests

Paulius Judickas spends a lot of time thinking about something most people never notice, IP addresses. The internet runs on them, every server, every phone, every AI endpoint, every connected device. But there are only s

Stephen Gillen told me something during this week’s Keep Going that stuck in my head long after we finished recording. “No one’s going to come save you,” he said. “And neither should they.” It sounds harsh at first. But

AI systems are getting better at answering questions, but they still forget almost everything that happens outside the screen. Elisa Lu thinks that’s the missing piece. Lu is the co-founder and COO of Memoket, a startup

Daniel Burrus has spent decades talking about the future, but the most useful thing he said on Keep Going had nothing to do with AI or technology. It had to do with regret. Before he built six companies, before the bests

Arthur Chen is trying to do something boring on purpose. Chen is the co founder and CEO of Verdi Agriculture, and he describes the company as “physical AI for farm infrastructure,” starting with irrigation. The pitch is

You keep hearing that success is about vision. That is not wrong, but it misses the harder truth. Vision is easy. Living with the consequences of your decisions is the work. I spoke with Jae Lee, a founder on his eighth

Arthur Chen is trying to do something boring on purpose. Chen is the co founder and CEO of Verdi Agriculture, and he describes the company as “physical AI for farm infrastructure,” starting with irrigation. The pitch is

Stefan Lindstrom has spent years studying entrepreneurs. Not the mythology but the actual behavior. He’s givens of thousands of tests and had thousands of conversations. And what he came back with is not inspiring. It’s

David Silverstein started building Amaze Health in 2019, before the current AI wave made “AI health” feel like its own category. He told me he was not trying to invent the models, he was trying to build the platform that

I sat down with comedian DC Pearson and what struck me wasn’t the success. It was the patchwork. From the outside, it looks clean. Comedy group, Sundance film, books, writing for TV. A straight line. But it isn’t. “Our l

I talked to Ela Thier this week on Keep Going, and she said something early on that told me exactly where the conversation was headed. Filmmakers, she said, know a lot about failure. That sounded like a joke, but not rea

I ran into a strange hack this week. It looks simple at first, but it is not. It targets job seekers. I think I recall submitting a resume for a job at a company called Runeapes, which, at least on the surface, looks lik

I talked to Bobby Mascia this week on Keep Going, and what struck me was how different his story is from the usual startup script. A lot of founders like to talk about building from nothing, but Bobby’s problem was almos

I sat down with Anne Karber and what struck me right away was not the résumé. Entrepreneur, author, podcast host, all of that is fine, but it is not the story. The story is what happens when you build a life that works o

The American healthcare system is full of software. It is not always full of care. That was one of the clearest lessons from my conversation with Melissa Hanna, the co-founder and CEO of Mahmee, a company that provides p

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.keepgoingpod.com Today I ran a short, hands-on session for Keep Going on OpenClaw 101, a plain look at what people mean when they say “AI agents” and how

Work is eating our lives. That much feels obvious. What is less obvious is why we let it happen. I spoke with psychologist and author Guy Winch about his new book Mind Over Grind, which looks at a familiar but poorly und

On this week’s episode of Keep Going, I spoke with Patricia Martin, writer, researcher, and author of Will the Future Like You? She has spent a decade studying what happens when failure is not just professional but perso
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