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Hosted by Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti · business · EN
Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti didn't wait for anyone to greenlight their careers. Together they talk about building wealth on your own terms: finding leverage, compounding your skills, and designing careers that don't require a boss's approval. For developers, freelancers, and anyone plotting their escape from the org chart.
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Signup to Generate a PitchColleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti didn't wait for anyone to greenlight their careers. Together they talk about building wealth on your own terms: finding leverage, compounding your skills, and designing careers that don't require a boss's approval. For developers, freelancers, and anyone plotting their escape from the org chart.
Permission Not Required is hosted by Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "So Long, For Now" (24 July 2026, 39 minutes), "Everyone's Claude is Talking to Everyone's Claude" (9 July 2026, 46 minutes), and "Nobody Wants a $100K Build" (25 June 2026, 41 minutes).
Permission Not Required publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 41 minutes across 18 episodes.
Booking probability for Permission Not Required is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Permission Not Required requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Permission Not Required's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Permission Not Required are Business & Management Consulting. Permission Not Required has a business audience.
Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti hosts Permission Not Required, a business podcast with 18 episodes published.
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Episode #17
Our last episode, at least for a while. Colleen accepted a full-time job and Joe's third kid is due in September, so we're wrapping up Permission Not Required with a good one. Joe went all-in on Ruby Native at RubyConf...
Episode #16
Joe and Colleen are back from the Fourth of July, Joe from a week on Lake Tahoe and Colleen from the all-out celebration her island throws every year. Then Colleen walks through a week of reflection: she wants to double...
Episode #15
Joe's premium custom builds aren't closing anymore. For the first time, clients are walking on price, reasoning they can just throw Claude tokens at it for a fraction of the cost. Ruby Native lets him deliver the same...
Episode #15
<p>Joe's premium custom builds aren't closing anymore. For the first time, clients are walking on price, reasoning they can just throw Claude tokens at it for a fraction of the cost. Ruby Native lets him deliver the...
Episode #14
<p>Colleen gets her first case study back: a client's blog traffic jumped 86% from the SEO content pipeline she built. The catch is the maintenance. Every client sits on their own Hetzner box running OpenClaw, and it...
Episode #14
Colleen gets her first case study back: a client's blog traffic jumped 86% from the SEO content pipeline she built. The catch is the maintenance. Every client sits on their own Hetzner box running OpenClaw, and it falls...
Episode #13
<p>Colleen had a weekend revelation: she doesn't love building products as much as she loves building businesses. The work doesn't matter, the industry doesn't matter, and tech might not even be the long-term home. Joe...
Episode #12
<p>Joe officially launched Ruby Native for iOS on his birthday with a 33% off discount code. The launch itself was quiet, but the bigger milestone landed the next morning: a developer in Turkey shipped their personal...
Episode #11
<p>Colleen goes to a Claude meetup in San Diego expecting 12 people. 80 show up. She wings a presentation and watches a winery owner and a lawyer demo working software they built with no code. The most interesting...
Episode #10
<p><b>Joe's Ruby Native launch video is stuck in Remotion hell</b></p><p>Claude + Remotion produced something mediocre after many rounds. Colleen's verdict: commit to becoming a video creator, or pay a pro. Joe admits...
Episode #9
<p>Colleen is two months into her AI automation pivot and doing the work, but cold inbound leads haven't landed yet. She's going all-in on LinkedIn for 90 days and doing discovery calls in insurance and home services...
Episode #8
<p>Colleen is overwhelmed in a good way after saying yes to everything, and Joe pushes her to stop planning and just run ads for two weeks. Joe hits 1K ARR on Ruby Native but can't bring himself to launch it. Colleen...
Episode #7
<p>Colleen deploys her first Laravel app and gushes about how Rails has nothing like it, while Joe tallies up $250/month in hosting bills across three platforms. They also brainstorm a joint B2C app experiment, wrestle...
Episode #6
<p>Joe reveals Ruby Native (rubynative.com), a new product that lets Rails developers get their web app into the App Store without touching Xcode, Swift, or App Store Connect. Upload a few files, configure a YAML, click...
Episode #5
<p>Colleen is building AI-powered SEO agents and Meta ad pipelines for clients. Joe reveals a secret product that packages Rails apps into iOS apps with one click. They debate whether AI automations actually deliver...
Episode #4
<p>Colleen's first week at a new AI consulting contract is off to a great start. She's building automations for marketing ops and customer success, self-hosted n8n on Hetzner to cut costs, and got her YouTube shorts...
Episode #3
<p>Joe opens an email that confirms his biggest fear. Colleen comes back from a founder retreat with a new strategy: do everything. We talk about losing clients to AI, pivoting to strategy, and why working more isn't...
Episode #2
<p>Colleen landed a six-month part-time AI consulting contract and two go-to-market coaching clients. All within a week of reaching out to her network.</p><p></p><p>Joe spent 50 hours building his own Substack clone...
Episode #1
<p>AI is eating into the value of "just coding", so what do you do about it? Colleen and Joe talk through how they're each adapting: AI-enabled services, getting more strategic with clients, and actually understanding...
Permission Not Required
<p>Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti didn't wait for anyone to greenlight their careers. Together they talk about building wealth on your own terms: finding leverage, compounding your skills, and designing careers...
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