Brian Luebben
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Cash-flow ambition, deal by deal.
Action Academy turns entrepreneurship into a practical route out of corporate dependence. Episodes mix founder reflections, member case studies, broker conversations, and training-style sessions on buying small businesses, raising capital, and building real estate cash flow.
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Action Academy is a business-buying and cash-flow show with the energy of a live coaching room. It is built for people who are tired of treating corporate advancement as the only path. The show focuses on small business acquisitions, commercial real estate, self-storage, hospitality projects, seller financing, and the personal decisions behind leaving a W-2 career. It likes big stakes. A guest can move from a $400,000 career setback to a 240-acre micro-resort plan, and the conversation will still return to partners, capital, occupancy, family, and alignment. Another episode follows Rob Dubrock from local self-storage buying into a $41.4 million portfolio opportunity that required more than $15 million in capital. The show does not present these stories as distant inspiration. It turns them into operating questions. What made the deal fit? How did the buyer find it? What did the raise require? What breaks when the project gets bigger than prior experience? Training-style episodes slow down just enough to define seller financing, creative structures, broker conversations, off-market sourcing, offer submission, transition planning, and the first stretch after closing. Live community calls add a workshop feel, with constraints, documents, SBA questions, and deal flow problems handled in real time. Solo episodes bring in the emotional cost of entrepreneurship: uncertainty, lost predictability, late-night rebuilding, and the gap between glossy success images and actual work. The tone is blunt but still instructional. It celebrates big wins without pretending the path is smooth. Numbers matter here, but so do identity, marriage, kids, purpose, and the fear of going back to work that no longer fits. The show is often promotional around its own Action Academy community, yet the strongest episodes still carry usable acquisition vocabulary and decision-making texture. It works best for listeners who want entrepreneurship explained through deals rather than slogans. It also suits people who like hearing ambitious operators think out loud before every edge has been sanded off. The format can be rough, repetitive, and high-energy. That is also what makes it feel close to the room where the deal is being chased.
Made for: Action Academy suits corporate professionals, aspiring acquisition entrepreneurs, and real estate-minded operators who want ownership to replace a job. It is especially aligned with listeners who want practical deal vocabulary alongside stories about risk, family, and personal freedom.
What sets it apart: The show combines motivational business talk with unusually concrete acquisition mechanics. Instead of staying at mindset or founder biography, it keeps returning to seller financing, direct mail, broker trust, capital raises, offer stages, and closing-table lessons.
Replace The Job You Hate With A Life You Love. This is the podcast for high performers who feel stuck in jobs they’ve outgrown. If you’re asking, “How do I actually replace $10K–$20K/month so I can quit and never look back?” — welcome home. At Action Academy, we teach you how to buy small businesses and commercial real estate to create cash flow that actually replaces your job. Monday through Friday, you’ll learn from 7–9 figure entrepreneurs, real estate moguls, and acquisition pros who’ve done it — and show you how to do it too. Hosted by Brian Luebben (@bria...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Action Academy makes entrepreneurship concrete by asking owners how they found deals, built teams, financed growth, and reclaimed control of their time.
Action Academy turns entrepreneurial ambition into interviews about the mechanics and personal strain behind leaving salaried work. Brian Luebben presses guests for specifics: how an acquisition was found and financed, how hiring systems changed as a cleaning company grew, and…
A $3.7 million construction deal gets stripped to the studs so you can see the financing.
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A layoff story that turns into hospitality ownership, a family reset, and a lesson in alignment.
The episode follows Zach Metcalf as he walks away from a corporate career of more than 10 years and $400,000 a year after an email ends his job, leaving him with a wife and a young kid at home. What lands is not the clean exit but the slow fit of timing and persistence.
A brisk, numbers-first acquisition story about buying a business and buying back time.
An Air Force veteran turns a side project into a $3.7 million business acquisition, and the cleanest part of the story is how ordinary it sounds once the numbers are on the table.
A sharp reset for anyone learning that freedom takes a different way of showing up.
Dan Martell turns a freedom-minded interview into a blunt talk about what it takes to buy back time. It starts with Austin media-tour chatter and Buy Back Your Time, then settles on a harder point: the life you want will not come from the habits that got you here.
A practical business story about debt, discipline, and learning to turn down bad clients.
Anthony and Jhanilka Hartzog's Dallas cleaning company becomes a practical case study in building under pressure. The story stays tied to the work itself: they started while trying to get out of debt, reached about $2.8 million, and learned that hiring, client selection, and…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
This episode features an interview with Evan Rugen about accessing over $100,000 in 0% interest funding through credit repair and creative financing strategies for real estate and business deals.
Brian Lubin opens Action Academy by saying about half of the land-flipping members in his community are making $400,000 to $500,000 in profit within their first year.
A $400,000 position disappears, and Zach Metcalf has to decide what that email means: go find another job, or keep pushing the hospitality idea already in motion.
The host shares five lessons learned from regularly interacting with ultra-wealthy individuals (net worth over $50 million), focusing on their unique behaviors, personality traits, and mindset to help listeners adopt these practices for faster success.
A real estate investor shares his journey of acquiring a $41.4 million self-storage portfolio through direct mail and capital raising.
The host announces a series of free trainings on small business acquisition, focusing on seller financing and creative deal structures.
The host shares personal insights on the challenges of entrepreneurship, specifically two inevitable feelings, while rewriting sales scripts for his business.
A live coaching call within the Action Academy community discussing strategies to increase deal flow in small business acquisition, focusing on off-market deals.
Two entrepreneurs discuss strategies for buying small businesses and how to effectively work with business brokers to find and acquire the right business.
The host provides a free Q&A webinar-style episode answering all questions about buying a small business, offering insider knowledge typically behind a paywall.
Brian Lubin shares a short clip from an interview with Ryan Dice on hiring strategies for entrepreneurs at different revenue stages.
Cody Barton discusses the realities of buying a first company and provides a roadmap for the 90-day transition after acquisition.
A $3.7 million buy changed the pressure fast.
Seven weeks before the wedding, Dan Martell says the relationship ended, and it made him question what all the building was for.
They started from the projects.
The host discusses overcoming limiting beliefs and introduces a guest for a conversation about business and in-person masterminds.
An entrepreneur shares his story of buying a multi-million dollar tourism company in Alaska within 12 months, emphasizing the importance of partnership and thinking outside the typical business buy box.