Practical persistence for modern entrepreneurs.
The Persistent Entrepreneur treats entrepreneurship as a hands-on operating problem. Recent episodes move between AI adoption, cybersecurity, sales process, pressure management, ADUs, and the habits that help business owners keep moving.
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The Persistent Entrepreneur is a practical business podcast for people trying to keep a company moving while the tools, risks, and market conditions keep changing. It has a strong operator’s bias. Recent episodes spend a lot of time on AI, but the angle is rarely abstract. Speech-to-text becomes a productivity issue. Custom GPT-style tools become a way to build repeatable assistants with guardrails. Conversational AI becomes part of inbound sales, phone handling, and lead qualification. Cybersecurity becomes a leadership decision, not just an IT concern. The show also reaches beyond AI into the daily friction of entrepreneurship. It talks about performing under pressure, navigating hard conversations, managing uncertainty, improving sales conversations, and taking radical responsibility when overwhelm sets in. The format moves between interviews and direct explanatory segments. Some episodes feel like business coaching in real time, with examples stacked quickly and key points repeated until they land. Guests bring specific windows into their worlds, including cybersecurity, Secret Service interrogation experience, B2B technology sales, ADU development, marketing, and resilience practices. The show’s best moments come when a big idea gets pulled down into a plain business use case. It is blunt, energetic, and application-first. It does not treat entrepreneurship as a clean success story. It treats it as a series of decisions, habits, systems, and conversations that need constant work. The AI episodes are especially focused on adoption: how to start using the tools, where they help, and where overreliance can make people lazy. The sales episodes keep returning to value, trust, and the internal competition that slows deals down. Real estate and ADU conversations add a more concrete, local-business texture. The show suits listeners who want momentum more than polish. It is for entrepreneurs who would rather leave with a tactic than a slogan.
Made for: Built for entrepreneurs, business owners, sales leaders, consultants, and operators who want usable tactics around AI, sales, communication, and resilience. It fits listeners who prefer direct coaching and working examples over formal business theory.
What sets it apart: The show connects new tools to old entrepreneurial pressure: selling, deciding, communicating, and staying disciplined. Its AI coverage stands out because it keeps asking how the technology actually changes daily workflows and business risk.
Welcome to The Persistent Entrepreneur Podcast, where grit meets inspiration. Join David Hill, two-time author, business coach, world-class sales trainer, top real estate broker, Ironman athlete, and 23 years sober, as he interviews relentless entrepreneurs, visionary business owners, and trailblazing leaders who've mastered the art of perseverance and refusal to quit.Each week, David uncovers powerful stories of overcoming obstacles, seizing opportunities, and turning persistence into victory. Guided by his mantra, "I exist to persist," David and his guests share actionable strategies and mindset shifts to fuel lasting achievement.Whether you're a seasoned business owner or just starting yo…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
David Hill connects entrepreneurial resilience with concrete decisions about sales, AI adoption, cybersecurity, communication, and personal discipline.
The Persistent Entrepreneur turns operating pressure into practical conversation. David Hill moves between guest interviews and solo instruction, asking how business owners can handle difficult sales conversations, manage overwhelm, respond to economic uncertainty, and put AI to…
Buyer-agent math and AI mock interviews share a home here; your next awkward client call may benefit.
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A practical, sales-minded introduction to AI tools, custom GPT personas, and conversational app building.
AI comes through as a working tool for entrepreneurs, with the focus kept on sales training, coaching, and consulting rather than theory. The host pushes business owners to start folding AI into their systems now, then grounds that point in practical examples.
Eric Huberman links entrepreneurial persistence to wage policy, automation, and the spending power of lower- and middle-class households.
Eric Huberman frames entrepreneurship as a discipline of staying steady when the wider world keeps shifting. He ties that idea to wages, inflation, labor costs, and automation, giving the episode a practical throughline rather than treating uncertainty as an abstract theme.
A practical review of how AI can speed up cyber reconnaissance and create more automated paths into a business.
AI reshapes the cybersecurity problem for entrepreneurs by making parts of the attacker’s work faster and easier to scale. Ephraim Epstein, founder and CEO of Fit Solutions and AI Integrators, explains how criminals can use public signals such as online reviews, press releases,…
Brad Beeler connects high-pressure conversations with rehearsal, red-team thinking, and the need to protect human connection.
Pressure drives this episode, especially the kind that shows up in hard conversations with business owners, entrepreneurs, leaders, and sales teams. Brad Beeler draws on 25 years in the Secret Service to connect interrogation, preparation, and communication under stress.
A practical conversation about using present-moment attention as a reset during exercise, meditation, and ordinary routines.
Dr. Fleet Ball brings present-moment attention down to the level of ordinary movement, where it can be tested in a workout, a meditation practice, or a routine task.
A practical buyer-agent discussion that turns possible agent fees into a clearer cash plan.
The episode grounds the buyer consultation in the money questions that come after pre-approval. Its focus is on the work buyer agents now need to make plain: the consultation form, the buyer's finances and target home, and a step-by-step look at down payment, closing costs,…
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Family grief, public questions, and the responsibilities of care.
David Hill discusses why the holidays are a great time to sell a home, emphasizing the opportunity to connect with people who delay decisions until after the holidays.
Stephanie Gutierrez discusses challenges and opportunities in building accessory dwelling units (ADUs), including financing hurdles and the 60-day city approval rule.
Kelly Shaw discusses the art of sales and shares insights on making the greatest sale ever.
Corey Morris discusses how to thrive in an AI-disrupted digital marketing environment by focusing on strategy over tactics and ensuring marketing drives ROI.
Michael Walford-Grant discusses the challenge of selling technology solutions to organizations that are already operating, emphasizing the need to articulate a value proposition that addresses internal competition and long-term business goals.
David Hill hosts Atlanta realtors Kaiya Dowtin and Monique Crummie to explain the recent NAR commission changes.
Marcella Oakley says real estate agents can build trust by demonstrating that they listen instead of rushing to prove their value.
Matt Diamante, founder of the Hamilton, Ontario agency Hey Tony, tells host David Hill that AEO is "basically just SEO" and that being helpful is the first ranking rule.
This episode argues that typing is a major productivity bottleneck and advocates for using voice dictation to speak at three times the speed of typing, based on a Stanford study.
AI is the work now, and the host treats that like a business problem, not a magic trick.
Uncertainty is the starting point.
The Persistent Entrepreneur pairs David Hill with Ephraim Epstein, founder and CEO of Fit Solutions and AI Integrators, to talk through AI deployment and cybersecurity risk.
Brad Beeler tells The Persistent Entrepreneur Podcast that humans read deception at about 54% to 55%, while a well-controlled polygraph can reach 85% to 90%.
Fleet Maull’s “stop, feel, breathe, and be” micro-practice is designed for stress spikes anywhere, anytime.