{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Conversations That Count","title":"The Crooked Line to Success, with Elliot Kallen","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2297,"description":"Elliot Kallen has started businesses from scratch his entire life, and he is candid about the part nobody romanticizes: the cash crunches, the failures, the bloody nose, and the hardest loss a parent can carry.\nIn this conversation, Elliot makes the case that the path to anything worth building is a crooked line, that vision is what carries you past failure, and that the real goal is to fall in love with the work itself. He shares the three voices that still drive him, the mentor question he asks every day, the spray paint fortune his father walked away from, and the story of A Brighter Day, the teen mental health charity he founded after the loss of his son Jake.\nElliot is the author of the number one Amazon bestseller Driven, founder of Prosperity Financial Group, and President of A Brighter Day.\nWhat we cover:\nWhy every founder's line is crooked, not straight\nThe mentor question: are you doing everything you can think of doing all the time\nGut versus brain, and how to tell which to follow\nVision as the thing that carries you past failure\nFalling in love with the game, not the money\nA Brighter Day, turning loss into a mission that reaches thousands of families a month\nKeeping a team aligned with a vision that keeps changing\nA Brighter Day: abrighterday.info Need to talk? Text BRIGHTER to 741741. Connect with Elliot Kallen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliotkallen/\nFollow Conversations That Count and never miss an episode. Grab the free communication playbook at ctcpodcast.media/free-playbook.\nOutside the mic: I also built RecoveryMRR, a tool that helps subscription businesses automatically recover failed Stripe payments. If that is your world, check it out at recoverymrr.com\nChapter markers (locked from the finished 38:16 master)\n00:00 Cold open 00:43 Welcome and intro 01:10 Meet Elliot Kallen, author of Driven 02:00 Why every entrepreneur's line is crooked 03:30 A conversation that counted, his parents' voices 08:24 Gut vs brain, the spray paint...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BCGwEru4Ooub-4Ea4UTjlA0oA7GdCAZKZzZmpZCnG8s/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNDM5/ZDI1Y2NjYTdmMDlj/ODhlZDZiNGI5Yjli/OThjYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}