Driven To Win
Driven To Win
Podcast Description
Grow your business without sacrificing family or me time. Sign up for our Family Mastermind here: https://gatheringthekings.com/family-mastermind.Do you also feel driven to win? My name is Chaz Wolfe. I'm a serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Gathering the Kings.Throughout my career, I've built, purchased, and sold multiple 7-figure ventures in franchising, home service, real estate, and consulting. And I know first-hand how being a business owner can be a lonely and isolating experience.I created the 'Driven to Win' podcast to help entrepreneurs who are trapped in the cycle of trying to grow their businesses without having time or energy for anything else. Here, we share insights about self-mastery, emotional intelligence, and resilience so you can find financial freedom, build thriving relationships, and nurture spiritual wellness. Follow wherever you get your podcasts for tips on how to lead a balanced, exceptional life.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as self-mastery, emotional intelligence, and resilience, with episodes exploring a variety of topics like effective sales strategies, marriage dynamics impacting business, and personal finance management. Notable episodes examine building business legacies, leveraging AI in sales, and the importance of parenting in entrepreneurship.
Driven To Win is the podcast for entrepreneurs who refuse to choose between building a successful business and building a strong family.
Hosted by serial entrepreneur Chaz Wolfe, the show is built for business owners who want to scale their companies, lead stronger teams, and create a life that wins both at work and at home. Chaz built and scaled multiple businesses by his late twenties, becoming a millionaire by 29 and a multi-millionaire soon after through ventures in franchising, home services, real estate, and online education. His approach centers on leadership, systems, and structure that allow businesses to grow without the owner carrying all the weight.
On Driven To Win, Chaz sits down with elite entrepreneurs, business leaders, authors, and operators to break down the real strategies behind growth. These are not surface level conversations. Each episode focuses on the practical disciplines required to build companies that run through strong leadership, clear structure, and effective sales systems.
But business success is only half the conversation.
Driven To Win is built around the belief that true success means winning in all areas of life. That includes business, family, health, faith, and lifestyle. Through honest conversations and practical insights, the show challenges entrepreneurs to build businesses that support their family life instead of competing with it.
Listeners will learn how to:
• Scale a business through leadership and systems
• Develop stronger sales and operational discipline
• Build teams that reduce owner dependence
• Lead their family with the same intentionality they lead their company
• Create a legacy that lasts beyond the business
Whether you are building your first company or scaling an established business, Driven To Win delivers clear strategies and real conversations with leaders who are committed to growth in every area of life.
If you are serious about building a business that creates freedom instead of pressure, this podcast is for you.
In December 2006, John Vasquez attempted suicide. That is how he describes it. The person he was that day, a man drowning in opiate addiction and low self-worth, died. He considers it the beginning, not the end.
Fourteen years later, the COVID pandemic shut down the gym he had built using Alex Hormozi's Gym Launch program, and he found himself sleeping on his parents' couch with two kids, back in the house he grew up in, watching his parents' same patterns around money and fear play out in real time. That was the moment he drew a line in the sand.
Today Coach JV runs three seven-figure business ecosystems, has a Rockefeller Trust set up for his family for generations, and has built a massive social media following teaching financial literacy, micro and macroeconomics, and cryptocurrency education to people who were never taught any of it. In this conversation with Chaz Wolfe, Coach JV breaks down his 5-part financial framework, why Ray Dalio is the lens through which he reads the global economy, why paying yourself first is not just a strategy but a frequency shift, and how he is raising his kids to be the first generation to break the pattern for good.
Key Takeaways:
- Drawing the line in the sand is not a motivational phrase. It is a moment when you become more committed to the pain of change than to the pain of staying the same. That specific shift is what changes the trajectory.
- You have to give up something to become something. And most people are addicted to their old self. The subconscious programming laid down in childhood drives adult behavior more than most people ever acknowledge.
- Coach JV's 5-part financial framework: Foundation, meaning rewire your belief system around money and trace where it came from. Financial Literacy, meaning understand what money actually is, how banks work, and what the Federal Reserve has done to the dollar since 1913. Discipline, meaning budgeting and asking do I need this or do I want this. Income Creation. And finally, Protection, Compounding, and Growth.
- The US dollar has collapsed 99 percent in purchasing power since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. School, job, 401(k) is a strategy of hope. You are hoping the market aligns when you retire. That is not a plan.
- Pay yourself first every single time. Before bills. Before spending. Money goes into your freedom account first. What is left is what you live on. This changes your frame of mind and eliminates frivolous spending automatically.
- America is at 120 percent debt-to-income ratio. The average middle-class American needs to earn $160,000 per year to truly be middle class now. The regional banks are in a tough position. Bond yields inverted in 2023. These are not opinions. These are Ray Dalio's documented patterns.
- Cryptocurrency is going to move significantly on the back end of this cycle. But what goes up must come down hard. Buy the rumors, sell the news. When the mainstream is telling you to get in, you should have been out days ago.
- Define your principles before anything else. For Coach JV: business principles are integrity, honesty, and uncompromising belief in God. Personal principles are peace, freedom, and family structure. If anything disrupts those three, the answer is a hard no. A $10 million contract offer that disrupts family structure is still a no.
- Ask your son when he falls: are you hurt or are you scared? Manage what is hurt. Acknowledge the fear. Then get back up and do it again together. This is the framework Coach JV uses to rewire what he never received.
- Everything happening in the global economy right now is a historical pattern. It has happened before. When you understand the waves of energy, it is the greatest time in human history to build wealth for your family if you are paying attention.
If you are a contractor business owner doing $1M+ and you feel stuck in the day-to-day, we built GTK for you.
Through peer mastermind and 1:1 coaching, we help you:
- increase profit
- install real systems
- build a team that runs the business
- get your time back
Visit www.gatheringthekings.com for information on how to apply.
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