The Amanda Dake Show
The Amanda Dake Show
Podcast Description
Welcome to The Amanda Dake Show
On The Amanda Dake Show, you’ll uncover the proven strategies and tactics used by the world’s top entrepreneurs and experts to scale their businesses, create impact, and achieve lasting success.
Amanda brings you actionable advice to help you move beyond trading time for money. Whether you’re ready to monetize your expertise, streamline your marketing, or build a business that gives you true freedom, this show is here to guide you every step of the way.
It’s time to reclaim your time, create leverage, and design a business—and life—on your terms. Let’s do it!
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The show focuses on business development, personal empowerment, and financial success, with episodes discussing how to monetize expertise, shift money mindsets, create high-ticket offers, leverage social media for growth, and build a compelling vision for life, with concrete examples such as actionable steps for developing high-ticket coaching programs and strategies for overcoming financial beliefs.
Welcome to The Amanda Dake Show
This isn’t another business podcast. It’s about the next chapter- the one where success meets alignment.
Each week, Amanda Dake, M.Ed., talks with entrepreneurs, executives, and experts who’ve built incredible careers and decided it was time for something more- more purpose, more freedom, more fulfillment.
You’ll hear real stories of growth, reinvention, and what it takes to create a business and life that finally feel right.
Whether you’re building your next six figures, launching a new venture, or figuring out how to make your work matter again, these conversations will help you find your footing, your focus, and your fire.
It’s not about starting over. It’s about moving forward, aligned and on purpose.
What does it look like when someone successful finally admits they’re living at a 6? James Friel had the career — the titles, the bonuses, the offer to run global marketing from London. And he said no.
James Friel is the founder of J Street Financial and a serial entrepreneur who has built everything from digital consultancies to ghost kitchens to financial advisory firms. But before all of that, he was a high-performing corporate executive who looked like he had it all — and felt the quiet pull to do something more.
In this conversation, James unpacks the entrepreneurial mindset behind some of the biggest career pivots of his life: why he turned down a CMO track, what his grandfather’s question — “What if your ladder’s leaning against the wrong wall?” — actually cost him to answer, and how he learned to make decisions with confidence rather than regret.
This is a how it started, how it’s going conversation — and James gets specific about both.
In this episode:
➡️ The first sale James ever made (he was 8 years old) ➡️ Why high-achievers stay stuck at a 6 — comfortable, but not fulfilled ➡️ Turning down London, a promotion, and a CMO runway ➡️ What personal development really looks like for serious founders ➡️ The difference between a bookkeeper and a true financial co-pilot ➡️ Warren Buffett, Annie Duke, and the cost of second-guessing your decisions ➡️ How J Street Financial helps entrepreneurs move from rearview-mirror thinking to windshield clarity
Connect with James Friel: 🌐 Free Financial Health Check: https://www.jstreetfinancial.com ☑️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamespfriel 📧 [email protected]
Timestamps: 00:00 — Introduction: James Friel, Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of J Street Financial 03:00 — His Grandfather’s Question: “What If Your Ladder’s Leaning Against the Wrong Wall?” 07:27 — The Defining Moment: Turning Down London & the CMO Track 11:15 — What Happens When You Bet on Yourself (and Everyone Thinks You’re Crazy) 16:19 — Living on the Edge: Why Comfort Is the Enemy of Growth 23:50 — Connecting the Dots: Lessons from Roses, Ghost Kitchens & Every Venture In Between 29:00 — J Street Financial: From Rearview Mirror to Windshield
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