Ep 53: What does it take to build a brand 40 years in the making?

Matt Westmore — father, husband, and founder of purepixxi — has spent his life inside the jewelry world. He grew up in his family's South African fashion accessories business, traveled with his parents to factories in the Far East from the time he was knee-high, and went on to a corporate career through Ted Baker, MR Porter, and Nike. But it was a series of personal losses — a 20-week pregnancy loss, a redundancy from Nike, and a rare neurological diagnosis that gradually took the use of his dominant hand — that ultimately pointed him toward the brand he was meant to build.

In this conversation, Matt and Sarah go deep on the long road that led to purepixxi— the "Ferrari of kids' jewelry." Born from Matt's own health journey, his four-year-old daughter's coming rite of passage, and decades of watching how the sausage really gets made in the global jewelry industry, purepixxi is a refusal to cut corners on what goes into a child's body — and a quiet challenge to an entire industry built on slogans like "hypoallergenic" that mean almost nothing.

Along the way, they unpack what real mentorship looks like (Matt's dad sounds like Yoda), why a room of entrepreneurs at Funnel Hacking Live cracked something open in him that Nike's smoke machines never could, and how Matt keeps his faith intact through seasons most people would walk away from.

In this episode:

✔️ Why "corporate disposability" is real — and what Matt's father saw a full year before Nike made him redundant

✔️ The truth about 24k vs. 14k vs. 9k gold, and why most kids' jewelry is built on cost-cutting instead of safety

✔️ Why "hypoallergenic" is the "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" of the jewelry industry

✔️ How to choose a mentor when you don't have one, and why life mentors often beat business mentors

✔️ What it looks like to keep building — and keep believing — through grief, redundancy, and a diagnosis you never saw coming

Checkout purepixxi

Books Mentioned:

Overdeliver by Brian Kurtz

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

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Ep 52: What does it look like when a self-described "nobody" — with a 0.3 GPA, a history of excuses, and a speech impediment — becomes the kind of man other men aspire to be?

Chris Farrell is a Jesus-following entrepreneur, marriage advocate, and father of six homeschooled kids. Through his company Revamp Conversations, he helps entrepreneurs who are ridiculously good at what they do gain access to the people who need to know it — using podcasting, relationships, and strategic conversations. But his path here was anything but predictable.

In 2019, God called Chris and his wife Jonna out of their thriving fitness studio. They didn't have a plan. They had obedience. What followed was a season of suffering, near-bankruptcy, COVID, a fourth baby, and eventually — a calling to podcasting that has become the foundation of everything he's building today.

This is one of those conversations that reminds you why this podcast exists. It's not about funnels and frameworks. It's about who you become when you stop building idols and start trusting God's math.

In this episode, you'll discover:

✔️ How Chris went from a 0.3 GPA and the "stupid kid" label to building businesses and leading a family of eight

✔️ What "courageous obedience" actually costs — and why it's always worth it

✔️ Why Chris believes the classic success advice of "one offer, one platform, one year" may be dangerously outdated in the age of AI

✔️ His bold take on whether AI is from God or demonic — and what it's doing to our ability to think, wait, and connect

✔️ Why Chris says the most important thing you'll do today is how your kids feel when they walk in the door

✔️ The concept of "God math" — and why it changes everything about how you approach risk, family, and money

Connect with Chris Farrell:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.farrell.58/

• • Podcasts: https://linktr.ee/PodcastsIhost

  
  

  Connect with Sarah:

• • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahgraceallred

Ep 51: What if the ceiling on your business isn't a strategy problem—it's a belief problem?

Jake Kauffman is an international high-performance coach and transformational advisor to purpose-driven, visionary men. With nearly a decade leading men's retreats in the wilderness, co-founding a healthcare tech company that scaled to $4M+ in 18 months, and coaching CEOs to breakthroughs that have moved clients from $50K months to $1.3 million months—Jake operates from a simple but radical premise: your external results are a mirror reflection of your internal world.

In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Jake opens up about surviving childhood sexual abuse and how confronting that experience in his mid-twenties became the catalyst for everything—his career pivot, his philosophy on masculinity, and his mission to help men answer the one question that drives his entire life: What was I born to do?

This isn't a conversation about hustle or hacks. It's about the beliefs that are quietly running the show—and what happens when you finally take back control.

In this episode, you'll discover:

✔️ Why the pattern reveals the problem—and how to read your results like a roadmap to your limiting beliefs

✔️ The real reason over 90% of coaching clients revert to their old behaviors (and what actually creates sustainable change)

✔️ How Jake flipped the traditional business funnel upside down to build a practice with a 90% client success rate and 18-month average retention

✔️ What "upper limit" thinking is costing your business—and how one client broke through hers to go from $50K to $1.3M per month in 90 days

✔️ Why Jake believes masculinity is under attack—and what real initiation into manhood actually looks like

✔️ The difference between first-half-of-life ambition and second-half-of-life purpose (and why you can't stay in the first forever)

If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right but still hitting the same wall, this episode will show you exactly where to look.

Connect with Jake Kauffman:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjakekauffman

• Book: Let Love In - https://a.co/d/09ObE5Kd

Books Mentioned:

• The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer: https://a.co/d/06Y3V3A1

• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks: https://a.co/d/06sWbzKi

Connect with Sarah:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahgraceallred