The Check-In

Tobias Nolli co-founded Nutri One, a personalised supplement company, after a decade of trading commodities. Tobias Nolli spent a decade trading commodities like fertilisers before going sober and getting his life in shape. He kept forgetting which supplement to take while travelling 150 days a year as a trader, and customs stopped him 20 to 30 percent of the time for carrying pills. He and his co-founder spent six months negotiating with suppliers to find a middle ground on a smaller, personalised batch. They dropped their marketing agency and started running their own ads and email marketing instead. Regulation was a major obstacle, since every European country had a different regulation to follow for a personalised supplement. He is working on producing in the US so Nutri One can serve customers there without the current one to two week transit delay. Follow Tobias Instagram: https://instagram.com/mynutrione Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:19 From trading to sober reset 1:46 Solving his own supplement problem 3:52 The regulatory wall in Europe 5:04 Why the US market waits 8:29 Finding a supplier for a personalised formula 9:42 Two and a half years to first sale 12:06 Dropping the agency for in house ads 24:15 Subscriptions and the real dropout rate --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

Aleksandar walked in a year into turning a decade of hobby coding into an actual business. From Slovenia, self-taught on a dying laptop, he now builds automations, SaaS and websites for other companies, and has just launched his own app, Tremble: a dating tool with no messaging, no swiping and no feed, built specifically to push people offline and into real conversations. What got found on air was how little of that journey matches the version sold on Instagram. His first ever client took four months of daily cold emails and web-scraped leads to land. A separate contract took five months from first message to signature. He is candid that AI can write the script and the demo, but it cannot make anyone open it, and he worries it is quietly teaching people to stop learning rather than just saving them time. What he committed to: plan the moves rather than just waiting, but never let planning become an excuse not to act, because repeating a bad action gets you nowhere and inaction guarantees regret. Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:17 Hustler, Son, Coder 1:28 Gaming, Logos And A Dead Laptop 4:37 Going Legit: Opening The Company 6:37 Tremble: An App You're Not Meant To Open 10:57 One Thing Or Everything At Once 15:06 What AI Can't Teach You 20:28 The Four-Month Wait For A Yes 26:00 Freedom And The Childhood Porsche 29:19 Plan It, Then Just Try --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

Maxwell Kouzes turned a TikTok shop side hustle into five-figure months by age 17. In May this year he decided to commit to a junior college to play baseball. He realised staying on that path meant he might never get the chance to grow the business again. He decommitted from the college and baseball to go all in on his agency and mentorship. He now runs a UGC agency and mentorship from Chicago at eighteen, without working for anyone else. He plans to scale the mentorship and agency further and launch his own product, using what he has learned about marketing on TikTok and Instagram. Follow Maxwell Instagram: https://instagram.com/kouzes_ Chapters 0:00 From baseball to TikTok shop 3:04 Building the UGC agency 4:10 Decommitting from baseball 9:48 Cold outreach and word of mouth 14:05 Launching the mentorship 17:31 Christian's $8,000 video 21:51 What still needs fixing --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

Jared Goodman was fired twice from corporate social media roles before he built his own agency. Jared Goodman grew up a neurodivergent kid obsessed with cameras, music and editing photos before he ever had a job title for it. He spent five years at a corporate social media role before being let go, then was let go again from a second corporate job. Both firings traced back to a rigid corporate structure that did not suit how his neurodivergent brain worked. After the second firing he decided on the spot to stop chasing corporate jobs and build his own business instead. He called people he knew for work, landed one contract, then built out his LinkedIn, Instagram and a website to grow from there. A year into it, Jared has generated 100,000 dollars in gross profit running his business alone. He is testing AI search for client acquisition, trying to get recommended when people ask for social media help. Chapters 0:00 Jared's introduction 1:23 Childhood and middle school teasing 7:29 Finding marketing in college 9:37 Fired after five years 11:23 The second firing 16:44 First contract and the business begins 21:30 The hundred thousand dollar figure 23:49 The five year vision 27:15 Trying AI search for leads 29:24 The biggest solopreneur mistake --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod

Dejerae runs her AI agency with one employee after a bad hire forced her back into doing the build herself. Dejerae had her son at eighteen, joined the workforce and became an entrepreneur from that moment. She hired a full stack developer who totally messed up a client's product, forcing her to rebuild it herself and spend an extra two months salvaging the relationship. After the setback she stopped marketing while she got stuck doing the product build-out herself. Without clients to serve, she used the gap to focus on business growth and started building dashboards that bring all of a client's automations into one place. She began rebranding her business around this dashboard push to get back into the market. She now runs her agency with one employee, building custom AI systems for each client. She plans to keep releasing dashboards that connect all a client's tools, marketing automations, analytics and accounting into a single view. Follow Dejerae Instagram: https://instagram.com/scalinginstilettos TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@scalinginstilettos Chapters 0:00 Having a son at eighteen 2:40 From operations director to agency founder 8:31 Building a second brain for clients 16:36 Open source AI agents and security fears 21:02 No end goal, just working forever 24:23 The hire that went wrong 28:13 Rebuilding with dashboards 30:31 Advice on grace and leadership --- Come on the show: book.revlinehq.com/apply Austin: @austin.coveney Made by Revline: revlinehq.com The show: @the.checkin_pod