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Go All In: Beating the Odds in Business

Go All In: Beating the Odds in Business

著者： Anh Phoong
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Hosted by Anh Phoong, a successful California attorney and entrepreneur who’s built her career advocating for people when the odds are stacked against them.

You may know her by her signature line, “Something wrong? Call Anh Phoong.”
On this podcast, Anh asks a different question: What happens when everything is stacked against you—and you decide to go all in anyway?

Each episode features entrepreneurs and business leaders from underserved and disadvantaged communities, ethnically diverse founders, and women-owned businesses who have turned adversity into opportunity. These are honest conversations about risk, resilience, identity, and the defining decisions that shaped their success.

This isn’t about shortcuts or overnight wins. It’s about grit, strategy, and the courage to bet on yourself when the path forward isn’t clear.

If you’ve ever felt underestimated, overlooked, or told “no” for your business concept, this podcast is your reminder that success isn’t about where you start—it’s about how fully you commit.

Because when the odds are stacked against you…
you GO ALL IN.

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  • Do Your Best and Let God Do the Rest: Taro Arai’s Mikuni Story

    Do Your Best and Let God Do the Rest: Taro Arai’s Mikuni Story
    2026/09/10
    What does it take to build something when almost everything says it shouldn’t work?In this episode of Go All In: Beating the Odds in Business, I sit down with Taro Arai, the founder and Chief Dreaming Officer behind Mikuni Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar, to talk about faith, family, risk, resilience, and the unlikely beginnings of one of Northern California’s most recognizable restaurant brands.Taro came to the United States from Japan as a teenager with very little English and a determination to create a different life. Not long after arriving in Sacramento, his father announced that the family was going to open a restaurant, despite having no restaurant experience, no business plan, and no clear path forward.What they did have was a dream.A chance encounter with a stranger helped provide the investment that got the business started, but the years that followed were anything but easy. Taro remembers reaching the point where he told his father, “It’s not a dream, it’s a nightmare.”His father’s response became a guiding philosophy for Taro’s life:“Do your best and let God do the rest.”That line really stayed with me because so much of Taro’s story comes back to mindset. He talks about the moment he stopped looking at hardship as suffering and started seeing challenges as opportunities.We also get into how Mikuni grew by listening closely to customers and being willing to break from tradition. If someone wanted something different, Taro’s answer was often, “No problem.” That customer-first approach led to unconventional creations, loyal fans, and a brand that became part of the fabric of the Sacramento region.Taro also shares what it took to grow a family business, how he learned to delegate, why surrounding himself with talented people became one of his greatest strengths, and how giving back became deeply personal after a stranger once believed in his family when they had very little.Today, Mikuni has grown far beyond that original family restaurant, with multiple locations, approximately 1,500 employees, and even bigger dreams ahead.What I love about this conversation is that Taro never makes success sound easy or linear. His story is full of uncertainty, sacrifice, mistakes, faith, generosity, family, and a willingness to keep going when quitting seemed like the easier option.That, to me, is what going all in really looks like.In this episode, we talk about:• Taro’s journey from Japan to Sacramento• The unlikely origin story of Mikuni• The chance encounter that helped fund the first restaurant• Surviving years of financial struggle• “Do your best and let God do the rest”• Turning challenges into opportunities• How listening to customers helped shape the Mikuni brand• Growing a family business• Delegation, leadership, and dreaming bigger• Giving back and paying generosity forward• Faith, family, legacy, and what success really meansIf this conversation resonates with you, subscribe to Go All In: Beating the Odds in Business for more conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, risk-takers, and underdogs who refused to quit when things got hard.Chapter Time Stamps0:00 – From Dream to Nightmare: Taro Arai’s Story 1:49 – Leaving Japan for America at 16 7:35 – The Unexpected Beginning of Mikuni 14:20 – When the Dream Almost Fell Apart 17:36 – “Do Your Best and Let God Do the Rest” 23:06 – Going All In on the Family Business 26:41 – Growing Mikuni and Dreaming of 100 Locations 33:28 – Listening to Customers and Reinventing Sushi 38:59 – Paying It Forward and Giving Back 51:29 – Family, Legacy and What Really MattersThank you so much for listening. I hope you found this episode valuable. To learn more about Phoong Law, visit: https://phoonglaw.comTo follow Anh on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phoonglawInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoonglaw/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phoong-law/about/?viewAsMember=trueX: https://x.com/phoonglawcorpYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoAllIn-c1uGo All In is recorded at Phoong Law Studio and produced by Hear Me Now Studio
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    44 分
  • Building a Legacy: How Josh Fleenor Turned an Accidental Career Into a Thriving Business

    Building a Legacy: How Josh Fleenor Turned an Accidental Career Into a Thriving Business
    2026/08/13

    Josh Fleenor never planned on building a pest control company. In fact, he landed in the industry almost completely by accident—after calling the wrong number while looking for a landscaping job. But what began as an unexpected opportunity eventually became the training ground for the entrepreneur and leader he was becoming.

    In this episode of Go All In, I sit down with Josh, Founder and President of Pest Pros Pest Solutions, to talk about the experiences that shaped his approach to business, leadership, culture and community.

    Josh shares what it was like growing up without many entrepreneurial role models, battling his natural introversion, and figuratively putting on a “superhero cape” every morning so he could step outside his comfort zone and succeed in sales. What began as an act eventually helped him discover strengths he didn’t know he had.

    But the defining moment in Josh’s story came years later in a hospital room.

    After his newborn daughter Dixie underwent open-heart surgery, Josh finally got to hold her. When his work phone began vibrating, his instinct was to put her down and answer it. Instead, he stopped, looked at his daughter and realized that if he was going to work that hard and sacrifice that much, he wanted to do it for her. That was the moment he decided to build something of his own—and build a legacy for his family.

    We also get into what happened after he made that decision: starting over, creating the culture he envisioned, identifying an underserved niche in multifamily property management, navigating COVID, and confronting a financial crisis that left the company roughly $500,000 behind in receivables and Josh wondering how he would make payroll.

    And then the conversation goes somewhere even bigger.

    Josh talks about discovering that success itself wasn't enough. Through giving back, mentoring other entrepreneurs and his work with the American Heart Association, he found another level of purpose. His belief today is simple: you aren't really a leader until you've created other leaders.

    This is a conversation about entrepreneurship, but even more than that, it's about mindset, responsibility, purpose and what happens when you decide there is no Plan B.

    Because as Josh puts it: going all in doesn't mean everything suddenly becomes easy. It means you keep going all in on whatever comes next.

    Chapters

    00:00 — “I’m Going to Build a Legacy for You”
    01:00 — Meet Josh Fleenor & Pest Pros Pest Solutions
    03:00 — The Wrong Phone Number That Changed Josh’s Career
    08:00 — Putting on the Superhero Cape & Conquering Fear
    13:00 — Learning Leadership and Discovering Entrepreneurship
    17:00 — Frustration, Fear and the Moment Everything Changed
    20:00 — Josh Goes All In and Builds Pest Pros
    25:00 — Finding a Blue Ocean and Growing the Business
    27:00 — $500,000 Behind and Wondering How to Make Payroll
    31:00 — Finding a Bigger Purpose Through Giving Back
    37:00 — Mentorship, Collaboration and Paying It Forward
    44:00 — Go All In or Fold: Pest Control Edition

    Thank you so much for listening. I hope you found this episode valuable. To learn more about Phoong Law, visit: https://phoonglaw.com

    To follow Anh on social media:

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

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoonglaw/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phoong-law/about/?viewAsMember=true

    X: https://x.com/phoonglawcorp

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoAllIn-c1u

    Go All In is recorded at Phoong Law Studio and produced by Hear Me Now Studio
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    47 分
  • Built on Hustle, Grown Through Trust: Samantha Tov & Judy Cuong’s Portfolio Real Estate Partnership

    Built on Hustle, Grown Through Trust: Samantha Tov & Judy Cuong’s Portfolio Real Estate Partnership
    2026/07/09

    Success rarely begins with perfect timing, unlimited resources, or a clear roadmap. For Samantha Tov and Judy Cuong, it began with long hours, rejection, sacrifice, and an unshakable belief that hard work could change the trajectory of their lives.

    In this episode of Go All In: Beating the Odds in Business, Anh sits down with Samantha and Judy, the owners of Portfolio Real Estate, to hear how two very different women with remarkably similar work ethics built successful careers—and eventually an extraordinary business partnership.

    Judy entered real estate as a teenager after growing up in a family with very little money. Her path to success included years of cold calling, door knocking, open houses, and thousands of rejections before landing the listing that proved to her she belonged in the business.

    Samantha’s journey took her from restaurants in Los Angeles to building a real estate career as a single mother in Sacramento. She brought her children to open houses, worked when other agents took holidays off, studied successful agents, and learned the business through observation, persistence, and sheer determination.

    When Judy realized she could no longer do everything alone, she saw something familiar in Samantha: the same work ethic, the same hunger, and the same commitment to doing whatever it took. Their partnership would eventually become the foundation of Portfolio Real Estate.

    Samantha and Judy share an unusually candid conversation about why their partnership works, how they handle disagreement, why equal effort does not always mean identical effort, and why trust matters more than keeping score.

    They also talk about mentoring the next generation of agents, building a company culture without drama or toxicity, using AI in real estate, navigating motherhood and entrepreneurship, and learning that success means very little if you never allow yourself the time to enjoy it.

    This is a conversation about resilience, partnership, sacrifice, and what can happen when you bet on yourself—and find the right person willing to go all in beside you.

    You can learn more about Portfolio Real Estate by visiting their website: https://portfoliore.com/

    Chapters

    00:00 The Work Ethic Behind the Partnership
    00:52 Meet Samantha Tov and Judy Cuong
    01:24 Samantha's Real Estate Journey
    03:42 Judy Starts in Real Estate at 19
    05:25 Thousands of Cold Calls for One Big Break
    09:20 Samantha's Letter That Landed a Major Listing
    12:20 Surviving the Early Years of Real Estate
    15:40 How Samantha and Judy Found Each Other
    17:10 Why Judy Needed the Right Partner
    21:15 Building Portfolio Real Estate
    23:30 Creating a Culture of Mentorship
    27:00 Conflict, Communication and Business Partnerships
    31:00 Why Their 50/50 Partnership Works
    35:00 Navigating Real Estate Markets and Building Wealth
    37:00 Advice for New Real Estate Agents
    41:10 Entrepreneurship Beyond Real Estate
    42:30 How AI Is Changing the Real Estate Business
    45:40 Motherhood, Business and Finding Balance
    52:20 Go All In or Fold: Real Estate Edition

    Thank you so much for listening. I hope you found this episode valuable. To learn more about Phoong Law, visit: https://phoonglaw.com

    To follow Anh on social media:

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

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoonglaw/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phoong-law/about/?viewAsMember=true

    X: https://x.com/phoonglawcorp

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoAllIn-c1u

    Go All In is recorded at Phoong Law Studio and produced by Hear Me Now Studio
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    54 分
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