Most entrepreneurs secretly feel like they are running faster and faster on a treadmill they never meant to be on. More content, more followers, more chaos, but not more freedom. In this episode, Josh and Braeden unpack why the traditional podcast model almost guarantees that outcome and why the Get Paid Be Free model flips the script.

Instead of treating a show like an audience building machine, Josh reveals how the Golden Mic becomes a single point of leverage that sits above your offer, sales process, traffic, and systems. When you stop optimizing for downloads and start optimizing for status, authority, and relationships, you move from chasing clients to being the one they chase. He walks through his own journey from being a nobody with a skill set, to networking strategically with C, B, and A players, borrowing authority from people who already had his ideal audience, and eventually being invited by Russell Brunson to ClickFunnels HQ and the FHL stage.

This matters because your goal is not to be podcast famous or Instagram big. Your goal is to get paid and be free. That requires a model that is intentionally designed to create high margin revenue, not endless fulfillment and low profit. When you understand that money runs in networks and relationships are the currency of the wealthy, you stop trying to build everything from scratch and start building inside the worlds of people who already have the attention you need.

Topics covered:

Why most podcast models fail entrepreneurs and turn listeners into the product instead of the client

The Get Paid Be Free model and how the Golden Mic creates status, authority, and positioning on demand

The shift from building an audience to building a network in the world of your top dog

Josh's step by step story of using C, B, and A players to reach Russell Brunson and explode his perceived authority

How to use borrowed authority to raise prices, shorten sales cycles, and create more freedom with fewer clients

If you are tired of feeling trapped by your own business and content machine, this episode will rewire how you think about money, attention, and growth. Watch this next to understand how to plug the Golden Mic into the rest of your funnel, subscribe for the next breakdown of the full five part model, and start building a network, not an audience.

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If the entire system is rigged against you and the only way to win is leverage, then you need a lever. In this episode Josh shares the moment his world flipped upside down when he realized the monetary system was designed to steal his time, energy, and future, and why that realization forced him to build a way out instead of just grinding harder inside a broken game.

He tells the behind the scenes story of shutting down a profitable but unaligned business, flying to his money mentor Brad, having his mind blown by how fake the system really is, and then entering a dark season where the future looked bleak and hopeless. Out of that tension came the Golden Mic, a simple but powerful model built around a microphone that let him escape the system by creating one singular point of leverage in his business that everything else could hook into.

You will hear how a nobody farm kid with no network used a podcast to get in front of a multi millionaire, turn a 5000 dollar service into a 30000 dollar deal, and then replicate that into multiple million dollar high margin businesses. Josh walks through what makes a Golden Mic different from a normal podcast, how it amplifies who you are, builds a billion dollar caliber network without ads, and rigs the game back in your favor so you can charge more, close easier, and simplify your entire business into one core activity.

Topics covered:

• Why the current monetary system keeps you trapped even when you work hard
• The origin story of the Golden Mic and how a single interview turned into a 30000 dollar client
• How a Golden Mic creates one point of leverage that amplifies everything in your business
• Real client results using this model to hit six and seven figures without ads
• The three year path to using your Golden Mic to get paid and become truly free

By the end, Josh outlines the three year Golden Mic timeline where year one installs the model, year two compounds into a high profit million dollar business, and year three lets you stack serious cash so you can finally exit the rigged system instead of just surviving inside it.

If you are sick of working hard, watching your money get stolen through taxes and debasement, and feeling like you still cannot leave work you hate or step fully into your calling, this episode gives you a concrete path to get paid and be free.

Watch this one then stay tuned for the next episodes where Josh breaks down the full Golden Mic model and real world examples, and subscribe if you are ready to join the #GetPaid, Be Free movement.

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They’re stealing your life while you sleep.

Most people think inflation is just “prices going up.” This episode exposes what it really is: a system that siphons your time, energy, and future—quietly, daily, and by design.

In Episode 2 of Get Paid, Be Free, Josh Forti breaks down the Broken Monetary Flywheel—the cycle of money printing, taxation, and control that makes life harder no matter how hard you work. And once you see it… you can’t unsee it.

Josh shares the blunt truth behind why everything feels more expensive, why saving feels pointless, and why “financial freedom” inside their game is a trap.

This episode isn’t a rant. It’s a foundation.
Because you can’t escape a rigged system until you understand how the rig works.

🔥 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
• Why money printing is literally stolen human life
• How inflation quietly erases your years of work
• The lie of “financial freedom” (and what to aim for instead)
• Why working harder only feeds the flywheel
• The real mission behind Get Paid, Be Free
• How Josh will run future guest interviews—truth, clarity, transformation

If you’ve ever felt like you’re grinding harder but getting nowhere… this will explain why.

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