In this episode, Artin Bogdanov walks through his path from building forecasting platforms at Walmart Labs to founding Sun App, a learning product that generates long form, interactive audio “courses” on demand. He shares practical lessons from an early ecommerce business (including keyword strategy, conversion improvements, and relationship driven sales), what happened when Google policy changes cut off his growth channel, what he learned inside Magento and Adobe about growth teams and scaling, and how an attempted acquisition (and later geopolitics) shaped his startup decisions.

The conversation ends with a live style walkthrough of Sun App’s core idea: turn any topic, mentor, or body of knowledge into a structured audio lesson you can interrupt with questions, with sources shown for credibility, plus details on their funding and launch plans.

Key takeaways:

1. Platform dependency can destroy a business overnight Artin explains how a single Google policy change wiped out a highly profitable ecommerce operation almost instantly. The lesson: building on platforms you do not control is one of the biggest existential risks founders underestimate.

2. Real growth happens when product, marketing, and sales are unified From Walmart to Magento and Adobe, he emphasizes that true growth teams are cross-functional. When messaging, experimentation, and product development are aligned, conversion and retention compound much faster.

3. The future of learning is interactive, on-demand, and personalized Sun App was born from the realization that people do not want static courses or endless Q&A. They want guided learning they can pause, interrogate, and adapt in real time, with sources to build trust and reduce hallucination.

Timestamps:

00:00 – 04:00 Intro and Walmart Labs work Forecasting systems, inventory prediction, and how data drives massive operational decisions

07:30 – 15:45 Early ecommerce journey Paid search strategy, keyword scaling, conversion optimization, and sales relationships

16:00 – 20:30 Platform risk reality Google policy changes, ad shutdowns, SEO collapse, and legal lessons

20:30 – 31:30 Magento and Adobe years Growth teams, experimentation culture, cloud adoption, and scaling frameworks

49:00 – 55:00 Sun App origin story From conversational AI experiments to structured, interruptible audio learning

55:00 – 01:09:00 Leaving Big Tech and building Sun App Quitting Walmart, raising venture funding, product vision, launch plans, and waitlist

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Blind. Broke. Rejected. Then he built a billion-dollar empire.

Sean Callagy was going blind by his 30s, working as a struggling attorney, terrified of rejection, and desperate to avoid the fate of most people in his family: addiction, failure, and regret.

Today, he's built companies approaching a $1 billion valuation, coached thousands, and stood on stage beside Tony Robbins.

In this episode, Sean shares the radical truth about transformation, rejection, identity, and influence.

He breaks down how to rewire your life through repetition, pain, and purpose and how a $100K investment in a $100 bill changed his life forever.

You’ll learn how to influence with integrity, why most people fail to scale, and how the stories you were raised with are silently sabotaging your future.

This conversation will break your excuses. It might even change your life.

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

Website: https://www.link.me/seancallagy

Timestamps:

00:00 Welcome Sean!

02:10 Visualization and the first mindset shift

04:55 Influence as a superpower

08:40 Going blind and choosing a different identity

11:25 Law school, fear, and the breakthrough into business

14:00 Why most coaching fails

17:10 The truth about rejection and internal war

20:12 Changing your life after 25

23:01 Pain as leverage for transformation

25:50 Tony Robbins, $100K, and getting on stage

29:22 Building billion-dollar businesses with integrity

32:10 Lessons from Tyson, Charlie Sheen, and Gary Vee

35:55 Mike Tyson, actualization, and mentorship

39:40 Influence is about truly seeing people

42:20 Why people stay small in business

45:05 Hiring, firing, and leadership without ego

47:02 What to do with $20,000

49:00 Raising kids differently in a broken system

51:00 Final advice from Sean Callagy

#truthhurtsshow #seancallagy #influence #blindentrepreneur #overcomingodds #billiondollarbusiness #tonyrobbins #motivation #scaleyourbusiness #mindsetshift #emotionalintelligence #coachingtruth

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In this episode of the Truth Hurts Show, we go deep into the shocking truths behind aging, cancer risk, and the emerging world of personalized longevity medicine with Dr. Alex, an immunologist and clinical advisor with decades of experience in advanced anti-aging protocols.

From stem cells and exosomes to the real risks of peptides like BPC-157 and TB-500, this conversation dismantles health myths and exposes the underground science most doctors won’t talk about.

Dr. Alex reveals how mainstream approaches like fasting, cold plunging, and high-protein diets can backfire without proper bloodwork and how inflammation, latent viruses, and emotional trauma silently fuel disease.

This episode will change the way you think about health, aging, and what’s actually within your control.

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Dr. Alex Links

Website: https://www.infiniteepigenetics.com/

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome Dr. Alex!

01:50 Peptides for regeneration and cancer risk

05:42 Should everyone fast or cold plunge?

08:13 Dr. Alex’s path from psychiatry to biotech

12:10 The most advanced anti-aging protocols today

14:25 Longevity on a budget — where to start

17:03 Why cold plunges and keto may be dangerous

20:30 Sleep, stress, and their epigenetic impact

23:18 Epitolon and telomere lengthening

26:15 A peptide roadmap for your 40s

29:05 Hallmarks of aging and how to target them

31:20 Inflammation — the silent killer of longevity

34:00 Foods that fuel (or fight) inflammation

36:11 NAD, glutathione, and peptide stacking strategy

39:05 How to test early for cancer and hidden disease

41:33 The immune system’s role in longevity

43:10 Final advice and where to find Dr. Alex

#longevity #peptides #antiaging #functionalmedicine #truthhurtsshow #briangoldstein #makanmostafavi #cancerprevention #biohacking #stemcells #inflammation #reversingaging #regenerativemedicine #dralex #truthhurts

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