ENTREPRREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 75

"Public Domain" | The Limitations

🌍 Your legacy = public domain. NVIDIA's $4.6T empire. Mocktails outselling alcohol. What will you contribute before you're history?

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a legacy-defining, gratitude-filled episode on Black History Month resilience, NVIDIA's decades-long AI bet, and why acknowledging your limitations is the key to breaking through glass ceilings.

In this episode, we contribute:

"Public Domain":
Michael reflects with gratitude and enlightenment:

This weekend was a roller coaster of friends and connections. We were featured in a parade for NAACP in Smithfield, North Carolina—a brilliant conversation about resiliency during Black History Month and the Black Issues Forum 40th Anniversary Celebration.

Michael's challenge: What are you willing to give to the public domain? If your legacy becomes public domain, are you OK with that truth? How do we ensure the next hundred years don't erase the value of our contributions?

NVIDIA's Story:
Three engineers, $600, a booth at Denny's planted the seed for a $4.6 trillion empire at the heart of the AI revolution.

Jensen Huang on Denny's origins: "I used to wash dishes at Denny's, I was a busboy, I was a waiter. I consider it my first company. We'd sit there, drink coffee—the great thing about Denny's is it's all you can drink."

Michael's insight: NVIDIA's dominance isn't luck—it's decades of strategic vision around accelerated computing.

The Limitations:
Michael delivers mature, strategic truth:

I'm a fan of "NO Limits." I was part of the street team promoting Master P, who told me God was the reason for his brilliance and resiliency.

But as you mature as a leader, you realize: You must make your limitations part of your strategy to truly break through glass ceilings.

Optimism is great—but creating new realistic realities is crucial.

ENTREPREGANDA's Life's Victory Formula:
Redefine your vision. Affirm your values. Pursue your voice.

So many entrepreneurs focus on economic gains—living and traveling excessively. But life has limitations. Create meaningful existence while you're here.

One day, you will remain in the public domain for your contributions to humanity's echoes. That's what it means to be an entrepreneur in our system.

Build legacy. Accept limitations. Enter the public domain with pride.

🌍 This episode will redefine how you think about legacy, health, and the contributions that outlive you.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT

ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 74

"Supreme Decisions" | The Acknowledgment

⚖️ The Supreme Court strikes tariffs. Markets pivot. Your supreme decisions determine whether you dominate—or disappear. Monopoly begins NOW.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a market-shifting, decision-defining episode on Supreme Court disruption, marketplace monopoly strategy, and why acknowledging your IP shortcomings is the first step to VIP-level wealth.

In this episode, we decide:

"Supreme Decisions":
Michael delivers marketplace-monopoly truth:

Selective branding is great. But brand utility changes the economy. Within Q1 diplomacy, we must make supreme decisions about positioning, partnerships, and pivots.

It's time to grow your marketplace monopoly dominance through supreme decisions.

Headlines: Supreme Court Strikes Trump Tariffs, Economy Grows Modestly & AI Document Agents

Supreme Court Strikes Down Bulk of Trump's Tariffs:
The Supreme Court struck down a huge chunk of President Trump's tariff agenda Friday. (6-3 ruling)

Michael's analysis: Supreme decisions create market volatility. Be prepared to pivot instantly.
Economy grew at 1.4% annual rate in Q4, held back by prolonged government shutdown. Michael predicts: Stock market will rally significantly.

Michael's insight: AI agents are replacing traditional workflows. Your supreme decision: adopt or be obsolete.

The Acknowledgment:
Michael quotes a powerful TV series line:

"Do you know how rare it is to be offered back a piece of your soul?"

Michael connects to entrepreneurship: Is the work you're doing worthy of acknowledgment? Are you doing something original that increases your brand value?
Michael offers VIP opportunities for individuals acknowledging their shortcomings in utilizing intellectual properties as assets.

Truth: We're all products of our decisions—and information we act on (or don't).

This episode will make you think about your supreme decisions for your future and legacy strategy.

Acknowledge truth. Make supreme decisions. Dominate your monopoly.

⚖️ This episode will transform how you decide—and position you for marketplace monopoly dominance.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT

ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 73

"Keep Hope Alive" | The Push

🕊️ In honor of Rev. Jesse Jackson. Keep Hope Alive—because when push comes to shove, entrepreneurs push through.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a soul-stirring, historically profound episode honoring a civil rights giant, confronting economic disruption, and igniting the push you need to break through in 2026.

In this episode, we push:

Profit Income Tuesday: The 7 Day Game Plan Continues
Day two—turning operations into profit. Michael reveals: Profit requires keeping hope alive—even when mathematical principles that once guided business become obsolete.

BREAKING NEWS: Honoring Rev. Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)
Michael pays tribute to Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., two-time presidential candidate, and moral force who shaped America's conscience for decades.

"Keep Hope Alive" — Jesse Jackson's rallying cry from the 1988 Democratic National Convention—a call for perseverance, unity, racial justice, and economic opportunity.

Michael applies this to entrepreneurship: Keep hope alive because business has become brutally complex. The old playbooks are obsolete.

"When push comes to shove, you must commit."

Headlines: SaaS Stocks Collapse, AI Disruption & Alibaba's New Model

Software Company Stocks Tumbling:
Global SaaS stocks wiped out hundreds of billions in market value. Salesforce, ServiceNow down double-digits.

But hope survives: Companies with truly proprietary data may strengthen through AI.

Michael's insight: The AI arms race has no borders. Stay globally competitive or become irrelevant.

The Push:
Michael delivers metaphorical, entrepreneurial fire:

The Push is your competitive weapon:

• An act of force moving obstacles away from your path
• A vigorous effort to obtain something extraordinary
• Forcefulness and enterprise that attracts investors

Entrepreneur's Push Manifesto:

• Push ahead: Proceed with economic reform of YOUR business
• Push through: Get proposals completed despite resistance
• Push for: Demand resources persistently
• Push on: Continue when light is fading

Michael's confession: "Even though I love producing this podcast, I'm also CEO of a company requiring my time, attention, and decision-making. The key to quality leadership? High-quality decisions under intense pressure—with or without support."

When push comes to shove—you commit. You push through.

This season is about pushing through until you see the alignment you deserve. Productivity and effort are non-negotiable—but cleverness and creativity are rewarded.

Keep hope alive. Push through everything. Honor the legacy.

🕊️ This episode will ignite your push and honor those who pushed before you.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT

ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 72

"All-Star Athlete" | The Flow

🏀 Step up your mindset. Unlock elite-level talent. Dominate your profession. Success doesn't begin until you unleash the professional within.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a championship-caliber, flow-state episode on taking your craft seriously, WIPO's record domain name cases, and why NBA All-Star Weekend's struggle mirrors entrepreneurs who won't commit to excellence.

In this episode, we dominate:

Royalty Income Sunday: The 7 Day Game Plan Completes
Day seven—where legacy systems pay perpetually. Michael reveals: Royalty income flows to All-Star Athletes of entrepreneurship. Elite performers who take their craft seriously, not casually.

"All-Star Athlete":
Michael delivers championship-level truth:

It's time to step up your mindset to the next level. Bring out the elite nature of your talents and gifts. Be aware of flaws to create total domination in your profession.

Take it seriously. It's YOUR time. YOUR mind. YOUR legacy.

Success doesn't begin in entrepreneurship until you unlock the professional within.

NBA All-Star Weekend Struggles:
All-Star Weekend is getting yet another makeover—nothing the league has tried the past handful of years has held people's attention.

The issue: How do you get teams and players to take everything the league does seriously? The NBA hasn't found a good enough answer.

Tanking is getting worse—or at least harder to ignore. There's a nebulous line between rebuild and overt disrespect for the game and fans, and teams are pushing that line.

Michael's lesson: We must stay true to the craft of what we're building in our profession. This is diplomacy season—all about relationships. We build with partners and fans who love our work.

Don't tank your business. Play to win—always.

Headlines: Lifetouch Epstein Concerns, Saks Closures & WIPO Domain Name MilestoneMichael shares: His personal experience working a contract gig for Lifetouch and the concerns a parent can have with this public incident.

Michael's analysis: Retail is dying. Adapt or disappear.

Michael's takeaway: Protect your domain names. Your digital real estate is intellectual property—defend it like an All-Star.

The Flow:
Michael delivers poetic, relational truth:

In diplomacy season, relationships should flow. Those who want to see you do well—you will know.

NBA All-Star & Tanking Correlation:
As NBA All-Stars gather in Los Angeles, the two biggest league conversations are:

1. Tanking is getting worse (or harder to ignore)
2. How to get All-Star Weekend right

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said: "Every possible remedy is on the table." This isn't just about players caring—it's about front offices too.

Michael's lesson: Entrepreneurship is the same. You can't tank your way to success. You must go all-in, all the time.

Flow Defined:

1. The action of moving along in a steady, continuous stream
2. A steady, continuous stream of something
3. Gradual permanent deformation of a solid under stress, without melting

Phrases:

• Go with the flow: Be relaxed, accept situations rather than trying to control
• In full flow: Talking fluently, performing vigorously and enthusiastically
• In mid flow: In the process of talking fluently

Food for thought: Learn to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your behavior as an entrepreneur.

Flow with relationships. Dominate your craft. Be an All-Star.

🏆 This episode will elevate your mindset to elite-athlete level and teach you to flow toward royalty.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT

ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 71

"Continue to Exist" | The Accumulation

💪 Life hits hard. Society dictates. But YOU? You continue to exist—accumulating wins, scars, and legacy through sheer endurance.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers an endurance-tested, legacy-building episode on surviving entrepreneurship's brutal game, AI's Pokémon puzzle, and why your accumulation of deeds defines whether you're remembered—or forgotten.

In this episode, we endure:

Rental Income Friday: The 7 Day Game Plan Advances
Day five—User-Friendly Rental Income. Michael reveals: Entrepreneurship is a game of endurance. Rental income flows to those who continue to exist—through market crashes, personal loss, and societal pressure.

"Continue to Exist":
Michael delivers survival-mode wisdom:

Life hits us all in unexpected ways. Through hardships, tough beginnings, and loss of loved ones—we must still continue to exist toward our own opportunities to value our lives.

Society tells you how to feel, how to be. My message: CONTINUE TO EXIST.

Be reasonably crazy. Be user-friendly.

Headlines: Tariffs, AI Video Breakthroughs & Pokémon as Intelligence Benchmark

Tariffs Weigh on Retail Prices:
After nearly a year of tariff costs, higher prices are the new normal. Licensing executives confirm: consumer and wholesale prices won't retreat to pre-tariff levels—some will only increase further.

AI-Generated Videos Cross the Uncanny Valley — Seadance 2.0:
ByteDance's new AI video model creates hyper-realistic videos without distortions. Examples: Lord of the Rings reimagined, war combat scenes, martial arts fights. AI video is indistinguishable from reality.

OpenAI Debuts Codex-Spark — Speedier Coding on Cerebras Chips:
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark delivers 1,000+ tokens per second—first to run on Cerebras chips (Nvidia rival), marking a $10B+ multi-year partnership. Available now for ChatGPT Pro users.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Major Upgrade:
Google expands beyond math/coding into science, engineering, and research. Achieves gold medal-level results on 2025 International Physics and Chemistry Olympiads. Turns hand-drawn sketches into 3D-printable files. Available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.

The Accumulation:
Michael delivers legacy-defining truth:

The only thing that matters now: Results continue to exist. The accumulation of our accomplishments defines our value and ultimately our legacy.

Accumulation Defined:
The acquisition or gradual gathering of something; a mass or quantity that has gradually gathered or been acquired.

AI's Next Benchmark: Mastering Pokémon:
AI models ace bar exams and PhD-level math—but Pokémon stumps them. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic now battle to master the classic Game Boy game.

Why Pokémon? It requires sustained planning, resource management, error recovery over hundreds of hours—the exact capability for real-world AI agents.

The competition is live on Twitch:

• Gemini 3 Pro finished Pokémon Blue in ~406 hours
• GPT 5.2 also beat the game
• Claude Opus 4.6 still working through Pokémon Red: 500+ hours, 170,000+ steps

The lesson: AI can outperform doctors, lawyers, PhD students on tests—but struggles with tasks easy for humans. Raw intelligence ≠ real-world reasoning.

What we accumulate proves we exist. But HOW you exist—the echoes of things you accumulated through consistency and deeds—is what should be remembered.

Continue to exist. Accumulate relentlessly. Build legacy.

🏆 This episode will ignite your endurance and teach you to accumulate wins that outlive you.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT

ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 70

"Mirror Moment" | The Plug

🪞 It's you vs. you—every day. Your imagination is your plug. The man in the glass determines your destiny. Can you be the connection others need?

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a Black History Month centennial, self-honesty-focused episode on becoming your own plug, AI's work intensification truth, and why your mirror moment determines whether you lead—or follow.

In this episode, we connect:

Profit Income Tuesday: The 7 Day Game Plan Continues
Day two—turning operations into profit. Michael reveals: Profit flows when you become your own plug. Stop waiting for opportunities—create them. Your imagination is the supplier.

"Mirror Moment":
Michael declares:

"It's me versus me, every day! The only person who can put me on to opportunities is MYSELF. My imagination has gifted me the pleasure of seeing myself as THE PLUG."

Black History Month Centennial:
February 2026 marks 100 years since Negro History Week (1926), founded by Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History.' He established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (1915) and initiated the first celebration in February 1926, honoring Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

The observance expanded to Black History Month in the 1960s, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976.

Mirror Defined:
A reflective surface showing your image; to correspond or be similar; to display content from one screen to another; to keep a copy of network site contents.

Michael's truth: People with significant cross-identity issues must strengthen their capacity to understand both risks and opportunities presented by unfolding internal dynamics of life's choices and their echoes.

It's time for YOUR mirror moment. Step up. Be a visionary. See the path laid clear.

Headlines: Bad Bunny's Unity, AI Intensifies Work & Amazon's Content Marketplace

"Together, We Are America" — Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Statement:
Bad Bunny delivers unifying message post-Super Bowl. Michael analyzes: Unity is the plug. Connection is currency.

New Study: AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It:
Harvard Business Review published an 8-month case study of enterprise AI tool usage, finding:

• Employees work faster
• Tackle broader scope of tasks
• Clock more hours without being asked
• Feed tasks to AI during meetings, breaks, lunch
• Absorb responsibilities that would've justified additional hiring

Michael's breakdown: AI doesn't replace work—it compounds it. Be the plug who masters AI, or be replaced.

Amazon in Talks to Launch AI Content Marketplace:
Publishers will sell content directly to AI companies, creating new revenue streams through usage-based fees. Follows Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace.

Michael's insight: Content is the new oil. If you own IP, you become the plug.

The Plug:
Michael asks the defining question:

Can you be THE PLUG? Can you be the person who creates meaningful connections?

It's diplomacy season. Q1 2026. Ask yourself: What will this year mean for me and the people who rely on me for resources?

The Plug Defined (Urban Slang):
The person who supplies something valuable—usually exclusive or hard to get (drugs, rare sneakers, VIP access). Also: a reliable connect for hookups or favors.

Be the plug. Mirror yourself. Create profit.

🔌 This episode will transform you into your own supplier—and the connection others can't live without.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT

ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 69

"Ambitious By Design" | The Platform

👑 Black History Month. Super Bowl Sunday. Royalty Income Sunday. Your ambition isn't a flaw—it's your blueprint for legacy.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a soul-searching, history-honoring episode on delayed recognition, the privilege of platform, and why ambition—when guided by purpose—transforms pain into entrepreneurial destiny.

In this episode, we design:

Royalty Income Sunday: The 7 Day Game Plan Completes
Day seven—where legacy systems pay perpetually. Michael reveals: Royalty income is ambitious by design. Jan Ernst Matzeliger revolutionized footwear affordability with his shoe-lasting machine—innovation driven by ambition to serve.

"Ambitious By Design":

Design Defined:
A plan or drawing showing function before creation; the art of conceiving and producing; arrangement of lines forming patterns; purpose, planning, or intention behind action.

By design = intentional. Have designs on = aiming to obtain.

Super Bowl Sunday:
Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots. Michael celebrates Royalty Income Sunday by analyzing celebrities and influencers at the game—ambition on display.

Michael shares his origin story:

"Ambitious By Design" was once an article headline about Michael as a teenage entrepreneur. That headline inspired ENTREPREGANDA—because society assumes something's wrong with being ambitious.

This is why entrepreneurial propaganda matters NOW—the world is in flux. Even those who saw themselves above are now under examination.

Ambitious Defined:
Having strong desire and determination to succeed; intended to satisfy high aspirations and therefore difficult to achieve.

Headlines: The Epstein Files & Cultural Examination

Michael addresses Jeffrey Epstein with stern examination—no victim-blaming, no shame:

Corporate tycoons and world leaders modeled Hugh Hefner Playboy lifestyles—free inhibitions, sexual exploits. They felt entitled due to accomplishments/status.

Where do we go from here? Rebuild not just institutions—rebuild people. Examine culture, films, TV, commercials, everything that made certain behaviors acceptable.

It's time for accountability. We have platforms to be better than we were.

The Platform:
A platform is a privilege—but more, a responsibility.

In our Life's Victory Formula, we examine the lifestyle we choose and the platform we turn into media. We find relationships to expand our message.

NFL's Bad Bunny Masterstroke:
The NFL selecting Bad Bunny for Super Bowl LX halftime was business genius. The world's most-streamed artist performing for America's most popular sports league.

The NFL speaks dollars. Bad Bunny is more popular globally than the NFL itself—a marketing coup for growing Latino fanbase.

NFL looks like visionaries—all by making the obvious pick.

Your platform. Your ambition. Your design. Your royalty.

👑 This episode will awaken your ambition and teach you to wield your platform with purpose.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT