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The Mind Your Business Podcast

Episode 809: What's Working Best from Q1 in 2026 PART 1

The Mind Your Business Podcast

James Wedmore

Business, Management, Entrepreneurship

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Feeling like the marketplace is a bit "off" lately? We're living through a massive shift where fast and easy has become a commodity, and listen up because people are over it! Today, we do a deep dive and look back at the quarter just finished, and share with you what's working best right now in online business to help you cut through the incredible amount of noise that exists in the marketplace. 

This is just Part One though! Join us next Monday for Part Two, as we look at the biggest opportunity to enhance and improve your offers to make them more irresistible in 2026, how we can all improve the delivery of our programs as Digital CEOs, and we reveal the ways you should be using AI, plus a whole lot more! 

Ready to stop thinking like a marketer and start operating like a true business owner? We're kicking off a powerful, brand-new experience on June 11th called the Business Breakthrough Experience. This is specifically designed to help you audit your strategy, find your unique human edge, and cause that next quantum leap in your results. Head over to www.businessbydesign.net right now to get on the priority list and save your seat!

Want to go even deeper? Come hang out with me this Wednesday for a free Breakthrough Coaching session! I'll be sharing the exact exercises and audits you can use to coach yourself, and I'll even be bringing people on live to work through their biggest bottlenecks in real time. It's totally free to join, just head over to www.jameswedmore.com/breakthrough to check the session times and register to save your spot!

Snap a screenshot of the episode playing on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag us, @jameswedmore and @jenniwedmore. We'd love to hear what resonated with you the most from this episode and especially what you want covered in future ones! 

In this episode you'll hear: 

  • Why the rise of AI is actually creating a massive surge in demand for high-quality, human-centric marketing

  • A recent study that shows consumer enthusiasm for AI-generated content has plummeted massively

  • How to create a unique, non-replicable brand that separates you from the commodity competition, using an example with a banana

  • The big reasons that intentional platforms like Podcasts and YouTube are winning over "distractionary" short-form social media content

  • Why the hardest projects, like my current Star Wars room build, are the ones that provide the most fulfillment and growth

  • How I would take one dedicated podcast listener over 10,000 "doom scroll" views any day

  • A reminder that webinars and launches aren't dead, but there is something that needs to shift

  • My thoughts on surviving the gauntlet and what every entrepreneur must face to build a solid foundation, instead of relying on just luck 

  • A special preview of what we have coming next week on the show and something special we're bringing to you June 11th, 2026 to help lead you to the next quantum leap in your business 

For full show notes and links, visit: www.mindyourbusinesspodcast.com/blog/809 

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Mind Your Business podcast. Today's episode, I do a deep dive looking back into

0:06.6

quarter one and share with you what's working best right now in online business. This is part one.

0:14.8

So stay tuned.

0:20.0

Hi, I'm James Wedmore and with 17 years online, I've built my business to over $12 million in sales per year.

0:29.3

And this is the first non-business business podcast that shows you how to apply the principles of spirituality, energy, and mindset to grow your business

0:39.3

beyond your wildest dreams, all from the inside out. This is the Mind Your Business podcast.

0:49.6

What is up, friends? I'm James Wedmore. And I'm Jennifer Wedmore. And this is the Mind You

0:55.3

You Business Podcast. I was just thinking about this. I took my notes for this episode. I'm like,

1:00.4

what's working best 2026? I'm like, holy Cropoli, 10 years. 10 years I've been doing this podcast.

1:07.3

800 episodes. Is that what we're at now? Yeah. You know, I don't even keep track.

1:11.0

I think this episode is 809 maybe. Yeah, over 800. Wow. I wanted to do this episode, and it's going to be a two-parter because everything I have so much to share. I have a lot we want to dive into.

1:23.1

Grab your favorite coffee mug and beverage. Your favorite bevy. Go for a walkie or a drivey. Do

1:32.0

something and lean back and enjoy. I'm going to talk about so many things. And I think this is

1:36.1

important things to talk about. It's sparked by many things. First, I want to start with a story.

1:40.7

But we're going to, well, let me give you the hook and the promise. I want to share with you a lot of what we've been doing the last three months, six months, whatever, you know, the fact that I'm tapped into so many different clients at so many different levels, like, what's working? And I want to bring that to you. Because number one, a lot has changed in the marketplace. Less than what you think, but there's the perception and experience that a lot has changed.

2:03.8

There's a lot of like paradigm shifting elements that we're going to talk about.

2:08.5

Things are moving fast, but I really want to make a huge good good news argument.

2:12.9

It's a lot less than people think.

2:14.5

But it has a lot of people in that fear and uncertainty.

2:17.3

I think as an

2:17.8

entrepreneur, you have to be more like me and just enjoy uncertainty and not get fed by fear.

2:23.7

I had this quote come to me the other day. You might like it, Jenny, because it was an intuit.

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