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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

James Dumoulin: The Hidden Truth About Success, Rejection and Building Influence

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ken sits down with James Dumoulin, host of the School of Hard Knocks. Learn how taking risks can help you grow, rejection can actually make you stronger, and proximity to the right people can open doors in your career.   Next Steps: ·       📄 Shape what comes next for Front Row Seat by participating in our 2025 audience study! ·       🪑 Join the Front Row Seat live audience!   ·       📝 Take the Get Clear Career Assessment. Connect With Our Sponsors: ·       Head to Avocado Green Mattress today for an extra $50 off with code KEN50. ·       Get 20% off when you join DeleteMe. Explore More From Ramsey Network:   🎙️ The Ramsey Show   📈 EntreLeadership 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show💰 George Kamel   Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, here's your chance to impact where this show goes next. The 2025 front row seat

0:10.9

audience survey is open now. It only takes about 10 minutes. Just text survey to 33789 or visit ramsysolutions.com slash survey do it before november 17 and you could win a

0:26.7

$100 gift card so james this is fun because i i knew you before i knew you like i would imagine a lot

0:33.9

of people you've got so much influence out there. So for our audience, it doesn't know

0:38.3

youth that's out there. I wanted to show them a little bit about what you do. So let's roll this. Who am I here with today? Will Smith in the building. Did you come from a lot of money? I came from the opposite. Do you think money buys happiness? Hell no. There's an amount of money that once you pass it, it buys misery. Now you start in the movie, the pursuit of happiness.

0:56.1

Did that change your perspective? One of the big things that I learned, the universe teaches through difficulties. Suffering is a gift. God teaches through suffering and hard time. Who am I here with today? Tom Brady. If me and you died tomorrow and you had one more guiding principle to lead with the younger

1:12.4

generation, what would that be?

1:13.6

The life you lead is a lesson you teach. If you want to live a life of integrity, be that. If you want to live a life of resilience, be that. I'm here with Tom Cruise. Amen. What's been the biggest driving factor of your success throughout your career? It is my desire to deliver the very best.

1:27.2

And your last message to the younger generation.

1:29.2

You go.

1:30.2

I'm someone when I hear it can't be done. I'm like, I don't know, maybe, you know. Do you not fear anything? I don't mind being fun. The important thing is to keep pursuing your dreams and finding accurate things that are going to add to your life and to others. So fun, just a little fun snapshot.

1:45.0

It's got to be a little surreal for you watching some of these clips back. In your words,

1:50.7

how would you describe what you do as a professional? Well, I interview billionaires for a living,

1:57.8

you know, and build businesses off of it. So I think everybody, when they

2:02.4

start creating content, it starts out with just an idea and want to go have some fun doing things.

2:08.0

But in the lane that we're in, you know, primarily we're interviewing lots of entrepreneurs.

2:13.1

We've interviewed 25 plus billionaires in the last four years. And so at a certain point, it's like,

2:19.1

man, instead of building a media channel, let's build a media company. So that's kind of that phase

2:22.7

that we're in, you know, not just focused on content, but now building businesses on top of it as well.

2:27.7

Okay, let's talk about that. So you mentioned businesses. But with this particular line of work

2:32.9

where you're interviewing successful folks,

2:35.7

what is the why behind it now?

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