Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”

My First Million

Hubspot

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Get Steph's database with 100+ stats that will shape the next decade: https://clickhubspot.com/ehsf Episode 814: In this special episode, we’re pulling our best moments with the trends queen herself, Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ). — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (0:44) Silver Tsunami (8:05) Sports (11:39) Mega trends (declining birthrate, air quality) (21:41) Nerd Neck (25:49) Nature (32:02) Breakup Spending — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

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0:00.0	All right, Steph Smith's here.
0:01.3	Steph is back.
0:02.2	And your whole thing is finding up and coming trends. I call them gold mines. Some people just come back and show you a little piece of gold. Steph shows you where the mine is. We all run into these generation-defining stats throughout our lives, and most of us are just like, oh, that's cool. And so I compiled 100 plus of these. There's so many here. I love this one. Breakup cake.
0:21.5	Nerdneck, the Dyson Mask, a search algorithm that was inspired by ants.
0:26.0	I need to rank this down.
0:27.2	If you want to go down the rabbit hole, I think there's a growing business here.
0:35.1	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:37.5	I know I could be what I want to.
0:40.3	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:42.8	On a road, let's travel, never looking back.
0:45.5	We use this phrase, one chart businesses, because you just see this chart in it, like you said,
0:50.5	well, that thing's obvious.
0:52.1	Just get into that industry.
0:53.2	You have one here.
0:53.8	You say in the United States, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that nursing
0:58.9	will be the fastest growing occupation between 2020 and 2030, growing in number by 275,000
1:07.1	jobs.
1:09.0	That's insane.
1:10.2	That's insane.
1:12.0	Talk to you about this nursing thing.
1:17.5	Yeah. Well, I mean, again, it's like a pretty clear trend that comes with a bunch of people getting older. Like everyone's talking about AI and that's great. But what about the billions of
1:22.8	people around the globe that are 65 plus that are just going to need physical human support.
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