Grace Over Guilt

Grace Over Guilt

Morning coffee. Honest conversations. No filtered bullshit. Marketing consultant Dan processes the hard truths about building a sustainable business after everything falls apart. Tactical marketing and AI implementation advice meets vulnerable storytelling about transformation, identity debt, and the peace you have to protect to do work that matters. This isn't "hustle harder." It's for builders who've learned that peace isn't the reward - it's the foundation. Grace over guilt. Always.

Episodes

September 4, 2026 26 mins
GRACE OVER GUILTThe Fall | The LieBy the start of 2021 I had a plea, a report recommending no jail time, and a sentencing date at the tail end of January. Probation, pay the money back, move on.So I did what any sane person would do. I pushed the date ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
GRACE OVER GUILT Season 1: The Fall | Episode 2: The Waiting COVID shut everything down and my case slowed to almost nothing. For the better part of that year I tried to run a normal life on top of something that wasn't normal. If you're waiting for th...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
GRACE OVER GUILT Season 1: The Fall | Episode 1: Super Bowl Sunday Super Bowl Sunday, 2020. Michigan in February, and it was weirdly nice out, mid 50s. Everybody on the street was in their yard. I was inside with my wife Carol when I looked out and saw...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
THE PROLOGUE | GRACE OVER GUILT This is the story of how I lost everything, rebuilt from nothing, and learned that grace isn't what you find when you've got it together. It's what you find when you've got nothing. I've told pieces of this before. In ne...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
EPISODE 53 | THE FAIR WARNING I wrote a document. An honest introduction to who I am, what I'm building, and what I'm carrying. I used AI to draft it. Then I bled on it. That second part is what nobody's talking about, and it's the only part that matte...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
EPISODE 52 | THE RESPONSE Eight days ago I published 47 lessons. By Tuesday I had broken one. This isn't a confession. It's an audit. A confession is a release valve. It lowers the pressure without fixing the leak. An audit opens the books and counts. ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
August 21, 2026 14 mins
You don't wait for certainty to commit. You commit to generate certainty. The shoes are by the door. There's a number in my head that wasn't there in June. Seven weeks, maybe eight, until October 10th and the Spartan. I don't know if I'm running it. Th...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
You don't need more patience. You need a strategy for functioning when everything that matters is on somebody else's timeline. My knee is healing on tissue's schedule. A property is in process. A race in October that September gets to decide. Outreach ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Most people treat a birthday like a peak. It's a checkpoint. The real work is the Monday after.Sunday I published 47 lessons. Monday morning the alarm still went off at seven and the dog still needed to go out. This episode is about that gap, and what ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Birthdays are usually treated as a moment to reflect. But what if they’re more useful as a deadline? In Episode 48 of Grace Over Guilt, Dan Kaufman reflects on turning 47 and on the quiet, daily decisions that shape who we become. A birthday doesn’t cr...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Most people don’t quit because they’re lazy or undisciplined. They quit because they expect results too soon—and when week three feels empty, they mistake silence for proof that they’ve failed. In Episode 47 of Grace Over Guilt, Dan Kaufman shares a pr...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
The $180 Lesson Hiding in My ClosetThree pairs of cheap sneakers. A couple of months of delayed healing. One meniscus screaming at me. I blamed my body, my age, and my genetics — but never the thing I was standing on.This episode is about the hidden ta...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Tuesday evening. House is quiet. Sheldon has already given up on me and gone to lie down somewhere with better light. I pick up my phone and send a message to somebody I know is not going to answer. Not somebody who might not answer. Somebody who won't...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
This morning the newsletter went out around 7. At nine the outreach sequence fired. At two this afternoon a nurture email hit a few hundred inboxes with my name on it and my voice in it. I didn't touch a single one of those things. I was flat on a tabl...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Sunday night in Orland. The knee is five weeks into being a problem. The property search got bigger instead of smaller. The Q3 plan is running pretty close to how I built it to run. And I'm sitting here looking at all of it thinking: not one thing on t...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Revenue doesn't care about your heart. Sit with that before I soften it, and I'm not going to soften it much, because the softening is where most people find the exit. Revenue doesn't care. Pipeline doesn't care. They're structurally indifferent to wha...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Wednesdays we take something apart and look at how it actually works. Today it's a question. Now what? The knee is not the lesson. The knee is just the most recent place I got handed a fact I couldn't argue with. Everybody gets handed a version of this...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Here is the thing nobody warns you about. It is the quiet. There are hundreds of books about failure. Whole industries. You can find somebody to talk to you about a crash at any hour of the day. What you cannot find is the manual for the stretch where ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Tuesday. Six in the morning. The alarm goes off, and Monday is gone. That is the whole episode in one sentence. Everything else is me walking around that one moment, because I have come to believe it is the most important sixty seconds in anybody's wee...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
I killed an episode this week. It was called The Gap, and it was built on that famous idea about the distance between the work you make and the taste that made you want to make it. Useful, for a while. Until you notice the Gap only ever measures one th...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

    Betrayal Weekly

    Betrayal Weekly is back for a new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at betrayalpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.

    Dateline NBC

    Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

    The Joe Rogan Experience

    The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.

    Love Trapped

    Former Bachelor Clayton Echard’s casual one-night fling turned into a paternity nightmare. When the news broke about the scandal, no one believed Clayton at first. He was a reality TV star, and an unpopular one at that. Clayton found himself trying to prove the truth, while trapped in a web of lies, manipulation, and threats. He would soon discover he was not the only one. At its core, this is a story about who you believe and why. It’s an epic battle that would take a group of strangers, citizen sleuths from across the world, to crack the case and finally hold someone accountable. New episodes of Love Trapped are released every Thursday, starting February 26th, 2026. If you would like to reach out to the Love Trapped team, email us at lovetrappedpod@gmail.com and follow along on Instagram @glasspodcasts.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2026 iHeartMedia, Inc.

  • Help
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • AdChoicesAd Choices