Rebellious Times Podcast

Jacob Piasecki co-founded an NIL agency out of a college townhouse in 2021, right as the rules changed to let college athletes finally get paid. In this episode, he explains how that industry actually works, from donor-funded collectives to seventeen-year-olds suddenly supporting their family's mortgage, and why the agency business is still, at its core, about people.

A retired Air Force general who flew the C-17 is now building fireproof, waterproof walls, and warning anyone who'll listen about where surveillance technology is headed. Brigadier General (Ret.) Blaine Holt joins the show to talk about his path from the cockpit to Xeriant, what his company is actually building, and why he believes the real fight right now is between sovereignty and globalism.

Corey Apirian has spent two decades solving one problem: getting inventory closer to the customer. In this episode, the CEO of DaVinci Micro Fulfillment explains why the old model of one giant warehouse is breaking down, what a micro fulfillment center actually looks like, and why he named his company after Leonardo da Vinci.

Bruna Lima left agency life for a Brazilian village with no gas station and no hospital, and it changed how she thinks about branding for good. She built Branders Studio from there, now serving US clients from a quiet village outside Warsaw, Poland. This episode covers what she learned moving between Brazil, Austin, and Poland, and why she thinks almost nothing in marketing is actually urgent.

Daniel Certner spent a year and looked at almost 1,000 businesses before he found the one he wanted to buy. Now he owns Fleet Packaging, sourcing custom packaging for US brands from factories in 30 countries. On this episode, he breaks down what a real business acquisition actually looks like, from spotting a red flag in a seller to why he still trusts the diligence process he leaned on three years ago.

Bas Janssen built a software platform that turns a brand's strategy into hundreds of pieces of quality-gated content, without the "AI slop" that comes from a single ChatGPT prompt. He and Chris talk through the shift from Google rankings to LLM visibility, why structure beats speed in AI content, and how agencies are using programmatic SEO to scale without falling apart.