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The Fault

The Fault

By: Kayvon K
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Vault Unlocked is for founders who don't want to learn the hard way. If you're building something real and you care about growing revenue faster, cleaner, and with fewer blind spots, this podcast is your unfair advantage. Hosted by Kayvon Kay, Vault Unlocked brings elite founders and operators into conversations they normally keep private. Not the public story. The real one. The fumbles that cost them millions. The decision they almost didn't make. The strategy they only understood after it finally worked. Every episode is built around one question founders actually care about: "What do you know now that would have saved you time, money, and pain if you learned it earlier?" Kayvon goes deep on purpose. The guests don't hide. Because surface-level answers don't grow companies. This is where you learn what not to do, what actually moved the needle, and how the best founders think when things are on the line. No motivation. No recycled playbooks. Just inside access to hard-earned lessons that help you grow faster by learning from other people's mistakes, missteps, and breakthroughs. If you want to shortcut the learning curve without gambling your own business, Vault Unlocked is for you. Listen like a founder who plans to win.
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Episodes
  • Why You Can't Outgrow Your Own Identity (The Real Reason Your Business Results Are Stuck)

    Why You Can't Outgrow Your Own Identity (The Real Reason Your Business Results Are Stuck)
    Jun 24 2026
    Most people think their problem is strategy. It isn't. You can change your offer, your funnel, your team, and your calendar, and still land in the exact same place six months later. The reason is sitting underneath all of it, and almost nobody names it out loud.This episode names it. Daniel Linares, Founder & CEO of DLE Event Group joins Kayvon to break down why your identity is the ceiling on your results, and why no amount of tactics will move you past a self-image that says you don't belong at the next level. The conversation moves fast and stays concrete. Kayvon lays out the line that reframes the whole thing: you cannot outpace, outsell, or outgrow your own identity. Daniel shows how the people who keep leveling up are doing one thing differently, and it has nothing to do with talent. They get into how Kobe built the Black Mamba and how Beyonce built Sasha Fierce, not as nicknames but as a new set of operating rules they stepped into before the results arrived. They unpack the reversal most people get backwards, the belief that you have to acquire the thing before you can become the person, when it works the other way. They walk through the self-imposed rules that quietly cap a founder's growth, the difference between waiting in line and finding the third door, and David Cook's SFT framework for resetting back to baseline under pressure the way the one percent do. This is for founders, operators, and high-agency builders who have already done the obvious work and are still hitting the same wall. If you are looking for motivation, this is the wrong room. If you want to understand the actual mechanism behind why your results have plateaued, stay. The discussion connects identity, mindset, and self-belief to the hard mechanics of business growth: how high performers think under pressure, how to take radical responsibility for outcomes, how to become resourceful instead of stuck, and how to ship before you feel ready instead of waiting for a readiness that never comes. It is a conversation about the inner game that drives every outer result, and the leadership decisions that compound over time. Topics covered: Why identity sets the ceiling on results, income, and growth The Black Mamba and Sasha Fierce as built identities, not nicknames The Be, Do, Have reversal most founders get backwards The self-imposed rules quietly capping your growth Third door thinking and how to stop waiting in line David Cook's SFT framework for resetting under pressure Why shipping at 70 percent beats waiting until you feel ready The role of trust and faith when the outcome is uncertain Looking to dive deeper into these conversations and connect with our host and guest? Follow Daniel Linares @DanielLinaresTV Youtube Instagram Facebook LinkedIn TikTok Website Follow Kayvon: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn TikTok Want to go deeper with Kayvon? Subscribe to the newsletterBook a discovery callGet your Revenue Engine Scorecard™️Hire the right salespeople
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    42 mins
  • Why Most Startups Fail to Scale (The Buyer Psychology Behind FOMO, Viral Growth, and Outrageous Startup Growth)

    Why Most Startups Fail to Scale (The Buyer Psychology Behind FOMO, Viral Growth, and Outrageous Startup Growth)
    Jun 15 2026
    Most founders think they have a product problem. Colin Hodge will tell you, on the record, that they don't. What separates the startups that go viral from the ones that don't is not the feature set, the funding, or the founder's hustle. It is psychology. The kind that gets engineered on purpose, measured against a number, and run as a system. Colin has spent twenty years building, selling, and buying back companies to prove it, and his book even hit the USA Today national bestseller list the morning of recording this episode. This is the conversation that explains why your growth is stuck, and it has nothing to do with working harder. Colin Hodge, author of Outrageous Startup Growth, breaks down the exact framework behind the startups everyone studies and nobody can replicate. He pulls apart how Clubhouse manufactured a citywide case of FOMO out of two invites, why Facebook's entire growth engine came down to one number most founders never bother to find, and how over 65 cognitive biases quietly decide whether a buyer says yes. Kayvon presses him on the line between influence and manipulation, and Colin draws it clearly: build for the customer's progress, or build a business that eventually collapses under its own tricks. Then it gets uncomfortable. They get into the data behind why negative, judgment-driven content outperforms anything positive, what that reveals about the people watching, and why the founders who understand this are the only ones who get to use it responsibly. This episode is for founders, operators, and product leaders who are done guessing. The ones who want growth they can repeat, not growth they got lucky with once. If you are looking for motivation, this is the wrong room. If you want the mechanics, sit down. Inside the conversation, Kayvon and Colin work through buyer psychology and behavioral science as the real engine of startup growth: how to create urgency without gimmicks, how to engineer customer decisions toward better outcomes, how to find the single magic moment that drives retention, and how to align an entire team behind one North Star metric. It is a working manual for anyone trying to scale a startup, sharpen their marketing, or sell with clarity in a market where attention is the only currency that matters. Topics covered: Why most startups stall and what actually unlocks scale The three-pillar growth framework: FOMO, decision engineering, magic moments The four ingredients of engineered FOMO, broken down with the Clubhouse playbook How to find your product's magic moment, the way Facebook found theirs Decision engineering and the cognitive biases that drive buyer behaviour The ethics line: customer success versus extraction Why negativity goes viral and what it says about all of us The North Star metric and how to align a team around it The wine list trick that exposes how pricing manipulates you every day Looking to dive deeper into these conversations and connect with our host and guest? Follow Colin Hodge Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Website Buy Colin's Book: Outrageous Startup Growth Follow Kayvon: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn TikTok Want to go deeper with Kayvon? Subscribe to the newsletter Book a discovery call Get your Revenue Engine Scorecard™️ Hire the right salespeople
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    45 mins
  • This is The Fault — where cracks reveal the truth.

    This is The Fault — where cracks reveal the truth.
    Jun 12 2026
    1 min
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