ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 50

"Reset Button" | The Reboot

2026 is your reset. Stop begging for seats at tables where you can't speak. Build your own empire—unapologetically.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a soul-reclaiming, profit-maximizing episode on conquering your purpose, rejecting validation addiction, and why hitting the reset button is the bravest move you'll ever make.

In this episode, we reset:

Profit Income Tuesday: The 7 Day Game Plan Continues
Day two—turning operations into profit. Michael reveals: You can't profit from someone else's vision. Real profit comes when you reset your life, reclaim your voice, and build from your authentic core.

"Stop Trying to Sit at Everyone Else's Table If You Aren't Allowed to Speak."
Michael drops unfiltered truth: If they silence you, leave the table.

ENTREPREGANDA was created to transcend motivational fluff and connect entrepreneurship to life-altering reset moments. This isn't positive thinking—it's strategic rebuilding. This is where you conquer your soul's purpose in 2026.

Headlines: AI Personalization, Corporate Pressure & Creator Empowerment

OpenAI Launches "Your Year with ChatGPT":
Like Spotify Wrapped, but for AI conversations. Michael analyzes: Your data tells your story. Are you using AI to build empires or just chatting aimlessly? 2026 is the year to be intentional.

Satya Nadella Intensifies Microsoft Oversight Amid AI Push:
The CEO demands full commitment to the "AI revolution"—adapt or leave. Michael breaks it down: Leaders who can't reset get left behind. Nadella hit the reset button on Microsoft's entire culture. Are you willing to do the same?

YouTube Launches Playables Builder for Creators:
Powered by Gemini 3, creators can now build games from text prompts and share with audiences. Michael reveals: The creator economy just leveled up. If you're not experimenting with new formats, you're resetting into irrelevance.

Licensing News: How Licensing Redefined Culture in 2025
Landmark deals and unlikely collaborations made 2025 historic. Michael highlights:

• Generational shift: Gen Z and Gen Alpha demand authenticity, community, purpose, surprise, and virality
• Food & beverage boom, toy partnerships, emerging territories
• IPs weaving into cultural fabric—not just products, but movements

Michael's insight: "They want to be part of the story, not passive consumers." That's the reset—from consumption to creation.

The Reboot:
Michael delivers poetic, transformative truth:

"Unbecoming the noise. Seeking only truth. No longer seeking validation."

The world has too many echoes—not enough original thinkers. Use your voice. Unintended consequences happen when you hit the reset button, but you must return to your true self to find peace of mind.

The Reboot means:

• Unlearning who they told you to be
• Reclaiming the vision buried under expectations
• Resetting your identity, business, and purpose
• Building from truth, not approval

2026 is your year to return—to yourself, your mission, your empire.

Hit reset. Speak your truth. Conquer your purpose.

This episode will shake you awake and set you free. Don't miss it.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT

ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 49

"Public Relations" | The Tenacity

You're not what they think. You're what they believe in. PR isn't ego—it's legacy architecture.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a paradigm-shattering episode on authentic influence, strategic visibility, and why external validation is the enemy of royalty income.

In this episode, we relate:

Royalty Income Sunday: The 7 Day Game Plan Completes
Day seven—where IP and legacy systems pay you perpetually. Michael reveals: Public relations isn't about being liked—it's about being believed in. When people believe in your mission, they become lifetime supporters, investors, and advocates. That's royalty.

"It's Not About Ego. You're Not What Your Audience Thinks. You're What They Believe In."
Michael dismantles the influencer trap: Stop performing for external validation.

Real PR builds belief:

• Influencers chase likes. Believers build movements.
• Experts share knowledge. Believers inspire transformation.
• Traditional media covers stories. Believers create legacies.

When you stop seeking approval and start embodying your truth, people don't just follow—they believe. And belief creates royalty income.

Headlines: TikTok's Survival Deal & Detroit's Creator Incubator

TikTok Makes Deal To Form New US Entity, Avoids Ban:
TikTok secured a lifeline: Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX own 50%, existing ByteDance investors hold 30%, and ByteDance keeps 19.9%. A new seven-member majority-American board will govern. Deal closes January 22, 2026.

Michael's breakdown: This is public relations meets national security. TikTok didn't just negotiate—they restructured reality to survive. That's tenacity. That's strategic PR at the highest level.

Philanthropic News: Usher & Big Sean Invest $1M In Detroit Creator Incubator:
Usher and Big Sean are investing $1 million to launch an innovation incubator supporting youth creators ages 14-24. Located in Michigan Central Boys & Girls Club, opening February 2026, it provides:

• Creative technology access
• Mentorship from industry executives
• Training in film, TV, music, AI, 3D tech, and special effects
• Seed funding to launch paid creative startups

Michael celebrates: This is public relations through service. Usher and Big Sean aren't chasing headlines—they're building belief in Detroit's youth. The creator economy is projected to hit $480 billion by 2027. This investment positions them as architects of the future.

That's royalty income mindset: Invest in people, own the outcome.

The Tenacity:
Michael delivers poetic truth with magical wordplay:

✨ Merge Into the Now ✨
We are whole, woven into the beauty of life's eternal flow.
You are already aligned, already divine, already designed to shine.
Make life happen by honoring your authentic now,
Not tomorrow's should or yesterday's vow.
You are the belief, the breath, the becoming.
Stop seeking. Start being. The kingdom is coming—
Not from without, but within your knowing.
Tenacity isn't pushing—it's allowing, it's showing.

You are already in alignment. Trust it. Live it. Be it.

Build belief. Serve boldly. Merge into now.

This episode will free you from external validation and awaken your royalty consciousness.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT

ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 48

"Skin in the Game" | The Somebodiness

Radical ownership. Zero comparison. 100% consequence. When you have skin in the game, you become somebody.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers a soul-stirring, empire-building episode on radical ownership, inherent dignity, and why having real stake in your outcomes separates legends from spectators.

In this episode, we own:

Rental Income Friday: The 7 Day Game Plan Advances
Day five—where assets generate recurring revenue. Michael reveals: Rental income requires skin in the game. You can't collect passive income without first investing actively—capital, time, reputation, risk.

"Skin in the Game" Without Socializing Comparison Syndrome:
Michael defines radical ownership: Having a personal stake or investment in outcomes—financial, reputational, or emotional—ensuring you experience consequences, positive or negative.

But here's the twist: No socializing comparison syndrome. Stop comparing your Chapter 3 to someone else's Chapter 20. Your skin in the game is yours alone. Honor your pathway to fulfillment.

When you have skin in the game:

• You make better decisions (consequences are real)
• You work harder (your money, reputation, or legacy is at risk)
• You earn respect (people trust those with stake)
• You build wealth (only those who risk, win)

Headlines: AI Integration, Podcast Domination & Gaming Revival

OpenAI Launches App Directory for ChatGPT:
700 million weekly users can now access third-party apps without leaving ChatGPT. Michael analyzes: This is the app store moment for AI. Developers with skin in the game will build fortunes here.

24 AI Leaders Join US Genesis Mission:
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Palantir unite with the federal government to accelerate breakthroughs in energy and drug discovery using AI + federal datasets. Michael reveals: When titans combine resources, they're betting everything. That's skin in the game on a national scale.

Netflix x iHeartMedia: Exclusive Podcast Partnership:
Netflix becomes the exclusive video home for 15+ iHeart podcasts, including The Breakfast Club and My Favorite Murder, starting 2026. And Charlamagne Tha God inks a $200 million, five-year deal with iHeartRadio.

Michael's breakdown: Charlamagne had skin in the game for decades—grinding, building equity, owning his voice. Now he owns $200 million. That's what happens when you invest in yourself relentlessly.

FIFA Video Game Returns in Netflix Partnership:
Netflix secures exclusive football simulation game ahead of FIFA World Cup 2026. Michael reveals: Gaming + streaming + licensing = billion-dollar ecosystems. Netflix has major skin in this game.

The Somebodiness:
Michael honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 's concept of "somebodiness"—the inherent dignity, self-worth, and significance of every person.

Dr. King taught: No one can make you feel like "nobody" if you recognize your intrinsic value. Somebodiness is foundational to life—belief in your humanity, heritage, and potential.

Michael expands this: Everyone's purpose is unique and significant. The person working in sewer systems ensuring running water? They have somebodiness. The entrepreneur building in silence? Somebodiness. The artist protecting their IP? Somebodiness.

When you have skin in the game + somebodiness, you become unstoppable.

Own your stake. Honor your path. Be somebody.

This episode will ignite your sense of ownership and worth. Don't miss it.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT