Permission to CEO

By Abu Fofanah

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Episodes: 130

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Permission to CEO is the podcast for anyone tired of playing by the rules and ready to redefine what’s possible—on their own terms.. In Permission to CEO, Abu dives into the raw, unfiltered truths of entrepreneurship, sharing stories and strategies from his journey of building multiple 7-figure businesses, reinvention, rebuilding, and grief. This podcast is for the dreamers sitting on the sidelines, wondering if they’re ready to take the leap. It’s for the ones who think they need permission to start a business, chase an idea, or lead a team—but deep down, know they don’t. Through candid conversations, actionable insights, and real-world advice, Abu explores topics like overcoming imposter syndrome, building a business with purpose, and navigating the mental hurdles of entrepreneurship. Whether you’re a first-time founder, a creative with a big idea, or someone who’s been waiting for the “right time,” this podcast is your reminder: you don’t need permission to start. Success isn’t about having it all figured out—it’s about having the courage to start, even when you don’t feel ready.

Episode Date
#129: MOMENTUM - Think Like Dell (Michael Dell’s Outside the Box Sales Strategy)
May 14, 2025
#128: When Goals Require Discomfort, 3 Types of Accountability for Success
May 07, 2025
#127: Q1 Updates, New Business, Building in Public
May 05, 2025
#126: Building to Serve
Apr 24, 2025
#125: Avoiding Outsourcing Mistakes: An Entrepreneur’s Guide
Apr 16, 2025
#124: THE UNIGNORABLE SERIES: Ursula Burns - The Original Copy: The CEO Who Rewrote Xerox
Apr 09, 2025
#123: Increase Revenue Without Getting New Customers
Apr 02, 2025
#122 THE UNIGNORABLE SERIES: Brian Niccol — The Man Rebuilding Starbucks
Mar 26, 2025
#121 Getting to the Extra 10%, Will Smiths Advice
Mar 22, 2025
#120: 3 Business Traps to Avoid, Accepting Bad Money, & Business Hacks to Grow
Feb 28, 2025
#119: The Illusion of Savings: How Cutting Corners Can Costs You More
Feb 24, 2025
#118 Mentor Conversations: 10 Things About Success No One Tells You
Feb 17, 2025
#117 I Built a Multi-Million Dollar Empire— I Had Everything… And I Still Walked Away. Here’s Why.
Feb 11, 2025
#116 BONUS: Super Bowl Marketing - What Rihanna, Coinbase & Doritos Teach Us About Marketing Genius
Feb 10, 2025
#115 What I Learned About Burnout (And Why Rest Isn’t Enough)
Feb 06, 2025
#114: Permission to Pause: Redefining Success on Your Own Terms
Feb 05, 2025
EP 113: Instagram Threads vs Twitter and My Thoughts On Whose Going to Win
Jul 18, 2023
EP 112: Should Marketers Run Start-ups?
Jul 11, 2023
EP 111: What Happens When Opportunity Doesn’t Knock?
Jun 27, 2023
EP 110: Creator Economy, Courses, Kajabi Hero Live Event, and AI
Jun 16, 2023
EP 109: Master Where You Are
Jun 13, 2023
EP 108: What I learned from Living in Miami
May 30, 2023
EP 107: The Power of Being Specific: How to Get What You Want
May 22, 2023
EP 106: Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong
May 19, 2023
EP 105: Full Commencement Speech 2023 at Penn State by Abu Fofanah
May 08, 2023
EP 104: HBO Max Pricing Struggles
Apr 21, 2023
EP 103: Tesla's Advertising Problem
Apr 19, 2023
EP 102: Sense of Urgency
Apr 14, 2023
EP 101: Welcome Back + Looking Forward
Apr 12, 2023
EP 100: Year in Review + New Goals + Audit Your Current Life
Dec 31, 2022
EP 99: Website Workshop Training
Dec 31, 2022
EP 98: Set Your Fears + Friends that Push Us + Updates
Dec 27, 2022
EP 97: Planning for 2023 + New Products
Dec 23, 2022
EP 96: Sometimes Affordability leads to Inaction, How to Measure Impact as You Grow, Serving Segments of People vs Everybody
Nov 28, 2022
EP 95: Venture Funds: Where is the Money Going?
Nov 18, 2022
EP 94: Permission to CEO + New Newsletter
Nov 14, 2022
EP 93: Holiday Sales Challenge + Closing the Sale
Nov 11, 2022
EP 92: What Doesn't Work For My Life Anymore
Nov 07, 2022
EP 91: How I Hire Now Saves Me My Sanity + How to Evaluate Hires
Nov 04, 2022
EP 90: My Issues with Facebook (Meta)
Oct 31, 2022
EP 89: Khadija Bingham + How to Grow into a Big Business + Making Impact
Oct 28, 2022
EP 88: Advantages of being a SMALL business + Marketing
Oct 24, 2022
EP 87: Marketing is Important + Facebook Ads
Oct 21, 2022
EP 86: BIG DIFFERENCE + Facebook Ads vs Tik Tok Ads
Oct 17, 2022
EP 85: Facebook Ads + How to Make Them Work + Black Friday
Oct 14, 2022
EP 84: Mr. Beast Turned Down A $1 BILLION Offer For His YouTube Channels And Brands
Oct 10, 2022
EP 83: Is Being TOO Available a Bad Thing?
Oct 07, 2022
EP 82: Danielle P. Jeter: Marketing Mindset + Hiring + Growing a Business + Mastermind Conversations
Sep 30, 2022
EP 81: Khadija Bingham: Exceeding Expectations, Leaving Goldman Sachs, & Doing the Impossible
Sep 26, 2022
EP 80: Why DATA matters in Business + How to FALL in LOVE with the DATA
Sep 23, 2022
EP 79: How to Manage Your "GRIND" Season + When Does the Grind End?
Sep 19, 2022
EP 78: One Question Friday: Can Build My Brand without Ads
Sep 16, 2022
EP 77: Accepting our Most Limiting Beliefs + Breaking Your Beliefs System
Sep 13, 2022
EP 76: One Question Friday: How to Hire as You Grow Your Business
Sep 09, 2022
EP 75: One Question Friday: How to Pivot From One Idea to Another?
Sep 02, 2022
EP 74: Who Should I Hire? All About Assistants (Executive, Personal, Virtual)
Aug 29, 2022
EP 73: One Question Friday: What's a piece of advice that when you received it, you thought was genius but now you know is trash?
Aug 27, 2022
EP 72: Jasmene Bowdry: Lessons From Selling Out + How to Innovate in Retail & Find Success
Aug 23, 2022
EP 71: Hiring + Cooking + Priorizing Goals + CEO Chat
Aug 19, 2022
EP 70: [Powered Chat] How to Grow Your Business without Ads + CEO Chat
Aug 15, 2022
EP:69 How to Manage the Daily Grind of a Startup + CEO Chat
Aug 12, 2022
EP 68: How to Stay Self Assured During The Low Periods
Aug 08, 2022
EP 67: 7-Figure Daily Routines + Processes + CEO Chat
Aug 05, 2022
EP 66: How to Make 100k in 30 Days
Aug 01, 2022
EP 65: Mistakes That Shape The Way I Think Now + CEO Chat
Jul 29, 2022
EP 64: Open Q&A, What It Takes To Be A CEO
Jul 26, 2022
EP 63: Complacency in Progress, Are you Complacent
Jul 22, 2022
EP 62: Are Ads Saturated? Where Should I Spend my Marketing Efforts? + CEO Chat (Part 7)
Jul 18, 2022
EP 61: Friends that Stretch You + Your Vision + CEO Chat (Part 6)
Jul 11, 2022
EP 60: How to Manage Relationships + How Things Change When You’ve “Made It” + CEO Chat (Part 5)
Jul 09, 2022
EP 59: How to Manage failure + The Role You Should Focus on Playing CEO Chat (Part 4)
Jul 05, 2022
EP 58: How to Network, Networking Hacks + CEO Chat (Part 3)
Jul 01, 2022
EP 57: 90 for 90 Challenge for Skill Building + My First Million + CEO Chat (Part 2)
Jun 27, 2022
EP 56: CEO Chat (Part 1) + Facebook Ads, Skill Building, Getting over Scary Things
Jun 24, 2022
EP 55: Crisis, How to handle it, Working with a Team
Jun 21, 2022
EP 54: [Powered Chat] What is Your Price? + Why People Struggle with Pricing?
Jun 11, 2022
EP 53: Sweet Potato Fries + Hiring Process + Business Update
Jun 06, 2022
EP 52: [Powered Chat] Do Things Different and Get Different Results
Jun 03, 2022
EP 51: Lifetime vs Limited Time Access, Intellectual Property, Course Creators
Jun 02, 2022
EP 50: OMG, 50 Episodes! Thank You So Much!!
Apr 25, 2022
EP 49: [Powered Chat] Setting Your Price: What You NEED to Know
Apr 22, 2022
EP 48: Things That Matter & Things That Probably Won’t Matter
Apr 18, 2022
EP 47: [Powered Chat] Are Facebook Ads Dead? Til Tok? Conversions?
Apr 15, 2022
EP 46: What Should I Budget to Pay Someone Else to Run My Ads
Apr 11, 2022
EP 45: [Powered Chat] NEW CNBC Feature + The Cost of Not Marketing
Apr 08, 2022
EP 44: The Emotional Impact of the Journey
Apr 04, 2022
EP 43: [Powered Chat] How to Install the Facebook Pixel
Apr 01, 2022
EP 42: How to Find Your Customers Online
Mar 28, 2022
EP 41: [Powered Chat] How to Determine Your Customer Lifetime Value and Acquisition Cost
Mar 25, 2022
EP 40: Payment Alternatives for Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator +
Mar 21, 2022
EP 39: [Powered Chat] What is Mix Marketing & How to Grow Your Business
Mar 18, 2022
EP 38: Life Update - I cut my Hair & Why Change is Necessary
Mar 14, 2022
EP 37: Are Tik Tok Ads Fureal?
Feb 28, 2022
EP 36: [Powered Chat] Dreamers, Doers, and Personal Accountability
Feb 25, 2022
EP 35: 5 Things I've Learned in the Last 12 Months
Feb 21, 2022
EP 34: How to Become More Successful the More Money You Make
Feb 14, 2022
EP 33: [Powered Chat] Growth without Goals
Feb 11, 2022
EP 32: Welcome Back: Why Time Away is Important
Feb 07, 2022
EP 31: [Powered Chat] Q&A with Special Guest Kyara of Charm City Buyers
Dec 17, 2021
EP 30: Marriage & Real Estate with Charm City Buyers
Dec 13, 2021
EP 29: [Powered Chat] Vision vs Recognition
Dec 10, 2021
EP 28: Harsh Truths to Myself
Dec 06, 2021
EP 27: [Powered Chat] My Favorite Lead Magnets (Part 5)
Dec 03, 2021
EP 26: Business Structure, Intellectual Property, and Trademarks with Jessica Bull
Nov 29, 2021
EP 25: [Powered Chat] Facebook Ads for Niche and Subscription Business (Part 4)
Nov 26, 2021
EP 24:Finding Opportunities through Adversity: The Importance of Sharing Your Story with Terri Lomax
Nov 22, 2021
EP 23: [Powered Chat] Facebook iOS Updates and Data Privacy Laws: How to Navigate the Landscape Today (Part 3)
Nov 19, 2021
EP 22: How to Cultivate Opportunities within Your Own Network with Adeola Adejobi
Nov 15, 2021
EP 21: [Powered Chat] 5 Pillars of Facebook Ads, Building Effective Marketing Campaign (Part 2)
Nov 12, 2021
EP 20: How to Build Successful Business Partnerships with Jubril Agoro
Nov 08, 2021
EP 19: [Powered Chat] Facebook Ads, How to Find Your Customers Online,High-Ticket Coaching: Q&A interview with Katona Payne and Abu Fofanah (Part 1)
Nov 05, 2021
EP 18: How to Position Your Content on Social Media with Merlyn Melesia
Nov 01, 2021
EP 17: [Powered Chat] The Purpose has to Be Greater Than the Mission
Oct 29, 2021
EP 16: Overcoming Adversity, Loss, to Building a Successful Beauty Company with Lenora Addison
Oct 25, 2021
EP 15: [Powered Chat] Mindset Shift to Dream Bigger with Teri Ijeoma and Verick Wayne
Oct 22, 2021
EP 14: Faith, Family and Fitness with Chelcie Scott
Oct 18, 2021
EP 13: [Powered Chat] Paid Ads vs Organic Marketing with Maya Elious (part 2)
Oct 15, 2021
EP 12: The Next Amazon, A Marketplace Empowering Black Businesses CEO of Official Black Wall Street with Mandy Bowman
Oct 11, 2021
EP 11: [Powered Chat] Paid Ads vs Organic Marketing with Maya Elious (part 1)
Oct 08, 2021
EP 10: How to Position Yourself for Opportunity, Government Contracts, New Orleans, and Why I Give Back With Sevetri Wilson
Oct 04, 2021
EP 9: [Powered Chat] 5 Things I Learned from My Mentor
Oct 01, 2021
EP 8: How to Make $1,000 In A Day with Stocks, Trading and Create the Life You Want with Teri Ijeoma
Sep 27, 2021
EP 7: How This CEO Uncovered Her Gifts and Built a 3 Million Dollar Business with Maya Elious
Sep 20, 2021
EP 6: Create The Life You Want & How To Build A 6-Figure Beauty Brand With Rocky Collins
Sep 13, 2021
EP 5: Leap of Faith, Building an Agency and Finding Balance With Renee Bull
Sep 06, 2021
EP 4: How to Raise Venture Capital and Bootstrapping W/ Jaisa Minor
Aug 30, 2021
EP 3: Half a Million Dollars in 10 Minutes with Danielle Holmes
Aug 23, 2021
EP 2: Building Marketing Teams with Emmelie de la Cruz
Aug 16, 2021
EP 1: Introducing the Powered AF Podcast
Aug 16, 2021
Powered AF Trailer
Aug 09, 2021