The Jon Schultz Podcast: The Myth of Overnight Success

Jon Schultz

ty@quietvalor.com

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Booking Overview

This interview podcast focuses on the setbacks, perseverance, and long-term work behind success, featuring external guests such as business founders, industry leaders, and high-achieving athletes with compelling adversity stories. Agencies could credibly pitch accomplished entrepreneurs, executives, company builders, industry pioneers, and athletes with distinctive resilience or leadership journeys; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need substantial achievements and an engaging personal story.

Metrics

Episodes: 86

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 588 subscribers

Instagram: 1.2k followers

Contact Information

ty@quietvalor.com

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Host

Jon Schultz - Podcast host focused on the challenges, setbacks, and perseverance behind long-term achievement and success.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Established entrepreneurs, founders, executives, industry pioneers, and high-achieving athletes with demonstrable accomplishments and a substantial personal story of overcoming adversity or building lasting success.
Required Achievements:  
Founded or scaled an enduring company, Built a significant career or multigenerational business legacy, Achieved elite or national-level athletic representation, Overcame major personal or professional setbacks

Recent Guest Discussions

Michael O'Hearn - Disability, Adaptive Sport, Resilience, Grief, Purpose, Perseverance, And Representing Team Usa.

Gretchen Wilcox - Entrepreneurship, Commercial Real Estate, Leadership, Risk-taking, Business Survival, Family Legacy, And Building A Company Through Adversity.

George Gellert - Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Global Expansion, Family Business, Loyalty, Risk-taking, Resilience, And Long-term Success.

Recent Topics

Entrepreneurship, Resilience, Leadership, Business, Perseverance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Jon Schultz Podcast: The Myth of Overnight Success
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“You’ll Never Walk” — The Story That Fueled Michael O’Hearn to Team USA

June 25, 2026

Some guests make you rethink what words like resilience, gratitude, and perseverance actually mean. Michael O’Hearn is one of those people.When I started this podcast, the whole point was to explore what success really looks like behind the scenes. The years nobody sees. The sacrifices, setbacks, failures, and moments where people could have quit but didn’t. Michael’s story might be one of the purest examples of that idea that I have had on this podcast.Michael was born with Arthrogryposis Mu...

How One Impossible Decision Changed Gretchen Wilcox’s Entire Life

May 28, 2026

Some guests walk into a conversation and quietly rewrite everything you thought you knew about grit, timing, and what it really means to bet on yourself. Gretchen Wilcox is one of those guests.I have known Gretchen Wilcox for decades, and she is a true trailblazer in our industry. She is the first, and to this day, the only female-founded commercial real estate mortgage banking firm in the United States. Think about that. In one of the largest industries in the world, she is still standing al...

George Gellert on Why Starting From The Bottom Is The Only Way To The Top

April 02, 2026

If there is one person who truly embodies the theme of this podcast, it is George Gellert. We talk a lot about the myth of the overnight success, and George is the living, breathing proof that the "top" is built on decades of grit, early mornings, and a level of drive that most people just aren't ready for.George is an absolute titan in the food industry, but his story starts way before the global boardrooms. We dive into his childhood in upstate New York, where he was already a seasoned entr...

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