Cut The Tie | Own Your Success

Send us Fan Mail Cut The Tie Podcast with Patrice Lynn What happens when you have spent decades trusting yourself, building skills, and creating your own path, and then you realize it is time to walk away again, even without a clear plan? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Patrice Lynn, a lifelong entrepreneur, trainer, and personal development expert who is leaving her State of California role after five years, pension secured, and stepping into a wide-open next c...

Send us Fan Mail Cut The Tie Podcast with Henry Yoshida Most executives spend decades earning, saving, and investing money without ever truly understanding where their capital sits or how much control they actually have over it. In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Henry Yoshida, CEO and co-founder of Rocket Dollar, to unpack the mindset shift that separates passive investing from intentional ownership. Henry shares his journey from corporate finance at Merrill Lynch...

Send us Fan Mail Cut The Tie Podcast with Robert Kennedy III Most business owners are exhausted from pitching, cold outreach, and trying to prove their value. Robert Kennedy III believes the real problem is not effort. It is communication. In this episode of Cut The Tie, Robert shares his journey from high school teacher to entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of Kinetic Communications. He explains why storytelling and connection outperform traditional sales tactics, and how cutting the safety ...

Send us Fan Mail Cut The Tie Podcast with Ryan Miller Ryan Miller has lived on the front lines of sales. Cold calls. Door knocking. Endless outreach. The grind most people never see but everyone feels. Then the game changed. In this episode of Cut The Tie, Ryan explains why modern outreach is broken, how over-automation has destroyed trust, and why AI only works when it amplifies human judgment instead of replacing it. From building an AI-powered outreach platform to leaving the U.S. and relo...

Send us Fan Mail Cut The Tie Podcast with Matthew Person What if most performance problems aren’t people problems at all? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Matthew Person, founder of Town Square Advisors, to challenge one of the most common assumptions in leadership: that disengagement, underperformance, or turnover is the fault of the employee. Drawing on experience as an entrepreneur, executive, investment banker, and acquirer of businesses, Matthew explains why...

Send us Fan Mail Cut The Tie Podcast with Reid Chong What happens when you finally stop long enough to ask yourself the question most people avoid? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Reid Chong to unpack the moment he realized fear, not lack of ability, was the real thing holding him back. After years in software sales and multiple failed attempts at building something of his own, Reid hit a breaking point that forced him to confront a simple but uncomfortable ques...

Send us Fan Mail Cut The Tie Podcast with Shannon Coulter What happens when an idea fails before the world is ready for it? And what happens when you carry that failure for years? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Shannon Coulter to explore what it really takes to return to a calling you never stopped believing in. Shannon shares her journey from corporate America to entrepreneurship, the painful pause after her first venture didn’t work, and the mindset shift tha...