Coffeez with Joe Shalaby - How a Homeless Dropout Built 8-Figures Without Burning Out

Duration: 50m
Broadcast on: 24 Oct 2025
Audio Format: other

Stephen Scoggins went from sleeping in a borrowed car to building multiple 8-figure companies. But here's what most people don't tell you: he almost lost everything after the exit.

In this episode, Stephen reveals the framework that took him from broke to 8-figures—and then taught him how to actually KEEP the money, the health, and the sanity.

You'll discover:

✅ The exact mindset shift that separated him from other entrepreneurs (it's not motivation)

✅ How to scale without self-destructing (the "Lion & Lamb" principle)

✅ Why slowing down is your biggest competitive advantage in business

✅ The spiritual framework behind sustainable success (not just hype)

✅ How pride and ego tank deals—and how to spot it before it costs you millions

✅ The exit strategy nobody teaches: what to do AFTER you win

This is for founders, sales leaders, and entrepreneurs who are tired of the grind-at-all-costs mentality. Stephen breaks down how stillness, faith, and intentional leadership become your unfair advantage.

If you've built something but lost yourself in the process—or you're about to—this conversation will reset your entire approach.

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pretty much everything this guy's had multiple exits big time entrepreneur and somebody who is here to inspire the world. Please welcome Steven scoggins. Dude, are you kidding me? Bro, of course I would, man. We had that awesome vibe of you on my show, man. I was like, dude, I got to get down to get down to Cali. Welcome to another episode of coffees. Dude, I'm so stoked that that you're here, that you flew in. Steven, you look like a very fit dude. I like to ask everybody the same question. What's your morning routine? Uh, morning routine is actually fairly boring. Um, well, actually it's not for me. So one of the things I discovered while building businesses is when you start as an entrepreneur, one of the things you do is you wake up with anxious energy and you feel like if you're not taking action, you just stumble everywhere. And what I realized is how I started my day was how I did my day and finished my day. Yeah. So if I started off with a bunch of makes this energy and all kinds of stuff and I would go, that would be the day, the day would be gone. And they're like, what the hell just happened on my day, right? Um, so I actually start off with a, what, what I, what I refer to as a presence practice. So I wake up 536 in the morning, most, most mornings before I even got a bed. I say, I monitor it to myself. Uh, four times I'm healthy, I'm wealthy, I am wise. I'm a steward of the most high and probably the most important one was the most difficult one for me to say for as long as I did was, I love you, Steven. And one of the things that, uh, it came out of that is I realized that even when I was building businesses, I was actually chasing worth and not necessarily trying to build legacy. So it was a big shift there. Uh, from there, I go into a bit of a, I go out out in the lake because I don't, my house is on the lake, like Norman, and I'll walk the grass for a half hour. And out there, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just like slowing things down because what I've discovered is after the exit, I wish I'd known this decade or decade earlier, if I could slow things down in my morning, I could actually accelerate things in my business. And that was one of the big takeaway. So the, the, the presence practice starts there. Um, occasionally I did a journaling practice for six months. That was really, really cool. Um, it's called what I hear you say is, so I would just go sit down and quiet and pull a pin out, write that sentence at the top of the, the thing with a question market, I would just sit there and listen. Sometimes it was a minute. Sometimes it was 10. Sometimes it was 30 seconds, but I would start one word.

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