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5 min readA kid in Bombay, a family of ten, the only Muslim student in a Houston school. A dream of the theater. An expulsion letter. A firing. A refusal to quit. These fragments belong to twelve different people, but the podcast Build or Break argues they tell a single story: the moment a person is tested and decides whether to keep going.
The central thesis of the series is that the difference between building something lasting and breaking under pressure is not talent, luck, or circumstance. It is a specific, repeatable pattern of response to failure. The strongest supporting idea is that this pattern is visible across radically different lives—an immigrant child, a fired employee, an expelled student—and that the pattern itself, not the details of the struggle, is what matters. The show does not present these stories as inspirational vignettes. It presents them as evidence of a mechanism.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Teaser: Voices of Resilience** - A montage of speakers recounts early struggles, setbacks, and the determination to turn ideas into reality.
- 2 (00:54) **Call to Subscribe** - A direct invitation to subscribe to "Build or Break," launching September 3rd.
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Show Notes
12 icons. One story you think you know.
Mark Cuban got fired. Kevin O'Leary got fired. Chris Paul got released. Kendra Scott failed before she built a billion-dollar company. Every guest on this show has a moment where it could've gone either way.
Build or Break is a new interview series from Daniel Lubetzky — founder of KIND Snacks, Shark Tank investor — sitting down with the people who've been closest to the edge and asking what it took to keep going when everyone else would have quit.
This trailer features conversations from upcoming episodes with Mark Cuban, Kevin O'Leary, Chris Paul, Andrew Yang, Steven Bartlett, Fareed Zakaria, Robert Rodriguez, Jason Alexander, Jamie Siminoff, Kendra Scott, Ben Sasse, and Melva Wallace.
3 episodes drop 9/3, then weekly on Tuesdays starting 9/15. Subscribe so you don't miss them.
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Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/
Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/
Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery
Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/
Build or Break Team:
Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky
Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider
Head of Programming & Production: Joel Rubin
Marketing & Communications: Sarah Black
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