The Kronos Group Podcast

Most leaders confuse intensity with leadership. Bruce Babashan has spent 30 years in boxing gyms and boardrooms, and he'll tell you the difference. Bruce trained fighters, Olympians, and world champions while rising to practice president at one of the country's largest executive search firms. Jerry grew up homeless and built companies by doing the opposite of what sports taught him. They don't agr...

You already know what to eat. You know you should move. So why haven't you done it? Dr. Len Lopez has spent 25 years watching people quit on their health. Jerry Brazie lost 100 pounds after nearly dying in a hospital bed, and kept it off. This is the honest conversation about the gap between knowing and doing. What you'll take away: Why most people quit around week three, and how to get through it...

Roy Coughlan has started 22 companies across five countries. Then the market turned, the bank changed the rules, and he was staring at a $5 million personal liability. Jerry sits down with Roy to talk about what losing everything actually looks like, why most business advice online is built to sell you something, and how a guy too shy to order a beer ended up on a TEDx stage. What you'll take away...

Everybody claps the day you quit. Nobody talks about what's still waiting for you after. Episode 344. Melissa Martineau Alexander is 18 years sober and came through depression and bankruptcy. Jerry spent 25 years on opioids after breaking his back. Neither one has patience for the magic wand version of self-help. In this episode: - Why quitting is the easy part, and what you actually have to face...

You think this episode is about church. It's not. It's about why you stopped asking the questions that actually matter once the business started working, and what happens to a man who never deals with what's underneath the hustle. I sat down with a pastor of 40 years and got more honest than I have on this show in a long time. Here's what you'll take away: Why "everything is my fault" is the only...

You've been told the Fed raises and cuts interest rates to fight inflation. That's half the story — and probably the half that was meant to keep you confused. In 2010, the Federal Reserve made a move that almost nobody talks about. They went from being the lender of LAST resort to the lender of FIRST resort. Banks stopped having to go earn their liquidity. The Fed just handed it to them. That one...

Randy Gage went from a jail cell at 15 to a Hall of Fame stage, 15 bestselling books, and a career built around one mission: getting people out of the professional victim camp and into the professional victor camp. In this conversation, Jerry Brazie and Randy Gage compare notes on growing up with nothing — generational poverty, rock bottom moments, and the exact inflection points that changed the...

Ed Stapleton Jr. peaked at nearly 400 pounds. He tried bariatric surgery. He gained it back. He went through a divorce with two young kids and a business to run. And then he stopped looking for the easy way out. Today he's down 170+ pounds, his testosterone is no longer in "elderly woman" territory, and his son drew him as a bodybuilder at the school picnic. He also runs Clicks Geek — a Google Pre...

Most men won't go near the word therapy. But what if the version you've been picturing doesn't exist in this conversation? Jerry Brazie sits down with Helen Malinowski — a licensed clinical social worker, somatic experiencing practitioner, and founder of both Keros Counseling (a 24-clinician group practice in Massachusetts) and the Somatic Integration Institute — for one of the most honest convers...

Episode #338 — Joe Prencipe, M&A Attorney Most business owners spend 20 years building something real — then walk into a business sale totally unprepared for what they're about to face. The people across the table have done this hundreds of times. You haven't. And that gap? That's where your money goes. Jerry Brazie sits down with Joe Prencipe, a veteran M&A attorney who has worked on deal...

Jerry Brazie sits down with Eric Robinson — 12-year senior pastor turned 24-year FBI agent — for one of the most honest conversations The Kronos Group has ever put on tape. Eric worked counterterrorism, crimes against children, SWAT, public corruption, gangs, and informant recruitment across his career. But the thing that made him exceptional wasn't the gun or the badge. It was the 12 years he spe...

Jerry Brazie doesn't buy into the "follow your passion" narrative — and he'll tell you exactly why. In this episode, he goes toe-to-toe with Dan Grech, founder of BizHack and creator of Story-Driven Growth, on whether storytelling is actually useful for the lunch-pail entrepreneur just trying to build a business and feed his family. What comes out of that friction is a raw, real conversation about...

Neil Solomon built companies, ran acquisitions for over two decades, lived out of a backpack while operating businesses across the globe — and then, in two years, lost it all. Not because the system failed. Because he stopped using it. In this episode, Jerry Brazie and Neil Solomon break down the full story: the collapse, the hubris, the deal-scoring system he trusted for 20 years and then ignored...

What happens to a high achiever when the career they built their whole identity around suddenly disappears? Janylène Turcotte spent 25 years as an HR executive navigating mergers, acquisitions, and some of the hardest conversations in business. Then the restructuring hit and she was the one being let go. What followed wasn't a breakdown. It was clarity. Jerry Brazie sits down with Janylène for a r...

Jerry Brazie sits down with Justin Spillers, founder of Real Estate Alpha and operator of one of the most tightly run multifamily portfolios in Western Ohio. Justin is a former attorney who took the leap into real estate entrepreneurship after years at a downtown Columbus law firm. Today at 40, he's managing 600+ doors, running a team of 50 full-time W-2 employees, and doing it all while raising f...

Thirty years in real estate. Hundreds of thousands of square feet. One rule: only invest in what you can touch. Then I sat down with Mike Cobb — co-founder of ECI Development — and he cracked that rule wide open. Mike's spent three decades building communities in Belize, Nicaragua, Panama, and Costa Rica. He ran a business in Central America for 33 years without a single bribe. He lived in Nicarag...

Steve is in Iceland this week. So it is just Jerry and Matt, and when that happens, the conversation tends to go somewhere useful. Episode 331 covers three things most business content gets completely wrong. First, the stacking income streams idea. The internet version of entrepreneurship loves to talk about running three or four small income sources simultaneously. Jerry has a different take — an...

Jerry Brazie sits down with executive coach Don Weber, who spent nearly two decades living under false identities while working undercover for U.S. intelligence — gathering intel on arms dealers, counterfeiters, and worse, all while running a diamond business as cover. He's seen a man assassinated over coffee, slept on his office floor building his first business, and now coaches CEOs and founders...

Jerry Brazie sits down with Josh Zolin — stuntman-turned-CEO, author of "Blue is the New White," host of "Everything They Don't Tell You," and founder of the BITNW Academy. Josh ran a stunt business with his family before pivoting into the trades and building Windy City Equipment by age 27. This conversation covers why the trades are beating college, Jerry's "knowledge plus action is power" philos...

Dean Mathews built what most people wouldn't. Employee time tracking — not flashy, not viral, just necessary. And it grew to 18,000 companies because of it. Jerry and Dean get into: the new competitive moat, fire fast, emotional leadership, and why solving boring problems beats chasing passion every time. Episode 328 of The Kronos Group Podcast. This episode is part of  The Kronos Group Podcast ,...

This conversation is not for the faint of heart. And it's not supposed to be. In Episode 327, Jerry Brazie and Steve Floyd go deep on what's actually broken with men today — and more importantly, what you can do about it right now. Jerry opens with a story that started in a sauna — a 35-year-old guy who told a complete stranger he got fat because he was depressed. Not because he was sick. Not beca...

Drew Norton lost 100 pounds and led $20M sales teams. Now he co-founds the Abundant Man Project to help men build strength in faith, family, fitness, and finance. In this episode, Drew and Jerry Brazie get into why belief is the one word blocking most men, what actually happens when you lead yourself first, and how the Belong-Believe-Become framework creates real identity change. Plus: the story o...

Sanjai Mehta spent 30 years in sales. He started cold calling from the Yellow Pages. He ended up selling to Fortune 500-caliber institutions. Along the way, he ran a failed partnership, rebuilt with a new company, hit £10M in revenue, and shifted into coaching others to find the same clarity. In this episode with Jerry Brazie, they get into what sales actually is at its core, what success means af...

Jerry Brazie doesn't talk to a lot of attorneys. After 30 years in business and a dozen companies, he gets enough of that in the real world. But Matthew Fornaro earned his seat at the table. South Florida business law attorney. 11 years on his own after leaving the big firms. Two decades of watching entrepreneurs make the same legal mistakes that quietly destroy what they've built. This conversati...