Knucklehead Podcast

Strongly confident that he has what it takes to be a topflight sales leader, Scott spent most of his early career finding the right people and the right position for the job. His bold mindset on how he views failure and how he bounces back from his mistakes makes him a 3x American Association of Inside Sales Professionals Top 25 Award Winner and one of the top startup sales leaders in the country....

If you’re in a situation where darkness complicates your struggle, being able to see the danger gives you the advantage to overcome limitations, enables you to carry out operations that would not in other ways possible, and above all save lives.   Today’s guest of the Knucklehead Podcast, Nick Ripplinger, speaks about providing warfighter, frontline men and women, and emergency management professi...

From a lone wolf to a 7-figure business strategist, Dr. Robert Garcia shares with you his tactics in building a successful business.   Over the past 18 months he last guested in the show, Dr. Rob has upgraded his business severely. In his second time to speak here at Knucklehead Podcast, he will talk about his thought process in achieving success, the strategy he is using to build an audience orga...

Military life is tough, difficult, and dangerous. But the transition from active duty to civilian life also brings forth challenges on the majority of veterans in dealing with benefits, retirement path, and setting up a new career.   In today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast, Stephen shares another inspiring conversation with our guest, Adrianne Phillips. They talk about how Adrienne came up w...

Looking back at the thought process, best practice, and episodes of the Knucklehead Podcast that resulted in developing it into a business organically, Stephen is now going to have a quick review of what the foundation of Knucklehead is.   In today’s solo episode, he will talk about some of the remarkable episodes they’ve been up to that you can go back and listen to, certain trends that have been...

As one of the core principles of effective leadership, owning your mistakes and embedding your failures prove to be one of the most important parts of success.   In today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest Adam Mendler talks about his mindset in dealing with mistakes, how culture defines the character and personality of an organization, and the key factor that brought about the bigges...

Denied from an institution he seriously wanted to get into, Andy’s creative and innovative mind directs him into the creation of CRYPTO CARTEL, a perfect tabletop game that practices strategy.   Today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast is a comeback interview with Andy Mazeika. From a budding entrepreneur, his product is now labeled as Amazon’s Choice and setting up a great avenue for family ent...

In pursuit of finding what his father would have wanted him to be, Clint left the NFL to become a Navy Seal. But his passion for building companies and organizations deeply impacted him. He then leaves the Navy and achieves a deeper purpose.   Today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast shares the story of Clint Bruce, the mistake he had realized when his father passed away, how he redeemed himself...

Ep 117 - When you stop and the team starts, Operations X CEO Preston Weekes This episode of the Knucklehead podcast talks about how delegating your work and outsourcing tasks can help you multiply your operations, enhance and speed up your processes while lowering your operational cost, but most importantly, improve your quality of life. Being a control freak, Preston finds himself burnt out from...

Ep  116 When it comes to true service, how much are you willing to give in order to serve? What are the reasons behind taking these actions and what thought process you need to develop in achieving your purpose? Our guest in today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast shares it all. Trace Johannesen is a US Marine Veteran. His life has been about leading others to work together to accomplish goals,...

Ep 115 - Mistakes Made by Design Agencies, w/ CEO of Handsome, John Roescher Talking about the power of focus, today’s guest of the Knucklehead Podcast has it all. After getting out of Marine, John leaves himself with a mortgage of a house, no job, and no plan lined up. Landing himself face first, he had no choice but to have an exit plan and no other option but to succeed. John Roescher is the CE...

Ep 114 - Simple Machine For Entrepreneurs, Author Tyler Reiser Coming from a military background where he can’t afford the opportunity to screw up, you will be surprised by how our guest views failure as leverage to learn, improve, and predict his future success. Today’s episode shares a great conversation with Tyler Reiser. He talks about his perception of what a veteran advantage is, the process...

Going through a lot of experiments in figuring out the things that work and the things that don’t, Chris spends most of his time finding a measurable solution in bringing results to the business. In today’s Knucklehead Podcast episode, Chris speaks about performance marketing, how he came up with a quantifiable outcome in generating leads, and why focusing on your audience and what helps them bett...

Ep 112 - Entrepreneurial Mindset to Corporate Executive with Rusty Jensen Going through painful growth lessons, “failing” in business, losing over $100k in investment resources Rusty Jenson learned to make himself dynamic in the corporate world. Today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast shares the story behind Nice inContact Executive, Rusty Jensen. How his strong leadership and participation lea...

Ep 111- From Corporate to Hardcore Video Strategist with Rich Cardona In today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast, Stephen shares an interesting interview with Rich Cardona, CEO and founder of Rich Cardona Media on how he transitions from Amazon ambassador to a hardcore video strategist. Calling himself an average Marine, Rich tells the story of how working in the corporate world disables him fr...

Ep 110- Transforming Knucklehead Moments to Opportunities with Ben Killoy While Facebook and Instagram say everything is perfect, Ben Killoy of Military Veteran Dad Podcast shares his story on how he turns his knucklehead moments to opportunities. In today’s Knucklehead Podcast episode, Ben expresses why he felt more alive after losing his job, what’s the genuine value of fatherhood, and how he us...

It’s not an everyday experience in which an individual is brought onboard a prominent business service company and asked to develop a project from scratch. This was case of Dan Swift, founder and CEO of Empire Selling, this was the exact scenario that he found himself in when he was brought onboard LinkedIn in 2012 to help build their Launched Sales Navigator. Check out more from Dan: Empire Selli...

Josh Prado is an extroverted Navy veteran who helps fellow veterans transition through providing a solution, or is the actual solution himself with all the individuals he surrounds himself with. Tune in on this Knucklehead Media podcast as Josh talks about how failure is a common aspect of ultimately succeeding in life as he found out the Knucklehead way in his own journey! Joshua Prado -  https:/...

Imagine being told by your boss on your very first day at work that you are literally going to be doing cold calls to clients in an isolated office all day despite having no experience. What do you do? Go into the corner and start to cry? Or, roll with the punches telling yourself that with each call you will get better? Adam Ryan chose to do the latter when it came to his very first day at work....

James Van Prooyen knows podcasting. Sure, you may know what an RSS feed is. You may even know how to place your feed in a way that garners attention. Yet, without ACCESS - even the basics ended up falling short. Getting someone's attention can happen by accident, but if you want consistency and ACCESS to those with an audience, then James is the man you want to know.  Co-Founder of the Military Po...

Justin is a U.S. Marine Corps infantry veteran with a range of expertise in radio, film and TV. He’s an on-air personality, producer, editor, filmmaker, motion graphic designer, CG & VFX producer and creative content strategist. His passion, innovation, inspiration and creativity has seen him helm amazingly creative projects with clients such as ESPN Radio, State of Illinois Dept. of Labor, Social...

True entrepreneurs do not see fear. They see only as opportunity. Seeing what Heath Hill and the team around him has accomplished, how his life has changed by having a disciplined and principled approach to growing his organization has inspired talent to join him on his mission. Hustle and grind can only get you so far and for many years, 12-14 hours a day were many years was the op-tempo, until h...

Mark Metry's life work has been featured in Forbes, Influencive, Inc, Huffington Post, Fearless Motivation, etc and been a guest on over 100 radio and podcast shows. Mark continuers to be a media strategist consulting funded start-ups, founders, and organizations to sustainably start, grow & brand build their way through the competition in the age of vanity metrics with marketing experience fo...

Ryan Dodge knows how to fight. More importantly, he knows how to win. Learning to fight in the Army, he earned promotions, respect, as well as learned to lead. He found through real estate investing that those intangibles would help him to stand out in amongst a crowded room of people otherwise just interested. Persevering through challenges, not limited to brain injury, Ryan discovered that peopl...

Some quick stats on Stapho - despite the mistakes and screwups that he ran into along the way. - 3+ Million Organic LinkedIn views - 5 Million Organic Sticker views - First ever LinkedIn course entirely on a Messenger bot - An incredibly engaged Facebook Group with 2k+ members - The TMF Picnic, a weekly Live show that's has reached thousands of viewers. Check out more from Stapho - Follow and enga...