Coffee & Grit

Most people think recruiting is about filling positions. Steve Clark sees it differently. To him, it's about solving problems, building relationships, and creating opportunities that change the trajectory of businesses and the people behind them. In this Difference Maker Bootcamp edition of Coffee & Grit, I sit down with Steve Clark, Founder of Bespoken Placement Group, to talk about what happ...

Jeff Waterman didn't set out to start another drinkware company. He set out to answer a question that had been following him ever since a trip to Africa. After seeing communities without access to clean drinking water and then standing in Paris looking at a $5,000 dress, Jeff couldn't shake the gap between how people experience life around the world. Then, while riding the London Underground, he k...

This episode is a bit of a throwback to the OG Coffee & Grit style. There is no formal introduction. No perfectly crafted opening. No roadmap. No "let's start here and work our way there." Terry Bean and I sat down, hit record, and started talking. The funny thing is, that ended up becoming one of the biggest lessons of the entire conversation. In a world where everyone seems to be chasing the...

I love this episode because it is a perfect example of what the Difference Maker Bootcamp series is all about. When Chad Krumrei first joined Bootcamp, I immediately saw someone who cared deeply about people. Over the course of 12 weeks, I watched him encourage others, invest in relationships, and show up consistently to Make A Difference. It became very clear why he and his wife Elena have built...

When most people hear the word connection, they think about networking. This conversation goes much deeper than that! In this episode of Coffee & Grit, I sit down with Toby Brazwell for a powerful conversation about relationships, leadership, vulnerability, sales, parenting, personal growth, and why connection may be the most important skill any of us can develop. Toby has built a successful c...

What happens when you retire from the family business… but your brain refuses to stop building? This week on Coffee & Grit, I sit down with Todd Bailey for a conversation about entrepreneurship, reinvention, creativity, fantasy football, app development, and what it looks like to finally pursue the ideas that have been sitting in your head for years. Todd spent decades in the family dealership...

Last August, Hayden Larance sat down with me for an impromptu episode of Coffee & Grit. At the time, he was just getting started.  Trying to figure things out, building his business, making cold calls, and chasing the feeling that there had to be more than the “normal” path everyone told him he was supposed to follow. Since then, a lot has changed. This episode is not some polished “I made it”...

Last year humbled Jake Freeland. This conversation is not one of those “everything worked immediately” entrepreneur stories. It’s the real story of what happens when you feel called to build something, step into the unknown, struggle through the messy middle, and slowly start finding the clarity that changes everything. In this episode of Coffee & Grit, I sit down with Jake Freeland of Admin H...

John and Danette Bell of Empowering Futures are not just talking about mindset. They are talking about identity, programming, transformation, and what it looks like to stop living on autopilot. This conversation goes deep into the patterns we inherit, the stories we rehearse, and the ways we unknowingly give our power away in our relationships, leadership, businesses, parenting, sales conversation...

Barbara Walker has spent decades building Hartland Insurance into something much bigger than an insurance agency. This conversation is about what it really looks like to build a business that lasts—through hard seasons, changing times, family dynamics, growth, adversity, and the daily responsibility of taking care of people. Barbara takes us all the way back to the early days, when building the bu...

This is one of the most important conversations I’ve ever had on Coffee & Grit… and it’s been sitting in the vault since January 14th. I didn’t rush this one out, because some conversations you don’t just post. You sit with them. You respect them. And when the time is right—you release them. This is that conversation. Before anything else, this is a conversation with a dad. Robbie Parker is Em...

I hope you all love this episode as much as I do! This is the official kick off to the Difference Maker Bootcamp series of interviews and I knew these episodes were going to go another level. After all, these are people Making A Difference, and because we go beyond the surface in bootcamp I know these Difference Makers very intimately.  Going back to my first conversation with Brian he told me he...

Featuring Dennis Rozma, licensed professional counselor, crisis therapist, and a man who has spent a lifetime helping people navigate their hardest moments… and is now living one of his own. At 80 years young Dennis is walking through life as a full time caregiver for his wife as dementia continues to take hold. And instead of shrinking, instead of retreating he is asking a different question: How...

Featuring Darin Ureche, 30 year top producing real estate agent who built his career without the flash, the ego, or the “look at me” energy — just consistency, trust, and doing the work the right way. This episode hits hard for those that want to build a consistent success in sales and business development. The whole episode is filled with Data As Soul for Darrin success career. Not a good year. N...

What is up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Coffee & Grit. This one right here is a conversation about what it really looks like to build something the right way. Listen in as I am joing by Brandon Sacker of TCI Home Services & Precision Pro Sprayers, and from the outside, you might think this episode is about insulation, mold remediation, and home services. It is. However it...

What is up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Coffee & Grit. This week I’m sitting down with Steve Koch, and this conversation is going to hit a lot of you right where you live as business owners. Because here’s the truth… Most of us didn’t start our business because we love numbers. We started because we love what we do. We love serving people. We love building something. But at so...

What is up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Coffee & Grit where this week I am sitting down with Brandon Miller, founder of Inspired by Design Painting in Brighton, Michigan. This conversation gets into something every entrepreneur eventually has to face. Are you building a job or are you building something that lasts? Brandon’s story started pretty humbly. Picture a power washer,...

What is up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Coffee & Grit! This week I’m sitting down with Brenda Lindsay, founder of Mind Transformations, and we dive into something that affects way more people than we like to admit… the internal battles that keep us stuck. Brenda shares her journey from complete paralysis around public speaking to becoming someone who now teaches mindfulness, r...

What is up everybody?!?Welcome back to another episode of Coffee & Grit! I’ve got a returning guest in the studio today my friend Desiree Martinez, fresh off writing her new book Stop Marketing and Start Belonging… and this conversation is a wake-up call for every business owner who feels like they’re doing “all the marketing things” but still not getting the traction they want. We get into th...

What is up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Coffee & Grit. I’ve got my guy Steven Betel-The Mortgage Family Man-back in the studio for round two, and this one goes way deeper than we planned. It starts with “the little things” such as mics, systems, daily habits and turns into a real conversation about life, presence, relationships, and what it actually means to build something th...

Featuring Siobhan Reigle, entrepreneur, sports mom, and purpose-chaser who went from “I don’t even know what a Reel is” to building a brand (and a business) online.  One uncomfortable post at a time.  This one hit different because Siobhan isn’t just a Difference Maker out in the wild.  She’s family. And what I love about this conversation is that it’s not some polished “overnight success” story....

Happy New Year everybody, as we kick off the 1st episode recorded in 2026. In the conversation with Noreen Owens is one of those conversations that reminds me why I started Coffee & Grit in the first place. Because yeah… we literally had to re record it... Technology did what technology does sometimes, and I had that “kicked in the stomach” moment where you realize you just burned an hour of a...

Featuring Kristie Risner, Regal Payments This one started as a content session out of Difference Maker Bootcamp… and it got way too real, way too fast to keep it tucked away. Because what you’re about to hear isn’t “a credit card processing episode.”It’s a story about becoming someone new. It’s about walking out of corporate survival mode and into community, purpose, and conviction.  Kristie came...

What is up to all my Difference Makers out there? This week it’s just you and me in the studio. A meeting got rescheduled, the room was quiet, and I had two stories sitting heavy on my heart so I hit record. What came out is part networking smackdown, part mindset reset, and part faith-filled gut check for anyone stuck in their own head right now.  We start with a moment from a recent networking g...

Featuring Sparkle Lindsay| Worldwide Trainer, Coach, Author, Speaker & Founder of Sparkle LLC What happens when you sit down in person with someone who’s been walking this journey with you for years… and you finally get to throw the virtual world aside and dig into the real stuff? This is Part 2 of our in-studio conversation with Sparkle Lindsay, recorded during her visit to Loud Mouth Studios...