The Jedburgh Podcast

Whole health requires a balance of physical, mental, and emotional strength; but which of these buckets do we focus on the most? In this Saturday sunset conversation live from TYR Wodapalooza,  Fran Racioppi and Jessie Graff sit down with 2-time NFL Pro Bowl Tight End Julius Thomas to talk about his journey from the football field to entrepreneurship to a PhD in Psychology. Julius shares his...

What does it take to become the World’s Fittest law Enforcement Officer…twice? What about the World’s Fittest Veteran? An FBI Agent? Or the first female to win the Honor Graduate award at the US Army Infantry Officer Basic Course under a single standard for men and women.  Fran Racioppi and Jessie Graff sit down with Shaylin Laure for a Wodapalooza 2023 conversation on overcoming stereotypes...

Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes and from every background. Some of them are even ninjas! Fran Racioppi & Jessie Graff sit down with Christina Gambino , collegiate gymnast, turned ninja warrior, turned Founder and CEO of Jumptwist Ninja . 12x Ninja Warrior Flip Rodriguez and Jumptwist coach joins in too! Christina shares the vision behind building an industry-leading ninja gym from t...

Ninja Warrior Flip Rodriguez was The Man Behind the Mask , until he chose to face his past and flip the script on his life. Fran Racioppi and Jessie Graff sit down with Flip to talk all things American Ninja Warrior , how to compete on the sport’s biggest obstacles and what it takes to win when you know little about the course of your competition.  They also share Flip’s story of childhood se...

TYR Wodapalooza brings the best of the fitness world to downtown Miami for four days of competition, sun, and neon lights. Ninja Warrior & Stuntwoman Jessie Graff joins Fran Racioppi for eight episodes with some of the most elite athletes on the stage today.  In this series launch, they cover US Army Recruiting with Brigade Commander Colonel Stephen Battle and Major Allison Brager , the c...

Tech seems to drive our lives these days. We can't do anything without some sort of device in our hand, at our fingertips, and even on our faces. But what does the tech industry actually do?  Fran Racioppi asks Sultan Meghji for his opinion on all things tech. Sultan was the first Chief Innovation Officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, he's a Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment f...

Call Your Mother ! Probably one of the most common phrases many of us have heard or thought about sometime in our lives. It's also one of the fast-growing delis in America and one of Bon Appetit's 50 Best New Restaurants In America.   Fran Racioppi sits down with Founder Andrew Dana to discuss his journey from community banking and window sales to purchasing a pizza oven and a truck on Ebay....

The CIA, and any organization for that matter, needs dynamic and impactful leaders that drive results, take care of people and accomplish the mission, when failure is never an option.   Fran Racioppi is joined by one of the CIA's most impactful leaders. Marc Polymeropoulos served 26 years in the CIA leading operations across Europe, Eurasia, Afghanistan, Iraq and many of the world's most...

About 200 Americans are taken hostage or wrongfully detained each year across the globe. Fran Racioppi traveled to Old Town Alexandria for a conversation on keeping America's promise to its citizens with former hostage Jessica Buchanan and Hostage US Executive Director Liz Cathcart . Jessica shares her story of being kidnapped by some of the very children she went to Somalia to educate. She explai...

Leadership requires the perfect balance of strength, compassion and unity. For this episode Fran Racioppi traveled to Capitol Hill to sit down with Congressman Mike Waltz ; the first Green Beret ever elected to Congress. He represents Florida's 6th District and is the author of Warrior Diplomat : A Green Beret's Battles From Washington To Afghanistan.  The Congressman and Fran define the term...

Here we are in a world without a recognized American conflict. And there we were, on the red carpet of the NYC Veterans Day Parade in the back of the Dodge WC-51, when Fran Racioppi and Sarah Apgar and were joined by two of our nation’s most important organizations in the transition of our Veterans to civilian life.  In this third of three episodes covering the NYC Veterans Day Parade, Fran a...

Here we are, or there we were, in the final few minutes of setting up the 1944 Dodge WC-51 before the start of the NYC Veterans Day Parade when the Naked Cowboy Jumped In for a quick chat with Fran Racioppi and Sarah Apgar . He’s been a staple of Times Square and NYC biggest events for decades. A true patriot at heart, he rocks his guitar playing your favorite tune to basically whatever comes to h...

Here We Are….or there we were…front and center of the NYC Veterans Day Parade . Fran Racioppi is joined by fellow Army Veteran, Founder of FitFighter and guest from Episode 51, Sarah Apgar in the back of our 1944 Dodge WC-51 to call it all live and spend some time with the parade’s most influential attendees.  They kick off the parade with David Boreanaz , star of TV’s SEAL Team on CBS . Davi...

Freedom isn’t free. This December 17th thousands of volunteers across all 50 states will lay over 2.65 million wreaths on the graves of our fallen soldiers. Remember. Honor. Teach. That's the mission of Wreaths Across America . It's a tradition that started in 1992 when Morrill Worcester looked for a meaningful way to distribute a few hundred excess holiday wreaths. Today convoys of wreaths leave...

Do you cook At Home? What do you cook at home? How do you cook at home? Why do you cook at home? These are the questions Chef Gavin Kaysen gets asked. Chef Kaysen is the recipient of 2x James Beard Awards. He was named the Rising Star Chef of the Year 2008 and Best Chef in the Midwest 2018. He is the executive Culinary Producer for the reboot of Iron Chef on Netflix and the owner of Spoon and Stab...

Fran Racioppi travels back to the home of US Army Special Operations, Fort Bragg, NC, to meet with retired LTG(R) Ken Tovo , former commander of US Army Special Operations Command . From the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School ’s Special Forces Museum, Fran and Ken discuss how Special Operations has changed over the 80 years since its inception, the strategic importance of the S...

The world is seemingly ripe with disasters in every corner of the globe. They also seem to be getting worse. Fran Racioppi down with Dr. Samantha Montano; a self-proclaimed Disasterologist and the author of Disasterology: Dispatches From The Front Lines of The Climate Crisis . Samantha holds a PhD in Emergency Management and is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Management at Massachusetts Mariti...

Veterans Day is here…and “Here We Are”. Present, in the moment, living our potential…and for this episode…live and guerilla-style from a picnic table on 5th Ave and Broadway!  This Veterans Day, The Jedburgh Podcast is covering the parade from the back of our 1944 Dodge WC-51 podcast studio live from the red carpet. So to kick it off, Fran Racioppi traveled down to Madison Square Park to meet...

To kick off The Jedburgh Podcast coverage of the 2022 New York City Veterans Day Parade Fran Racioppi asks one of his favorite Jedburghs, Founder of FitFighter and his guest from Episode 51 , Sarah Apgar to join him from the back of the 1944 Dodge WC-51.  Fran and Sarah drop the theme of this year’s Veterans Day, “Here We Are,” and discuss why Veterans Day is about honoring our past and celeb...

There's a lot of noise in leadership circles around themes like get comfortable being uncomfortable, bring calm to chaos, control the uncontrollable. But how do we know when we're actually uncomfortable? Or in chaos? Are we supposed to be scared by these times...or do they offer an opportunity to excel and demonstrate our best at a time when everything says we should be at our worst?  To answ...

Head coach of the Premier Lacrosse League’s Chaos Lacrosse Club Andy Towers joins Fran Racioppi for the third time to talk about winning against all odds as he took the Chaos to the PLL Championship for the third straight year with a less than 3% chance of making it.  They cover the challenges the team faced as they started the season without many of their top players due to a schedule confli...

What would you say if someone asked you to write a song about your life? A song about you. Your story. Who you are and what defines you. Music’s a powerful influence in our emotions and our feelings.  But usually, it’s another person’s story. Another person’s journey that we identify with. What if the song was your story? What if the song was about your life? Fran Racioppi travels to Clevelan...

Security is one of our basic, most fundamental needs. To keep up on the latest trends in security Fran Racioppi traveled to the Global Security Exchange in Atlanta to sit down with retired Chief Security Officers Rich Davis of United Airlines and Steve Bernard of Sony Pictures. Rich oversaw United's response to the 9/11 attacks involving two of United airplanes. Steve led Sony through the North Ko...

What matters more? Where we start? Where we finish? Or how fast we drive the course we set for ourselves? NASCAR Driver, US Navy Officer and entrepreneur Jesse Iwuji joins Fran Racioppi to show how hard work and focus will close any gap on the open track of life.  Fran and Jesse cover growing up un-athletic in Texas the son of Nigerian immigrants, earning a spot on the US Naval Academy Footba...

A year ago the United States withdrew from Afghanistan officially ending the 20 year Global War on Terror. We may never find agreement on whether we failed or succeeded in Afghanistan.  For this episode, Fran Racioppi returned to the place where the Global War on Terror began on the blue sky day of September 11th, 2001 in lower Manhattan. He asked retired LTC Scott Mann to join him on a balco...