The Kronos Group Podcast

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...

In this episode of The Kronos Group Podcast, Jerry Brazie sits down with Dr. Maureen Gibbons, physician, Ironman triathlete, and founder of AMS Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Mo is the author of Freedom to Shift, and this conversation earns every word of that title. Jerry opens up about one of the rawest chapters of his life: being hospitalized 71 times, carrying 110 extra pounds, living on 19 medication...

In Episode #321 of The Kronos Group Podcast, Matt Floyd, Steve Floyd, and Jerry Brazie break down the real reason business owners stay stuck — and why the answer isn't more information, better routines, or copying billionaires. It's ownership. This episode dives into: Why "work-life balance" is misleading The daily reset mindset that elite operators use Why Elon Musk-style routines don't apply to...

Marvin Karlow has been on both sides of the table. He built a manufacturing business out of distressed private equity, grew it, merged it, and sold it to a publicly traded acquirer. Then he watched too many business owners in the $1M to $50M range get underserved at the exit and decided to do something about it. He runs Raincatcher, and he runs closed bid auctions the way investment banks do it fo...

Jerry Brazie, Matt Floyd, and Steve Floyd break down what's really happening in the economy, why every entrepreneur is feeling it, and what actually separates the business owners who grow through it from the ones who turtle. From gas prices and nuclear energy to accountability, masterminds, and why the room you're in changes everything — this one goes deep. No fluff, no filter, just the real conve...

Alan Lazaros was on paper doing everything right at 26. Global top earner, debt paid off, money invested. A head-on crash changed all of it — and forced him to ask the question he had been avoiding: was he actually living at his potential, or just performing for an audience that did not matter? In this episode of The Kronos Group Podcast, Jerry Brazie and Alan Lazaros go deep on grit, identity, th...

Baby boomers are retiring at a rate of 10,000 per day and roughly half of all privately owned businesses in the U.S. are owned by boomers with no succession plan. That is the setup for what Jerry Brazie, Matt Floyd, and Steve Floyd call the silver tsunami — one of the greatest business acquisition opportunities in history. In this episode, Jerry breaks down how to find these deals, what to actuall...

Rocky Lalvani grew up watching immigrants build the American dream from scratch and decided early that he wanted to be on the right side of that equation. After years in corporate and a lifetime of studying how money actually works, he now serves as a Chief Profitability Officer helping business owners who look successful from the outside figure out why they feel financially stuck on the inside. I...

You are not tired because you are getting older. You are tired because of the weight you are carrying, and that is a problem with a solution. Jerry Brazie and Steve Floyd bring the real numbers: every extra pound you carry adds up to four pounds of force on your knees with every single step. Over 10,000 steps a day, that adds up to tens of millions of pounds of extra punishment over the course of...

Most leadership content online is designed to get clicks, not build businesses. Jerry Brazie's guest today, Dr. Andy Neillie, knows the difference. Andy grew an Aquatots franchise to 5 locations and 175 employees over 16 years before selling. He has spoken in front of Fortune 500 companies, trained SMB leaders, and written about everything from servant leadership to the lessons his rescue dogs tau...

Most people complain about the game. Operators learn the rules, build leverage, and surround themselves with better rooms. This episode is that conversation. This episode is part of  The Kronos Group Podcast , where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses. Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start...

Jerry Brazie sits down with Kurt Uhlir to break down real-world scaling: hiring for outcomes, preventing service creep, protecting margin, and building accountability without burnout. Guest: Kurt Uhlir Website: https://kurtuhlir.com This episode is part of  The Kronos Group Podcast , where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their busine...

If you've felt stuck, drifting, or "soft," this episode will hit. It's a direct conversation on fatherhood, purpose, and why comfort culture is killing drive. This episode is part of  The Kronos Group Podcast , where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses. Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even star...

If you're tired of posting random content and hoping it works, this conversation will clean up your whole approach. Rule of One. Systems. Execution. This episode is part of  The Kronos Group Podcast , where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses. Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? Pod...