The Relentless Pursuit of Winning Podcast

🔥 Excerpt "This framework lowers risk because it starts with knowing exactly who your offering is for and why it matters." ⚡ TL;DR Greg Licciardi joins the show to unpack the Holy Grail of Marketing, a disciplined framework designed to help founders reduce risk, stop wasting marketing dollars, and build clarity around their unique selling proposition. The conversation explores white space, messa...

🔥 Excerpt Never cheat yourself. If you value what you create you need to get paid accordingly. ⚡ TL;DR Marcel Clarke shares how an entrepreneurial mindset is built through ownership, disciplined pricing, systems, and long term thinking. From franchises to commercial cleaning, real estate development, and investing, this conversation centers on responsibility, discomfort, and building assets that...

🔥 Excerpt "The less I know about something, the more I can create a breakthrough." ⚡ TL;DR Alan Gregerman explains how innovation is fueled not by having all the answers, but by knowing where certainty limits progress. We explore curiosity, fast experimentation, leadership humility, and how founders can build innovation systems that stay relevant as the future unfolds. 📄 Show Notes Wisdom of Ig...

🔥 Excerpt "If you want to stay in charge of your business and if you want to be hip deep in the day to day details, keep just giving orders and do not let them think for themselves." ⚡ TL;DR Ral West shares how she and her husband scaled a Alaska to Hawaii travel business into eight digit revenue, stepped back from daily operations, and later sold to Alaska Airlines. She breaks down six principl...

🔥 Excerpt You cannot be in fear and gratitude at the same time. ⚡ TL;DR Dave Sanderson reflects on surviving the Miracle on the Hudson and how that moment reshaped his leadership, faith, and approach to personal growth. We explore mindset management, mentorship, reframing disruption, and why gratitude anchors execution during uncertainty. 📄 Show Notes Personal growth begins when control disappe...

🎙️ Episode Title Unstoppable Emotional Mindset Alchemy | JM Ryerson 🔥 Excerpt Be yourself, take off the mask, play full out. You only have one life to give. ⚡ TL;DR JM Ryerson shares how performance mindset drives revenue growth, leadership clarity, and personal endurance. We unpack the align, believe, choose framework, a three question method to break self limiting beliefs, and practical rhythm...

🔥 Excerpt "We shape our days by how we divide our thoughts, and that division decides the impact we leave." ⚡ TL;DR Alex Dripchak joins me to explore how founders can anchor productivity in purpose. We cover his transition into a nonprofit that teaches life skills to young adults, the systems he uses to stay energized, his approach to mind share, and his view of AI as a supportive tool rather th...

🔥 Excerpt "Community is sacrifice. You put a little of yourself into it so people can find belonging that makes their hearts grow." ⚡ TL;DR In this episode I sit down with community strategist Todd Nilson to explore what it really takes to build digital spaces that feel human, safe, and alive. Todd shares how his journey from recruiter and lifelong gamer to community architect shaped the way he...

🔥 Excerpt "If you want your freedom, the way to achieve that freedom is by having good systems." ⚡ TL;DR I talk with process consultant and industrial engineer Adi Klevit about turning growing businesses from chaos to clarity. She explains how to map and document processes, build a culture that actually uses them, capture the founder's sales approach, and use technology on top of clear workflows...

🔥 Excerpt "A healer is someone who can walk into a room and create a space where everyone feels empowered and full of possibility." ⚡ TL;DR In this episode I sit with Dr. Ravi Iyer, a physician, researcher, and teacher who has spent his life asking one question: how do you make life work when it does not seem to work. We explore awareness as the real seat of identity, why time is a mental constr...

🔥 Excerpt "Either I will win, I will learn, or I will transform." ⚡ TL;DR Frances Strickland joins me to explore value, pricing, clarity, and faith in business. She outlines how structure, leadership, and flow reveal the hidden leaks that keep founders from predictable profitability. We talk about defining an ideal customer, practicing value based pricing, and selling in a way that honors both t...

🔥 Excerpt "People change when the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of the change itself." ⚡ TL;DR John Gallagher left a secure corporate role at IBM to build a purpose-driven coaching practice rooted in faith, intentionality, and transformation. In this episode, we unpack his journey from executive leadership to entrepreneurship — exploring how feedback, surrender, and alignme...

🔥 Excerpt When you give yourself the space to fully process and be present with all of it, every breakdown has the potential for a breakthrough." ⚡ TL;DR Dr. Camille Preston—business psychologist, author of Living Real, and founder of AIM Leadership—joins Rick Meekins to unpack what it means to lead and live authentically in the midst of compounded crises. From grief and burnout to self-love and...

🔥 Excerpt "Referrals aren't the icing on the cake—in a lot of businesses, they are the cake." ⚡ TL;DR Bill Cates—best-selling author, keynote speaker, and the renowned "referral coach"—joins Rick Meekins to dissect the intersection of money, mindset, and business growth. From challenging the scarcity myth to reframing referrals as the foundation of sustainable revenue, this episode explores how...

🔥 Excerpt "Anything can be fixed financially. Anything. Sometimes it's just within the company—making small tweaks to how you're charging, what you're not charging for, where your money's going—and then laying it out so you have a plan." — Lillia Sanders ⚡ TL;DR Fractional CFO Lillia Sanders joins me to talk about rebuilding from the ground up—personally and financially—and what every founder ne...

🔥 Excerpt "You have to assume the vision—but don't take those assumptions as facts. Test them. That's where you learn to fail fast." ⚡ TL;DR Author and product builder Kingsley Maunder joins me to dismantle the romance of "big ideas" and replace it with a system founders can actually use: start with the problem, define success and failure lines, ship the smallest thing that solves the biggest pa...

🔥 Excerpt What if the way you speak—or the identity you cling to—isn't the problem? Speech therapist and coach James Burden unpacks stuttering, ego, and the surprising power of letting go to actually win. ⚡ TL;DR James Burden—speech therapist and founder of Stuttering Blueprint—joins me to challenge the myths around stuttering, reframe it through a neurodivergence lens, and trace how a season of...

🔥 Excerpt "If I don't trust you, I won't buy from you." We go straight at the hard stuff: building trust at scale, using AI without losing the plot, and what happens when life redlines—and then resets your purpose. ⚡ TL;DR Sales enablement pioneer and keynote speaker Roderick Jefferson joins me to break down go-to-market enablement, why trust and empathy still close deals, and how to use AI as a...

🔥 Excerpt "You can chase adrenaline or you can build a life that matters. One keeps you entertained. The other keeps you proud." 📄 Show Notes I don't often meet someone who literally ran toward war just to see what he was made of. John Graham did—and then spent the next few decades turning that raw hunger for danger into disciplined service and leadership. In this conversation, we trace his arc...

🔥 Excerpt "You're never going to feel confident enough until you just do it. Act first—the confidence follows." ⚡ TL;DR RN-turned-founder Lauren Bensakovich joins me to break down how she built a boutique healthcare recruiting firm on an abundance mindset, disciplined outreach, and zero-nonsense personalization. We get into masterminds, automation (used intelligently), coaching candidates with i...

🔥 Excerpt If your self-talk is running the company, you're not. Dave Robinson shows how to rewrite the story, downshift your nervous system, and make better decisions—on the field, in the boardroom, and at home. ⚡ TL;DR I sat down with coach Dave Robinson to unpack "story work"—a practical blend of CBT, NLP, journaling, and breath work that helps founders resolve old narratives, regulate physiol...

🔥 Excerpt "If you're still 'trying tactics' and calling it strategy, you're losing ground. In this episode, we translate force multiplication, the anvil-and-hammer, and commander's intent into a practical marketing playbook you can deploy by Monday." ⚡ TL;DR Army veteran and former CIO/CMO Lee Pepper joins Rick Meekins to unpack how battlefield strategies translate directly into business growth....

🔥 Excerpt "If it looks too good to be true, it probably is—you only sell once. Here's how to stack the deck before you take the first meeting." ⚡ TL;DR Ex-Navy officer and two-time founder Anand Narayan lays out a clean, no-nonsense exit playbook: plan a year out, engineer EBITDA (don't wish for it), strip personal spend from the P&L, systemize operations so the business runs without you, and ne...

🔥 Excerpt "I want everybody to have that moment—where they take the first bite of the thing that lights them up, and just close their eyes and go... wow. That's what I live for." ⚡ TL;DR Rachel Petzold—founder, storyteller, and self-proclaimed Product Whisperer—joins me on the RPOW podcast to talk about how intuition, storytelling, and soul-aligned business can transform not just your brand, but...

🔥 Excerpt If your résumé screams "winning" and your soul feels empty, this one's for you. Dean Forbes breaks down what it takes to live aligned—spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically—so success finally feels like success. ⚡ TL;DR I sat down with Dean Forbes—entrepreneur, coach, and founder of the Maverick Men of Color Brotherhood—to unpack why so many high performers are "winning on...