Knucklehead Podcast
179 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsNo one is perfect. Everyone lives in a world of filters. Everyone knows it, but no one talks about it. If you've ever made a mistake and never told someone about it - this podcast is for you. Stop letting mistakes prevent you from doing something great.
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E29 - Finding the Drive, Steven Eugene Kuhn
July 24, 2018 06:56 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBDoesn’t look like someone that lived in their car, does it? The message being delivered is chalk full of principles that helped Steven Eugene Kuhn get from that car to back on top of his life, creating programs and helping companies be better. Check out our latest episode on iTunes, or your favorite podcast listening app. Remember to check out more from Steven Eugene Kuhn on Facebook, and in the Facebook Groups, Vetprenuer Tribe and Steven Kuhns IMMEDIATE IMPACT. #dontbebeta #getsomewins #e...
E28 - Get the Spoils w/ Dennis Cohen
July 16, 2018 21:18 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBWhat do you get when you learn a skill of flying a military specific aircraft, but are no longer employed by the DOD? Well, you leverage that skill to become a successful contractor, a skilled professional and start a business like Dennis did. Aggregating Veteran Owned Businesses products and services has been a pastime that has translated into his business, Spoils of War and his time has been spent learning the in's and out's of business first hand. Great work briniging the vision to life a...
E27 - When it goes away, you earn it back - Aaron "Chili" Childress
July 10, 2018 06:23 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBBehind the scenes, it's easy to lose sight of what is important. You can get caught up in the moment, try to outwork the issues that are at home and eventually those problems can overtake your life. In one of my favorite interviews, Aaron Childress talks about challenges only us knuckleheads would get and how they transformed his life. No question that #dontbebeta resonated with this story and his approach to earning back what is his and being a father can weigh heavy on those that listen. B...
E26 - 5'3" Motivator Mario Fields Sr
July 02, 2018 09:05 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBSuper Motivator, SgtMaj Mario Fields Sr currently is an active-duty Marine that leads Marines, his family, and those that connect with him with an authentic style that drops walls, provides leadership and inspiration for all those that connect with him. Starting his career as a 5'3" Marine at the lowest rank and earning the rank of Sergeant Major, the highest enlisted rank for the Marine Corps, this 5'3" Motivator (as he goes by on YouTube) has racked up mistakes and learning lessons for man...
E25 - BC Engineering Group, Kyle Geitner
June 26, 2018 06:52 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBSeparating from the military doesn't have to full of ambiguity, uncertainty, or trial by error. There's folks out there who've been able to navigate the waters successfully, Kyle Geitner is one of those. Former Active Duty Marine Engineer Kyle Geitner chose #dontbebeta as he leveraged the tools available to earn his way into one of the most difficult engineering schools in the country at UC-Berkeley and was asked to start growing the portfolio of clients for BC Engineering Group in NorCal. W...
E24 - "Mission Driven" w/ Dropped Gunner
June 18, 2018 22:38 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBThere's stats out there that are startling about how many service members, everyday folks, and people struggling with mental health that too often lead to suicide. Part of #dontbebeta means that we touch on controversial subjects and give people a platform to bring their perspective to the table. In this episode, Active Duty Marine @DroppedGunner (Instagram and Facebook) brings the story of how the message "Bringing light to Suicide Awareness" came to be, how it's changed and the steam it's ...
E23 - Real Estate Nuggets Derek Murrell, Good Faith Home Buyers
June 11, 2018 09:46 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBBuckle up. This one gets intense. Have you ever had someone steal from you? Have you ever been punched in the mouth and you have to show your poker face? Ever been lied to? We'll as business owners, real estate investors, dad and provider and a human being, Prior Marine Derek Murrell jumps into this story of perseverance, grit and determination to muslce through an incredibly dark time. This is one you'll learn from, go up and down with the forks in the road and come out on the other sid...
E22 - Four Weapon Safety Rules
June 06, 2018 05:21 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBYou may know the safety rules for weapons. You may know some good principles to live your life by. You may even know what it's like to have someone break one of those rules, or maybe you've broken one yourself. But, applying the rules to your life and understanding the x4 basic rules to your business, your life, or your career hasn't been something you've considered before. Remember, plenty to come here on Knucklehead Podcast including an upcoming guest who has coordinated one of the major ...
E21 - VET CEO Chris Hoffman
May 22, 2018 07:48 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBChris Hoffman served his country loyally as a Marine and has since been able to leverage that training into a successful sales career as well as his career as a business owner. We chat with him about some "knucklehead moments", failing in x2 businesses, and x5 different jobs as he failed forward. Most of his expereinces were documented in his new book, available at www.ambitiousvet.com and we had a ton of fun making fun of our times as Marines and learning to live by the philosophy of gettin...
E20 - Hard Work with Matt "Smart Money Guy" Sapaula
May 01, 2018 00:16 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBPersonal finances continues to be a topic that many let trip them up. "Hard work" used to be something you could be proud of and with a determined, focused and gameplan to follow you can be rewarded for that work. Matt "Smart Money Guy" Sapaula (http://www.moneysmartguy.com) has never been short of the work, but for a period of time the success he expected was not there to show for. Recovering from the brink of financial catastrophe, Matt used the American tradition of "Hard Work" to separat...
E19 - Vet Empowerment Transition Facebook Chat
May 01, 2018 00:02 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBChris Hoffman of Facebook's Group Veterans Empowerment Transition has built an audience celebrating those veterans that are ambitious, focused, and determined to make a successful transition. We jump right into how you "Focus on what you can control" and leave what you can not control. Busy week, but fun getting with people and sharing how and why we work the way we do. #dontbebeta #getsomewins
E18 - Vetprenuer Tribe Leader Andrew O'Brien
April 13, 2018 10:03 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBReaders are leaders. But not all leaders are readers. Andrew continued to push outside of the comfort zone that the military provided and leveraged the skills he was taught to build some very compelling businesses and use cases with the books he'd been reading. After travleing throughout Asia, Europe and helping several well known entreprenuers with their digital marketing and publicity, he organized the largest group of military veteran entreprenuers with the Vetprenuer Tribe. Over 13,000 p...
E17 - LFTVET CEO Dom Franco
April 03, 2018 03:51 - 17 minutes - 16 MBIf you don't follow LFTVET on Instagram, you're wrong. A bunch of sweaty and chalk tattered vets wrapped in glorious Premium LFTVET apparel, snapping selfies in the gym. Most each pic became part of the movement as Dom Franco, CEO of LFTVET Premium Apparel, encourages the athletes and vets to support those that struggle with the transition. Dealing with the demons that haunt most of us can be overwhelming to some, but working out and overcoming those through lifting continues to be the passi...
E16 - Navy Seal, Echelon Front Speaker and Overall badass JP Dinnell
March 27, 2018 20:37 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBTough. Grit. Steadiness in the face of fear. Guys like JP Dinnell make you thankful you're on the same team. Connecting with men of character, honor, and integrity you get a chance to listen to how and why they make decisions - understand why success follows closely behind at their footsteps. We dive into mistakes, leadership and principles that separate the men from the boys. Taking Ownership for your life, your decisions, #dontbebeta about the process. You're going to fail, you will make m...
E15 - Green Beret, Ranger Up Founder, and UFC Fighter Tim Kennedy
March 20, 2018 04:35 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MBBetween filming shows for the Discovery Channel and Hunting Mr Adolf himself, Tim Kennedy takes some time from his schedule to clearly explain why so many men are fed up with men not being men. Too often we don't understand what the meaning of Alpha relates to. More often than not, we develop a resistance to the idea of a leader, wanting to provide or we see someone running roughshod over us. The negative stereotypes to Alpha remain, yet in response to the growing movement and acceptance of ...
E14 - Communication and Why it isn’t working
March 06, 2018 19:54 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBIf you’ve ever heard that you can’t say the wrong thing to the right people, purge that from your memory. You can definitely say the wrong thing to the right people and be held accountable for it for a long time coming. When you are communicating message to group of people, thinking that you are being clear, odds are the message that is being heard is not the one that you are communicating. Laugh along with this knucklehead as we #getsomewins knowing that mistakes will happen and you wil...
E13 - Snowflakes and #dontbebeta
February 26, 2018 23:01 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBFunny how when your message starts to connect with people and momentuem starts to build, you have those that complain, but don't take any action to make a postive change for their life. We call those folks, snowflakes - people that melt when there's too much tension or fold too easily when their pressure. We take some time to walk you through how focus can help you nail down what you're looking to accomplish in your life. You can have your sights set on doing great things, but distractions ...
E12 - Self Discipline
February 15, 2018 00:22 - 17 minutes - 16 MBDiscipline is “Instant, willing, obedience to orders Ability to do what needs to be done - for sake of improvement Opposite of Self-Discipline: gratification, indulgence, self-indulgence; excessiveness, immoderacy, intemperance, intemperateness, overindulgence; demerit, failing, fault, feebleness, foible, frailty Connection to discipline and your ego Political slant towards mentally obese Subcutaneous and visceral fat (is you mind that way?) Step Dad beat my brothers and I ...
E11 - Guests, America Grip + Fathom Academy Dan Barnhart
February 06, 2018 19:41 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBDay to day, decisions are intregal to your sucesss, however, some people write a check up to the amount of their life but are unwilling to invest $500 into themselves. Learning from someone who can measure risk and the reward and make solid decisions is what you'll get from Dan Barnhart - we dive into Military stories, things you do to grow your network and how valuable it is to have a partial plan that you can execute versus the perfect plan. Don't be scared, and be sure #dontbebeta #getsom...
E10 - Friendships and Kids
February 04, 2018 18:11 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBCountless numbers of you have held onto an experience from the past that prevented you from moving forward. Here we talk about my first experience with the "Greek College System" and how that tore apart a friendship that I'd worked on for years. That experience hampered growth and contributed to my immaturity in relationships for years - TAKE IT FROM ME, just let it go. Coming next week, @AmericanGrip CEO Dan Barnhart...
E03 - Unforgiveness
January 27, 2018 23:08 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBMistakes are one of the most difficult things that a person can experience or have happen to them. They can set you back, define your perspective on life and decision making. They can hold you back, they can even prevent you from becoming who you're supposed to be and what you can accomplish. We talk about mistakes that I made, being a knucklehead and trying to serve my own selfish desires without empathizing with other people. Things go wrong, decisions affect other people even if they seem...
E06 - Goal Setting
January 27, 2018 22:36 - 9 minutes - 8.41 MBChoose to not participate in the world of filters. What happens when you don't set goals? What happens when your standard for excellence isn't much of a standard? Do you accept a mediocre performance as good enough? Stop kidding yourself about how much potential you have and trust yourself to take those first steps to action. There's plenty of successful people who've walked in those steps before, they've done it. You've done it before on a smaller scale. Set some goals and start crushing i...
E07 - Unchecked Ego
January 27, 2018 22:20 - 18 minutes - 17 MBEver met or worked with someone that had an ego? Have you ever wondered what it was or why it constantly got in the way? We dive into how an unhealthy ego can rob you of the accomplishments you need to experience in order to reach your greatest successes. We also dive into how if you have a healthy perspective, your ego can be the difference that allows you to win.
E08 - Guests, Total Health Evolution - Derrick White
January 27, 2018 22:17 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBWhen you run back to what you know - why? fear? Resorting back to your previous mistakes and that sucks your confidence away. Transition versus being prepared. Feeling like a failure - but putting up, rather than shutting up. We sit down with a real deal business owner, fitness industry, prior Marine stud, Derrick White of Total Health Evolution going into the nitty gritty of being an entrepreneur and deciding to be your solution and #getsomewins.
E05 - Thankful
January 27, 2018 22:09 - 5 minutes - 5.17 MBBeing thankful, even if you haven't had something that is obviously a win for some time, can help your perspective and cultivate an attitude that can lead to success. Your life and pursuits are full of choices that you make or you help to bring to the surface. Make this year the year that you admit the times you weren't thankful and have a good laugh! Or laugh at my expense here! If you can have a good laugh at someone else's mistakes and have fun learning through a process of sharing exper...
E04 - Submit to the process
January 27, 2018 22:05 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBWhat is discipline to you? Do you work on it daily? This "Knucklehead" spent too many years trying to make it happen, versus submitting too the process and being disciplined
E09 - Perseverance
January 27, 2018 21:55 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBToo often, we're on the right track. Well on our way to a victory, but we get sidetracked by life and obstacles. This cannot continue to be the operational method we default to when things don't go our way. We uncover a scenario where an event could have shut down our company, almost even before we got things off the ground. Mistakes can lead to success, if you decide to learn.
E02 - Defensiveness
January 27, 2018 21:39 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBDefensiveness and how short term circumstances can do long-term damage. We unpack again the reason for the podcast, the community that embraces failing, getting back up, and the effect that it has on those around you. Professionally, personally, and the collateral damage (or unintended consequences) - #getreal
E01 - Introduction
January 24, 2018 15:51 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBQuick intro into "the Knucklehead" and recap of several events setting some foundational perspectives consistent with most other knuckleheads that are out there. If you can have a good laugh at someone else's mistakes and have fun learning through a process of sharing experiences, falling flat on your face, but never not letting that failure in life stop you from taking your next step, subscribe to this podcast and ENJOY!