Karl Jacobi
Host of The Grit Factor Podcast, Resilience & Performance Coach, Founder, Entrepreneur, Combat Veteran
Appears in 22 Episodes
Episode 021: She Lost Everything to a Rare Disease. Then She Wrote the Laws That Could Help You with Barby Ingle
Episode SummaryBarby Ingle was at the top of her game. Coaching at Washington State University in the athletic department, cheering at every sport from basketball to c...
Episode 020: He Sold Pizza at Thirteen, burned Insurance at Thirty and Still Building a Paid Community with Christopher Grant
Episode SummaryChristopher Grant did not wait for permission. At eighteen he walked into insurance sales instead of a college classroom, taught himself how to close by...
Episode 019: He Lost His Wife, Raised Seven Kids Alone, and Built His Best Year Yet with Jeffrey Clark
Episode SummaryJeffrey Clark has been selling online since 2006. He built a multiple six-figure business as a one-man operation from a rural town in northern Indiana, ...
Episode 018: He Lost His Father, His Restaurant, and His Time. Then He Built a Life He Actually Wanted with Ryan Kimura
Episode SummaryIn 2019, Ryan Kimura was working seventy hours a week in a Thai restaurant he co-owned in Florida. Not seventy comfortable hours behind a desk. Seventy ...
Episode 017: He Built a Sixteen Million Dollar Business and Walked Away From All of It with Corey Ganim
Episode SummaryOn paper, Corey Ganim had it figured out. Sixteen million dollars in e-commerce revenue, over thirteen thousand YouTube subscribers, one of the most res...
Episode 016: Forty Million in Sales, Three Years Lost to Addiction, and the Comeback Nobody Saw Coming with Griffy Kesler
Episode SummaryGriffy Kesler started selling on Amazon at twelve years old, he made forty million dollars in sales over fifteen years, built multiple businesses includ...
Episode 015: Dad, Grandfather, Brother, Business. All Gone in One Year. Here Is What He Did Next with Trevor Neill
Episode SummaryTrevor Neal opened 2025 ready to build. His Amazon private label business had just hit one point two million dollars in sales. He had momentum, a plan, ...
Episode 014: Five Things Gone in One Week, and the CIA Agent Still Rebuilt Anyway with Ryan Walsh
Episode SummaryMost people have a bad week. Ryan Walsh had a week that took out five things at once. It was Christmas 2020. He had just cleared a three-year reapproval...
Episode 013: Laid Off at 45, One Wolf Pack, and Still Building with Bryan Todd
Episode SummaryMost people see the layoff coming before it hits. Bryan Todd saw it too. The IT industry had been shedding jobs by the tens of thousands, Dell, Intel, H...
Episode 012: Six Kids, No Safety Net, and the Faith That Held It Together with Honey Woods
Episode SummaryNobody plans for the moment the floor drops out. Honey Woods had spent her whole life working toward one thing, being a wife and a mom. She homeschooled...
Episode 011: From the Pulpit to $2M, the Internal Work Nobody Talks About with Grant Douglas
Episode SummaryWhat happens when the version of yourself you built your entire life around turns out to be the problem? Grant Douglas was a children's pastor at a ten-...
Episode 010: The Walkaway Marine: How a Founding DHS Member Chose the Farm Over the Government with David Powers
Episode SummaryWhat do you do when the institution you helped build turns out to be the thing you can't trust? Dr. David Powers didn't spiral. He moved to a dirt road,...
Episode 009: $130K in Debt and Can't Pay the Mortgage. The Mom Who Refused to Quit Using Just Three Words with Diana Orellana
Episode SummaryWhat do you do when you take out a $130,000 loan to grow your business, your biggest brand shuts you down overnight, and you cannot make the mortgage?Di...
Episode 008: Crack at 16 to a McGill MBA. The Dying Friend Who Changed Everything with Jon Neumann
Episode SummaryWhat do you do when the person who is supposed to educate you looks you in the eye and says, "I doubt you'll live to see your 18th birthday"?Jon Neumann...
Episode 007: $1M Months, $1M in Debt, and a 7-Second Video That Changed Everything with Eric Bussey
Episode SummaryWhat happens when you hit a million-dollar month and then have to come home and tell your wife there is no paycheck?Eric Bussey started selling coat han...
Episode 006: The Prison She Built. $5M in Sales and Still Trapped w/ Cris Beam
She Built a Prison Instead of a Business. Here's What She's Doing About It.Episode SummaryWhat happens when you escape the corporate grind only to build yourself a dif...
Episode 005: The Golden Handcuffs: Walking Away From a Pension, Betting on Yourself, and Rebuilding Your Identity with Brendan D'Anna
Episode SummaryWhat would you do if you had five years left to a guaranteed pension and a career that looked great from the outside, but felt like a slow death on the ...
Episode 004: The Eclipse Moment: Escaping the 9-to-5 Trap, Building Systems, and Reclaiming Your Life with Jimmy Smith
He Built a $2M/Year Amazon Empire. But He Almost Missed It All.Episode SummaryWhat does it take to walk away from a "safe" job and bet on yourself? Jimmy Smith knows. ...
Episode 003: The Ultimate Leverage: Tragedy, Trust, and the Walk Away Mindset with Andy Westmaas
Episode Summary:What if the worst day of your life gave you the greatest leverage in your business?In this episode, we sit down with Andy Westmaas, a veteran entrepren...
Episode 002: The Fireman's Hedge: Profit, Purpose, and the Arbitrage Mindset with Ted Harton
Ted Harton runs into burning buildings for a living. That is real risk. But when he gets home? He bets on sports.Most people hear "betting" and think gambling. They th...
