Karl Jacobi
Host of The Grit Factor Podcast, Resilience & Performance Coach, Founder, Entrepreneur, Combat Veteran
Appears in 51 Episodes
Episode 050: Sixteen Years Making Someone Else Win Till He Discovered Himself with Derek Fredrickson
Episode SummaryDerek Fredrickson was very good at making other people win. That was his gift, his lane, and for sixteen years his entire identity. Wall Street first, D...
Episode 049: Thirty Years of Winning. Then His Wife Said Call the Bankruptcy Attorney with Dylan Bost.
Episode SummaryDylan Bost spent thirty years building things. Architecture first. Then Disney. Then his own agency. And for a long stretch, it felt exactly like it was...
Episode 048: He Asked God to Break Him. The Answer Arrived the Next Morning with Evan Poling.
Episode SummaryEvan Poling is in the middle of his fight right now. No victory lap. No bonus chapter. Two and a half years into building Biz Retire, fifty thousand dol...
Episode 047: Bet on Yourself Before Anyone Else Sees It with Walid Chaya.
Episode SummaryWalid Chaya grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia, the son of Lebanese immigrants who crossed an ocean with two thousand dollars, no English, and a plan t...
Episode 046: I Couldn't Save My Father. So I Gave My Kidney to a Stranger with Matthew Harmody
Episode SummaryDr. Matthew Harmody was twenty years old and an engineering student when his mother called to tell him his father had been rushed to the Cleveland Clini...
Episode 045: Built an Empire and the Empty Never Left with Matthew Stafford
Episode SummaryMatthew Stafford built the kind of resume that makes other entrepreneurs stop scrolling. Three decades of building companies. Thousands of store owners ...
Episode 044: They Told Him to Quit in Sixth Grade. He Built the Number One Restaurant in America with George W. Tinsley, Sr.
Episode SummaryHere is what the trophy room says about George W. Tinsley, Sr. Three national championships. Pro athlete. Number one KFC franchise in the nation for thi...
Episode 043: Top student in Law School. Dismissed for Cheating. Nine Figures Later with Eric Lowe
Episode SummaryEric Lowe grew up in Mount Washington, Kentucky, five people in a nine hundred square foot house with three bedrooms and one bathroom. His oldest brothe...
Episode 042: Fourteen Million in Sales. Panic Attacks Every Morning with Rich Potter
Episode SummaryRich Potter looks, from the outside, like a guy who simply wins. Corporate sales executive who built a half million dollar desk into fourteen million in...
Episode 041: Two Lane Road. Two Hundred Tons. No One Coming to Save You with Hadley Nightingale
Episode SummaryHadley Nightingale bought a farm at nineteen years old, right before the Global Financial Crisis hit, with a mortgage the bank handed him the way mortga...
Episode 040: He Walked Out of a Cathedral and Sold the Yacht the Next Week with Steven Dolan
Episode Summary Steven Dolan won by every external scoreboard there is. He started at twenty-eight thousand dollars a year as the lowest level salesperson at a waterpr...
Episode 039: Fired in Two Months. Built a Six Figure Agency with Benas Leonavicius
Episode SummaryBenas Leonavicius tried the safe path twice. Both times he hated it. He landed an SEO manager role straight out of university in Lithuania, hired into a...
Episode 038: Broke and Delusionally Optimistic Until It Worked with Austin Reed.
Episode SummaryAustin Reed was a full-time musician in Bali in early 2020, living paycheck to paycheck, composing, recording, doing whatever creative work came his way...
Episode 037: She Lost Her Daughter. Her Son Taught Her How to Live Again with Kanika Vasudeva
Episode SummaryKanika Vasudeva had sixteen years of corporate excellence behind her. Engineer by training. MBA by discipline. Projects at BHP, PwC, ING Bank with price...
Episode 036: Chemical Engineer. Camper. Eleven Million in Three and a Half Years with Matthew Hassler
Episode SummaryMatthew Hassler was a chemical engineer working one hundred and ten hour weeks on multi-million dollar industrial projects, on call at midnight, watchin...
Episode 035: Called. Capable. Completely Unaware of Both with Joshua Lee
Episode SummaryJoshua Lee grew up in Delta Junction, Alaska, a town of a couple hundred people north of Fairbanks where winter hits negative fifty degrees and his Kore...
Episode 034: Stabbed at Nineteen. Sober at Twenty-Six. Still Cracking People Open with Jon Paul Crimi
Episode SummaryJon Paul Crimi grew up on the Irish Riviera outside Boston, a place where city mentality lived inside suburban houses and you learned early that your bi...
Episode 033: He Earned the Freedom. Then Lost Himself in It with Tim Kelly
Episode SummaryTim Kelly grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, failed out of college, played drums in a band, and figured the Navy might be a good move until something be...
Episode 032: Watch Me. Two Words That Built an Empire with Renee Carbone Fleming
Episode SummaryRenee Carbone Fleming grew up on the second floor of a tenement house, sharing a pullout sofa in the living room with her sister, in a home where the ex...
Episode 031: Grit Is Glitter. She Left It Everywhere with Allie Grack
Episode SummaryAllie Grack was born to a mother who was not ready, adopted into a volatile and abusive marriage that was already near its end, and by age eight had bee...
