Karl Jacobi
Host of The Grit Factor Podcast, Resilience & Performance Coach, Founder, Entrepreneur, Combat Veteran
Appears in 55 Episodes
The Thing Saving You Is Already in Your Hands with Bart Merrell
Episode Summary Bart Merrell grew up on a pig farm in New Mexico with a father who had his hands in a dairy in Idaho, a mushroom warehouse in Utah, a produce warehouse...
Nearly Went Bankrupt Three Times, Now Chasing Twenty-Five Million with Chris McManus
Episode Summary Chris McManus graduated high school, skipped college, and put grass in the ground because it was flexible enough to keep racing motocross while he figu...
You Hit Every Goal and Feel Nothing? Here's Why Success Feels Empty | The Sunday Edition
Episode Summary You hit the goal you chased for years. And you felt nothing. Not disappointment. Not relief. Just a quiet flatness underneath everything you built, and...
Episode 051: The Hidden Price of High Performance with Matt Smith
Episode Summary Matt Smith is a music major who accidentally fell in love with software development when it reminded him of writing songs. Twelve notes, infinite combi...
Episode 050: Sixteen Years Making Someone Else Win Till He Discovered Himself with Derek Fredrickson
Episode Summary Derek 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, ...
Episode 049: Thirty Years of Winning. Then His Wife Said Call the Bankruptcy Attorney with Dylan Bost
Episode Summary Dylan Bost spent thirty years building things. Architecture first. Then Disney. Then his own agency. And for a long stretch, it felt exactly like it wa...
Episode 048: He Asked God to Break Him. The Answer Arrived the Next Morning with Evan Poling
Episode Summary Evan 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 do...
Episode 047: Bet on Yourself Before Anyone Else Sees It with Walid Chaya
Episode Summary Walid 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 ...
Episode 046: I Couldn't Save My Father. So I Gave My Kidney to a Stranger with Matthew Harmody
Episode Summary Dr. 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 Clin...
Episode 045: Built an Empire and the Empty Never Left with Matthew Stafford
Episode Summary Matthew 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 Summary Here is what the trophy room says about George W. Tinsley, Sr. Three national championships. Pro athlete. Number one KFC franchise in the nation for th...
Episode 043: Top student in Law School. Dismissed for Cheating. Nine Figures Later with Eric Lowe
Episode Summary Eric Lowe grew up in Mount Washington, Kentucky, five people in a nine hundred square foot house with three bedrooms and one bathroom. His oldest broth...
Episode 042: Fourteen Million in Sales. Panic Attacks Every Morning with Rich Potter
Episode Summary Rich Potter looks, from the outside, like a guy who simply wins. Corporate sales executive who built a half million dollar desk into fourteen million i...
Episode 041: Two Lane Road. Two Hundred Tons. No One Coming to Save You with Hadley Nightingale
Episode Summary Hadley Nightingale bought a farm at nineteen years old, right before the Global Financial Crisis hit, with a mortgage the bank handed him the way mortg...
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 Summary Benas 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 ...
Episode 038: Broke and Delusionally Optimistic Until It Worked with Austin Reed.
Episode Summary Austin Reed was a full-time musician in Bali in early 2020, living paycheck to paycheck, composing, recording, doing whatever creative work came his wa...
Episode 037: She Lost Her Daughter. Her Son Taught Her How to Live Again with Kanika Vasudeva
Episode Summary Kanika Vasudeva had sixteen years of corporate excellence behind her. Engineer by training. MBA by discipline. Projects at BHP, PwC, ING Bank with pric...
Episode 036: Chemical Engineer. Camper. Eleven Million in Three and a Half Years with Matthew Hassler
Episode Summary Matthew Hassler was a chemical engineer working one hundred and ten hour weeks on multi-million dollar industrial projects, on call at midnight, watchi...
Episode 035: Called. Capable. Completely Unaware of Both with Joshua Lee
Episode Summary Joshua 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 Kor...
