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#121 - The Unkillable: Cheating Death 4 Times to Save Others | The Ad…
Adrian Van Balen III is the definition of unkillable, having survived four brain tumors, three craniotomies, and 57 rounds of radiation. After losing his father to a heart attack at just 54, Adrian refused to retreat, instead...
#120 - Supply the Shovels, Find the Gold: The Story of Nick DiMercurio
From a basement in Western Maryland to the legendary ID Labs in Pittsburgh, Nick DiMercurio proves that if you master the craft, the art will follow. He built his career on a simple philosophy: "Everyone is searching for gold...
#119 - Turning Trauma into Armor: The Erica Amoroso Story
Erica Amoroso is a walking contradiction: a compassionate Special Ed teacher by day and a fierce Jiu-Jitsu competitor by night. After carrying the weight of severe childhood trauma until the age of 25, she broke the cycle and...
#118 - Cut from the Roster, Built for the Courtroom: The Jacob Rosnic…
From getting cut from the D1 baseball roster to launching his own firm just one year after passing the bar, Jacob Rosnick embodies the ultimate "Walk-On Mindset." We explore how he channeled the grit developed in Weirton, WV ...
#117 - Ending the Year With Edgar Parilla II
In our 2025 season finale, "Cowboy Eddy" Parilla returns to break down his massive pivot from the MMA cage to launching Visual Investments LLC and competing as a Hyrox athlete. We dive into the brutal reality of reinventing your identity, comparing the physical adrenaline of a fight to the high-sta…
Recent Blog Posts
The Heavy Price of Freedom (And Why Most People Can't Afford It)
We love the word "freedom." We get it tattooed, put it on bumper stickers, we sing about it in anthems, and we chase it in our careers. In the modern world, we define freedom as the absence of restriction. We think freedom means sleeping in, doing w…
You Don’t Have a Work Ethic Problem, You Have a Direction Problem
Why You Don’t Need More Motivation (You Need a Map) Scroll through Instagram or LinkedIn right now, and you’ll see the same war being fought in the comments section: Motivation vs. Discipline. The "Gurus" will tell you that motivation …
Defining "Relentless": Why "Good Enough" is the Enemy of Greatness
Look around. Scroll through your feed. Turn on the TV. What do you see? You see a curated reality. You see the awards, the exits, the finish lines, and the polished smiles. You see the result. But you rarely see the grit it took to get there. We ar…
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