Knucklehead Podcast

Ep 115 - Mistakes Made by Design Agencies, w/ CEO of Handsome, John Roescher Talking about the power of focus, today’s guest of the Knucklehead Podcast has it all. After getting out of Marine, John leaves himself with a mortgage of a house, no job, and no plan lined up. Landing himself face first, he had no choice but to have an exit plan and no other option but to succeed. John Roescher is the CEO of Handsome. It an agency that designs and develops custom digital experiences and web and mobile-based software products for brands in all industries. His team works with brands to create innovative digital products and technology powered experiences that engage their audiences, customers and users. Enjoy! Favorite Quote: “There's a lot of power in defining to yourself what your core is, what is your core goal, and what is core about you that you're going to use to achieve that goal. If you can't succeed at being at the thing that you set out to do, then either change what you are setting out to do and be true to

Ep 114 - Simple Machine For Entrepreneurs, Author Tyler Reiser Coming from a military background where he can’t afford the opportunity to screw up, you will be surprised by how our guest views failure as leverage to learn, improve, and predict his future success. Today’s episode shares a great conversation with Tyler Reiser. He talks about his perception of what a veteran advantage is, the processes he has been to shift his mindset, and how he successfully wrote a book while being in a management consulting business. Tyler Reiser is the author of The Veterans Advantage. This book shares the stories of veterans who have overcome the challenges of transitioning from the military into entrepreneurship, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Enjoy! Favorite Quote:  “From my own perspective, life is a perpetual stumbling of sorts. I was surprised how badly people stumbled before they actually found their opportunity to shine and change the world. You get out of something, the time you've put into it.” -Tyl

Going through a lot of experiments in figuring out the things that work and the things that don’t, Chris spends most of his time finding a measurable solution in bringing results to the business. In today’s Knucklehead Podcast episode, Chris speaks about performance marketing, how he came up with a quantifiable outcome in generating leads, and why focusing on your audience and what helps them better can help in winning brand and awareness which leads people to actually buy from you. Chris Walker is the CEO of Refine Labs. They help companies optimize their revenue model. Their Revenue Engine Optimization formula has been proven to accelerate business growth and new customer acquisition with a focus on pipeline velocity. The results are consistent and span across industries including medical devices, industrial, scientific, and health/wellness. Enjoy! Favorite Quote: “I made a big shift where I basically stopped believing in auditing all my assumptions on what I'd been taught about marketing. And so instead of

Ep 112 - Entrepreneurial Mindset to Corporate Executive with Rusty Jensen Going through painful growth lessons, “failing” in business, losing over $100k in investment resources Rusty Jenson learned to make himself dynamic in the corporate world. Today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast shares the story behind Nice inContact Executive, Rusty Jensen. How his strong leadership and participation lead him from being a sales developer to Executive level, what knucklehead moment gave him the grit and skills to transform a company, and why losing an opportunity is a great head start to success. Rusty Jensen is the VP of Revenue Generation for Direct and Indirect Channels at NICE inContact. He is responsible for all pipeline generation activities both direct and indirect channels and oversees the channel and sales development organizations for all of North America. Enjoy! Favorite Quote: “What I learned really quickly is I didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to do it, and I failed. I borrowed $100,000 and inv

Ep 111- From Corporate to Hardcore Video Strategist with Rich Cardona In today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast, Stephen shares an interesting interview with Rich Cardona, CEO and founder of Rich Cardona Media on how he transitions from Amazon ambassador to a hardcore video strategist. Calling himself an average Marine, Rich tells the story of how working in the corporate world disables him from using his creative energy in the process and how his knucklehead moments lead the genesis of Rich Cardona Media. Rich is a video strategist, media agency owner, Linkedin expert and risk-taker.  After playing the corporate game for a few years after retiring from the Marine Corps in 2015, he realized he could no longer continue on a journey that wasn't meant for him. He now has a small media business in which he interviews C-Suite leaders, hyper-growth entrepreneurs, and veterans in order to explore their personal brands. Enjoy! Favorite Quote: “ I don't know anyone who has the entrepreneur playbook or all the too

Ep 110- Transforming Knucklehead Moments to Opportunities with Ben Killoy While Facebook and Instagram say everything is perfect, Ben Killoy of Military Veteran Dad Podcast shares his story on how he turns his knucklehead moments to opportunities. In today’s Knucklehead Podcast episode, Ben expresses why he felt more alive after losing his job, what’s the genuine value of fatherhood, and how he uses unemployment to leverage and be the father he strived to be. Ben Killoy is a father, a husband, and a marine veteran. Owner of The Military Veteran Dad Podcast, his mission is to bring every dad home both physically and mentally to their marriage and their family. He uses his passion for leadership to help Military Veteran Dads understand who they are, develop the skills to overcome adversity, and own their life and choices. Enjoy! Favorite Quote: “I wanted to show that daddy's not down to the punch. It's about getting back up. It's about when you fall off, you get back on and you keep trying.” -Ben Killoy In thi

It’s not an everyday experience in which an individual is brought onboard a prominent business service company and asked to develop a project from scratch. This was case of Dan Swift, founder and CEO of Empire Selling, this was the exact scenario that he found himself in when he was brought onboard LinkedIn in 2012 to help build their Launched Sales Navigator. Check out more from Dan: Empire Selling: https://empireselling.com/ Dan Swift: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjswift/ LinkedIn, Empire Selling: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empireselling/

Josh Prado is an extroverted Navy veteran who helps fellow veterans transition through providing a solution, or is the actual solution himself with all the individuals he surrounds himself with. Tune in on this Knucklehead Media podcast as Josh talks about how failure is a common aspect of ultimately succeeding in life as he found out the Knucklehead way in his own journey! Joshua Prado - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-dominic-prado-maed-aet-3736a5a0 VETD Talent Network - https://www.facebook.com/VETDTalentNetwork

Imagine being told by your boss on your very first day at work that you are literally going to be doing cold calls to clients in an isolated office all day despite having no experience. What do you do? Go into the corner and start to cry? Or, roll with the punches telling yourself that with each call you will get better? Adam Ryan chose to do the latter when it came to his very first day at work. Adam Ryan is a former 9th-grade government teacher originally from Columbia, Missouri, who had the opportunity via the Lance Armstrong Foundation to come to Austin, Texas which was supporting a non-profit charity he was working with. He was working for free before taking a leap into the world of media marketing and began working for Spiceworks, a B2B media platform mainly focusing on IT where he sold advertising. When working at Spiceworks began to lose its luster, Adam soon left to work with Under Armour where he worked to assist in making major acquisitions that involved familiar names such as MapMyFitness and End

James Van Prooyen knows podcasting. Sure, you may know what an RSS feed is. You may even know how to place your feed in a way that garners attention. Yet, without ACCESS - even the basics ended up falling short. Getting someone's attention can happen by accident, but if you want consistency and ACCESS to those with an audience, then James is the man you want to know.  Co-Founder of the Military Podcasting Network, City Leader for the Bay Area Bunker Labs Network, and former Air Force Comms guru - "VP" as he's known in smaller circles continues to be the reason Waldo is hiding. He is podcasting's "most interesting man".

Justin is a U.S. Marine Corps infantry veteran with a range of expertise in radio, film and TV. He’s an on-air personality, producer, editor, filmmaker, motion graphic designer, CG & VFX producer and creative content strategist. His passion, innovation, inspiration and creativity has seen him helm amazingly creative projects with clients such as ESPN Radio, State of Illinois Dept. of Labor, Social Security Administration, BizTalk Radio, KnuckleHead Media Group, Business Doctor TV Show, Strategic Alliance for Veteran Integration, Blumhouse Productions, We Are The Mighty, 23Veteran, and more... Connect directly with Justin at justin@knucklehead.agency

True entrepreneurs do not see fear. They see only as opportunity. Seeing what Heath Hill and the team around him has accomplished, how his life has changed by having a disciplined and principled approach to growing his organization has inspired talent to join him on his mission. Hustle and grind can only get you so far and for many years, 12-14 hours a day were many years was the op-tempo, until he decided to work smarter. Lime Media works in partnership with agencies and brands to CREATE experiential marketing programs, promotions and events that deliver messages to a target audience. They are experts in planning and executing highly effective marketing programs that ENGAGE consumers in a variety of locations and environments. They do this by owning over 100 vehicles that can efficiently and effectively MOVE your program to large and small markets around the country. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hhill Check out more from Lime: https://lime-media.com

Mark Metry's life work has been featured in Forbes, Influencive, Inc, Huffington Post, Fearless Motivation, etc and been a guest on over 100 radio and podcast shows. Mark continuers to be a media strategist consulting funded start-ups, founders, and organizations to sustainably start, grow & brand build their way through the competition in the age of vanity metrics with marketing experience for over 13 years and accumulation of over 100M+ overall network views. Listen to 500+ Episodes of Humans 2.0 Here: https://www.markmetry.com/humans-2-0-podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/ Book a call: https://www.markmetry.com/business

Ryan Dodge knows how to fight. More importantly, he knows how to win. Learning to fight in the Army, he earned promotions, respect, as well as learned to lead. He found through real estate investing that those intangibles would help him to stand out in amongst a crowded room of people otherwise just interested. Persevering through challenges, not limited to brain injury, Ryan discovered that people aren't always what they seem and that his ability to fight would be the difference for his family and his future. Follow and engage directly with Ryan below: LinkedIn: Ryan Dodge Public Profile Facebook: Ryan Dodge Profile

Some quick stats on Stapho - despite the mistakes and screwups that he ran into along the way. - 3+ Million Organic LinkedIn views - 5 Million Organic Sticker views - First ever LinkedIn course entirely on a Messenger bot - An incredibly engaged Facebook Group with 2k+ members - The TMF Picnic, a weekly Live show that's has reached thousands of viewers. Check out more from Stapho - Follow and engage directly with Stapho below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stapho Book a call: http://tmfam.rocks/strategy

Without a burning desire to perform for his corporate job, Colin decided to go all in on himself. That runs counter to the traditional example of following a well worth path. But it worked well for Colin as he had a goal of being financially independent, rather than being just a worker for a company. He has a passionate approach to educating younger folks about how to use, leverage, and responsibly manage credit. Rapidly growing from 1k, to 38k, and now over 100k followers on Instagram he's learned lessons through mistakes and been able apply the lessons from mentors in his life. Check out more from Colin - Follow, Like his posts and check out his course below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colinyurcisin/ Web: https://linktr.ee/colinyurcisin

Pauly moved from the East Coast to Arizona with the goal of growing a following. Being a mindset coach, an enthusiast for taking care of your health and wellness, he spent several years working a day job but not being fulfilled. Learning to be flood his senses with positive literature and taking consistent action, he changed the audience size he was marketing to from 2k to 30k in 60 days. He shares with us how a positive mindset helped him to accomplish this, as well as some pitfalls he encountered along the way - including how not to react on social media when a sale doesn't go through. Check out more from Pauly - Follow, Like his posts and check out his course below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulylong/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paul.long.129 Twitter: @pauly_long Web: https://mineset.teachable.com/p/mineset/

It's humbling when you realize you're wrong. Companies and people that make it are able to be wrong, remain humble, and responsive to what the market is asking for. Coming from a family business and watching it grow inspired Luke to take a risk in a new venture. Check out more from Company Cam and their CEO Luke Hansen: IG: https://www.instagram.com/companycamapp LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/companycam/ Web: https://www.companycam.com/ Call (402) 204-8292 for more information, support, and pricing.   Business: hello@companycam.com

It's just a ball. You roll it. Can't be that complicated. Why would someone even part with their hard-earned dollars to buy a ball rolling game? Well, Matt and his team at Rollors have over 600 wholesale accounts after designing the game out of his garage. Obviously, there's more to the game than simply rolling a piece of wood. He's had to learn how to manage vendors, contracting language and inventory management, as well keeping up with demand. Matt Butler talks to us about his first wholesale account and how he had to learn how to grow his business by first not knowing what a wholesale account even was. Not knowing what a UPC code was and how to get one, how "packaging" leads to reorders from retailers, and educating the public on what the game is were challenges he had to overcome in order to get the traction he needed. Check out more from Matt Butler and Rollors: IG: https://www.instagram.com/rollors/  FB: https://www.facebook.com/rollors/  YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/rollors1  LI: https://www.linked

Dear Mr/Mrs Business Owner, You Owe $$$$ in Back-Taxes... (Gulp) Imagine you get that call or that letter from the IRS and in addition to working 80-100 weeks getting your business up off the ground, now you have unpaid taxes. Jami Johnson, CPA - joins Knucklehead and shares how her firm has seen a thing or two in their time. She focuses on increasing growth and profitability for service-based businesses and specializes in insurance, IT, real estate and health care industries. Her passion for entrepreneurship began at an early age. You could say it runs in her blood. Her grandparents and parents were all small business owners, so she grew up watching the work it took to invest in something bigger than yourself. Check out more from Jami: Web - https://pjscpas.com/our-team/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jami-johnson-6a01a920