The Kronos Group Podcast

This conversation is not for the faint of heart. And it's not supposed to be.

In Episode 327, Jerry Brazie and Steve Floyd go deep on what's actually broken with men today — and more importantly, what you can do about it right now.

Jerry opens with a story that started in a sauna — a 35-year-old guy who told a complete stranger he got fat because he was depressed. Not because he was sick. Not because something catastrophically wrong happened to him. Because he was depressed. And Jerry's response? That conversation became this episode.

What follows is one of the most direct conversations the Kronos Group Podcast has ever had about men, masculinity, victimhood, and what real agency looks like in practice.

Topics covered:

• Why the victimhood identity paralyzes men more than it helps them

• The "if not for" mindset — and how it keeps men stuck for decades

• Jerry's personal journey from the streets at 17, legally blind, broken back, heart condition, opioid addiction — to 100 lbs lost at 52 while building multiple companies

• Why physical health is not a vanity project — it's your operational foundation

• The trap men are in when they're told masculinity is toxic — and what happens when they buy it

• What Sun Tzu's warrior in a garden means for every man building something today

• Why the Kronos Forge exists and what Jerry wants its legacy to be

This is about responsibility. And responsibility is the way out.

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year, then you can't afford not to join a Kronos Peer Cohort. This group gives you monthly access to real operators (other business owners at your level) working through real situations (not generic advice). https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

If you're ready to get started and know that you need to join the room, book a discovery call with Jerry today: https://calendly.com/thekronosgroup/the-kronos-group-consultation

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today - https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

If you're an entrepreneur, founder, or someone wanting to make a change in their life and network, join us inside The Kronos Group community (it's free): https://www.skool.com/the-kronos-group/about

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.

Drew Norton lost 100 pounds and led $20M sales teams. Now he co-founds the Abundant Man Project to help men build strength in faith, family, fitness, and finance. In this episode, Drew and Jerry Brazie get into why belief is the one word blocking most men, what actually happens when you lead yourself first, and how the Belong-Believe-Become framework creates real identity change.

Plus: the story of the day Drew's wife saved their baby's life and what it woke up in him. Raw, direct, and worth every minute.

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year, then you can't afford not to join a Kronos Peer Cohort. This group gives you monthly access to real operators (other business owners at your level) working through real situations (not generic advice). https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

If you're ready to get started and know that you need to join the room, book a discovery call with Jerry today: https://calendly.com/thekronosgroup/the-kronos-group-consultation

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today - https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

If you're an entrepreneur, founder, or someone wanting to make a change in their life and network, join us inside The Kronos Group community (it's free): https://www.skool.com/the-kronos-group/about

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.

Sanjai Mehta spent 30 years in sales. He started cold calling from the Yellow Pages. He ended up selling to Fortune 500-caliber institutions. Along the way, he ran a failed partnership, rebuilt with a new company, hit £10M in revenue, and shifted into coaching others to find the same clarity. In this episode with Jerry Brazie, they get into what sales actually is at its core, what success means after the money stops feeling like enough, and why mentorship is the highest-ROI decision you'll ever make.

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year, then you can't afford not to join a Kronos Peer Cohort. This group gives you monthly access to real operators (other business owners at your level) working through real situations (not generic advice). https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

If you're ready to get started and know that you need to join the room, book a discovery call with Jerry today: https://calendly.com/thekronosgroup/the-kronos-group-consultation

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today - https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

If you're an entrepreneur, founder, or someone wanting to make a change in their life and network, join us inside The Kronos Group community (it's free): https://www.skool.com/the-kronos-group/about

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.

Jerry Brazie doesn't talk to a lot of attorneys. After 30 years in business and a dozen companies, he gets enough of that in the real world. But Matthew Fornaro earned his seat at the table.

South Florida business law attorney. 11 years on his own after leaving the big firms. Two decades of watching entrepreneurs make the same legal mistakes that quietly destroy what they've built.

This conversation covers the contracts, lawsuits, partnerships, LLCs, and legal realities that every entrepreneur needs to understand and most don't until it's too late.

Find Matthew at https://fornarolegal.com/

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year, then you can't afford not to join a Kronos Peer Cohort. This group gives you monthly access to real operators (other business owners at your level) working through real situations (not generic advice). https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

If you're ready to get started and know that you need to join the room, book a discovery call with Jerry today: https://calendly.com/thekronosgroup/the-kronos-group-consultation

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today - https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

If you're an entrepreneur, founder, or someone wanting to make a change in their life and network, join us inside The Kronos Group community (it's free): https://www.skool.com/the-kronos-group/about

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.

In this episode of The Kronos Group Podcast, Jerry Brazie sits down with Dr. Maureen Gibbons, physician, Ironman triathlete, and founder of AMS Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Mo is the author of Freedom to Shift, and this conversation earns every word of that title.

Jerry opens up about one of the rawest chapters of his life: being hospitalized 71 times, carrying 110 extra pounds, living on 19 medications, quitting 200mg of oxymorphone cold turkey after a 25-year addiction, and the moment in November 2021 when he was down four pints of blood and chose not to die.

Dr. Mo responds with her own truth: a childhood spent on diets, competing in Ironmans at 160 pounds, hiding a GLP-1 prescription from her husband, and the moment eight hours after her first dose when her brain finally went quiet.

What this conversation is really about is identity. What happens when the version of you that got you here is not the version that gets you to the next level. What it costs a high achiever to keep pushing without addressing the foundation. And what becomes possible on the other side when you stop treating your health like a willpower contest.

Dr. Mo breaks down her SHIFT framework — Success Happens In Focused Transitions — and why health freedom, time freedom, and income freedom are all connected. They also cover: the most overrated health advice, the one habit high performers refuse to let go of, GLP-1 medications without the media noise, and the single fastest action you can take right now to start getting your energy back.

Find Dr. Mo at amslifestylemedicine.com 

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year, then you can't afford not to join a Kronos Peer Cohort. This group gives you monthly access to real operators (other business owners at your level) working through real situations (not generic advice). https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

If you're ready to get started and know that you need to join the room, book a discovery call with Jerry today: https://calendly.com/thekronosgroup/the-kronos-group-consultation

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.

In Episode #321 of The Kronos Group Podcast, Matt Floyd, Steve Floyd, and Jerry Brazie break down the real reason business owners stay stuck — and why the answer isn't more information, better routines, or copying billionaires.

It's ownership.

This episode dives into:

• Why "work-life balance" is misleading
• The daily reset mindset that elite operators use
• Why Elon Musk-style routines don't apply to you
• The dangerous habit of blaming external factors
• How to eliminate the "mental tax" holding you back
• Why outside perspective is the ultimate unfair advantage

If you're serious about growing your business, your health, and your life — this is required listening.

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year, then you can't afford not to join a Kronos Peer Cohort. This group gives you monthly access to real operators (other business owners at your level) working through real situations (not generic advice). https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

If you're ready to get started and know that you need to join the room, book a discovery call with Jerry today: https://calendly.com/thekronosgroup/the-kronos-group-consultation

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today - https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

If you're an entrepreneur, founder, or someone wanting to make a change in their life and network, join us inside The Kronos Group community (it's free): https://www.skool.com/the-kronos-group/about

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.

Marvin Karlow has been on both sides of the table. He built a manufacturing business out of distressed private equity, grew it, merged it, and sold it to a publicly traded acquirer. Then he watched too many business owners in the $1M to $50M range get underserved at the exit and decided to do something about it.

He runs Raincatcher, and he runs closed bid auctions the way investment banks do it for big deals, except for the business owners everyone else ignores.

Jerry and Marvin break down the real M&A process, not the version you read about in Forbes, but the version that actually applies to the business you built.

This is a conversation about getting what your company is actually worth. Watch it before you need it.

Connect with Marvin at raincatcher.com

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year and want monthly access to real operators working through real situations (not generic advice), check out the Kronos Group Peer Advisory Cohort: https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today - https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

If you're an entrepreneur, founder, or someone wanting to make a change in their life and network, join us inside The Kronos Group community (it's free): https://www.skool.com/the-kronos-group/about

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.

Jerry Brazie, Matt Floyd, and Steve Floyd break down what's really happening in the economy, why every entrepreneur is feeling it, and what actually separates the business owners who grow through it from the ones who turtle. From gas prices and nuclear energy to accountability, masterminds, and why the room you're in changes everything — this one goes deep. No fluff, no filter, just the real conversation.

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year and want monthly access to real operators working through real situations (not generic advice), check out the Kronos Group Peer Advisory Cohort: https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today - https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

If you're an entrepreneur, founder, or someone wanting to make a change in their life and network, join us inside The Kronos Group community (it's free): https://www.skool.com/the-kronos-group/about

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.

Alan Lazaros was on paper doing everything right at 26. Global top earner, debt paid off, money invested. A head-on crash changed all of it — and forced him to ask the question he had been avoiding: was he actually living at his potential, or just performing for an audience that did not matter?

In this episode of The Kronos Group Podcast, Jerry Brazie and Alan Lazaros go deep on grit, identity, the compound effect, and why the most successful people rarely look like it online.

No filters, no fluff.

This episode is part of The Kronos Group Podcast, where experienced operators and founders share real-world lessons on building, scaling, and protecting their businesses.

If you run a business that is doing $1M or more a year and want monthly access to real operators working through real situations (not generic advice), check out the Kronos Group Peer Advisory Cohort: https://thekronosgroup.org/why-kronos/

Have an idea for a podcast, but don't know where or how to even start one? PodMatch is your one-stop shop. Use our affiliate link here to start your podcasting journey today - https://www.joinpodmatch.com/thekronosgroup

If you're an entrepreneur, founder, or someone wanting to make a change in their life and network, join us inside The Kronos Group community (it's free): https://www.skool.com/the-kronos-group/about

Connect with Jerry Brazie on socials
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrybrazie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybrazie
X (Twitter): https://x.com/thekronosgroup
Substack: https://substack.com/@jerrybrazie
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekronosgroup

New episodes weekly. This show is built for business owners who know growth is better when you're not doing it alone.