What AI Can't Replicate: Moats, Leadership & the Entrepreneurial DNA | Dean Mathews | Ep. 328
Release Date: 06/04/2026
Buying and Selling Businesses — The Deal Table Truth Nobody Tells You | EP #338
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Episode #338 — Joe Prencipe, M&A Attorney Most business owners spend 20 years building something real — then walk into a business sale totally unprepared for what they're about to face. The people across the table have done this hundreds of times. You haven't. And that gap? That's where your money goes. Jerry Brazie sits down with Joe Prencipe, a veteran M&A attorney who has worked on deals ranging from small business acquisitions to $100M and billion-dollar transactions. Joe has been in the room when deals explode, when sellers get blindsided, and when buyers realize too late they...
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From Preaching Sermons to SWAT: Lessons on Human Nature, Pressure, and Accountability | ft. Eric Robinson #337
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Jerry Brazie sits down with Eric Robinson — 12-year senior pastor turned 24-year FBI agent — for one of the most honest conversations The Kronos Group has ever put on tape. Eric worked counterterrorism, crimes against children, SWAT, public corruption, gangs, and informant recruitment across his career. But the thing that made him exceptional wasn't the gun or the badge. It was the 12 years he spent learning how to connect with people before he ever walked into the Bureau. This episode covers the real scope of child exploitation in America — and why it isn't talked about enough. How...
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Why Every Small Business Owner Has a Story Worth Telling | Dan Grech - EP #336
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Jerry Brazie doesn't buy into the "follow your passion" narrative — and he'll tell you exactly why. In this episode, he goes toe-to-toe with Dan Grech, founder of BizHack and creator of Story-Driven Growth, on whether storytelling is actually useful for the lunch-pail entrepreneur just trying to build a business and feed his family. What comes out of that friction is a raw, real conversation about dark energy vs. light energy, the difference between technicians and entrepreneurs, how a plumber can charge more without changing a single price, and why Jerry's story — homeless at 17, a...
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Why Smart Operators Blow Up Their Own Businesses | Ft. Neil Solomon #335
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Neil Solomon built companies, ran acquisitions for over two decades, lived out of a backpack while operating businesses across the globe — and then, in two years, lost it all. Not because the system failed. Because he stopped using it. In this episode, Jerry Brazie and Neil Solomon break down the full story: the collapse, the hubris, the deal-scoring system he trusted for 20 years and then ignored. They get into the real stuff — why smart, experienced people make the same dumb mistakes anyway, what separates a reversible decision from one that destroys everything, and why your business...
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The Internal Game: Breaking Patterns, Building Belief & Doing It Your Way | Janylène Turcotte
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What happens to a high achiever when the career they built their whole identity around suddenly disappears? Janylène Turcotte spent 25 years as an HR executive navigating mergers, acquisitions, and some of the hardest conversations in business. Then the restructuring hit and she was the one being let go. What followed wasn't a breakdown. It was clarity. Jerry Brazie sits down with Janylène for a real conversation about identity, transformation, and the internal work that actually moves the needle — the kind most men won't admit they need and most podcasts won't have the nerve to go near....
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#333 | Justin Spillers — Legacy Over Lifestyle: Real Estate, Four Kids, and Playing the Long Game
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Jerry Brazie sits down with Justin Spillers, founder of Real Estate Alpha and operator of one of the most tightly run multifamily portfolios in Western Ohio. Justin is a former attorney who took the leap into real estate entrepreneurship after years at a downtown Columbus law firm. Today at 40, he's managing 600+ doors, running a team of 50 full-time W-2 employees, and doing it all while raising four kids with his high school sweetheart of 17 years. This conversation doesn't start with the business. It starts with the family — because that's where the real foundation is. Jerry and Justin...
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33 Years, Zero Bribes, and a Calling That Survived a Lung Cancer Scare ft. Michael Cobb | Kronos Podcast #332
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Thirty years in real estate. Hundreds of thousands of square feet. One rule: only invest in what you can touch. Then I sat down with Mike Cobb — co-founder of ECI Development — and he cracked that rule wide open. Mike's spent three decades building communities in Belize, Nicaragua, Panama, and Costa Rica. He ran a business in Central America for 33 years without a single bribe. He lived in Nicaragua with his family for 14 years. And he got a 90% malignant lung diagnosis in a Costa Rican hotel room that ended up being the clearest moment of his life. This episode is about international real...
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What Actually Makes Something a Business, Why Passive Income Is a Lie, and the Case for Buying Before You Build | #331
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Steve is in Iceland this week. So it is just Jerry and Matt, and when that happens, the conversation tends to go somewhere useful. Episode 331 covers three things most business content gets completely wrong. First, the stacking income streams idea. The internet version of entrepreneurship loves to talk about running three or four small income sources simultaneously. Jerry has a different take — and if you have not successfully operated one real business yet, you probably need to hear it. Second, the passive income myth. The pitch of buying a boring business, installing a manager, and...
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From Undercover Operative to Executive Coach - ft. Don Weber | Episode #330
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Jerry Brazie sits down with executive coach Don Weber, who spent nearly two decades living under false identities while working undercover for U.S. intelligence — gathering intel on arms dealers, counterfeiters, and worse, all while running a diamond business as cover. He's seen a man assassinated over coffee, slept on his office floor building his first business, and now coaches CEOs and founders on the thing most leaders never get taught: how to separate who you are from what you do. This one covers ego management, why AI is a tool and not an oracle, imposter syndrome at every income...
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A Real Conversation on Fatherhood, Business, and Emotional Intelligence ft. Josh Zolin
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Jerry Brazie sits down with Josh Zolin — stuntman-turned-CEO, author of "Blue is the New White," host of "Everything They Don't Tell You," and founder of the BITNW Academy. Josh ran a stunt business with his family before pivoting into the trades and building Windy City Equipment by age 27. This conversation covers why the trades are beating college, Jerry's "knowledge plus action is power" philosophy built from $500M in revenue and a 9th-grade education, why Jerry can't stand the "men crying in their cars" trend, the caveman-and-pterodactyl take on purpose vs. mission, Jerry's 310-lb...
info_outlineDean Mathews built what most people wouldn't. Employee time tracking — not flashy, not viral, just necessary. And it grew to 18,000 companies because of it.
Jerry and Dean get into: the new competitive moat, fire fast, emotional leadership, and why solving boring problems beats chasing passion every time. Episode 328 of The Kronos Group Podcast.
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