On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Chris Harris, a former U.S. military veteran, private contractor, martial arts system creator, and now executive coach and keynote speaker whose life journey reads like a masterclass in mental toughness from the ground up. Chris found Ty through another episode of the show, and what follows is one of those conversations that hits you in ways you did not expect walking in.

Chris’s background alone sets the tone for everything that follows. He grew up in a tumultuous environment, began training in martial arts at age 10, and enlisted in the military at 18 as his own graduation gift to himself. After four years of service he spent the next 25 years as a private contractor teaching elite military operators and Special Forces his own proprietary system of close quarters combat called Roku Jitsu, built not on muscle memory but on reflex arc, rewiring the body’s involuntary responses to the only 12 ways a person can be hurt with bare hands. When his body could no longer keep up with that work, he pivoted into B2B tech sales, climbed to the top of the leaderboard fast, and realized that everything he had been teaching warriors applied directly to the boardroom.

The conversation goes deep on why people quit, and Chris breaks it down into two forces: focus and friction. Focus means knowing exactly why you started and having a clear daily process to work, because a goal without a process is just a wish. Friction means identifying on the front end exactly what is going to stand between you and where you want to go, because if you cannot name your saboteur, you cannot stop it. He and Ty draw a sharp parallel between reflex arc training and objection handling in sales, landing on the idea that there are really only eight to ten objections just as there are only twelve ways to be hurt, and mastery in both comes from making your response automatic.

One of the episode’s most thought-provoking moments comes when Chris introduces the concept of metacognition, which he describes as awareness on steroids. It is not just noticing what you are doing, it is asking why you are doing it and what it is costing you. He connects this directly to overcoming the fear of rejection, which he calls the single biggest barrier between a salesperson and elite performance. And he grounds all of it in a simple but powerful idea: the Kingdom of God lives within you, which to Chris means that everything you need to achieve your biggest goals is already inside you. Your job is simply to develop it, become conscious of it, and stop looking for it somewhere else.

Ty and Chris also get into the critical difference between coaching and consulting, and why Chris charges double for the latter. A coach leads you to your own conclusions. A consultant tells you exactly what to do and gets you there in half the time. Neither is better, but knowing which one a person actually wants before the conversation starts is everything. The same principle applies to knowing whether someone wants to be heard, helped, or hugged, and Chris is direct about the fact that if ego has moved out of its lane into blame, excuses, and finger pointing, he simply will not engage. There are too many people who genuinely want to do the work to spend time on those who do not.

Chris closes with the piece of advice he would leave anyone with above all else: never withhold love if it is within your power to give it. In a world where divorce, obesity, and suicide are all at record highs despite unprecedented access to information, he brings it back to the simplest principle of all. Applied knowledge is power, and the golden rule is the most powerful application of all.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Tim Shurr, a leading expert in anxiety, mindset transformation, and what he calls the “One Belief Away” method, and the conversation gets refreshingly real, fast. After 37 years of studying everything from hypnotherapy to neurolinguistic programming to EMDR, Tim has conducted over 16,000 individual sessions and developed a framework that gets to the root of anxiety, self-doubt, and emotional suffering in ways traditional therapy simply doesn’t.

Ty opens up about his own experience with anxiety, sharing how growing up in a house with eight sisters and two brothers shaped a deep-seated belief that there would never be enough, enough money, enough security, enough breathing room. Tim meets him right there, offering one of the episode’s most powerful moments: the simple but transformative reframe that you’re not running out, you’re running up. Watch Ty’s energy shift in real time as that one phrase lands.

Tim breaks down the difference between big T and little T traumas, and explains how the brain quietly builds unconscious beliefs, things like “I’m not safe,” “I’m not worthy,” or “I’m not enough,” without your knowledge or consent. He walks through his three-step process: pulling the mental weed at the root by revisiting the original feeling, upgrading the belief with new emotional resources, and then locking in that shift with better tools and questions that actually move the needle. He also tackles forgiveness in a way that will stick with you, borrowing from Wayne Dyer’s snake bite analogy to explain that it’s not the bite that kills you, it’s the venom you refuse to let go of.

The episode also digs into what Tim calls “achiever syndrome,” the relentless drive that keeps high performers grinding out of adrenaline and fear rather than peace and purpose. Ty and Tim explore why leaders so often feel alone at the top, why trust issues run deep in the entrepreneurial world, and why the most successful people in the room are sometimes the ones most desperate for a safe place to put their burdens down. Tim shares the story of a client making three million dollars a year who still woke up every morning feeling like he was going to run out of money, a powerful reminder that the number in your bank account will never outrun the beliefs in your head.

One of the episode’s standout moments comes when Tim reframes the way we think about procrastination, explaining that whenever someone avoids a goal, they are associating pain with it, not laziness. He and Ty talk about what it really means to be your own best friend, why that is a learnable skill and not something you are born with, and how upgrading your mindset tools is just as important as upgrading your phone. Most of us, Tim says, are still walking around running the same outdated program we were handed in childhood, and there are simply better tools available now.

Tim’s closing message is one worth writing down: you are already more than enough, your biggest breakthroughs are hiding in the places you most want to avoid, and you are literally just one belief away. He also leaves listeners with a free resource, the High Performance Switch, a four-minute audio and video program designed to get you back into a flow state fast. Links will be in the show notes.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Brian Will, a man who grew up in a small farm town in Ohio, failed out of high school at 16, served eight years across the Air Force and Army, and went on to launch ten companies over 35 years, sell two into venture capital and one into private equity, write four books including two Wall Street Journal bestsellers, and is currently building an AI startup in Atlanta. Brian’s story is not a straight line to the top. It is a masterclass in getting knocked down, learning the lesson, and getting back up every single time.

Brian shares his Five Keys to Success, which he is quick to point out are the exact same five keys to failure if you ignore them. It starts with your why, because if it is not strong enough, the first wave of adversity will knock you out. From there he breaks down why you need to understand who you are in your business, why most founders are technicians pretending to be CEOs, why ego is the silent killer of growing companies, and why not knowing your numbers is the fastest way to bleed a business dry without ever realizing it.

The conversation goes deep on delegation and scaling, and Brian does not sugarcoat it. He explains why the founder is almost always the bottleneck when a company gets stuck, and why going from two million to ten million requires the willingness to temporarily take less money home so you can build the infrastructure underneath you that actually gets you there. He also walks through how he approaches broken sales organizations, building profit and loss statements by individual salesperson, cutting the channels and the people that are quietly losing money, and reallocating those resources to the performers who are starving for more leads.

Ty and Brian also get into the future of business and agree on one thing without hesitation: if you are not using AI right now, you are already behind. Brian shares how he rebuilt seven financial documents totaling 20,000 lines of code in a single afternoon by himself, work that would have previously required a team of three for two weeks. His message is simple: AI is not going away, so stop debating it and start learning it.

Brian closes with one of the most powerful points of the whole conversation. Tim Cook, the man running a three trillion dollar company, still meets quarterly with a board of directors and works with a personal coach. If the CEO of Apple needs ten to twelve people helping him lead, what makes any entrepreneur think they can figure it all out alone? Find someone who has been there, check your ego, take the advice, and go build something worth building.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Dan Dearden, a 25-year veteran of the group health insurance industry who has spent his career helping small and mid-sized businesses navigate one of their biggest frustrations: the relentless, compounding cost of group health coverage. Dan lays out the landscape employers are dealing with right now. Hyperinflation in healthcare is running in the double digits with no slowdown projected for at least three to five years. Employers are capping employee hours to stay under the 50-employee mandate threshold, offering plans with $6,000 to $8,000 deductibles while still paying enormous premiums, and in some cases simply paying the government penalty because it costs less than the insurance itself. Trent Staggs, traveling the country talking to business owners, heard the same answer almost unanimously: the cost of health insurance is the number one problem in business today.

Dan explains why so many employers stay stuck, and why the traditional brokerage model is part of the problem rather than the solution. Then he walks through the alternative his firm Spica Employee Benefits is most committed to: Pareto Health, the largest employer captive in the country with nearly 4,500 member companies. The model pools smaller employers together to create the same buying power as a Fortune 500 company, driving down the cost of medical procedures, surgeries, and prescription drugs while actually improving the quality of care. Dan shares that a top-ranked orthopedic surgeon in Bountiful, Utah performing robotic knee surgery can cost half of what a lesser surgeon down the street charges, and that steering employees toward the best providers in every category means better outcomes and lower total cost. His firm’s goal is to get employers from 100% of their current fully insured cost down to around 80%, and often better, with one local Utah company saving $109,000 in their first year on 65 employees.

Dan closes with the wellness piece, sharing his own story of dropping his A1C from 5.9 to 4.1 through coaching, dietary changes, and targeted supplements, going from nearly being put on diabetes medication to his doctor calling him in disbelief. His message is that a culture of proactive health is just as important as the financial structure of the plan, and that a lot of expensive medical interventions are avoidable with the right support. For any employer with 50 or more employees who thinks they are already getting the best deal possible, Dan’s ask is simple: give his team 30 minutes. His parting wisdom for anyone building a career mirrors that same straightforward approach: work hard, become the subject matter expert in your field, and never stop investing in the people around you.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Brett Blackham, a Medicare and life insurance agent who built his business the slow, steady way while juggling his family’s retail pharmacy on the side. Brett came into the industry through his brother Bryce and spent years growing his book of business nights and weekends before finally going all in. If you’ve ever wondered what it really looks like to build something part-time before making the leap, this episode is your roadmap.

Brett opens up about what those first few years looked like: slow growth, leaning on a personal network built through years of pharmacy relationships, and using The Parable of the Pipeline as his guiding philosophy for building renewable income. The book’s core idea is simple but powerful. One person hauls buckets every day to make money while another spends time building a pipeline. The bucket hauler earns faster at first, but once the pipeline is built, there is no competition. Brett’s Medicare renewals were his pipeline, and he trusted the process even when the early returns were modest.

The conversation gets practical fast. Brett breaks down how he approached lead generation, starting with word of mouth and referrals, then buying leads strategically, and even working discarded leads other agents had written off. His philosophy is simple: a lead isn’t dead until they’re buying or dying. He shares the story of closing a life insurance policy on a lead card belonging to a grandmother who had passed away eight months earlier, proof that the right conversation at the right time beats a shiny new lead every time.

Ty and Brett also tackle the biggest misconceptions in the Medicare space, including the widespread belief that working with an agent costs money. It doesn’t. Brett explains how the same products available online or over the phone are available through an agent at no extra cost to the consumer, with the agent paid by the carrier. He also addresses something that hits close to home for both of them: clients who don’t think to call their agent when problems come up. Brett walks through a powerful real-life example involving a $3,500 ambulance bill that nearly got paid unnecessarily, resolved in minutes because a client finally picked up the phone.

Near the end of the episode, Brett reflects on what he would tell his younger self: you could have gotten here faster. Not because he was lazy, but because he didn’t yet believe how quickly it could happen. That insight leads to a broader conversation about the emotional weight of leaving guaranteed income behind and why the rule of thumb to wait until you’re earning double before cutting the cord exists for a reason, even if the math eventually makes the decision for you. Brett’s definition of success is one of the most grounded you’ll hear: balance. Enough financial resource, enough time, and enough freedom to follow what actually brings you joy. He doesn’t need a scoreboard. He needs to be at the game.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Chris Avery for a long awaited return appearance, and the reason is simple: the people demanded it. After Chris’s first appearance where he shared how he ran a marathon with zero training, listeners flooded the comments with amazement and curiosity. So Ty brings him back to answer the question everyone was asking: what happened after that first marathon, and how did it lead to 1,500 straight days of running? Chris breaks down why the streak is far harder and far more meaningful than the single marathon that started it all, and why showing up every day, even sick, even broken, even at 11 PM, is what actually builds the person you want to become.

Chris opens up about the moment the streak was born. He made the decision on January 8th, 2022, and was running by January 9th. No lag time, no overthinking, no room for doubt to creep in. He explains that most people kill their biggest dreams in the space between deciding and doing, and that acting fast is what turns a good idea into a real identity. Right now he is running 18 miles a day, burning through a pair of shoes every month, and waking up sore nearly every morning. But as he puts it, the soreness is worse lying in bed than once he gets moving, and the hardest part of every single day is simply getting out the door.

Chris also pulls back the curtain on his ultimate goal: starting January 1st, 2027, he will run the perimeter of America, covering 50K (31.1 miles) every single day for 365 straight days, finishing December 31st, 2027. One man, one family, one RV. If completed, he will become the first person ever to run an ultra marathon distance consecutively around the country, surpassing the current record of roughly 200 days. He talks about the role his wife, his brotherhood, and his faith have played in keeping him going through shin splints, hernias, blown shoulders, and one brutal night with the flu where finishing felt impossible but quitting felt worse. He shares how a single question from a brother in his community, asking what it would take just to get started, was enough to reset his mind and get him out the door at 11 PM, finishing as the sun came up the next morning.

His message is direct and personal: everybody has something calling them. Stop suppressing it. Stop delaying it. Breathe life into it and go do it, because as Les Brown says, the richest place in the world is the graveyard, full of symphonies never composed, books never written, and ideas that never got the chance to change the world. Chris refuses to add to that count, and after this episode, you just might too.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Tim Packer, a celebrated Canadian artist, former police detective, and creative business mentor whose story is as unlikely as it is inspiring. From the time Tim was 12 years old, he knew he wanted to be an artist. He took commercial art in high school, studied graphic design in college, and was so eager to get started that he was sitting in a college classroom at 17. But after two years of entry-level jobs in the industry that left him feeling like he just didn’t have what it took, Tim did something that would define the next two decades of his life. He joined the Toronto Police Force, where he spent 18 years, eventually working as a fraud detective in the commercial crime unit investigating cases over two million dollars.

Ty and Tim dig deep into the moment that changed everything, a single article Tim read featuring Canadian artist Harley Brown, who made a bold claim that talent isn’t something you’re born with, it’s something you build. Tim didn’t fully believe it at first, but he made a deal with himself to act as though he did for one year. He committed to painting three times a week, stopped avoiding the things he wasn’t good at, and started attacking his weaknesses like a detective working a case. By the end of that year, the results were undeniable. Within three years, the conversation with his wife had shifted from if he would leave the police force to paint full-time, to when. In 2000, he cashed in his pension and never looked back.

But the first five years were anything but a highlight reel. Tim opens up about the struggle of figuring out not just the art, but the business of art, and how every few months he was convinced the conversation about putting the suit back on was right around the corner. It wasn’t until year five that he found his voice and things truly took off, culminating in a gallery opening in Toronto in 2015 that looked like something out of a movie, with people lined up at the door, red dots going up on every painting, and Tim realizing he was on track to make over a quarter million dollars that year from his art alone. And in that moment of success, what hit him wasn’t pride. It was responsibility.

That responsibility led Tim to start his YouTube channel, sharing everything he’d learned with artists who were struggling the way he once had. Then in 2020, after a pair of near-death experiences with a thyroid condition left him lying on a gurney with his wife by his side, Tim came away with one nagging regret. He’d been playing it safe with his teaching. He launched the Tim Packer Art Academy, which has since helped over 10,000 artists, and recently released his book, You Can Sell Your Art, with one clear mission: helping artists make a living doing what they love.

Ty and Tim also get into the power of the word yet, the danger of comparing your chapter one to someone else’s chapter thirty, the myth that doing what you love means you’ll never work a day in your life, and why being an artist and being an entrepreneur are exactly the same thing. Tim’s message is clear and it hits hard: talent is not a gift you either have or you don’t. It is the sum total of your skills, knowledge, experience, and creativity, and every single one of those things can be developed, earned, and grown without a ceiling.

If you’ve ever talked yourself out of a dream because you didn’t think you were good enough, this episode is exactly what you need to hear.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Greg Mohr, franchise consultant, Founder of Franchise Maven, and two-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Greg has spent 12 years guiding over 260 entrepreneurs through the franchise evaluation process, helping them open more than 500 successful territories, and he does it all working just 10 to 15 hours a week.

Ty and Greg bust one of the biggest myths in franchising right out of the gate: that it’s only for people with deep pockets looking to open a McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A. Greg breaks down how franchising stretches across nearly every industry imaginable, from electrical services and senior care to crime scene cleanup, with many opportunities requiring as little as $20,000 down and manageable part-time hours. He also shares his signature 10-Operator Rule, a simple framework that takes 10 hours, costs nothing, and eliminates 60% of bad franchise opportunities before you risk a dime.

Greg’s core message is one Ty connects with deeply: build for alignment, not just income potential. The right franchise that plays to your natural strengths will outperform a bigger investment that doesn’t fit you every single time. If you’ve ever wondered whether owning a business is actually within reach, this episode is for you.

Pick up Greg’s book, Real Freedom: Why Franchises Are Worth Considering and How They Can Be Used for Building Wealth, and connect with him at franchisemaven.com or [email protected].

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Brian Greenberg, founder of Quoteplicity and best-selling author of The Salesman Who Doesn't Sell, to talk about how he cracked the code on selling life insurance without the grind. Brian shares his journey from fresh out of college with an entrepreneurship degree to becoming a million-dollar producer for ten straight years, all by figuring out how to let the internet do the heavy lifting. He opens up about his early days at MetLife doing direct mail for mortgage protection, knocking on doors, and trying to convince people to buy something they didn't think they needed, until he realized there had to be a better way.

Brian takes you through the moment everything changed when a client's brother died without life insurance and the family called him immediately, ready to buy. That's when he knew he wanted more customers like that, people who were already looking for life insurance instead of him having to sell them on it. So he built True Blue Life Insurance, a website where people could run their own quotes, read through FAQs, and request to talk to an agent only when they were ready. He talks about spending a million bucks on software, mastering SEO to rank on the first page of Google for a decade, and eventually getting 50 application requests a day from people who were basically pre-sold.

You'll hear about the systems he built to make the sales process so smooth that his agents just had to not screw it up, how he sold the website for a nice price a few years back, and why he started Quoteplicity to give other agents the same tools he used. Brian also dives into the role of AI in insurance sales, why agents aren't going anywhere, and the importance of building your personal brand online with a solid website, great reviews, and a social media presence that sells for you 24/7. His advice is simple: take your reputation seriously, don't go cheap on your website, and put in the work to attract a constant stream of leads, whether that's through SEO, social media, or good old-fashioned referrals.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Chris Avery, a faith-first performance coach who's been running every single day for over 1,400 days straight, and in 2027, he's planning to run 50k a day around the entire perimeter of America. Chris opens up about his journey from 17 years of addiction to drugs, alcohol, and pornography to finding God, meeting his wife, and discovering that running wasn't just about miles, it was about proving to himself and others that we're capable of way more than we think.

Chris takes you through the moment that changed everything, when he said yes to running his wife's last marathon with zero training just to be a good teammate, and how crossing that finish line unlocked something deeper, a spiritual connection and a new understanding of what it means to push past limiting beliefs. He talks about starting small with just one mile a day, building up to 17 miles a day now, and how the hardest days, like running 14 miles at 11:59 PM the night his son was born, became the ones that built the most purpose.

You'll hear about how Chris coaches men to stop thinking their way out of problems and start acting their way out, breaking down big goals into five-minute actions so small they almost seem stupid not to do. He shares his vision for the next 10 to 15 years, building a brotherhood of business owners, buying up real estate to create communities where men can support each other, mentor each other, and build businesses without the golden handcuffs of a salary. Chris wraps it up with his favorite Michelangelo quote about chipping away the marble that isn't you, reminding us that we're not lazy, we're just out of alignment, and the key is understanding who we are and getting into action as fast as possible.

If you're looking for a conversation about faith, discipline, fatherhood, and what it really takes to become the leader God is calling you to be, this episode is it.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty is joined by Kathryn Krick, a pastor, author, and founder of Five-Fold Church. Throughout this episode, Kathryn shares her powerful journey from pursuing a career in acting and music to stepping into full-time ministry. Leaving behind her dreams in Los Angeles, she followed an unexpected calling from God, despite a fear of public speaking and many early challenges, including preaching to only a few people in extreme heat during the pandemic.

Kathryn highlights how obedience and perseverance, despite slow growth and setbacks, eventually led to a breakthrough. A 59-second video she posted showcasing God’s power sparked a global response, with viewers reporting healing from COVID, anxiety, physical pain, and more. Kathryn emphasizes that staying faithful to God’s promptings, even when results are unseen, opens the door for miracles and transformation.

Now leading a thriving international ministry, Kathryn shares insights from her new book, Unlock Your Deliverance, which offers practical steps to spiritual freedom. She encourages listeners that healing and abundant life are available to all who seek God with their whole heart, and ends the episode by praying for freedom and healing through the screen.

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On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty is joined by Kathryn Krick, a pastor, author, and founder of Five-Fold Church. Throughout this episode, Kathryn shares her powerful journey from pursuing a career in acting and music to stepping into full-time ministry. Leaving behind her dreams in Los Angeles, she followed an unexpected calling from God, despite a fear of public speaking and many early challenges, including preaching to only a few people in extreme heat during the pandemic.

Kathryn highlights how obedience and perseverance, despite slow growth and setbacks, eventually led to a breakthrough. A 59-second video she posted showcasing God’s power sparked a global response, with viewers reporting healing from COVID, anxiety, physical pain, and more. Kathryn emphasizes that staying faithful to God’s promptings, even when results are unseen, opens the door for miracles and transformation.

Now leading a thriving international ministry, Kathryn shares insights from her new book, Unlock Your Deliverance, which offers practical steps to spiritual freedom. She encourages listeners that healing and abundant life are available to all who seek God with their whole heart, and ends the episode by praying for freedom and healing through the screen.

For more information and to keep up with Kathryn, make sure to follow her here;

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