Coffee & Grit
🎙️ Welcome to Coffee & Grit, where stories are served information with soul! Dive into the wild terrain of entrepreneurship & visionary leadership with Jason Tracey as he nterviews resilient individuals who have conquered the jungle of business and community impact. Each episode is jam packed with powerful insights and inspiration to fuel your own journey. Join us as we sip on tales of triumph, perseverance, and the indomitable human spirit. Subscribe now and let's brew success together, one story at a time! ☕💼 #CoffeeAndGrit #Entrepreneurship #VisionaryLeadership #PersonalDevelopment Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/coffee-grit--5708348/support.
Episodes
This week I’m sitting down with Steve Koch, and this conversation is going to hit a lot of you right where you live as business owners.
Because here’s the truth…
Most of us didn’t start our business because we love numbers. We started because we love what we do. We love serving people. We love building something.
But at some point… if you ignore the numbers, th...
Are you building a job or are you building something that lasts?
Brandon’s story started pretty humbly. Picture a power washer, a ladder sticking out of the trunk o...
Brenda shares her journey from complete paralysis around public speaking to becoming someone who now teaches mindfulness, resilience, and emotional regulation ...
I’ve got a returning guest in the studio today my friend Desiree Martinez, fresh off writing her new book Stop Marketing and Start Belonging… and this conversation is a wake-up call for every business owner who feels like they’re doing “all the marketing things” but still not getting the traction they want.
We get into the real stuff:
-Why community still bea...
I’ve got my guy Steven Betel-The Mortgage Family Man-back in the studio for round two, and this one goes way deeper than we planned. It starts with “the little things” such as mics, systems, daily habits and turns into a real conversation about life, presence, relationships, and what it actually means to build something that matters.
This episode is about bre...
This one hit different because Siobhan isn’t just a Difference Maker out in the wild. She’s family. And what I love about this conversation is that it’s not some polished “overnight success” story. It’s a real, human journey: Ireland ...
In the conversation with Noreen Owens is one of those conversations that reminds me why I started Coffee & Grit in the first place.
Because yeah… we literally had to re record it...
Technology did what technology does sometimes, and I had that “kicked in the stomach” moment where you realize you just burned an hour of another entrepreneur’s time. But here’s...
This one started as a content session out of Difference Maker Bootcamp… and it got way too real, way too fast to keep it tucked away. Because what you’re about to hear isn’t “a credit card processing episode.”It’s a story about becoming someone new. It’s about walking out of corporate survival mode and into community, purpose, and conviction.
Kristie came into Bootcamp as the behind the scene...
This week it’s just you and me in the studio.
A meeting got rescheduled, the room was quiet, and I had two stories sitting heavy on my heart so I hit record. What came out is part networking smackdown, part mindset reset, and part faith-filled gut check for anyone stuck in their own head right now.
We start with a moment from a recent networking group.
A nervous guest blows past her on...
What happens when you sit down in person with someone who’s been walking this journey with you for years… and you finally get to throw the virtual world aside and dig into the real stuff?
This is Part 2 of our in-studio conversation with Sparkle Lindsay, recorded during her visit to Loud Mouth Studios on September 11th. If you haven’t li...
What if we stopped trying to fix kids and started helping them return to who they were before fear took over?
In this powerful episode, Steve Livingway joins Jason Tracey to share the mission behind Reaching Higher. A leadership program that doesn’t hand out answers, but helps students rediscover the truth they were born with: that they matter, that they belong, and th...
After surviving a traumatic car accident the day before her wedding, Michelle Allen learned firsthand how pain can either destroy or transform us. Her journey from hospital patient to healing advocate is nothing short of miraculous, and her story is reshaping how we view cannabis, community impact, and what it means to live with pu...
What do you get when you blend relentless vision, deep emotional intelligence, and a commitment to doing things differently?
You get Andrew Black.
In this episode, I finally sit down with the man who’s been a silent force behind so many amazing Coffee & Grit guests. A connector, a truth-teller, a seed-planter, and a Difference Maker who’s rewriting the rul...
That moment when the system we’ve been living in no longer makes sense, and no one around us is saying it out loud.
Melissa Merem hit that wall. And instead of turning back, she started building something different.
In this episode, Melissa shares what it looks like to deconstruct the lies, tune into your calling, and walk forward in obedience — even when it’s messy, even when it’s uncomfort...
She wasn’t supposed to make it.
But not only did she survive, she’s now leading the charge to make sure others don’t have to walk that same road. As Development Manager for Livingston County Habitat for Humanity, Jennifer doesn’t just raise money. She builds stories. She builds connection. She builds purpose...
He cleans hearts, lights up rooms, and sets fires in the souls of the people around him.
In this powerful return to Coffee & Grit, Robert joins me years after our first conversation back when I was rocking a single mic and a GoPro at Grit and Lavender. Back then, he was just launching his cleaning business.
Now? He’s letting his life be the sermon. Every room he walks into business, brother...
Meet Beth Smith – Designer, Disruptor, and Founder of Beth Smith Couture
Back in January I walked into Single Barrel Social for a Howell Chamber Happy Hour and that is when spotted Beth Smith across the room. I didn’t know who she was. I didn’t know what she did.
But I knew she was a Difference Maker.
Nine months later, we finally made it happen and it was worth the wai...
He walked into a room full of closers fresh out of training, scared out of his mind, with no real plan and zero belief in his abilities. But he had something most people miss the drive to figure it out, the humility to keep learning, and the heart to actually care about people.
That was 23 years ago.
Now he is the guy business owners turn to when their sales process is a ...
Some people shine.
And some people walk through the fire and become the damn fire. That describes Sparkle Lindsay perfectly! Because this is not just another episode. It is a reunion, a revelation, and a reminder of what happens when you stop waiting and start walking toward your calling. Sparkle returns to Coffee & Grit five years after we first connected on LinkedIn. Back then, she was barely a year into ...
This is a story about choosing to rise differently with love, with grace, and with fire. Joni Woods came back into the studio just weeks before her book Burned, Blocked & Better Than Ever drops. But this conversation?
It went way beyond a book launch. Joni doesn’t just talk about resilience. She lives it.
From sleeping in her car after escaping a toxic mar...
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