From No Connections to VIP Network: How Free-Work is the Path to Influence & Wealth “College-football playbooks weren’t half as tough as the leadership drills Marc Nudelberg just put me through.”

Former Division-I coach-turned-performance strategist Marc Nudelberg sat across from me and proved that the grit it takes to build championship teams on Saturday is the exact same grit businesses need at 7 a.m. Monday. From becoming the NCAA’s youngest coordinator at 26, to re-engineering sales cultures with his firm On The Ball, Marc has turned the locker-room 1% rule, get a little better every day, into a bottom-line growth engine that works long after the stadium lights go out.

Marc explains why discipline beats talent once you hit the pros, how to reverse-engineer giant goals into today’s non-negotiable behaviors, and the boundary system he uses to protect his three priorities: self-care, family, and the business.

💡 In this episode, we dive into:
✅ The real 1% rule: translating Tuesday’s invisible reps into Saturday’s visible wins
✅ Preparation • Personalization • Persistence: Marc’s 3-P framework for recession-proof business development
✅ Warren Buffett’s 5/25 filter, and why your to-do list probably needs a shredder
✅ Failure as fuel: what getting fired taught Marc about owning outcomes he didn’t cause
✅ Time blocking like a coach: turning 20 NCAA hours into a masterclass on modern time management

Marc also shares the mindset hack that detaches action from emotion (“Feel tired, run anyway”), reveals how to turn no-pay grunt work into career-defining opportunities, and reminds every leader that caring enough to tell the hard truth is still the ultimate competitive advantage.