In this episode of Battle Ready (aired January 22, 2026), host Rickey Chavez is joined by executive coach and Continuum Leaders co-founder Carlos Martin for a powerful conversation on people-first leadership under pressure. The episode explores executive coaching, self-discovery, emotional intelligence, values alignment, succession planning, and leading through burnout, growth, and uncertainty. Carlos shares real-world insights on helping entrepreneurs and senior leaders build awareness, clarity, and resilience while staying grounded in humanity. A must-watch for leaders facing real responsibility, real pressure, and real consequences.

In this impactful episode of Battle Ready, host Ricky Chavez sits down with digital growth strategist Marilyn Jenkins, founder of Law Marketing Zone, to address one of the most critical challenges facing today’s leaders: lack of visibility.

Many high-performing leaders are doing exceptional work but still losing influence, momentum, and revenue because they are not seen in an increasingly digital world. This episode reframes visibility as a leadership responsibility—not a marketing luxury—and explores how disciplined digital strategy, reinvention, and execution restore authority and confidence.

The conversation covers social media visibility, YouTube and Google strategy, leadership reinvention, delegation under pressure, and building accountable, mission-ready teams. Marilyn shares real-world examples from law firms and service-based businesses that have scaled to seven figures by adapting to modern leadership demands.

• (00:00:15) - Battle Ready: What Your Law Firm Needs to Know
• (00:01:01) - Leader Visibility
• (00:02:42) - Top Influencer Real Estate: How Social Media Is Changing Business
• (00:05:54) - The Future of Posting on Social Media
• (00:10:37) - Podcasts and Videos can be scheduled in YouTube
• (00:11:43) - Battle Ready: Reinventing Yourself Through Now Media TV
• (00:12:50) - Battle Ready: Reinvention
• (00:14:18) - What mindset shift is required to move from traditional leadership to digital leadership
• (00:15:07) - Inner reinvention: How to Overwhelm Your Clients
• (00:16:59) - How to get more views on your videos?
• (00:18:41) - How to add videos to your Google Business Profile
• (00:19:34) - How to create a blog and a transcription page on Google Business Profile
• (00:23:47) - Battle Ready: Building Teams With Accountability
• (00:24:17) - What is one of the biggest challenge leaders have when they're trying
• (00:26:20) - Delegation and Accountability
• (00:30:24) - How to Build a Team of Experts
• (00:32:35) - How a Leadership Structure Changed Team Performance
• (00:33:50) - Have You Got a Multilingual Clients?
• (00:36:15) - Battle Ready
• (00:37:16) - Why Leaders struggle to release control even when it limits growth
• (00:43:21) - Let Go
• (00:47:45) - Stay Battle Ready

In this powerful episode of Battle Ready, aired 12-04-25, host Ricky Chavez sits down with leadership coach and trust advisor Dr. Deepak Butra to explore what it truly means to lead, sell, and communicate with confidence instead of fear.

This episode breaks down why self-promotion feels uncomfortable, how to overcome the fear of rejection, and why perfectionism often sabotages performance. Dr. Butra shares practical frameworks on shifting from selling to serving, separating personal worth from outcomes, and building resilience before challenges arise.

From leadership under pressure to mindset, discipline, and consistency, this conversation delivers actionable insights for professionals, entrepreneurs, and sales leaders who want to grow with clarity and purpose.

• (00:00:00) - Battle Ready: Selling Yourself With Confidence
• (00:00:54) - Why Selling or Promoting Yourself Feels So Uncomfortable For
• (00:05:47) - Self-Serving vs. Serving People
• (00:07:11) - How to Lead With Emotion
• (00:11:53) - Battle Ready: The Fear of Rejection
• (00:12:30) - Why Personal Rejection Is So Powerful
• (00:16:53) - 3 Things Every Salesperson Needs To Do to Become a Great Sales
• (00:21:26) - Ricky and Nick on Energy Management
• (00:22:49) - Deepak on LinkedIn and His Website
• (00:24:32) - Why Perfectionism Is So Common Among High-Achievers
• (00:27:51) - Ketan On The Circle Of Influence
• (00:32:13) - Practice Makes Perfect, but
• (00:35:17) - Culture and Structure in Business
• (00:37:20) - What It Really Means to Be Battle Ready
• (00:42:24) - In the Army, Retreat is Not Defeat
• (00:42:47) - What Behavior separates Those Who Rise and Those Who Fall?
• (00:46:38) - Battle Ready: How to Stop Perfectionism at 40