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

In this powerful episode of Battle Ready, host Rickey Chavez sits down with Ryan Herpin, co-founder and managing partner of Impact Strategies & Consulting, for an honest and grounded conversation about leadership, uncertainty, and the pressure many leaders feel to appear perfect. With more than a decade of experience helping organizations optimize operations, increase profitability, and build resilient leadership teams, Ryan offers a refreshing, human centered approach to leading in complex environments.

Ryan shares his experience of being placed into leadership roles early in his career and the imposter syndrome that followed. Rather than pretending to have all the answers, he explains how curiosity, self-awareness, and humility became essential tools for earning trust and creating alignment within teams. The discussion highlights why the strongest leaders listen to understand not just to respond—and how asking the right questions often unlocks better solutions than giving directives.

In this powerful episode of Battle Ready, host Rickey Chavez sits down with Jose Pereira, a seasoned executive with over 35 years of leadership experience and former CEO of Citgo Petroleum, to share a story that redefines resilience, faith, and true leadership under pressure.

Jose recounts the life-altering moment when a routine business trip to Venezuela ended in his abduction and nearly five years of captivity as an international hostage. Stripped of freedom, status, and comfort, Jose endured solitary confinement, extreme deprivation, and profound uncertainty yet discovered an unbreakable inner strength forged through faith, reflection, and purpose.

In this powerful episode of Battle Ready (Aired 11-20-2025), we dive deep into the emotional and mental battles people face when trying to break old patterns and create a stronger, healthier life. Through honest conversation and real stories, this episode explores why so many of us stay stuck in cycles that no longer serve us — and what it truly takes to rise above them.

Listeners will discover practical tools for emotional resilience, strategies to shift limiting beliefs, and insights on how past experiences shape present decisions. This episode empowers you to confront what holds you back, reclaim your confidence, and build a life rooted in purpose, strength, and clarity.

Whether you're navigating personal challenges, seeking motivation, or looking for a fresh perspective to fuel your growth, this episode delivers the inspiration and mindset shifts you need. Battle Ready brings unfiltered conversations that help you transform obstacles into opportunities and step boldly into the person you’re meant to become.

• (00:00:00) - Battle Ready
• (00:00:52) - Seeking Purpose in Your Career
• (00:05:54) - Adam on Starting a Business Again
• (00:08:54) - How to Rejuvenate Your Passion
• (00:11:47) - Battle Ready
• (00:12:33) - Starting Over: Battle Ready With Adam Henry
• (00:12:58) - Why Do People Fear Change So Much?
• (00:16:19) - What Your Definition of Success
• (00:22:31) - When to Move On From Your Job?
• (00:25:02) - Finding The Balance Between Work and Life
• (00:25:26) - Steve Jobs on Work-Life Balance
• (00:35:09) - Adam Levine on Fire
• (00:37:05) - Battle Ready
• (00:37:57) - Take Care of Yourself On Vacation
• (00:39:27) - Why Failure Feels So Final For So Many People
• (00:45:18) - Adam Warren Henry: How to Normalize Failure

In this heartfelt episode of Battle Ready, hosts Rickey Chavez and Clint Honeycutt explore what it truly means to lead with integrity, courage, and purpose in today’s challenging world. Through honest conversation and shared experiences, they reflect on how faith and service can guide leaders through uncertainty, helping them stay grounded while uplifting others.

On this episode of Battle Ready, host Rickey Chavez sits down with award-winning entrepreneur and top HR leader Risha Grant to explore one of life’s hardest internal battles: the feeling of not belonging. Whether in the workplace, family, or community, that sense of invisibility can weigh heavily on self-worth.