All In With Rick Jordan

How many times have you heard someone say "I take full accountability" or "That's on me"? They seem sincere. They really do. But then what happens? Nothing changes. Same behavior. Same mistakes. Same bullshit. That's because accountability isn't about what you say. It's about what you do after you say it. We've got this accountability canvas in the office. Do it. Own it. Solve it. Those aren't just words. They're actions. Because true accountability is about taking action. Not just talking about taking action. Actually doing it. So when someone tells you "I take full accountability," ask them this. "Cool. So what are you going to do now?" Watch them get stunned. Because most people haven't thought past the words. They think saying it is enough. It's not. Here's what real accountability looks like. Five things. Not one. Five. Expressing self-awareness about your behaviors and moving forward with integrity. Making a plan of action to ensure the issue doesn't happen again. This isn't about perfection. Acknowledg

What’s shaking? I’m Rick Jordan, and today we’re going ALL IN with someone who’s truly redefining what it means to chase the American Dream. My guest, Shayra Melo, is a Colombian-American powerhouse in the world of AI and blockchain—and she’s here fresh off the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, where she just helped ring the bell as her company, Vocodia, went public. We dive deep into what it really takes to build something big—the mindset, the grind, and the unseen work that happens behind the scenes when you’re growing 200% year after year. Shayra opens up about her journey from early crypto investor to tech innovator, her mission to bring privacy and protection to AI through blockchain, and how she’s turning cutting-edge technology into tools that keep people—and kids—safe.We Meet: Shayra Melo, Colombian CEO & Founder of TouchBrick - Building a Public CompanyConnect:Connect with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrrickjordanConnect with Shayra: https://www.instagram.com/shayra.me/ Subscribe & Review

Most people get networking completely wrong. Dead wrong. They show up at events looking for business. Looking for clients. Looking for what they can get. That's why they fail. That's why their network stays small. That's why they stay stuck. I built my publicly traded cybersecurity company from being one person 14 years ago to almost 100 employees. You know how? Through my network. Through intentionally building relationships with people who've been where I wanted to go. Finding mentors who've done it before. Connecting with people who could fill the gaps I couldn't fill myself. Here's what nobody tells you about networking. You don't go to events to find business. You go to bring value. You go to teach. You go to offer yourself and see what you can do for other people. Even more important. You go to ask for help. That's the secret right there. Asking for help is the biggest service you can give someone. My friend David Meltzer says if you don't ask somebody for help you're robbing them of the opportunity to

Brian Decker gets it. This dude actually gets what it means to be a serial entrepreneur. Not the fake kind you see plastered all over social media. The real kind. Brian spent 22 years building businesses the right way. Started as a CPA. Hated it. Jumped into mortgage lending right before the 2008 crash. Then doubled down when everyone else ran away. Built himself into one of the top loan officers in the country. Made multiple seven figures. Then did something most people never do. He recognized the trap. So he did what real entrepreneurs do. Kept the golden goose running. Took one out of every eight golden eggs. Invested it into the next thing. Then the next. Now he's CEO of a solar energy company with AI and machine learning built in. Recurring revenue model. SaaS multiple. Patent potential. That's how you build real wealth. Brian breaks down the mentality shift from chasing money to watching your employees' lives change. That Christmas party where someone's wife thanks you in tears because she could finally

We’ve all experienced it in some way. Maybe it’s something that happened once and hit you deep, or maybe it was a pattern that played out over time. Either way, trauma shapes how we see the world. But here’s the deal—it’s not supposed to define who we are forever. Somewhere along the line, “trauma” became a buzzword. It turned into something people wear like a badge instead of something they actually work to heal. So, I’m calling this out today. If you’re aware of your trauma but keep using it as an excuse, stop talking about it and start doing something about it. Awareness is powerful, but it’s only the first step. The real transformation happens when you put in the work to change how you think, how you react, and how you show up in life. That’s when people start noticing something different about you—because healing is magnetic. Let’s talk about how to move from victim to victor and take your power back.Connect:Connect with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrrickjordanSubscribe & Review to ALL IN with Rick Jorda

What’s shakin’? I went all in today with someone who truly understands the evolution of digital marketing — John Sampogna, co-founder and CEO of Wonder Sauce, a creative agency behind some of the most innovative brand stories out there. John’s worked with massive names like Samsung, Brookfield, and Subway, and been featured in outlets like CNBC, Yahoo, and Digiday — but what really stood out in this convo was his honesty about what makes modern marketing work. We dug deep into the difference between branding and marketing, how companies get lost chasing performance metrics, and why storytelling and authenticity still reign supreme. John also dropped major insight on how AI is transforming the creative world — not replacing creators, but enhancing them. We even got into how his team uses AI responsibly to make campaigns smarter, faster, and more human. This one is for every entrepreneur, marketer, and creator trying to navigate the new digital frontier. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by “hustle culture” in ma

This is the sequel to my episode on what makes a good man. That one was about character. This one is about the daily work. The things you earn. The things you can't buy. Three things every man needs to work on every single day. A fit body. A calm mind. A house full of love. None of these come easy. None of these stay without consistency. All of them are temporary without intention. A fit body isn't about six-pack abs. It's about showing up. Five days a week. Thirty minutes minimum. Watching what you put in your body. The formula is simple. Your target weight times ten equals your calorie intake. Add some dumbbell work. That's it. Stop overcomplicating it. A calm mind doesn't mean you're not an entrepreneur with twenty-seven ideas in the shower. It means emotional stability. Being grounded. You can get angry and still have a calm mind. You can get pissed off and still have a calm mind. It's about bringing yourself back to baseline. Making choices instead of reacting. That's what leads to a house full of love.

Greg Wilson knows money. This dude spent years as a CPA and CFO helping other people build wealth and raise capital. Built a service business from scratch. Helped companies achieve multi-figure exits. Now he's taking everything he learned and applying it to his own real estate development projects. Greg breaks down the difference between debt and equity financing. When to use each one. How to avoid the toxic debt that kills businesses at 40-50% APR. He walks through the real cost of capital and why understanding your cash flow is literally the difference between survival and death in business. We dive into his transition from doing this for everyone else to doing it for himself. His first development project in Houston. $5 million total build-out for industrial flex space with a $7.5 million exit value in 24 months. Greg shows you how he found the right partners who've done a quarter billion in development and how he's bringing his friends into deals to build wealth together. The pandemic money was crazy. $2

Jordan Peterson dropped something on Instagram that stopped me cold. "If you're not having to think about something big and stressful, then all you'll think about is something small and delusional." Hit me like a truck. Made me realize something about the difference between people who grow and people who stay stuck. Right now I'm thinking about building companies. Taking the company public. Speaking gigs. My kids turning eighteen soon. Real things. Big things. Stressful things. But they're actually happening. They matter. They push me forward. But when you don't have bigger challenges your brain fixates on this meaningless stuff. It treats minor inconveniences like major crises. That's the trap of comfort. When you remove real challenges from your life you don't get peace. You get obsessed with trivial problems. Here's what I learned about stress and pressure. They're not something to avoid. They're something to seek out. The only way to grow is through pressure. The only way to gain experience is through str

Arjun Dingra brought something special to this conversation. Two-time Taekwondo world champion. Twenty-five years in mortgage and real estate. Founder of the LFG Society. This man understands resilience at levels most people never reach. Arjun's story starts with getting bullied as a kid. His mom accidentally put him in Taekwondo instead of karate. That mistake changed everything. But here's what really got me. Arjun survived 2008. That financial collapse wiped out most people in mortgage and real estate. Six hundred thousand professionals exited the industry. Arjun stayed. Not because he was smarter than everyone else. Because he understood something deeper about resilience. Arjun felt that loneliness and vowed never to let anyone else experience it alone. That's where the LFG Society came from. Not from success. From surviving the worst and wanting to make sure others don't suffer alone. The LFG Society isn't just another mastermind. It's a community built on martial arts principles. Good students learn any

What’s shakin’? In this episode, I’m diving into a powerful message inspired by one of my favorite artists, Ed Sheeran, and his song Save Myself. There’s a line in that track that stopped me in my tracks: “Before I save someone else, I’ve got to save myself.” That hit me deep—and I think it’s something you need to hear today too. Here’s the truth: so many of us give and give until there’s nothing left, pouring from cups that are already half-empty. Whether it’s people-pleasing, distraction from our own struggles, or just pure compassion, we end up neglecting ourselves. But the only way to give in a healthy way is to build from overflow—when your cup is filled so high that it naturally spills over into others’. In this episode, I break down why loving yourself, forgiving yourself, and taking full responsibility for where you are is the key to getting where you want to be.Connect:Connect with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrrickjordanSubscribe & Review to ALL IN with Rick Jordan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.co

Today I’m going ALL IN with Chris Van Dusen, a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist and senior partner at Solyco Capital. Chris shares how a career-ending baseball injury unexpectedly launched him into entrepreneurship, leading to multiple exits—including one for $75 million—and ultimately into venture capital. We dig into the highs and lows of building businesses, the reality of raising money, and the difference between lifestyle businesses and scalable ventures. Chris also breaks down how his firm flips the script on traditional venture investing, why people matter as much as products, and what investors really look for before writing a check. If you’ve ever thought about raising money, scaling big, or just want to hear the raw truth from someone who’s been in the trenches, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.We Meet: Chris Van Dusen, Senior Partner at Solyco CapitalConnect:Connect with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrrickjordanConnect with Chris: https://www.solycocapital.com/chris-van-dusen/ 

Time for some tough love. These four areas will absolutely destroy your life if you let them. Maybe you're doing great right now. Share this with someone who isn't. Maybe you recognize yourself in these patterns. Either way this episode is a mirror you need to look into. These four areas connect to each other. Neglect health and you can't perform. Mismanage money and you can't invest in health or learning. Isolate socially and you lose support systems. Stop developing and everything stagnates. I've faced all of these at different times. The regret is real. But hanging onto regret keeps you stuck. Feel it. Process it. Then move forward. These patterns still try to pull at me. Travel makes health harder. Need to pack gym clothes intentionally. Money management requires constant attention. Social connections need nurturing. Learning never stops. Today can be the day you shift. Stop ruining your life in these four simple ways. Start building something better. Connect:Connect with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrri

Spencer Lodge blew my mind today. Top 100 most influential people in Dubai. Sales legend. Financial planning expert. This man built an empire on four simple steps that most people completely ignore. Spencer doesn't believe in cold calling. Says it's ridiculous. Waste of time. Instead he built a system that generated 45 referrals per week. Forty-five. Let that sink in. His approach is pure genius. Every prospect he meets gets asked for referrals whether they buy or not. Think about it. If you close four out of ten prospects what happens to the other six? Most salespeople walk away with nothing. Spencer walks away with referrals from all ten. That's the difference between average and legendary. His sales process is dead simple. Spencer spent 33 years overseas building wealth while others bought watches and cars for external validation. Now he focuses on teaching people the difference between assets and liabilities. Between security and restriction. Spencer chooses to hang around entrepreneurs and commission ear

Most people suck at supporting others. Yeah I said it. You want to help but you end up making things worse. You jump in with unsolicited advice. You minimize their feelings. You compare their situation to someone else's. Stop doing that. Stop trying to give them perspective. Stop saying "it was meant to happen" or "you're better off" or "God doesn't give you more than you can handle." That's not helping. That's minimizing their pain. Those phrases make people feel small and unheard. You want to help? Validate their feelings instead. Say "that sucks" or "I can't imagine how painful that is." You're not validating what they're feeling. You're validating their right to feel something. Their emotions matter. Their emotions don't need to be hidden. Don't compare their situation to anyone else's. Don't say "I've been there" or "this happened to my friend too." Their pain is theirs. Their situation is unique. If you want them to find examples, ask questions. "Do you know anyone who went through something similar? Ho

Philip Moranto's story hit me different. Former pro skateboarder turned mindset coach. But this isn't your typical athlete success story. This is about surviving chaos and choosing to rebuild. Philip grew up in a world most of us can't imagine. Father had him at 47. Brothers in their 50s. Out till one in the morning as a kid with older crowds. Violence. Drugs. Crime. All before he was even a teenager. Skateboarding saved his life. Gave him structure when everything else was falling apart. Purpose when the world felt purposeless. But here's what most people don't know about pro sports. The window closes fast. Really fast. At 25 Philip was told he was too old to pursue skateboarding. Twenty-five. Let that sink in. Most of his buddies fell off the financial cliff after their careers ended. No plan. No preparation. No understanding of life after the sport. Philip watched talented people end up homeless. Saw legends struggling just to survive. That's when everything changed for him. Between 24 and 28 his world col

Gen Z just dropped some serious wisdom on all of us. Their top three restaurants blew my mind. Not because of what they picked. But because of what it reveals about what actually matters to customers. Chick-fil-A hit number one. Yeah you heard that right. Not McDonald's with tens of thousands of locations. Chick-fil-A with just 2,300 restaurants. And all the political bullshit that surrounds them didn't matter one bit. Because Gen Z gets it.Chick-fil-A at number one shows us something incredible. They have what I call checkpoint systems. Rhythms with their customers. You talk to four different people by the time you get your food. Each one focused on making your experience better. And at the end they don't say thank you. They say "My pleasure." Those two words change everything. Because it's not just transactional. It's relational. Here's what every business owner needs to understand. Politics don't pay your bills. Customers do. And customers want to feel taken care of. They want consistency. They want to kno

This conversation with Dennis Morolda on Building Men hit differently. We went deep into what it means to become a man when life forces you to grow up fast. How losing my dad at 16 changed everything. And why the moment my uncle caught me running from the house became one of the most defining moments of my life. When Dad got leukemia everything changed. The day after he passed Mom came home. Went straight to my brother and sister. I knew. Bolted out the door. I felt completely alone. The one person who really understood me was gone. Didn't even know my Uncle Arden was there. He caught me in a bear hug as I was running. Said Rick you're the man of the house now. I asked why. He said I don't know. Those two words changed my life. I don't know. Not some made up answer. Not because I told you so. Just the honest truth that sometimes there are no answers. That validation in the moment of my confusion. Plus knowing I wasn't alone. He saw me. He understood me. He'd be there. Connect:Connect with Rick: https://l

 I was filming a TV show called Two-Minute Drill with David Meltzer last week. Pitch show format like Shark Tank but for pitching not funding. I was a guest judge alongside pro athletes and celebrities. One of them was Austin Eckler. Running back for the Los Angeles Chargers. And this dude's intensity blew me away. Austin's face was frozen in concentration the entire time. So intently listening to every pitch that they had to do reaction shots of him after because his expression never changed. You could see how he plays football just by watching him judge these pitches. That devotion to the moment. That intensity. It was insane to witness. After we wrapped Austin comes up to me. Starts asking about my life. Kids. Business. Sports. Then he hits me with this question. What's your biggest financial tip for me. I'm like excuse me. Here's a dude making millions of dollars a year in the NFL asking me for financial advice. And I found out he's only 27 years old. What really struck me was when Austin said he lov

This conversation blew me away. Shyra Melo is 27 years old. First generation Colombian-American. And tomorrow she's ringing the bell at the Chicago Board of Trade as part of a company going public. But here's the kicker. Six years ago she was just a 21-year-old who heard about this Bitcoin thing on the news and decided to invest. Shyra's journey started when she kept hearing about Bitcoin everywhere. Financial advisors were telling her it would never grow. She decided to ignore them and invest anyway. That curiosity about crypto led her deeper into blockchain technology. She started understanding the real value wasn't in the coins but in the underlying tech. The chains. The propositions. The actual problems they were solving. Then she met Jason Melo. Her now husband and CTO who founded Paxo. She had a vision for privacy solutions on blockchain. He was working at a unicorn company and wasn't sure about leaving for another startup. But the vision was there. They saw the opportunity to create something different