The AJNashville Podcast

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Jun 2026

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@The AJNashville Podcast will feature guests from all walks of life. You will hear stories of success, stories of failure. Most of all, you will hear how people have overcome the failures in life and made something epic out of the lessons they have learned. This podcast will have entertaining and intriguing content for listeners everywhere. Our goal is to positively impact a million lives in our lifetime. Our messages are meant to provoke thought and spark conversations through the encouragement of a healthy mindset and lifestyle. We are here to motivate you to build the relationships you need that will help you create the life you want to live through actions NOW. Explicit language is highly possible; please air with care!

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June 13, 2026Episode 1314 min

Accounting For Your Legacy

Let's talk about the grace and forgiveness for things that aren't as big as they may seem to be when they occur. We all make mistakes and we can either let that mistake be the end of the impact, or we can allow our reactions to make an even bigger impact. Accountability is how we can learn to overcome our mistakes and create new healthy patterns we can rely on. Consistent execution is how we build that action of accountability into repeatable reliability. Accountability today creates a legacy tomorrow. Having a backup plan helps ensure the execution takes place regardless of any setbacks that may pop up in life. Remember though, actions speak louder than words. If you want to truly teach others, you have to do it that way for yourself first to prove success is possible for all. Make a plan you can execute on and stick to it. Or, know that if the day isn't rigid, it's okay to relax and give yourself grace in order to enjoy that much needed rest. Don't cast your unrealistic expectations onto others without having an intentional plan in place to ensure its success. Know that achievements aren't made without consistent effort and execution behind it. Live your life with solutions, erase the excuses, give grace to humanity, and lead by example. Be part of a community that doesn't just expect to be magically saved from all of life's problems, but willing to support each other with reciprocation when needed. We are all going through something, remember that before you so quickly cast judgment or blame. Show forgiveness when accidents happen and make a positive impact on other people you encounter. Feeding the hate mill is easy, take accountability and be the example of integrity you wish to see in other people, especially those little people who look up to you to teach them how to live life.

June 6, 2026Episode 1216 min

#12 Hittin' Home

It is in times of tragedy that we must connect with one another and renew faith in life and its greater purpose. With loss comes a deep necessity to support each other and lift spirits beyond the earthquake that is a challenged reality. Whether in times of celebration or grief, we must give comfort as a family would. Many times we think we are the ultimate teachers of those younger than ourselves, only to realize we are also learning simultaneously from them just as much. We avoid accepting certain lessons until we are forced to under drastic circumstances, forced to realize how much we took for granted before the lesson hit us so hard we have no other choice but to be grateful with hindsight. We doubt our faith and challenge our beliefs in order to make sense of what we know to be a natural order of life, questioning God's goodness and timing of darkened heartbreak, rather than fully submerging ourselves in the restorative waters of His divine power and light when we most need hope. We have to shift our perspective from staying focused on the spiral of night and remember the joy day brings, knowing there is a natural balance that must occur, yet is never absolute in one way or the other. Too often we see opportunity as some negative burden because we have allowed our perception to skew the positive reality right before our very eyes into something it truly is not. How selfish are we to sabotage our own thoughts and happiness when things happen differently than we were expecting? How often do we end up letting our "bad day" try to consume other people's good nature only so we can feel "right"? Is it better to be right or righteous? Seize the opportunities that sit in front of you today because you may not have the chance again tomorrow. Provide the profound experiences and make a positive impact on others you come in contact with in life. Comprehend the rippling effects you have on others when you act and communicate, especially to your children. Let them be free to be little, let them play with joyous hearts, let them remain innocent without your judgmental barking. Do the adult things you want to do and do it now, without constantly involving the children in the mess that is adulthood you have created and allowed for yourself. Better yet, go tell yourself how to grow up before you force them to do so and miss out on their own time to shine as kids.

May 23, 2026Episode 1114 min

Rights + Freedoms

When you are celebrating Memorial Day weekend, what is it that really comes to mind for you? Do you think more deeply than grilling out with your buddies and beers in the backyard? Maybe thank a veteran when you pay enough attention to your surroundings beyond your phone screen? Do you dwell on the losses of others who are no longer here and able to celebrate with you? How do you decide to live your day to your maximum potential based on the freedoms and rights you are still privileged to as a great American citizen? How many of those rights are constantly under attack by other people that may or may not still exist by Memorial Day next year? You have to stand for the values you believe in if you still want to live with them in the same place they always have been. Standing means sacrificing, day in and day out. Celebrating means honoring the sacrifices it took to still stand free today, able to even celebrate. We take it all for granted in our fast-paced society, the true meaning behind traditions. We forget what Memorial Day represents, not just as one individual who served and sacrificed like Veteran's Day is meant for, but to remember those who have given all in order to protect our rights here and now after they have gone in the name of the cause. It's a day to exercise the freedoms we still hold value in and maximize our lives by living freely yet remembering to move with purpose. Opportunities can present themselves as inconveniences to the ungrateful heart. You cannot let a spoiled moment ruin the lifestyle you have worked hard to maintain, unless you realize your lifestyle needs a change, in which case should not turn spoiled just because of the neighbors when you still have the freedom to fucking move away from the rot. Choose to move because you want to feel the liberty in it, not because someone told you to move. What are you willing to do in order to protect your beliefs? Become aware of the sacrifice that is needed in order to make freedom possible, and remember to honor it when you get to celebrate and complain about how unfair your life is. There's always somebody somewhere else that has it worse than you, so appreciate what you do have and fight for those things to remain untouched when they are challenged. Stand with maximum effort while you still have your rights or they will knock you down and take your freedoms from you. Better to sacrifice yourself for the sake of your children's rights so that they may know the freedoms you take for granted daily and carry on significance of sacrifice through your actions than to just roll over and let others have them because you were too soft to put up a fight when the time came for one.

May 9, 2026Episode 1016 min

Scale The Summit: Today

Once we start taking accountability, we can really focus on how to make our lives better one action at a time. We have to remain accountable in order to remain consistent and allow those single actions to compound into bigger accomplishments we are striving for. We cannot expect those one actions to be huge commitments or we will continue to struggle with the wonder of why things keep failing for us. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Smaller achievements being fulfilled over and over is the more realistic way of breaking down how to accomplish your goals. The small wins are what keep you optimistic and goal-oriented, fueling you through the tedious "how-to" stages in a way that truly allows you to arrive at your goal completed without giving up mid-way up the mountain. You can do anything you want in life, but you can't magically arrive at the end result without putting in the effort to get there, little by little, one day at a time.Are there specifics you can hone in on to help you visualize the actuality of the goal being accomplished? Set the date you'll go do the action you've been putting off, including a timeframe you can be there. Where will you see this aspiration become your reality? Set a location you know you will visit. These smaller goals serve as checkpoints along your greater pathway, in conjunction with your accountability that continues to fuel you to the next point, and the next, until the next point is the end point of the entire goal being finished. Prepare yourself to meet each checkpoint rather than focusing on how to see the bigger picture completed. Make your goals trackable and measurable so you can analyze the successes and failures that follow your actions, then you know which actions to repeat that create the success you desire and which ones to avoid that caused you to fall short. You have to take it one step at a time if you truly want to reach the top of the mountain.

May 2, 2026Episode 915 min

Accountability Creates Reality

Why is it we don't intrinsically receive accountability from others around us who call themselves our friends? Many times, we are more willing to talk shit behind their back about their actions than truly call them out to their face for being inconsistent with their own actions towards their goals. Is it coming from a place of fear that we don't say it directly to their face? What does that say about the relationship you have with them if you cannot speak with honesty? How much dignity do you really have if you cannot hold accountability in each other's words?If someone shares a goal, aspiration, want, need, or dream with you, there has to be a reason behind it. By holding people accountable, you elevate others around you because they are no longer anchored to their old behaviors. Holding accountability with each other allows you to grow beyond the point that has been holding you back; a true friend will do that for you without malicious intent, and you need to hold value in that person over frustration with your own ego. There is a great deal of bravery in being able to speak up to your friends for their own sake of growth, and if they cannot accept that, all you can do is pray one day they will once they have grown enough to accept it, and know that your integrity still matters, for it is YOURS.You do not have to announce your progress to the world as it is happening, you can also surprise everyone once your goal has been accomplished and are ready to celebrate your feat with others. Moving in silence can be a good thing when it is in a positive direction.Let this podcast sink in. Listen, relisten, slow it down. Allow your mind to find the profound message within that unlocks that mental space you need to think more deeply. Free your mind from the unproductive habits you have conditioned it to endure and operate from. Let it create a reality you are proud to live in because you are disciplined enough to hold accountability and build what it is you set out to achieve. The things we do on a day-to-day basis have an impact; create an impression of yourself that others can rely on for stability and motivation. Stop wasting your time doing average shit for the people you truly care about and provide that great experience you know you want to have and share with them in life. Hold the people accountable for the things that they want to achieve because they deserve the accountability and you deserve to see them win. 1% better every day, that's what MY listeners deserve.

April 25, 2026Episode 811 min

Digital Detox: Becoming Intentionally Present

Why do you listen to me, week after week? If it's not your first time, there's a reason you keep coming back -- nuggets of knowledge that spoke to you, right? When you listen to an episode and think, "I know someone else who needs to hear this message", please share this podcast directly to them so they can gain some gold nuggets from me to their own ears. I appreciate all the support from my listeners!In this hyper responsive society we currently live in, with our children expecting instant gratification constantly, they now are silently breeding this subconscious sense of anxiety if patience is being executed in its place. Nowadays, we can get almost anything we want delivered to us in a matter of days. Even better, if we are blessed to live in a large city, 2 hours from now for most stuff you probably don't even need. We have created these digital dependencies with our phones, staring at our screens all day, forgetting about connecting with the world going on all around us. So how can we find a way to reconnect with what matters most, the things going on outside of our phones? Go in your phone right now, check your daily screen time, and set a goal you are willing to work towards to make sure you are still present while you are awake. Become more intentional with your time alive and aware of how much you have to be grateful for, and be grateful. Fill your moments with positivity and embrace an abundance mentality rather than sabotaging your own happiness with a negative mindset, or worse, pushing your shitty mood onto your kids. Analyze your own movements and really take accountability for how much effort you are really putting in to the things you do. How quickly do you correct your (re)actions? How long do you allow something to gnaw at you before you address it? How could you better prepare so the situation doesn't duplicate itself in the future so that the way you feel now you don't have to feel again?

April 18, 2026Episode 716 min

Relevant Gratification

Change isn't recognized overnight, nor does it happen over one night. It happens night over night, day on day, of consistent actions that allow us to arrive to where we want to be. As long as we continue to choose to progress, we shall progress with matching actions. If we choose actions we know will result in digression, we will digress. We can take breaks and reset without letting it become our new norm, so long as we don't continue to choose to do the actions that bring us backward motion constantly. We have to actively choose to INCREASE by 1% each day in order to better our own future in a positive way.Our more experienced generations walking this Earth did not grow up in a society of constant and instant gratification, like the newer generations now have with the rising conveniences technology has brought about for us. Even our ability to connect with anyone in the world is instant and seemingly without any instant consequence (unlike those old long-distance phone call charges we were taught to avoid). What else has changed for us now that we live in this "instant society"? Cooking, exercise, workload--we now expect to have the results NOW with the expectation that the quality will remain the same. Is it truly gratifying energy we should be giving to cutting corners, or is there a newfound necessity for patience we should be practicing and giving to the world, now more than ever? The instant gratification mindset is a luxury based on our environment and how "advanced" it is in giving us the comforts we have grown accustomed to expecting.The ways you choose to communicate, especially with our children, reflects your values and expectations. You have to adjust how you talk about certain things in a way the other person will actually be able to comprehend what it is you are trying to convey more clearly. If you want someone to understand what you are saying, you have to be able to communicate in a way THEY will receive, not just the way YOU want to talk. Relevancy doesn't happen just because you are speaking, it happens when what you say is being HEARD. How you perceive a message is more likely based on how YOU feel reading it rather than the feelings of the original sender. We need to learn how to be better communicators for the sake of our children's necessities rather than their fleeting desires. We cannot force our opinions to be appreciated by screaming them louder. We must adapt how we speak so that our words remain relevant in a way the other individual will truly capture our meaning, and that's by doing it their way, but with your message. Then you will be matched with true gratification for your words.

April 13, 2026Episode 616 min

From Online to Real Life: My Achilles Heel Tactical Experience

This training exposed my weaknesses… fast.In this episode of the AJ Nashville Podcast, I break down my raw, unfiltered experience with Achilles Heel Tactical, from their online coursework to Zoom training, all the way to the in-person class that forced me to rethink everything I thought I knew.This isn’t hype. This isn’t fluff. And it’s definitely not just another “review.”If you’re serious about getting better not just at the range, but in real-life situations you need to hear this.Because what you don’t know… will show up when it matters most.This episode isn’t just worth your time it might be the difference in your performance when there are no second chances.

April 11, 2026Episode 513 min

1 Life, 2 Deaths

What can we do outside of our norms that can help us be our best so that we can arrive at the goal we are striving for? Are we only giving the bare minimum, then find ourselves frustrated with the mediocre results we end up with? Can we focus on becoming more efficient with our actions to produce more of what we actually want in the same (or less!) amount of time spent? We can all agree that the output received is determined by the initial input. So if you want a greater output, you have to increase your input to match your desired outcome. Are you willing AND putting in the appropriate amount of work for the intended outcome?Sometimes, we have to evaluate how to balance our needs in order to thrive. If you want one thing, yet need another, and you can't completely eliminate one task, maybe the key is to split your time to see both things accomplished, even if it takes a little longer. Getting done late what needs to be done is better than avoiding it and not getting it done at all. The task doesn't evaporate just because you don't give it attention, it simply waits for you until it HAS to demand your attention. We have to prioritize our time in a way that works best to get everything accomplished, especially when it's a need over a desire. That may start with analyzing which tasks are mandatory needs that have to be fulfilled and which are desires we would like to have accomplished. There has to be a balance, and you are the one who sets that scale. Why not choose to set it in a way that favors your time and effort spent intentionally, even if it involves a sacrifice you have to make today for your success tomorrow? Instant gratification might win the battle, but doesn't guarantee the victory in war.Remember, as you make an impact in this world, you are one memory away from being forgotten. You face two deaths in life, the first being your physical separation, the second is when somebody says your name for the last time. Spend your time intentionally to make the impact you want in your lifetime.

April 3, 2026Episode 417 min

The Map Is Not The Territory

Have you ever had a dream that you set out to accomplish, and even after you have successfully completed your mission, only then do you realize you alone cannot keep the dream alive? Sometimes, we think there is only one path that we must follow to get to the end we want, when in all reality, the path will change and alter as needed so long as we remain focused on accomplishing the end goal. We allow ourselves to become so consumed with controlling all the actions that lead up to the finale we desire, that we lose sight of the end and give up too soon. Some call it going with the flow, others say only in God's timing...What is it that you are holding on to today that prevents you from growing tomorrow? Are there any shortcuts you can take to help elevate you to the next level quicker? Are any of those shortcuts going against what has created your success in the first place that could cause your success to diminish if you aren't fulfilling it, directly or indirectly? When you scale up and free up more of your own time, do you spend it on activities that continue to grow and flourish with your business, or do you spend that free time doing nothing that actually fuels you to the next level?Balance. Figuring out how to make things even out after they have been askew is something you have to remember to evaluate, especially after massive changes take place. Your old habits may not bring you enough success to carry on, so you have to be willing to take on new routines that can increase your likelihood of achievement without undermining all your previous efforts that got you to HERE in the first place. The main thing is to not lose sight of who you are and what it is that people genuinely like about you. You can stand for something and not be obnoxious to others about your opinions. You can remain dedicated to your passions and know that not everyone else will share your enthusiasm, and that is normal and okay. You can focus on all that you have in common with someone and talk about those positive subjects together, or you can choose strife by always trying to find the differences and projecting negativity. You have to choose your battles wisely; know when silence can grant you more peace than fighting for the last word to wield.