KneeToKnee

Mark Marrott

KneeToKnee is the straight-talk podcast for men 30 to 55 who are done going it alone. Host Mark Marrott survived a 40-foot fall with 3% survival odds. What got him through wasn't a training program or a mindset hack. It was connection. Every episode of KneeToKnee is built around that truth. Each conversation goes knee to knee with men who have been in the hard seat — on fitness, career, man skills, mindset, and the relationships that actually hold. Practical. Honest. Built for men with full lives who want more from them. 65+ episodes. New conversations every week. Subscribe free and get the introduction to Mark's 2026 book, Connection Is the Ultimate Force Multiplier, when you join the weekly list at https://kneetoknee.wixsite.com/kneetoknee

  1. 6d ago

    Most Owners Have No Idea What They Are Sitting On - Tony Cotrupe

    Tony Cotrupe spent thirty five years in investment banking, private equity, and business consulting, and he breaks down what actually determines your business's value, why growth gets mistaken for worth, and how to build client trust that lasts. Mark sits down with Tony Cotrupe, a business advisor who has spent thirty five years working with company owners across investment banking, private equity, and consulting. Tony opens every client relationship with the same three words: how can I help. From there, the conversation moves into what fair market value really means, the difference between a company that produces value and one that quietly consumes it, and the story of a packaging company that landed the biggest contract of its life and lost the company because of it. Mark and Tony also get into the "if I don't do it, it doesn't get done" trap that keeps business owners chained to every decision, and the shift that happens when a leader starts asking his team to bring solutions instead of questions. The episode closes on KneeToKnee's standard wrap-up question, and Tony's answer lands closer to home than either of them expected. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:58 The Three Words Tony Opens Every Client Call With 08:26 The Rearview Mirror Test For Your Business 13:43 What Fair Market Value Actually Means 16:31 The Contract That Almost Sank A Packaging Company 22:20 The Question KneeToKnee Asks Every Guest Get the book Inspired by the podcast: Connection the Ultimate Force Multiplier: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H44R97ZX Podcast: https://kneetoknee.riverside.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knee.to.knee/ KneeToKnee is where men build the crew that rebuilds them. Fitness, fatherhood, career, marriage. Men perform better when connected to other men. Some links are affiliate links. If you buy through them it supports the show at no extra cost to you.

    Most Owners Have No Idea What They Are Sitting On - Tony Cotrupe

  2. Jul 15

    The Mindset Shift That Turned 50 No's Into Job Offers - Amir Muradali

    Career strategist Amir Muradali explains how blue ocean strategy, curiosity, and a career pivot took him from fifty job rejections to executive job offers in oil and gas and beyond. In this episode of KneeToKnee, Mark sits down with Amir, a career strategist based in Calgary who spent eight years as a research engineer before finishing an MBA and hitting a wall of fifty job rejections. Amir walks through the process he used to find his own blue ocean value, the three month stretch in 2006 when Enbridge Pipelines and an IBM managing partner both offered him a job in the same day, and the mindset shift that took his career from a stack of rejection letters to quadrupling his income in seven years. The conversation moves into AI and the workforce. Amir shares what he is seeing happen inside executive teams right now, why he calls himself an AI optimist, and the choice he believes every listener needs to make about where they stand in the next chapter of their career. Amir closes with one exercise he gives his own coaching clients: send an email to three people closest to you and tell them three specific things you appreciate about them. No critique. The truth, and nothing else. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:02 The Three Month Pivot That Started Everything 05:24 Blue Ocean Strategy Explained 09:55 Finding His Value: The Oil Sands Breakthrough 17:59 AI, Layoffs, and the Future of Work 24:52 One Thing to Do Today Playlist Recommendations 📂 More Like This, Suggested Playlists: How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure Why the Right People Change Everything 📩 Get The One Thing, a weekly note from Mark every time a new episode drops: https://bit.ly/4eIs6gf

    The Mindset Shift That Turned 50 No's Into Job Offers - Amir Muradali

  3. Jul 13

    Is Being Too Nice Actually Controlling Behavior - Jason Lange

    Nice guy syndrome, covert contracts, male isolation, and why men going it alone die earlier — Jason Lange breaks it all down with honesty and no performance. Jason Lange is a certified No More Mr. Nice Guy coach and men's work practitioner. He spent years doing his own inner work before helping other men do the same. In this conversation, he and Mark unpack the two dominant male archetypes — the macho jerk and the nice guy — and make the case that neither serves men or the people around them. The covert contract concept alone is worth the full listen. It's the invisible deal men make with the people in their lives: I'll keep doing this for you, and eventually you'll give me what I need. Nobody agreed to it. Nobody knows about it. And when it doesn't pay out, men withdraw, get resentful, and have no idea why. Jason also shares two specific stories from his work: a man stuck in a 20-year relationship with no emotional network who found his way through a men's group, and another man who navigated a full cancer diagnosis and chemo with his group sitting with him on Zoom just so he wasn't alone. That's what this podcast is about. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:34 The Nice Guy Archetype — Where It Comes From 07:08 How to Balance Heart Energy and Boundaries 09:13 Covert Contracts — The Hidden Deal Destroying Relationships 13:07 The Lone Wolf and Why Men Resist Community 15:19 Two Men, Two Stories: What Brotherhood Actually Does More Like This — Suggested Playlists: How to Build a Brotherhood as an Adult Man — This episode is a direct companion to this playlist; Jason's two client stories and his framework for men's groups are exactly the kind of concrete argument this playlist is built around. The Conversations Men Need to Be Having — The covert contract segment and Jason's discussion of male isolation fit squarely in the category of things men rarely say out loud but need to hear. Get The One Thing — a weekly note from Mark every time a new episode drops: https://bit.ly/4eIs6gf

    Is Being Too Nice Actually Controlling Behavior - Jason Lange

  4. Jul 11

    Connection the Ultimate Force Multiplier

    In 2008 I fell 40 feet out of a tree. Thirteen surgeries later, the hardest part was not my legs. It was watching everyone keep moving while I stopped. My book, Connection the Ultimate Force Multiplier, launches Tuesday, July 14. Over the next four days I am walking through all five pillars, one a day. Today is the E in CREWS. Energy. Your body does not recover, perform, or improve in isolation. The crew is the mechanism. The whole framework lives in one word. CREWS. Connection. Relationships. Energy. Work. Skills. It drops this Tuesday, July 14 on Amazon. Three days out. Launch week only, the Kindle is 99 cents. Grab it, read the E first, then send it to one man who has gone quiet. Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H44R97ZX Podcast: https://kneetoknee.riverside.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knee.to.knee/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KneeToKnee KneeToKnee is where men build the crew that rebuilds them. Fitness, fatherhood, career, marriage. Men perform better when connected to other men. Some links are affiliate links. If you buy through them it supports the show at no extra cost to you.

    Connection the Ultimate Force Multiplier

  5. Jul 1

    What Would You Say to a Man Who Has Nothing Left? - with Joe Tuia'ana

    This episode covers men's mental health, male suicide, the I Love You Bro Project, Joe Tuia'ana, men's support groups, male connection, and men and isolation. All of it, backed by data and story. A few years ago, Joe was two weeks sober and had double pneumonia. On the way to a basketball game, he pulled over at an overpass. A man was in crisis on the railing. Joe climbed up and said the only words that came to him: I love you, bro. The man came down. That moment became the I Love You Bro Project, now the only evidence-based men's mental health organization in the country. Fifteen weekly support groups across Utah. Thousands of data points collected directly from the men who show up. A mission to catch men before they ever reach an overpass. In this episode, Joe breaks down what men actually need to hear from each other, why 'reach out if you need anything' is one of the least effective things we say, what tunnel vision looks like for a man in crisis, and why consistency and structure are what keep men coming back to community. This one is worth sharing with someone. --- CHAPTERS --- 00:00 Introduction 01:28 The Day Joe Pulled Over at an Overpass 07:13 The 80% Statistic and Why Men Don't Talk 09:02 Tunnel Vision: How Men Lose Peripheral Vision in Crisis 16:09 How the I Love You Bro Project Collects Data From Real Men 17:07 What Men Actually Need to Hear (The Survey Results) 21:25 Why Weekly Beats Monthly: The Structure Men Crave --- PLAYLISTS --- 📂 More Like This — Suggested Playlists: The Conversations Men Need to Be Having — This episode is exactly what that playlist is built for: a man talking honestly about loneliness, crisis, purpose, and what it means to show up for someone when the stakes are real. How to Build a Brotherhood as an Adult Man — Joe's entire work centers on building intentional, consistent male community, and this episode is a direct argument for why that structure matters and how to create it. 📩 Get The One Thing — a weekly note from Mark every time a new episode drops.

    What Would You Say to a Man Who Has Nothing Left? - with Joe Tuia'ana

  6. Jun 24

    Rebuilding Your Life When Nothing Makes Sense Anymore - with Randy Bishop

    A conversation about the RE method, inherited beliefs, and what it actually takes for a man to reflect, reframe, and rebuild his identity. Randy Bishop joins KneeToKnee to talk men's mental health, vulnerability, brotherhood, and why adult male friendship and connection are harder to find than they should be. Men's groups, faith, and what it means to stop carrying a version of yourself you never chose. Randy spent twenty years in ministry, built a career as a singer-songwriter, went through divorce, and found himself sitting at a dinner table at four in the morning on Easter Sunday asking a question he'd avoided his whole life: Is this actually working? What came out of that night is the RE Method — a simple, self-built process of reflecting on your past, reframing what you actually believe, and rebuilding your life around what's true. Not a book. Not a program. Just a man who stopped and looked honestly at his own life. In this conversation, Randy and Mark get into inherited beliefs — the dinner-at-six-o'clock rules, the six-year-old convictions you've never questioned, and why so many men are cutting the ends off the roast without knowing why grandma started it in the first place. They also talk about men's groups, what makes a good one versus a waste of time, and why vulnerability is the one thing most men are still avoiding. Randy closes with one of the best lines of the season: "At the end of my life, I don't want to look back at all the stuff I collected. I want to look back at all the people I affected." That one's worth sitting with. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:12 What Is the RE Method 04:47 The Man Who Looked Like He Had It Together 07:20 What Makes a Men's Group Worth Showing Up To 12:48 The Beliefs You Never Chose (Dinner at Six O'Clock) 20:41 People Over Possessions — Collection vs. Affection More Like This — Suggested Playlists: The Conversations Men Need to Be Having — This episode belongs here. Randy's honest account of ministry, divorce, and self-examination is exactly the kind of conversation this playlist was built around. How to Build a Brotherhood as an Adult Man — Randy's perspective on what separates a real men's group from a sports-talk circle makes this a strong companion for men looking to build something that actually helps. Get The One Thing — a weekly note from Mark every time a new episode drops: https://bit.ly/4eIs6gf

    Rebuilding Your Life When Nothing Makes Sense Anymore - with Randy Bishop

  7. Jun 17

    Just Show Up - Mark Marrott

    I went back through four conversations from the KneeToKnee archive and pulled the moments that stopped me. Not the moments with the best talking points. The moments where someone just decided to show up.   Chris Williams lost his wife, two of his kids, and an unborn child in a single accident in 2007. He talks about the friend who came by every Sunday with a pie and never said a word. Ward Clapham ran a Canadian police department and started handing out positive tickets to kids who weren't doing anything wrong. Youth crime in his area dropped by half. Cotie Williams handed a 27-year-old man with a fresh spinal cord injury a handcycle and watched him find a reason to move again. That same man is now training for the 2028 LA Olympics. And Jeff Dodd and Kaylee Jenkins were my trauma nurse and physical therapist after I fell 40 feet out of a tree in 2008. Kaylee still remembers my room number: 1120.   None of these people had the perfect thing to say. They just went.   If this one hits you, share it with one specific person today. Not a group. One person you're thinking about right now.   Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:06 Chris Williams and the Sunday Pies 02:16 Ward Clapham and the Positive Ticket 05:34 Mark's Accident and the Nurse Who Remembered 08:45 Cotie Williams and the Handcycle 12:00 Chris Williams on Forgiveness   📂 More Like This — Suggested Playlists: The Conversations Men Need to Be Having — This episode is exactly what that playlist promises: men talking honestly about what it means to show up for each other when it counts most. Why the Right People Change Everything — Each story in this episode proves the thesis, that the people who show up change outcomes, sometimes for decades.   Assign this episode to: The Conversations Men Need to Be Having and Why the Right People Change Everything   📩 Get The One Thing — a weekly note from Mark every time a new episode drops: https://bit.ly/4eIs6gf 🎙️ KneeToKnee — connection that compounds. https://youtu.be/D7K11RwC7kc

    Just Show Up - Mark Marrott

  8. Jun 10

    From Arrested at 16 to Briefing U.S. Senators: Andrew Drasen's Full Story

    Andrew Drasen, author, addiction advocate, and identity repair speaker, joins KneeToKnee to talk about rebuilding your sense of self after addiction, loss, and incarceration. Andrew went through eight treatment programs before finding any meaningful change. He finished writing his memoir five minutes before walking out of prison in 2019. He lost the woman he loved to suicide. And now he's briefing U.S. senators on drug policy reform and speaking at international conferences on identity and relapse prevention. This conversation goes past the usual addiction story. Andrew breaks down what recovery actually means (hint: stopping the behavior is just the beginning), why identity is at the root of addiction, loss, and every major life transition, and why the story you tell yourself matters more than almost anything else. Key moments in this episode: • Why eight treatments failed before one thing finally clicked • How writing a memoir inside prison changed the lens Andrew sees life through • What Andrew means when he says he's blown up the word 'recovery' • How losing Caroline to suicide became its own identity crisis and how Eva the dog helped him through it • Why self-talk is the most overlooked variable in how men change or stay stuck • What compassion has to do with building real connection with other men Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:05 High School, Arrests, and the Beginning of the Battle 03:51 Writing a Memoir in Prison and the Mindset Shift It Created 08:04 Honesty, Acceptance, and Releasing the Past 14:37 Blowing Up the Word Recovery 16:06 Speaking, Advocacy, and Briefing Senators on Drug Policy 19:03 The One Thing Men Can Do to Build Deeper Connection Find Andrew's book and more at avisionofhopebook.com 📩 Get The One Thing - a weekly note from Mark every time a new episode drops: https://bit.ly/4eIs6gf More Like This - Suggested Playlists: • The Conversations Men Need to Be Having - This episode goes exactly where that playlist lives: honest, unfiltered, and covering loss, identity, purpose, and what it takes to show up differently. • Start Here: The Episodes That Change How Men Think About Connection - Andrew's message on self-talk, compassion, and identity repair makes this a strong anchor episode for any new listener.

    From Arrested at 16 to Briefing U.S. Senators: Andrew Drasen's Full Story
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KneeToKnee is the straight-talk podcast for men 30 to 55 who are done going it alone. Host Mark Marrott survived a 40-foot fall with 3% survival odds. What got him through wasn't a training program or a mindset hack. It was connection. Every episode of KneeToKnee is built around that truth. Each conversation goes knee to knee with men who have been in the hard seat — on fitness, career, man skills, mindset, and the relationships that actually hold. Practical. Honest. Built for men with full lives who want more from them. 65+ episodes. New conversations every week. Subscribe free and get the introduction to Mark's 2026 book, Connection Is the Ultimate Force Multiplier, when you join the weekly list at https://kneetoknee.wixsite.com/kneetoknee

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  • Creator
    Mark Marrott
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    56
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Mark Marrott
  • Show Website
    KneeToKnee