The Gregory Vetter Podcast
Success is easy to celebrate. The journey behind it is where the real lessons are found.
The Gregory Vetter Podcast features candid conversations with entrepreneurs, leaders, creators, athletes, and individuals who have built extraordinary lives not by avoiding adversity, but by learning from it.
Each episode explores the defining moments, difficult decisions, setbacks, victories, and principles that shape successful people long before anyone sees the results.
This isn't about polished success stories. It's about honest conversations that challenge the way we think about leadership, business, purpose, family, resilience, and what it truly means to build a meaningful life.
Whether you're building a company, leading a team, pursuing a dream, or simply striving to become a better version of yourself, you'll discover practical wisdom and authentic stories that inspire lasting growth.
Because behind every success is a story worth telling.
Episodes
62 episodes
Faith-Based Leadership: Knowing When to Push and When to Let Go
What does faith-based leadership actually look like when you're responsible for making difficult decisions? For me, it has meant rethinking the relationship between faith, hard work, control, success and knowing when it's time to let go....
More Than a Coach: The Leadership Every Young Athlete Needs
A young athlete will eventually forget the final score.They won't forget the coach who believed in them.In this episode, Greg sits down with Brandon Gulley educator, mentor, and founder of the Student Athlete Leadership Academy to...
Borrowed Dreams: Are You Chasing Someone Else's Life?
Some dreams are planted.Others are inherited.Long before most of us decide what we want from life, we're handed a picture of what success is supposed to look like. A certain career. A certain income. A certain title. A certain lif...
Water Off a Duck’s Back: How Resilient People Reset and Move Forward
A bad conversation can last five minutes and still occupy your mind for the next five days.Someone criticizes you. A customer calls angry. Your child does not make the team. A business deal falls apart. A stranger cuts you off in traffic...
How to Survive Shame Without Letting It Define You | The Gregory Vetter Podcast
The morning after Greg lost the company, he woke up carrying something heavier than failure.Shame.Not simply the belief that he had made the wrong decisions—but the feeling that he had become the failure. That he had let people do...
The Blind Spots That Keep Businesses Small | The Gregory Vetter Podcast
For years, Greg assumed the most successful people in business knew something he didn’t.There had to be a hidden strategy. A private playbook. Some closely guarded secret that would finally make everything work.There wasn’t.
The Hidden Cost of Ego | Gregory Vetter on Leadership, Success & Self-Awareness
Sometimes the biggest obstacle standing between you and success isn't a lack of talent, resources, or opportunity.It's your ego.In this episode, Greg reflects on the lessons that only come from building something, losing something...
How Obsession Is Built, Not Found
Some of the most successful people you'll ever meet didn't start with passion.They started with curiosity.Consistency.And a willingness to keep showing up long before they knew where it would lead.In this episode, Greg cha...
What They're Building in Annapolis | Coach Hunt on Leadership & Standards
When Coach Hunt took over Annapolis High School football, he inherited more than a program.He inherited a culture he believed in and saw opportunities to make it even stronger.This conversation isn't really about football.I...
The Stories That Shaped Us
For this special Father's Day episode, Greg does something he's never done before.He sits down with his four children and his father, Steve Vetter, for a candid conversation about family, fatherhood, legacy, and the lessons that get pass...
Show Me Your Spouse and I'll Show You Your Future
Wife of a CEO? Start Here.Everybody wants to talk about entrepreneurship.Very few people talk about the person waiting at home.In this episode, Greg and Moe dive into one of the most important decisions you'll ever make:
Why Modern Life Feels So Fake
At some point in life, you stop caring about looking successful…and start caring about what actually feels meaningful.In this episode, Greg sits down with entrepreneur Mary Davis for a conversation about ambition, fitness, parenti...
The Mindset That Separates Good From Great
By Endurance We Conquer.Former NFL Pro Bowler Ryan Kerrigan joins Greg for one of the most honest conversations yet on discipline, leadership, fatherhood, preparation, adversity, and what it really means to compete.From playing th...
We Loved It To Death
Greg and Brian finally sit down to unpack the real story behind the rise, chaos, lessons, and aftermath of building Tessemae’s.From creating one of the most disruptive clean-food brands in America to navigating manufacturing disasters, i...
The Consensus Obsession (Backbone Series Final)
This is the final episode in the Backbone series.Greg and Moe unpack the modern obsession with comfort, validation, consensus, and avoiding confrontation—and why those things quietly destroy leadership, discipline, and culture o...
The Comfort Trap (Backbone Series Part 2)
Comfort is addictive.And most people are trapped in it.In this episode, Greg and Moe break down why modern life has made people weaker, softer, more distracted, and more afraid of discomfort than ever before.From leadership...
Stop Being Weak (Backbone Series Part 1)
Most people don’t have a knowledge problem.They have a backbone problem.This episode breaks down the real idea behind Greg’s new book Backbone: Stop Being Weak and Do What’s Right—and why so many people today are stuck, s...
I Was Chasing The Wrong Thing
This episode came from a Substack that hit a nerve.Greg shared the real story behind building—and losing—a $300M company.Not the highlight reel. The reality.And people leaned in.So we went deeper.Because losing i...
They Wanted Everything
Every action has consequences.In life.In business.In how people treat you and what they think they can get away with.Sometimes it’s small.Sometimes it costs you everything.They didn’t want a deal.They didn’t...
Who You Marry Decides Everything
Who you marry will either multiply your life…or quietly break it.Everybody wants success.Big goals. Big dreams. Big outcomes.But nobody talks about the decision that determines all of it:Your partner.In this ...
You're Addicted To Momentum.
Who are you… when the thing you built is gone?Most people never ask that question.They just chase the next thing.New idea. New business. New win.Stay busy. Stay distracted. Don’t look back.But that’s the trap.
Have You Lost Focus?
Why do talented people still miss their moment?In this episode, Gregory Vetter breaks down a hard truth: it usually isn’t lack of talent. It’s lack of focus.When pressure hits, people don’t rise to their hopes. They fall to...
Is The American Dream Dead?
What if the American Dream isn’t dead… just a lot more uncomfortable than people expect?In this episode, Gregory Vetter unpacks the reality behind the American Dream — and why it has nothing to do with the version most people are ...
