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.
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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
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15 Jul 2026
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 (https://bit.ly/4eIs6gf)
13 Jul 2026
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 (https://bit.ly/4eIs6gf)
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