Build the strength, discipline, and standards to demand more from your life.
Strength to Evolve is hosted by Zach Striplin - coach, entrepreneur, Jiu-Jitsu world champion, and a man who rebuilt his life after a near-fatal motorcycle accident.
Through raw, unfiltered conversations with high performers, entrepreneurs, athletes, and leaders, Zach explores what it really takes to perform at an elite level, overcome adversity, build lasting success, and become who your next level requires.
No scripts. No surface level motivation. Just the real stories of the wins, failures, hard lessons, and high standards behind the lives of people who are building the exceptional.
Your next level is waiting. Press play and find YOUR strength to evolve.
Broken to Built: How I Rebuilt My Life After Nearly Dying
A devastating motorcycle accident nearly killed Zach Striplin and left him with nothing. Now, he reveals the brutal journey from fighting for his life to rebuilding it from the ground up. Press play to discover what happens when rock bottom becomes the beginning of your greatest evolution.
27 Oct 2026
Built Together: A Marriage, a Mission & a Few Ghosts with Claire & David Glover
Zach is sitting down with Claire and David Glover, of Don't Scare Claire, to talk about the adventures behind the camera, the partnership that makes it all possible, and why communication, trust, and leaving your ego at the door are essential to a lasting relationship.
20 Oct 2026
Rewire Your Mind: How to Change the Way You Think with Dimitri Grapov
What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't your circumstances, but the way you've been programmed to think? Dimitri Grapov is sitting down with Zach Striplin to explore how our experiences shape our thinking, why real strength sometimes means letting go, and what science, martial arts, and artificial intelligence can teach us about being human.
13 Oct 2026
Behind the Mask: How to Stay Human in a Dangerous World with "Dexter"
His identity is hidden. His experience speaks for itself. But before the badge and working human trafficking cases, he was a father of six, working multiple jobs, building a life for his family, and wondering if he'd missed his chance to do something more.
6 Oct 2026
Rock Bottom: How to Rebuild a Life You Almost Destroyed with James Kale
Crime, jail, four DUIs, heroin and alcohol addiction nearly cost him his freedom, his family, and eventually his life. Now, nearly eight years sober, James Kale is sitting down with Zach to talk about the people who refused to give up on him, finally taking responsibility for his own bullshit, and what it took to become the man his family always believed he could be.
29 Sept 2026
Built to Lead: How to Create a Legacy Bigger Than Yourself with Felipe Bragiao
The strongest leaders don’t need you to stay beneath them. They want to see how far you can fucking go. Felipe Bragiao left Brazil at 19 with a blue belt, worked whatever jobs he needed to survive, and eventually built a life around the martial art that had been shaping him since childhood.
22 Sept 2026
No More Waiting: How to Find the Balls to Try Something New with Dain Lutz
What happens when a world champion walks into a gym and gets his ass handed to him by a guy half his size? Former college football player, Taekwondo world champion, Jiu-Jitsu brown belt, and stand-up comedian Dain Lutz sits down with Zach to talk about the moments that forced him to get comfortable being a beginner again.
15 Sept 2026
Stay Capable: How to Build a Life That Keeps Testing You with Brodie Farber
A lot of people talk about the things they want to do. But how many actually follow through? You don't become more capable by thinking about doing hard shit... eventually, you have to go do it. Press play to see how Brodie Farber is staying capable for himself and those who rely on him.
8 Sept 2026
Identity Shift: How to Evolve When Life Changes the Plan with Maritza Sanchez
What happens when the thing you've built your entire identity around suddenly gets taken away? Maritza Sanchez is sitting down with Zach for an honest conversation about the side of combat sports people don't always see - what happens when your body forces you to stop.
1 Sept 2026
Under Fire: How to Stay Calm When Everything Is on the Line with Ian Carver
Most people will never know what it feels like to make a decision where getting it wrong could cost someone their life. Ian Carver does. After nearly three decades in law enforcement - including years on one of California’s full-time SWAT teams - Ian sits down with Zach to talk about what happens inside your head when the stakes become real.
1 Sept 2026
Beat the Odds: How to Refuse the Life Everyone Expected for You with De Aundray Gooden
How much would have to happen to you before you decided life had given you a good enough excuse to quit? Dre sits down with Zach to tell a story that sounds like it should have produced a very different man.
1 Sept 2026
Next Chapter: How to Reinvent Yourself Before Life Forces You To with Thomas Avona
After decades of changing industries, taking risks, losing things he'd built, and starting again, Thomas Avona brings an unconventional perspective on adaptability, aging, creativity, and knowing when it's time to move on.
1 Sept 2026
Built for More: How to Rebuild Your Life After Losing Yourself with Brad Parker
After more than two decades battling addiction and cycling through incarceration and homelessness, Brad rebuilt his life... and now uses what he survived to help other men find strength, sobriety, community, and purpose.
1 Sept 2026
Delusional Enough: How to Bet on Yourself When Quitting Is Easier with Ivan Zarate
Most people wait until an idea looks reasonable before they bet on it. But nothing new starts out reasonable. This is a conversation about competition, building from zero, sleeping on mats, running out of money, believing anyway, and having enough conviction to keep going when the dream still looks insane to everybody else.
1 Sept 2026
No Pretending: How to Build Confidence You Don't Have to Fake with Jeslen Mishelle
There's a difference between telling yourself you're ready and knowing you've done the work. From professional wrestling and MMA to fear, relationships, gratitude, community, and stepping into the cage with an elite competitor, this conversation gets into what preparation reveals about who you really are.
1 Sept 2026
Stand Firm: How to Know Who You Are & What You Stand For with Levi Baclayon
Strength means something different when you know what came before you. This conversation goes from ancient warrior traditions to modern martial arts, community, responsibility, respect, and what disappears when people forget where they came from.
1 Sept 2026
Worthy Challenge: How to Build a Life You Don't Regret with Adam Lauritzen
Some men spend their lives trying to make everything easier. Others deliberately choose something worth becoming stronger for. This conversation is about service, suffering, capability, failure, and refusing to leave your potential sitting on the table.
1 Sept 2026
Beyond Normal: How to Take Control of Your Hormones & Performance with Evan Fox
You can look successful on paper and still know something is off. This is a straight conversation about men's health, performance, and why accepting “normal” without asking better questions may be the wrong standard.
1 Sept 2026
Under Pressure: How to Use Your Breath to Take Back Control with Gina Grapov
What if some of the strength you're looking for isn't something you need to find outside yourself? This conversation goes beneath the surface of wellness and into the practices, perspectives, and hard-earned lessons that change how you move through life.
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