Each episode an established business owner is brought on to be coached live on air through their Peaceful Profits Roadmap. This is a self-discovery process for entrepreneurs to map out the exact Identity, Leadership and Operational upgrades needed to make more stress-free profits that fund their ideal life.
Drasko, the creator and host, coaches the business owner guest through this process which is released as a podcast episode.
272. How to Move Forward When Your Old Success Is Holding You Back w/Jody Friedman
Jody Friedman is the founder of Wreck the Room™, a coaching framework built from his own identity rebuild after two decades in music and entertainment. He works with founders and leaders who look successful on paper but feel misaligned underneath, helping them rebuild an identity that actually fits the life they're living.
Main Business Issues:
Struggles to shift his focus away from his established music career and toward the coaching business he feels more passionate about.
Finds it challenging to put his new work in front of an audience because being a beginner in public conflicts with his established identity and reputation.
Jody puts significant pressure on himself to make his new venture highly successful.
Jody’s Key Insights and Takeaways:
Jody realized that his biggest obstacle may not be a lack of self-awareness, but his difficulty letting go of things that no longer align with where he wants to go.
He began to see that his fear of visibility and being a beginner in public was connected to his need to control how others perceive him.
Jody began to recognize that his drive to achieve at a massive scale may be rooted in a deeper fear of being average, failing, or not being good enough.
Connect with Jody
Take the quiz to find out which room you're in:
quiz.wrecktheroom.com
www.wrecktheroom.com
6 Mar 2026
271. How Subtraction and Doing Less Can Actually Multiply Your Growth w/ Dominic Vella
Dominic Vella is the founder of Fantastic Fence which he scaled from one truck to a high-volume operation doing thousands of projects a year. Now he helps other business owners break past seven figures with practical systems, no hype, and lessons learned the hard way.
Main Business Issues:
Placed managers between himself and his employees to avoid necessary but uncomfortable confrontations
The tendency to overcompensate by "fixing it himself" led to significant profit leaks
Dominic’s Key Insights and Takeaways:
Dominic discovered that a high-performing culture is built by what a leader says "no" to and what they refuse to tolerate.
He understood that prioritizing his desire for approval was actually doing a disservice to his team's development.
Dominic learned that he must optimize his current team through direct coaching before attempting to maximize results with more fuel.
Connect with Dominic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-vella-01252130a/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-vella-01252130a/)
https://callfantasticfence.com/ (https://callfantasticfence.com/)
https://www.instagram.com/_fantasticfence/ (https://www.instagram.com/_fantasticfence/)
30 Jan 2026
270. Micromanager to Visionary and Breaking the "Golden Cage" w/Andre Ankri
Andre Ankri is the Founder and CEO of UTS Group, a security integration and design firm delivering complex commercial and institutional projects across Canada. He is also the Founder of Metador, where he helps leaders build lean, scalable businesses through AI, automation, and operational systems.
Main Business Issues:
Andre’s entire company relied on him as a single point of failure, leading to burnout and lack of fulfillment.
Productivity is highly dependent on a rigid morning routine and an engineered environment
Struggles to identify the underlying emotions that drive his behavior
Andre’s Key Insights and Takeaways:
Andre acknowledged that his greatest strength lies in managing chaos and "firefighting.
He recognized that he was operating at only 50% capacity because the rest of his energy was being drained by the effort of managing his own dysregulation.
He concluded that he cannot simply "discipline" his way out of his biology and must instead solve for emotional regulation
Connect with Andre
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-ankri-7a4090311/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-ankri-7a4090311/)
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