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EPISODE · Dec 30, 2025 · 34 MIN

Resilience, Leadership, and Building Trust with Remi Adeleke, Blake Niemann, and Debra Russell

from Office Hours with David Meltzer

Three leaders from vastly different worlds come together to explore resilience, discipline, and purposeful creation across military service, entrepreneurship, and business mastery. Remi Adeleke shares his powerful journey of transformation. Born into wealth in Nigeria, his life changed after his father’s death and the loss of his family’s assets, forcing a move to the Bronx. After a turbulent youth, Remi chose service, enlisting in the U.S. Navy, serving with the 1st Marine Division, and later becoming a Navy SEAL specializing in combat medicine and human intelligence. Today, he is a professor, leadership advisor, bestselling author of Transformed, film and television consultant, chairman of Resilient Cities, and the first director to create a film about his own life. Blake Niemann, Founder and CEO of Levels, shares how discipline and long-term thinking helped him turn a one-man startup into the leading natural whey protein brand in the U.S. Launched from his apartment with under $10,000, Levels is now an eight-figure brand sold nationwide at Costco, Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Amazon. With a background in global supply chain management and experience at Lockheed Martin and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Blake explains how transparency, clean ingredients, and trust built a category-defining brand. Debra Russell brings over 20 years of experience helping entrepreneurs build businesses that actually support their lives. A sought-after coach and speaker, she has guided leaders across sports, entertainment, and business to systemize operations, increase productivity, and regain control. Debra also shares insights from her upcoming Priority Power Masterclass on January 2nd and 3rd, a practical framework designed to help leaders reset, reboot, and execute a clear, sustainable plan for growth.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Three leaders from vastly different worlds come together to explore resilience, discipline, and purposeful creation across military service, entrepreneurship, and business mastery. Remi Adeleke shares his powerful journey of transformation. Born into wealth in Nigeria, his life changed after his father’s death and the loss of his family’s assets, forcing a move to the Bronx. After a turbulent youth, Remi chose service, enlisting in the U.S. Navy, serving with the 1st Marine Division, and later becoming a Navy SEAL specializing in combat medicine and human intelligence. Today, he is a professor, leadership advisor, bestselling author of Transformed, film and television consultant, chairman of Resilient Cities, and the first director to create a film about his own life. Blake Niemann, Founder and CEO of Levels, shares how discipline and long-term thinking helped him turn a one-man startup into the leading natural whey protein brand in the U.S. Launched from his apartment with under $10,000, Levels is now an eight-figure brand sold nationwide at Costco, Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Amazon. With a background in global supply chain management and experience at Lockheed Martin and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Blake explains how transparency, clean ingredients, and trust built a category-defining brand. Debra Russell brings over 20 years of experience helping entrepreneurs build businesses that actually support their lives. A sought-after coach and speaker, she has guided leaders across sports, entertainment, and business to systemize operations, increase productivity, and regain control. Debra also shares insights from her upcoming Priority Power Masterclass on January 2nd and 3rd, a practical framework designed to help leaders reset, reboot, and execute a clear, sustainable plan for growth. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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