Behind the Uniform: BizSgt Michael Kracyla on Combat, Leadership, and Reality
SOFREP Radio
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Michael Kracyla is a retired U.S. Army Green Beret with more than two decades of experience leading teams in environments where trust, judgment, and execution were critical under real pressure. Following his military service, he recognized a gap in the business world: many highly capable veterans and operators were entering the private sector without the systems, networks, or structured development needed to translate their leadership experience effectively.
To address this challenge, Kracyla founded Business Sergeant, a leadership development and executive search platform designed for organizations that cannot afford leadership failure. The platform serves founders and CEOs seeking trusted leaders, while also preparing veterans and operators to step into high-level roles in business.
At its core, Business Sergeant is built around community. Leaders are developed, observed, and held to high standards long before they are placed in positions of responsibility. Its executive search work flows directly from this network, allowing the organization to place leaders it knows, trusts, and has helped develop into mission-critical roles.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human |
| 0:04.0 | Blute Force. |
| 0:05.0 | If it doesn't work, you're just not using enough. You're listening to Software Radio, with soft rep radio, and I have a great episode for you |
| 0:56.0 | right now but first before I introduce you to my main man who I'm talking to I got to remind you |
| 1:01.2 | about the merch store and that's the store dot soft rep.com I think it goes like right here somewhere |
| 1:07.3 | Callum if he could type that in you can also go to soft rep.com and click on merch and that'll take you to all of the cool items that are all soft-repped out for all of you guys out there and listeners. Thanks so much for being there. Number two is the book club. So we have the softwrep.com forward slash book hyphen club. The book club is something that has been curated by all its special operators |
| 1:29.4 | behind the scenes here at soft rep with books that they think that you would enjoy since you enjoy |
| 1:33.6 | what we do we want to give back to you with a book uh in our book club and that's knowledge for your |
| 1:39.3 | brain your brain is a muscle you got to go to the gym to keep that muscle going and the book is the |
| 1:44.4 | gym. So read a book, okay? Smarten up. Now, my next guest is Michael, Michael Chrysilla. Welcome to the |
| 1:52.8 | show Michael. First of all, welcome, welcome. Thank you. You nailed it. I appreciate that. |
| 1:58.5 | You're welcome. Thanks for making sure I nailed it. |
| 2:01.8 | Now, let me just kind of bring my listener up to speed about Michael. |
| 2:06.4 | Michael Chrysula, Chief Warren Officer 3 retired, president and co-founder, U.S. |
| 2:12.5 | amiss of bizargent.com. |
| 2:14.8 | So I'm reading your bio off of biz sergeant.com, which is where you work out of, with a former |
| 2:20.8 | guest, Chris Hallberg. |
| 2:22.9 | But let me finish your bio real quick. |
| 2:25.2 | So Michael was U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret. |
| 2:28.7 | He has a silver star for Valor, a bronze star, a purple heart, because he was wounded in |
| 2:33.1 | combat. |
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