Secret Service Agent: Rare Insight on Panic vs Performance | Joe Scargill Part 2
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What really happens when everything is on the line?
With security, public safety, and real-world threats dominating headlines right now, including the shooting at the white house correspondence dinner where you saw Dana White and others, this episode couldn't be more relevant.
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs for a RETURN appearance with one of the most unique and fascinating guests we've ever had on the show - Joe Scargill, an active U.S. Secret Service agent, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, and leader responsible for protecting high-level targets in some of the most high-pressure environments in the world.
This isn't just a conversation about law enforcement—it's a deep dive into how to stay calm, think clearly, and execute when everything is at stake.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, athlete, or someone looking to perform at a higher level, the lessons in this episode will change how you approach pressure, risk, and decision-making.
He is the man behind Academy Safe, a nonprofit organization dedicated to certifying martial arts schools with background checks, safety protocols and standards that protect students, kids and families training in gyms across the country. You can find him at A Force BJJ in Ponte Vedre, FL!
You will want to hear his incredible story of what it really takes to operate at the highest level under the highest pressure every single day!
While most people only see what happens on the surface, Joe shares rare insight into:
✅ How the Secret Service actually handles real-world threats
✅ How Jiu Jitsu trains your brain to make better decisions under pressure
✅ The honest truth about TRT, peptides and BPC-157 for aging athletes
✅ Why cooking at home may be the most underrated health hack you're ignoring
✅ How agents make split-second decisions under extreme pressure + more
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick LaManya, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
| 0:23.6 | along with Hollywood stars, UFC fighters, and your favorite rock fans. |
| 0:27.6 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, take chances, live boldly, |
| 0:32.6 | and no matter what they do, they always bring their A game. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome back to the A game podcast, real estate investing for entrepreneurs, |
| 0:50.9 | where we show average people every day that they can achieve extraordinary things. |
| 0:54.8 | We have almost 400 plus episodes of people with the highest success in life and business from real estate investors, MMA fighters, stockbrokers, financial gurus, businessmen, |
| 1:00.5 | athletes, entrepreneurs, fighters, jiu-jitsu people, even astronauts, athletes, and comedians |
| 1:04.7 | that have told you in the past episodes all the things they did to achieve top success |
| 1:08.9 | and all the mistakes they made along the way so you do not have to make them. But if those were not enough, we have back for the second time, Joe Scargill, who is an active secret service agent. He is behind Academy Safe helping Jiu-Jitsu academies stay certified and making sure we're doing background checks and the people that are training our families, our loved ones, and our kids. And of course, he's also a jihitsu practitioner and a man who is really healthy later into his life. And so we talk about especially with all the recent things that have been happening in the world. Some of the things you've always wanted to know and ask about a circuit service agent, what are they really do? What are they really about? How are things changing? What happened at the White House shooting, like all these amazing things. We talk about peptides, hell, juditsu, keeping academies safe, |
| 1:46.2 | training into life, being a better father and husband. We talk about peptides. We talk about supplements. We talk about TRT. There's a little bit of something for everybody that we give. Just good advice, whether you're a struggling jiu-jitsu practitioner, whether you were somebody interested in world events, how the world is being kept safe, how the country is activating, you've had questions about the circuit service, or you just want to take some of these tips of how to perform better as a husband, mother, brother, brother, father, son, or average human being. There was plenty covered in this episode. And of course, the only fee for an episode is just subscribe. Go and find the A Game podcast, Real Estate Investing for Entrepreneurs everywhere you listen or watch your podcast from Spotify to Apple Podcasts to |
| 2:21.9 | YouTube. It is available everywhere you look. And if you can't find that just go to |
| 2:26.2 | www.nicknicknick.com slash links, L-I-N-K-S. And you would see all the ways to subscribe to this |
| 2:33.7 | podcast and follow us on social media. Please take a second, follow me on social media. It only takes a minute. I will follow you back. We can interact. And the way that Joe knows that he gave value to our audience is by you guys interacting with the posts I made from the show and he keeps the party going. So please interact, follow, and help us keep this party going so we can bring more people on to give you guys free advice on how to reach the pinnacles, the financial, physical, and business success. So with that being said, the whole point here is I want to do deals together. If you guys would like to do deals together, shoot me a message on any of my social media platforms with the words real estate to let me know that this is about real estate and we |
| 3:07.5 | will expedite that and we will have a conversation of whether you would like to buy properties from me, sell properties to me, or just find a conversation of how we can partner up on a deal. And I would love to have that conversation. My text messaging platform hasn't been working the best. So let's start there. Just shoot me a message on social media. or if you would like to email me, you can email me at podcast at nicknicknick.com, podcast at nicknick.com with the words real estate and we can open up a conversation. But you guys are awesome. Joe Scargill, thank you for coming on. Thank you for defending the country. And thank you you guys for supporting him, supporting us. Let's have a great day. Guys, go out, follow Academy We say follow Joe Scargill, go do some Jitsu, go buy some real estate. Let's find a way to make a life better every single day. Thank you for supporting the A-game podcast. Have a great day. All right, welcome back to the A-game podcast, and today we are joined once again by Secret Service agent, Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, and guardian of martial art academies through |
| 3:58.5 | Academy Safe. Last time we dove into his journey protecting some of the nation's most |
| 4:02.3 | important figures. And today we're peeling back even more layers from the unexpected |
| 4:05.7 | skills of federal agent gains to how Jiu-Jitsu influences him and helps him stay common to |
| 4:09.6 | pressure, getting old as a grappler and making sure your body and mind can stay young, mental |
| 4:13.9 | health, decisions you make in life, and some behind the scenes fun stuff we can get into. And when you're curious about protecting the president or safeguarding the gym from predators, we've got it all covered with today's episode. Welcome back to the A-game podcast, my buddy Joe Scargill. How are you today, sir? I'm doing great. Nick. Thanks you so much for having me back on, man. |
| 4:30.9 | I had a great time, the first time. Really looking forward to the discussion today. Yeah, man. So we had a great chat on. We stayed in touch since then and I like watching your journey. But so to recap, we had a great talking at the end of it. It was like, man, we didn't even get to the surface of stuff, let's rebook. But then something happened and we weren't allowed to |
| 4:48.5 | like talk for a little bit. So I don't remember exactly what it was. we didn't even get to the service of stuff, let's rebook. But then something happened and we weren't |
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