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The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs

Secret Service Agent Talks Keeping The Country and BJJ Academies Safe | Joe Scargill

The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs

Nick Lamagna

Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement, Education

5.0101 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with our guest Joe Scargill, an active Secret Service Agent for 20 years, a Checkmat BJJ Black belt who is an athlete, coach and true American Badass!  Fighting out of Jacksonville Florida by way of Pennsylvania, he wrestled at Ohio State and was on a path to go the path of working in Insurance like the rest of his family and turned to law enforcement after some impactful friends made an impression on him.

After starting as a police officer he set his sights on the Secret Service but was initially rejected.  His background in wrestling made him no stranger to adversity as he picked himself up and applied again, being accepted in 2000.  He found the art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a combat instructor for the Secret Service and has taken his gift and abilities in leadership from  the Government to the mats.  He is shaping minds young and old at A Force BJJ in Ponte Vedra, Florida and spends his time as a national keynote speaker.  He is also on the advisory board for Academy Safe providing a high quality training environment for martial arts communities doing the extra work to verify it is a place run by people we can trust with our children, friends and family.  FUN episode with an incredible guy, you won't want to miss this one!

 

Connect with Joe:

Joe Scargill on Facebook

Joseph Scargill on Instagram

Joe Scargill on Threads

Joe Scargill on LinkedIn

 

Connect with Academy Safe:

academysafe.org

Academy Safe on Facebook

Academy Safe on Instagram

Academy Safe on Youtube

Academy Safe on TikTok

 

 

Connect with A Force BJJ:

A Force BJJ

A Force BJJ on Instagram

A Force BJJ on Facebook

 

 

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Transcript

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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.

0:51.1

Welcome to the A-game podcast, we're listening to invest for entrepreneurs.

0:54.8

This is a podcast that shows average people every day that they can achieve extraordinary things. And in the past archives, if you go back, we have almost 400 episodes of people

0:59.3

that have reached the peaks personally, financially, physically, mentally, and the UFC, fighting, acting,

1:05.1

comedians, business, real estate investing, entrepreneurship of all shapes and sizes. And just those past

1:10.2

episodes, if you go back,

1:11.2

you can find somebody that can show you the path they took to find their personal success and achieve their goals. And you can also find the mistakes that they made along the way so you don't have to. If that was not enough, we have an amazing guest on today named Joe Scargill, who is an active secret service agent. He is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, and he is also on the board of Academy Safe, helping make sure that now we screen and do background checks and some of the instructors or some of the people that we are leaving with our kids and our loved ones in some of these academies across the country. He is a keynote speaker. He's an entrepreneur himself, and he brings the heat, and I get to ask him a lot of really cool fun questions because I've actually never talked to an active secret service agent. So I think it's an awesome thing. I think it'll be a fun episode for everybody.

1:28.5

There's a little bit of something for everyone. to ask them a lot of really cool fun questions because I've actually never talked to an active secret service agent.

1:45.4

So I think it's an awesome thing.

1:46.9

I think it'll be a fun episode for everybody.

1:42.9

There's a little bit of something for everything from the jiu-jitsu people to the entrepreneur people to the business people or to the people that just want some entertainment. Joe definitely brings the heat. So check him out on all social media, see the show notes. And of course, the only feed for this show is to please subscribe.

1:46.1

The A Game Podcast, Real Estate Investing for Entrepreneurs, is available everywhere.

2:34.7

Spotify, Apple, YouTube. Please take a second and subscribe. It really goes a long way. And if you're having trouble finding us on social media, just go to www.nick, nick, nick, nick.com slash links. www.w.w.nicknick.com slash links. And the way that we can keep this party going is when I post clips of the A Game podcast with Joe's episode, please like it, please give a thumbs up, please tag a friend. Most of us are scrolling all day on social media anyway. Please take a second and connect with me and let them know that you got value from what they did. So that way Joe goes out and tells other amazing people to come on and share their journey for free as well. And the big thing here is I want to do deals together. If you would like to buy some real estate investments from me, if you would like to sell some real estate investments to me, or if you would just like to have a conversation and see how we can work together or partner together, all you have to do is send me the words real estate, either to my social media so I know to look out for it as a business conversation or is send me the words real estate either to my social media

2:50.9

so I know to look out for it as a business conversation or just text me the words real estate to 516-5733-5-1-6-5-4-0-5733. Thank you so much for Joe coming on. I'm going to have them on again. I thought he was a great guest. I have so many more things I want to talk to him about. Thank you guys for support the podcast.

2:48.7

I think you're going to enjoy this one.

2:50.2

Have a fantastic day of the A-Game podcast.

2:52.1

Thank you, Joe Scargo. All right. My guest today is an athlete, a coach, and a true American badass, who is a check map Brazilian jih Tujutsu Blackbell, who served over 20 years and is still an active U.S. Secret Service agent.

3:24.7

He is fighting out of Jacksonville, Florida by way of Pennsylvania, where he grew up wrestling

3:29.6

through high school and then in college at Ohio State. He did not want to go the root of the

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