What happens when you spend years believing people don’t like you… or that you don’t belong anywhere?

For Scott Gave, that feeling followed him into childhood and school.

“I was trying to avoid school… I thought people didn’t like me or wanted to beat me up.”

Then martial arts entered his life — and everything started to change.

Episode Overview

In this episode of The Ill Noise Business Playbook, host Joe Weisman sits down with Scott Gave, owner of Fit 2 Defend Academy, to talk about anxiety, identity, leadership, mentorship, and how martial arts helped him build confidence, discipline, and purpose.

This conversation isn’t just about martial arts.

It’s about:

finding confidence through challenge

learning how to lead people with influence instead of authority

and disco ...