Behind The Anvil Podcast – Season 2, Episode 31 From Marine to Mentor: Building Better Business Systems with Rue Knows In this episode of Behind The Anvil Podcast, host Michael Peterson sits down with entrepreneur, Marine Corps veteran, and business systems expert Rue Knows for an honest conversation about resilience, rebuilding, and creating businesses that actually work. Rue shares his incredible journey of joining the United States Marine Corps at just 17 years old, overcoming homelessness after his military service ended due to injury, and eventually building a successful painting company that generated more than $1.2 million in annual revenue. But as he explains, impressive revenue doesn't always equal profit. Rue opens up about the costly mistakes, leadership challenges, and hard lessons he learned while growing too fast without the right ...