Community Highlights: Meet Corey Dissin of Knockout Life and High Performance Coaching

Today we’d like to introduce you to Corey Dissin.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I’m Corey Dissin—high-performance coach, brand builder, and the guy who helps you stop making excuses and start getting results. After 30+ years in media and production, I built a no-fluff coaching business for entrepreneurs and creatives who are tired of overthinking and ready to execute.

I don’t do hype. I do discipline, accountability, and strategy that actually works. I’ll help you get clear on your message, tighten your brand, and create rinse-and-repeat systems so you can grow without drowning in chaos.

I also wrote a book called Going the DISS-tance to give people a straight-up blueprint for showing up, staying consistent, and punching through plateaus.

My job? Help you simplify, lock in, and go get it.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I have not been exempt from my share of obstacles.

Whether it was navigating operating a national company through an ownership change, the aftermath of 9/11, the recession in 2008-9, or Covid, I had plenty of challenges.

At one point early in my career, the production company owner told me I had to start finding new clients to justify paying me my growing salary. When I was thrust into sales, I had to get used to being told “no” a million times more than I would hear “yes.” That calloused my mind and forced me to take the daily actions necessary without emotion because I was not always going to get a positive result.

As you know, we’re big fans of Knockout Life and High Performance Coaching. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
I don’t believe in shortcuts — and I sure as hell don’t teach them.

Everything I have built — my career, my businesses, my reputation, and my life — came one disciplined step at a time.

No shortcuts. No smoke and mirrors. No handouts. No hype.

Just a no-nonsense, whatever-it- takes mindset — fueled by hard work, consistency, structure, and showing up when it matters.

Today, I’m a Knockout Life and High-Performance Coach, Business and Marketing Strategist, and the creator of Knockout Life and High- Performance Coaching — a no- fluff personal development system that helps people stop spinning their wheels and start making real moves.

Recognized as a no-nonsense authority on mindset, consistency, and personal growth, I bring a proven, real-world approach to transforming lives and careers.

I work with entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals who are good at what they do — but stuck.

Stuck in careers that aren’t going anywhere.

Stuck knowing they’re capable of more but unsure how to make it happen.

Stuck drowning in overwhelm, disorganization, overthinking, and procrastination.

Stuck in life.

They don’t need another pep talk.

They need a wake-up call. A reality check.

A system built on discipline, consistency, and execution — one that demands results and doesn’t let them quit when the going gets tough.

They need me.
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Before coaching became my calling, I spent nearly 30 years leading at the highest levels of media production.

As Vice President and General Manager of a national broadcast production company, I oversaw over 100,000 projects and managed more than $10 million in inventory for some of the world’s biggest brands — Disney on Ice, The Howard Stern Show, Monster Jam, and the Philadelphia 76ers.

Every project delivered. Every deadline hit. Every bar raised.

And while I was crushing it in my career in media, I was building something else: a private fitness studio from scratch.

Debt-free. Over 200 clients strong. My hustle was — and still is — real.

When I sold it, the payout didn’t go toward showing off.

It paid for four years of private school tuition for my son, Jordan Dissin — now a catcher drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies.

Because for me, it’s never been about talk or flex.

It’s always been about legacy.

By 2020, I walked away from corporate life to double down on coaching — helping others take ownership of their lives, sharpen their mindset, and build the structure real success demands.

Since then, I’ve coached over 200 professionals — not to indulge in wishful thinking, but to put in the work — the blood, sweat, and tears it sometimes takes to achieve lasting results that actually stand the test of time.

Can you talk to us about how you think about risk?
Calculated risk is part of the game.

The most major risk I took was cutting the safety net of my full-time salaried position to focus 100% on my coaching business.

I basically had to withstand the short term pain of cutting my income IN HALF for the long term gain of eventually consistently generating full time income on my own.

And at the same time, I rolled the dice and moved cross-country from the east coast to Mission Viejo, CA, into a sight-unseen apartment to allow my son to have the opportunity to play college baseball at a local junior college there and so that he could pursue his dream of playing professional baseball.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://coreydissin.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecoreydissin/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoGetItWithCoreyDissin/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreydissin/
• Twitter: https://x.com/bigdaddydissin
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CoreyDissin
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@corey.dissin