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Richer Soul
Hosted by Rocky Lalvani · EN
Life beyond money! You got rich, now what?
Welcome to Richer Soul. Your journey to a more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that out together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. Freedom!!!
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Ep 493 You Can't See the Diamonds at Your Feet with Lincoln Stoller
1w ago00:58:39Tap to summarizeYou Can't See the Diamonds at Your Feet You've built the business. Hit the numbers. Earned the respect. So why does something still feel like it's missing? This episode doesn't offer a quick fix. It offers something rarer: an honest diagnosis from someone who has spent decades inside physics, entrepreneurship, mountain climbing, and the therapy room, and who keeps arriving at the same uncomfortable conclusion. Most high achievers aren't lacking success. They're lacking awareness. In This Episode: Why Lincoln views money as a resource, never a scarce one, and how that shaped a life driven by value over accumulation The spectrum between sanity and insanity, and why the ability to communicate is what actually separates them How our education system was designed to socialize and economize, not to teach fulfillment What it means to have diamonds at your feet and not be able to see them The commoditization of psychedelics and why Lincoln has grown disillusioned with the trend Creativity as the essential bridge between material success and genuine spiritual depth Why what looks like a small adjustment to you might be a seismic shift for the person you're trying to help Key Insights: Awareness is the root of everything. Lincoln returns to this word throughout the conversation. Before you can change anything, you have to honestly reckon with what you're actually doing and what role you're playing in the life you have. Creativity is the bridge to spirit. Lincoln argues that spirituality cannot simply be added to a rational or achievement-driven life, but creativity can. And from creativity, beauty follows, and from beauty, something genuinely transcendent becomes reachable. Negative mentors are as valuable as positive ones. Lincoln has had a handful of truly good mentors and hundreds of bad ones. He considers both equally instructive, and has long wanted to write a book about learning from failure and from people who get it wrong. A small adjustment to you may be a seismic shift for someone else. This reframe alone is worth the listen. It explains so much of why people appear stuck even when the path forward seems obvious from the outside. Legacy is the real measure. When asked what truth about success he wishes more people understood, Lincoln's answer was simple and arresting: you're going to die, and you're going to be left with your legacy. How do you want to affect people when you're gone? Money Lessons from Lincoln: Lincoln Stoller grew up in a household where money was present but never treated as the point. His father made enough that scarcity wasn't the lesson, and so Lincoln absorbed a different one: money is a resource, not a destination. What he came to care about instead was value, the quality of what a thing is actually worth in terms of insight, experience, and growth. "I don't care about quantity of money," he says in this conversation. "I care about quality of value. Hell with money, it's all about value." For anyone who has spent years optimizing for financial outcomes and still feels like something is off, that distinction is not just refreshing. It is diagnostic. Why This Conversation Matters: The version of success most high achievers are chasing was designed by someone else. Lincoln traces it back directly, to an education system built in 19th-century Prussia to prepare people for industrial participation, not personal fulfillment. The result is a culture full of people who have met every grade, hit every milestone, and built identities that feel hollow from the inside. Lincoln has watched it play out in his therapy practice for years. He watched it play out among his high school peers, some of whom achieved everything the system asked of them and later took their own lives. This is not a conversation about working harder or optimizing better. It is a conversation about whether the thing you are working toward is actually ...
Transcribe →Ep 492 You Hit Every Goal. So Why Does It Feel Empty? with Jim Sabellico
2w ago00:46:38Tap to summarizeYou Hit Every Goal. So, Why Does It Feel Empty? What happens when you build everything you were told to want and still feel empty? Jim Sabellico found out the hard way. In this episode of Richer Soul, Jim sits down with Rocky Lalvani to share the raw, honest story behind his No Half Cakes philosophy and why he believes most high achievers are winning at the wrong game entirely. In This Episode: Jim shares the moment that cracked everything open: coming home at 8:45 at night on his son's sixth birthday to find a half-eaten cake on the counter, a exhausted wife, and the gut-punch realization that despite building multiple 7- and 8-figure businesses, he barely knew his own family and was in the worst physical shape of his life. He walks through what the rebuilding process actually looked like, including weeks of misplaced anger, finding a mentor, and how COVID's forced lockdown became an unexpected accelerator for the changes he had already started making in his personal and professional life. Jim breaks down his current definition of success, the ability to bring joy into a difficult situation, and explains exactly why he chose a definition that is entirely internal and cannot be measured by possessions, achievements, or anyone else's opinion. He introduces his book series starting with Show Up More, a 28-day guide to stepping into your authentic self, and explains the six slices of cake framework covering spiritual, financial, emotional, relational, professional, and physical health that forms the backbone of his work with entrepreneurs. Jim and Rocky dig into the Profit First mindset shift that changed how Jim runs his businesses, moving from a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants revenue mentality to one where profitability is a design principle, not a monthly hope, and how that shift made it possible for him to actually step back and show up in his own life. Key Insights: The scoreboard lies. Jim built multiple 7- and 8-figure businesses, had the nice car, the nice house, and all the traditional markers of success, and still walked into a room on his son's birthday feeling like he had failed at everything that actually mattered. Success defined by possessions and revenue is a standard set by other people, and it will never feel like enough because it was never yours to begin with. Anger is often just a disconnection from your authentic self. In the weeks after his wake-up call, Jim was furious at everyone around him before he realized the anger had nothing to do with them. When you spend years performing a version of yourself that is not aligned with who you actually are, the frustration builds until something forces you to stop and look honestly at what you have been doing. You cannot just generate your way to financial freedom. For most of his career, Jim's solution to every money problem was simply to make more revenue. Being able to crank that lever at will felt like a superpower, but it kept him from ever building a business that could run without consuming him entirely. The shift to Profit First was less about accounting and more about designing a life where he was no longer trading every waking hour for money. Feeling seen and heard is the foundation of real change. Jim believes every person has four core needs: to feel loved, appreciated, seen, and heard. When those needs go unmet, people stay stuck in echo chambers, hide behind masks, and avoid any belief that might threaten their sense of identity. Meeting people in those four needs first is what creates enough safety for them to start doing the real work. Purpose-driven businesses outperform profit-driven ones. When Jim shifted his company culture from how much can we make to how do we show up as the best version of ourselves and leave everyone we touch better than we found them, he expected to lose ground. Instead, every one of his businesses began performing better than before, with him working significantly less. Alignment, it turns out, is not just good for the soul. It is good for the bottom line. The Money Lesson from Jim: For most of his entrepreneurial life, Jim's relationship with money was built on a simple and seductive belief: if you need more money, go make more money. He was extraordinarily good at generating revenue, whether it was cutting grass at eight, selling ringtone installs in high school, or scaling businesses into 7- and 8-figure territory as an adult. That ability became his identity. But as Jim explains in this conversation, the problem with being able to crank the revenue lever at will is that it makes profitability feel optional. You never have to get your financial house in order because you can always just earn more. The Profit First framework helped Jim shift out of that mentality entirely. Instead of generating revenue and hoping profit showed up at the end of the month, he began designing his businesses...
Transcribe →Ep 491 You're Not in Charge: What Ayahuasca Teaches High Achievers with Yasha Shah
3w ago00:37:07Tap to summarizeYou're Not in Charge: What Ayahuasca Teaches High Achievers You have done the work. Built the business. Hit the goals. So why does something still feel off? For high achievers and entrepreneurs, the hardest realization is not that something is broken. It is that the very skill that built everything, your need to control, might be the thing standing between you and what you are actually searching for. In this episode, Rocky sits down with Yasha Shah, founder of Mahadevi Ayahuasca Retreat in Colombia, to explore why so many driven, successful people are turning to plant medicine, what actually happens during and after ceremony, and why the path to deeper meaning requires learning to receive instead of lead. In This Episode: Why ayahuasca is not a miracle cure and the reality of layered, ongoing healing How the need for control becomes the biggest obstacle for entrepreneurs in ceremony The five archetypes of integration Yasha uses to support people after ayahuasca The trap of projection and why we instinctively look outward instead of inward The spiritual and indigenous origins of ayahuasca and why context matters What "meaning making" is and why it is essential after a psychedelic experience Who ayahuasca is not for and how to know if you are ready Key Insights: The most fulfilling part of healing is not arriving at "healed" but the freedom, joy, and wisdom you cultivate through the process itself. High achievers spend their lives planning and controlling outcomes, but in ceremony, you are not in charge. You are supposed to be led. Learning to receive is the transformation. Projection is one of the biggest traps in self-work. The instinct to focus on what others need to fix is often a defense against turning inward. People are not lacking purpose. Centuries of survival-driven thinking have disconnected us from our bodies and the earth. Many are searching for a return to their original selves. Not investing in yourself is not saving money. It is the most expensive decision you will ever make. Money Lesson from Yasha: "What it cost me a lot was that I should not — investing in myself is not an expense." For someone who once made and lost millions as a stock trader, this realization didn't come cheap. Yasha learned the hard way that the returns from investing in personal growth, healing, and self-understanding far outweigh anything a balance sheet can measure. It's a mindset shift that mirrors the philosophy of the Richer Soul podcast itself — that true wealth isn't just financial, it's internal. Whether it's the cost of a retreat, a therapy program, or simply carving out time for self-reflection, Yasha's experience is a reminder that the most transformative investment a person can make is the one directed inward. The ROI doesn't show up in a quarterly report, but it shows up in the quality of every decision, relationship, and moment that follows. Why This Conversation Matters: We live in an era where mental health struggles are at an all-time high, yet the conventional solutions — talk therapy, medication, self-help books — leave many people feeling stuck. At the same time, psychedelic therapy is moving from the cultural fringe into mainstream conversation, with research institutions, medical professionals, and even Fortune 500 executives taking it seriously. But with that momentum comes hype, misinformation, and a growing number of retreat operators more interested in profit than participant safety. This conversation matters because Yasha Shah offers something rare in this space: honesty without the sales pitch. He doesn't promise miracles. He doesn't dress things up in vague spiritual language. He speaks plainly about what ayahuasca can and cannot do, who it's safe for and who it's not, and why the real work begins after the ceremony ends. For anyone curious about plant medicine — ...
Transcribe →Ep 490 The Armor That Made You Successful Is Holding You Back with Victoria Pelletier
4w ago00:56:04Tap to summarizeThe Armor That Made You Successful Is Holding You Back You hit the goals. You climbed the ranks. You built the resilience, the discipline, the thick skin. But somewhere along the way, you stopped asking whether the version of you that got here is the version that will get you where you actually want to go. This episode is for the high achiever who suspects the armor they are wearing has quietly become the thing limiting their next chapter. Rocky Lalvani sits down with Victoria Pelletier, a woman who went from a childhood marked by abuse and poverty to becoming a COO at 24, only to discover that the "Iron Maiden" persona she had built to survive the boardroom was costing her the relationships, trust, and fulfillment that real leadership demands. Victoria shares how she made the deliberate, uncomfortable pivot from command-and-control toughness to what she calls whole human leadership, and why that shift unlocked levels of success her armor never could. In This Episode: How childhood adversity created the drive for success and the armor that came with it The moment Victoria learned her "Iron Maiden" nickname was not a compliment Why your definition of success must evolve as you do The false choice between being right and being rich Whole human leadership: what it means and why corporate culture still resists it AI in the workplace: what is real, what is fear, and what is just a corporate excuse Why stepping into your zone of discomfort is where the real growth happens Key Insights: The same traits that propel you to the top can quietly isolate you from the people and the purpose that make the top worth reaching. Incentives drive behavior, and the exceptions leadership makes are what everyone is truly watching. Values on the wall mean nothing without accountability in action. Confidence is often equated with competence, but real strength comes from letting people see the full human behind the title. Being right and being rich are not mutually exclusive. Silencing your values for short-term gain is a trade-off that compounds against you. Everything you have ever wanted lives on the other side of fear. Growth happens in the zone of discomfort, not in the zone of safety. Money Learning: Nobody taught Victoria about money. Not her family, not school, not even the bank she worked at early in her career. Her adoptive parents declared bankruptcy twice and spent more than the little they had. School offered trigonometry but nothing about budgeting, saving, or building wealth. Even when Victoria earned her securities license and learned to manage other people's money in banking, the fundamentals of personal financial discipline were never part of the curriculum. Everything she knows about money she built herself, starting with her first job at age eleven. Her story is a powerful reminder that for many high achievers, the wealth mindset that drives them was not handed down. It was forged from watching what not to do and deciding to build something different. Why This Conversation Matters: Leaders are under more pressure than ever. AI is reshaping workforces. Employees are demanding more humanity and transparency from the people above them. And the default response for most executives is still the same one Victoria relied on in her twenties: put on the armor, push through, do not let anyone see you struggle. Victoria's story is a direct challenge to that instinct. She is proof that the leaders who will thrive in what comes next are not the ones who absorb the most pressure without flinching. They are the ones willing to lead as full human beings, to build trust instead of compliance, and to tell the truth even when it is uncomfortable. This is not a conversation about soft skills. It is a conversation about what durable, high-impact leadership actually dema...
Transcribe →Ep 489 Define Success or Chase It Forever with Mitch Matthews
Apr 2101:03:37Tap to summarizeDefine Success or Chase It Forever Success feels endless until you define it. In this episode, Rocky sits down with Mitch Matthews, success coach and creator of the top 1% podcast Dream Think Do, to explore why high-achieving leaders and entrepreneurs struggle to articulate their dreams and how to build a business that actually fulfills you. Mitch shares the unlikely lessons from his 13-year-old self working at a bike shop in Iowa to his current work with organizations like Nike, NASA, and Disney. If you've hit your revenue goals but still feel empty, this conversation is for you. Learning Insights Success Is Closer Than You Think (But You Have to Define It). Most entrepreneurs are three feet from gold without realizing it. Define what success means to you in this current season and watch how quickly it becomes achievable. Your Business Sequence Matters More Than Your Dream. Every successful business has a clear sequence that moves people from awareness to trust to investment. Most entrepreneurs can't articulate theirs, which is why they struggle to attract consistent clients. Be Interested, Not Interesting. Stop trying to impress people with expertise. Start genuinely asking questions and listening. Curiosity creates connection far better than charisma ever will. Permission Is a Self-Imposed Barrier. You don't need your boss, family, or industry to give you permission to pursue your next chapter. You just need to give it to yourself and start. Dreams Are Season-Specific, Not Life-Long Absolutes. Just because you have a dream doesn't mean now is the right season. You can acknowledge it, prepare strategically, and wait for the right moment without guilt. Why This Conversation Matters This conversation matters because the majority of business owners operate from a default definition of success they never chose. They're chasing numbers inherited from their environment rather than defined by themselves. The most fulfilled entrepreneurs paused to ask: What does success actually look like for me right now? Understanding your sequence and building permission into your own narrative removes the shame from uncertainty while making your direction crystal clear. Money Learning Mitch's first job at 13 taught him that work equals income, and income equals freedom and choice. Later, when building his coaching business during the "sitcom life" (single income, two children, oppressive mortgage), he couldn't quit his day job. Instead, financial constraints forced him to be strategic about his sequence and message, allowing him to build a six-figure business in just five months on the side. Key Takeaway Define what success means to you in this season before you spend another year chasing it. Build a clear sequence that guides people from awareness to investment. Finally, give yourself permission to start your next chapter without waiting for external validation. Most entrepreneurs are closer to their goals than they realize—they just haven't named them yet. About Mitch Matthews Mitch Matthews is a success coach, speaker, and creator of the top 1% podcast DREAM THINK DO where he helps high-achieving leaders and entrepreneurs dream bigger, think better, and do more of what they were put on the planet to do. He's worked with organizations like Nike, NASA, and Disney, and he's the creator of The Authority Bridge™ a proven process that helps professionals turn their experience into a coaching and speaking business they love. Links Website: www.MitchMatthews.com www.MitchMatthews.com/time Coupon Code: richersoul Podcast: DREAM THINK DO: https://mitchmatthews.com/blog/ To join thousands who receive Mitch's weekly "4 Things" email… you can go to: MitchMatthews.com/4things "Discover 44 Proven Ways to Find Your First Life Coaching Clients (And Keep Them Coming!)" Guide: mitchmatthews.com/44ways "Faith & Focus: 11 Prayers for Building a Business and/or a Coaching Organization You Love" Guide: mitchmatthews.com/11prayers Instagram: @mitch.matthews Facebook: @mitch.matthews.104 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchmatthews/ Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@richersoul Richer Soul Life Beyond Money. You got rich, now what? Let's talk about your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that out together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom! Thanks for listening! Show Sponsor: http://profitcomesfirst.com/ Schedule your free no obligation call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro appointment 15 minutes If you like the show please leave a review on iTunes: http://bit.do/richersoul https://www.facebook.com/richersoul <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW65444567 BCX0" href="http://r...
Transcribe →Ep 488 The 7 Steps to Align Purpose with Profession with Florian Kemmerich
Apr 1401:04:14Tap to summarizeThe 7 Steps to Align Purpose with Profession Finding Your Vocation At 33, Florian Kemmerich was running a major healthcare corporation with all the external markers of success. Yet in a therapy session, his inner child delivered a brutal truth: "What you do makes no sense." That moment launched him on a 25-year journey across four continents, mobilizing nearly $1B in impact capital, and creating a structured methodology called "vocating" to help people align their purpose with their profession. In this episode, Rocky and Florian explore why your six-figure business might be making you miserable, how to distinguish between a job and a vocation, and why human agency matters more than ever in the age of AI. Learning Insights Success Without Purpose Creates Burnout, Not Freedom. Most high-achieving business owners believe they're working toward freedom and fulfillment. In reality, they're building golden handcuffs. The longer you defer living your actual life, the more trapped you become by your own success. Your Inner Child Knows What Your Adult Self Denies. We're taught from childhood to suppress our intuition, our feelings, and our natural inclinations in favor of external markers of success. The Difference Between a Job, a Career, and a Vocation. A job is transactional. You trade time for money. A vocation is something entirely different. It's work that matters to you, that serves something greater than your ego, that aligns with your deepest values. When you have a true vocation, you don't have to justify it to anyone because you're not doing it to perform. You're doing it because you can't imagine doing anything else. Your Superpower Needs a Purpose to Matter. You might be excellent at financial modeling, marketing, operations, or sales. But excellence without purpose is just technical skill. True Service Isn't About Helping, It's About Investing Yourself. Florian learned this brutal lesson when the child he had photographed for his nonprofit's newsletter died from a preventable infection. Real impact requires sustained investment, not charity. Why This Conversation Matters This conversation matters because it addresses the silent crisis affecting millions of successful entrepreneurs and business owners. You can optimize your profit margins, streamline your operations, and scale your revenue, but if you're not doing work that matters to you, you will eventually hit a wall. Usually around age 40 or 50. For small business owners between $1M and $25M in revenue, the stakes are particularly high because you have enough success to feel trapped but not enough flexibility to easily pivot. This episode provides both the framework for understanding your misalignment and a practical methodology for fixing it before the midlife crisis forces the issue. Money Learning The relationship between money and vocation is not what most business owners believe it to be. The conventional wisdom says you earn money first and do what you love later, but Florian's evidence from 25 years of impact investing across four continents suggests the opposite. When people align their work with their actual purpose, they naturally become more effective, more resilient, and ultimately more profitable. The stress becomes healthy, self-inflicted stress driven by intrinsic motivation rather than the corrosive stress of doing work that doesn't matter. You don't have to sacrifice financial success to find vocational alignment. In fact, the two reinforce each other when done correctly. Key Takeaway The question you should ask yourself is not "How can I make more money?" or "How can I become more successful?" The question is "What did my inner child actually want before society told me what I should want?" Once you answer that with honesty, your next question is "How can I use my skills and resources to serve that purpose?" The rest follows naturally. You may not feel this misalignment yet, but Florian's research suggests it's coming for most high-achieving people. The earlier you ask the question, the more of your life you get to actually live. If you're ready to explore your vocation and align your business with your actual purpose, don't miss this episode! About Florian Kemmerich Florian Kemmerich is an impact investor, serial entrepreneur, purpose strategist, and global keynote speaker who helps individuals and institutions align purpose with profession to drive systemic impact. He is the author of On Vocation: How to Align Your Purpose with Your Profession (Routledge, 2025), introducing "vocating"—a structured seven-step method for building a vocation that supports personal fulfilment and societal transformation. Over 25+ years across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, he has mobilised nearly $1B in impact capital and co-founded Human Planet and Resilienture—ventures advancing climate resilience, humanitarian innovation, and innovative finance. He has lectured and facilitated at Oxford Saïd, IMD's Executive MBA, the YPO Global Impact Summit, and more, leading "On Vocation" workshops on purpose, resilience, and impact-driven leadership. A former paratrooper, multilingual communicator (German, English, Spanish, French, Italian), father of five, and musician at heart, Florian blends personal development, strategy, systems thinking, and impact investing. His journey from bullied outsider to judo champion to international impact investor underpins his leitmotif: "Impact Lives, Share Profits." Links Website: https://on-vocation.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/floriankemmerich/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/florian.onvocation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flokemmerich X: https://x.com/flokemmerich <p class="Paragraph S...
Transcribe →Ep 487 The New Rules of Prosperity: Thriving in a Disruptive Economy with Randy Gage
Apr 701:05:34Tap to summarizeThe New Rules of Prosperity: Thriving in a Disruptive Economy From Prison to Prosperity: How Mental Programming Shapes Your Financial Destiny Randy Gage, Speaker Hall of Famer and bestselling author known as The Entrepreneur Whisperer, sits down with Rocky Lalvani to discuss his remarkable journey from a jail cell at 15 to becoming a multi-millionaire entrepreneur. More importantly, Randy reveals the mental programming and "mind viruses" that have been sabotaging your financial success since childhood, and how to deliberately reprogram your beliefs about money, success, and your own potential. Learning Insights Your Money Story Was Written Before You Were Eight Years Old. Most of your beliefs about money, success, and worthiness were installed by your family, school, community, and the stories you consumed before you could question them. Until you identify and consciously reprogram these beliefs, they will continue to run your financial life. Mind Viruses Spread Through Emotional Stories Popular culture has programmed you to believe that money is bad, and rich people are evil through emotional narratives. From Spider-Man to Superman to Harry Potter, nearly every major protagonist is an orphan receiving the subconscious message that poverty equals morality and wealth equals corruption. True Prosperity Has Four Quadrants: Resources, Health, Harmony, and Significance. Money alone is not prosperity. Real prosperity requires financial resources, physical health and wellness, spiritual or emotional harmony, and significance (the legacy and positive impact you leave behind). Most people chase only the first quadrant and end up being wealthy but miserable. Entrepreneurship Forces the Self-Development That Employees Avoid. Business owners pursue personal transformation out of necessity because their survival and success depend directly on their mindset and capabilities. Employees rarely have this same urgency, which is why most self-development programs are filled with entrepreneurs. The Safest Move Is to Take More Calculated Risks. In a rapidly changing world, doing nothing is the biggest risk. Whether it's embracing AI, starting a side business, or challenging your limiting beliefs, the safest strategy is taking more shots on goal with prudent, measured attempts. Why This Conversation Matters In a world where financial advice is everywhere but prosperity remains elusive for most people, Randy Gage cuts through the noise to address the real problem: your programming. This conversation matters because it reveals that your external financial results are simply a reflection of your internal beliefs. You can follow every money-making formula, attend every seminar, and read every book, but if you're still operating on the belief that "rich people are evil" or "money corrupts," you'll unconsciously sabotage your success. Understanding this fundamental truth is the prerequisite for building lasting wealth and the other dimensions of a prosperous life. The Money Learning Randy's perspective on money has evolved from viewing it as something to steal (at 15) to understanding it as energy and a tool for creating good in the world. His most important money lesson came from losing everything to the IRS and being forced to reprogram his beliefs about success and self-responsibility. He teaches that money is morally neutral. It's neither good nor bad. The programming that tells you otherwise came from Hollywood, your family, and your culture, and it's costing you millions. The path to financial freedom begins by recognizing these installed beliefs, deliberately replacing them with empowering ones, and then taking consistent action from that new foundation. Key Takeaway Your money story, success story, and relationship story were largely written by age eight through the beliefs you absorbed from your environment. Until you consciously identify these "mind viruses" and deliberately reprogram them with new, empowering beliefs, you'll continue to sabotage yourself at every level of prosperity. The good news is that reprogramming is possible at any age. Randy Gage is living proof that you can go from a jail cell to millions, from a lonely bookworm to a world-renowned speaker, from financial disaster to your best year ever. The question is: what programming is running your life right now, and are you brave enough to rewrite it? About Randy Gage Randy Gage is a Speaker Hall of Famer, bestselling author, and thought leader known worldwide as The Entrepreneur Whisperer. From a jail cell as a teenager to becoming a multi-millionaire entrepreneur, Randy has spent three decades helping people rewrite the mental programming that blocks their prosperity. He's the author of 15 books translated into more than 25 languages, including Risky Is the New Safe, Mad Genius, and Radical Rebirth. Randy's been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fox News, and SUCCESS Magazine, and has shared the stage with some of the world's most influential business minds. Hosts love Randy because he doesn't deliver theory — he brings bold ideas, provocative stories, and practical strategies that get audiences thinking bigger and acting smarter about money, success, and mindset. Links Website: https://randygage.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/randygage/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randygage/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/randy_gage?igsh=bGxhc3Q3N2EyMGlr X: https://x.com/Randy_Gage YouTube: https://www.youtube.co...
Transcribe →Ep 486 From Trauma to Triumph: How to Heal Cancer & Anxiety Using Gut Health & Nervous System Reset with Dr. Jen Hewson
Mar 3101:01:13Tap to summarizeFrom Trauma to Triumph: How to Heal Cancer & Anxiety Using Gut Health & Nervous System Reset Dr. Jen Hewson wasn't always a doctor of natural medicine. She was a high-functioning education administrator making six figures, looking fit on the outside, and falling apart on the inside. At 43, a cancer diagnosis became her wake-up call to stop pushing through and start listening. In this conversation with Rocky Lalvani, Dr. Hewson shares how healing your body, regulating your nervous system, and reconnecting with something bigger than yourself can transform not just your health, but your entire approach to life and leadership. Key Learning Insights Your body is always communicating. 90 percent of your health challenges come from what you're refusing to feel, not what you don't know. The body sends breadcrumbs of intuition first. If you ignore them, it sends a boulder. Dr. Hewson's cancer diagnosis was her boulder, the breaking point that finally forced her to listen. 90 percent of your health is rooted in gut health, and gut health affects everything else. Your gut is your first brain. When your gut is dysbiotic and leaky, your body is in survival mode. It can't properly regulate hormones, produce the right neurotransmitters, or support emotional and mental wellbeing. Healing starts here, always. Cortisol doesn't distinguish between a real threat and a mental loop of "what if." Your nervous system treats chronic stress the same way it treats a bear chasing you. This constant activation contracts your blood vessels, dysregulates your heart, and keeps you in a state of dis-ease. A simple two to three minute breathing practice twice daily can measurably lower cortisol and restore nervous system balance. You have 90 percent responsibility for your health, not 10 percent. Only 10 percent accounts for genetic mutations and factors beyond your control. The other 90 percent comes down to your choices, your willingness to feel, and your commitment to take responsibility. This isn't blame. It's empowerment. Spiritual disconnection is a root cause of disease that most medical systems completely ignore. Research shows 80 to 94 percent better healing outcomes in people with some form of spiritual connection or faith in something bigger than themselves. Healing requires alignment of body, mind, and spirit. Leave one out and you're only managing symptoms. Why This Conversation Matters In a culture obsessed with quick fixes and surface-level solutions, Dr. Jen Hewson offers something radical: the truth that lasting health and sustainable success require us to stop pushing through and start listening to what our bodies, emotions, and spirits have been trying to tell us. Most people are functioning at high levels while internally dysregulated, anxious, and disconnected from themselves and each other. This conversation is essential for anyone who's achieved external success but feels empty on the inside, who's tired of managing symptoms instead of healing at the source, and who's ready to understand that the body, mind, and spirit aren't separate silos to be treated independently. Her message is particularly powerful for high-achieving executives and leaders who've been taught that self-reliance and pushing through are signs of strength, when in reality, learning to listen, rest, and reconnect is what true leadership looks like. Money & Mindset Learning Dr. Hewson grew up with her mother who became pregnant at 14 in poverty-stricken Ontario, Canada. She witnessed her mother struggling with money constantly, overspending, and then scrambling to catch up. That pattern of financial stress and lack mentality shaped her childhood and drove her to achieve at the highest level possible so she would never live in that constant misery. However, she learned that achievement without healing creates a hollow success. Making six figures while dysregulated, anxious, and disconnected from yourself isn't actually success. Real wealth is internal alignment where your body, mind, and spirit are functioning in coherence. She retired early from her high-paying administrative job to pursue work that nourished her soul because she realized that money earned from a place of running away from pain will never satisfy. The deepest learning is that financial success without spiritual connection and physical health becomes just another way to avoid facing yourself. Key Takeaway Stop waiting for permission to heal. Stop looking for someone else to fix you. The boulder has probably already hit you, or it's coming. Your body is speaking through every symptom, every anxiety, every sleepless night. Start listening. Begin with your gut. Regulate your nervous system through simple practices like breath coherence. Reconnect with something bigger than yourself. And understand that healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about returning to who you were before the world taught you to disconnect from yourself. That's where your real power lies. Bio Dr. Jen Hewson didn't begin her work from a place of ease. She began it from a place of breaking. Long before she became a Doctor of Natural Medicine or built Take Back Your Health, she was navigating deep personal healing — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She learned firsthand what it feels like to function on the outside while falling apart on the inside… and what it takes to truly come back into alignment. Her healing didn't come from quick fixes or surface-level solutions. It came from learning how the body holds stress, how unresolved emotions affect health, and how spiritual disconnection quietly erodes vitality. That journey changed everything — including how she now serve others. Today, Dr Jen integrates root-cause medicine, nervous system regulation, and spiritual insights to support people who are tired of pushing through pain and ready to heal at the source. Her work with high-calibre executives is deeply personal, clinically grounded, and centered on restoring trust in the body and clarity in leadership. Since 2019, she has shared this message on national stages and in transformational workshops with organizations such as Holistic Health Canada and the Canadian Conference Speakers Bureau, helping individuals and teams understand that sustainable success begins with self-leadership and self-care. Her recent published book called Gut Instincts: A Journey of Breaking, Healing and Returning home to God is not only her testimony but a blueprint for others to follow. She does not believe that healing is about becoming someone new…rather she believes it's about returning to who you were before the world taught you t...
Transcribe →Ep 485 The Entrepreneur's Anxiety Problem: Why Money Won't Fix Your Broken Heart with Justin Breen
Mar 2400:57:06Tap to summarizeThe Entrepreneur's Anxiety Problem: Why Money Won't Fix Your Broken Heart with Justin Breen Why Money Won't Fix Your Broken Heart Justin Breen has built successful companies, achieved financial success, and reached the pinnacle of what society tells us to chase. Then he walked away from it all. Why? Because he realized money won't fix a broken heart, and scaling your business without healing first might actually be making things worse. In this conversation, Justin challenges everything we've been taught about success, leadership, and what actually matters for business owners and entrepreneurs. Key Learning Insights The Word "Business" Literally Means Anxiety The etymology of common business words reveals uncomfortable truths. "Business" comes from the Latin "bisignus" meaning anxiety. When you scale your business, you're scaling your anxiety. Understanding this fundamental construct can shift how you approach growth. Money Beyond Basic Needs Doesn't Increase Happiness Once your basics are covered (food, shelter, safety), additional income doesn't change your happiness or fulfillment. Justin has experienced years of significant income and realized it meant nothing to his actual well-being. This liberates entrepreneurs to stop chasing money as the answer to internal problems. Parents Talk AT Their Children Instead of WITH Them The breakdown in family communication mirrors the breakdown in business leadership. When parents (and leaders) don't listen with presence and eye contact, children disconnect from their feelings and learn to hide their authentic selves. Love for children is spelled T-I-M-E: presence and connection. Your Heart Is More Powerful Than Your Brain Entrepreneurs are conditioned to live in their heads, overthinking everything. But the heart knows what the brain cannot access. True innovation and leadership come from feeling leading with thinking supporting, not the reverse. When you lead from your heart instead of your anxiety, everything changes. Breaking Free From Social Conditioning Is Lonely But Necessary "For a select few, there is a determination to seek liberation from social hypnosis." Once you see that the world is scaling anxiety and things that don't make people happy, you can't unsee it. This awareness is isolating, but it's also the only path to genuine change and higher consciousness. Why This Conversation Matters This conversation matters because most business owners are building companies while their hearts are broken. They're scaling anxiety instead of scaling purpose. They're passing their unhealed trauma to their teams, their families, and the next generation. Justin's willingness to talk openly about his journey through the dark night of the soul, his divorce, the dissolution of companies, and his commitment to healing provides permission for other leaders to ask the hard question: "What am I actually building, and who am I becoming in the process?" Without this conversation, business owners continue the cycle of external achievement masking internal emptiness. Money And Fulfillment Insights Money is energy, not the answer. Justin has made significant money and lived a successful lifestyle. His conclusion after years of pursuit: material gains don't solve internal problems. The irony is that many entrepreneurs chase money specifically to heal something inside themselves or prove their worth. But you can't buy your way out of a broken heart. Once your basic needs are met, the pursuit of more money becomes a mask for deeper issues. Business owners need to ask themselves: "Am I chasing money to solve an internal problem money can never touch?" This reframing liberates entrepreneurs to build companies from authentic purpose rather than fear and lack. Key Takeaway The most important business decision you'll ever make isn't about revenue, profit margins, or market share. It's about deciding whether you're going to lead from your healed heart or from your unhealed wounds. Everything flows from that choice. Your company culture flows from it. Your team's engagement flows from it. Your children's relationship with success flows from it. The world's consciousness flows from it. Before you scale anything else, heal yourself first. Because when you do, everything else transforms. Bio Justin Breen's next book, Epic Journey, will feature an introduction from Dr. Deepak Chopra. The book also will be turned into a documentary with star actor Gary Sinise providing the narration. Breen also is Co-Founder of Corvia.AI, an education platform that teaches participants how to create songs using artificial intelligence, and AURUM, a healing sanctuary for visionaries. Breen's second book, Epic Life, featured a foreword from Dr. Peter Diamandis and has been the No. 1 overall book for sales on Amazon Kindle. It also made the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller lists. Links Website: https://aurumsanctuary.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinbreen1/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrEpicBreen/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brepicbreen/ If this episode shifted how you think about success and leadership, share it with a business owner in your life who's asking "I got rich, now what?" Tag them and let them know why this conversation matters. And grab the book Epic Journey when it releases to go deeper into Justin's journey through the dark night of the soul and what healing-based leadership actually looks like. #BusinessOwnerMindset #EntrepreneurLife #LeadershipDevelopment #ProfitFirst #SmallBusinessFinance #FinancialFreedom #BusinessPsychology #HeartBasedLeadership #Entrepreneurship #BusinessGrowth #MindsetShift #SuccessMindset #CashFlowManagement #BusinessCoach #LifePathNum...
Transcribe →Ep 484 Stop Doing Everything Yourself: How AI and the 10-80-10 Rule Free Business Owners to Scale with Scott Abbott
Mar 1701:03:55Tap to summarizeStop Doing Everything Yourself: How AI and the 10-80-10 Rule Free Business Owners to Scale "What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder, but systematizing smarter and leading with more humanity? Today's guest has spent over 30 years doing exactly that, launching, building, buying, and selling businesses, raising more than $35 million in venture capital, leading organizations that generated billions in sales, and learning just as much from his failures as his wins. He's a finalist for the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an Inc. 5000 Winner, a former Entrepreneur in Residence at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, a Fast Company Executive Board Member, and the bestselling author of four books, including BOS-UP and BOS-UP Moments. Today, he serves as Founder and CEO of Straticos and BOS-UP, where he coaches business leaders, invests in companies, and sits on boards — helping teams build stronger systems, culture, and performance." Learning Insights The 10-80-10 Rule: Business owners should focus the initial 10% on innovation and business development, let AI and systems handle the middle 80% of routine operations, and spend the final 10% on human connection, coaching, and culture. Work-Life Harmony Over Balance: Balance is a static myth. Harmony is about integration, rhythm, and flow like music, where sometimes the treble is up, and the bass is down, or like Garrett's Chicago mix popcorn combining cheddar and caramel. The CLEAR Framework for Leadership: Collaborative, Logical, Empathetic, Authentic, and Resilient, a standard for leadership communication and decision-making during high-stress moments. Systematize the Predictable to Humanize the Exceptional: Quote from Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons founder), use systems to handle routine tasks so leaders can focus on high-value creative and relational work. AI as Co-Pilot, Not Replacement: "You, it, never it alone." AI is an aggregator and accelerator, but human validation must always be applied before anything goes out. Profit First Over Unicorn Status: Small businesses should seek free cash flow and stability rather than chasing unicorn status. Focus on leading indicators, not just lagging ones like bank balances. Coach You Up or Coach You Out: Leaders should invest in developing their people, but if there's persistent pushback or misalignment, move them out to maintain organizational health. Grace and Grit: The next generation should balance resilience and hard work (grit) with compassion and self-forgiveness (grace), using the hindsight of others as their foresight. The ABC Mantra: Be the Architect (designer), Builder (executor), and Custodian (protector) of your leadership, business, and life. Why This Conversation Matters This conversation bridges the gap between rigid engineering systems and human-centric leadership. Scott Abbott challenges the traditional "work-life balance" myth and offers a modern framework for integrating AI and systems into business without losing the human touch. What makes this unique is his perspective from both sides; he lived through the dot-com crash after raising $15 million, learned profit-first discipline at a $32 billion corporation, and now teaches entrepreneurs how to scale smarter. The deeper message is that true success comes from using systems to protect and amplify humanity, not replace it. By systematizing the predictable, leaders are freed to focus on what only they can do: innovate, connect, and build culture. This isn't just about building better businesses; it's about building better lives through harmony, intentionality, and the courage to leverage both grace and grit. Money Learning Scott's financial mindset evolved dramatically from his early entrepreneurial rebellion to systemic discipline. Growing up with an engineer father who emphasized rigor, spreadsheets, and mechanics, Scott initially rebelled, leading to "dumb" spending decisions during the dot-com era when he raised $15 million for an internet services company. The psychological toll of losing up to $500,000 a month forced him to "check his ego" and learn financial stewardship. His time at Avnet, a $32 billion company with thin 8% margins, taught him to be "banshees on profit" and prioritize free cash flow over unicorn dreams. He advocates the Profit First philosophy, focusing on leading indicators rather than lagging ones like bank balances. His key money lesson: discipline equals freedom. By implementing rigorous financial systems, entrepreneurs can move from "living in the mess" to achieving harmony where the business serves their life, not the other way around. Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal, but cash flow is king. Key Takeaway The most powerful insight from this conversation is that scaling your business isn't about doing more, it's about doing less of what doesn't matter so you can focus on what only you can do. Scott Abbott's 10-80-10 rule reveals that most business owners are trapped in the middle 80% of routine operations when they should be leveraging AI and systems to handle that work. By systema...
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