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The Quiet Warrior Show
Hosted by Tom Dutta · EN
The Quiet Warrior Show helps seekers, top leaders, find their pathway to higher happiness and success.
A combination of interview with leaders who tell their heroic stories of success and challenges/failures along the way makes this a show like no other. Hear leadership talks on how to find purpose in life, take action and create the life you deserve and desire.
Your host Tom Dutta is the CEO of KRE-AT a Motive Leadership Company, #1 International Best Selling Author and International Speaker. Tom created a unique coaching and mentoring formula "The Way of the Quiet Warrior®" and received the William Shatner Moving America Forward award for helping leaders.
Learn more about Tom visit:
www.kreat.ca/who
vimeo.com/238882128 as see on Moving America Forward
https://www.facebook.com/thewayofthequietwarrior/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomdutta/
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EP#282 FINAL CUT PREMIERE: The Professional Paradox: When Success Isn't Enough | Nancy Ho
2w ago01:09:27Tap to summarize✨ What happens when you achieve everything… except yourself? 🌿 Listen to the Final Cut Premiere as host and producer Dr. Tom Dutta sits down with Nancy Ho, Business Strategist, Transformation Coach, and Internationally Recognized Thought Leader, on "The Professional Paradox." Stream the full episode as they explore what happens when high achievers reach the top and still feel empty. With over 26 years of experience and more than 10,000 high-performing professionals served, Nancy guides C-suite executives, founders, and senior leaders through the hidden burdens of success. She teaches what she calls Effortless Success. Not the absence of effort. But the absence of inner struggle. Her signature North Star Vision™ framework helps leaders realign ambition with purpose, resilience, and deep fulfillment. But this conversation is not theory. It is shaped by: 💫 A father who believed in her before she was born ⚡ A health scare at 26 that exposed performance-based success 🔥 A business failure that humbled her optimism into discernment 🕊 A mother lost to Alzheimer's only months ago This is a dialogue about identity, ego, grief, alignment, leadership, and redefining success before life forces you to. If you have ever felt successful on paper but unsettled in your soul, this episode is for you. 🌐 Learn more about Nancy Ho and her work at nancyho.co 🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora, Audible, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Overcast, and wherever you listen to podcasts. Hosted and produced by Dr. Tom Dutta on The Quiet Warrior Show, rated a Top 20 Leadership Podcast in Canada by Feedspot, with global reach across 20+ countries. #QuietWarriorShow #FinalCutPremiere #NancyHo #ProfessionalParadox #EffortlessSuccess #Leadership #ExecutiveWellness #PurposeDriven #NorthStarVision #HighAchievers #Fulfillment
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EP#281 Measuring Joy: Dr. Paul J. Zak's Neuroscience Revolution
Apr 100:59:19Tap to summarize🧠 Can happiness be measured? Dr. Paul J. Zak returns with shocking proof! 🧠 Join Host Dr. Tom Dutta for the AUDIO PREMIERE RELEASE of this powerful Quiet Warrior Show episode, now available for the first time across all major podcast platforms. 🎧 Available Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM PST 📲 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and all major RSS podcast platforms. In this groundbreaking conversation, "Dr. Love" reveals the neuroscience behind his breakthrough book The Little Book of Happiness, plus Dr. Tom Dutta's surprising real-time brain experiment results! ✅ How 6 daily experiences rewire your brain for joy ✅ Why ancient virtues + modern neuroscience = a proven happiness formula ✅ The SIX app technology that tracks your brain's happiness in real-time ✅ Dr. Tom Dutta's nature walk experiment reveal, did his brain create key moments? Dr. Zak's research spans Pentagon boardrooms to Papua New Guinea rainforests. His work combines Ben Franklin's virtue tracking with cutting-edge oxytocin science—bringing measurable happiness into reality. This episode marks the official audio release following a viral video campaign, now accessible anytime, anywhere. 🔥 Don't miss this return visit where storytelling meets science.
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EP#280 Women's Empowerment Thru "Healing & Hope" with Dr. Amelia Kelley
Mar 400:59:48Tap to summarizeOFFICIAL PODCAST PREMIERE 🎙️ The Quiet Warrior Show Hosted by Dr. Thomas Dutta Women's Empowerment Thru "Healing & Hope" with Dr. Amelia Kelley For the first time ever, this powerful conversation is now available as an audio podcast episode. In this transformative interview, Dr. Thomas Dutta sits down with Dr. Amelia Kelley to explore: 📚 Powered by ADHD: Strategies and Exercises for Women to Harness Their Untapped Gifts📚 Gaslighting Recovery for Women: The Complete Guide to Recognizing Manipulation and Achieving Freedom from Emotional Abuse Together, they unpack: ✨ Empowering women through trauma recovery✨ Recognizing and breaking free from gaslighting✨ Harnessing ADHD as a gift✨ Building resilience and emotional freedom This episode delivers research-based insights, practical tools, and deeply human storytelling designed to inspire healing and hope worldwide. 🌎 The Quiet Warrior Show is an award-winning global podcast, recognized among Top CEO Podcasts in the USA, Top Canadian Podcasts, and Top Global Storytelling Podcasts. 🎧 Audio Podcast Premiere📅 March 4, 2026⏰ 5:00 AM PST | 8:00 AM EST Available on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and all major podcast platforms worldwide. Listen. Reflect. Rise. #TheQuietWarriorShow #PodcastPremiere #WomensEmpowerment #HealingAndHope #ADHDWomen #GaslightingRecovery #MentalHealthMatters #AwardWinningPodcast #DrThomasDutta #Resilience
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EP#279 Final Cut: 17 Runs: The Unbeaten Path to Unlock Life's True Potential | Garnet Morris
Feb 1101:23:12Tap to summarizeWhat does it take for a man to outrun his own ghosts? In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Show, host Tom Dutta sits with Garnet Morris, Canadian entrepreneur, endurance athlete, and author of 17 Runs – The Unbeaten Path to Unlock Life's True Potential. On the surface, Garnet built success in the world of wealth management — a polished professional in tailored suits advising other high-achievers. But beneath that exterior lived a man shaped by deep loss and quiet battles. He lost two siblings to suicide. He once carried an extra 130 pounds and the weight of self-doubt. He admits he was hard to live with, harder to like, and for years he buried pain beneath performance. Then came the runs. Seventeen of them. Each one a ritual of reckoning. Each one a mile closer to forgiveness. Through running, Garnet began to shed not only weight, but shame, anger, and the story he'd been living under. What emerged was not perfection — but peace. This conversation goes beyond success and into the unseen terrain of grief, endurance, mental health, and leadership. It is a story of breaking, rebuilding, and learning to run toward your own truth. 🎧 This is the first-time audio release of this conversation. 📅 Podcast Premiere: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 📡 Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, and wherever podcasts are heard. 🔔 Follow, subscribe, and share to support independent conversations that matter. #QuietWarriorShow #GarnetMorris #17Runs #MentalHealth #Resilience #Leadership #Healing #Endurance #PersonalGrowth #Authenticity #PodcastPremiere
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PREMIERE: The Truth He Buried: John Krotec's Fight Back From Silence
Jan 2101:37:01Tap to summarize📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION What does it take to reclaim truth in a world built on noise? And what does it cost a man to carry stories he never asked for? In this powerful FINAL CUT episode of The Quiet Warrior Show, host Tom Dutta sits down with John Krotec — U.S. Army veteran, founder of NeoMasculinity Solutions, and author of The Sentinel Handbook — for a conversation that goes far beyond surface-level success. John's journey spans military life, high-altitude expeditions, building an eleven-million-dollar business before the internet, and surviving a traumatic brain injury that unearthed long-buried memories of physical trauma, violation, and silence. Rather than run from the truth, John chose to face it — and transform it into clarity, agency, and leadership. This episode explores identity, emotional resilience, self-leadership, and what it truly means to reclaim your story in a chaotic world. It's not about performance or polish. It's about courage, responsibility, and the quiet strength required to live in truth. This is The Quiet Warrior Show — where real conversations create real transformation. 🎙️ Now streaming across Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and all major podcast platforms.
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EP#277 BEYOND POLITICS: Life Lessons and Stories with Former Premier Mike Harcourt
Dec 2201:29:44Tap to summarizeOver the span of his illustrious career, Mike began by starting the first storefront law office in Canada, and establishing the UBC law school legal advice clinic (1968-71). He then went on to serve for four terms as a Vancouver Alderman (1972-980), until he became a tremendously successful and articulate Mayor of Vancouver for three terms (1980-1986). In that position he played a prominent role in establishing Vancouver as one of the world's most livable cities through effective land use and planning. Mike then moved on to serve as the 30th Premier of British Columbia (1991-1996), where he extended the boundaries of quality of life in urban areas, with the 1995 Growth Strategy Act. In that position he played a prominent role in establishing Vancouver as one of the world's most livable cities through effective land use and planning. Mike then moved on to serve as the 30th Premier of British Columbia (1991-1996), where he extended the boundaries of quality of life in urban areas, with the 1995 Growth Strategy Act. Among his many noteworthy achievements at that time was his success in safeguarding more than 12 percent of the province's land base, establishing 500 new protected areas. After retiring from politics, Mike made headlines in 2002, when a devastating six-metre fall left him partially paralyzed. He has shown incredible physical, emotional and spiritual strength in his remarkable recovery, and published a book about his ordeal called Plan B – One Man's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph. Following his accident, Mike became actively involved in spinal cord research and education, working with the Rick Hansen Man in Motion Foundation on International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (I-CORD) and chairing the Spinal Cord Injury Quality of Life Advisory Group. As a self-described "recovering politician," Mike was appointed Federal Commissioner on the British Columbia Treaty Commission in 2003. He has always been an avid supporter of aboriginal economic development, and his commitment to the treaty process is long-standing; as Premier in 1992, he signed the agreement establishing the Commission – the neutral body responsible for facilitating treaty negotiations among the governments of Canada, B.C. and First Nations in B.C. In recognition of Mike's exceptional community contributions, Simon Fraser University presented Mike with the 2019 President's Distinguished Community Leadership Award.
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Beyond Vision: Finding Light in Darkness Victoria Nolan: Canadian Paralympian, Rio Bronze Medalist, World Champion, Author, Speaker
Dec 1001:01:45Tap to summarizeThis Final Cut Premiere presents the full, uncut conversation between Tom Dutta and Canadian Paralympian and world champion rower Victoria Nolan. This is the first time this conversation is being released as an audio podcast. Victoria's journey began with a diagnosis of Retinitis Pigmentosa at 18. The slow loss of sight reshaped her personal and professional life and created moments of fear, doubt, and isolation. She was told she had no future as a teacher and that blindness would define her possibilities. Instead, she discovered rowing, and everything changed. She rose from fear to world-class competition, breaking a world record, earning eight international medals, and becoming one of Canada's most inspiring voices on courage and belonging. Victoria is now a national leader, speaker, and advocate. Her story blends lived experience, high-performance sport, and a deep commitment to helping others navigate change and adversity. This uncut episode explores • the emotional landscape of losing sight • how adversity became a doorway to possibility • rowing as a place of healing and empowerment • motherhood and identity during vision loss • the culture of elite sport and vulnerable leadership • systemic barriers and invisible societal expectations • the global conversation on blindness and hope • the next chapter Victoria has yet to write This Final Cut is exactly as the conversation occurred, raw, real, and technically mastered only for audio clarity. #QuietWarriorShow #TomDutta #VictoriaNolan #BeyondVision #Resilience #Leadership #Courage #Paralympics #BlindnessAwareness #UncutConversation #HumanSpirit
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EP#275 Final Cut Premiere: "Surviving Suicidal Ideation" With Dr. Amelia Kelley
Nov 2501:06:37Tap to summarizeThis is the Final Cut Premiere of an extraordinary conversation with Dr. Amelia Kelley, one of today's most compelling voices in trauma recovery, emotional resilience, and the science of healing. Originally streamed live, this version brings you the fully mastered audio of an hour-long dialogue that explores what it means to move through crisis, reclaim your sense of self, and find connection again. Dr. Kelley is a licensed therapist, author, researcher, and teacher. Her work examines how the nervous system responds to overwhelming emotional events, how the body communicates what the mind suppresses, and how recovery unfolds in real time through compassion, safety, and presence. In this conversation, we explore: • The deeper truths behind emotional pain and the body's signals • How lived experience shapes a person's capacity for resilience • The role of relationships in reconnecting with a sense of identity • The neuroscience behind healing and stability • Why her book has become a lifeline for so many Her insights are powerful, compassionate, and grounded in both science and lived reality. 🎙 Hosted by Tom Dutta, Founder of The Quiet Warrior Show, recognized twice as a Top 20 Canadian Leadership Podcast by Feedspot. Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeart Podcasts | TuneIn | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | and 14+ global platforms P U R P O S E | A C T I O N | L I F E
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EP#274 LIFE IN THE PITS with Brad Schaeffer, The Final Cut Premiere
Nov 501:14:28Tap to summarizeStep inside the legendary exchange floors of Chicago and New York through the eyes of author and former trader Brad Schaeffer. In this riveting conversation with Tom Dutta, Brad relives his journey from a young artist with a knack for numbers to a seasoned trader in one of the most cut-throat environments ever known. His book Life in the Pits is both memoir and mirror, a tribute to an era when markets were moved by shouts and heartbeats, not algorithms. But it's also a reflection on life's real markets: risk, loss, redemption, and meaning. Tom and Brad discuss how grief and discipline intertwine, how the instincts that drive us in competition can also teach compassion, and why stories of the past still inform how we lead today. An essential listen for anyone drawn to finance, psychology, or the art of staying grounded when the world starts shouting. 🎙️ Host: Tom Dutta, Executive Producer of The Quiet Warrior Show📖 Guest: Brad Schaeffer, Author, Trader, Musician #QuietWarriorShow #LifeInThePits #BradSchaeffer #Finance #Leadership #Resilience #Courage #Storytelling #Podcast #FinalCut #Premiere #HeroJourney #Trading #HumanSpirit
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EP#273 The Backstories And The Worlds Within: W. (Walter) B.J. Williams
Oct 1501:10:13Tap to summarize🎧 AUDIO DEBUT What happens when a man who should have been decapitated becomes a bestselling author, InfoSec executive, and guide through hell? W.B.J. Williams survived August 5, 1986, barely. Half a ton of plywood, a concrete floor, and a steel table saw that bent instead of beheading him. Today he lives with a hole in his spine and constant debilitating pain. He's also the published author of five books, including the darkly comedic "Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War," which weaves Sumerian mythology with addiction recovery. This isn't a typical author interview. It's a journey through Plato's Garden—Tom Dutta's signature framework exploring how macro forces, industry trends, and personal trauma shape public works. You'll hear: • The harrowing details of Walt's 1986 accident and 40-year journey with chronic pain • How he met his wife one month after the accident, while using a walker, and they've been together 33 years • Why his father's battle with alcoholism shaped his novel about addiction and the Goddess of Love • How his father became the first ordained deacon in his diocese after losing Walt's sister to SIDS • The profound challenge of Jesus's teaching: "Love your enemies, not just your neighbours" • Why Walt writes about broken prostitutes, addicts, and goddesses seeking redemption • How he balances demanding InfoSec work (never experiencing ransomware or breach) with writing fantasy epics • The journey from writing poetry at age 12 to becoming an Amazon Breakthrough Novel semi-finalist • Why Hollywood producers are shopping "The Garden at the Roof of the World" for a three-season TV series • His philosophy: "It's okay to be broken, that's not something to shy away from" Walt's Five Books: Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War (2024) The Reality, Mythology, and Fantasies of Unicorns (2021) How to Create an Information Security Program from Scratch (2021) The Garden at the Roof of the World (2013) Security for Service Oriented Architectures (2014) This conversation explores addiction, faith, resilience, authenticity, and the grace found in brokenness. From Catholic mysticism to Sumerian goddesses, from chronic pain to darkly comedic fiction, Walt proves our deepest wounds become our greatest gifts. Trigger Warning: Frank discussions of addiction, suicidal ideation, chronic pain, and childhood trauma. First-time audio release of this transformative conversation.
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