100xLife Podcast

Which time zone do you live in: the past, the present, or the future?

Most of us never notice that our thinking lives in three time zones. Most people get trapped in the past (regret, replaying, beating yourself up) or the future (fear, uncertainty, what-ifs). In this coaching session, Rob walks through how to delight in all three, using the same notice, evaluate, replace, repeat practice from the last few coaching sessions.

You’ll Hear

• Why the kingdom is an inside job
• The three time zones: past, present, future
• How to know which one you’re trapped in
• Past: focus on the good memories
• Past: find the purpose in the hard things
• Future: love the gap between where you are and where you’re going
• Future: love the future you God designed
• Present: practice love with image bearers
• Present: redeem the time
• Thankfulness as the doorway to love

Scriptures: Philippians 3:13–14, Psalm 77:11, James 1:2–4, Proverbs 16:9, Ephesians 5:15–16, Psalm 90:12

Journal Prompts

• Ask the Holy Spirit: Which time zone do I dominate in? Which one am I a slave to? Journal His answer in first person.
• Ask the Father: How do I redeem the time? How do I delight in my past, my future, and my present? Journal His answer in first person.

📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

What if the missing piece in your faith isn't more belief, but a risk you haven't taken yet?

In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton continues the coaching series with the second half of Jesus' first command: repent and believe. If repentance is changing the way you think, belief is where that change has to show up in your whole life.

Rob breaks down what Jesus meant when he told people "your faith has made you well," and shows that faith is your spirit, soul, and body all moving in the same direction on one truth. He tells the story of the woman who reached for Jesus' cloak, then gets personal about his own three-year journey out of sexual addiction, when his spirit and mind said yes to Jesus but his body kept doing the opposite. He also gets honest about the areas where his faith still falls short today.

From there, Rob gives you a practical path for growing faith in a specific area: retrain your brain with your imagination, then take the risk when the opportunity comes. In the kingdom, he says, faith is spelled R-I-S-K.

This is a coaching session, so grab a notebook. Rob wants you to apply it this week.

You'll Hear

• Why Jesus kept saying "your faith has made you well"
• What faith actually is: spirit, soul, and body aligned on one truth
• What it looks like to be double-minded, and why Jesus calls that lukewarm
• What the woman who touched Jesus' cloak shows us about faith in action
• Rob's story of moving from sexual addiction to purity, and what alignment looked like along the way
• How to use your imagination to retrain your brain
• Why faith requires risk, and how failing is part of growing it
• A simple question for finding your kingdom purpose: what one thing from heaven do you want to see on earth?

Journal Prompts

• Holy Spirit, show me an area where I'm not aligned in faith between my spirit, soul, and body.
• Holy Spirit, give me imaginations of how that would look in heaven. (Journal his answer in the first person.)
• What training is required? What reprogramming does my body need to match what my spirit and soul are saying?

Missed the first part?
This episode builds on the repentance session two weeks ago, "There Are Three Ways to Think. Which One Are You?" → 100xlife.com/podcast/episode144

Links
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

What would it take to see an entire generation of Christians known for how well they love?

In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton steps away from the usual format to share something more personal, the vision behind 100xLife, and an invitation to partner in it.

For years, Rob and Nancy have quietly funded this ministry themselves. They still don't take any money from the book, that goes to Amazon, not to them. But as more people have asked how they can give, Rob felt it was time to explain the full vision: why this ministry exists specifically for people who've already said yes to Jesus and now want the transformation he promises, why coaches are the key to multiplying that transformation, and what's being built next, a dedicated 100xLife app, a coaching platform, and a chronological harmony of the gospels Rob has been working on.

This episode is an honest, humble look behind the curtain of a ministry built on the conviction that saying yes to Jesus is only the beginning, and that the real work, and the real joy, is in what comes after.

You'll Hear

• Why 100xLife exists for people who've already said yes to Jesus, not as an evangelism tool
• The story behind the Brat House, and what it taught Rob about the reputation of Christians
• Why coaches, not content alone, are central to how this movement grows
• What the new 100xLife app will include, and why it's being built
• A preview of the 100xLife Harmony Gospel Rob is developing
• Why Rob and Nancy have chosen not to profit from the book
• An invitation to partner financially in the next season of this ministry

Links
🤝 Partner with 100xLife → https://www.100xlife.com/invest
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challeng

There are three ways to think. Which one are you?

Most of us assume our thoughts are just... ours. True by default, ours to have, not really up for question. In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton challenges that assumption directly, and gives you a framework to actually test it.

Rob names three distinct patterns people fall into without realizing it: the thought predator, who treats every thought as absolute truth and slides into comparison and entitlement; the thought victim, who fears their own mind and spirals into self-condemnation; and the thought director, the one who's learned to notice a thought, question it, and replace it with something truer. Most people bounce between the first two their whole lives, never knowing a third option exists.

From there, Rob walks through the actual mechanics of becoming a thought director, a simple, repeatable four-step practice: notice, evaluate, replace, repeat, drawing on Paul's instruction to take every thought captive. He shows exactly how he applies it in real time, including a personal example from a recent trip through the airport.

This is a practical, hands-on episode, closer to a coaching session than a conversation, meant to be journaled through rather than just listened to.

You'll Hear

• Why repentance means "change the way you think," not "feel sorry"
• The three thought patterns: thought predator, thought victim, and thought director
• Why your emotions aren't truth, they're how you imagine the truth
• Paul's strategy for "taking every thought captive" in 2 Corinthians 10
• Rob's four-step practice: notice, evaluate, replace, repeat
• A real example of Rob catching and replacing a judgmental thought
• Why full alignment of spirit, soul, and body is what Rob calls faith

Journal Prompts

• What's a dominant thought you're having that feels negative?
• How does this thought make you feel?
• Who would you become without this thought?
• Jesus, what thought would you have in this situation? (journal his answer in the first person)

Links
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

What if the hardest season of your life could also be the one that makes your marriage the strongest it's ever been?

In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton sits down with longtime friend Pete Miko, a graduate of the Master's Program and a 100xLife Coach, for an honest conversation about what happens when your marriage and your business are moving in opposite directions at the same time.

Pete shares candidly about a season where his relationship with his wife has grown stronger even as his business has gone through real hardship, and how learning to see his wife the way God sees her, rather than reacting to her in the moment, has completely changed how he shows up for her. He and Rob dig into what it actually means to have an eternal mindset in marriage, why taking up your cross is often most real with your spouse, and why physical discipline (staying in the gym, literally) plays a bigger role in emotional and spiritual resilience than most men realize.

You'll Hear

• What made the eternal mindset "the best thing anybody's ever told" Pete about his marriage
• What it means to be "in knowledge of your wife"
• Why business hardship and marital growth showed up in Pete's life at the same time
• Wise counsel for facing more than one trial at once
• The connection between physical discipline and spiritual resilience
• Why finishing strong means thinking about the legacy you leave your kids

Journal Prompt
Holy Spirit, why do you love my spouse so much? What is it about their design that you're particularly fond of?

About Pete Miko
Pete and Rob go back to the late 90s, back when Rob first met Nancy, and they've been tracking together ever since, including in one of Rob's earliest Band of Brothers prayer groups. Pete's a graduate of the Master's Program and has become a 100xLife Coach himself, still very much in the gym.

Links
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

What if the thing that finally made God feel real to you wasn't a sermon, but a season of grief you never asked for?

In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton sits down with Carmen LaBerge, host of the daily syndicated radio program The Reconnect with Carmen LaBerge and a longtime friend of the podcast. Carmen holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, but this conversation isn't about credentials. It's about what actually makes faith real.

Carmen traces her story back to age fifteen, when she lost a close friend and then her father within the same year. In the middle of that grief, she describes an experience of God that's never left her: being held. That sense of being held is what allows her to walk into hard conversations and other people's pain without flinching.

From there, the conversation moves into what it looks like to bring Christ into everyday conversations without sounding like a sermon, including Carmen's framework for evaluating her own thought life, and a candid conversation about how easily Christians drift toward the occult without realizing it.

You'll Hear

• Carmen's story of losing her father at fifteen, and being "held" by God
• Why she says "your business belongs to God"
• Her daily practice of asking "where in the word are you today?"
• Her framework for evaluating your thought life: what, how, and why you're thinking
• The difference between "a piece of your mind" and "the peace of the mind of Christ"
• How Christians unknowingly drift toward the occult

Journal Prompts

• Holy Spirit, show me a thought I'm having that is inconsistent with the mind of Christ.
• Holy Spirit, give me the prevailing thought you want me to have that is like Christ's.

About Carmen LaBerge
Carmen is a Christian media personality committed to getting God into every conversation. She lives with her husband, Jim, on a farm in middle Tennessee and hosts The Reconnect with Carmen LaBerge. She holds degrees from the University of Florida (BS/BA, 1990) and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1993), and is the author of Speak the Truth: How to Get God Back Into Every Conversation.

📘 Speak the Truth by Carmen LaBerge → https://a.co/d/02109F1i
🌐 Carmen's Substack (most active here) → https://carmenlaberge.substack.com/
🌐 All of Carmen's content → https://carmenlaberge.com/

Links
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

Recommended Reading
📖 Imagine Heaven by John Burke → https://a.co/d/05iwZxU5
📖 Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis → https://a.co/d/0aiLgLdn

What if the reason your growth has plateaued isn't a lack of effort, but a lack of coaching?

In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton makes the case that every single person needs a kingdom coach, and every single person is becoming one. Drawing on decades of his own coaching experiences, from a high school cross country coach to the coaching relationships built into the 100xLife process, Rob reframes discipleship itself as kingdom coaching, and explains why this relationship should never be a one-way street.

Using the four R's from his book, retain, resist, refocus, reproduce, Rob walks through Jesus' parable of the sower to show why growth in following Jesus isn't a one-time achievement but a lifelong process. He makes a compelling case for why even the most seasoned pastors, teachers, and coaches still need someone coaching them, and why a coach who isn't being coached themselves doesn't actually believe in the process they're offering others.

This episode also makes a direct, practical challenge: consider becoming a 100xLife Coach yourself, and consider who your own kingdom coach should be right now.

You'll Hear

• Why Rob considers every good coach a "kingdom coach," whether or not faith is explicitly part of the relationship
• The four R's, retain, resist, refocus, reproduce, and how they map to the parable of the sower
• Why "refocus" might be the most overlooked and necessary of the four
• Why even renowned pastors and Bible scholars need a kingdom coach
• What near-death experience research reveals about why this world is so easy to get lost in
• Why Rob believes coaching should typically be a paid relationship, not a free one
• A direct challenge to consider becoming a 100xLife Coach yourself

Journal Prompt

• Holy Spirit, remind me of the kingdom coaches who have been in my life. What changed in me because of each of them?
• Who is coaching me right now? If no one, who is the best kingdom coach for me in this season?

Links
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

Recommended Reading
📖 Imagine Heaven by John Burke → https://a.co/d/00wOwPFQ
Referenced regarding near-death experience research and what it reveals about the clarity of heaven versus the "darkness" of life on earth

Chapters
00:00 Intro: Living the Words of Jesus
00:36 Why Everyone Needs a Kingdom Coach
03:17 What Makes a Coach a "Kingdom" Coach
05:37 The Four R's and the Parable of the Sower
08:22 Retain and Resist: The First Two R's
10:58 Refocus and Reproduce: Finishing the Process
13:39 Why the Process of Growth Never Ends
16:11 Even Pastors Need a Kingdom Coach
18:52 Finding (or Becoming) Your Kingdom Coach

What happens to your relationship with God when the healing you're praying for never comes?

In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton talks with his brother-in-law JD Fitz, a retired physician, husband, and author of Finding Hope, about a season of suffering that started with a knee replacement and became a years-long journey through infection, amputation, failed surgeries, and the real possibility that he may never walk again.

This conversation doesn't offer easy answers. JD speaks candidly about feeling isolated from God, the anger he never quite let himself feel, the depression that followed, and the slow, costly work of surrender that eventually opened into something he didn't expect, a deepened capacity for empathy, a renewed intimacy with each member of the Trinity, and a clearer sense of purpose than he'd ever had before his suffering began.

Rob and JD trace the actual shape of that journey together, from crisis, to lament, to surrender, to a kind of purpose neither of them could have written down in advance. Along the way, they wrestle honestly with why some people are healed and others aren't, what it means to trust a Father who could heal you and doesn't, and how suffering, handled honestly, can become one of the clearest pathways into a deeper capacity to love.

You'll Hear

• JD's story, from knee replacement to amputation to the ongoing possibility he may never walk again
• Why he initially felt isolated from God, and what shifted that
• His metaphor for healing as "God's lightning," and why not every prayer gets struck
• How Romans 5 and Hebrews 5 reshaped his understanding of suffering and obedience
• Why empathy, not answers, became the clearest fruit of his suffering
• The moment he realized his own prosthetic leg had quietly become a kind of golden calf
• Why surrender, not acceptance, is the more accurate Christian posture toward suffering
• What it means to build a "values-based obituary" instead of an achievement-based one

Journal Prompts

• Holy Spirit, remind me of a specific time I was suffering.
• Jesus, what did you teach me in this season of suffering? And how did this make me a better lover?
• From JD: In your current suffering, big or small, what are you being asked to surrender?

About JD Fitz
JD is Rob's brother-in-law and a retired physician who spent his career in internal medicine and hospital administration. He's the author of Finding Hope, which traces his journey through years of medical complications following a knee replacement and eventual amputation.

📘 Finding Hope by JD Fitz — https://a.co/d/0bjxPIta

Links
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

Chapters
00:36 Introducing JD Fitz
04:03 A Life With Little Suffering, Until Now
06:13 A Cascade of Complications
09:20 Isolation, Depression, and the Start of Writing
11:16 Why Healing Doesn't Come for Everyone
14:04 Rethinking the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Suffering
21:29 Discovering Empathy Through the Amputation
25:02 What Love Requires: Curiosity
29:42 Victor Frankl and the Search for Meaning
33:04 The Fulcrum Moment: Surrender
37:30 Is This a Golden Calf? Confronting What We Worship
39:36 Journal Prompts on Suffering and Surrender

Have you ever wondered if there's more of God available to you than you're currently experiencing?

In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton sits down with longtime friend Holly Malmsten to revisit the early days of Santa Barbara House of Prayer, including Holly's story of sensing two angels in the space, and Rob's own angelic encounter from that same season.

But the real center of this conversation is what comes after. Rob and Holly dig into a truth they've both independently arrived at, that there's no ceiling on how much of God we get to experience, only the limits we've unknowingly placed in our own minds. They talk about what it means to be fully aligned with Jesus in spirit, soul, and body, why so many of us operate from emotion or craving instead of our spirit, and how something as simple as breath can bring the whole being into agreement with his love.

This is a rich, unhurried conversation between two people who've spent years learning just how much more of God is actually available.

You'll Hear

• The origin story of Santa Barbara House of Prayer
• Holly's experience sensing two angels present in that space
• Rob's own angelic encounter, and the question that convinced him it was real
• Why there's no real limit on how much of God we can experience, only the ones in our own minds
• Why love, not theology, reveals God's nature working in us
• What it means to be fully aligned with Jesus, spirit, soul, and body
• How breathwork can bring the body into alignment with God's love

Journal Prompt
Ask God: tell me how connected I am to you. Then choose one member of the Trinity to answer, and journal the response in the first person, describing just how connected you already are.

About Holly Malmsten
Holly was part of the founding community of Santa Barbara House of Prayer, where she led a healing ministry for several years. Her teaching on alignment and identity in Christ helped shape much of the material that would later become the 100xLife book.

Links
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

What if teaching someone else how to follow Jesus is the fastest way to grow your own faith?

In this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton sits down with two 100xLife Coaches from Santa Barbara, John Van Lenten and Jim Johnson, both longtime friends who recently led groups through the summer challenge.

John and Jim share what they call "the practical side of abiding," the idea that following Jesus isn't a burden, but the actual blueprint for a life of health, freedom, and joy. They talk about why going through the same material again and again still uncovers new layers, how forgiveness and obedience are now backed by modern science, and how coaching others has kept their own faith sharp and accountable.

The conversation also turns toward something Rob has been thinking about deeply, that love may be the one thing we actually carry into eternity. Drawing on the book Imagine Heaven and near-death experience accounts, the three wrestle with what heaven might actually be about, and how that reshapes what matters most here on earth.

If you've ever wondered what it looks like to lead others through a process that changed your own life, this episode offers an honest, encouraging look at what that involves.

You'll Hear

• Why John and Jim describe coaching as "the practical side of abiding"
• How the metaphor of being "a room in the Father's house" reframes obedience
• Why practicing the words of Jesus is showing up in health and psychology research
• What keeps John and Jim coming back to the same material, and still finding new depth
• Why coaching has kept both men more accountable in their own faith
• How the idea that "love is the only thing we take to heaven" reshapes what matters now
• What resources are available for anyone considering becoming a 100xLife Coach

About John Van Lenten and Jim Johnson
John and Jim are both 100xLife Coaches based in Santa Barbara, leading journey groups through Influencers and guiding others through the 62-Day Challenge.

Interested in Coaching?
🔥 Become a 100xLife Coach → https://www.100xlife.com/coaching

Links
📘 100xLife Book → https://www.100xlife.com/book
🚀 Take the 62 Day Challenge → https://www.100xlife.com/challenge

Recommended Reading
📖 Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper
📖 Imagine Heaven by John Burke