2025 wasn’t a highlight reel year.
It was a year of friction, recalibration, and clarity.

In this episode, I reflect on the principles that survived pressure — the rules that held when comfort, certainty, and momentum disappeared. Not theories. Not platitudes. Lived frameworks.

We explore:

• Governing the mind instead of outsourcing it

• Health as the foundation of energy and agency

• Decision-making under uncertainty

• Ambition that exceeds comfort

• The role of community, boundaries, and responsibility

• Adversity as instruction, not interruption

• Mortality as a lens for living deliberately

This is not advice.
It’s an honest reckoning with a year that demanded more than optimism — and offered clarity in return.