Most people think they fail because they lack discipline. That is false. They fail because their environment is perfectly designed to pull them off course. In this episode, Jim breaks down why willpower always loses, how default settings quietly dictate outcomes, and why 2026 must be engineered, not hoped for. If you want success to feel automatic instead of exhausting, this episode gives you the blueprint.

What You'll Learn:

• Why your environment will either be a headwind or tailwind

• The three environments that quietly shape you

• How visibility and proximity drive behavior

• Why simplicity creates momentum

• The friction formula that makes right decisions automatic

Action Steps:

• Audit Your Environments Identify one physical, digital, or social environment that is working against the 2026 version of you.

• Remove One Frictionless Path Delete, hide, or add effort to one behavior that is sabotaging your momentum, notifications, junk food, or mindless scrolling.

• Install One Automatic Support Preload success. Lay out workout clothes, preload meals, automate investments, or place your journal and water within arm's length.

🔥 Jim Oliver's Share Wisdom "Your environment is going to determine whether 2026 works or not. Design it once, and success stops being a fight."

Referenced Thinkers

• Dan Sullivan on environment being either a drag or a tailwind

• Tony Robbins on proximity and state

• BJ Fogg on behavior design

• Earl Nightingale on becoming what you think about

If you are serious about making 2026 your best year, stop relying on motivation and start engineering your life. Install the systems, upgrade the people, and let the environment do the heavy lifting.

Everybody wants bigger results in 2026—more money, more freedom, more impact. Almost nobody wants the pressure that actually builds the capacity to handle it.

In this episode, Jim breaks down the "furnace" moments of life—those seasons of heat, friction, and resistance—and shows how they're not punishment, they're training. Capacity, not talent, is what 2026 will reward. Using the S.A.I.D. principle from strength training, Navy SEAL mental toughness, and Dan Sullivan's Four C's, Jim unpacks how God uses pressure to expose your default operating system and forge you into someone who can hold more wealth, more responsibility, and more calling—without cracking.

If you've been trying to avoid the heat, this conversation will help you see pressure as the forge where Breakaway Wealth leaders are made.

What You'll Learn

• Why 2026 will reward capacity, and how to start building it now.

• How the S.A.I.D. principle (specific adaptation to imposed demands) applies not just to muscle, but to your brain, resilience, and wealth.

• The four types of pressure to train for 2026, and what training each one actually looks like.

🛠️ Action Steps

1. Reframe Your Current Furnace Name one area of pressure in your life (money, relationships, time, business). Stop calling it punishment. Call it capacity training—and ask, "What is this building in me?"

2. Do a Daily Pressure Rep Use one of Jim's drills each day: two-minute furnace (sit with the pressure and breathe), calm response to an inconvenience, or a quick financial posture check (fear vs vision).

3. Practice One Surrender per Day Choose one thing to release—control, fear, resentment—and pray, "God, shake me in the places pressure revealed." Pressure + release = spiritual capacity.

Jim Oliver's Final Word

"Pressure doesn't break you, it exposes you. And once you see what's really there, you and God can forge a version of you that can hold far more in 2026 than you ever thought possible."

In this solo episode, Jim resets the 2026 "best year ever" series and takes you back to the real starting line: identity. This isn't motivation, resolutions, or another empty goal-setting rant. This is a structured, identity-driven blueprint to architect a year you actually control instead of replaying 2025 with a new calendar.

Jim breaks down why you don't get what you want—you get what you're built for. He unpacks how your current identity quietly dictates your health, wealth, habits, and results… and why willpower, hype, and "trying harder" never solve the problem. You'll walk away with one clear breakthrough outcome for 2026, a sharper identity to match it, and three daily non-negotiables that turn this from theory into a new operating system for your life and your wealth.

What You'll Learn

• Why most people repeat the same year on a different calendar

• How to architect 2026 instead of hoping it "gets better."

• The real reason goals fail

• Why great years are built on subtraction

• The three identity-driven daily non-negotiables that make progress toward your 2026 breakthrough outcome inevitable

Install Your Daily Non-Negotiables: Lock in three non-negotiables for every day. Here are examples

1. 30 minutes of stillness,

2. 10 minutes of identity rehearsal (mentally living as the 2026 version of you),

3. One friction-aligned action toward your 2026 target.

Make the right behavior easier, the wrong behavior harder—design your environment so discipline isn't a coin flip.

Jim's Shared Wisdom "You either architect 2026 or you replay 2025 with a different calendar. Whoever you decide to be this year is exactly who you'll become by the end of it."

Most people are trying to "goal" their way into a better year. They set resolutions, white-knuckle new habits, and wonder why everything falls apart by March. In this episode, Jim breaks that pattern wide open.

2026 won't rise to the level of your goals. It will fall to the level of your systems—and your systems are built on identity, energy, and emotional mastery. Jim walks you through how elite performers think (Kobe, Brady, Navy SEALs), how your brain literally fights anything that doesn't match your identity, and why stillness and silence—not more noise—are the unlocks for wealth, clarity, and calling.

If you're serious about becoming the kind of person for whom wealth, health, and opportunity are inevitable—not accidental—this is your blueprint.

What You'll Learn

• How to recode who you are in 2026.

• How (and why) to treat energy as currency

• The confidence flywheel and why action must come before feeling "ready".

• A practical stillness protocol to hear from God, regulate your emotions, and make higher-quality business and money decisions.

Action Steps

1. Complete this sentence: "In 2026, I'm the kind of person who…" Let this identity drive your behavior.

2. Identify one energizer and one drainer. Double the energizer. Delete the drainer.

3. Phone on airplane mode. Sit upright. Breathe 4-2-6 for a few cycles. Do this every day for 30 days.

Jim Oliver's Shared Wisdom

"Don't ask, 'What do I want in 2026?' Ask, 'Who must I become so that everything I want becomes inevitable?' Change your identity, protect your energy, sit in silence, and then take the courageous step. That's how you become unstoppable."

Most business owners, investors, and high-income earners are losing money—not because they're bad at making it, but because they're bad at keeping it.

In this episode, Jim sits down with tax strategist Chris Shockowitz of deferTax.com, a guy who walked away from corporate America, saved seven figures in taxes himself, and now helps entrepreneurs slash tax bills the legal, intelligent way.

If you've ever wondered why the wealthy pay less tax, how they use the code instead of getting crushed by it, or how to stop being at the mercy of your CPA once a year…this conversation is your wake-up call. Owners don't play defense—they plan..

What You'll Learn

• Why does tax preparation cost you money, but tax planning saves you money

• The difference between a CPA who reports history vs. a strategist who shapes your future

• How high-income earners legally cut taxes by up to 50%

• How to use trusts and smart structuring to sell crypto, real estate, or a business with zero tax

• Why the tax code rewards investors, owners, and producers—and how to start thinking like one

Here's the shift Chris drove home: Tax preparation reports history. Tax planning changes your future.

Your CPA can tell you what you owe. A strategist tells you what's possible.

And most high-income earners are leaving six figures (or more) on the table simply because nobody ever showed them the legal, proven tools built into the tax code for people who invest, own, and think differently.

Chris's Shared Wisdom

"Most people don't know what they don't know. The tax code isn't built to punish you—it's built to reward the people who invest in America. When you understand it, it changes everything."

Connect with Chris: Website: www.DeferTax.comLinkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-shockowitz/

In this episode of Breakaway Wealth, Jim breaks down 10 universal success habits every top performer uses—whether they realize it or not. From structured mornings to time blocking, from health optimization to rapid-fire execution, these habits create predictable momentum. And when paired with Infinite Banking, they become a wealth engine on purpose.

Jim also answers a pressing IBC question from the community: Can you run all of your W-2 income through your own banking system?

Yes—but there's a smarter way to approach it if your goal is velocity, not theory.

It's not motivation that builds wealth—it's structure, reflection, and action. This episode hands you all three.

What You'll Learn:

• The IBC Question: Can you run all your W-2 income through your bank?

• The 10 Habits of Highly Productive People

• Decide → Act → Adjust.

• Stop waiting for the perfect system. Build it.

Action Steps

• Build your Ideal Week and compare it to your real one.

• Write your top goal 25 times daily for one week.

• Track your circle: Who gives energy—and who drains it?

Jim's Words That Matter

"You don't need more motivation—you need a system. Win Monday, and the week takes care of itself."

In this episode of Breakaway Wealth, Jim Oliver sits down with leadership coach Adrian Koehler—a former pastor and prison leadership trainer who now coaches founders and "type A dickheads" who feel the weight of responsibility and the loneliness at the top.

Adrian and Jim dig into why "not having a vision" isn't an accident, it's a strategy. They unpack how confusion is actually a chosen vision, why high-performers secretly love being "stuck," and how most leaders waste energy being frustrated that others aren't like them instead of learning to translate their own genius.

What You'll Learn

• Confusion Is a Vision: Why "I don't know what I want" isn't a neutral statement—it's a chosen vision of confusion with payoffs and prices.

• The Real Work of High Performers: How founders create the loneliness at the top—and what shifts when you actually want truth more than comfort.

• Vision as a Future Worth Having: How Adrian reframes faith, calling, and vision—away from protectivism and toward adventure.

Action Steps

1. Expose Your "Confusion Strategy" Write out: "Why do I love being confused about my vision?" List every payoff and every price. Awareness kills the racket.

2. Translate Your Genius for Your Team Take one intuitive thing you do well and break down the principles behind it. That's how you scale your thinking.

3. Re-Anchor Money to Mission Ask: "If I had a billion dollars today, where would it go this week?" Compare that to your current spending and adjust.

Adrian Koehler's Powerful Word "Everybody has a vision—every second of their life. If you're 'stuck' or 'confused,' that's still a vision. If we don't get to now, we can't get to next."

Connect with Adrian Koehler: Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC3c7kMcC7nah-QdxffV2NXA

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/adriankoehler

Instagram: www.instagram.com/adrian.k/?hl=en

In this solo episode of Breakaway Wealth, Jim Oliver dismantles one of the biggest lies in finance: that income equals wealth. He shares hard-earned lessons from his early career in financial planning, where assets measured success under management—not freedom. Jim reveals how even six-, seven-, and eight-figure earners often remain financially enslaved.

If your wealth disappears when your income stops, you don't own your wealth; you lease it. Jim explains how to reclaim ownership by shifting your focus from income to control, and how he applies this mindset in building companies, creating equity for others, and multiplying freedom.

• The Big Lie: Why "making more money" doesn't make you free.

• Control Over Income: How to stop leasing your wealth and start owning it.

• The Paycheck Trap: Your paycheck isn't your ticket to success, or freedom.

• Freedom Through Ownership: How to structure your business so you—and your team—win.

• The Wealth Game Plan: How to design assets that serve your life, not consume it.

1. Audit Your Wealth Ask: If my income stopped today, what part of my wealth would still work for me?

2. Redefine Your Scoreboard Measure success by control and freedom, not income or net worth.

3. Build Equity for Others Give your team ownership opportunities—shared growth creates shared freedom.

"Freedom isn't about how much you make—it's about how much you own and control. If your wealth disappears when your income stops, you don't have wealth. You have a job with a logo."

In this episode of Breakaway Wealth, Jim Oliver sits down with Dr. Erin Wilson, a powerhouse in leadership development and the creator of the "NAP Framework" for strategic rest. Together, they unpack relationship intelligence—the "million-dollar skill" that separates effective leaders from forgettable ones—and why rest is not a reward, but a strategy.

Dr. Wilson shares how leaders can use relationship intelligence to connect, communicate, and collaborate at a higher level by understanding what truly motivates people. She also discusses her framework for strategic rest, how to use it to unlock creativity and performance, and why most of us get motivation wrong.

What You'll Learn:

1. Rest is a performance tool. The NAP Framework turns rest into a scheduled advantage that improves clarity, creativity, and leadership capacity.

2. RI vs. EI: Emotional intelligence is internal awareness. Relationship intelligence operationalizes it so you actually get results with people.

3. SDI in practice: People are primarily motivated by People, Process, or Performance (usually a blend). Speak to their driver and watch resistance drop.

4. Common leadership mistakes:

   • Assuming others are motivated like you.

   • Confusing silence with agreement.

   • Forcing everyone to play by your rulebook.

5. Manager playbook: Hire experts → clear roadblocks → tailor comms → measure results.

1. Map motives: List your top 5 direct reports; tag their likely primary driver (People / Process / Performance).

2. Schedule rest as strategy: Book two 30-minute regeneration blocks (think sauna, walk, prayer, meditation). Protect them.

3. Adopt the NAP Framework: Nurture, Assess, Prioritize rest as a leadership advantage—not an afterthought.

Dr. Erin's Powerful words: "Rest isn't what takes you out of the game—it's what makes you play smarter." — Dr. Erin Wilson

Connect with Dr. Erin Wilson:

Instagram: @dr.erinwilson

Youtube: www.youtube.com/@PowerNAPLive

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drerinwilson/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DrErinW

Design Ideal Consulting: www.designidealconsulting.com/

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In this episode of Breakaway Wealth, host Jim Oliver sits down with Dr. John Oberg, founder of Priscina Health, a behavior expert, and a healthcare innovator, to explore the direct link between health and wealth. Dr. Oberg's mission is to help people take back control — of their bodies, their decisions, and their outcomes — through a philosophy he calls "radical incrementalism."

Together, they unpack how small, sustainable habits compound into life-changing results — in fitness, finances, and freedom. From reversing Type 2 diabetes to understanding your "why," Dr. Oberg's approach blends data, behavior science, and compassion to help people get healthy for good.

• Why "radical incrementalism" works: how small, consistent changes beat massive, unsustainable overhauls.

• The health-wealth parallel: why both require discipline, patience, and a personal "why."

• How to find your right mountain: stop climbing the wrong goals — in business, health, and life.

• The hidden cost of being unhealthy: why illness drains both your bank account and your purpose.

• Building trust through small wins: how one patient lowered blood sugar 100 points by just changing ice cream.

1. Start smaller than you think. Change one thing — one habit, one food, one thought — and let momentum build. 2. Find your "why." Your reason must be bigger than your resistance. Write it down. Revisit it weekly. 3. Move more, move right. Wherever you are, do a little more. Choose real food over processed. Repeat.

"You can't fix the system overnight — but you can fix your habits today. Don't wait for perfect conditions. Take one radically small step toward the life you actually want."

Connect with John Oberg:

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/johnoberg/

Website: www.johnoberg.com/