What if fun isn’t something you earn after working hard—but something you start with?

In the first episode of the new year, Justin flips the script on productivity, discipline, and “being good” and asks this:

👉 What actually lights you up? Do you ever let yourself enjoy it?

Using movies as both a literal love and a powerful metaphor for life, Justin shares:

• The best and worst movies he saw in theaters last year
• What those experiences reveal about freedom, creativity, nostalgia, and choice
• How following your delights can transform your life

🎥 Key Points & Takeaways

• 🎉 Fun is not something you earn later — it’s something you can have now
• 🎬 Why movies are like life experiences (not all are meant to be the same)
• 🧠 How curiosity, play, and imagination reconnect us to ourselves
• 💡 Letting experiences be what they are—without forcing meaning or perfection
• ❤️ Why following what you enjoy is a powerful act of self-trust

🎧 Listen all the way through to hear Justin’s surprising best movie pick—and why it matters

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How did your last year go? You didn’t just survive this past year—you grew, overcame, created, and loved.

But if you’re not remembering that, you’re missing the fuel that will drive the year to come.

In this episode, Justin Wenck, PhD, invites you to take a loving and honest look back at your year and discover just how much beauty, growth, and adventure you’ve lived through (even if you forgot most of it).

Whether you're heading into a new year or stuck in the middle of one, this episode will help you reconnect with your story, reclaim your wins, and remember how much progress you’ve made, even when it didn’t feel like it.

✨ Key Takeaways

🔁 You’ve done more than you think. Use your calendar to remember the highlights—and the healing.

🧠 Why our brains often forget the good stuff (and how to reclaim it).

🗻 The "Mount Everest" metaphor: Why falling into a pit might mean you climbed farther than anyone else.

💔 Reframing hardships and loss—Justin shares stories of illness, grief, and letting go.

🛠️ Categories to reflect on: health, travel, relationships, growth, skills, and joy.

💡 The life-changing power of self-love—and how to build it (including a mirror technique that’s not for the faint of heart).

🧘🏽‍♂️ How loving yourself creates sustainable motivation, energy, and emotional transformation.

Ready to reflect? Open your calendar, scan the last 12 months, and start noticing what you forgot to celebrate.

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Revisit Episode 35 for the powerful “I Love Myself” guided meditation.

Share your breakthrough with Justin: What did you forget that you now remember?

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You’re changing—whether you want to or not.

The real question is: Are you directing the change, or just getting dragged along for the ride?

In this episode, Justin Wenck, PhD, breaks down the difference between unconscious change (which leads to frustration, limitation, and repetition)… and conscious change (which leads to growth, possibility, and enjoyment).

You’ll explore how to identify the changes you actually want, how to stop focusing on what you’re running from, and how to become the active creator of the next version of your life.

🌟 Key Points & Takeaways

• 🔄 Change is constant—but how you change is up to you.
• 🚫 Why “I don’t want this” keeps you stuck exactly where you are.
• 🎯 The importance of choosing a destination instead of “not here.”
• ✈️ How travel mirrors the personal transformation journey (and why the best outcomes are often surprises).
• 💥 Why unconscious change creates limitation, fear, and stagnation.
• 🧭 How conscious change opens new beliefs, identities, and possibilities.
• ✨ The hidden desires underneath your “problems” 
• ⚙️ Practical tools for conscious change—from Engineer to Love, from LEAP, and from Justin’s upcoming events.

✨ Experience the LEAP Practice → JustinWenck.com/LEAP

Join the waitlist or check for an upcoming live experience.

📘 Grab Justin’s Book: Engineered to Love: Going Beyond Success to Fulfillment

(Perfect for exploring identity, belief shifts, and conscious change.)

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We’re all told to save the planet—but what if the key to global sustainability isn’t solar panels or recycling bins, but YOU?

In this episode, Justin Wenck, PhD, makes a powerful case for self-sustainability as the foundation of global sustainability. Because if you’re burnt out, depleted, and disconnected, how can you possibly create a better world?

You’ll learn how your internal energy directly shapes the external environment, and you’ll even be guided through a calming visualization to feel that truth in your body.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• 💡 Major global wins you probably forgot about (good news!).
• 🌀 The Hermetic Principle of Correspondence: “As within, so without.”
• ⚠️ Burnout, anxiety, depression—why these are sustainability issues.
• 🔋 How to boost your “life energy” so you can give from overflow, not depletion.
• 🌳 A peaceful beach visualization that will help you feel abundant and recharged.

🎯 Action Steps & Links

✅ Start refilling your life energy tank → 

🔗 JustinWenck.com/LEAP

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Access your free materials today at engineeredtolove.com/sample and start living a life filled with joy, ease, and love. 

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Justin Wenck, PhD, unpacks the real reasons happiness can feel elusive, even when life looks good on the outside. He breaks down the three essential questions we rarely ask:

• What does it take to be happy?
• What does happiness actually mean to you?
• And most importantly… what even is happiness?

If you’ve ever felt like happiness is a moving target—or worse, something you’re not “allowed” to feel—this episode is for you.

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Why overloading your "happiness checklist" makes it feel impossible
• How hidden beliefs (like “happiness means laziness”) might be sabotaging you
• Why redefining happiness could be your most important mindset shift
• A simple but powerful way to choose happiness—even during setbacks
• The role of attention and energy in shaping your emotional state

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Why wait for January 1st to start creating the life you want?

In this episode, Justin shares how to start your New Year now — no resolutions, no waiting for the calendar to flip. Justin breaks down how reflection unlocks wisdom, how setting intentions shapes your next chapter, and how “getting” is really about allowing — letting life bring you even more than before.

🌟 Key Points & Takeaways

• Reflect: Look back before moving forward. 
• Set: Intention-setting goes beyond just wish lists.
• Get: Receiving is an art to be mastered. 
• Why waiting for the New Year, full moon, or Arbor Day limits your growth — and how to turn any day into your personal “Day One.”
• The simple shift that lets you enjoy getting there while you’re still on the way.

Start your New Year today.

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Wanting isn’t the problem. In fact, it’s the beginning of everything meaningful in your life. But somewhere along the way, we learned to suppress, shame, or override our desires—until we forget what we even want in the first place.

In this episode, I break down three common ways wanting goes wrong, share a few weird/funny stories from my own life (including slapping hams like bongo drums), and guide you back to wanting in a way that feels exciting, intuitive, and safe.

In this solo episode, Justin dives into:

• Why most people don’t actually know what they want
• How your wants may not even be your own (yep, societal programming is sneaky)
• The difference between wanting and having
• And how reclaiming the right to want is the start of actually getting what you deeply desire

And yes—there’s a story involving slapping hams like bongo drums. It makes sense. Trust us.

💡 Key Takeaways:

• Why most people can’t answer the question: “What do you want?”
• The 3 Wanting Traps:
• Not knowing what you want
• Wanting what others want for you
• Confusing wanting with having
• How childhood shame and social pressure kill your connection to desire
• Why simply wanting doesn’t mean you have to have it
• How reclaiming your wants is the first step toward actually enjoying life
• Practical ways to rediscover your wants
• Justin's fabulous 5-minute energy practice to reconnect with your true wants: LEAP

What’s one thing you actually want but haven’t dared say out loud? Let me know in the comments.

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1. 🔗 Join the waitlist for the LEAP self-guided energy practice:
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You’ve done the mindset work.
You’ve taken the action.
And yet… life still isn’t flowing the way you expected.

This episode reveals the real reason why your dreams may be stalling—alignment.

Through a powerful skiing metaphor, Justin breaks down what alignment actually looks like—and why it’s the missing link between desire and fruition.

Whether you’re building a business, deepening a relationship, or trying to enjoy your damn life more—if the way you're living now doesn’t match the way you want to feel, you’re going to miss everything.

 🔑 Key Takeaways:
🎿 Why “pizza-ing” through life feels safe… but keeps you stuck
🧠 Why mindset hacks and belief shifts aren’t enough
🔁 The real reason past goals didn’t work out—and why that’s a gift
🕰️ Why the future version of you needs to show up now
📦 How life is like Amazon Prime—what you want is en route… if you’re aligned
⚠️ Why hustle culture (like the 996 work model) is completely misaligned with thriving
🤖 The role of AI: why intention is the intelligence
🧘🏽‍♂️ How to bring joy, awe, gratitude, and presence into your daily path—not just your end goal
 
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What if your struggles with communication weren’t about skills...

…but about beliefs?

In this eye-opening episode, Justin goes beyond communication techniques and dives into your relationship with communication itself. If you’ve read the books, taken the courses, or rehearsed the perfect pitch—and still find yourself misunderstood or tongue-tied—this is the episode you’ve been waiting for.

Check out the episode to learn..

🔑 Key Topics & Takeaways:

• The difference between communication skills and communication beliefs
• Why it doesn’t matter how well you speak—if deep down, you expect to be misunderstood
• How childhood experiences shape adult communication fears
• The “privilege myth” around being heard and respected
• What communication is really about (hint: it’s not agreement or compliance)
• Powerful new beliefs you can adopt today for easier, safer connections
• Why expectation-free communication creates the most freedom

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What if your slow healing, stuck relationships, and “not enough” money story had nothing to do with effort—and everything to do with what you believe about time?

In this mind-bending episode, Justin Wenck, PhD, pulls back the curtain on our most limiting assumption: how long things are supposed to take.

You’ll never look at a “timeline” the same way again.

🔑 Key Takeaways & Topics Covered:

• Why healing timelines aren’t fixed—and how belief dictates biology
• What your dentist, doctor, breakup buddy, and business guru got wrong about “normal”
• How cultural expectations + unexamined assumptions quietly control your life
• The "Jesus in Nazareth" effect—and how other people’s beliefs limit your power
• How AI and automation are forcing us to drop outdated money myths
• The hidden perks of staying stuck—and how to stop unconsciously choosing them
• Why slowing down is just as rebellious as speeding up

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Access your free materials today at engineeredtolove.com/sample and start living a life filled with joy, ease, and love. 

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