GIVE A HECK

By Dwight Heck

In the last 20 years, I have lived a life like many, by accident, going to work, go home get paid than the next day starting all over again, living on a proverbial hamster wheel. I can tell you though... more

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August 04, 2026 He Chose His Kids Over Seven Figures, Dwight Heck On Fatherhood
Eight years into joint custody, one question from his own kid changed everything. Dwight Heck closes his three-part solo arc with the decision that was never about his body or his career; it was about the kind of father he was going to be.

Dwight starts with his own father, present as a provider but largely absent as a communicator, the same pattern he found himself repeating with his own kids during his first business, until a lightbulb moment led him to take every summer off. The harder decision came later. During one of their near nightly phone calls, one of his kids asked when they got a say in where they lived, and when enough was enough. Dwight said now, and went and got them, choosing to become the present father he never had over pushing a successful financial business toward a seven figure income.

In this episode you will hear:

✅ Why Dwight's relationship with his own father shaped the kind of father he decided to become

✅ The exact phone call, eight years into joint custody, that changed everything

✅ Why he chose to shelve a seven figure business dream to become a present, engaged father

✅ What being present actually looked like day to day, from savings baggies to a roller blades deal

✅ How raising five kids largely on his own shaped the financial coach he is today

✅ How this decision closes the thread running through all three decisions in this solo arc

Full show notes: [EPISODE URL ON GIVEAHECK.COM, PENDING PUBLISH]

Connect with Dwight Heck

Give A Heck Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck
Contact / Be a Guest: https://giveaheck.com/contact-us/

Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review or rating right here in Spotify, or at ratethispodcast.com/giveaheck

About Dwight Heck: Dwight Heck is a financial and life coach, and career coach, licensed in Alberta and British Columbia, host of the Give A Heck Podcast, and the Amazon bestselling author of Give A Heck: How to Live Life on Purpose and Not by Accident. After living paycheck to paycheck as a single father of five, he built a career and a show around helping people live intentionally instead of by accident.

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July 28, 2026 He Bet On Himself Twice, Dwight Heck On Reinvention
He talked his way into fixing a mainframe he had no training for. Nine years later, a health crisis forced the career change that would define the rest of his life.
In this solo episode, Dwight Heck continues the Not by Accident: Three Decisions arc with the story of the professional risk that reshaped everything. Before the mainframe, there was an earlier bet on himself at fifteen and sixteen, an early lesson in entrepreneurship that failed before it ever really started, once he ran the actual cost math. That lesson mattered when, fresh out of an electronics engineering diploma, Dwight volunteered to fix a mainframe connection problem he had no formal training to solve, working until 2 a.m. multiple nights to get it done.
Nine years into a leadership role with no real work-life balance, after a grueling client contract and five days without sleep, Dwight's body gave out. He was diagnosed with Bell's palsy, a health crisis serious enough to leave him temporarily unable to drive or fully care for his kids during his joint custody time. That crisis forced the career change into finance, and years later, that decision helped one couple go from ninety days away from financial ruin to their first paid vacation in over a decade.

In this episode you will hear:

✅ Why a side hustle at fifteen and sixteen failed before it even started

✅ How Dwight talked his way into fixing a mainframe he had no training to solve

✅ Why nine years in IT consulting, and a leadership role with no real work-life balance, meant one happy client for every nine who were not

✅ What a five day stretch without sleep on a single contract actually cost him

✅ What happened the day Bell's palsy hit, and what the recovery required

✅ Why a friend's mention of finance was not what actually convinced him to make the leap

✅ What that career change produced years later for one couple he coached

Full show notes: www.giveaheck.com/podcast

Connect with Dwight Heck

Give A Heck Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck
Contact / Be a Guest: https://giveaheck.com/contact-us/

Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review or rating right here in this player, or at ratethispodcast.com/giveaheck.

About Dwight Heck: Dwight Heck is a financial and life coach, and career coach, licensed in Alberta and British Columbia, host of the Give A Heck Podcast, and the Amazon bestselling author of Give A Heck: How to Live Life on Purpose and Not by Accident. After living paycheck to paycheck as a single father of five, he built a career and a show around helping people live intentionally instead of by accident.

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July 21, 2026 They Predicted My Breaking Point. Here's What Happened
At fourteen, doctors and well-meaning adults told Dwight Heck what his body would never let him do. Decades later, an injured Achilles tendon couldn't stop him from hiking Zion's Narrows.

In this solo episode, Dwight tells a story he has never shared on the podcast before: severe, uncontrolled asthma as a child, a scoliosis diagnosis at 13, and choosing a caged steel body brace over spinal surgery at 14, worn twenty-three hours a day for almost three years. He explains why tenacity is a superpower, how a paper route at 12 proved it, and why an injury three weeks before a planned hike through The Narrows in Zion National Park was never going to stop him from going. This is Part 1 of a new three-part solo arc, Not by Accident: Three Decisions.

In this episode you'll hear:
✅ Why severe asthma before rescue inhalers existed shaped a childhood
✅ How a scoliosis diagnosis at 13 led to a three-year choice between surgery and a brace
✅ What wearing a caged body brace twenty-three hours a day actually involved
✅ Why well-meaning caution from adults can do as much damage as a diagnosis
✅ How a paper route at 12 became proof that tenacity is a superpower
✅ Why an injured Achilles tendon didn't stop a hike through Zion's Narrows
✅ What to do with your own version of a ceiling someone else handed you

Full show notes: [EPISODE URL ON GIVEAHECK.COM, PENDING PUBLISH]

Connect with Dwight Heck
Give A Heck Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck
Contact / Be a Guest: https://giveaheck.com/contact-us/

Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review or rating right here in Spotify, or at ratethispodcast.com/giveaheck

About Dwight Heck: Dwight Heck is a financial and life coach licensed in Alberta and British Columbia, host of the Give A Heck Podcast, and the Amazon bestselling author of Give A Heck: How to Live Life on Purpose and Not by Accident. After living paycheck to paycheck as a single father of five, he built a career and a show around helping people live intentionally instead of by accident.
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July 14, 2026 She Froze in Her Interview: Janylène Turcotte on the Subconscious Mind
Your subconscious mind is running your decisions, and most people have no idea. Janylène Turcotte spent 25 years as a senior HR executive, the last eight as National Talent Director at Deloitte. She coached hundreds of people through high-stakes interviews. Then her corporate career ended on someone else’s terms, and three days later she sat down for a VP interview at a bank and could not answer a single question.

That frozen moment cracked open the gap between knowing and doing, and launched her into a second career as a clinical hypnotherapist trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy under Marisa Peer. JT has now completed over 1,500 sessions with entrepreneurs and senior leaders. Her method, Peel Back, Rewire, Rise, is built on the conviction that you cannot rewire what you have not first peeled back. The Peel Back step, accessing the unconscious stories driving your behaviour, is the step most coaches skip.

What you will learn:
Why knowing is not the same as doing and what actually lives in the gap
What a frozen interview reveals about the unconscious beliefs running your life
How nine years of sobriety taught JT more about the mind than any certification
Why the Peel Back step is the one most coaches skip and why that matters
Why she lost more friends when she stopped fawning than when she stopped drinking
The two fears that block most transformations: fear of being alone and fear of judgement

Connect with Janylène Turcotte (JT):
Website: https://www.hypnocoach.ca
Podcast: https://www.hypnocoach.ca/podcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzF3eyJFsJgDIIlE5Ow-D1g
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/janylene
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hypnocoach_janylene_aka_jt/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janylene.turcotte.2025/
Book a free 30-minute strategy call: https://www.hypnocoach.ca/workwithme

Connect with Dwight Heck:
Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck
Work With Me / Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

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July 07, 2026 HE LED A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY, THEN HIS BODY SHUT DOWN | ART BLANCHFORD
Art Blanchford grew up inside a religious cult, then spent decades running operations worth billions of dollars at the top of global corporate leadership. Then his body shut down completely, and this episode is the story of what came after.
IN THIS EPISODE
✅ Why children raised in acontrolling environment often become the most driven high achievers
✅ How years of ignoring his limitsended in a total physical collapse
✅ What it actually takes torebuild a marriage and a sense of self after everything falls apart
✅ Why the collapse period matters,and why so many high performers refuse to allow it
✅ The difference betweenperforming your worth and knowing it
✅ Why Art founded the MidlifeTransition Mastery Community

WATCH ON YOUTUBE
https://youtu.be/VEXwNrwH7kY

CONNECT WITH ART BLANCHFORD
Website: artblanchford.com
Podcast:lifeintransitionpodcast.com
Community: lifeintransition.online
Facebook:facebook.com/people/Life-In-Transition/100095280279752
YouTube:youtube.com/@LifeInTransitionPodcast
Instagram:instagram.com/lifeintransitionpodcast
LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/art-blanchford-7790135

CONNECT WITH DWIGHT HECK
Website: giveaheck.com
Podcast Page:giveaheck.com/podcast
YouTube: youtube.com/@giveaheck
Facebook: facebook.com/dwight.heck
Instagram:instagram.com/give.a.heck
LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150
TikTok: tiktok.com/@giveaheck
Twitter/X: twitter.com/give_a_heck
Work With Me:giveaheck.com/work-with-me

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Live life on purpose & not byaccident.

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June 30, 2026 300 Conversations Later, Dwight Heck on Regret, Money and Purpose
For episode 300, Dwight Heck steps out of the guest chair for the first time to tell the whole story himself. He takes listeners back to Camrose, Alberta, where he grew up with no lessons about money, through raising five kids alone as a single dad, and into the 2002 decision that turned quiet desperation into a 24-year career in financial services.

He reflects on five years of guests who shaped the show, from a Holocaust survivor to people who worked alongside Robin Williams, and shares the three hardest lessons 300 conversations have taught him about money: most people are living somebody else’s financial plan, money problems are usually emotional ones wearing a financial costume, and regret is the most expensive thing anyone will ever buy.

What you will learn:
Why most people are living somebody else’s financial plan
What money monsters are and why naming them matters
Why regret is the most expensive thing you will ever buy
How a 2001 health scare led Dwight into financial services

Connect with Dwight Heck:
Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck
Work With Me / Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

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June 23, 2026 Find Your Purpose Before AI Finds Your Job, Derek Rydall on Human Potential
What does AI actually threaten to take from you, and what does it have no power to touch? Derek Rydall returns for Part 2 with the answer hidden inside your core wound, your lived experience, and the life code that no algorithm can ever replicate.
Derek Rydall has lost a son, a fortune, a marriage, and his sense of self more than once, and came back each time with more clarity, not less. In this episode, he makes the full case for why AI is not simply a technology story. It is a meaning and identity crisis unlike anything humanity has faced before. He breaks down why the very disruption you fear may be the initiation you were made for, explains the core wound as the gateway to your greatest purpose, and shares what writing A Whole New Human truly cost him on a soul level.
Dwight opens with a deeply personal reflection on grief and the perennial plant that dies in the fall and returns stronger in spring. Together they explore service as the master pattern of awakening, the monastery story, and why the goal you are not yet capable of achieving is exactly the right goal.
What you will learn in this episode:
Why the real danger of AI is not job loss but the loss of human meaning and purpose
What your life code is and why AI can never replicate it
How the core wound functions as a core initiation into your truest purpose
Why self-improvement is an oxymoron and what to do instead
What Derek's attempt to live as a monk revealed about who he was meant to be
Why the goal you are not yet capable of achieving is the right goal
What writing A Whole New Human cracked open that Derek did not expect
Connect with Derek Rydall:
Website: https://derekrydall.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DerekRydall-YourLegendaryLife
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekrydall
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerekRydall/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drydall/
Twitter / X: https://x.com/derekrydall
Connect with Dwight Heck and the Give A Heck Podcast:
Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck
Work With Me / Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me
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June 16, 2026 You Are Not Broken, You Are Unheard, with Dr. Fred Moss
YOU ARE NOT BROKEN, YOU ARE UNHEARD, WITH DR. FRED MOSS

What if healing without a diagnosis is not just possible, but the most natural thing in the world?

Dr. Fred Moss spent more than four decades inside the mental health system as a board-certified psychiatrist, treating over 30,000 patients. Then he asked a different question: not what is wrong with this person, but what actually heals a human being.

His answer challenges almost everything the mental health system is built on. The real problem is not a chemical imbalance. It is not a diagnosis. It is disconnection. When someone is not being heard, not being seen for who they truly are, no medication in the world addresses that. But genuine human connection does. Every single time.

In 2006, Dr. Moss began taking low-risk patients off their medications with their permission. Almost all of them healed profoundly, often losing the very diagnosis that had justified the medication in the first place. That experience changed everything.

In this conversation, you will hear:
- Why healing without medication is possible for far more people than the system admits
- How psychiatric diagnosis is fundamentally different from every other medical field
- What Dr. Moss discovered when he took patients off their medications
- Why men block emotional expression rather than feel things more deeply
- What healthy reinvention looks like when AI is reshaping entire industries
- Why gratitude practiced out loud every morning changes everything

Dr. Moss is the author of Creative Eight: Healing Through Creativity and Self-Expression, Find Your True Voice, and his forthcoming memoir Welcome to Humanity: A Psychiatrist's Case Against the Mental Health System, arriving July 2026. He is the creator of the Welcome to Humanity movement and is known to many simply as the indoctor.

CONNECT WITH DR. FRED MOSS
Website: https://welcometohumanity.net/
eSpeakers: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/52547/preview
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drfredmossmd
Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/drfredmoss
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drfredmoss
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drfredmoss/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfredmoss/
September Retreat: https://welcometohumanity.net/

CONNECT WITH DWIGHT HECK
Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
Podcast: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck
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June 09, 2026 How to Build Income That Actually Lasts, with Mark Kollar
What is the difference between having money saved and actually having income you can depend on in retirement? For most people, nobody has ever answered that question clearly.

Mark Kollar has spent 35 years answering it. He started his career on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade watching first-hand how markets can be manipulated and how quickly a lifetime of savings can disappear when someone does not know what they do not know. The experience that drove all of it started much earlier, in second grade, when he watched bad advice, failed estate planning, and a devastating health event strip his father of everything he had built.

In this episode, Mark and Dwight cover:
- Why accumulation and income distribution are completely different retirement disciplines
- The red money versus green money framework and how to think about risk at different life stages
- The four tax baskets and why how you draw down your savings is as important as how much you saved
- Black swan events, excess fees, ego, and the emotional decisions that quietly derail well-funded retirements
- What a fiduciary standard means versus a suitability standard, and why it matters who you choose
- Why the wealthiest clients Mark works with all share one habit: multiple advisors

Mark is the owner of Kollar Wealth Advisors, a registered investment advisory firm, a certified senior advisor, a certified estate planning professional, and the author of The Retirement Navigator. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNBC, the Washington Post, and Fox Business.

Get his free Seven Retirement Mistakes Report: https://sevenmistakes.subscribepage.io/

Connect with Mark Kollar:
Website: https://www.kollarinsuranceservices.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkKollarRetirementExpert
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markakollar/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kollarinsuranceservices

Connect with Dwight Heck and the Give A Heck Podcast:
Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck
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Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck
Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

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June 02, 2026 Small Town Kid, Big Life | Jim Tracy on Building Men of Character
Jim Tracy grew up as the sixth of eight kids in rural South Dakota, where thirteen people waited at the dinner table until his father came home, and summers meant fishing and hunting at a cabin with no running water. He became a CEO, jet pilot, Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of the Amazon number one bestselling book Building Men: Character Lessons from Influencers. Not because of advantages. Because of the people who poured into him and refused to let him quit.

In this conversation with Dwight Heck, Jim traces the full arc of a life built on character. From a grandfather who took chickens as payment during the Depression, to starting a telecom company from a garage with his son. Burning through his entire 401k on the first bid, to learning to fly jets at 62. To top it all, he wrote a book where every chapter is named after a person rather than a principle.

IN THIS EPISODE:
✅ How rural roots and a grandfather's unwavering character built the foundation of everything
✅ How Jim started Legacy Telecommunications in a garage and burned his 401k on the first bid
✅ What the Culture Revival Blueprint is and why every business needs one
✅ Why handwritten birthday cards were the most important thing Jim did as a CEO
✅ What it took to learn to fly jets at 62
✅ How tenacity is a superpower that only comes from muscle memory
✅ What building men of character actually requires

WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
https://youtu.be/858oP35jTyo

CONNECT WITH JIM TRACY:
Website: https://thegrampion.com/
Website: https://thejimtracy.com/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jimtracygrampion
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jim-tracy-istowerjim/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGrampion
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/towerjim/
Twitter / X: https://x.com/Towerjim
Speaking: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/48319/jim-tracy

CONNECT WITH DWIGHT HECK:
Website: https://www.giveaheck.com
Podcast: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/
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Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

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Give A Heck | Helping People Live Life on Purpose and Not by Accident

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FAQs about GIVE A HECK:

How many episodes does GIVE A HECK have?

The podcast currently has 308 episodes available.