Chad Becker is a nationally recognized sports leadership coach with 30+ years of coaching experience in Tennessee, 600+ wins, and dozens of championships.

In this episode, Chad opens with why winning a championship his first year of coaching, at just 22, was actually one of the worst things that could have happened to him.

For decades, Chad coached basketball and baseball and served as an athletic director, eventually overseeing 21 sports, 90 coaches, and 900 families. His identity became wrapped up in society's scorecard, winning, performing, being recognized for what he could do.

Then one ordinary Tuesday night changed something. A Lego castle knocked over in a dark hallway. An index card from his six-year-old daughter: How is your week going, Daddy? I haven't seen you.

That moment cracked something open.

Chad and Christine talk about what happens when success doesn't feel the way you thought it would. They unpack his S³ Leadership Blueprint (Site, Systems, Soul) and his C³ Trust Engine (Character, Competence, Connection), along with the 4 H's he uses to build real connection: History, Heartaches, Hopes, and Heroes.

If you've worked hard to get somewhere and wondered why it didn't feel the way you thought it would, this one's for you.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:33 Growing up in Fort Wayne, the Little League World Series

05:26 Learning that performance is what matters most

11:08 High standards, high support, and building a champion before championships

16:31 Athletics as the greatest developer of the human spirit, taught through storytelling and mistakes

23:57 Managing 21 sports and 900 families, and what coaches said the real problem was

28:02 The Lego castle and the index card

35:50 The S cubed and C cubed frameworks

46:27 The four H's exercise

50:50 Character and fulfillment

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Chad Becker: Website · Instagram · LinkedIn

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Jason Alan Bohrer used to think discipline meant more push, more willpower, more grind.

Then he left his job, started a new business with a newborn and a toddler, zero income coming in, and ended up on the couch telling his wife there was nothing more he could do. The 12 months that followed taught him something different: burnout is born of overwhelm, overwhelm is born of avoidance, and avoidance is born of dysregulation.

He and Christine talk about the difference between performance as a mask and performance as alignment, why ambition can be avoidance with better branding, and why the nervous system, not just mindset, drives how clearly we think and perform.

If you've ever looked successful on paper and felt exhausted in private, this conversation names what's underneath that gap.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro: Record everything

03:17 What Jason actually does

05:45 The 12-month odyssey and who he was at eight

09:39 Performance as armor, and ambition as avoidance

11:41 The causal chain to burnout

17:13 Misalignment in founders and executives

19:39 Not enoughness and what pressure does to the brain

22:20 Awareness, alignment, action

28:44 Measuring capacity with HRV

34:14 Hitting burnout: the trifecta

36:40 The sentence that split his life in half

39:32 What Resilient actually stands for

42:50 Three steps for this week

47:02 The 90-second reset and rapid fire round

48:36 What to know if you're exhausted in private

Listen & connect

Jason Alan Bohrer: Website · Instagram · TikTok · YouTube · LinkedIn · Facebook

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Dr. Cody Golman started out as a tank commander, then spent seventeen years as a chiropractor before he noticed the same pattern everywhere: medicine treats symptoms, not causes, and the weight loss industry does the exact same thing. Now he works with women over thirty-five whose bodies stopped responding to the diets that used to work. His core idea is that most people aren't burning fat, they're burning sugar, and stress plus sugar flips your hormones out of the state your body was actually designed to run on.

He and Christine get into where this connects to ADHD (his view is that a lot of the brain fog, irritability, and hyperactivity people chase answers for traces back to blood sugar spikes, not character), why fasting and calorie-restrictive diets can backfire, and why sleep timing matters more than almost anything else in resetting hormones. Then, the conversation takes an unexpected turn: the psychological work Cody does with clients around loving the parts of themselves they've spent years criticizing, and why unloved parts of yourself tend to show up again in a partner or a kid until you actually deal with them.

Timestamps

00:00 Meet Dr. Golman

01:57 The weight loss industry's blind spot

05:15 What symptoms are trying to tell you

07:00 The ADHD and sugar connection

10:57 Fat burning, survival mode, and fasting

14:47 Sleep and hormone balance

17:49 Gut, blood sugar, and aging

22:49 The licensing effect and loving the parts you don't love

41:05 Chrononutrition, not grazing

47:27 Where to find Dr. Golman

Listen & connect

Fast 40 (free book, trainings, free call): fast40system.com

Dr. Cody Golman: YouTube · Instagram · LinkedIn · TikTok

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Don Rauzelle used to sit in Google meetings wondering what was actually driving everyone to show up. Then he realized he was chasing the exact same thing, just from a different starting line.

Don spent years in corporate strategy roles at Google and Electronic Arts before he asked himself a question that changed everything: if money wasn't a factor, how would I actually spend my time? That question sat for years before it became The Clarifier, a free AI-powered tool that walks you through the same strategic planning process billion-dollar companies use, pointed at your own life instead of a quarterly roadmap.

He and Christine talk through what he calls "drift," the slow autopilot most of us fall into without noticing, why self-reflection is one of the most underrated leadership skills, and the moment he realized money wasn't actually going to buy him happiness. Don also shares what he's learned traveling full time (he's currently in Hanoi, about to head to the Arctic Circle in Norway), including an unexpected lesson about traffic, patience, and not needing to be first.

If you've ever felt like you're doing all the right things without knowing what you're actually building toward, this one's worth the listen.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:28 Applying corporate frameworks to himself

04:53 Growing up in Charlottesville

09:34 Gifted classes and rethinking his path

14:25 The Google red badge

16:53 The seed quote and moral philosophy

21:37 Training people in strategy at Google and EA

24:00 What The Clarifier actually is

26:27 How the Clarifier works

31:11 The hundred rooms analogy

33:22 Christine's own Clarifier results

40:27 Drift caused by autopilot

45:21 The campfire Clarifier idea

47:45 Coaching options after the Clarifier

52:35 The Hanoi traffic lesson

57:23 Where to find Don

Listen & connect

Don Rauzelle: Website · The Clarifier · Instagram · Substack

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Dr. Cody Golman started out as a tank commander, then spent seventeen years as a chiropractor before he noticed the same pattern everywhere: medicine treats symptoms, not causes, and the weight loss industry does the exact same thing. Now he works with women over thirty-five whose bodies stopped responding to the diets that used to work. His core idea is that most people aren't burning fat, they're burning sugar, and stress plus sugar flips your hormones out of the state your body was actually designed to run on.

He and Christine get into where this connects to ADHD (his view is that a lot of the brain fog, irritability, and hyperactivity people chase answers for traces back to blood sugar spikes, not character), why fasting and calorie-restrictive diets can backfire, and why sleep timing matters more than almost anything else in resetting hormones. Then, the conversation takes an unexpected turn: the psychological work Cody does with clients around loving the parts of themselves they've spent years criticizing, and why unloved parts of yourself tend to show up again in a partner or a kid until you actually deal with them.

Timestamps

00:00 Meet Dr. Golman

01:57 The weight loss industry's blind spot

05:15 What symptoms are trying to tell you

07:00 The ADHD and sugar connection

10:57 Fat burning, survival mode, and fasting

14:47 Sleep and hormone balance

17:49 Gut, blood sugar, and aging

22:49 The licensing effect and loving the parts you don't love

41:05 Chrononutrition, not grazing

47:27 Where to find Dr. Golman

Listen & connect

Fast 40 (free book, trainings, free call): fast40system.com

Dr. Cody Golman: YouTube · Instagram · LinkedIn · TikTok

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Two and a half years ago, an oncologist gave Mark Ruegg four to six months to live. Today there's no evidence of disease anywhere in his body, and his own doctor, head of oncology at Cedars-Sinai, calls it something he's never seen in his career.

Before any of that, Mark spent two decades as a professional dancer, then built a business as a Hollywood "child wrangler," the person who keeps kids calm and cooperative on set for brands like Target, Disney, and Pampers. Then came a stage IV pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinoma diagnosis, a rare and fast-moving cancer, and a prognosis he refused to accept once a stranger on the phone, a fellow survivor named Roger Magowitz, told him it didn't have to be true. Mark calls that call his "four-minute mile": the moment something became possible simply because someone else had already done it.

He and Christine talk through what he calls his healing recipe, seven ingredients including belief, meditation, and getting his nervous system back to a state of safety.

This one leaves you with this: what would you let yourself believe was possible, if someone showed you it already happened for them?

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:11 Who Mark was before

07:21 The diagnosis

09:49 First call for help

12:12 The four-minute mile

17:02 Patients, not statistics

20:14 The rare, aggressive cancer

25:13 Taking self-responsibility

27:42 Safety and healing

33:32 The healing mantra

37:19 Talk less, listen more

43:55 The scan that stunned his doctor

50:57 The night everything shifted

55:43 Facing his own fear

1:05:11 Building the community

1:09:01 Find Mark

Listen & connect

The Healing Recipe: mark-allen-ruegg-the-healing-recipe.kit.com

The Healing Recipe Community (Facebook group): facebook.com/groups/2023484345192235

Featured in Argonaut News: digitaledition.argonautnews.com

Mark Ruegg: Instagram

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Karen Conlon spent years achieving her way through life without knowing why nothing ever felt like enough.

Karen is a licensed psychotherapist and coach who works with high-achieving professionals ready to stop over-functioning and start building real, authentic relationships.

She's the founder of Cohesive Therapy NYC and Expressive Talks Life Coaching, and hosts her own podcast, Emotionally Wealthy. She and Christine talk about what Karen calls emotional real estate: the space every person is born with to feel, that many of us were never taught how to access. They get into the difference between a high achiever and an overachiever (one plays to strength, the other runs on fear), why pausing feels like wasted time until it isn't, and the boundary Karen set with a family member that cracked something open in her that had stayed closed for years.

If you've ever asked yourself "is this laziness, or is it something else," Karen has a better question to start with: what is my gut actually telling me?

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

01:04 Welcome Karen

02:13 Fifteen years parallel

04:16 Achievement and fear

08:28 The shift inward

10:30 Having her daughter

11:30 The boundary moment

13:56 Trust your gut

18:12 Emotional real estate

21:36 Laziness or boredom

22:34 The hardest pause

29:51 When to be vulnerable

38:14 High achiever vs. overachiever

44:22 Healthy achievement today

54:01 Steps toward wealth

1:00:01 Find Karen

Listen & connect

Karen Conlon: karenconlon.com · Instagram · LinkedIn

Emotionally Wealthy Podcast: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Adam spent a decade planting churches, then a decade building tech companies, and quietly, addiction ran underneath both. He and Christine talk about busyness as a coping mechanism people wear like a badge of honor, and the moment addiction became impossible to hide once he was off the stage and had to actually face what was happening.

The real issue, Adam explains, was never the "what." His work was good work. It was the "why" underneath it: trying to earn love and prove himself worthy instead of already believing he was.

They get into the belief systems most of us are quietly running from (am I safe, am I enough, am I wanted, am I loved), the difference between "deal friends" and real friends, and why confessional, honest relationships, not willpower, are what actually protect against relapse. Adam's workbook is The Healed Hustle, and the process isn't a finish line. It's a rhythm of catching yourself and starting again.

Timestamps

00:00 Meet Adam
00:58 Church planting to tech
03:26 Hyperfocus and burnout
08:23 The Tommy Nelson story
12:36 The wrong why
16:34 Earning love vs. being loved
21:04 Identity beyond the work
25:55 Confessional living
30:19 Rhythms and relationships
31:11 The opposite of relapse
39:21 Heal your why

Listen & connect

The Healed Hustle: Free Assessment, Website

Adam Cruz: Instagram · YouTube · LinkedIn

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Tia is the founder of Arrive at Happy and, more recently, the Feel Good Club, a community for working moms. Before that, she was a sales and marketing director drowning in guilt after having kids, despite once being the person everyone asked, "How are you so happy?"

A coach helped her pull a buried dream back out: a happiness company. She and Christine talk about building it while working full time, why happiness science isn't about constant positivity, and the pancake morning that taught her happiness is a choice her father made on purpose.

They get into the three pillars of a happy life, "double suffering" (feeling bad about feeling bad), and what changed once Tia's daughter was diagnosed with autism.

If you've felt the pull between work and home, this sits right in that tension.

Timestamps

00:00 Meet Tia
02:41 A happiness company, buried for years
06:19 The dream as a seedling
07:34 Leaving the corporate job
08:42 The pancake morning
11:04 Happiness as a daily choice
14:12 Prioritizing her own well-being
16:14 Radical acceptance
17:38 Three pillars of a happy life
21:33 Agency over thoughts and behavior
26:22 Stress has an upside too
29:07 Double suffering
32:51 Building psychological resilience
35:07 Overcoming mom guilt
38:31 Where to find Tia

Listen & connect

Tia Graham: tiagraham.com· arriveathappy.com · Instagram · LinkedIn · YouTube

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.

Most advice about mess assumes it's a discipline problem. Beatrice Tokayer's work starts somewhere else: your nervous system.

Beatrice is an interior designer and founder of Sensorize Your Space. She began adapting her son's environment after his ADHD, sensory processing, and dyslexia diagnoses — and found small design changes did more for his sleep and hyperactivity than she expected.

She and Christine talk through overstimulated versus understimulated brains, why clutter is rarely about being disorganized, and how a "messy zone" can protect the calm of an entire home, plus low-cost ways to think about lighting, color, and layout.

Beatrice's fix is smaller than you'd expect: one zone, ten minutes a day, everything with a home.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:20 Beatrice's path in

04:00 Senses and peace

07:00 Two brain types

09:30 Clutter, not decisions

15:00 Zones for mess

20:00 Movement and outdoors

28:00 Masking as a kid

33:00 Sensory and family

40:00 Home office tips

48:00 Decluttering, not minimalism

58:00 Working with Beatrice

1:05:00 Find Beatrice

Listen & connect

Sensorize Your Space: Website · Instagram

BRT Interior Design: brtinteriordesign.com

Redesign Your Home the ADHD-Friendly Way (course): sensorize.samcart.com/products/redesign-your-home-the-adhd-friendly-way

Christine: Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn

Think Time®: Website · Free Training · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok · LinkedIn

Hyperfocus & High Performance: Listen Here

This podcast is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for individualized medical, mental health, or professional care. Every brain is different, and results will vary.