My Life At A Weird Angle (MLAAWA)

Who could imagine that a young girl from a small province in Pakistan would become a powerful voice in the UN and Harvard University?

That's the story of my next guest Saliha Khan. As incredible as her story is come on she hasn't let go of the people and challenges that were instrumental in her resilience and growth.

Hear about her full story and how a biracial podcast host from Virginia shares in some of the building blocks that carved her path to greatness.

Leadership, resilience, and taking total ownership are the core themes of this powerful conversation. In this episode, host welcomes retired Army Lieutenant Colonel John Tapper, following their connection at the prestigious LOSD Leadership Conference at Harvard this past August.

Drawing from decades of military leadership and post-service expertise, On Tapper breaks down what it truly takes to lead when the stakes are high. Together, they explore why accountability is non-negotiable, how to build unbreakable personal resilience, and why nobody wins with a list of excuses as their guide.

Whether you’re leading a team, navigating complex challenges, or striving to elevate your personal standards, this episode offers clear, actionable wisdom on stepping up, taking ownership, and driving real results.

Highlights From the Episode

• The Harvard Connection: How meeting at the LOSD conference set the stage for a deeper dive into modern leadership dynamics.
  
• Extreme Ownership & Accountability: Why excuses only hinder progress—and how to eliminate them from your leadership playbook.
  
• Building Real Resilience: Practical approaches to navigating adversity and leading under pressure.
  
• Military Lessons for Everyday Life: How lessons from the battlefield translate into strong, clear, and effective everyday leadership.

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Zig and I catch up after two decades. A long road of family, design, creativity, and activism leads us down a winding road.

What happens when a successful author suddenly feels the pull to drop everything and make music? In this episode, we follow Cassidy’s transformative journey from comfortable security into the beautiful chaos of a spontaneous creative calling.

We dive deep into how internal discomfort is often just a signal for growth, and how treating life like a "scavenger hunt" can lead to miraculous alignment—even when facing financial and emotional hardships.

If you’ve been feeling a tug toward something new but fear the unknown, Cassidy’s story is a powerful reminder to prioritize spiritual grounding, lead with a heart of service, and trust the process of authentic creation.

Meet Cassidy

What happens when a successful author suddenly feels the pull to drop everything and make music? In this episode, we follow Cassidy’s transformative journey from comfortable security into the beautiful chaos of a spontaneous creative calling.

We dive deep into how internal discomfort is often just a signal for growth, and how treating life like a "scavenger hunt" can lead to miraculous alignment—even when facing financial and emotional hardships. If you’ve been feeling a tug toward something new but fear the unknown, Cassidy’s story is a powerful reminder to prioritize spiritual grounding, lead with a heart of service, and trust the process of authentic creation.

Meet Cassidy.

What’s the difference between a life that is "hard" and a life that requires "effort"?

The great Marcel Price joins the show to catch up and explore why a meaningful life demands effort—and what happens when we have to borrow strength from our community to keep going. Having both learned this lesson the hard way, we talk about betting on yourself, the power of connection, and finding deep gratitude in the struggle.

Listen in and hold fast to what matters most. Your life will be better for it.

Enjoy this deep dive breakdown of the conversation Marcel and I had last week before the full episode airs.

We've embraced hardship and inspiration knowing that the challenges make us more appreciative and add a certain amount of neuro spiciness to our lives.

Inspiration strikes most often in fertile soil. That's how this episode came about.

While straightening up my desk the idea of doing a three part series came to mind and the subject is all about the lies that we are told that keep us from becoming our very best.

The interesting thing is these lies are not new and generations have been fed the same detrimental statements.

Each week I'll be releasing a Deep Dive on the lie as well as my own insights. With the goal of freeing all of us of these lies, so that we can become our greatest self in record time.

This podcast is not just something else for you to listen to on your way home or a distraction from your life. This podcast is meant to provide relief and insights that allow you to become your greatest self.

Have you ever been told that achieving extraordinary success means choosing a life of isolation? In this episode of My Life at a Weird Angle, Lord Milan breaks down the linguistic history and psychological traps behind one of society’s favorite cliches: "It’s lonely at the top".

As a linguist and mindset coach, Milan exposes this phrase as a dangerous falsehood designed either by those who gave up on their dreams as an excuse to stay broke, or by jaded individuals looking to protect their exclusivity.

The truth? There is no "top" to begin with—only a continuous mountain of evidence where expanding your success simply expands your parameters, your skills, and your options.

Drawing from his own profound journey—from waking up paralyzed in a hospital bed with a broken neck to walking on a treadmill, running multiple businesses, and coaching others to win faster—Milan shares how shifting your internal language and identity changes everything.

Tune in to discover how to reject default negativity, ask the ultimate capitalization question, and step into your most fruitful, authentically awesome self.

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  The Deconstruction of a Cliche: Why "it's lonely at the top" is a metric used to deter people from excelling or to justify staying in a comfortable plateau.

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  The Ping-Pong to Tennis Court Analogy: How leveling up your life doesn't isolate you; it just gives you a massive environment with bigger parameters and more options.

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  The Power of Identity: Why real, compound success is dictated not just by who you are and what you accept, but fundamentally by who you are not and what you actively reject.

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  Shifting From Strain to Relief: Understanding that the true pursuit of success is actually a pursuit of relief—from pressure, bills, uncertainty, and other people's opinions.

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  The First Commandment of Identity: A practical look at the universal directive to "be fruitful" and how your unique gifts are mathematically tied to the collective benefit of the world around you.

Ready to upgrade your identity? Stop chasing success and start attracting it. If you are ready to establish a powerful, magnetic identity and build your own mountain of evidence, visit Mindmindset.com to schedule your discovery call today.

Remember, this is DAY1.

After 25 years of paying attention to myself and the world that I live in I realize that everyone falls into one of three categories: Lost in the woods, Following someone else, Or carving your own path.

While most people would like to think that they are carving their own path 60% of people are simply following somebody else's life and mimicking it to the point where theirs starts to look like a Temu version of the person they're following.

In this podcast you will learn which path you are on and how to identify it. The people that are carving their own path are the ones that we admire the most and one of the big characteristics is that they are choosy in everything that they do.

More about the author: https://day1mindset.com/