Rise From The Ashes Podcast

Michelle Collins lost her husband to suicide. Then her mother.

That kind of grief doesn’t just hurt it shatters you.
But instead of staying broken, Michelle turned her pain into power—and now helps others walk out of the dark.

This episode isn’t about healing in theory.
 It’s about how to survive when your life has exploded and you’re still expected to function.

Inside this episode of Rising From the Ashes, Michelle strips it down:

🔥 What grief really feels like when the world moves on and you’re still stuck in pain
🔥 The brutal truth about dating again after death (and what no one talks about)
🔥 Why “healing” doesn’t mean you’re happy all the time it means you recover faster
🔥 The divine downloads that became her books and lifelines for survivors
🔥 The words that saved her life: “You will not always feel the way you do now.”

This isn’t just a personal transformation podcast it’s a damn emotional healing activation.

If you’ve ever loved someone… and lost them…
 This episode will rip you open, hand you the tools, and say:
 “You’ve got this. Let’s rise.”

🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or Buzzsprout.
 🔗 Share with someone who’s quietly falling apart. It might save their life.

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If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

After surviving trauma that shattered her identity, Eleni Anastos faced a choice: collapse… or reinvent.
 She chose power.

In this moving episode, Eleni shares her blueprint for rebuilding after life knocks you down at any age.
 From creating your "badass list" of hidden talents to rewriting what success means, Eleni proves it's never too late to begin again.

💥 How forgiveness helped her take back her power
 💥 Why "settling serves no one" and what to do instead
 💥 The secret to discovering your true value (even if you feel stuck)
 💥 How small actions create massive ripple effects
 💥 Her practical guide to reinvention without starting over

If you're standing at a crossroads, wondering if it's too late—this is for you.

🎧 Listen now and take your first step toward a life that lights you up.

🔗 Full episode here → https://risefromtheashespodcast.com/Home
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If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

What happens when your entire identity is ripped away in one violent moment?

After surviving a brutal school assault and the gut-punch betrayal of a system that denied it ever happened Eleni Anastos lost everything she'd built over 30 years. But what she gained? Was far more powerful.

In this raw and riveting episode, Eleni shares her fall and rise.

From rocking in trauma to rising as a force for truth, she reveals how she turned betrayal into breakthrough and pain into purpose.

💥 How she rewired her identity after institutional gaslighting
 💥 The truth about forgiveness that sets you free
 💥 Why sharing your scars, not your wounds, changes lives
💥 How to stop performing strength and start living it
💥 The choice that separates survivors from the stuck

This is for every woman who's been silenced, shattered, or sidelined and is ready to rise anyway.

🎧 Listen now if you're done letting pain win.

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If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

Tired of cold DMs, fake funnels, and forced connections?
Mike Ashburner aka The Redneck Connector went from nearly homeless during COVID to building Hounds of Business, a trust-first community flipping the script on traditional sales. In this raw, real conversation, we unpack why spray-and-pray marketing burns out high achievers (like you), and how a single mindset shift “who over how” can transform your business in 20 minutes a day.

Whether you're a founder sick of being fake, or a high-performing woman silently collapsing behind success, this episode will hit deep.

🎯 Topics covered:

• Why you feel like a football player at a baseball game in business
• How “farming” trust beats “hunting” leads
• What happens when you treat clients like relationships, not transactions
• How to find your people—without forcing a brand that isn’t you

This is your permission slip to stop performing, and start connecting.

🔗 Connect with Mike: LinkedIn

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If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

Ever feel like you’re barking up the wrong tree in business?
In this no-fluff conversation, The Redneck Connector Mike Ashburner breaks down how chasing clients (aka “dog-catching”) is burning out entrepreneurs and what to do instead. 

From his $5K positioning strategy to his Four C’s framework (Clarity, Connection, Community, Conversation), Mike unpacks how to build a business that attracts instead of performs.

The biggest mic-drop?
 Rejection isn’t failure it’s self-selection. The right people opt in when you stop pretending.

🎯 What you’ll learn:

• Why your nervous system hates your current marketing strategy
• The $5.3M goal that redefines generational wealth
• How to create authentic brand gravity in just 10 minutes a day
• A free tool to start building trust, visibility, and aligned sales now

🔗 Grab Mike’s 10-minute Engagement Guide and watch your traction grow without selling your soul. Click Here and Download your Guide Now

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If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

What if everything holding you back came down to one belief?

 Celebrity hypnotist and executive coach Tim Shurr joins Rising from the Ashes to share the transformational truth behind anxiety, self-doubt, and chronic worry and why you don’t need years of therapy to heal it.

From an unexpected hypnosis demo in college to over 16,000 sessions with high performers, Tim reveals the real root of suffering:

This episode cuts through surface-level fixes and goes straight to the subconscious stories shaping your success, relationships, and self-worth.

🎯 What you'll learn:

• Why traditional therapy can’t always reach the root
• How “little t” trauma wires lifelong self-doubt
• The moment Tim helped his dad quit smoking on his first try
• Why you’re just one belief away from the life you actually want

💡 This is Part 1 of our 2-part series with Tim. Stay tuned for the exact 3-step process he uses to create lasting breakthroughs in Part 2.

🎧 Listen now and start unlearning the lies keeping you small.

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Support the show

If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

In this powerful follow-up episode, celebrity hypnotist and executive coach Tim Shurr breaks down his One Belief Away™ method a 3-step system that’s helped thousands release fear, rewire self-sabotage, and create lasting breakthroughs.

Through the steps of awakening, releasing, and shifting, Tim helps high performers stop living in fear and start leading from love. Endorsed by Bob Proctor, Les Brown, and Brian Tracy and featured in the upcoming Zero Limits movie this method has produced over 1,000 documented results.

🎯 What you'll learn:

• Why “not good enough” is the root of your patterns
• How to shift your emotional set point for good
• What “playing not to lose” really costs you
• Why healing others might be the key to your own breakthrough

🎁 Grab Tim’s free training vault: practiceamplifier.com/trainingvault
🌐 Learn more: indyhypnosis.com

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Support the show

If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

Former Navy bomb disposal technician Brian Muka reveals the shocking truth about executive burnout, nervous system dysregulation, and trauma recovery that's sabotaging high-performing leaders worldwide.

After experiencing what he calls "the avalanche" losing his military career trajectory in Iraq Brian discovered why leadership burnout, chronic stress, and emotional exhaustion have nothing to do with workload and everything to do with nervous system hijacking .

This episode covers:
• Burnout recovery strategies for overwhelmed executives and entrepreneurs
• PTSD healing techniques including Wim Hof breathwork and cold therapy
• Nervous system regulation methods for high-stress professionals
• Leadership trauma and why successful people crash and burn
• Military transition challenges and finding purpose after service
• Emotional intelligence training for stress management
• Fear management techniques and Brian's "Muka's Law" principle
• Mental health recovery from suicidal ideation to thriving
• Workplace stress solutions and breaking the white-knuckle leadership cycle
• Spiritual awakening and soul-aligned business practices

Keywords: stress management, anxiety relief, leadership development, mental health awareness, trauma therapy, mindfulness practices, resilience training, emotional regulation, peak performance, burnout prevention

Brian's journey from military service member struggling with combat trauma to becoming "The Freedom Sherpa" proves that personal development, nervous system healing, and authentic leadership can transform your relationship with fear, stress, and success.

Perfect for: CEOs, entrepreneurs, military veterans, healthcare workers, first responders, executives, and anyone experiencing chronic stress, leadership fatigue, or high-achiever burnout .

Connect with Brian: LinkedIn | Freedom Sherpa | Nervous system coaching | Leadership consulting

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Support the show

If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

What if everything you've been desperately chasing success, validation, worthiness was already yours by birthright? This mind-bending revelation emerges as the central breakthrough in part two of my conversation with Brian Muka, a former Navy bomb disposal tech turned Freedom Sherpa who spent years trying to outrun his fears through extreme challenges.

Brian's story reads like a cautionary tale for every high-achiever trapped in the validation hamster wheel. "I was trying to prove I wasn't a coward by surfing 10-foot waves, jumping out of airplanes, doing half Ironman races, CrossFit, special operations all of it," he confesses. But the pivotal moment came when he realized this approach was fundamentally flawed: "I can't prove that I'm fearless. It's like the invisible one next to the X in algebra."

This breakthrough shattered everything Brian thought he knew about courage and self-worth. Instead of fighting fear, he learned to dance with it. Instead of proving his value, he discovered it was never in question. Through breathwork, plant medicine journeys, and deep therapeutic work including confronting his relationship with his father Brian made the difficult decision to leave relationships and situations that no longer aligned with his authentic self.

The most powerful moment comes when Brian shares a spiritual metaphor about being asked if he could run the universe keeping the moon at the right distance and every electron in place. This humbling realization led to his life-changing epiphany: "I am already what I seek. I was the whole time, and so are you."

Author of "Your Secret Superpower: Taking Fear to Thrive," Brian candidly shares how his understanding evolved far beyond what he originally wrote. For anyone exhausted from chasing external validation, struggling with imposter syndrome, or trapped in the need to constantly prove themselves, this conversation offers a radical alternative: the recognition of your inherent worth.

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Support the show

If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

Discover how trapped emotions and subconscious programming create self-sabotage patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of burnout, relationship chaos, and financial blocks. Michelle Ward, certified emotion code practitioner and self-sabotage coach, reveals the breakthrough method for identifying which of the five self-sabotage archetypes controls your life and how to reprogram your subconscious mind for lasting transformation.

Through her proven emotion code techniques, Michelle helps you understand how childhood programming from birth to age seven creates limiting beliefs that sabotage your adult success. Whether you're the Adult Child archetype staying small to feel safe, the Fire Starter creating chaos before breakthrough moments, or the Financial Saboteur blocking money flow, this conversation exposes the hidden patterns keeping you trapped.

Learn Michelle's personal transformation journey from health struggles and business failure to breakthrough success using subconscious reprogramming and trapped emotion release. Discover how recognizing your self-sabotage archetype becomes the first step toward breaking free from burnout, healing relationship patterns, and creating the empowered life you've been fighting to build.

Stop being your own worst enemy and start winning with Michelle's proven strategies for subconscious transformation, emotion code healing, and self-sabotage breakthrough techniques that have helped hundreds escape limiting beliefs and step into their next growth zone.

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Support the show

If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com