At 32, Ian Bowen woke up from spinal cord surgery paralyzed from the chest down and was told he’d never run again. Thirteen years later, he ran a marathon.

In this episode, Ian shares his spinal cord injury recovery story, the “watch me” mindset that carried him, and his RINSE framework for resilience, journaling, and intuition. If you’ve ever been told “you can’t,” this will remind you that you’re far more powerful than you think.

In 2009, Ian Bowen‘s life took a dramatic turn when he was diagnosed with neurosarcoidosis. A rare disease that left him needing spinal cord surgery that caused him to be paralyzed from the chest down.


At just 32, with two young children and a promising career, doctors told Ian he would never run again. But instead of accepting defeat, Ian chose to defy medical expectations through sheer willpower, determination, and what he calls Positive Persistence. 

His rehabilitation journey was grueling, requiring him to relearn basic tasks like sitting up and standing. With every small victory, Ian's mindset strengthened, leading him to create the RINSE Methodology: Remember, Imagine, Notice, Shift and Expect-  a framework he now uses to inspire others to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds.

In 2022,Ian achieved what doctors thought impossible—he ran his first of two marathons, a testament to the power of mindset.



Ian's story is not just about survival; it's about thriving despite the odds. His experiences offer hope and inspiration to anyone facing obstacles, proving that with the right mindset, anything is possible.

As the founder of “Positive Persistence” it has become Ian’s mission to teach others how to overcome adversity, rise beyond their challenges, comeback from setbacks and achieve the unthinkable by realizing their potential and developing a Watch Me Mindset.

Chapters:

00:00 The Journey of Resilience

03:10 Defying Limitations and Embracing a New Identity

06:03 The Power of Mindset in Overcoming Adversity

08:58 Finding Strength in Past Experiences

11:44 The Role of Support and Accountability

14:28 Navigating Grief and Acceptance

17:14 Daily Practices for Inner Strength

23:46 Navigating Grief and Acceptance

27:23 The Power of Acceptance and Moving Forward

30:30 Mindset and Decision-Making in Recovery

33:43 Finding Gratitude Amidst Adversity

36:49 Physical Activity as a Pathway to Emotional Clarity

39:15 The RENTS Methodology for Personal Growth

45:59 Building Resilience Through Adversity

47:54 Harnessing Intuition from Past Experiences

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MIT engineer and Radical Product Thinking author Radhika Dutt joins me to unpack why goal-chasing, KPIs, and efficiency culture are breaking our creativity, intuition, and leadership. We talk about product vision, innovation, AI’s impact on humanity, burnout, and how curiosity and reflection create better teams, better products, and a more meaningful life.

Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter which has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. The methodology she introduced in her first book is now used in over 40 countries. She is an entrepreneur, speaker, and product leader who has participated in five acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator), and does consulting and training for organizations ranging from high-tech startups to multinationals on building radical products that create a fundamental change. Radhika has built products in a wide range of industries including broadcast, media and entertainment, telecom, advertising technology, government, consumer apps, robotics, and even wine. She graduated from MIT with an SB and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering, and speaks nine languages.

Radhika is now working on her second book – it’s about why goals and targets backfire and what actually works.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Engineering and Entrepreneurship

03:40 The Challenges of Founder Mode

06:31 The Importance of Vision Statements

09:19 Radical Product Thinking and Authenticity

11:47 Balancing Personal Vision and Survival

13:44 The Toxic Drive of Being the Best

16:22 Soul Surplus vs. Soul Debt

19:10 Curiosity in Problem Solving

28:59 Curiosity-Driven Problem Solving

33:38 The Shift from Evaluation to Development

38:35 Intuition vs. Intellect in Leadership

44:04 The Dangers of AI and Commoditization of Labor

47:12 Human Connection in a Tech-Driven World

55:08 Reflection as a Tool for Change

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Traver Boehm is the author of the books Today I Rise, Man Uncivilized and 28 Days In Darkness. He’s a two-time TEDx speaker, men’s coach, and the founder of the Uncivilized Men’s Movement. He’s helped men all over the world to become Uncivilized as they wake up to the power of their hearts, the brilliance of their bodies, and the wisdom of their souls so they can blaze their own path by uniquely blending both the primal and the divine within them.

Most recently, Traver completed an extraordinary 49-day dark retreat and released his latest book chronicling his first such journey, 28 Days In Darkness.

He is dedicated to doing his part to help end the suffering in men, and the suffering caused by men, by guiding them through their own journey into an actualized version of masculinity.

In this powerful conversation, Traver Boehm, founder of Man Uncivilized and author of 28 Days in Darkness, joins me to explore the crisis and rebirth of modern masculinity. We talk about shadow work, men’s mental health, trauma healing, emotional intelligence, nervous-system regulation, and the midlife search for purpose.

Traver shares what he learned from spending 49 days in total darkness—and why the greatest challenge a man can face isn’t an Ironman race or a business empire, but the courage to meet himself. Together, we unpack the confusion between men and women in the post-MeToo era, the cost of numbing through achievement, and how reconnecting to feeling, presence, and authenticity brings life back into full color.

If you’ve ever wondered why success feels empty, why relationships feel like war zones, or why modern men feel lost, this episode is your invitation to return home to yourself.

Chapters:
00:00 The State of Masculinity and Femininity
07:07 The Impact of COVID and Social Movements
13:03 Navigating Relationships in a Changing World
18:51 Understanding Male Desire and Safety
24:33 The Role of Men in Modern Society
29:48 Lessons on Safety and Vulnerability
32:38 Understanding Sexual Needs and Desires
37:03 The Impact of Masculinity on Relationships
41:15 The Call to Action for Men
46:35 The Importance of Being Known
53:06 Facing Fear and Embracing Darkness
56:59 Reliving Trauma: The Somatic Experience
58:09 The Dark Retreat: Confronting Inner Demons
01:02:50 The Power of Darkness: Insights and Resilience
01:08:20 The Journey Within: Discovering the Soul
01:14:00 The Illusion of Significance: Embracing Insignificance
01:18:13 Man Uncivilized: Building Community and Connection

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Katie Deming, MD, is an integrative oncologist, inventor, and TEDx speaker who is redefining cancer prevention, treatment, and healing. After two decades as a radiation oncologist and healthcare leader, Katie shifted to a holistic practice that helps clients detoxify and nourish their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies in order to activate their innate ability to heal. Her passion for bridging the power of science with holistic health has led clients to remarkable outcomes, including tumor shrinkage, remission of advanced cancers, and avoidance of invasive treatments.

Dr. Katie's practice is centered on prolonged, supervised water fasting with metabolically appropriate refeeding protocols. She leads group fasting programs designed to foster community support, metabolic healing, and profound emotional and spiritual transformation.
 
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Katie Deming, a former radiation oncologist who walked away from a long medical career after a shared death experience reshaped her understanding of illness, intuition, and the purpose of life. She now helps people heal holistically—emotionally, physically, and spiritually—through integrative oncology and prolonged water fasting.

We talk about what true healing really means, how emotions like unworthiness and self-betrayal manifest in the body, and why so many people nearing the end of life regret not living authentically. Dr. Deming shares powerful stories of clients who’ve experienced radical remission and inner transformation by turning inward, slowing down, and reconnecting with their intuition.

This conversation dives into the intersection of science and spirit, Western medicine and emotional truth. Whether you’ve faced illness yourself or are simply curious about the mind-body connection, this episode will open your eyes to a new understanding of healing, authenticity, and the intelligence within your own body.

Chapters: 
00:00 The Journey from Oncology to Integrative Healing

05:53 Lessons from the Dying: Living Authentically

10:38 Intuition and Cancer: A Radical Shift in Perspective

15:05 Healing vs. Eradication: Understanding Illness as a Message

19:36 The Role of Emotions in Cancer and Healing

24:22 Reconnecting with Humanity in Medicine

28:31 The Disconnect Between Doctors and Intuition

30:48 Compassion for Medical Professionals

33:20 The Flaws in the Medical System

35:17 The Challenge of Acceptance

37:19 The Crisis of Awareness

39:23 The Role of Fasting in Healing

47:11 Spiritual Awakening Through Fasting

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Jamie Sarche’s calling is helping people be less afraid of death. By arranging for families to provide their loved ones with a planned and funded funeral or memorial service, she creates a path for bereavement, long before it's needed. And by facing their mortality, her clients can live better, more meaningful lives.

As a seasoned speaker, Jamie brings deep experience in death care to a broad range of audiences around the country, sharing insights and approaches on how to have those difficult conversations and how to address sensitive issues. Extending well beyond death and dying, Jamie’s message resonates across industries and individuals, bridging my passion to demystify death while enlightening communicators on overcoming challenging conversations.

Most of us don’t want to talk about death. We stuff our grief down, we skip the rituals, and we pretend “time heals all wounds.” My guest, Jamie Sarche, believes the opposite: that facing death and grief is what actually helps us live more fully.

In this conversation, Jamie and I dive into how to grieve in real life (not the tidy version we see in movies), the role of funeral planning as a gift to your family, and why traditions like sitting Shiva, green burial, or even just sitting with someone in pain matter so deeply. We also talk about death anxiety, what happens when we avoid grief, and how avoiding those conversations keeps us disconnected from our intuition and each other.

This episode is raw, authentic, and—strangely—life-affirming. If you’ve ever wondered what to say to someone who’s grieving, how to talk about death with your kids, or how to honor loss without numbing, this one’s for you.

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Decision making can be exhausting when it’s fueled by overthinking, endless pros and cons, or the fear of making the wrong choice. In this Monday Muse, I share how to move beyond decision paralysis by tapping into your intuition and making choices from a deeper, more authentic place.

I talk about the difference between ego-driven decisions and intuitive ones, how to check in with your body instead of just your mind, and why aligned decision making creates confidence, clarity, and authentic leadership. I also share the story of leaving my family business—a terrifying but transformative choice that didn’t make sense on paper but changed everything.

If you’re ready to stop second guessing yourself and start trusting your inner knowing, this episode will show you how.

Chapters:
00:00 Transforming Decision-Making: A New Approach

04:54 Getting Clear On What You Want

06:51 The Role of the Body in Decision-Making

08:08 Practicality in Decision Making

08:50 Balancing Practical Factors with Inner Knowing

11:09 Taking Responsibility for Outcomes

12:33 Making Decisions from Authentic Power

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Authentic leadership isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about vulnerability, emotional intelligence, and the courage to be real. For decades we’ve been taught that good leaders are unshakable, but that lie keeps us exhausted, disconnected, and stuck in performance mode.

In this episode of the Monday Muse, I share why pretending confidence drains your energy, how ego-driven decisions create burnout, and why radical self honesty is the foundation of genuine leadership. You’ll learn how to shift from performing to living awake—building trust, resilience, and deeper connection with yourself and those around you.

If you’re tired of performing strength and ready to lead with authenticity, this conversation is your reminder that the leaders people want to follow are the ones who show up as human first.

Chapters: 
00:00 The Lie That Keeps Us Stuck

07:43 The Cost of Performance

15:57 Awakening to Authenticity

21:05 Surrendering to the Process

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Alexa Brascetta is a CFP® with more than 22 years of experience in the financial services world. As the founder of Aligned Wealth Strategies, she is on a mission to help people align their core values with their money goals and bring the values of partnership, honesty, education, fun, and empathy into her work. A graduate of Texas Woman’s University with a degree in finance, Alexa has obtained her CLU® (Chartered Life Underwriter designation) and her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation.

Alexa is a Colorado native, married to a first responder and is raising two daughters. She is a lifelong learner and an avid reader, and despite living in Colorado, the beach is her happy place. 

Grief, financial anxiety, and perfectionism don’t just happen in the background—they are the quiet engine driving our lives—unless we wake up. In this episode, I talk with Alexa Brascetta, CFP® and founder of Aligned Wealth Strategies, about how loss shaped her path, what it means to listen to the quiet tug of intuition, and why success without alignment still feels empty. We dive into post-traumatic growth, the shame cycle, and the pressure on breadwinning moms to hold it all together, even when it’s breaking them inside. 

This is a raw, honest look at how grief can shake you awake, how financial planning becomes powerful when it’s values-based, and how letting go of perfectionism creates the kind of clarity and peace we’re really after.

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Amy Budden, known as the “loving neurohacker” where heart and mind combine, and creator of The Magic Nap™, empowers clients to reshape their minds for success. From Hollywood actors to Fortune 500 CEOs, and even royalty, she has guided thousands of  individuals to script their own narratives using visualization, hypnosis, and embedded frequency to hardwire desired outcomes. Amy's expertise lies in scientifically validated methodologies that unlock the latent potential of the brain and heart coherence, enabling individuals to rewrite limiting beliefs, activate health and healing and forge new pathways to joy, love, abundance. This signature technique facilitates a profound and effortless meditative state to recalibrate emotional equilibrium and health that are solidly rooted in the mind/body.

In this episode, we dive into how guided meditation, hypnosis, and brainwave training can rewire the mind for healing, stress relief, and intuition.

Amy shares the story of her daughter’s miraculous recovery, how the power of belief and subconscious reprogramming can transform health, and why heart coherence meditation is one of the most effective tools for resilience. We talk hypnotherapy for anxiety, fertility, and cancer care, plus the science behind Joe Dispenza meditations, brainwave states, and neuroplasticity.

If you’ve ever wondered how to move from stress and fear into trust, love, and effortless healing — this conversation is for you.

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Why ‘Morality Divides’ Keeps You Stuck: Healing Hate & Finding Conscience. Our judgments—especially the righteous ones—keep us divided, drained, and disconnected from peace. I share the story of a podcast pitch that stopped me in my tracks, not because the writing wasn’t brilliant (it was), but because its final line revealed just how easily certainty turns into separation.

This isn’t about politics or taking sides. It’s about something deeper: how hate—no matter how justified we think it is—remains hate. And when we fight hate with more hate, we become the very thing we despise. In this episode, I explore the difference between morality (which divides) and conscience (which unites), why our nervous systems push us toward judgment, and how leaders like Michael Singer and Gabor Maté model another way.

At its core, this episode is about the choice each of us has: to keep fueling division, or to practice the harder, humbler path of presence, compassion, and conscience—even in the face of pain and injustice.

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