What if the thing keeping you from loving yourself isn't a lack of effort but a belief that you have to earn something that was never actually missing?

Dr. Nicholas Howland is a board certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, author, speaker, and host of the Naked Patient podcast. He has spent his career transforming how people look on the outside - while quietly doing the deepest work of his life on the inside. Excommunicated from his faith twice. Divorced. Rebuilt from scratch. His memoir, The Atheist's Prayer, is about what happens when everything that defined you falls apart and you have to find out who you actually are without any of it.

In this conversation, we go places most podcasts won't.

We talk about why self-love isn't something you create through mantras and retreats - it's something you uncover, because it was never actually gone. Nicholas breaks down what it was like growing up inside the Mormon faith, what it gave him, what it cost him, and what two excommunications taught him about identity, community, and the danger of building your entire self on something outside of you.

Then we get into the stuff that makes this conversation unforgettable. Nicholas opens up about his divorce, the collapse of his identity, and what it actually looks like to rebuild yourself when the faith, the marriage, and the version of you that everyone knew are all gone at the same time. We dig into plastic surgery and the uncomfortable truth he tells his own patients - that no procedure will fix what's actually broken. And we get surprisingly real about what it means to stop waiting for permission to love yourself.

This episode covers:

• Why self-love is intrinsic and why all the mantras are designed to remember it, not create it
• Growing up Mormon - the community, the certainty, and what happens when it stops being enough
• Two excommunications and what they revealed about identity and belonging
• Divorce, collapse, and rebuilding an identity from the ground up
• What a plastic surgeon tells his patients that's terrible for business but true
• The Atheist's Prayer - writing a memoir of gratitude without a faith to lean on
• Permission vs. worthiness and why you don't actually need either
• The fast comparison game - therapy or plastic surgery, perform or exist, and more
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Nicholas is not for everyone. But if you've been waiting for permission to feel worthy or building your identity on something outside yourself and quietly wondering what happens if it disappears - this conversation will challenge you in exactly the right way.

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What if reality isn't something that happens to you - but something that forms around you?

Ra of Earth - performance and consciousness educator, former gym owner, and human capacity expansion coach - has spent two decades going deeper into human psychology and consciousness than most people are willing to go. From playing hockey in Detroit, to building multiple gyms in Los Angeles, to guiding ambitious leaders through nervous system regulation, breath, movement, and conscious awareness - Ra has lived the full arc: physical mastery, inner collapse, and conscious rebuilding.

In this conversation, we go places most podcasts won't.

We talk about why most people aren't actually in control of their lives - they're just running on conditioning they've never questioned. Ra breaks down how to gamify your psychology as a skill set, how emotions like anger and shame are directional signals rather than problems to suppress, and why the physical body is the doorway to everything deeper - not the other way around.

Then we get into the stuff that makes this conversation unforgettable. Ra opens up about his week-long meditation retreat at Mount Shasta - no psychedelics - and what he encountered when he astral projected into the earth. We dig into the Mandela effect, 9-11, the manufactured nature of history, and why pattern recognition matters more than having the right answers. And we get surprisingly real about fatherhood - the identity loss, the triggers it surfaces, co-sleeping, circumcision, and what both Nate and Ra discovered about themselves in those first raw months of being a dad.

This episode covers:

• Whether the average person is truly in control - or just conditioned
• Emotional transmutation - turning anger, shame, and grief into directional signals
• The meditation practice Ra started at 19 and how it rewired his reality
• Mount Shasta: the week-long retreat and what he encountered inside the earth
• The Mandela effect, 9-11, and why history is told by the winners
• Fatherhood - identity loss, patience, co-sleeping, and the transformation nobody warns you about
• Death, heaven, hell, and what happens when we leave this dimension
• The fast comparison game - gym floor vs. meditation room, logic vs. intuition, and more

Ra is not for everyone. But if you've been chasing external success while quietly sensing that something deeper is missing - this conversation will challenge you in exactly the right way.

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What if everything you're doing to get healthy is actually making you sicker?

Troy Casey - known as the Certified Health Nut - has spent 30 years going deeper into human health than almost anyone in the wellness space. From modeling for Versace in Milan, to living with Indigenous tribes in the Amazon as a medicine hunter, to burning himself out building a 1.9 million-follower platform, Troy has lived the full arc: peak performance, collapse, and conscious rebuilding.

In this conversation, we go places most health podcasts won't.

We talk about why hustle culture and biohacking are just Yang dressed up as self-improvement and why the most rebellious health move you can make right now is to slow down. Troy opens up about his own burnout after six years of grinding, what brought him back to a 10-day Vipassana silence retreat, and why he believes the practice of receiving is more powerful than any protocol.

Then we get into the stuff that goes viral for a reason. Troy breaks down urine therapy - what it actually is, where it comes from, and why the people most repulsed by it will swallow a pharmaceutical with 30 side effects without flinching. We also dig into plant medicines: ayahuasca, psilocybin, ibogaine — the difference between ceremonial use and trend-chasing, and what Indigenous traditions understand about consciousness that the Western world is only beginning to grasp.

This episode covers:

• Yin vs. Yang - and what a "yanged out" person looks like in real life
• Why the wellness industry is one of the biggest Yang offenders
• Troy's burnout story and the return to Vipassana
• Urine therapy: the history, the case for it, and the real question it raises about health conditioning
• Psychedelics: intentional use vs. trauma tourism
• Clean air, clean water, clean soil — and where to actually start
• Flow over force as a daily practice, not just a philosophy

Troy is not for everyone. But if you've been optimizing yourself into exhaustion and wondering why you still feel like something's missing - this conversation will challenge you in the right way.

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In this episode, Nate sits down with Miguel Batista - founder of CFS Recovery and someone who went from completely bedridden and dismissed by doctors to running an international coaching company with zero symptoms.

Miguel didn't learn this from a textbook. He lived it. And now he's helped hundreds of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, long COVID, and fibromyalgia get their lives back using nervous system retraining - a approach the traditional medical system almost never offers.

Topics include:

• What chronic fatigue syndrome actually is (and who it hits hardest)
• Why high performers are the most at risk
• How the medical system consistently fails these patients
• The nervous system "glitch" behind CFS, fibromyalgia, and long COVID
• Visualization, identity, and rebuilding from zero
• The one decision that made Miguel's recovery - and his mission - possible

If you or someone you love has been told "your tests are fine" while your body tells you otherwise, this episode could change everything.

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In this episode, Nate sits down with identity coach Daniel Schuler - a man who's worked with over 1,000 people across every walk of life, from 11-year-olds to 73-year-olds, military personnel, nine-figure executives, and professional athletes. Daniel's work is simple on the surface and devastating underneath: he breaks the false narratives keeping people stuck and rebuilds identity from the ground up.

They go deep on why the self-help industry is actually making people worse, where false beliefs are born (spoiler: before age 10), and what it really takes to change - not your circumstances, but yourself.

Topics include:

• Why your problems aren't about discipline or motivation
• How false narratives form in childhood
• Victim vs. victimhood - and the difference that changes everything
• Verbal abuse, relationships, and the psychology of staying
• Identity in athletics, entertainment, and network marketing
• Faith as a framework for lasting transformation

If you've ever felt stuck, like no amount of information or coaching actually moves the needle - this episode is the one you didn't know you needed.

In this episode, Nate Peterman sits down with Sam Thompson - filmmaker, creative director, and founder of Akta Media - to explore what it really means to build a creative business without losing your soul in the process.

Sam brings a Christ-centered perspective to storytelling, agency life, and the growing tension between human craft and artificial intelligence. They dig into burnout, legacy, faith-driven ambition, and what happens when you walk away from a career in the States to start over with a newborn and a renewed sense of purpose.

Topics include:

• Building a creative agency from scratch
• Faith, ambition, and the tension between them
• AI as a tool - and the creatives who'll get left behind
• Fatherhood, legacy, and redefining success
• Moving countries and what it costs you professionally

Whether you're a creator, entrepreneur, or someone navigating the gap between ambition and meaning - this one's worth your time.

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In this episode, Nate Peterman sits down with functional medicine practitioner Dr. Torrie Thompson to explore the deeper causes of chronic illness and Lyme disease.

They discuss the differences between conventional and functional medicine, why healing often takes time, and how lifestyle, the nervous system, and prevention all play a role in long-term health.

Topics include:

• Lyme disease and chronic infections
• Functional medicine vs modern medicine
• Gut health and the nervous system
• Prevention vs treatment
• Longevity and true health

This episode offers practical insight for anyone navigating chronic illness or looking to take control of their health.

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Most founders think scaling from $300K to $800K is just about working harder.

It’s not.

In this conversation, Allan Miles breaks down why this revenue range quietly breaks businesses, and what actually separates founders who stall from those who scale.

We unpack:

• The $300K–$800K revenue trap
• Why hustle stops working at this stage
• The systems most founders delay building
• The psychology shift required to scale
• What elite builders do differently

Allan is a business growth strategist known for helping founders build scalable systems instead of chaotic growth.

If you're building something real, this episode will sharpen your thinking.

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This episode is a reset.

I’m reintroducing the podcast, why I stepped back, and why I’m bringing it back with a completely different intention.

This show is no longer about polished success stories or surface-level motivation. It’s about real conversations, real pressure, real growth, and what actually moves the needle in business, life, mindset, health, and leadership.

In this episode, I break down:

• ​ Why the old version of the podcast no longer fit
• ​ What this new chapter is really about
• ​ Who this podcast is for (and who it’s not)
• ​ What you can expect moving forward

If you’re building something, navigating pressure, or refusing to play small anymore, this podcast is for you.

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