Could your greatest treasure be sitting right under your nose? Mine did, but I needed the wilderness to give me the lens to finally see it. Chad shares a story that illuminates this odd, but game-changing truth, in this episode.

Excerpt: "Everyone seems to be foregoing their purpose, out of fear, to sufficiently perform for a crowd of people who would actually be far more “entertained” and inspired by the daring, energetic, relentless pursuit of something authentic."

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

This chapter is about choosing which conqueror you will become in life -- the one who ignores all else to win the battles of life, or the ones who cherishes his internal victories, even if it means losing the exterior ones.

Two years into entrepreneurship, Chad reached a crossroads and was given that very choice. Hear which conqueror he chose to be and why.

Excerpt: "Our external pursuits of worldly accomplishments influence us to prepare for battle, sharpening our swords and mapping our attack formations, but the fiercest armies we face are actually inside of us, and our feats on the material battlefield seem to only somewhat correlate with our more hidden, more prized advances and accomplishments."

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

During Chad's stint in the wilderness, he tried to turn back to his former life of Fortune 500 management consulting multiple times for reprieve and familiarity. Despite him comfortably walking through them before, they shut each time, to his shock.

This chapter unpacks, in retrospect, Chad's learned "why" behind those "failures."

Excerpt: "That’s the battle – the battle between our two selves. The muddy, bloody tug-of-war between who we know we can become and who the world wants us to settle to be. The battle between stable and sensational; between predictable and purposeful; between good and great."

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

This chapter is about the hidden blessings of having lacking clarity around our ultimate plans and purposes.

Excerpt: "Perhaps each summit is really purposed to prepare us for the next one, regardless of whether we reach the first."

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

Are you a slave?  I am.  

We all are, whether our master is money, sex, acceptance, success, or something else.

Seasons of hardship exposure how unworthy masters and truer paths. That is what entrepreneurship did for Chad -- he shares in this episode.

Quote from book: "And so the question is not whether we’re slaves -- captured stallions forced to submit to a system we didn’t design -- but rather, who our master is and whether we trust them."

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

Our selfish nature leads us to suffocate the small things, yes, but even the most altruistic ideas we have -- ones geared to help others.  

My season in the entrepreneurial wilderness taught me (painfully) the punishment of letting this happen and how to prevent our selfishness from sucking the life out of our greatest ideas.  

Hint: We accept that they were never ours to own. 

Enjoy!

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

Have you ever felt that your best ideas start small, but often grow into ugly beasts that haunt your home and steal your sleep?

Ah, yes, the creative dilemma. Can we harness and channel our creativity without it engulfing our lives, stifling our ability to turn ideas into reality?

Chapter 6 is all about keeping our ideas simple and "slayable," just as Disney movies keep their villains.

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

When we hustle to build the ideas we love, there are undoubtedly times of thirst and exhaustion.

And as we approach the waters of community -- "nature's mirror" -- we see ourselves as we truly are.

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

Many launch into entrepreneurship in pursuit of purpose. That is okay; that is how I found mine.

But the mistake I made was leaving my survival skills behind. I was too obsessed with the "new" to leverage my "talents of old" to succeed within it.

The fourth chapter of my book focuses here -- this episode breaks it down. Enjoy!

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE.

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.

Our culture encourages us to publicly express our targets as if they’re already attained in hopes of convincing others to “follow” (or even pay) us. 

Chad pulls from his personal experience in entrepreneurship to explain how this is a trap and a time-suck.

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This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE. 

More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com.