They Call Me Mista Yu

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

“Fake it till you make it” sounds like motivation, but it can also become permission to live behind a facade. We go straight at the uncomfortable question: when does “confidence” turn into pretending, and when is it actual faith? If you’ve ever told people you’re fine while privately feeling stuck, tired, or unsure, this conversation is for you.

We break down faith vs fake with real-life examples that make faith feel practical, not mystical: a baby crying expecting help, sitting in a chair expecting it to hold, working all week expecting a paycheck. From there, we connect the dots to Hebrews 11:1 and the kind of belief that moves before the proof shows up. We also talk about the crab bucket mindset, why people laugh at big dreams, and how “get real” sometimes just means “stay where you are.”

Then we get honest about modern pressure: social media masks, keeping up appearances, and grind culture that leaves you with “income trickles” and no life left to live. A pawn shop story about a “gold” chain that turns out mostly fake becomes a mirror for our own choices. We even wrestle with Jeremiah 17:9 and why trusting your heart without accountability can be a trap, not freedom.

If you want authentic faith, a clearer sense of purpose, and a plan that matches what you say you believe, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a mirror check, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

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Give the shows a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-call-me-mista-yu/id1535535535

Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

What does entrepreneurship really look like when nobody is editing the story?

Most founder stories are told after everything works out.

The struggle gets cleaned up.
 The mistakes become lessons.
 The difficult years suddenly make perfect sense.

Joshua Griffin isn't telling that version.

Joshua started with nothing—no network, no credentials, and no clear path forward. He worked dead-end jobs while building his first business, sometimes working sixteen-hour days just to keep the lights on.

He taught himself marketing under real commercial pressure, built businesses from scratch, led marketing across multi-million-pound portfolios, and won awards for personal and business growth.

But behind the awards was £35,000 in personal debt.

Then came burnout.

When Joshua started again, he was sleeping in his clothes to avoid the heating bill and selling the contents of his home while building Intrinzi, the agency he now co-founds.

And rather than hiding that chapter, he decided to build publicly.

The wins.

The failures.

The uncertainty.

The reality behind the camera.

In this episode of They Call Me Mista Yu, we talk about:

• What entrepreneurship actually looks like behind the highlight reel
• Building a business with no network or credentials
• The hidden cost of entrepreneurial success
• £35,000 of personal debt and what it taught Joshua
• Burnout and knowing when to rebuild
• Starting again when you're financially and emotionally exhausted
• Why entrepreneurs hide their struggles
• The danger of comparing your reality to someone else's social media
• Resilience versus stubbornness
• What Joshua wishes he knew before starting
• Why starting again doesn't mean starting from nothing
• His upcoming book, Built It. Nearly Lost It. Built It Again.

This isn't an overnight-success story.

It's a conversation about building, nearly losing it, and having the courage to build again.

Because sometimes the most valuable version of your story isn't the one where everything worked.

It's the one where you can honestly say:

"I nearly lost it. And I rebuilt it."

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

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You have a book in you. But does that mean you should write it yourself?

In this episode of They Call Me Mista Yu, I sit down with Marcia Layton Turner, a professional writer, author collaborator, and ghostwriter who has built her career helping business leaders and experts transform their knowledge into nonfiction books.

Marcia's journey into ghostwriting began almost by accident.

After years of writing books for major publishers, she was asked to help an expert in digital marketing turn a collection of notes, ideas, and materials into a finished book.

The project succeeded.

The publisher was thrilled.

And Marcia discovered that what she had been doing had a name: ghostwriting.

Since then, she has collaborated with business leaders and experts to help them organize, shape, and craft books designed not only to share ideas but to create new opportunities—including greater visibility, speaking engagements, business opportunities, and professional authority.

During COVID, Marcia returned to school and earned her doctorate, researching the field of book ghostwriting.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Whether everyone really has a book inside them
• What a ghostwriter actually does
• How experts turn decades of knowledge into a compelling book
• Finding an author's authentic voice
• Why expertise alone doesn't necessarily make a great book
• How books can become business and personal-brand assets
• Why aspiring authors struggle to finish
• The difference between writing a book and building a platform
• Storytelling versus simply sharing information
• How a book can become part of someone's professional legacy

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

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Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Retirement might be one of the biggest lies ever told! Here's why....

The “midlife crisis” story we all know is a punchline: a sports car, a rash decision, a desperate grab at youth. What we see with executive coach and endurance athlete Art Blanchford is something far more honest and far more useful: midlife as a chrysalis, where an old identity breaks down so a truer one can take shape. 

We talk about what happens after you’ve done everything you were told to do: build the career, buy the house, raise the family, collect the wins, then realize you still feel empty. Art shares what it was like to reach the top as a global business executive and then face the uncomfortable question of who he is when the titles disappear. The answer isn’t a new badge of honor, it’s authentic connection with himself, his family, nature, and God, plus the courage to design a life he actually wants to wake up to. 

You’ll also hear a powerful story about partnership and reinvention: moving to Florida to help his wife open her dream coastal tea cafe, and discovering that supporting her vision unlocked parts of his own. Then Art challenges one of the biggest cultural scripts around success and aging, calling retirement a dangerous lie and breaking down the phases many people hit when purpose is missing. 

If you’re in a midlife transition, feeling restless, or questioning what all the achievement was for, this conversation will give you language, clarity, and next steps. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with the question you’re wrestling with right now.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

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Here's another Blast from The Past PERFECT for the time that we're in!

What if the biggest threat to your character is not what you do, but what you choose not to see? We open with a challenge that cuts through noise and timelines: there is a world outside your window, and your life is already connected to it. When we treat homelessness, domestic violence, and suffering in our own communities as “not my problem,” we do not stay neutral, we quietly train ourselves to step over people in need.

We get personal about homelessness in America, including how easy it is to dismiss pain as a statistic, and why “percentage points” are still someone’s family. Then we share lived experiences of being homeless twice: the humiliation of suddenly needing help, the shock of being judged by people who once felt like friends, and the terror of a fire that made seven families lose their homes overnight. That moment also exposes something deeper, the surprising places compassion can come from, and how quickly “their choices” become your emergency.

From there we turn to the way social media can become a twisted kind of hiding place. We ask why we post safe content when things are calm but disappear when justice and responsibility show up. With the story of Adam hiding and the poem “No Enemies,” we explore a tough idea: if you have no enemies and no friction, is it because you are living peacefully, or because you are avoiding the fight that matters?

If you want an honest conversation about human responsibility, empathy, moral courage, and practical service, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review with one action you are willing to take this week.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

What if the strongest man in the room is the one running on empty? We keep meeting men who look “set” on paper, steady career, steady money, steady responsibilities, but who are quietly losing their health, their time, and their joy. This conversation is a direct challenge to the high performance culture that rewards grinding while ignoring the real costs: isolation, strained marriages, disconnection from kids, and men’s mental health slipping behind a tough-guy mask.

We talk about why community is not optional for long-term change and why so many men end up with plenty of acquaintances but no real brotherhood. My guest, Mista Yu, Hosts of the Men’s Roundtable Series and They Call Me Mista Yu, explains how a safe space changes what men are willing to share, and why vulnerability is often the first domino that falls before habits, identity, and relationships start improving. We dig into father wounds, blended family dynamics, and the generational “playbook” that tells men to carry everything alone, including the provider role and the pressure to always be productive.

We also get practical about what change looks like: asking better questions, drilling down past symptoms, building a trusted board of directors in your life, and noticing when “ambition” is actually depression or avoidance. If you’ve been pushing hard and feeling numb, tired, or disconnected, this is your reminder that you don’t have to do it solo.

Subscribe for more conversations on health, performance, and men’s mental health, and if this hits home, share it with a friend and leave a review so more men hear it.

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/drivenforhealth/episodes/Why-Men-Over-40-Need-Brotherhood-More-Than-They-Admit-with-Mista-Yu---142-e3n309a

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

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Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Staying in your hometown can feel safe, but it can also feel like you’re stuck living inside someone else’s story. We sit down with Mark Alcobé, a Barcelonian-born UX and UI designer, professional futsal goalkeeper, improv theater actor, and the host of the Almost Local Podcast, to talk about what happens when you leave home and keep going.

Mark shares the honest version of moving abroad: the excitement, the culture shock, the bureaucracy, the loneliness, and the unexpected ways your identity changes over time. We dig into the idea that relocation isn’t “right” or “wrong” and it isn’t for everyone. Sometimes you move and thrive. Sometimes you move and realize homesickness is bigger than you imagined, and choosing to return is simply choosing what’s healthy.

We also unpack the meaning behind “almost local” and why Mark moved away from labels like “expat.” If you’ve ever felt like you don’t fully belong where you live now and you don’t fully fit back home either, this conversation puts language to that in-between experience and shows why community matters. Mark closes with practical advice for anyone considering a big move: do deeper research than jobs and rent, and make sure you can rebuild the routines and hobbies that keep you grounded.

Subscribe for more conversations like this, share the episode with someone planning a move, and leave a review with your biggest question about starting over somewhere new.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Your identity can look solid from the outside and still feel unfinished on the inside. We sit down with author and entrepreneur Jodi Cowles, a true “Renaissance woman” who has lived more than half of her adult life across seven countries, and we get honest about what that kind of cross-cultural experience does to the way you see people and the way you see yourself. The surprise is how practical her takeaway is: you don’t need a passport to grow. Sometimes the real shift starts when you simply cross town, sit down for lunch, and choose curiosity over assumptions. 

We talk about judgment head-on, including the uncomfortable truth that we all form snap opinions and then call them “discernment.” Jodi shares how living overseas challenged her first impressions and helped her look for bridges instead of arguments, especially in a time when culture feels loud and divisive. Then we pivot into language learning, where pride gets humbled fast, and where the mechanics of communication can reshape how we think about responsibility, blame, and connection. It’s a conversation packed with mindset shifts, but it stays grounded in real life. 

You’ll also hear the story behind Joy’s World, Jodi’s bilingual English-Turkish project created to help her adopted daughter remember her early years and to support families trying to keep a heritage language alive. We close with an inside look at Blue Hat Publishing and Well Told, where Jodi helps first-time authors tell their stories well, avoid publishing scams, and build a professional book they’re proud to hold. If you’ve been craving more joy, more honesty, or a cleaner next step for your own story, press play, then subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

What if the business you built became the thing keeping you from the life you wanted?

In this episode of They Call Me Mista Yu, I sit down with entrepreneur, bestselling author, and founder of Freedom Expert Peter Boolkah to discuss why so many business owners become trapped inside the companies they created.

Peter is the creator of The Hamster Wheel Trap® and author of YOUR BUSINESS SUCKS – Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life. With more than 60,000 coaching hours and over two decades helping founders across the globe, Peter has identified a common challenge:

Entrepreneurs don't fail because they aren't capable.

They struggle because their businesses become dependent on them for everything.

In this conversation, we explore:

• The Hamster Wheel Trap® and why success can become exhausting
• Why founders become the biggest bottleneck in their businesses
• How systems create freedom instead of restriction
• The difference between revenue and true enterprise value
• Building leadership teams that think independently
• Preparing a business for long-term sustainability or exit
• Why entrepreneurial success should create freedom—not consume it

Whether you're a founder, business owner, executive, or someone building something bigger than yourself, this conversation will challenge you to rethink what success should look like.

Get Peter Boolkah's Book "Your Business Sucks":

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H465YQMP

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu 

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

What happens when your life spans cultures, continents, motherhood, music, adversity, and advocacy?

In this episode of They Call Me Mista Yu, I sit down with Kneet, a Thai Sikh–Punjabi independent recording artist, songwriter, storyteller, advocate, and founder of Protect Children NY.

Born and raised in Bangkok and now based in New York, Kneet has built a creative career around storytelling and lived experience. Her music blends pop, hip-hop, soul/R&B, and cinematic storytelling while exploring identity, love, survival, motherhood, and transformation.

Her breakout single “RISE” reached #1 on the Apple Music video charts and appeared on a Times Square billboard. Now, her newest single, “Bangkok to New York,” tells the story of her journey from Thailand to New York and the experience of building a life between cultures.

But music is only part of Kneet’s story.

With a Master’s Degree in Developmental Psychology and lived experience navigating family court, she founded Protect Children NY, an advocacy initiative focused on child protection, coercive control, psychological abuse, and family court reform.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Growing up between cultures and finding identity
• The journey from Bangkok to New York
• Using music as a form of storytelling and healing
• Motherhood and resilience
• Child development and family systems
• The psychological impact of family conflict
• Finding your voice after feeling unheard
• Turning difficult experiences into advocacy
• The connection between creativity and personal transformation
• How pain can become purpose

Kneet’s story is ultimately about voice—the voice we discover through creativity, the voice we reclaim after adversity, and the responsibility we sometimes feel to speak for those who aren’t being heard.

Connect With Kneet / Support Protect Children NY

Protect Children NY:
https://www.change.org/ProtectChildrenNY

Her “Bangkok to New York” release on August 14, 2026.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

Book your interview today: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/theycallmemistayu

Give the shows a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-call-me-mista-yu/id1535535535

Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you! 

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu