Some episodes are meant to be listened to.This one is meant to be felt.

In this special session from the Wake Up Call Live Wellness Series, I’m joined by Alex Easby, a mental performance coach from Dreamfuel, for a guided breathwork journey and visualization. You’ll drop into your body, calm the noise, and reconnect with that quiet strength that so often gets buried under the grind.

The next free Live Wellness Series session is December 3rd 2025 at 9AM PST.

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Some conversations leave you thinking long after they end. This was one of them.

Andy and I get into healing, ego, and the messy, beautiful process of self-discovery. We explore how trauma can become a teacher, how love and community can bring us home, and what it means to move from transactional spirituality to something more grounded and human.

It’s a conversation about slowing down, feeling what you’ve buried, and learning to hold both pain and peace at the same time.

Heads up: this episode includes discussion of trauma, including sexual abuse.

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I’m recording this from a tiny plywood room in Dengboche, six days into a trek through the Himalayas. No Wi-Fi. No distractions. Just mountains, movement, and a lot of quiet time to think.

This solo episode is a meditation on what we chase, what we call success, and how those definitions shift from 14,000 feet. I share lessons from locals entrepreneurs who are redefining what it means to build something meaningful, reflections on giving and legacy, and a few reminders from the trail that hit deeper than expected.

If you’ve been running fast in a world that rewards accumulation, I hope this invites a different pace.

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There’s a version of us that knows how to perform. That knows how to keep it together, lead from the front, and show up like everything’s fine. But at some point, that version breaks.

In this episode, I sit down with Ally Maz to talk about her early success as a movement teacher and founder to confronting parts of herself she used to hide, Ally opens up about shadow work, grief, embodiment, and what it really means to come home to your body.

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This one’s personal.

After years of chasing, I hit a wall. The momentum I built started to feel heavy. Burnout set in. And for the first time in a long time, I stopped.

This episode is about what I found in that stillness. A psychedelic journey that opened something in me. A slow process of rethinking how I show up in the world. What I believe. What I value. What I’m letting go of.

If you’re in the middle of your own shift, this one’s for you.

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Nirosha Methananda spent years behind a high-performance mask. A child of Sri Lankan immigrants in Australia, she learned early how to hold it all together, to outperform, to prove. And she did. Leading global marketing teams across SaaS and AdTech. Unlocking millions in pipeline. Building her name in the space. But behind the resume was another story.

In this episode, Nirosha opens up about the fear, pressure, and pain that shaped her drive. About the abuse she endured. About the inner voice that told her she might not make it. What followed was a long process of unlearning. Of peeling back the layers. And of rebuilding a new definition of success that was rooted in self-trust, not survival.

This one goes deep. It’s not about marketing. It’s about identity, resilience, and finally letting go of the need to prove.

Heads up: this episode includes discussion of mental and physical abuse.

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At 31, Michael King was behind the bar, not behind a desk. Life looked different then. The seizures came out of nowhere. No one could explain them. And for a while, he tried to ignore what was happening. But denial has a shelf life.

This episode traces the quiet pivot that followed through diagnosis, surgery, reinvention, and the slow grind of starting over. From bartending to breaking into recruiting, to launching his own firm in his 50s. We talk about the identity shifts no one sees coming, the stories men are taught to bury, and what happens when you stop pretending you’re fine.

It’s not about resilience for the sake of it. It’s about what becomes possible when you let people in.

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Townsend Wardlaw shares his story of rising to entrepreneurial success, facing personal crisis, and then losing everything. His net worth. His marriage. His health.

This episode is about the interplay between creation and destruction that shows up in high performers. The way early programming shapes beliefs, behaviours, and the silent rules we live by. The invisible operating systems that run in the background, built in childhood, optimized for survival.

We talk about the rise, the breakdown, and the aftermath. The hard truth that success doesn’t always mean safety. And the deep, sometimes painful process of excavating some of these personal rules or beliefs to create a more flexible and fulfilling life.

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What if the success story wasn’t a story at all? What if it was just survival?

In this episode, Antonio Zivanovic shares what it took to build a career in strategy, brand, and venture capital while carrying the weight of a childhood shaped by instability and fear. But this isn’t a playbook. It’s a reflection. On resilience. On repression. And on what gets buried when performance becomes protection.

We talk about becoming a provider at thirteen, the identity crisis that followed burnout, and the long-overdue work of healing after a life spent chasing the next level.

This one is about more than career. It’s about confronting the past that shaped you, and finally choosing to live with both eyes open.

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Anna Heiny spent her life chasing the dream: national championships, Olympic trials, a pro contract with the Boston Athletic Association. Then the dream landed... and it didn’t feel like she thought it would.

In this episode, we unpack what happens when the path you’ve worked your whole life to walk suddenly stops feeling right. Anna opens up about the quiet courage it took to step off that path, come home, and rebuild her relationship with running, success, and self-worth.

We talk identity diversification, the link between physical pain and emotional stress, and the tools that helped her re-center. Gratitude. Breathwork. Visualization. And above all, the discipline to show up for the version of you that hasn’t fully arrived yet - but is trying.

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