Ep 54: What if the grind you're so proud of isn't ambition — but a load you've been carrying so long you forgot you could set it down?

Paul Blanchard is a transformation guide, executive coach, and self-described "concierge to the weird." For over two decades he's been obsessed with one question — what does it actually mean to be fully human? — and he has a gift for shining a light on the exact thing you're most afraid to look at, then loosening it.

In this conversation, Paul dismantles almost everything you've been told about success: why "strike while the iron's hot" kills real change, why your nervous system (not your goals) decides how hard life has to be, and why ease is the bravest, most unreasonable thing you'll ever chase.

A few things we get into:

✔️ The "death by a thousand cuts" trauma most high achievers never name

✔️ Why you're built to love the journey — and wired to be disappointed by the summit

✔️ A definition of freedom that has nothing to do with your bank account

✔️ Why "it's all made up" might be the best news you hear all year

If you've ever sensed there's something fueling your engine you've never been brave enough to look at — press play.

Take Paul's Free Habit Finder Assessment:https://www.wholebodymindset.com/habitfinder

Book Mentioned: The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts: https://a.co/d/0afjukxv

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Ep 53: What does it take to build a brand 40 years in the making?

Matt Westmore — father, husband, and founder of purepixxi — has spent his life inside the jewelry world. He grew up in his family's South African fashion accessories business, traveled with his parents to factories in the Far East from the time he was knee-high, and went on to a corporate career through Ted Baker, MR Porter, and Nike. But it was a series of personal losses — a 20-week pregnancy loss, a redundancy from Nike, and a rare neurological diagnosis that gradually took the use of his dominant hand — that ultimately pointed him toward the brand he was meant to build.

In this conversation, Matt and Sarah go deep on the long road that led to purepixxi— the "Ferrari of kids' jewelry." Born from Matt's own health journey, his four-year-old daughter's coming rite of passage, and decades of watching how the sausage really gets made in the global jewelry industry, purepixxi is a refusal to cut corners on what goes into a child's body — and a quiet challenge to an entire industry built on slogans like "hypoallergenic" that mean almost nothing.

Along the way, they unpack what real mentorship looks like (Matt's dad sounds like Yoda), why a room of entrepreneurs at Funnel Hacking Live cracked something open in him that Nike's smoke machines never could, and how Matt keeps his faith intact through seasons most people would walk away from.

In this episode:

✔️ Why "corporate disposability" is real — and what Matt's father saw a full year before Nike made him redundant

✔️ The truth about 24k vs. 14k vs. 9k gold, and why most kids' jewelry is built on cost-cutting instead of safety

✔️ Why "hypoallergenic" is the "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" of the jewelry industry

✔️ How to choose a mentor when you don't have one, and why life mentors often beat business mentors

✔️ What it looks like to keep building — and keep believing — through grief, redundancy, and a diagnosis you never saw coming

Checkout purepixxi

Books Mentioned:

Overdeliver by Brian Kurtz

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

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Ep 52: What does it look like when a self-described "nobody" — with a 0.3 GPA, a history of excuses, and a speech impediment — becomes the kind of man other men aspire to be?

Chris Farrell is a Jesus-following entrepreneur, marriage advocate, and father of six homeschooled kids. Through his company Revamp Conversations, he helps entrepreneurs who are ridiculously good at what they do gain access to the people who need to know it — using podcasting, relationships, and strategic conversations. But his path here was anything but predictable.

In 2019, God called Chris and his wife Jonna out of their thriving fitness studio. They didn't have a plan. They had obedience. What followed was a season of suffering, near-bankruptcy, COVID, a fourth baby, and eventually — a calling to podcasting that has become the foundation of everything he's building today.

This is one of those conversations that reminds you why this podcast exists. It's not about funnels and frameworks. It's about who you become when you stop building idols and start trusting God's math.

In this episode, you'll discover:

✔️ How Chris went from a 0.3 GPA and the "stupid kid" label to building businesses and leading a family of eight

✔️ What "courageous obedience" actually costs — and why it's always worth it

✔️ Why Chris believes the classic success advice of "one offer, one platform, one year" may be dangerously outdated in the age of AI

✔️ His bold take on whether AI is from God or demonic — and what it's doing to our ability to think, wait, and connect

✔️ Why Chris says the most important thing you'll do today is how your kids feel when they walk in the door

✔️ The concept of "God math" — and why it changes everything about how you approach risk, family, and money

Connect with Chris Farrell:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.farrell.58/

• • Podcasts: https://linktr.ee/PodcastsIhost

  
  

  Connect with Sarah:

• • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahgraceallred