The ThriveWell Journey | Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Life After Disruption
The ThriveWell Journey: Let’s Make Thriving Our New NormalA transformation podcast for entrepreneurs, leaders, and creators navigating disruption, reinvention, and identity shifts while building something meaningful.Hosted by L. Michael Burt, the show explores entrepreneurship, leadership, and sustainable success through the lens of transformation, identity, and alignment. It is designed for those who have experienced burnout, life disruption, health challenges, career shifts, or internal turning points and are seeking a grounded way to move forward without losing themselves in the process.Through recorded conversations with founders, creators, and change-makers, along with Live Friday sessions called "Friday Night Lives" focused on...
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Healing Is Not a Straight Line: Purpose After Disruption and Entrepreneurial Leadership
<p>In this episode of The ThriveWell Journey, we explore the nonlinear path of healing and its role in entrepreneurial leadership and creating sustainable business success after life disruption. Week 2 of Purpose After Disruption focuses on breaking the illusion that healing should be a straight line, emphasizing that the goal is not to "never feel it again" but to prevent temporary setbacks from dictating your permanent future.</p><p>Join us as we practice naming your current emotional state without turning it into a story, spotting default reaction patterns, and learning to choose your next move intentionally rather than reacting...
Fear Is Fuel: Neuroscience of Fear and Building Courage for Entrepreneurs | Patrick Sweeney
<p>Fear shows up fast, and in entrepreneurial leadership, it can quietly influence decisions if you do not have language for it. In this episode of The ThriveWell Journey, L. Michael Burt sits down with Patrick Sweeney, the “Fear Guru,” to break down the neuroscience of fear, how to build courage on purpose, and how that translates into sustainable business success.</p><p>Patrick shares how fear works in the brain, what an amygdala hijack looks like in real life, and why courage is something you can train through repeated choices. We unpack the fear triangle, why imposter syndrome hits even...
Sustainable Success and Entrepreneurial Leadership After Disruption | Adaku Mbagwu
<p>Entrepreneurial leadership gets heavy when you’ve always been the one carrying everybody. Adaku Mbagwu breaks down the Fixer Identity, overgiving, and how to build sustainable business success after life after disruption.</p><p>L. Michael Burt sits down with Adaku Mbagwu, founder of Healed Hero, to talk about firstborn daughter patterns and why so many high achievers feel responsible for everyone’s emotional world. Adaku breaks down how triggers reveal the story running your mind, why success can still feel hollow, and how meditation, self-awareness, and community support help you rebuild from peace instead of pressure.</p><p>If y...
Alignment as a Practice: Entrepreneurial Leadership and Sustainable Growth in the ThriveWell Journey
<p>Host L. Michael Burt dives deep into entrepreneurial leadership through the lens of alignment as a daily, practical leadership practice essential for sustainable business success and personal growth. Designed for entrepreneurs and leaders navigating life after disruption, this episode explores how heightened self-awareness reveals hidden misalignments and how internal friction serves as valuable data rather than a failure. Michael shares strategies to slow down, recalibrate purpose, and make intentional decisions that support long-term success without burnout. You'll also learn why community plays a crucial role in maintaining consistency, emotional regulation, and identity clarity during times of growth. Tune in...
Dreams as a Compass: Insights on Entrepreneurial Leadership and Personal Growth
<p>Discover why you'll spend 20 years of your life dreaming and how to unlock this untapped roadmap to your purpose with Caleb Matthews, international speaker and dream interpretation expert.</p><p>Learn the DNA of design framework spirit, soul, and body as the triune being, and how "SEELINKS" (moments you miss daily) reveal your true calling. Explore the IYR principle for early years of entrepreneurship renovation. Caleb reveals the three sources of dreams, how to train your subconscious with declarations before sleep, and practical dream journaling techniques.</p><p>Perfect for entrepreneurs burning out from hustle culture, spiritual seekers wanting...
Aligned After Adversity: Entrepreneurial Leadership and Meaningful Change with Keisha Queeley
<p>What do you do when life breaks everything open? In this powerful episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast, we explore entrepreneurial leadership and sustainable business success through the inspiring story of Keisha Queeley, founder of Stocked Up Future. Keisha shares her journey through unimaginable disruption, from losing her husband to navigating financial uncertainty, raising six children, and stepping into alignment with her true purpose.</p><p>This conversation goes beyond money; it’s about identity, resilience, community, and building a future with intention after life’s biggest upheavals. Keisha's story is a compelling example of leadership and thriving in the...
From Force to Flow: Using Quantum Physics to Blow Up Your Old Self & Align to 2026 | Cortney
<p>Discover how to stop chasing the "how" and surrender to the intelligence that beats your heart in this profound conversation with Cortney McDermott, exploring quantum physics, the Dao teaching of non-doing, and aligning to your future self in 2026.</p><p>Learn why relaxation and surrender are more powerful than forced action, how to navigate the back-and-forth between old identity and new nervous system, and the four ways to get ice cream as a framework for understanding forced versus effortless action.</p><p>Cortney reveals the white fire of purification process, probability amplitude alignment, and why you must be willing...
Navigating the In-Between: The Alignment Reset for Entrepreneurial Leadership
<p>In this episode of Friday Night Live, host L. Michael Burt continues the Alignment Reset series with a grounded conversation about entrepreneurial leadership, sustainable business success, and life after disruption.</p><p>This episode focuses on the challenging phase of identity transformation many entrepreneurs and leaders experience when an old way of operating no longer fits, but a new identity has not fully taken shape. L. Michael explores the in-between as a crucial space where familiar identities dissolve and new ways of leading, creating, and living begin to form.</p><p>Rather than framing this transitional period as confusion...
Why 88% of Entrepreneurs Struggle Mentally: David Prosper on Clarity, Purpose & Life by Design
<p>Discover how to break free from confusion and find clarity in this transformative episode featuring David Prosper, a clarity coach who helps entrepreneurs escape mental prisons and live life by design.</p><p>Learn why 88% of entrepreneurs report mental health struggles and 12% cite no purpose or direction, and discover David's powerful C5 Method for moving from the messy middle to breakthrough clarity.</p><p>David shares his journey from Haiti's slums to the projects of Fort Lauderdale, revealing how resiliency, resourcefulness, and resolve became his blueprint for helping entrepreneurs, executives, and individuals in transition design lives of authentic purpose.<...
The Alignment Reset: Realizing Your Life Is Running on Autopilot - Friday Night Live
<p>In this first Friday Night Live of 2026, L. Michael Burt opens the Alignment Reset Series, a live extension of The ThriveWell Journey.</p><p>This conversation is for anyone navigating life after disruption, whether that disruption came through divorce, health challenges, loss, career shifts, or the quiet realization that who you’ve been no longer fits who you’re becoming.</p><p>In this episode, L. Michael speaks directly to the moment many people never name: when life starts running on autopilot. When survival patterns, old stories, and learned responses quietly take over and begin to feel like identity.</p><p...
