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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How to Build Real Resilience Under Pressure | Russell Harvey
<p>You can look strong on the outside and still be running on survival underneath.</p><p>Russell Harvey joins The ThriveWell Journey for a grounded conversation about real resilience, leadership under pressure, and what it means to keep moving through change without losing yourself in the process.</p><p>L. Michael Burt and Russell talk through the difference between surviving, coping, and thriving, and why resilience is not just about bouncing back after a hard season. Real resilience is about learning from what happened, getting back up differently, and building the awareness, support, purpose, and energy to move forward...
Follow-Up Systems for Real Estate Business Growth | Adam Olsen
<p>Adam Olsen joins L. Michael Burt to discuss building a real estate business through follow-up systems, abundance, social media marketing, client service, market strategy, and sales discipline. This episode is for entrepreneurs and real estate professionals who need to move beyond ideas and build the structure that turns opportunities into results.</p><p></p><p>KEY TOPICS</p><p>The importance of relentless follow-up in real estate</p><p>Operating with an abundance mindset versus scarcity mindset</p><p>Using social media and video to build brand awareness</p><p>Adapting marketing strategies during market downturns</p><p>The...
Juneteenth and Identity: Freedom Is Declared, But It Must Be Lived
<p>In this Friday Night Live episode, L. Michael Burt uses the meaning of Juneteenth as a powerful entry point into a deeper conversation about identity, freedom, and transformation after disruption.</p><p>This episode answers the question: What does Juneteenth teach us about identity and freedom after disruption? Freedom is not fully lived just because it has been declared. Real transformation happens when the truth reaches your body, changes who you are being, and creates a ripple through your life, family, work, and community.</p><p>Juneteenth reminds us that freedom can be true before it is fully received...
Business Funding for Founders: How to Avoid Bad Capital and Build Smarter | Cole Reifler
<p>Business funding for founders is not just about getting access to money. It is about understanding timing, terms, structure, and whether the capital actually supports the business you are building. L. Michael Burt speaks with Cole Reifler, Founder and CEO of Zenith Group Advisors, about funding decisions, bootstrapping, private credit, alternative lending, and the pressure founders face when their dream needs money.</p><p>This conversation helps entrepreneurs think more clearly about when to seek capital, what to avoid in bad funding offers, and why money should strengthen the business instead of keeping a weak structure alive. Cole also...
Committed But Not Attached: How to Build Your Vision Without Desperation | Caleb Matthews
<p>Things are happening in the world right now and they are occurring as chaos. And in the middle of that, you are trying to build something. Hold a vision. Stay committed.</p><p>But here is the question this conversation is asking. Are you committed or are you gripping?</p><p>There is a difference between commitment and attachment. Commitment is the full yes to the vision, the work, and the people. Attachment is the grip on how it has to look, when it has to arrive, and what it means about you if it does not go the...
Buying Property Without Emotion: Real Estate Strategy, First Homes, and Wealth Building | Hadley Nightingale
<p>Buying property without emotion starts with having a real estate strategy before you make an offer. Hadley Nightingale, founder of New Zealand Property Buyers, joins L. Michael Burt to talk about property investing, first-home mistakes, buyer representation, wealth building, and why strategy matters more than speed.</p><p>Hadley shares how rough early seasons in road trains, mining, and family court shaped his resilience and personal responsibility. He explains why most buyers get the order wrong by looking at houses before understanding their strategy, their financial position, and their long-term goal.</p><p>This conversation covers emotional buying, bad...
How to Stay Calm Under Pressure, Stop Reacting, and Build Resilience | Michael Ostrolenk
<p>How do you build resilience under pressure without pretending stress is not real?</p><p>Michael Ostrolenk joins L. Michael Burt for a practical and deeply grounded conversation on self-awareness, emotional regulation, discipline, internal governance, and what it means to train yourself for real life. Michael brings experience as a marriage and family therapist, master coach, resilience architect, martial arts practitioner, and human performance specialist.</p><p>This discussion moves beyond generic stress management. It explores how pressure shows up in the body, why distraction becomes a way to escape discomfort, how to notice your state before you react...
Mental Resilience Under Pressure: How to Win Today | Joshua Lifrak
<p>Mental resilience is not about pretending pressure is not there. It is about learning to respond rather than react when life, leadership, business, or personal disruption puts you under stress.</p><p>Joshua Lifrak joins The ThriveWell Journey to share mental performance lessons from his work with elite athletes, high-performing teams, and the Chicago Cubs during their historic rise from last place to World Series champions.</p><p>L. Michael Burt and Joshua explore how to define your story, stay present under pressure, build stronger relationships, stop the storm of negative thinking, and reset your mindset through Joshua’s Mi...
How to Pivot in Life After Change and Find Purpose Again | Jeff Seckendorf
<p>How do you know when it is time to pivot in life instead of staying committed to something that no longer fits?</p><p>Jeff Seckendorf joins The ThriveWell Journey for a powerful conversation about pivoting, purpose, aging, reinvention, fun, accountability, and living fully after change. From film and scuba to coaching, endurance cycling, and world-record athletic achievement, Jeff shares what it looks like to keep creating new chapters instead of shrinking into old ones.</p><p>This episode speaks to anyone rebuilding life after disruption, questioning what comes next, or learning how to tell the difference between quitting...
Is Your Money Losing Power? Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Wealth | Eric Runge
<p>Most people are asking whether Bitcoin is risky.</p><p>But the better question is this: do we understand the money we already trust every single day?</p><p>On this episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast, L. Michael Burt sits down with Eric Runge, founder of Veritas Bitcoin Strategies, to talk about Bitcoin, inflation, fiat currency, the U.S. dollar, financial trust, and what people need to understand before making decisions with money.</p><p>This episode is not built on hype, panic, or quick financial promises. It is a grounded conversation about what happens when the cost...
