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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The Alignment Reset: Realizing Your Life Is Running on Autopilot
<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...
From Surviving to Thriving: Align With Your Future Self & Break Free From Old Patterns | S1 Finale
<p>🔗When who you were no longer matches who you are becoming, this is your reset point. The Alignment Reset helps you realign with your future self and move forward with clarity. https://bit.ly/AlignmentReset </p><p>Discover how to separate experience from meaning and align with your future self in this transformative Season 1 finale of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast. L. Michael shares three powerful principles for becoming your aligned self right now, not in 2026. Learn why feelings aren't instructions, how to choose orientation over reaction, and the critical practice that makes alignment sustainable. If you've ever experienced yourself as...
Spiritual Awakening & the Ego with Christian De La Huerta: From Trauma to Conscious Leadership
<p>Discover the transformative journey of Christian De La Huerta, author and spiritual teacher, who fled communist Cuba and overcame deep self-hatred to become a leading voice in conscious leadership and personal empowerment.</p><p>In this raw, emotional conversation, Christian reveals how understanding the ego mind is the key to authentic transformation, why most people live from a "baseball in a stadium" perspective, and how breathwork can permanently clear decades of trauma.</p><p>Learn why traditional therapy often fails, how to stop living from survival mode, and the two constants that appear in every one of Christian's transformational...
Rewire Your Subconscious After Life Disruption and Reclaim Your Purpose | Dr. Grant Kruhly
<p>In this mind-expanding conversation, Dr. Kruhly reveals how your subconscious holds 10 quadrillion bits of information by age seven, invisible programs that may be sabotaging your success, relationships, and well-being. He explains why the brain is actually an antenna (not where the mind lives), how to establish a real relationship with the divine, and the three fundamentals of manifestation: frequency, duration, and intensity. </p><p>Discover the "I AM" state of enlightenment, how to use morphic field physics to heal collectives in real-time, why grace is the ultimate manifesting tool, and practical steps to communicate with your divine guide.Plus...
The Hidden Cost of Success: Why High Performers Burn Out
<p>Join me on The ThriveWell Journey podcast as Monique Gibson shares her powerful transformation from military veteran and Pentagon employee to purpose-driven entrepreneur. </p><p>After 20+ years navigating toxic corporate environments, surviving two devastating layoffs, and battling the "angry black woman" stereotype in the workplace, Monique discovered that working harder wasn't the answer—healing was.</p><p>In this raw conversation about corporate burnout, workplace discrimination, toxic leadership, and sustainable entrepreneurship, Monique reveals how executive coaching, self-reflection, and letting go of perfectionism helped her rebuild relationships with her family, escape the hustle culture trap, and create a thriving consulting bu...
97% of Women Entrepreneurs FAIL Within 5 Years—Here's Why & How to Break the Cycle
<p>Discover why 97% of Black women-owned businesses fail within 5 years and how to break the cycle. Lynette from Women of Color in Business Podcast shares transformative strategies for building wealth while maintaining joy and health. Learn about compassionate accounting, money trauma healing, and why hustle culture is destroying Black women entrepreneurs.</p><p> In this powerful conversation, we explore:</p><p>✅ The hidden 97% failure rate of Black women-owned businesses </p><p>✅ How money trauma sabotages business growth </p><p>✅ Breaking generational cycles around wealth building </p><p>✅ Radical self-love as a business strategy </p><p>✅ Why "sleep when I'm dead" mentality...
How Artists Win: Discipline, Focus & Ownership | Choice Skinner
<p>Register for our workshop now! - https://thethrivewelljourneywebinar.com/</p><p></p><p>This episode dives deep into the real blueprint behind creative discipline, sustainable success, and long-term growth for artists, actors, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs.</p><p>We explore how treating your creative path like a business and your purpose like a mission transforms your entire career. Choice Skinner, a Brooklyn-born actor, director, entrepreneur, and martial artist with over 25 years in the industry, shares powerful insights on focus, longevity, ownership, and representation.</p><p>We break down how martial arts–level discipline helps you thrive in competitive spaces, how so...
Stop Waiting to Get Rich — Scott Yamamura Shares the Rules That Change Everything
<p>In today’s powerful conversation, Michael sits down with financial educator Scott to break down the real truths about money—truths most people never learn until it’s too late.</p><p>If you think you should “wait until you're older” to get serious about your finances… you’re already losing. Scott reveals the three financial epiphanies that every entrepreneur, creator, and young professional must understand:</p><p>💡 How money can double every 10 years</p><p>💡 Why your 20s give you a power of 16</p><p>💡 How your multiplying power cuts in half every decade</p><p>💡 Why funding your purpose—not the grind...
Ray Martin on the 6 Happiness Rules That Transform Your Life
<p>What if everything you thought would make you happy—the corner office, the awards, the successful marriage—suddenly disappeared? Award-winning CEO Ray Martin faced this exact crisis at 44, losing his business partner (who was also his wife), his father, and his entire identity in one devastating wave. What started as a 6-month sabbatical turned into a 14-year adventure across Thailand, Australia, the Himalayas, and beyond—completely reshaping his understanding of success, happiness, and what it means to live authentically. </p><p>In this powerful conversation, Ray shares: </p><p>✅ The #1 Regret of the Dying (and how it changed everything for him...
Breaking Illusions on The ThriveWell Journey: Cristiano Colla on Purpose, Shadow Work & Spiritual Growth
<p>Cristiano Colla shares how losing identity through Ayahuasca led him to authentic success, shadow work, and deep spiritual healing.</p><p></p><p>What happens when you stop performing for approval and start living from your soul?</p><p>In this powerful episode of The ThriveWell Journey, Cristiano Colla shares his journey from chasing physical perfection as a semi-professional football player and personal trainer to surrendering everything he thought defined him and finding truth through Ayahuasca, shadow work, and authentic self-integration.</p><p>After years of living for validation, Cristiano’s awakening in the jungles of Peru cracked open hi...
