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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Be the Cause When Life Feels Unstable: Faith, Love, Marriage & Purpose
<p>In this Friday Night Live episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast, L. Michael Burt brings back Reagan, Chris Gibson, and Marc Davis for an honest, unfiltered conversation about life, love, faith, friendship, marriage, identity, and the pressure people are carrying right now.</p><p>This episode moves like real life. It starts with old friends catching up, but quickly opens into deeper questions: What changes when you finally become open to love? How do you keep a marriage strong for 24 years? What happens when your children grow up and your home enters a new season? How do you stay...
Why Your Life Looks the Way It Does | Radical Responsibility and Self-Leadership After Disruption
<p>In this Friday Night Live solo episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast, L. Michael Burt breaks down why your life often reflects the choices, beliefs, and tolerations you have been living from, even when the results are not what you want. This is not a conversation about blame. It is a conversation about radical responsibility, self-leadership, and what it means to stop living at the effect of your circumstances.</p><p>If you are navigating disruption, emotional drift, financial pressure, or the painful gap between the life you have and the life you know is possible, this episode will...
Scale vs Grow: If 10X Customers Show Up, Does Your Business Survive? | Kurt Uhlir
<p>A lot of people say “scale” when they really mean “grow.” In this conversation, Kurt Uhlir breaks down the difference in plain language and gives you a simple test that tells the truth fast: If your business got 10X customers tomorrow, would it survive or would it break you?</p><p>We also get into the real-life side of leadership under pressure. How to hear “no” without turning it into rejection. Why documenting what you do is the first step to handing it off. The difference between authoritative leadership and servant leadership, and how leaders shift from controlling tasks to driving o...
Stop Leaking Energy - Human Design, Burnout, and Business Alignment | Stefanie Carlstedt
<p>What if your business does not feel hard because you are doing too little, but because you are building in a way that does not fit who you are?</p><p>In this episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast, L. Michael Burt sits down with Stefanie Carlstedt for a powerful conversation about human design for entrepreneurs, business alignment, burnout, and the invisible ways people leak energy by building from other people’s shoulds.</p><p>This conversation goes deeper than tactics. Stefanie breaks down why so many entrepreneurs feel frustration, resentment, and burnout even when they are doing everything th...
Why So Many High Performers Are Exhausted Beneath the Success | Dr. Jacqueline Campbell
<p>A lot of people have mastered the art of looking fine while carrying far more than anyone can see.</p><p>Dr. Jacqueline Campbell sits down with L. Michael Burt to unpack burnout, trauma, emotional accountability, and the nervous system patterns that keep high performers achieving while still feeling depleted underneath it all.</p><p>This is not a surface-level talk about stress. It gets into what happens when old pain, constant pressure, and survival mode start shaping how you work, lead, and live. For the person who has been producing, pushing, and showing up while peace still feels...
30 Days Later: Recognizing Shifts and Growth in Life After Disruption
<p>In this episode, L. Michael Burt reflects on a 30-day transformational journey that speaks directly to entrepreneurs and leaders navigating life after disruption. Emphasizing entrepreneurial leadership and sustainable business success, he explores the internal shifts that follow periods of upheaval, offering practical questions and exercises to recognize growth, celebrate progress, and sustain ongoing development. Listeners will gain actionable insights to help align their purpose after a disruption and continue to evolve personally and professionally. Tune in to discover how to harness these changes as a foundation for thriving beyond challenges and setbacks.</p><p></p><p>If you have...
Breaking Mental Barriers for Sustainable Business Success | Shane Perry
<p>Entrepreneurial leadership and sustainable business success often hinge on breaking through mental barriers that hold us back. In this insightful conversation, entrepreneur and achievement coach Shane Perry teams up with L. Michael Burt to explore how mindset, disruption, and comfort zones affect our ability to reach goals. Drawing from Shane's three decades of experience building sales organizations and studying high achievers, the episode delves into the psychology of achievement and the importance of embracing disruption as a catalyst for growth and purpose after disruption.</p><p>Whether you're navigating life after disruption or striving to create lasting success, Shane...
Entrepreneurial Leadership After Disruption: Early Cancer Detection & Prevention | Bo Short
<p>Entrepreneurial leadership after disruption. Prevention before tragedy. Early cancer detection. School safety technology. Bo Short. BMRT.</p><p>Bo Short is a plane crash survivor and cancer survivor who now leads BMRT, developing molecular resonance detection technology with life-changing applications in early cancer detection, school safety, and public health.</p><p>This conversation is about what entrepreneurial leadership looks like when the stakes are real. Prevention instead of reaction. Purpose instead of performance. The responsibility of building innovation that could protect children, families, and entire communities, while also changing how disease is detected before it takes hold.</p><p>...
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...
