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What if the thing you call “ambition” is actually an old survival pattern with a really good résumé?Dr. Mel Krug told me...
10/01/2026

What if the thing you call “ambition” is actually an old survival pattern with a really good résumé?

Dr. Mel Krug told me something on the podcast that I have been thinking about ever since.

Every time a patient stopped care or someone left her business, she would get ANGRY.

At them. At herself. At her team.

Which didn’t make sense. She was a successful business owner. She knew people leave. She understood all of this intellectually.

So why was her body reacting like something terrible had happened?

Eventually, she traced that reaction all the way back to being a little girl in her childhood home. Her parents were fighting upstairs, her dad left, and she was terrified he wasn’t coming back.

Years later, someone leaving her business could still trigger the same message:

Someone left. I’m unsafe.

Oooof.

It made me wonder how many things we’ve learned to call ambition, perfectionism, control, independence, or being “really driven” have a completely different story underneath them.

Mel said something else that got me:

“Pride on the external is often driven by inner shame.”

And THAT is a conversation I’m interested in.

Because you can build a wildly successful life while being driven by something you’ve never actually stopped long enough to examine.

Dr. Mel Krug and I went there in this episode of EPIPHANIES: the weird intersection of trauma and entrepreneurship, what our nervous systems bring into our businesses, rejection, obsessive goal setting, faith, surrender, and the question that may matter more than the next goal:

Who are you becoming while you build it?

Episode 11 is out now. If any part of this made you go, “Oh crap, I do that,” I think you’ll love this conversation.

09/25/2026

People love the “suddenly.”

Suddenly the business takes off. Suddenly someone makes the big move. Suddenly they launch the thing, leave the job, change their life, and everyone watching thinks, “Wow. That happened fast.”

Except it usually didn’t.

Most “suddenly” moments have a whole lot of “gradually” behind them.

I think about this in my own life. Some of the decisions that looked dramatic from the outside had actually been building for months, sometimes years. There were conversations, ideas I couldn’t shake, things that stopped fitting, moments where I questioned myself, and approximately 47,000 thoughts happening in my brain at once. 😂

Then one day, something clicked.

That’s why I’m so fascinated by epiphanies. The realization can happen in a moment, but there’s usually been something happening underneath the surface long before you can name it.

And I think comparison gets especially dangerous here because we see someone else’s “suddenly” without having any access to their “gradually.”

So if you’re in a season where things feel slower than you want them to, pay attention to what IS changing.

You might be closer to your “suddenly” than you realize.

“I need to write more because people are moved and inspired by my words.”THAT was Meg Stafford’s epiphany.And the funny ...
09/25/2026

“I need to write more because people are moved and inspired by my words.”

THAT was Meg Stafford’s epiphany.

And the funny thing is, becoming an award-winning author was not the plan.

Meg was 49, raising two daughters, working as a psychotherapist, and had just finished a three-year executive coaching certification when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Suddenly there were appointments, treatment decisions, chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, work, motherhood, and approximately 900 people who understandably wanted to know how she was doing.

She could not bear to tell the cancer story over and over again, so she started sending emails.

That was it.

Not a content strategy. Not the beginning of her author brand. 😂 She just needed ONE place to tell people what was happening.

Except Meg is Meg, so the emails included the hard stuff AND the ridiculous stuff. Cancer treatment. Her wig. Puns. Pet rats. Whatever was actually happening.

People started writing back.

Then someone told her, very seriously, “You should make this a book.”

Those emails eventually became Topic of Cancer: Riding the Waves of the Big C, and Meg went on to become an 18-time literary award winner, columnist, speaker, storyteller, and author.

Meg and I also get into cancer, motherhood, humor, surrender, travel, the dream she had to put down after her diagnosis, and what happened when life took her somewhere she absolutely had not planned to go.

And nearly 20 years after her diagnosis, I especially loved hearing her say this: cancer was part of her life. It never got to define her life, and it never got to define HER.

This is such a good conversation.

now live in Youtube and Spotify.

09/24/2026

Ever look at your own life and think, “Wait… I worked this hard for THIS?”

That was me.

I spent 20 years building a career inside a multi-billion-dollar global company. I worked my way up to Corporate Director, led major initiatives, won awards, made great money, and had plenty of proof that said I was successful.

And still, something felt off.

I think we need to talk about this more. You can be incredibly grateful for what you built and still realize it doesn’t fit you anymore. You can be GOOD at what you do. You can have the title, the paycheck, the recognition, and still have this nagging sense that there’s something else you’re supposed to do with your life.

EPIPHANIES® is about finding the thing underneath the thing. The fear, identity, dream, or decision you’ve been avoiding.

For me, eventually I had to admit that being successful at something wasn’t enough of a reason to keep choosing it.

I had spent 20 years building that career. Walking away from it was terrifying. But staying simply because I had invested so much of my life into becoming successful there would have meant letting those 20 years decide what I did with the next 20.

Sometimes you outgrow a version of your life that once made perfect sense.

I did.

And leaving the career I spent 20 years building opened the door to figuring out what I actually wanted to build next.

🎙️ PODCAST IN 72 HOURS™ GRAD SPOTLIGHT: EMILY STURGILLMeet The Hey, Business Bestie Podcast, created by Podcast in 72 Ho...
09/24/2026

🎙️ PODCAST IN 72 HOURS™ GRAD SPOTLIGHT: EMILY STURGILL

Meet The Hey, Business Bestie Podcast, created by Podcast in 72 Hours™ grad Emily Sturgill.

Emily built this show for entrepreneurs who want the kind of business conversations that feel useful, relatable, and connected to real life.

She talks sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, motherhood, and what it looks like to build a business that actually fits your life.

What I love about Emily’s show is that she brings real experience to the mic without turning it into a lecture. She’s spent 15+ years in sales, from going door-to-door selling exterior house paint (which I have QUESTIONS about 😂) to leading multimillion-dollar sales teams, and she has a way of making business strategy feel human.

Her episodes cover things like selling without putting on a weird sales persona, navigating the emotional side of entrepreneurship, building confidence in your own voice, and learning how to lead your business without losing yourself in it.

Emily was part of our very first Podcast in 72 Hours™ group.

She came in with an idea, launched The Hey, Business Bestie Podcast, and has continued building it ever since.

That’s one of my favorite things about watching our grads. Launching the podcast is such a big moment, but then I get to watch them find their rhythm, get clearer in their voice, have conversations they care about, and create something that keeps growing with them.

Emily, I’m so freaking proud of what you’ve built. ❤️

Go check out The Hey, Business Bestie Podcast in spotify and show one of our PI72 grads some love.

09/23/2026

THIS is my favorite kind of follow-up. 🎙️

Back in July, Emily Sturgill attended our very first Podcast in 72 Hours™ workshop with an idea. Three days later, The Hey, Business Bestie Podcast was out in the world.

And she didn’t stop at “I launched a podcast.”

She kept going. She kept recording. She kept publishing. And now there are more episodes, more conversations, and more of her voice out there doing exactly what she wanted it to do.

THIS is why I get so excited about Podcast in 72 Hours. Because launching is an incredible moment, but what happens after you finally get yourself over that first giant hurdle? That’s where it gets really good.

Emily, I’m ridiculously proud of you. Watching our first group of PI72 grads take what they built in those three days and KEEP BUILDING on it will never get old. ❤️

Podcast in 72 Hours™ has already helped turn a lot of “I’ve been meaning to start one” ideas into actual, published podc...
09/19/2026

Podcast in 72 Hours™ has already helped turn a lot of “I’ve been meaning to start one” ideas into actual, published podcasts. That’s the point of this workshop. You do not need months of planning, a perfect brand, or a complicated production setup to get moving. You need the right structure, the right decisions, and enough momentum to get your first episode out into the world.

We’ve watched people come in with an idea and leave with a real podcast they can actually point to and say, “I did it.” 72 hours from now, that could be you.

09/19/2026

Have you ever REALLY wanted to do something and still couldn’t get yourself to just DO IT?

I used to automatically assume this meant I needed more motivation or discipline. And listen, sometimes I absolutely need to get off Facebook, put my phone down and do my work. sweat_smile But I’ve also gotten much better at recognizing when I’m trying to force myself to create from a place of stress.

Because I know what I’m like when I’m in flow. Give me an idea I’m excited about and GOOD LUCK stopping me. I will have the domain purchased, the business model mapped out and half the thing built before dinner. 😂

So when there’s something I genuinely want to do and I keep avoiding it, I’ve learned to pay attention instead of immediately deciding I’m being lazy or unmotivated. Usually I’ve made it way too complicated, put too much pressure on the outcome, or there’s something underneath the resistance that I haven’t figured out yet.

And THIS is probably why I’m so obsessed with epiphanies. Once I can see what’s actually going on, I can make a decision about it and MOVE. The realization matters because of what becomes possible after it.

That’s a huge part of the work I do with other people too. I’m always looking for the thing underneath the thing because I’ve seen how quickly someone can move once they finally see what’s been keeping them stuck.

So now I’m curious: what’s something you keep saying you want to do… but for some reason you’re still not doing it? 👀

“I don’t have time for this.”That was Niky Hamilton’s actual response when her eye became painful and red.She was runnin...
09/18/2026

“I don’t have time for this.”

That was Niky Hamilton’s actual response when her eye became painful and red.

She was running a successful physiotherapy practice, leading a team, hosting women’s resilience retreats, raising a family, doing ALL the things…

And apparently going blind was incredibly inconvenient. 😂

So she kept going.

Then, while standing on stage accepting an award for Corporate Businesswoman of the Year, her vision started disappearing.

She later found out she was about 24 HOURS away from completely losing the sight in that eye.

That got my attention.

Because how many high-capacity women have gotten SO good at handling everything that we don’t even realize how exhausted we are?

For Niky, it took a major wake-up call.

She remembers sitting in the bath that night, completely depleted, and asking herself:

“When was the last time I did something nice just for me?”

She couldn’t remember.

Her epiphany became: “I need to choose myself.”

And THAT changed the way she lived.

This week on EPIPHANIES, Niky and I get into the real stuff: grief, burnout, people-pleasing, boundaries, and what happens when the person who can handle everything realizes she doesn’t want to live that way anymore.

One of my favorite parts of our conversation was hearing Niky describe her life now.

She has JOY.

And after hearing everything it took to get there, that word hits differently.

If you’re the person everyone counts on, especially if your automatic response is always “I’ve got it,” I think you’re going to see yourself somewhere in this conversation.

Live in Apple podcast, Spotify and Youtube now!

09/15/2026

Ready never comes.

We wait for motivation. More confidence. A clearer sign. A magical Tuesday morning where you suddenly feel completely certain and fearless.

Meanwhile, the idea has been sitting there for six months… or years.

Here’s what I’ve learned: movement usually comes first. Action precedes readiness.

Sometimes you just need the conversation, question, or truth that makes you go, OH. That’s what’s actually happening.

That’s the epiphany.

And that’s what we do at EPIPHANIES®. We find the thing underneath the thing - the pattern, fear, decision, or story keeping you stuck, and turn that realization into actual movement.

Because an epiphany that changes nothing is just an interesting thought.

See it. Decide. Move.

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