Wake Up Call

For ten years I optimized everything for speed and I paid the price. I short circuited my entire system trying to keep up with the pace I had chosen. There is a moment where the pace stops being something you make and...

<p>This one's for anyone standing at the edge, wondering if the jump will get them lost. It might just bring you home.</p><p><br></p><p>In this conversation, I sit down with Steve Rio from Enfold to talk about the...

<p>It has been a while since I did one of these.</p><p><br></p><p>A lot has changed. Not just what I’m doing, but how I see everything.</p><p><br></p><p>This solo is built around two questions that have quietly reshaped...

<p>Some wake up calls come quietly. Others hit all at once.</p><p>Ian Koniak had the career most people chase. Top rep at Salesforce. Money, status, recognition. From the outside, it looked like everything was...

<p>There is a moment where chasing more stops working. Not because you failed, but because you are ready for something better. Alex Kremer leaned into that moment.</p><p>We met in the early Outreach days. High output...

<p>Some people build things. Heidi Noble built a life at full speed.</p><p>Chef. Founder. Winemaker. Joie didn’t come from money or connections. It came from instinct, pressure, and a belief she could figure it out as...

<p>Some conversations slow you down in the best way.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode I sit down with Richard Banfield. Richard has spent decades building companies, writing books, and thinking deeply about how...

<p>Brandon Fluharty built the kind of sales career most people dream about.</p><p>Seven figure years. Enterprise deals. Presidents Club. Recognition at the highest level.</p><p>But achievement came with a cost. Burnout...

<p>On paper, Devon McDonald had it all. </p><p>Division 1 athlete. Seventeen year run at OpenView. General Partner. Big house. Three kids. The life most people chase. But behind the scenes, something wasn’t sitting...

<p>Eric Kostelnik has built and sold multiple companies, and somehow still manages to be one of the most grounded humans I know. In this conversation, we get into what happens after the exit. The identity shift. The...

<p>In this session from the Wake Up Call Live Wellness Series, Alex Easby from Dreamfuel guides us through a breathwork and visualization practice that’s equal parts cleansing and grounding. It starts with deep...

<p>Some people build empires. Others build frameworks that help people endure. Sam Jacobs does both.</p><p>In this conversation, we unpack what it means to stay grounded when everything around you is accelerating. Sam...

<p>Some years break you open so you can finally see.</p><p>2025 cracked me. Not in the falling-apart way, but in the pulling-the-curtain-back kind of way. The ambition I was still hiding behind. The patterns I thought I...

<p>Sometimes life serves up those chance encounters that don’t feel like chance. </p><p>In this one, I sit down with Anurag Chandra for a rare look beneath the surface of success. He’s built some of silicon valley's...

<p>Some stories sit just below the surface for years. This was one of them.</p><p>In this episode I sit down with Drew Hall, my closest friend since childhood, for a conversation we’ve never had on record. Drew opens up...