Healthy Mind, Healthy Life

Sometimes you are not stuck because the situation is impossible. You are stuck because of the angle you are looking at it from. In this conversation, Stan Lewis, John Maxwell certified leadership coach, former US Naval officer, retired peace officer, and federal mediator, sits down with host Sayan to talk about what he calls the freedom perspective, the quiet but powerful idea that shifting your vantage point is not just a leadership move, it is a path to genuine mental freedom.

You will hear how decades of mediating between Fortune 500 companies and their employees taught Stan that more than 70% of "impossible" conflicts get resolved once people sit at the table long enough. You will hear the story of the elephant tied to a flimsy rope, and a practical way to start calling out the doubts and limiting beliefs that have been quietly running your life.

About the Guest:

Stan Lewis is a John Maxwell Team certified leadership coach, speaker, and trainer, a former US Naval officer, retired peace officer, and federal mediator with OSHA, and the founder of Nward Journey, a consulting and coaching practice focused on personal growth, servant leadership, and breaking through limiting beliefs. His forthcoming book, Evict the Doubts That Have Been Squatting Rent-Free in Your Mind, is due out in September.

Key Takeaways:

• The comfort zone is rarely comfortable. It is more often a dark room we know how to leave but choose not to, because the light through the door feels unfamiliar.
• A vantage point is not a personality, it is a position. Two people holding the same beach ball will see different colours, and neither is wrong. Real change starts when you are willing to move where you are standing.
• More than 70% of "impossible" conflicts resolve when people stay at the table. Stan's mediation work shows that most stuckness is in the head, not in the situation.
• Limiting beliefs are like the flimsy rope around the elephant's leg. They held you once. They are not holding you now. You just have not tested them.
• Name the doubt out loud. You cannot break what you will not first call by its name. Calling out the limiting belief is the first real step toward stepping past it.
• Mentors matter. Most people stuck in a limiting belief have not yet found someone who has already walked the path and is willing to remind them it is walkable.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://stanlewis.net/home
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nward-journey/
• Free resource: The Doubt Detox Worksheet — request through stanlewis.net
• Forthcoming book: Evict the Doubts That Have Been Squatting Rent-Free in Your Mind (September release)

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Most of us were never afraid of failing. We were afraid of what failure said about us. And somewhere in that fear, we stopped trying. This episode is for anyone who has quietly shelved a dream, stayed stuck in a pattern they swore they would break, or told themselves they just need more willpower. The truth, as Terry shows us, is both simpler and deeper than that.

Terry Fossum grew up in the poorest city in the United States. He has been a nuclear B-52 officer, a survival reality show winner, a bestselling author, and a TEDx speaker whose talk was named one of the most impactful of this century. In this conversation, he shares the emotional wiring behind why goals fail, how adversity becomes your greatest credential, and the three-step Oxcart Technique rooted in Nobel Prize-winning science that has helped people rebuild marriages, break addictions, and reach goals they never believed were possible.

About the Guest:

Terry L. Fossum is a Wall Street Journal number one bestselling author, TEDx speaker, former US Air Force executive officer for a nuclear B-52 bomber group, and winner of the Fox Network survival reality show. He is the creator of the Oxcart Technique, a goal achievement method grounded in Nobel Prize-winning behavioral science, and the author of Never Miss a Goal Again.

Key Takeaways:

• Failure is not a character flaw. Every strong, resilient person you admire got there by failing, and failing, and failing again. The ones who stopped are simply not in the room.
• Your story is not about you. The most powerful thing you can offer from the stage, the page, or a conversation is not how remarkable you are, but how much the listener can see themselves in what you went through.
• The pain of not changing must feel more real than the discomfort of changing. Traditional goal setting only pulls you toward pleasure. The Oxcart Technique uses both the pull of a better future and the weight of a painful one to break through emotional resistance.
• Write it until you cry. Vague goals create vague results. When your failure scenario is detailed enough to produce genuine emotion, you have something strong enough to move you.
• Emotion drives action, not facts. You can know everything you need to do and still stay stuck, because information without feeling changes nothing.
• You never know which try is the one that works. Terry once gave up on starting a fire in below-zero temperatures on a mountaintop, fell into the snow, and heard it crackle to life. That last effort, the one he thought was wasted, was the one that mattered.

Connect With Terry Fossum:

Free Tool: https://www.thestageadvantage.com

Personal Site: https://terrylfossum.org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrylfossum/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TerryLFossum

Book (Never Miss a Goal Again): Available on Amazon

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] When Failure Speaks — The fear behind the fear of failing

[06:12] Real Talk from the Stage — What happens in a room when someone tells the truth about their pain

[10:00] The Oxcart Technique — How Nobel Prize-winning science rewired goal setting

[14:00] The Painful Side of the Picture — Why visualizing what you will lose moves you more than what you might gain

[19:00] Quietly Stuck — Why goals fade after the first week and what to do about it

[24:00] When Strategy Is Not Enough — On faith, outworking everyone, and surviving what you were not supposed to

[28:00] The Fire on the Mountain — A story about the last try being the one that lights

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With over 6500+ episodes and 200K+ global listeners, we unite voices, break stigma, and build a world where every story matters. Subscribe and be part of this healing journey.

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About 90% of your serotonin, the chemical most people associate with happiness, is not made in your brain. It is made in your gut. In this conversation, Dr. Shawn Talbott, PsychoNutritionist and founder of 3 Waves Wellness, sits down with host Yusuf to explain why the place that processes your lunch is also, in a very real way, processing your emotions.

You will hear how the gut-brain axis works in plain language, the everyday signs that your two brains have stopped talking to each other (tired in the day, wired at night), what modern food and chronic stress are quietly doing to your microbiome, and where supplements honestly fit alongside a whole-food approach. Grounded, practical, and the kind of episode that changes how you look at your next meal.

About the Guest:

Dr. Shawn Talbott is a nutritional biochemist with a PhD from Rutgers and an executive master's in entrepreneurship from MIT, and a self-described PsychoNutritionist who integrates nutrition, biochemistry, and psychology. He has authored multiple academic textbooks and best-selling books including Mental Fitness, developed nutraceuticals that have generated over a billion dollars in global sales, and is a multi-time Ironman triathlete and ultramarathoner. He runs the 3 Waves Wellness Center in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he trains Certified Mental Wellness Coaches in the microbiome-gut-brain axis.

Key Takeaways:

• Your gut is your second brain. Around 90% of serotonin, 70% of dopamine, 80% of melatonin, and a large share of GABA and oxytocin are produced in the gut, not the head.
• Neurotransmitters are simply signals. When the signals are balanced, you feel good. When they are out of balance, you feel low, unmotivated, or anxious, and that is biochemistry, not personal failure.
• Modern food and chronic stress imbalance the system. Highly processed, low-fibre diets starve helpful bacteria, and chronic stress quietly grows the harmful ones, creating a feedback loop that drags mood down.
• Tired in the day and wired at night is a hallmark sign. If you cannot find energy in the morning but cannot wind down at night, your gut-brain conversation likely needs attention.
• Modern problems often need old-fashioned solutions. Eating more like your grandmother did, more whole foods, fibre, fermented foods, and colourful flavonoid-rich produce, solves much of what supplements alone cannot.
• Supplements have a place, but only if they are evidence-based. Look for companies that name their strains, share the research, and treat supplements as a way to help you feel well enough to make better lifestyle choices, not a shortcut around them.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://3waveswellness.com
• Personal site: https://doctalbott.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doctalbott/

Episode Chapters:

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With over 6500+ episodes and 200K+ global listeners, we unite voices, break stigma, and build a world where every story matters. Subscribe and be part of this healing journey.

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What happens when the person who spends his days helping others heal is the one quietly fighting for his own life? In one of the most human conversations Healthy Mind, Healthy Life has hosted, Buddy Clay, founder and CEO of New Hope Healthcare Institute in Knoxville, Tennessee, sits down with host Yusuf to talk about building a mental health and addiction treatment centre while navigating a stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

You will hear how Buddy kept showing up for his team and his two young daughters when the diagnosis brought him to his knees, how he learned to let people support him after a lifetime of being the supporter, and what living one day at a time actually looks like when tomorrow is not promised.

About the Guest:

Buddy Clay is the founder and CEO of New Hope Healthcare Institute, a Joint Commission accredited mental health and addiction treatment centre in Knoxville, Tennessee, offering individualised outpatient care for teens and adults. With over a decade in the field, Buddy began his career at one of the top adolescent programmes in the United States and has worked across nearly every part of treatment, from behavioural tech to programme director. He is also the author of the upcoming book Built in the Fire, written across five years of building a business while moving through a stage 3 and then a stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

Key Takeaways:

• The people who help others heal are still allowed to need help. Working in mental health does not make you immune to pain. It just gives you a better vocabulary for it.
• Knowing the answers is not the same as living them. Buddy is honest about how much harder it is to take your own advice than to give it, especially when life throws something unimaginable at you.
• Find your why and write it down. When Buddy was overwhelmed, his anchor was simple, his wife, his two young daughters, and his team, and that became the question he kept returning to.
• Letting people in is its own kind of healing. Allowing your spouse, your closest friends, and your community to see you at your weakest is not weakness, it is what gets you through.
• A serious diagnosis can collapse the gap between you and the people you serve. Buddy has used his honesty in conversations with clients in his programme to bridge what used to feel like a hierarchy.
• "One day at a time" stops being a cliché when tomorrow is not promised. Buddy talks about how his goals shrunk in size and grew in meaning when he started focusing on what he could do today.

 Connect With the Guest

• New Hope Healthcare Institute website: https://newhopehealthtn.com
• Company on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-hope-healthcare-institute
• Upcoming book: Built in the Fire by Buddy Clay — newsletter sign-up available through the New Hope website

Episode Chapters:

#podmatch #healthymindbyavik #podhub.club #mentalhealthpodcast #addictionrecovery #cancerjourney #stage4cancer #mentalhealthleadership #newhopehealthcare #fatherhood #faithandresilience #onedayatatime #builtinthefire #buddyclay #knoxville #mensmentalhealth

Most of us were taught to manage, perform, and push through, but not to actually read what is happening inside us. For men especially, the cost of that gap shows up everywhere: in marriages, in parenting, in leadership, and in the long silences they cannot explain. Trevor Stevenson, conscious leadership coach and co-founder of Conscious Lead, sits down with guest host Sana to talk about how to start closing the distance between how you feel and how you show up.

You will hear Trevor's own breaking point, the moment his wife said "enough," and what changed when he stopped pushing harder and started learning a new emotional language. Honest, practical, and full of the kind of conversation most men have never been invited into.

About the Guest:

Trevor Bryce Stevenson is a conscious leadership coach, co-founder of ConsciousLead (with his wife Dale, since 2004), and founder of FUNdaMENtal, a men's circle and growth community. Based near Ottawa, Canada, he works with kindhearted entrepreneurs, leaders, and men around the world on reducing harm, deepening relationships, and leading from awareness rather than reactivity.

Key Takeaways:

• Emotional awareness is a learned skill, not a personality trait. Most of us, especially men, were conditioned to suppress emotions, so feeling underequipped is normal, not a defect.
• Pushing harder makes it worse. When stress hits relationships, business, or parenting, the old "head down, get it done" mode often deepens the disconnection it is trying to solve.
• Externalising blame keeps us stuck. Real shift begins the moment you can answer "how am I feeling?" instead of "who is at fault?"
• This is cultural inheritance, not personal failure. Boys are rarely taught a language for emotion, and the cost shows up later in leadership, marriages, and mental health.
• Progress is measured in how fast you come back. Reactivity does not vanish. Awareness simply shortens the gap between a trigger and a conscious response.
• Things often feel worse before they get better. As you stop performing and start being honest, hidden tensions surface, but on the other side of that discomfort is real connection.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://consciouslead.life
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-bryce-stevenson/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/funroadtofreedom/

Episode Chapters:

#podmatch #healthymindbyavik #podhub.club #consciousleadership #mensmentalhealth #emotionalintelligence #emotionalawareness #healthymasculinity #mindovermasculinity #mentalhealthpodcast #leadershipcoaching #vulnerability #fundamental #consciouslead #relationships #worldhealthday

If you have ever woken up with a quiet, heavy "is this it?" sitting on your chest, this conversation is for you. Jody Brooks, certified life coach and founder of Mastering Midlife Workshops, joins Avik to talk about the version of midlife that no one jokes about, the one underneath the sports cars and clichés, where capable, successful people start to wonder whether they have been living someone else's expectations.

You will hear what burnout actually is when you look past the exhaustion, why shame keeps so many of us silent about feeling unfulfilled, and how to start untangling who you are from what you have been performing. Jody shares the practical tools that helped him out of his own breaking point, and how to begin choosing the next chapter on purpose.

About the Guest:

Jody Brooks is a certified life coach and the founder of Authentic Coaching and Mastering Midlife Workshops, based on the south coast of the UK. With over 30 years of experience helping people connect to their authentic self-expression, he now works with clients navigating midlife, burnout, and the quiet question of what comes next, after burnout forced him to do that same work for himself at 47.

Key Takeaways:

• "Is this it?" is rarely a crisis. It is usually a signal that you have arrived at a point in your life where the old measures of success no longer fit the person you have become.
• Burnout is emotional, not only physical. Most of it is overwhelm built on years of quietly people-pleasing, including pleasing society at large, not just the people in your life.
• External success cannot fix internal misalignment. New cars, titles, and milestones tend to deliver a week of happiness before the underlying question shows up again.
• The shame of feeling unfulfilled keeps people stuck. Measuring yourself against people who have it worse is still an external measure, and it quietly silences honest reflection.
• "Start stopping." Real change begins with the courage to pause, catch your breath, and look at what actually serves you, instead of running faster on the same hamster wheel.
• The Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda exercise can quiet a racing mind. Write the lists out, convert what is yours into "I will, I want to, I can," and consciously release the rest.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://authenticcoaching.me
• LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jody-brooks-85b627322
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authentic_businesscoach/
• Listener offer: Use code PODCAST4 at checkout on the website for a free 5-video mini-course on how to stop in the moment

Episode Chapters:

#podmatch #healthymindbyavik #podhub.club #midlife #midlifecrisis #burnoutrecovery #lifecoach #authenticliving #mentalhealthpodcast #personaldevelopment #overwhelm #peoplepleasing #findyourpurpose #midlifetransformation #masteringmidlife #selfdiscovery