# Letting Go and Letting God: The Long Walk from Pleasing Others to Purpose with Guest Art Blanchford | Episode 350

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Published: 2026-05-04T11:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode 350 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m joined by guest Art Blanchford to explore the journey from workaholism and people-pleasing into recovery, purpose, and spiritual alignment. Art shares his experience as a high-achieving corporate executive who spent decades in constant motion—running multi-billion dollar companies and staying in a cycle of overwork. When the pandemic forced everything to stop, it exposed what was really going on underneath. Th...

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