{"podcast":{"title":"Code 3: Life. Reinvented.","slug":"code-3-life-reinvented-7517256","podcast_index_feed_id":7517256,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/UYIIU3453458612","website_url":"https://www.bemorealigned.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/85075d44-9d4c-11f0-a561-5b3a902c4462/image/0fd908a59553d8cbb88d5f6fdc7335c9.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The More Project, Inc. | Self-Improvement, Personal Development, Career Transformation","episode_count":42,"summary":"I’m AJ Jones. Twice, a massive widowmaker heart attack nearly ended my life. Twice, I walked away with more than just a second chance. And twice I had to rethink everything. After a 20+ year career with firms like Schwab, BlackRock, and Wells Fargo, my cardiologist told me to retire. Instead, I doubled down on a new mission: to help people stop living on autopilot and start redefining what’s possible. Or put another way, with all due respect to my cardiologist I have unfinished business. Code 3: Life. Reinvented. is not another career podcast. It’s a wake-up call. Each episode is real and urgent. Hear conversations with bold pivoters who left comfort and “success” behind to pursue something meaningful, and with authors and experts who study transformation. We’ll emphasize bringing their stories and techniques into your reality. And you’ll hear from me: unfiltered lessons, radical honesty, and a playbook for reinventing your life before it breaks you. If you’re a high-achieving professional who knows something has to change, this is your siren. Don’t wait for a crisis to force reinvention. This is your Code 3. Code 3: Life. Reinvented. is an initiative of MOREⓇ, an aligned reinvent…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T20:17:06.618875+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-3-life-reinvented-7517256"},"episode":{"title":"The Wake-Up Call After the Wake-Up Call","slug":"the-wake-up-call-after-the-wake-up-call","published_at":"2026-02-09T13:53:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-3-life-reinvented-7517256/the-wake-up-call-after-the-wake-up-call","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-3-life-reinvented-7517256","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/UYIIU4665140529.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/UYIIU4665140529.mp3","summary":"After my first widowmaker heart attack, I truly believed I had my wake-up call. I changed my diet. I committed to exercise. I followed my doctors’ guidance and told myself things would be different moving forward. For a while, they were. But over time, life quietly pulled me back to normal. The stress returned. Old habits crept in. The environment that nearly broke me didn’t really change — and eventually, eight years later, I had a second heart attack. In this deeply personal solo episode, I share the real story of what happened in the space between my two wake-up calls. The part nobody talks about. The slow drift back to the life that caused the crisis in the first place. This conversation is about why major wake-up calls don’t always lead to lasting change, how environment shapes our behavior more than motivation, and why the real wake-up call isn’t the crisis itself — it’s the moment you realize you’re returning to the life that hurt you. In this episode, I explore: • Why most people don’t maintain lifestyle changes after major health events • How stress and environment quietly pull us back into old patterns • The reality of regression to the mean in real life • Why survival alone doesn’t create alignment • The three questions I now ask myself — and invite you to ask too As I close the episode, I leave you with three questions: What are you calling manageable right now? What signal are you explaining away because everything still works? If nothing forced you to stop, what would you keep tolerating? If you’ve ever told yourself “I’ve got it under control” while quietly ignoring the signals, this episode is for you.","meta_description":"After my first widowmaker heart attack, I truly believed I had my wake-up call. I changed my diet. I committed to exercise. I followed my doctors’ guidanc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1054,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/code-3-life-reinvented-7517256/episodes/the-wake-up-call-after-the-wake-up-call/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-3-life-reinvented-7517256/the-wake-up-call-after-the-wake-up-call.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}