{"podcast":{"title":"The ThriveWell Journey | Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Life After Disruption","slug":"the-thrivewell-journey-entrepreneurship-leadership-life-after-disruption-6999442","podcast_index_feed_id":6999442,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/thethrivewelljourney/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.thethrivewelljourney.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/thethrivewelljourney/20251222_021217_f8924c8bbd3115a178545411f87014ae.jpg","author":"L. Michael Burt | ThriveWell Journey - Entrepreneurial Leadership & Life After Disruption","episode_count":88,"summary":"The ThriveWell Journey: Let’s Make Thriving Our New Normal A transformation podcast for entrepreneurs, leaders, and creators navigating disruption, reinvention, and identity shifts while building something meaningful. Hosted by L. Michael Burt, the show explores entrepreneurship, leadership, and sustainable success through the lens of transformation, identity, and alignment. It is designed for those who have experienced burnout, life disruption, health challenges, career shifts, or internal turning points and are seeking a grounded way to move forward without losing themselves in the process. Through recorded conversations with founders, creators, and change-makers, along with Live Friday sessions called \"Friday Night Lives\" focused on real-time recalibration, the podcast offers insight into rebuilding clarity, redefining success, and leading from who you are becoming, not who you used to be. This is not about hustle or grind. It is about navigating change, integrating growth, and building a life and business that supports long-term well-being, purpose, and impact. 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Chapters 0:00 - Introduction: Tech Gremlins & Honoring the First Conversation 6:45 - Stop Chasing the How: Trusting Inner Intelligence 11:20 - \"I Have No Idea How You're Figuring This Out\" 16:30 - The Back & Forth: Old Identity vs. New Nervous System 24:20 - Four Ways to Get Ice Cream: Force vs. Flow Framework 30:00 - The Tantrum State: Recognizing Nervous System Dysregulation 36:00 - Currency = Flow: Understanding Money as Relationship 44:15 - Collapsing Particles: How Attention Creates Reality 56:15 - Step 1 for 2026: Align to New Probability 58:00 - Step 2: Give Up Who You've Been (William Blake Quote) 1:02:45 - Step 3: Relax Around How It's Happening 1:05:00 - Closing: Let's Make Thriving Our New Normal 🔗Cortney's Socials http://linktr.ee/cortinc https://www.instagram.com/cortneymcdermott/ https://www.cortneymcdermott.com/ 🔗 Get Empowered & Aligned for yourself https://bit.ly/AlignmentReset http://ushaman.com/elixir - Get 10% off: USE CODE: THRIVEWELL Be a guest on The Thrivewell Journey Podcast? 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