{"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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Michael Ostrolenk joins L. Michael Burt for a practical and deeply grounded conversation on self-awareness, emotional regulation, discipline, internal governance, and what it means to train yourself for real life. Michael brings experience as a marriage and family therapist, master coach, resilience architect, martial arts practitioner, and human performance specialist. This discussion moves beyond generic stress management. It explores how pressure shows up in the body, why distraction becomes a way to escape discomfort, how to notice your state before you react, and why discipline helps you become more capable when life gets difficult. You will hear about the four pillars of holistic resilience, Fudoshin and the immovable mind, training for relationships, sovereignty, belief systems, kindness, love, and the practice of becoming a person who can respond instead of react. KEY TOPICS Holistic resilience pillars: physiological, psychological, spiritual, relational The importance of internal governance and authenticity Practical strategies for stress and pressure management The role of discipline, hard work, and challenging oneself Martial arts principles applied to personal growth and relationships Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Resilience and Personal Growth 03:07 The Four Pillars of Resilience 05:53 Understanding Distraction and Emotional Awareness 08:51 The Importance of Sitting with Discomfort 11:54 Cultural Noise and Self-Reflection 14:49 The Role of Martial Arts in Personal Development 18:01 Training for Relationships: The Relationship Dojo 28:10 Martial Arts as a Metaphor for Life 29:49 Fudishin: The Immovable Mind 32:32 Discipline and Spirituality in Personal Growth 36:34 The Import…","meta_description":"How do you build resilience under pressure without pretending stress is not real? Michael Ostrolenk joins L. 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