{"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. If you are in a season of reinvention and ready to create what comes next with intention, The ThriveWell Journey is h…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T22:20:28.384891+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-thrivewell-journey-entrepreneurship-leadership-life-after-disruption-6999442"},"episode":{"title":"Juneteenth and Identity: Freedom Is Declared, But It Must Be Lived","slug":"juneteenth-and-identity-freedom-is-declared-but-it-must-be-lived","published_at":"2026-06-20T12:29:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-thrivewell-journey-entrepreneurship-leadership-life-after-disruption-6999442/juneteenth-and-identity-freedom-is-declared-but-it-must-be-lived","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-thrivewell-journey-entrepreneurship-leadership-life-after-disruption-6999442","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/thethrivewelljourney/2930251","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/285553/2930251/thethrivewelljourney/2026_06_20_12_24_17_293217b6-0094-43f7-a15a-02eea5dabeac.mp3","summary":"In this Friday Night Live episode, L. Michael Burt uses the meaning of Juneteenth as a powerful entry point into a deeper conversation about identity, freedom, and transformation after disruption. This episode answers the question: What does Juneteenth teach us about identity and freedom after disruption? Freedom is not fully lived just because it has been declared. Real transformation happens when the truth reaches your body, changes who you are being, and creates a ripple through your life, family, work, and community. Juneteenth reminds us that freedom can be true before it is fully received. The Emancipation Proclamation had already been signed, but enslaved people in Texas were still living under a story that said otherwise. That gap between declaration and lived reality becomes the central theme of this episode. L. Michael connects that historical truth to the inner work of transformation. Many people are technically free from what happened to them, but still living from the meaning they gave the disruption. The event may be over, but the story may still be running their identity, their decisions, their relationships, their business, and their future. This episode explores the ripple that begins when a person changes who they are being. Transformation is not just personal achievement. It becomes something that moves through your family, your work, your community, and people you may never meet. This episode is for anyone who is ready to stop living from an old story and begin creating from a new declaration. Chapters 00:00 Friday Night Live opening and live setup 02:00 Why Juneteenth matters 03:33 Freedom was already true, but not yet received 05:59 Recap of the “You Did Not Lose Your Way” series 07:40 The ripple starts with who you are being 09:00 The unseen beco…","meta_description":"In this Friday Night Live episode, L. 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