Behind The Human with Marc Champagne

Britt Lefkoe grew up surrounded by mindset work, learning from an early age that our beliefs shape our lives. But that awareness came with a cost: the feeling that every difficult emotion or limiting belief was another problem she needed to fix. In this conversation, Britt and Marc explore what happens when self-awareness turns against us, why emotions aren’t the problem but the stories we attach...

Mentalist and illusionist Wayne Hoffman has built an extraordinary career reading minds, performing around the world and creating moments that make people question what's possible. But underneath the illusion is something even more interesting: an obsessive understanding of psychology, goal achievement, gratitude, risk and the small actions that quietly change the course of a life. Wayne and Marc...

David Stewart has spent much of his life looking closely at people. As a photographer, he worked around the world, shot his first Vogue ad in his twenties, and worked in New York during the Andy Warhol era. But as David got older, he began noticing something strange: while youth was marketed through aspiration, possibility and beauty, aging was increasingly framed through fear, decline and limitat...

New York Times editor and  Saying No to New  author Eric Athas explores why our brains are drawn to novelty, how businesses remove the friction between desire and consumption, and why reclaiming a few moments to think could radically change the choices we make. From dopamine and social media to clutter, persuasion and the disappearing “new thing gap,” this conversation is ultimately abou...

After more than forty years working as a psychologist and executive coach, Dr. David Zelman has become fascinated by one question: how do we stop allowing the past to determine what we believe is possible next? In this conversation, David explores the internal dialogue shaping our decisions, why awareness has to come before another tool or technique, and how we can create conversations that pull u...

Most 90-day plans die by week three, not because the practices were wrong, but because they were built as a new life stacked on top of the old one. In the final episode of the series, Marc walks through how to audit your existing routine for natural insertion points instead of carving out new time, how to set your minimum effective dose for travel weeks and high-pressure stretches, and how to let...

Mandy Balak spent years being the founder, builder and person who could handle everything — until she began questioning what all that achievement was costing her. In this conversation, we explore the difference between chasing and choosing , why the leaders who pause may ultimately win, and how to keep your ambition without making your health, identity and peace the price of success. Mandy is the...

A plan that only works when you're feeling strong isn't a plan. In this episode, Marc builds out the reset protocol — Pause, Reset, Re-enter — a formalized version of "the power of the pause" from episode three, using your own operating pattern's restoration practice and your daily anchor from episode four as the actual tools inside it. Then he introduces the 90-day daily question: one reflection...

What if we succeed in building a future beyond Earth only to realize we forgot to bring the parts of us that make life worth living? Showmaker Natasha Tsakos is pioneering an extraordinary intersection of creativity, technology and space: developing performances for microgravity and imagining the role culture will play as humanity expands beyond Earth. But this conversation goes somewhere much mor...

Every blocker you have is trying to protect you from something — it's just not the protection you need right now. In this episode, Marc walks through three common blockers — the need for validation, the fear of effort not leading to results, and overthinking — what each one looks like from the outside, what it's actually protecting underneath, and the specific reframe that lets you stop fighting i...

Ainslie MacLeod spent much of his life as a skeptic and professional illustrator before an extraordinary encounter with his deceased uncle in a Hawaiian bookstore changed the direction of his life. Today, Ainslie works as a psychic and spiritual teacher exploring past lives, reincarnation, purpose, intuition, and what he describes as the soul’s journey. In this conversation, we explore Ainslie’s b...

Most self-improvement plans fail from the wrong structure, not a lack of discipline — too many generic habits with no connection to what actually works for you. In this episode, Marc breaks down the difference between daily anchors and weekly rituals and why you need both, then walks through how to pick your three practices by pulling directly from your lowest pillar (episode one), your operating...

Randy Cohen is the founder and Chief Energizing Officer of TicketCity, which he started as a university student with $1,200 and six basketball tickets. Four decades later, he is an author, entrepreneur, connector, father, grandfather and the heart behind the Loop of Love—a philosophy centred on giving back, bringing people together and helping them leave a room feeling better than when they entere...

As the creator of  Nothing Much Happens  and the author of the audio novel  On the Street Where You Live , Kathryn Nicolai has built an interconnected world where listeners can feel safe, soften their guard and step away from the noise of modern life. In this conversation, Kathryn explains how 20 years of teaching yoga prepared her to speak to millions of listeners, why she created a genre she cal...

Your operating pattern isn't a personality type — it's the dominant strategy your mind is leaning on right now. Marc walks through all six Blueprint patterns, how each one can distort under pressure, and what actually tends to restore it. This is episode two of a 7-part series teaching you how to build your own 90-Day Mental Fitness Blueprint by hand. Start with episode one if you haven't yet — th...

Chef and Iron Chef America winner Mark Tarbell opens up about nearly drowning, spending the next three decades sleeping only two to four hours a night, and eventually learning to use breath, meditation, service, and the pause to make better decisions. He also reveals the obsessive preparation behind his Iron Chef victory, why he refuses to live in past glory, and how saying no can become a gift. S...

Marc breaks down why 90 days is the right container for real change, then walks you through the two-layer exercise that actually anchors a season: your one professional outcome, and how you want to show up while you work towards that outcome. That second layer is the one almost everyone skips, and it's exactly why hitting a goal doesn't always feel like winning. This is episode two of a 7-part ser...

We were promised that more data would give us more control. Somewhere between the sleep score and the blood panel, many of us stopped asking how we actually feel. After stepping away from the demanding executive career that had shaped much of her identity, physician and healthcare leader Dr. Nasim Afsar was forced to confront a deeper question: Who are you when the role, schedule, and story that d...

Most people are functioning but very few are thriving and we all deserve to thrive more days than not. In ten minutes, Marc walks you through the 7 pillars of the Mental Fitness Assessment — Clarity, Adaptability, Emotional Agility, Focus, Sleep & Recovery, Rumination, and Stress Load — and shows you how to self-score honestly across all seven. More importantly: what the relationship between your...

How would your life change if every setback wasn't blocking your path—but redirecting it? A devastating warehouse fire. Years of uncertainty. A company that nearly didn't survive. For Barrett Ersek , CEO & Founder of Holganix those moments became the foundation for a mission that's now transforming agriculture, helping farmers regenerate soil, improve profitability, and remove carbon from the atmo...

Leo Rossi spent decades behind the scenes with legendary artists including Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Brian Wilson, Prince, Chaka Khan, and many of the musicians who shaped modern music. But this conversation isn't really about rock and roll. It's about purpose. Leo shares remarkable stories from inside music history, the lessons he learned from creative geniuses, how one decision at 15 years old alt...

For years, we've been told burnout is something individuals need to fix with better habits, stronger resilience, or another meditation app. But what if we've been asking the wrong question? In this episode, former Deloitte Chief Well-Being Officer and author of Hope is the Strategy, Jen Fisher shares why burnout is often the outcome of broken workplace systems—not broken people. Together, we explo...

Why is it that some ideas spread effortlessly while others disappear, even when they're objectively better? Colin Hodge joins Marc Champagne to explore the psychology behind startup growth, customer behavior, identity transformation, and the lessons learned from building successful companies over the last decade. They discuss why empathy is the foundation of sustainable growth, how entrepreneurs b...

How would your life change if you could see the patterns running your future before they became your reality? For more than twenty years, Dave has used journaling as a tool for clarity, growth, and self-discovery. What began as a simple writing practice evolved into Reflection , a platform helping people capture their thoughts, identify patterns, and better understand themselves. In this conversat...

This is a conversation about fear, obsession, and what happens when a scientist decides to rebuild the limits of human creativity. Marc sits down with Alex Mehr (scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of Famous Labs) for a conversation on mental resilience, entrepreneurship, and the future of AI-assisted creativity. Alex opens up about leaving his dream role at NASA, the emotional volatility of buil...