Brainwashed To Be Broke

Job security is a myth when one decision from someone else can wipe out your income. Dave Fulk explains why the safe path is not always safe, why AI can make people sharper or lazier, and why comfort quietly trains people to quit. Dave Fulk is an ex-police officer, sales professional, and business owner who built a credit repair company after being laid off twice from the mortgage industry. Dave e...

High ticket sales are not harder because the number is bigger, they are harder only if your conditioning tells you to start small. Chad Ockstadt explains why selling a $5 million real estate deal can be cleaner than chasing a tiny offer. This conversation exposes the beliefs around sales, money, education, AI, parenting, and freedom. Chad is an investor, business strategist, real estate dealmaker,...

Military discipline in business is not about barking orders, it is about staying mission ready when life ambushes you. JR Spear explains why entrepreneurship does not give you freedom first, it exposes your discipline, your beliefs, your conditioning, and your ability to stay calm when money gets tight. JR Spear is a Navy veteran who served with Marines in Iraq, survived a suicide bombing in 2007,...

Scarcity mindset in business is not just about money, it is social programming that teaches you to chase, panic, and call gambling a strategy. James Neilson-Watt explains why wealth, freedom, relationships, health, and fulfillment all break down when your beliefs are built on not having enough. James has coached over 1,000 business owners and says their companies have grown by more than $300 milli...

Entrepreneur mindset is not about being fearless, it is about doing the thing while your brain tells you it makes no sense. Ryan Lee explains why business ownership feels like jumping off a cliff, why confidence is borrowed before it is built, and why social programming keeps people trapped in comfort. Ryan Lee is a landscape lighting business coach and founder of Landscape Lighting Secrets, after...

Christianity and money gets twisted when people confuse a tool with a god. Cody Jefferson breaks down why money is not evil, why being broke solves nothing, and why real wealth starts with stewardship, not flexing. This conversation exposes the conditioning around school, screens, faith, fatherhood, AI, and freedom. Cody Jefferson is a former pastor who spent 13 years in ministry, led across worsh...

The employee mindset does not disappear when you quit your job. It follows you into your business, and most people never notice. Business coach Jackie LaCroix spent 12 years coaching entrepreneurs and found the same pattern every time: smart, driven people build a new cage and call it freedom. Jackie LaCroix holds degrees from Johns Hopkins and Georgetown, launched her first company at 25, and now...

Financial freedom conditioning has kept most people handing their money to Wall Street and calling it investing, when by definition it is pure speculation. Ryan D. Lee retired at 32, has never lost money in 15 years, and has paid zero taxes, by following rules already written into the tax code. Ryan co-authored Retire in 10 Years or Less with Robert Allen and Robert Kiyosaki, and has helped thousa...

AI won't save your business if you have not slowed down to actually listen to your audience, and that is the uncomfortable truth the Queen of Social Media, Rachel Pedersen, exposes in this conversation. We have been conditioned to believe that the right tool, enough automation, and a flood of AI generated content will manufacture real connection. It will not. Rachel built two multimillion dollar c...

Most people walk through life believing their thoughts, their voice, and their choices are their own. They are not. They were written for you long before you were old enough to question them, and this episode is about tracing that writing all the way back to its source. Adam Rother sits down with Mitchell Ryan, voice and embodiment coach, to pull apart the invisible architecture of social programm...

If you have ever wondered why school doesn't teach you about money, this episode of Brainwashed to Be Broke exposes the social programming that keeps hardworking people stuck. Adam Rother sits down with affiliate marketing coach Sarah Thompson, a former healthcare worker who got a 15 cent raise and a pizza party for years of effort, then discovered passive income at 35 and felt like she had been l...

Living someone else's dream is the quiet trap most high performers never notice, and Bashar Katu spent years inside it before he broke out. He escaped the Iraq war at 16, watched his father lose a thriving factory, and then almost got programmed into becoming a doctor because that was his mother's vision of a good life, not his. This conversation exposes the conditioning that scripts your career,...

Money isn't real, and that one fact might be the reason you feel stuck, broke, and exhausted no matter how hard you work. In this raw conversation, entrepreneur Josh Forti exposes the most invisible piece of social programming most of us carry: the belief that the dollar in your wallet is actually money. It isn't. Legally and literally, it stopped being money a long time ago, and that quiet switch...

What if everything you were taught about money, work, and success was designed to benefit someone else? That is the conversation at the center of this episode. Adam Rother sits down with Brendan McAuley, business coach, systems strategist, and author of Clients for Coaches, to unpack the financial conditioning most people carry from childhood into adulthood without ever questioning it. Brendan cas...

The victim mindset is the single biggest gap between people who stay broke and people who build real wealth, and in this episode Tyler Wise makes that case without pulling a single punch. In this episode, you will discover: - Why the victim mindset is the single biggest gap between people who stay poor and people who build real wealth - How Tyler replaced a year's salary in six months using Facebo...

Why smart people stay stuck in safe lives comes down to social programming most of us never chose, the quiet conditioning from parents, school, and culture that teaches you to aim low, blend in, and never rock the boat. In this raw conversation, a sales trainer who coached over 6000 people breaks down how that programming around money, beliefs, and success quietly runs your life. We get into why s...

Success is 80% psychology and only 20% strategy, yet almost everyone runs it backwards, pouring time and money into systems while ignoring the inner work that actually drives results. In this conversation on Brainwashed to Be Broke, host Adam Rother sits down with high performance coach Jake Kauffman to expose the social programming and conditioning that quietly cap how much money, success, and lo...

She was bedridden for 18 years, married three times, and convinced God was furious with her. Then one belief broke and everything changed. Victoria Moore-McDowell grew up with the same script most of us were handed: work hard, suffer hard, maybe you'll earn a decent life. By her 40s, she was almost completely bedridden, stuck in an emotionally abusive marriage, financially controlled, and carrying...

Most people think they need more confidence. Ian Norton thinks they need something simpler — and most of us were quietly trained out of it. Ian is a confidence coach who has worked with royalty, celebrities, and business leaders. But before any of that, he grew up gay in a strict military family at a time when it was still illegal in the UK — taught from age nine that something was "wrong" with hi...

What if the version of you that ended up broke was never really your fault — just a script you were handed and never questioned? Richard Lloyd Roberts grew up outside London with a hard childhood and a father who wasn't kind. He failed every subject in school, escaped into the merchant navy as a galley boy, and spent years convinced that "get a job and grind" was all life had for him. Then he chas...

What if the "safe path" everyone pushed on you is actually the riskiest move you could make? Eric Thayne grew up in an extremely traditional family — college, get a job, work the job. Everyone around him followed it. He didn't. He started his first real business at 13, designing graphics for bands on MySpace and collecting $20 payments through a brand-new thing called PayPal. By the time he "learn...

We're taught from day one that depending on other people is a weakness. What if that belief is the exact thing keeping you stuck? In this episode I sit down with Elissa Renee — a speech language pathologist, CEO, and late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD entrepreneur behind Speech Works. For most of her life she was handed the standard script: be independent, get a stable job, stop relying on anyone. S...

He had three months left to live. Then he turned down the treatment that could've saved him. Devin Schubert spent years building churches and ministries before his whole life collapsed at once. He came home from a ministry trip to find his wife with her boss. He lost his marriage, his job, his platform, and half his time with his kids. An elder told him he'd never be allowed back in ministry becau...

What happens when you do everything “right” and still feel completely empty? In this episode of Brainwashed To Be Broke, I sit down with Alicia Anne Wade, also known as Dr. Gratitude, to talk about the hidden programming behind success, self-worth, relationships, money, leadership, and what it really takes to rebuild yourself from the inside out. Alicia ticked all the boxes most people are told to...

What if the thing keeping you broke is not your skill, your offer, or your work ethic? What if it is the version of yourself you were taught to believe in? In this episode of Brainwashed To Be Broke, I sit down with Jennifer Lamprey, sales powerhouse, creator of the 12 Quickest Close Map, and founder of The Quickening. Jennifer grew up around entrepreneurship, but her path was anything but clean o...