Soul Shift Sessions

This is the season four finale, Challenge Ten: Transcending Your Limits. Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud close out the David Goggins's deep dive by looking back at how the season actually tested them in real time, not just in theory. Key Discussion Points Living the Lessons in Real Time: Both hosts admit they weren’t just discussing Goggins’ challenges, they were living them while...

Soul Shifters, this one’s about Challenge Nine: Automate and Excel, No Excuses. Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud open with Goggins’ line about taking detailed accountability when you fail, and ask whether failure becomes your new north star or just drags you south. Key Discussion Points Win or Learn: Both hosts keep a coach who frames it the same way, you either win or you learn, failur...

Happy birthday, Soul Shift Sessions! Episode 69 lands right as the podcast turns two. Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud keep working through David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me with Challenge Eight: Compartmentalizing Your Time. They agree with Goggins on structure, but push back on his one-task-at-a-time approach. Key Discussion Points One Task vs. Many: Both hosts time block everythin...

Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud return to their breakdown of David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me, taking on Challenge Seven: Dismantling Your Governor. They look at the mental threshold that tells you to quit long before your real limits, and how simple action, trusted community, and a little healthy delusion help you push past it. Key Discussion Points The Function of the Governor: K...

Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud dig into Challenge Six from David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me , focusing on the "cookie jar." The concept centers on using your past wins, struggles, and breakthroughs as an internal reserve when current challenges feel overwhelming. What Is in the Jar: The cookie jar is a mental repository of past grit. Kyle points out that while he draws on years...

Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud dive into Challenge Five from David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me , focusing on visualizing success. The hosts explore the gap between daydreaming about the finish line and mentally preparing for the friction, discipline, and environment required to get there. The Origins of the Podcast: Kyle and Sapphire reflect on how Soul Shift Sessions started just months a...

Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud return to their breakdown of David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me , taking on Challenge Four: Taking Souls and Beating the Opponents (or "beating the ops"). The conversation focuses on internal competition, breaking through people-pleasing, and using friction as a catalyst for growth. The Real Opponent: Kyle reflects on growing up between Plainfield and Newark,...

Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud take a break from their series on David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me challenges for a “free space” episode focused on perspective, accountability, and the daily choices that shape our lives. Sapphire shares an update on the Money Bus campaign through Wealth Builders Savannah , which has raised $8,000 toward its $85,000 goal. She describes buying the first shut...

Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud welcome back Dora Jenkins, founder and creative director of Sole of Blaq Pearl , for a conversation about confidence, visibility, and refusing to shrink. Dora created Sole of Blaq Pearl after struggling to find stylish, well-made shoes in her size 11. The brand is more than a footwear boutique. It offers mobile shoe concierge services, size fittings, lux...

Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud continue their season-four series working through David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me . In this episode, they break down Challenge Three: Getting Comfortable in Discomfort —leaning into hard situations, retraining the brain to handle resistance, and building an internal book of evidence. Key Highlights: The Cold Water Test : Kyle shares his routine of t...

Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud continue their journey through David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me challenges. Moving into Challenge Two, the focus shifts to The Accountability Mirror : facing your daily reality, posting your goals and insecurities where you can see them, and building the discipline to follow through. Key Highlights: The Danger of Dismissing the Wins : Kyle and Sapphi...

This season, the conversations center around the themes and mindset shifts inspired by David Goggins' book, Can't Hurt Me . In this episode, Kyle and Sapphire tackle the very first challenge: The Bad Hand Audit —looking back at life's most difficult, painful, or traumatic moments, putting them on paper, and deciding not to use them as excuses, but as fuel. Key Highlights: Navigating Ne...

Soul Shift Sessions Podcast: From Breakdown to Breakthrough with Dr. Tiffany Harris Season four opens with a powerful conversation about healing, self-worth, faith, and the courage to walk away from what no longer serves you. Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud welcome back friend of the podcast, Dr. Tiffany Harris , also known as the Mindset Shift Architect. Dr. Tiffany is a speaker, auth...

In this episode, Coach Sapphire Star and Coach Kyle McCloud sit down with Saahil Baxi , an 18-year-old TEDx speaker and host of the Future Millionaires Podcast . Saahil is on a mission to bridge the wealth gap for the younger generation—not just with dollars, but with the specific mental shifts needed to build a life of freedom. Key Highlights: The Early Advantage : Homeschooled and mentored by hi...

In this special episode, the roles flip. Coach Kyle McCloud takes the lead as host while Coach Sapphire Star steps into the guest seat. And it gets real. This isn’t just a conversation. It’s a look at the moments, decisions, and mindset shifts that shaped who Sapphire is today and what she’s building next. Key Highlights: Before the Mission : Sapphire goes back to being a curious 9-year-old mixing...

Soul Shift Sessions Podcast: Owning Your Creativity – Contracts, IP, and Ownership In this high-energy episode of Soul Shift Sessions , host Coach Sapphire Star and co-host Coach Kyle McCloud sit down with Paisley Piasecki , a Savannah-based attorney and creative strategist. Paisley shares her journey from "Big Law" in New York to launching her own multifaceted solo practice, helping creative entr...

Returning friend of the podcast Maria Soprano (Karma Free Living), holistic wellness coach, speaker, and author, joins hosts Coach Sapphire Star and Coach Kyle McCloud (Season 3!) to reveal how our bodies are self-healing machines —if we stop silencing them with pills and hustle culture. Key Highlights: Body as Healer : Maria shares her escape from depression, autoimmune issues, and the "pill-diag...

Soul Shift Sessions Podcast: The Cost of Caring – How Caregivers Can Heal While Giving In this heartfelt episode of Soul Shift Sessions, host Coach Sapphire Star and co-host Coach Kyle McLeod welcome Carla Prayer (Inner Beauty By Design), an 8-year caregiver, self-care coach, speaker, and advocate, to unpack the emotional, physical, and mental toll of caregiving—and how to thrive through it. Key H...

In this inspiring episode of Soul Shift Sessions , host Coach Sapphire Star and co-host Coach Kyle welcome guest Stephanie (Cafcules Consulting) for a raw conversation on reinvention —remembering who you truly are amid life's upheavals. Key Highlights: Catalyst for Change : Stephanie shares her 2019 brain surgery for a benign acoustic neuroma tumor, followed by COVID, depression, and a messy recov...

Are you using AI, or is it using you? Most people don't realize they are already interacting with AI every day, but few entrepreneurs are using it to actually drive revenue and buy back their time. Today, Coach Sapphire Starr talks with leadership expert and AI strategist Kyle McCloud about building a sustainable, automated business. Kyle breaks down his "intern" philosophy—treating...

The Soul Shift Sessions podcast episode, "I'm Leavin' Here with Sumthin'," features hosts Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle McCloud discussing the mantra "I'm leaving here with something" in the context of love, life, and legacy. "I'm Leaving Here with Something" as a Mantra: Inspired by a Denzel Washington quote, this phrase has become a guiding principle for the hosts, signifying the intention...

In this Soul Shift Session, we sit down with global consultant, cultural strategist, and free-range human Jackie Broussard—a woman who believes curiosity can change not just conversations, but entire organizations. As Founder and CEO of Jackie Broussard Consulting, she has spent more than two decades helping leaders transform differences into strengths. With consulting experience across Mexico, Ch...

If you had to choose just one—energy, integrity, or intelligence—which would it be? In this Soul Shift Session, Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle unpack how these three qualities shape everything from your relationships to your results. We explore what happens when intelligence outpaces integrity, when energy fades without purpose, and why your choice reveals more about your values than you migh...

We all have stories we tell ourselves—about who we are, what we deserve, and why things happen the way they do. But what if those stories aren’t true? In this Soul Shift Session, Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle unpack how the narratives we repeat can become invisible chains—keeping us stuck in struggle, fear, and self-doubt. From childhood beliefs to cultural conditioning, we explore how to id...

In this real, unfiltered Soul Shift Session, Coach Sapphire Starr and Coach Kyle dive into what we call “raw dogging life” — going through life without protection, without a plan, and without the tools for success. We unpack why so many people wake up every day winging it — no vision, no strategy, no support system — and how that’s leaving them exposed to burnout, broken dreams, and cycles of surv...