The Unbreakable Advantage

Can You Outgrow the Life You’ve Prayed For?   You worked hard for the life you have. You’re grateful for it. So why do you feel guilty admitting you want something more? In this episode of The Unbreakable Advantage Podcast, Misty Carson explores the guilt that can come with outgrowing a career, a role, or a version of yourself you once worked so hard to become.   Drawing on her decision...

Send us Fan Mail   You said no. Now you’re replaying the conversation and wondering whether you need to explain yourself. In this episode, I talk about why boundaries can bring up so much guilt, especially when being needed has been part of how you learned to feel valued. We’ll cover: Three ways we abandon ourselves to keep the peace How to tell the difference between guilt and evidence that you’v...

Send us Fan Mail   Have you ever thought you were making a different choice, only to realize you had entered the same pattern in a new package? This special episode of The Unbreakable Advantage combines two powerful conversations: Evidence Over Emotion and Same Box, Different Bow. Together, they reveal one essential truth: the pattern is the proof. Emotion can convince you that this time is differ...

Send us Fan Mail   What does it really take to break a generational cycle?   After nearly 30 years of motherhood, Misty looks back at becoming a mom at 17, the childhood patterns she unknowingly carried into parenting, the mistakes she made, and the conscious choices it took to begin doing things differently.  This deeply personal episode explores generational trauma, cycle breaking, parenting, ac...

Send us Fan Mail Someone stole Misty Carson’s identity, opened 12 financial accounts in her name, and attempted to move thousands of dollars.  She had a choice: spiral—or take control.  In this solo episode of The Unbreakable Advantage , Misty shares what happened when a real-life crisis forced her to use her own Evidence Over Emotion framework in real time.  This conversation goes beyond identity...

Send us Fan Mail None of us gets where we're going completely alone.   In this solo episode of The Unbreakable Advantage , Misty Carson shares the stories of two people who changed the trajectory of her life: her grandmother and a high school guidance counselor who fought for her when she was a pregnant, emancipated teenager trying to survive on her own.   Misty explores how support systems can ch...

Send us Fan Mail What if the hardest parts of your story didn’t just hurt you? What if they built something in you?  In this episode of The Unbreakable Advantage , Misty Carson sits down with author, entrepreneur, speaker, and Light Up Your Life podcast host Samantha Peters for a powerful conversation about childhood trauma, breaking generational cycles, self-worth, limiting beliefs, and turning a...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when someone tries to take your life—but instead reveals the strength that was inside you all along?   Some stories are difficult to hear.  Others are impossible to forget.  In this powerful episode of The Unbreakable Advantage Podcast , Misty Carson sits down with Heidi Damon to share a story of unimaginable violence, extraordinary courage, and the decision that chan...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve all felt it.  That quiet whisper telling us there’s more. More purpose. More impact. More life waiting for us.  Yet somehow the alarms of fear, security, expectations, and self-doubt become so loud that we stop listening.  In this deeply personal solo episode, Misty Carson shares the biggest leap of her life—walking away from a successful corporate career to build The Unbrea...

Send us Fan Mail What if the hardest chapter of your life wasn’t the end of your story—but the beginning of your purpose?   Trauma changes us.  Loss changes us.  Grief changes us.  The question is whether those experiences will become the weight that keeps us down or the fuel that helps us rise.  In this deeply personal episode of The Unbreakable Advantage Podcast , Misty Carson sits down with Ton...

Send us Fan Mail A note before you listen. This conversation touches on childhood trauma, abuse, destructive relationships, and grief. Please take care of yourself as you listen, and if any of it hits close to home, know that you are not alone and support is available.  EPISODE DESCRIPTION   Ben Oofana spent his mid twenties caught in a series of destructive relationships before he understood that...

Send us Fan Mail A note before you listen. This conversation includes honest discussion of childhood sexual abuse, addiction, and recovery. Please take care of yourself as you listen, and if any of it hits close to home, know that you are not alone and support is available.  EPISODE DESCRIPTION   Sims Tillerson has spent more than a decade inside the world of employee benefits, from the smallest s...

Send us Fan Mail There is a kind of hard nobody prepares you for. Not the hard of the work or the sacrifice or the starting over. Those are clean. You can see them coming. The hard in this episode is the one that comes from the people who love you. The ones who sat at your table and knew your name before you knew your own worth. And who, without ever meaning to, put a ceiling on what they believe...

Send us Fan Mail David Bybee is the head coach for Team USA Olympic Kickboxing, a world champion, and the author of the forthcoming book The Warrior Bloodline. He is also, in his own words, two people: the champion the world sees, and the quiet kid who was told daily he should have died.  In this conversation, David and Misty trade stories that line up almost beat for beat. A collision at age five...

Send us Fan Mail Content warning: This episode includes frank discussion of childhood sexual abuse, trafficking, addiction, and complex PTSD. Please take care while listening.  Chasity grew up in a tiny Louisiana town with one red light, no hospital, and a childhood she genuinely loved. Then at twenty seven, her own mind began returning memories she did not know she was carrying. What she found di...

Send us Fan Mail New relationship. New job. New city. New chapter. So why does it keep ending the same way? In this episode Misty Carson opens up one of the most humbling things she has ever had to see in herself: the way we wrap the same core pattern in new packaging and expect a different result. A different bow on the same box. She walks through how that one hidden pattern quietly shapes our re...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a man who once slept in his car and on park benches spends 37 years quietly dismantling the industry that was supposed to serve people and ends up rebuilding it around the human instead? In this episode, Misty sits down with Taylor Ranker, founder of Questmont and author of Dead Cats and Wealth Advisors: Exposing the Myths and Lies of the Wealth Management Indust...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Maria Jackson  For seven years, Maria Jackson did everything right and still kept getting knocked down. Three rounds of IVF. Loans taken out, paid off, and taken out again. A patient in her chair telling her she was too late to ever be a mother while she held it together until she reached her car. And one morning, a day after her birthday, she woke up certain she had lost t...

Send us Fan Mail Some threats announce themselves. The most dangerous ones never do. In the first guest episode of The Unbreakable Advantage, Misty Carson sits down with Tami Fitzpatrick, Founder and CEO of Entropy Technology Design, whose proprietary low frequency magnetic field detection sees storms forming 3,000 miles out and catches the weaponized drones that slip in under the radar. Her work...

Send us Fan Mail At 16, pregnant, emancipated, and on her own, Misty Carson had no home, no safety net, and no degree. What she had was a whisper that said there is more for you than this, and a roomful of louder voices telling her to stay exactly where she was. This is the origin story of The Unbreakable Advantage, told in two parts in one sitting. In Part 1, The Eagle in the Chicken Coop, Misty...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Deborah Livingston, CEO & Founder of ReEmployAbility What if the way we’ve been taught to lead is actually limiting performance? In this episode, I sit down with Deborah Livingston, CEO and founder of ReEmployAbility, to talk about what it really looks like to lead people well, especially the ones who are holding your business together every day. We get into the reality...

Send us Fan Mail Before we relaunch, we need to talk about where this is going. This podcast started with a focus on business, insurance, and leadership decisions. But underneath all of that, there’s something bigger that’s been driving every conversation: People. The ones carrying pressure. The ones navigating uncertainty. The ones who have lived through more than most people will ever see. What...

Send us Fan Mail Most leaders treat turnover as a human resources problem. What they don't realize is that it’s actually a massive risk signal that quietly bleeds into every line of insurance they buy.  In this solo episode, Misty Carson breaks down the "Zero-BS" reality of how high turnover levels are driving up your workers’ comp, health insurance, and liability costs. Insurance i...

Send us Fan Mail Most organizations invest heavily in technology, equipment, and insurance, yet they expect leadership capability to develop on its own. In this solo episode, Misty Carson explains why that assumption is one of the most expensive mistakes a business can make.  Leadership isn't just about culture—it's about control. When leaders are unequipped, they avoid conflict, give va...

Send us Fan Mail How do you transition from running a successful business to building a multimillion-dollar enterprise that spans healthcare, insurance, and community infrastructure? You stop being a manager and start becoming an architect of systems.  This week, Misty sits down with Gary T. Hartfield , a serial entrepreneur, two-time author, and 2025 Titan 100 Honoree. Gary is the Founder and CEO...