No Negative Energy Presents: The "Due To Expire" Podcast with Corey L. Kennard

Send us Fan Mail A terminal diagnosis doesn’t just threaten a life, it rewrites an entire family’s calendar, identity, and sense of safety. We sit down with award-winning author, speaker, and Spirited Prosperity founder Rachel Kerr Schneider to talk about what happened after her husband John was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), and what it truly takes to keep living when the future you p...

Send us Fan Mail Most people chase “better” bodies and end up chasing approval, quick fixes, or a lower number on the scale. Corey Kennard sits down with Jason Nelson, founder of Body Image and the Human Optimization Project, to talk about what happens when you build strength for a deeper reason: to stop feeling small, to protect your mind, and to stay capable for decades. Jason shares how growing...

Send us Fan Mail That quiet voice in the back of your mind is not giving helpful feedback. It is rehearsing a greatest-hits reel of every mistake you have ever made and using it to talk you out of the raise, the pitch, the presentation, or the leadership moment you know you should take. We get honest about why “I am confident” mirror talk usually fails: your brain knows your history, so it argues...

Send us Fan Mail You can be brilliant, self-aware, and successful, then still lose your footing when a small moment hits a big nerve. That’s the heart of what we’re unpacking: the “feeling rules” you never agreed to, but learned anyway. I walk through how emotional inheritance forms in childhood, why it can feel like an invisible operating system, and how it shows up decades later as perfectionism...

Send us Fan Mail A matte-black “Batman” SUV pulls up beside a beat-up Civic at a red light and your brain instantly runs the wrong math. We’re conditioned to treat luxury as proof of security, but the loudest lifestyle can be the most fragile. I’m Corey Kennard, and I’m making the case for silent wealth: the kind that doesn’t sparkle on Instagram because it’s busy building options, liquidity, and...

Send us Fan Mail You know that feeling when a certain name pops up on your phone and you instantly want to flip it face down? That reaction is not random, it’s information. I’m Corey Kennard, and I’m walking you through a full-blown friendship audit to figure out who is expanding your life and who is quietly draining your bandwidth. We start with the why. Emotional contagion shows we absorb the mo...

Send us Fan Mail Regret can be weirdly specific: the message you sent too fast, the moment you stayed quiet, the choice you can’t stop replaying. I’m Corey Kennard, and I’m making a case for something most of us never hear. Regret isn’t a glitch in your brain. It’s proof your mind can do something advanced: build an alternate reality, compare it to your life, and use the contrast as feedback. We d...

Send us Fan Mail Money stress has a way of sneaking into everything: your sleep, your mood, your marriage, and the choices you make when life gets busy. We wanted a conversation that cuts through the noise and gives you a clear path to financial wellness that actually holds up in real life, even if you’re the kind of person who still wants to live now. We’re joined by Scott Zuckerman, a veteran fi...

Send us Fan Mail Time is moving, and we do not get to hit pause on history. We sit down with two Detroit elders who refuse to let hard truths fade into the background: actor Dwight Stackhouse and award-winning poet and ghostwriter Alexander Payne Morgan. They bring a snippet of their powerful two-man play to the mic and then unpack why they built it in the first place, a Black man who grew up “inn...

Send us Fan Mail Your “gut instinct” might be the most underappreciated data stream in your life. We follow the signal from butterflies before a big presentation all the way down to the enteric nervous system, a dense network of hundreds of millions of neurons running through your digestive tract. If you have ever made a major decision on a feeling you could not explain, there is a good chance you...

Send us Fan Mail Saying yes can feel like kindness, but what if it’s actually fear wearing a friendly mask? I’m Corey Kennard, and I’m calling out the “disease to please” the pattern that keeps us overcommitted, quietly resentful, and stuck in relationships where our needs always come last. We start with the moment everyone recognizes: agreeing to something you don’t want to do because saying no f...

Send us Fan Mail Silence isn’t gone, it’s just been crowded out by pings, feeds, and the weird pressure to stay reachable every second. We’re noise drunk, and not only from jackhammers and sirens, but from the traffic inside our skulls: notification fatigue, nonstop information, and the kind of “continuous partial attention” that leaves you exhausted without ever feeling finished. We walk through...

Send us Fan Mail Most relationship blowups aren’t caused by one forgotten chore or one late text. They happen when two people are aiming for different outcomes with the same conversation and neither realizes it until the tension spikes. We walk through the real behavioral science behind those moments, including why “helpful” problem solving can feel like coldness, why silence can feel like abandon...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! Your life probably will not fall apart in one dramatic moment. It will more likely drift off course through tiny habits that feel harmless: one more delay, one more comfortable yes, one more “quick” notification check that fractures your mind. We go straight at those quiet killers of progress and show how they quietly drain pr...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! Avoiding end-of-life planning is easy until you watch confusion and regret hit the people you love. We sit down with Jermaine Ee, founder of HeirLight.com, to talk about why so many families still don’t have a will and why the real obstacle usually isn’t legal knowledge, it’s avoidance, fear, and the belief that estate plannin...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! You can smell a carton of milk and panic over 24 hours, yet still treat your own life like it has no expiration date. We challenge that default setting and make a bold case: mortality is not a dark thought to avoid, it is the ultimate clarity tool for productivity, happiness, and intentional living. When we stop pretending tim...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! Discipline has a branding problem. The moment we hear the word, many of us picture restriction, punishment, and a rigid life that squeezes out joy. But when we avoid structure, “going with the flow” often turns into three hours of doom scrolling, a messy kitchen, and the sinking feeling that we spent our day reacting instead o...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! Think back to the most spectacular mess you’ve ever made. The one that still makes you wince. Now imagine that moment wasn’t proof you’re broken, but proof your brain is learning. Host Corey Kennard walks through why failure hurts so much, why we get stuck, and how to turn a setback into a launch pad without pretending it didn...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! You look in the mirror and feel the creak before you feel the spark. That moment can feel personal, like you somehow “ran out” of motivation, but I argue it is not a willpower problem at all. It is a predictable collision between biology and burden: chronic stress, endless routine, and other people’s priorities piling up until...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! Your worst habits might not be “who you are.” They might be warning lights. We talk about emotional health as the real driver of human behavior and why ignoring it can quietly wreck your relationships, your physical health, and your ability to make clear decisions. We start by busting the myth that the brain runs on pure logic...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! Everyone is grinding, but grinding is not the same as winning. If hard work were the deciding factor, the busiest people in the world would always be the best, and we all know that’s not how performance works. Today we unpack what actually creates a competitive edge when everyone around you is already putting in effort: precis...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! Indecision is not neutral. It is a silent drain on your time, your energy, and your confidence, and it keeps you stuck in the hallway staring at doors you never open. We start with a blunt truth: not choosing is still a choice, and the longer you delay, the more mental bandwidth you burn replaying the same unanswered question....

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! What if you woke up every morning with a fresh deposit of 86,400 seconds and whatever you didn’t use vanished at night? That’s not a thought experiment, it’s real life, and it changes how we think about productivity, stress, and what “success” actually means. We walk through why time isn’t money but it’s a close cousin, and wh...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! The room is changing while you read this: the light shifts, your coffee cools, your body updates itself cell by cell. When we live like things should stay fixed, that constant motion starts to feel like a threat and we respond by gripping harder. We recorded this Due To Expire session to challenge that reflex and to offer a ca...

Text Us With This Link And Let Us Know How You Feel About This Episode! Most people spend decades climbing, then call it a life. Elizabeth Coplan spends four decades in Fortune 500 marketing and high-stakes law firm PR, then makes a sharper turn: she uses those same skills to build Grief Dialogues, a theater-driven movement that invites people to look straight at death, grief, and love without fli...