Richer Soul

They Are Lying to You. The Self-Help Delusion   Federico Malatesta spent fifteen years in the energy business, the last four running operations in Russia, before he walked away to do something nobody who knew him expected: coach people through the parts of life no protocol can fix. His argument is that self-help never had the tools for the job it promised to do, because it treats a human life like...

Achievement Addiction   Dr. Jack Groppel spent decades filming elite athletes, briefing Congress, and building a company he eventually sold to Johnson and Johnson, all without a single business or speech class. But the accomplishment that mattered most to him, a standing ovation in front of 20,000 people with his father in the crowd, got answered with a compliment about someone else on the program...

Your Bank Account Is Your Subconscious   Lillian Eve Moore spends her days telling successful people the same uncomfortable thing: your bank account is not a record of bad decisions. It is your subconscious, printed out in numbers. She has spent two decades helping people heal trauma fast, and she keeps finding the exact same law running underneath grief, chronic illness, and the finances people a...

Navigating Crazy: How to Live and Work Sanely in an Insane World   Most people trying to lead and live well are doing it without an anchor. Mike Staver has spent decades inside the rooms where leaders admit what they will not say out loud anywhere else, and he has reached a blunt conclusion: people do not rise to the level of their intentions. They live at the level of their behavior.   If you hav...

Escaping Optimization Culture to Restore Health, Meaning, and a Life That Fits with Ramona Roemer & Andreas Heigl    Some of the healthiest-looking patients Ramona Roemer and Andreas Heigl have ever treated were also the most quietly falling apart. Two decades of running a private longevity clinic taught them something the wellness industry doesn't advertise: chasing perfect numbers can make peopl...

He Almost Hit His Biggest Goal. Then Felt Nothing.   Mike Brcic built a mountain bike adventure company toward a goal of operating in a hundred and fifty countries, and got close enough to see himself crossing the finish line. Then he felt nothing. What came after: selling the company, sitting with a therapist, and building a new career that takes entrepreneurs into the wilderness to meet the part...

He was lying in a hospital bed as one of the most senior executives at a public company, wealthy by any measure, when the first thought that crossed his mind was whether he could survive on food bank groceries. Art Blanchford had already built a fortune, lost it, and built it again. The fear never checked his bank statement before it showed up. Art grew up inside a religious cult where love and sa...

Dr. Michael Glock spent seventy years earning the right to say something simple. Twenty-eight startups. Two marriages. A doctorate in depth psychology. Talks at Yale, Princeton, and the University of London. And the thing he keeps coming back to with clients is not a strategy. It's a sentence a client said to him days before this recording: standing on a beautiful plot of land, deciding what to bu...

I'm Still Here: Told Six Months to Live, Three Times   Tom LeNoble has been given six months to live three separate times. He has lived with metastatic cancer for fourteen years. In this conversation, he explains why none of that made him slow down, and why the real work after a crisis is not recovery. It is deciding what you are going to do with whatever time is left. If you have ever scome throu...

He Made the NFL. He Always Saved His Dad a Seat in the Stands   Every game Corey Parchman played, in any city, he got to the stadium early and found a seat in the stands. That's where his father was sitting, in his mind. His dad died of a heart attack at thirty nine, when Corey was ten.   Corey has spent his career proving he can figure things out alone: five seasons in the NFL after going undraft...

What an 83-Year-Old's Daily Habits Reveal About Aging   Most people assume chronic disease is just a normal part of getting older. Michael Dorfman, an 83 year old health and nutrition coach, has spent the last 18 years proving otherwise, and he's still playing competitive pickleball to show for it. If you've ever wondered whether it's too late to change your trajectory, or whether the version of a...

Why Your Business Won't Let You Go - Letting Others Take Ownership   You have hired good people. You have tried to step back. And yet, every time something important goes sideways, it still lands on your desk. Jason Henneberry says that is not a people problem or a systems problem. It is a dependency problem, and it has a specific structural cause. Jason is the founder of Dependency Design, a seni...

Why Your Best People Want You to Leave Them Alone   There is a pattern Nathan Jamail has seen across hundreds of organizations, in every industry, at every level. Ask employees what their professional goal is, and most will eventually tell you: to be so good their boss leaves them alone. That is not apathy. That is a signal about how leadership is being experienced. In this episode, Nathan and Roc...

Why High Achievers Hit Invisible Ceilings For five consecutive years, Paul Salter ran a successful coaching business, worked more each year, and landed within $10,000 of the same annual income. The ceiling was real, but it was invisible. It was not his pricing, his marketing, or his effort. It was a belief he had formed as a teenager watching his father fill out a college financial aid form, a bel...

The Wealth Nobody Sees: Why Frugal Always Beats Flashy   For years, Earl Yaokasin drove a 20-year-old Honda Civic to his kids' private school and parked it as far from the entrance as possible. He did not want anyone to see the car. The lot was full of Bentleys. He felt the embarrassment. Then he started talking to those families. Most had almost no savings. Some were on scholarship. The image of...

The Changed Mind: From Broken Start to Built Legacy   At 15, Jonathan Berryhill had no stable home. By his late twenties he had a military career, a law enforcement career, a college degree he earned as a walk-on linebacker at 25, three kids, and a marriage he was quietly destroying. The moment he saw what he was doing, he made a phone call that split his life in two. This is not a story about hus...

The Root Cause Most Doctors Never Look For with Dr. Yi Song   You have been through the tests. You have the results. You have the prescription. And something still feels unresolved, because the system you went through was built to find what is broken in one place, not to read the whole picture. Dr. Yi Song has practiced at the intersection of traditional Chinese medicine, Western pathology, and re...

The Library That Dies With Every Person with Miles Spencer   There is a Kenyan saying that Miles Spencer dropped into the middle of this conversation without warning — the kind that stays with you after the recording ends. When a person passes away, an entire library burns to the ground. If you have ever stood at a funeral wishing you had asked one more question, this episode was made for that mom...

Turn Setbacks Into Wins With Neutral Thinking   Success does not protect you from feeling stuck. In fact, for many high achievers, the pressure to keep performing can bury the deeper questions that actually matter. This conversation with Joshua Lifrak is about what happens when the old way of thinking stops working and you need a more honest framework for resilience, growth, and living with intent...

Why High Achievers Need a Life Operating System   You can win in business and still feel like you are losing yourself.   In this Richer Soul conversation, Rocky Lalvani sits down with JB Glossinger, founder of MorningCoach, to talk about why so many high achievers feel stuck between outward success and inner dissatisfaction. JB shares how his early relationship with money, years of personal develo...

Why Financial Freedom Fails When Money Loses Value   Why Financial Freedom Fails Without Real Money    A lot of high achievers have learned how to earn, save, and build. But what happens when the system underneath that success becomes less stable than it looks? In this episode of Richer Soul, Rocky Lalvani sits down with David Morgan to explore a question that goes far beyond markets: what is mone...

Dhrasti: Changing Your Standpoint on Money, Success, and Conditioning   We are taught that a 9-to-5 job is the safe route and entrepreneurship is a risky gamble. But the truth is, a paycheck is only guaranteed until you're let go. In this episode, Rocky Lalvani sits down with Pratiqk Jaani, an accountant turned hypnotherapist and author of  Dhrasti: The Perception , to explore how childhood condit...

You Can't See the Diamonds at Your Feet   You've  built the business. Hit the numbers. Earned  the respect . So why does something still feel like  it's  missing? This episode  doesn't  offer a quick fix. It offers something rarer: an honest diagnosis from someone who has spent decades inside physics, entrepreneurship, mountain climbing, and the therapy room, and who keeps arriving at the same unc...

You Hit Every Goal. So, Why Does It Feel Empty?   What happens when you build everything you were told to want and still feel empty? Jim Sabellico found out the hard way. In this episode of Richer Soul, Jim sits down with Rocky Lalvani to share the raw, honest story behind his No Half Cakes philosophy and why he believes most high achievers are  winning at  the wrong game entirely.     In This Epi...

You're Not in Charge: What Ayahuasca Teaches High Achievers   You have done the work. Built the business. Hit the goals. So why does something still feel off? For high achievers and entrepreneurs, the hardest realization is not that something is broken. It is that the very skill that built  everything,   your  need to  control,  might be the thing standing between you and what you are  actually se...