FailCraft

In this episode of FailCraft ,former Fortune 500 management consultant and founder of DiscussIt, Rita Rai, joinsEzekiel to break down why the traditional consulting model fails modernbusiness agility. After years advising enterprise executive teams onlarge-scale digital transformations, operational overhauls, and strategy, Ritaobserved that the real needle-moving moments never came from 80-page sl...

In this episode of FailCraft ,educator, former Department of Defense education research analyst, andco-author of Born of Nothing , Dr. Donald Williams, joins Ezekiel toshare how he broke out of a Southern mill village to rewrite his family'sgenerational trajectory. Raised in an extended family of cotton mill workersknown derisively as "lintheads," Donald's environment expected yo...

In this episode of FailCraft ,psychologist, speaker, and co-author of The 5 Languages of Appreciation inthe Workplace , Dr. Paul White, joins Ezekiel to uncover why 79% ofemployees who quit cite a lack of appreciation as their primary reason forleaving. Partnering with Dr. Gary Chapman to bring the five love languagesframework into corporate settings, Dr. White's work has impacted over 800,000...

In this episode of FailCraft ,founder of WR Digital Marketing and author of The Three Roots Marketing PlanWorkbook , Juliana Weiss-Roessler, joins Ezekiel to break down why small andmid-sized businesses burn out on social media while seeing zero return. Withover two decades of experience serving more than 150 organizations, Julianapulls back the curtain on the traditional agency playbook and expos...

In this episode of FailCraft ,private investigator, former juvenile probation officer, gang investigator, andauthor of Tip of the Spear , Dave Kopeny, joins Ezekiel to pull back thecurtain on the failed War on Drugs and the modern teen addiction crisis. Growing up in a home consumed by addiction—where he was introduced to LSD ateight years old and later lost his father, brother, and sister to subs...

In this episode of FailCraft ,father of eight and author of Autism Sucks: Finding Hope in the Chaos ,Paul Voss, joins Ezekiel to share the raw reality of raising a child on thespectrum while managing a large household on zero sleep. When his youngestdaughter began regressing into severe autism in 2022, generic clinicalplatitudes failed to solve her nightly two-hour waking cycles or intensesensory...

In this episode of FailCraft ,founder of Human Liberation and host of The Joel Bein Show , Joel Bein,joins Ezekiel to break down why adding more self-improvement habits, meditationsessions, and mindset reframes often fails to solve chronic self-sabotage. After spending years in an exhausting cycle of pushing and grinding against avicious inner critic, Joel discovered a belief-clearing method that...

In this episode of FailCraft ,financial coach, best-selling author, and host of the Give A Heck podcast Dwight Heck joins Ezekiel to discuss escaping the paycheck-to-paycheckgrind and building intentional financial freedom. Raising five children as asingle father while running an IT consulting business, Dwight lived in constantfinancial exhaustion—until a severe health crisis in 2001 stripped away...

In this episode of FailCraft ,professional gallery artist of over 30 years and transformational guide DevorahBrinckerhoff joins Ezekiel to explore how mixed-media intuitive creativityheals the trauma that analytical thinking cannot touch. Moving away from thepressure of painting for external gallery approval, Devorah created the SoulPortraits methodology out of personal necessity—ripping up old jo...

In this episode of FailCraft ,serial entrepreneur, sales psychology specialist, and founder of Elite BusinessCruises Joe Rockey joins Ezekiel to challenge the outdated tropes andpressure-heavy scripts that hold modern sales teams back. Having launched 29different business ventures, Joe breaks down why traditional script-basedclosing destroys morale, why prospects deploy the defensive "I'm...

In this episode of FailCraft ,inspirational speaker, wellness entrepreneur, and award-winning author Sara Imjoins Ezekiel to share her harrowing yet deeply triumphant story of survivingthe Cambodian genocide. In 1975, while attending college away from home, Sarawas taken captive by the Khmer Rouge and forced into four brutal years of laborcamps—enduring starvation, exhaustion, and severe illness d...

In this episode of FailCraft , veteran executive coach, speaker, and authorof Mayday! and Hidden Metrics , M.Nora Bouchard, joins Ezekiel to unpack how high-performing leaders can identifyand dismantle dangerous blind spots. Early in her career at a global consultingfirm, Nora hit every milestone on paper while secretly operating as anaggressive, fear-driven manager—until a single question from he...

In this episode of FailCraft , small business owner, former two-term Mayorof Placentia, and California State Senate candidate Rhonda Shader joins Ezekielto pull back the curtain on government reform, fiscal discipline, and cuttingthrough bureaucratic red tape. Taking office when Placentia was on the brink ofbankruptcy, Rhonda faced relentless establishment pushback to launch the city'sfirst in...

In this episode of FailCraft , holistic empowerment mentor, keynotespeaker, former collegiate athlete, and author of Blurred Lines ,Lauren Fay, joins Ezekiel to explore how high-capacity women can break freefrom emotional exhaustion, overthinking, and reliance on alcohol to cope withstress. Alcohol-free since 2018, Lauren explains that drinking is rarely theprimary issue—it is often a tool used to...

In this episode of FailCraft , author, speaker, and storyteller Daniel Grayjoins Ezekiel to share how total accountability and faith guided him throughthe federal justice system and incarceration following January 6th. Rather thandeflecting blame or adopting a victim mentality, Daniel chose radicalownership—submitting an unvarnished confession of his life's mistakes directlyto the judge before...

In this episode of FailCraft , veteran political organizer, CEO of The MostGood consulting firm, and founder of Mind the Movement Ashley Williams joinsEzekiel to expose the hidden mental health crisis behind national politicalcampaigns. Having led massive democracy initiatives—including training 60,000organizers in four weeks during the pandemic—Ashley witnessed firsthand how thepolitical machine...

In this episode of FailCraft , orthopedic trauma surgeon, Air Forceveteran, author, and founder of Raise Expectations Dr. Sean Adelman joinsEzekiel to discuss how raising a child with Down syndrome fundamentallytransformed his understanding of potential, inclusion, and success. Despiterigorous clinical training, Sean discovered medical school never prepared him forhis daughter Devon's diagnosi...

In this episode of FailCraft , chef, author, and speaker Neena Perez joinsEzekiel to share how the discipline of cooking and faith transformed her lifeafter surviving childhood abuse, domestic violence, rape, teen pregnancy, anddeep poverty. Creator of The Purpose-Filled Kitchen and author of Hit Me With Your Best Shot , Neena reveals why so manyhigh achievers are simply wounded people surviving t...

In this episode of FailCraft , author, systemic thinker, and MBA Anne Rileyjoins Ezekiel to explore how evolutionary biology, natural systems, and physicshold the solution to our fractured societies. Synthesizing decades of studyfrom Charles Darwin to Michael Rothschild's Bionomics , Anneintroduces her "Ideasphere" framework and her books The Human Idea and DINA: Nature's Case fo...

In this episode of FailCraft , certified hypnotist, instructor, and founderof Summit Hypnosis Deane Benninghoven joins Ezekiel to share how therapeutichypnosis saved him after standard medicine failed. Working as an artist andtraining in luxury watchmaking, a devastating truck collision left Deane withsevere neck trauma, numbness, and chronic debilitating pain. Facing reliance onprescription opioi...

In this episode of FailCraft , award-winning investigative journalist,Cornell educator, and creator of the AREA Method Cheryl Strauss Einhorn joinsEzekiel to break down the mechanics of making high-stakes, evidence-baseddecisions. Drawing from two decades investigating public corporations forpublications like The New York Times and Harvard Business Review —work that uncovered systemicfraud, trigge...

In this episode of FailCraft , founder of the CIC Global LeadershipInstitute, author of 26 books, and serial entrepreneur DR Rawson joins Ezekielto break down why success without character inevitably collapses. Havingfounded over 30 companies across several decades, DR shares how a painfulpersonal confrontation in his 20s forced him to shift his entire lifephilosophy from using people to asking, &...

In this episode of FailCraft , top 1% Canadian Realtor and HGTV Hot Market co-host David Cinelli joins Ezekiel to sharehow he broke into Toronto's cutthroat real estate industry with zero network orfamily legacy. Leveraging his background in mathematics and an MBA, Davidreveals the math behind high-stakes property decisions, the staged reality ofluxury TV, why your primary residence is a liabi...

In this episode of FailCraft , transformational coach, investor, and authorof Authentic Self Rebirth , Polish Peter Kolat, joinsEzekiel to break down why mainstream self-help often keeps high achieverstrapped in cycles of burnout. Arriving in America from communist Poland at 14with zero English, Peter built an enviable life from scratch, only to have a painful2011 divorce plunge him into "opt...

In this episode of FailCraft , decorated Air Force Special Operationspilot, keynote speaker, and leadership expert Brian Flanagan joins Ezekiel tobreak down how to lead and adapt when the plan completely shatters. With over2,000 flight hours and 450 combat missions flying the AC-130 gunship, Brianoperated at the tip of the spear in zero-fail environments—until a suddendiagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymp...