Becoming With Precious: The Journey of Personal Growth And Reinvention

What does it take to mend a fractured relationship with an estranged parent, leave the corporate grind behind, and finally publish the book you hid away for a decade? Terry Bean grew up as the mediator in a 1960s blended family, constantly running from domestic angst to create a quiet sanctuary in her own mind. That early survival mechanism of seeking peace planted the seed for a lifelong pursuit...

What happens when you are diagnosed with an incurable disease, confined to a wheelchair, and told you will never ride again, but your audacity to heal proves louder than the medical prognosis? Kasia Bukowska was an active, competitive equestrian until a sudden lupus diagnosis confined her to a wheelchair. Bedridden and consumed by the humiliating guilt of feeling like a burden to her family, she h...

How do you find the audacity to rewrite your entire life's trajectory when you are caught in the exhausting tension between corporate stability and the raw, unfiltered call of your true purpose? Venchele Saint Dic understands the heavy, often unseen friction that exists between sterile systemic structures and the raw, lived experiences of marginalized communities. Growing up in Haiti before na...

What do you do when the sudden death of your spouse strips away your identity and leaves you suffocating in grief, but you realize you still have the audacity to choose how the rest of your story is written? Chris Moore spent decades building sprawling, elaborate houses until the 2008 financial crash wiped out his business overnight. Forced to pivot, a family health crisis led him to discover a ma...

What do you do when you realize the defining moment of your early career was a highly successful, paid political hit job that left you with a profound sense of regret and the urgent need to completely redefine your purpose? In this insightful interview, Cameron Cowan explores the interconnectedness of fashion, geopolitics, and culture, revealing how historical trends influence current global shift...

What does it take to walk away from a highly secure, prestigious career as a physicist at the National Ignition Facility simply because you realize your analytical mind can solve the immediate, crushing systemic failures facing street children across the globe? Dr. Rahul Prasad spent decades at the absolute pinnacle of scientific research, applying his profound curiosity to complex physics at the...

What does it take for a man trapped in the suffocating cycles of porn addiction and people pleasing to put down the video game controller, confront his deepest insecurities, and realize his hidden emotional sensitivity is actually his greatest strength? Vincent Hazenboom spent decades paralyzed by the exhausting weight of trying to fit a traditional stoic mold of masculinity. Secretly dealing with...

What does it take to realize that hiding behind your business brand for twenty years isn't keeping you safe, but is actually costing you millions in lost opportunities? Ange Dove spent two decades running a wildly successful copywriting agency in Singapore, helping everyone else find their powerful voice while remaining entirely invisible herself. Consumed by the daily grind of managing client...

What does it take to walk away from a highly lucrative, thirty year executive career at IBM just when you reach the top, simply because a quiet inner voice tells you it is time to serve a different purpose? Anouk Brumfield spent three decades climbing the corporate ladder from humble beginnings to become a powerful Senior Partner and Executive Vice President at IBM. Raised by a grandmother with a...

What would you do if you signed a literal contract with yourself giving you exactly 911 days to either fix your completely broken life or end it? At 44 years old, Cam Cordin hit a brutal breaking point. With three failed marriages in his wake and a physical body that felt decades older due to chronic pain, he realized half measures were no longer going to save him. Instead of quietly managing his...

What happens when a society systematically trains little boys to shut down their deepest emotions from infancy, and what kind of raw grit does it take for a grown man to finally break that decades-long silence for the sake of his children? Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst has spent fifty years in the trenches of psychology, beginning her career by evaluating energetic preschool boys who were unfairly labele...

What happens to your spirit when you fly across the world to save your paralyzed wife, only to return home and receive your own fatal cancer diagnosis four months later? Dean Weitenhagen thought he had already faced the ultimate test when his wife, Patsy, suffered a catastrophic stroke that left her paralyzed. Refusing to accept the local neurologist's grim prognosis, Dean made the audacious d...

What happens to your body and your psyche when you spend decades performing a version of success that secretly feels like effort, only to have a tragedy crack the shell wide open? Jazzmyn Lauff once lived what she calls a "shiny apple" life—a high-achieving corporate career, material stability, and a long-term relationship. But inside, the apple was hollow, marked by extreme fatigue and...

What if the health struggles you are facing right now aren't just an ending, but the exact catalyst you need to discover your true strength? Anthony Guastella’s journey began in the depths of a six-year struggle with Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain. Trapped in a body that felt like it was failing him, Anthony realized he faced a choice: remain a victim to his circumstances or beco...

What if you chose to face the darkest season of your life not in mourning black, but in a signature shade of red—the color of fire, passion, and the Holy Spirit? Rachel Kerr Schneider’s life shifted irreversibly when she became a widow at 49, navigating her husband John’s brutal, terminal battle with ALS while raising two young sons. In this deeply moving episode, Rachel shares the reality of bein...

What if the very expertise that got you to the top of your career is the same thing currently holding you back from being an effective leader? Yosi Kossowsky brings over 30 years of executive experience—including time as a CTO—to a conversation about the messy intersection of brain science and human connection. He argues that many leaders suffer from a form of professional delusion: they equate in...

If you survived two bankruptcies, a near death experience, and two brutal battles with cancer, would you let the world convince you that you were hopelessly broken, or would you find the audacity to realize you were entirely magnificent all along? Sue Paulson has lived a life defined by the kind of profound breakage that would shatter most people. Enduring two divorces, two bankruptcies, a near de...

If the education system wrote you off as a failure and you found yourself jobless at thirty-seven, would you surrender to a life of mediocrity, or would you find the grit to completely rewrite your story and become a lifeline for others? James Lee spent his early years falling through the cracks of a deeply flawed education system. Battling learning disabilities, he endured humiliating predictions...

If you lost the job you planned to retire from today, with a family depending entirely on you, would you succumb to the terror, or would you find the audacity to build an empire that transforms the lives of the unemployable? Mary Korn was completely blindsided when she was fired just two months into a job she believed would carry her to retirement. As a single mother with two teenagers heading to...

What does it feel like to look perfectly fine to the world while secretly feeling like a fraud in your own skin? Maxim Shapiro spent decades living a life that appeared functional on the outside but felt hollow within. Disconnected, depressed, and lacking pride, he describes this period as living without a rudder—a state of passive drifting where his true self was buried under a performed identity...

When you are standing on the side of a mountain in the French Alps and realize your body is failing you, do you accept the decline, or do you build a bridge to the future of medicine? In this episode of Becoming with Precious, we sit down with Adam Blum, a tech founder and elite athlete whose life took a sharp turn during a grueling bike expedition through the French Alps. What began as unexplaine...

What happens to your identity when the very industry that gave you a voice no longer aligns with the man you have decided to become? WB Dale joins Precious to discuss his radical departure from the glitz of Hollywood acting and television production to the high-stakes world of corporate leadership. Rather than chasing the standard metrics of success, Dale reveals that his transition was sparked by...

How do you find the grit to completely rewrite your life story when every attempt to change your destructive habits on your own has ended in raw failure? Carl Grant grew up in a secular environment with zero concept of sin, conviction, or spiritual purpose. For years, he lived entirely driven by his own desires, falling into repetitive cycles of temptation and failed attempts to clean up his act....

What happens when you realize the years you spent building a conventional mindset actually left you completely unprepared for the raw pressure of the spotlight? In this episode, we sit down with nervous system and leadership strategist Carmen Wiesinger, who openly shares her jarring transition from a typical, burnt-out mindset coach to a master of energetic presence. After spending years acquiring...

How do you find the audacity to rewrite your entire identity when the systems meant to protect you fail, and the only choice you have left is to just keep breathing? In this deeply moving episode of Becoming with Precious, we sit down with entrepreneur, mother of six, and author Misty Nesbitt to explore her raw journey from surviving childhood trauma and child marriage to building a life of profou...