Control or Be Controlled

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What if the cash your business needs isn’t missing—it’s simply sitting in your customers’ accounts? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Bill Ferrier , founder of Ready Set Collect and a veteran of nearly 40 years in the credit and collections industry, joins us to reveal how companies can take greater control of their cash flow by getting their own money paid on time. For many businesses...

What if the part of you that you thought you lost isn’t actually gone? For many women, singing was once a huge part of their lives—choir, school musicals, college performances, or simply singing for the joy of it. Then life got busy. Careers, children, relationships, and responsibilities took over, and somewhere along the way, the singing stopped. Twenty or thirty years later, they want it back—bu...

What happens when a near-fatal event changes your life in an instant—and you emerge not just as a survivor, but as a force for systemic change? Pam Warren—widely known as "The Lady in the Mask" following the Paddington rail crash, international inspirational speaker, author, and national rail safety campaigner—joins us for a profoundly human conversation about trauma, recovery, identity, and the u...

What happens when a doctor chooses to stand with patients the healthcare system has failed? Today’s guest is Dr. Helen Webberley , a physician, transgender healthcare advocate, and founder of GenderGP. After spending decades in medicine, Helen began caring for transgender patients who were facing years-long waiting lists and limited access to care. Her decision to provide evidence-based treatment...

What if some of the patterns controlling your life today were formed long before you were old enough to understand them? In this powerful conversation, Dr. Christopher Barker , clinical psychologist, speaker, author, and host of the Holding Space podcast, joins CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED to explore how childhood experiences, complex trauma, and attachment wounds can continue influencing the way we t...

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What if some of the answers you’ve been searching for aren’t outside of you at all—but have been waiting to be discovered within? In this episode of Control or Be Controlled , Darlington sits down with Brandt Morgan , a writer, teacher, mentor, and certified firewalking instructor who has spent decades helping people reconnect with their deeper sense of purpose, authenticity, and possibility. Bran...

In this powerful episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED, Darlington sits down with psychotherapist Ward Lassoe to explore the extraordinary life of Diane—a woman whose childhood was marked by abandonment, abuse, homelessness, and unimaginable hardship, yet who refused to let her past determine the person she would become. What began as a simple fifteen-minute classroom assignment during Ward’s gradua...

What if some of the answers you've been searching for aren't outside of you at all—but have been waiting to be discovered within? In this episode of Control or Be Controlled, Darlington sits down with Brandt Morgan, a writer, teacher, mentor, and certified firewalking instructor who has spent decades helping people reconnect with their deeper sense of purpose, authenticity, and possibility. Brandt...

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What if the part of you that you thought you lost isn’t actually gone? For many women, singing was once a huge part of their lives—choir, school musicals, college performances, or simply singing for the joy of it. Then life got busy. Careers, children, relationships, and responsibilities took over, and somewhere along the way, the singing stopped. Twenty or thirty years later, they want it back—bu...

What if the life you want requires you to stop waiting for certainty, approval, or permission? Today’s guest is Hussein Hallak , a founder, entrepreneur, strategist, author, and lifelong learner who has spent two decades helping people and organizations navigate uncertainty, complexity, reinvention, and change. Hussein is the CEO of Next Decentrum and author of The Dark Art of Life Mastery , a blu...

What happens when life takes everything you thought you could control—and forces you to rebuild from the ground up? Today’s guest is Buddy Clay, a father, entrepreneur, author, and founder of New Hope Healthcare Institute in Knoxville, Tennessee. At just 36 years old, Buddy was married, raising two young daughters, expecting a third child, and building his life when he received a devastating stage...

Today’s guest is Andrew Gillsmith , a Catholic science fiction author exploring the fascinating intersection of artificial intelligence, consciousness, faith, philosophy, and the future of humanity . Andrew is the author of Our Lady of the Artilects , a metaphysical science fiction novel described as “The Exorcist meets Westworld, with a light dusting of Snow Crash.” Drawing from his background in...

What happens when you’re excellent at earning money—but haven’t given the same attention to what happens to it next? In this episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED , Darlington sits down with Paul Carroll , CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and founder and CEO of Avion Wealth , to explore the financial decisions that can determine whether a successful career ultimately translates into lasting financial se...

What if some of the answers you’ve been searching for aren’t outside of you at all—but have been waiting to be discovered within? In this episode of Control or Be Controlled , Darlington sits down with Brandt Morgan , a writer, teacher, mentor, and certified firewalking instructor who has spent decades helping people reconnect with their deeper sense of purpose, authenticity, and possibility. Bran...

What if some of the answers you've been searching for aren't outside of you at all—but have been waiting to be discovered within? In this episode of Control or Be Controlled, Darlington sits down with Brandt Morgan, a writer, teacher, mentor, and certified firewalking instructor who has spent decades helping people reconnect with their deeper sense of purpose, authenticity, and possibility. Brandt...

In this powerful episode of CONTROL OR BE CONTROLLED, Darlington sits down with psychotherapist Ward Lassoe to explore the extraordinary life of Diane—a woman whose childhood was marked by abandonment, abuse, homelessness, and unimaginable hardship, yet who refused to let her past determine the person she would become. What began as a simple fifteen-minute classroom assignment during Ward’s gradua...

What if some of the answers you've been searching for aren't outside of you at all—but have been waiting to be discovered within? In this episode of Control or Be Controlled, Darlington sits down with Brandt Morgan, a writer, teacher, mentor, and certified firewalking instructor who has spent decades helping people reconnect with their deeper sense of purpose, authenticity, and possibility. Brandt...