FailCraft

Whydo high-achieving, talented professionals get paralyzed when stepping onto astage or speaking in front of an audience—and why do so many speeches fail toland? TerryL. Fossum is a survival reality TV showwinner ( Kicking and Screaming ), #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, TEDx speaker(with over 1 million views), and founder of The World Class Speaker Program and The Stage Advantage . Dra...

Whatwould happen if the United States walked into a psychotherapist's officetoday—and what diagnosis would explain our nation's escalating politicaldivision, anger, and social unrest? PhyllisLeavitt spent 34 years as a licensedpsychotherapist treating severe family dysfunction, abuse, and childhoodtrauma. In her book Americain Therapy: A Practical Guide to Healing What Ails Us , Phyllisapp...

Whatdo you do when the foundation you lead loses its entire endowment overnight inthe Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, leaving you to rebuild trust and your careerfrom absolute zero? DavidHoman is a classical composer, startupfounder, philanthropy advisor, and founder of Orchestrated Connecting —a global network of over 2,500super-connectors. After spending 15 years feeling socially isolated due to ach...

Whatdo you do when a national 12-facility recycling operator is losing millions indelayed cash flow simply because its billing process is decentralized andmismanaged at the plant level? BiffJennings is a consulting CFO, co-founderof NetgainCFO , and former board member of the Solid WasteAssociation of North America. With over two decades of financial leadershipexperience across private-equity-back...

What do you do when asingle themed birthday party leaves you packing 30 plush toys into your car,facing a house already overflowing with clutter? Mic Foster is an entrepreneur of 26 years, a girl dad ofthree, and the founder of No Gifts Please .Realizing that the modern birthday cycle produced clutter, parentalawkwardness, and overwhelmed kids, Mic launched an AI-powered experienceregistry platfor...

Whatdo you do when a quick 5-minute phone break turns into 30 minutes of mindlessscrolling, sparking the terrifying realization that you are giving away yourdreams minute by minute? CindyBaker is a productivity coach, speaker,founder of Cindy Baker Coaching , and author. Holding a Master’sdegree in counseling alongside 19 years of experience as an educator, Cindyspent decades battling undiagnosed...

Whatdo you do when you are secretly filming in communist Moscow's Red Squarewithout a permit and a KGB agent marches directly toward your camera setup? CraigD. Forrest is an Emmy-winning TVdirector, documentary filmmaker, author, and former film professor. Over a40-year career spanning more than 250 overseas assignments across 160countries, Craig has filmed in the trenches of tribal warfare, c...

Whydoes standard anger management fail so many people, leaving them stuck in acycle of counting to 10, deep breathing, and managing symptoms without fixingthe root cause? Dr. Mort Orman, M.D. is an internal medicinephysician with 50 years of medical experience and a 40-year anger eliminationexpert. In his 20s and 30s, despite his success as a doctor, Dr. Orman wasvolatile, easily triggered, and at...

How do you guide agrieving widow or family through the emotional process of letting go of alegacy home while making smart financial decisions about decluttering, staging,and renovation? Erica Kalkofen is a real estate agent, interior designer,and founder of Get Your Home Today and EK Kitchens and Design . Holding an MBA in ExecutiveManagement and Strategic Planning alongside over 20 years of const...

Whatdo you do when your dream of a professional running career is crushed overnightafter being hit by a truck, only for a second metaphorical"truck"—the 2020 pandemic—to dismantle your 25-year corporate career? RobRené is a faith-based health researcher,author, and founder of ExodusStrong and BiohackingVille .After surviving multiple near-death experiences and a Stage 3 Melanomadiagnosis...

Whatdoes it actually take to acquire an operationally distressed senior livingcommunity, turn around its finances and culture, and capitalize on the massivedemographic wave known as the "Silver Tsunami"? Radhika Rastogi is a former healthcare IT management consultant, real estateinvestor, and Co-Founder of Relik Capital Group . After realizing that scaling single-family rentals wouldn&#3...

Whydo so many high-achieving women get stuck treating their anxiety, chronic pain,and past trauma as problems that constantly need to be fixed? Dr. Rochelle Vogt, Ph. D. ("Dr. Ro") is a clinical psychology mindfulness researcher, trauma resolutionspecialist, and creator of the MidlifeAlchemy Method® . Drawing on advanced neural reprogramming tools likethe MAP Method®, Dr. Ro explains why...

Whathappens when you spend years as a stand-up comedian making audiences laughwhile privately battling severe drug addiction, PTSD, and anxiety—only torealize that traditional rehabs and pills were treating the symptoms ratherthan the root cause? JustinL. Shaw is a "mysticalcomedian," Doctor of Divinity, "Sourcerer" (spelled with a"U" to signify Source energy), and au...

Whathappens when a decorated U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel with 23 years of serviceand four combat deployments realizes that suppressing his emotions andmaintaining "Captain America" strength was actually destroying himfrom the inside out? RyanT. Reichert is a retired U.S. ArmyLieutenant Colonel, Foreign Service Director, Fortune 500 executive leader, andfounder of Our Protector Developme...

Whatwould compel an engineering technician to liquidate his house down payment savingsto fund a 3,700-mile solo bicycle ride from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.? TeddyBloom is an engineering technician,cyclist, and civil rights advocate from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Alarmed bygrowing political polarization, censorship, and the erosion of due process inthe United States, Teddy launched Ride4Rights...

Aregreat leaders born with innate charisma, or are they built through deliberatepractice, struggle, and personal adversity? JimCarlough is a leadership identityarchitect, executive coach, Forbes Councils member, and author of The Six Pillars of Effective Leadership: A Roadmap to Success .With over 30 years of experience developing high-performing teams, Jimchallenges the myth of the "born lea...

Whatdo you do when you are co-leading one of Tucson's most popular mid-60s garagerock bands, only to break it up and gamble everything on a move to thecompetitive music scene of Los Angeles? MannyFreiser is a songwriter, musician,former record executive, lawyer, and author of the memoir Tracks in the Sands of Time (Volume 1) . As the drivingforce behind The Grodes , Manny penned garage rock cl...

Whatdo you do when you've spent 14 years climbing the wealth managementladder—managing over $500 million in client net worth—only to leave behindcorporate security to launch a media company from scratch? AdamTorres is a top podcaster, co-founder of Mission Matters Media , and the author of 1 Billion Podcasts: The Future of ALL Media . Afterwalking away from a lucrative career in financial serv...

Outof at least 27 known human species that evolved over the last 7 million years,why are Homo sapiens the only ones who survived? And are we currentlyengineering the very artificial intelligence that could make us extinct? ChipWalter is an award-winning author,documentary filmmaker, former CNN bureau chief, and National GeographicExplorer. His books—including Last ApeStanding , Thumbs,Toes and Tea...

Whatdoes it actually cost to climb from an entry-level position to the executivesuite while silently managing ADHD, autism, and hearing loss in corporateenvironments built for neurotypical conformity? RonaldSosa is a neuroinclusive leadershipcoach, international speaker, author of Rewriting the Rules , host of the Left Unattended podcast, and Executive Director of theUncharted Veterinary Conferenc...

Whathappens to a high-performing executive or leader when a major disruption ends,the adrenaline fades, but the heavy pressure to perform remains? SavioP. Clemente (NBC-HWC, ACC) is a TEDxspeaker, healthcare leadership strategist, journalist, and creator of the Adaptive Resilience Leadership framework. Havingconducted over 2,000 interviews with global thought leaders and survivingcancer twice (Sta...

Whatdo you do when you've built a million-dollar preschool empire from your livingroom, only for your newborn daughter’s medical crisis to force a choice betweencorporate success and family? JessicaDanel is a mom of three, author, andhost of the Jess Saying podcast. After building a thriving10,000-square-foot preschool business from scratch, Jessica faced aheart-wrenching series of events: the...

Whatdo you do when a decade-long career investment evaporates at age 53, leavingyou as an immigrant without a college degree, facing professional irrelevance? AndrewBrümmer is known as "The BusinessPolygraph"—an executive operator, fractional COO, author of You Decide and Leading Magnanimously , and co-founder of My Story Told . In March 2024, when a sudden corporatefunding crisis threat...

Whatdo you do when every attempt to control your life, fix your flaws, or forceprogress eventually ends in internal collapse and regression? RichardN. Smith is an author, coach, and thecreator of the Orbits of Consciousness framework. After spending yearstrying to manage life through force, Richard realized that human growth isn't alinear ladder to enlightenment—it’s a multidimensional movemen...

Whatdo you do when political revolution blocks your 10,000-mile motorcycle routefrom war-torn Belfast to Australia, forcing you to ride 50,000 miles in theopposite direction across Africa and South America? ChrisDonaldson is a serial entrepreneur,adventurer, and author of the bestselling book Going the Wrong Way . In 1979, at age 21, Chris set outfrom Belfast, Northern Ireland, on a Moto Guzzi mot...