FailCraft

What do you do when you’ve climbed the corporate ladder, served in leadership at your church, and look like the "picture of success"—but you’re privately using alcohol to survive the day? Rose Ann Forte is an international best-selling author and the creator of the Choose Freedom Program. For years, she maintained a perfect facade while navigating a toxic marriage and intense career pres...

What do you do when you’ve spent 30 years holding the microphone, reporting on other people’s worst days, only to find yourself as the lead story on the evening news? Beth McDonough is a duPont Columbia and Emmy award-winning investigative reporter who covered tragedies like 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the death of Prince. But her life took a devastating turn when two DUIs led to a public...

What do you do when the voice you’ve used your entire life to teach, sing, and communicate suddenly stops working? Eileen Meehan was a passionate special education teacher and a lifelong choir singer. Her voice was her livelihood, her spiritual expression, and a core pillar of her identity. But then she began to struggle to speak. Eventually diagnosed with Spasmodic Dysphonia—a rare, incurable neu...

What do you do when you pour your blood, sweat, and tears into a launch, only to hear absolute crickets from the market? Eric B. Horn is a business operations expert who has spent over a decade helping entrepreneurs turn chaos into clarity. But his expertise didn't come from a textbook—it came from launching ideas that met silence and having to rebuild his own business from the ground up. Toda...

Why do 70% of small businesses fail, and how can you ensure yours isn't one of them? Bryan Wetzel is the definition of a serial entrepreneur. From editing high-profile murder trial videos and working the 1996 Olympics to launching education startups and owning restaurants, Bryan has seen the "messy middle" of success from every angle. He survived a near-death car wreck that reshaped...

What do you do when your noble, selfless profession requires you to completely sacrifice your own identity to keep others alive? Kevin Jackson, better known as Kevie The Dreamer, spent 15 years working as a nurse. While he was dedicating his life to caring for patients at their absolute lowest moments, he was quietly neglecting his own passions. After a brutal season of intense hospital burnout co...

What does it take to finally reclaim your voice after being silenced for over a decade? Teri M Brown is an award-winning historical fiction author, but her path to publishing was anything but a straight line. After surviving a 14-year emotionally abusive marriage that stripped away her self-worth and left her feeling completely useless, Teri didn't just walk away—she got on a tandem bicycle. T...

What do you do when your greatest triumph—publishing your first book—is followed exactly seven days later by your greatest tragedy? Corwin "CJ Moneyway" Johnson is a globally recognized podcast host and author who has built a massive platform on the foundation of resilience. But before he was the voice of inspiration, he was living "with both eyes shut"—navigating a reckless li...

Are you staring at a mile-long to-do list, feeling paralyzed, and blaming yourself for being lazy or undisciplined? Helene Gidley is an Agile coach and project manager with over 40 years of experience in the IT industry. Despite managing massive, complex corporate projects with ease, she found herself secretly struggling to get through her own personal to-do lists. She realized that traditional pr...

What happens when you build a business that looks absolutely perfect on paper, but secretly drains the soul right out of you? Dylan Bost is the founder of SunnyHQ, a human-first WordPress hosting and support company. But before he built a business grounded in clarity and simplicity, he spent over a decade running a highly successful creative advertising agency. Despite having all the awards, hundr...

Rodney Phillips had a highly successful career in the pharmaceutical industry and spent over two decades coaching youth sports in Pittsburgh. But hidden inside his home office filing cabinet was a manuscript he started writing on index cards in a furniture store when he was just 19 years old. For 37 years, that story sat untouched. But at age 56, after becoming an empty nester, Rodney finally pull...

What if your biggest perceived flaws were actually your greatest leverage points for growth? Carly Pepin is a human behavior specialist and consultant who has spent over 15 years working behind the scenes with CEOs and founders. She helps high-level leaders scale their companies without losing their sense of self. Carly’s core philosophy is radical: burnout isn't just about having too many tas...

What happens when you reach the absolute pinnacle of your career, only to realize your soul is asking you to walk away from it all? Before she was a spiritual teacher, Swami Nityananda was Dr. Juniper Ellis—a tenured English professor with a PhD from Vanderbilt, a Fulbright grant, and a prestigious 25-year academic career. But despite her massive success in the intellectual world, her heart demand...

What happens when you chase the executive suite so relentlessly that your own body violently forces you to stop? Terence Davy is an executive coach and former high-growth SaaS leader who spent over a decade delivering massive results at a devastating personal cost. Trapped in a cycle of overworking and ignoring every red flag, his relentless grind culminated in a severe stress-related collapse tha...

What do you do when you lose everything in the 2008 crash, only to find yourself sitting in a bankruptcy court again in your 50s? Amynicole Ellis is the creator of The Debt Decoder and the founder of Fix Yourself & Flaunt It. She is a woman who has walked through the fire—surviving three devastating breakups and three bankruptcies—and come out the other side with absolutely zero regrets. Inste...

What happens when you go from sleeping on a friend's couch with $90 to your name and an 18-month-old child, to leading teams driving hundreds of millions in revenue? Christine Valdes is an executive sales leader, real estate investor, and living proof that where you start does not have to define where you finish. After relying on food stamps and writing bounced checks for daycare just to go to...

What do you do when years of severe bullying completely destroy your self-esteem, leaving you on the verge of giving up on life? Maikel Michiels is a personal development mentor who spent 15 years figuring out how the human mind actually works through relentless trial and error. After hitting an emotional rock bottom at 16, he made a radical choice: to rebuild his confidence brick by brick, even i...

Why do we actively train young boys to disconnect from their feelings, leaving them stranded in an emotional desert as adults? Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst is a licensed psychologist with over 50 years of experience working with everyone from preschoolers to adults. Early in her career, she noticed a profound cultural failure: society systematically robs males of their access to a full range of emotions...

What do you do when everyone tells you your child is "just a little delayed," but your gut tells you something is deeply wrong? Michelle Choairy spent years as a high-performing medical sales professional, navigating the complex world of operating rooms and orthopedic surgery. But when it came to her own son, she found herself trapped in a medical and educational system that left her fee...

How do you build a bridge when you’re the "new kid in the room" and there is zero trust to start with? Mathias Lemos Castillo is a consultant and cultural bridge builder who helps organizations move through the messy, often uncomfortable work of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Born in Uruguay and now based in the U.S., Mathias has spent his career learning that the biggest failure in c...

Why do we constantly set massive, ambitious goals, only to subconsciously self-sabotage our own progress a few weeks later? Genevieve Skory is a transformational speaker, former corporate executive, and resilience coach who helps entrepreneurs survive the mental game of business. For years, she climbed the corporate ladder, chasing the next big promotion and constantly "moving the goalposts&q...

What happens when you spend 30 years fighting a silent, isolating battle with your own relationship to food? Ronni Robinson is an author, eating disorder recovery coach, and a three-time Ironman athlete. For three decades, she was trapped in a painful cycle of binge eating, hiding her struggles from her family, and isolating herself at social events because she was more focused on the food table t...

What do you do when the system tries to take your voice and your child away? Kate Markland was a physiotherapist for 20 years, trained to hear the stories hidden beneath physical symptoms. But her life took a devastating turn when a court-ordered separation restricted contact with her son to just one hour a week. Faced with a choice between succumbing to grief or finding a way to stay connected, K...

Why do we so often label a child's executive dysfunction as "laziness" or a personal character flaw, rather than recognizing it as a simple mechanical issue that requires different tools? Tiara Brumberg is a certified ADHD coach, a former pediatric occupational therapy assistant, and the founder of The Middle Coaching. As a mother with ADHD raising neurodivergent kids, she understand...

What really happened behind closed doors before Hollywood turned a real-life tragedy into a polished blockbuster hit? Paul Drexler is a renowned true crime historian, former columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, and the author of *Murder to Movies*. For years, he has meticulously researched the darkest parts of human nature, unearthing the massive gap between the entertaining cinematic version...