Fulfillment Project

Amanda Thomson was a BBC arts journalist interviewing people like George Clooney. She quit, put a Le Cordon Bleu wine diploma on her credit card, and moved her husband and 2 young kids to Paris in a freezing winter. Nobody in the family spoke French. Builders covered the apartment's chimney cap, and her kids got sick from carbon monoxide. Later she lost a trademark fight over her Skinny Champagne...

What if the end of the world looks like heaven to one person and hell to another? Vincent Rylan spent his career as an attorney and corporate strategist advising Fortune 100 companies on market research, military defense planning, and global product development. Now he writes fiction. His novel, Memoirs of the End, tells the story of Adam, the first truly sentient AI, through first-hand accounts f...

Dr. Jim Polk was supposed to spend his life on a Flint assembly line. A car threw him 120 feet at 14 and ended his running. Bad eyes grounded his flying at 16. At 20 his parents' marriage came apart and he went home to raise his sister and clean a bar at night. At 3 in the morning, on his hands and knees scrubbing a toilet while guys he grew up with laughed at him, he decided he was done. He ended...

Jeff Wickersham spent 10 years at American Express before walking away 8 years ago to found the Warrior Dad Experience. His mission: help 1 million dads become better men and impact 2 million kids by 2053. But his path there ran through his mother's death, a failed gym business, a $30,000 gambling bet he hid from his wife for years, and a battle with alcohol he finally won 4.5 years ago.   In this...

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 together. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much is the ball?   If you said 10 cents, you're in good company. I got it wrong too. It's 5 cents. That riddle is the door into this episode.   In May I invited writer Ruth Gaskovski onto the show. She said no. Then she did something that has never happened to me in a year of running this podcast: she gave me a comp...

One year. $5,215 spent. $306 earned. And 490 followers built from absolute zero. In this radically honest solo episode, Andy pulls back the curtain on 14 months of building Fulfillment Project — the money, the numbers, the failures, the faux pas, and the people. This isn't a get-rich-quick story. If anything, it's the opposite: the most worthwhile bad investment he's ever made. You'll get the full...

Credit card debt is trapping more Americans right now than at almost any point since the 2008 recession — and most people don't even realize how the trap works. In this episode of Fulfillment Project, business attorney and debt-relief expert Bill Mitchell (author of Say Goodbye to Credit Card Debt ) breaks down exactly how credit card companies design the minimum monthly payment to keep you in deb...

At 24, Tommy Cotter walked off a Big Three factory floor, took a massive pay cut, and bet on himself, building the invisible systems behind the financial news millions of us read every day. In this episode of Fulfillment Project, Tommy (Head of Product at Benzinga) and I get into the courage to walk away from a "safe" career, where to find meaning in work no one ever sees, and the one skill AI can...

We are the most comfortable generation in human history, and by almost every measure that matters, the most restless. Peter Range and I get into why. Peter is a husband, a father of six, Senior Fellow for Strategic Initiatives at the Center for Christian Virtue, and host of the "Say Yes to Life" radio show. He came to the studio, and I threw him every hard question I had: Is America a Christian na...

She was 21, asleep five blocks from the Twin Towers, when her university locked the students inside the building on 9/11 and refused to evacuate. Meg Keene was certain she was going to die, and that morning shaped the rest of her life. Meg founded A Practical Wedding, the largest independent wedding publication in the English language, grew it into an eight-figure business, sold more than 150,000...

We're Not in a Dating Slump. We're in a Civilizational One. | Matchmaker Madigan on Commitmentism, the Bid, and Rebuilding Marriage Catholic marriages have collapsed 69% in the last fifty years. The U.S. fertility rate just hit the lowest point in American history. 80% of Gen Z reports feeling lonely. And by Match Group's own 2026 admission, an entire generation is paralyzed by what they're callin...

What happens when the version of you that knows the truth finally overrides the version of you that's been performing? Amelia Wilson found out on November 30, 2017. The morning she called her brand-new boss at 8 a.m. and quit a job she hadn't even started yet. Amelia is the writer behind Happy On Purpose , a Substack with over 14,000 subscribers about happiness habits and how to actually thrive in...

Lean Out: Laura LeBleu on Surviving the Corporate Machine, Reclaiming Analog, and Going Back to Who You Were at 10 She's a two-time Emmy winner, former NYC theater director, lead singer of an Italian band, voice of a virtual TV character, and a stilt-walking circus ringmaster. Now she co-founded Geezer , the print-only magazine telling the truth about Gen X. Laura LeBleu came to the Fulfillment Pr...

Easter morning. A half-inch crack in the sidewalk. A stone wall. Six months flat on his back — and the most important lesson Jeff Matlow says he ever learned. This week on The Fulfillment Project , I sat down with Jeff Matlow: three-time founder (all acquired by publicly traded firms), Ironman triathlete, leadership coach, former music industry insider who worked closely with James Brown, and a gu...

Nikki Barua on how to thrive in the AI age: why curiosity beats credentials, how to use agency as your antidote to uncertainty, and the daily practice behind everything she's built. In this episode of Fulfillment Project, I sit down with Nikki Barua, serial entrepreneur, bestselling author of Beyond Barriers, keynote speaker, and CEO of Flipwork. Named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Most Influ...

Terry Schilling, president of American Principles Project and the activist credited with convincing the Republican Party to take on trans rights, joins Andy to talk about family, fatherhood, faith, and what it actually takes to feel fulfilled in modern America. Terry is one of the most consequential conservative strategists in Washington. He flew to Mar-a-Lago with data that shifted 47,000 votes i...

Scott Putnam was a lifelong, self-described "happy carnivore"... until a doctor's visit, a life in China, and one unforgettable moment in a grocery store deli line changed everything. Now he's the author of Revenge of the Herds, and he's not here to convert you. In this conversation, you'll learn: Why processed meats are classified in the same carcinogen category as cigarettes and asbestos, and wh...

Aging With Strength: https://agingwithstrength.com Geezer Magazine: https://geezermagazine.com How do you age with strength without falling for longevity scams? In this episode of The Fulfillment Project, Andy Leonard sits down with Pulitzer‑nominated journalist Paul von Zielbauer, creator of Aging With Strength, to cut through the noise around supplements, fitness fads, and the so‑called “longevi...

Vic's App: https://www.purposeful.io/ Vic's book: https://tinyurl.com/fulfillmentproject Vic's course available online: https://tinyurl.com/fulfillmentprojectcourse Promos: https://perfectsnacks.com/collections/bars https://freshpressedoliveoil.com/ -- -- -- -- -- In this episode of The Fulfillment Project, Andy Leonard sits down with Dr. Vic Strecher, professor at the University of Michigan Schoo...

Is the credit system broken for gig workers, creators, and non‑traditional earners? In this episode of Fulfillment Project, Andy Leonard sits down with Tamara Laine, Emmy‑award‑winning journalist turned FinTech founder and the creator of MPWR, a platform rethinking how credit and capital are accessed in the new economy. More than 50% of the U.S. workforce now earns income outside of traditional W‑...

www.emilymccartneyphotography.com www.emilymccartneyphotography.com/shop/ Learn the decision test that helps you choose calling over comfort. Keep your freedom now, and build a life you’ll be at peace with later. Emily McCartney Eiguren went all-in on a Western photography calling instead of the “safe job” path, and the choice reshaped her freedom, identity, and family life. In this conversation,...

• Society of Child Entrepreneurs: https://soceict.org • Learn more about The Fulfillment Project podcast: https://fulfillmentproject.substack.com/ What if the biggest thing holding kids back… is adults? In this episode of The Fulfillment Project, Andy Leonard sits down with Leah K. Ellis, founder of the Society of Child Entrepreneurs, to explore why agency, not achievement, may be the most importa...

www.kalmwithkava.com What if the way we cope with stress is actually making us less present? In this episode of Fulfillment Project, host Andy Leonard sits down with Morgan Smith, CEO of Kalm with Kava, to explore burnout, anxiety, addiction, ritual, and what it really means to calm the nervous system without numbing yourself. Morgan shares his personal journey from 80‑hour workweeks in tech and f...

About Phil Hayes‑St Clair Phil Hayes‑St Clair is a leadership coach, writer, and former entrepreneur who has built eight companies across healthcare, biotech, and technology. His work focuses on helping leaders scale without sacrificing health, relationships, or integrity. Weekly essays: The Wednesday Partnership Podcast: The Partnership Playbook Website: https://www.philhsc.com Most leadership ad...

👤 About the Guest: Raul Hernandez‑Achoa is the founder of Do Good Work, where he advises entrepreneurs and executives on building durable businesses and sustainable lives. He’s also the host of the Do Good Work Podcast and a prolific writer on leadership, systems, and personal growth. 🌐 Learn more: https://dogoodwork.io What if excellence isn’t something you build—but something you discover thro...