Moment of Suspension

Bryce Smith, founder of ALLSMITH, and Dr. Bek Jarzombek have an authentic conversation around the male perspective of the Moment of Suspension arc: performance overdrive, the gap, and ultimately… surrender. Known for the philosophy “Forged Not Found,” Bryce brings a perspective shaped through adversity, loss, discipline, pressure, leadership, business, sports, faith, family, and personal growth. T...

There’s a season where nothing looks like it’s working. The things that once created results… don’t. The clarity you had… disappears. And you’re left in a space where there may be no evidence… yet. That space is The Gap. It’s the phase that requires faith—before there’s proof. In this episode, Dr. Leslie Hewitt and Dr. Bek Jarzombek talk about what it feels like to be inside that tension—and why i...

The crux of the Moment of Suspension series is The Gap . This is where most people get taken out. You enter the Gap after realizing Performance Overdrive won’t work for what’s next — capacity hits a ceiling. Performance overdrive does work for a while. It increases output and builds revenue, muscle, skill, and reputation. There’s evidence there, which is exactly why it’s so tempting to stay. But i...

In this episode, I’m joined by my sister, Sarah Young, for an honest, grounded conversation about the Performance Overdrive Woman archetype — from lived experience, not theory — and what it looks like when high capacity quietly becomes identity. Together, we explore how early responsibility, adaptability, and strength can subtly shape who we become, and how the very patterns that once protected us...

Performance overdrive isn’t failure. It’s a strategy — one that works… until it doesn’t. In this episode of Moment of Suspension , Doctor Bek explores performance overdrive not as ambition gone wrong, but as a survival pattern rooted in pressure, identity, and unresolved rejection. For many high-capacity people, excellence wasn’t a personality trait — it was the way they learned to stay safe, rele...

It started with a horse — in the suspension just before a jump, when forward motion is inevitable and everything goes quiet. Pressure lifts. Time stretches. Something deeper happens. What felt physical at first became personal, then spiritual, and eventually foundational to how I understand faith, performance, and alignment. In this episode, I share where the idea of suspension came from, why it m...