Roots & Rebuilt: Lost Family, Found Self

You built the career, hit the numbers, and still feel like something is missing. That emptiness is not a mindset problem; it's a wound. What looks like relentless drive is often a quiet search for belonging that no amount of success can satisfy.  James Hayden scaled 140 companies across four continents and generated billions in revenue, but his deepest breakthrough came from connecting with his bi...

You outwork everyone, you keep everyone happy, and you still feel like you have to earn your place. That exhaustion is not a character flaw. It is a wound that was created before you had words for it. It is not ambition. It is what happens when a child quietly decides love must be earned, then spends decades trying to earn it. The drive that built your life and the pain you keep running from are t...

Most of us spend years searching for the one thing we can't name — the feeling of truly belonging somewhere. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with James Hayden and Dawni Rae Shaw, two people who discovered through Ancestry DNA that they share the same father — and 10 other siblings they never knew existed. In this episode, you'll learn: 🧬 How a single DNA test can completely rewrite your sense of i...