The Jason Wright Show

Pax Prentiss spent ten years addicted to heroin, cocaine, and alcohol before discovering that addiction was not the root problem—but a symptom of deeper emotional pain. Today he is the co-founder of Passages Malibu, where thousands have recovered through individualized, holistic treatment rather than traditional addiction models. Jason and Pax discuss: Why people relapse Childhood trauma Depressio...

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Digital Minimalism Update: Add Friction to Break Doom-Scrolling Jason Wright shares an update on his digital minimalism effort to reduce dependence on social media and improve focus and cognitive ability, inspired by Cal Newport’s work. He deleted Instagram and YouTube from his phone (leaving them on his iPad), finding the main downside is losing easy interaction with friends via Instagram DMs, no...

Self-Control and Divine Masculinity Jason discusses self-control as a vital personal asset, focusing especially on masculinity, drawing on ideas from Robert Greene and Jordan Peterson. He frames self-control as an ancient and biblical principle, citing Galatians 5:22–23 and Jesus’ examples in the wilderness and the teaching to “turn the other cheek,” which he interprets as choosing restraint despi...

Weekend Review: ‘80s/’90s Nostalgia, Simpler Times, and the Luxuries We Took for Granted Jason Wright reflects on nostalgia for the ’80s and ’90s, noting that older music is popular again and arguing that life felt simpler before today’s intense political division. He cites a Vanilla Ice interview about performers dropping out of a White House 250-year celebration over Trump and praises Ice’s wish...

00:00 Welcome to Monday Morning Mentor 00:20 The Future Self Concept 00:55 Living Proof of Past Discipline 01:44 Understanding Delayed Gratification 02:16 Financial Discipline and Dave Ramsey 02:56 Finding Your Art 03:54 Making Better Daily Decisions 04:45 Balancing Present and Future 05:11 Looking Back with Gratitude 05:29 Reflections on Getting Older 06:29 Write Yourself Notes 07:32 Finding the...

Write Your Ideal Self: Lessons from “Rooster” and Monday Morning Mentorship Jason Wright hosts Monday Morning Mentor and shares an idea inspired by the HBO show “Rooster,” in which Steve Carell’s character says he writes for a hero who does what he wishes he could do. Jason encourages listeners to visualize and write down their own “ideal self” (health, relationships, parenting, partnership, prese...

Week in Review: Comprehensive Health Testing, Dopamine in an Age of Abundance, and Marijuana Reclassification Concerns Jason Wright opens with reflections on how fast the year is going and a personal tradition of watching The Holiday on June 25, then shares a clip from his conversation with John Goldman, founder of Rebel Health, about how comprehensive functional-medicine testing (DEXA, VO2 max, A...

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Low Stakes, Big Try: Why You Should Start (and Stop Making It Do-or-Die) Jason Wright shares a lesson from trying to relearn guitar using the GuitarTuna app: when he stopped treating practice as a performance and gave himself permission to fail, relax, and just learn, he unexpectedly hit a personal best. He connects this to a Will Ferrell interview about pursuing comedy with a safety net and the r...

Week in Review: Fat, Exercise Snacks, and Outsourcing Your Brain to Tech Jason Wright introduces the first Week in Review format, sharing clips and takeaways from recent conversations. From Dr. Jerry Nixon, he emphasizes that excess body fat is an active, harmful gland linked to inflammation, atherosclerosis, cancer, dementia, heart disease, bone and joint degeneration, and that Americans often li...

Even Big Mama Is Using AI: Jason Wright’s Take on Adapting to the AI Revolution Jason Wright opens with a story about his wife’s aunt “Big Mama” posting an AI-altered senior photo of his sister-in-law on Facebook, using it to introduce his perspective on AI and why it’s now unavoidable. He reflects on decades of tech change—from the Commodore 64 and DOS terminals to pagers, early cell phones, Blac...

Mike Stohler on Creative Real Estate, Syndications, and Boutique Hotels in Spain Jason Wright interviews real estate investor Mike Stoler, who built a portfolio spanning multifamily and hotels, including boutique castle properties in Spain. Stoler shares how Rich Dad Poor Dad and even a bad seminar sparked his start, early failures buying seller-financed homes from a university due to poor due dil...

Stop Smoking Weed: The Cognitive Cost No One Wants to Talk About | Monday Morning Mentor In this Monday Morning Mentor follow-up on getting smarter, Jason argues that peak cognitive health matters more than ever amid the AI information onslaught and pleads with listeners to stop smoking weed, criticizing how frequently marijuana use is portrayed as normal or funny in shows and films like Your Frie...

The Psychology of Leadership with Sebastien Page: Listening, Strategic Quitting, and Long-Term Thinking Jason Wright interviews Sebastien Page, T. Rowe Price’s Head of Global Multi-Asset and CIO overseeing $500+ billion, about his book The Psychology of Leadership and the mindset and habits behind effective leadership. Page argues leadership is often counterintuitive: listening can matter more tha...

Monday Morning Mentor: Focus on What You Can Control Jason Wright discusses a New York Magazine article by Xochitl Gonzalez that uses renewed nostalgia for smoking to express a cynical, nihilistic “nothing matters” reaction to a “deranged year,” framed around political events and a belief that the future is too bleak to justify good habits. Wright argues this mindset shows up in everyday life when...

Monday Morning Mentor: 10 Parenting “Don’ts” for Raising Well-Adjusted Kids In this Monday Morning Mentor episode, Jason Wright reflects on parenting his daughters Ryland (26, newly married) and Abby, sharing a list of “not to do” parenting lessons shaped partly by his own experience with conditional love growing up. He advises parents not to make love conditional, not to guilt-trip kids about cos...

A Plea to Get Smarter: Brain Fitness, Reading, and Escaping the Attention Economy Jason Wright asks listeners to intentionally “get smarter” by strengthening their ability to reason, focus, and tolerate boredom, arguing society is regressing in communication and thinking and that this correlates with widening wealth gaps. He warns that “free” digital services (Pluto TV, Gmail, TikTok, Instagram, F...

After his daughter’s wedding, Jason shares advice from the Bible studies they held leading up to it: to maintain a happy marriage, treat your spouse as though they already are the man or woman of your dreams, because people tend to live up to how they are treated. He extends this idea to all relationships and to personal growth through identity-based habits—acting like the healthier, smarter, or m...

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Never Complain, Never Explain Jason reflects on the quote “never complain, never explain,” which he heard from Robert Greene and believes is attributed to a former British Prime Minister, and describes how he researched it and recognized his own habits of complaining and explaining. He argues that complaining is exhausting, people don’t care to hear it, and it can enlarge problems by reinforcing a...

JB Glossinger on Reducing Cognitive Load, Saying No, and Building Systems for Consistent High Performance Jason Wright interviews performance coach and MorningCoach founder JB Glossinger about building systems to reduce cognitive load and decision fatigue for entrepreneurs facing information overload. JB shares how early academic struggles pushed him to create a productivity framework rooted in th...

Monday Morning Mentor: Never Drink at Work Events Jason Wright introduces a new “Monday Morning Mentor” segment on the Jason Wright Show and shares a core lesson: never drink at work events. He recounts being 23 at his first convention, drinking free alcohol, and then driving colleagues—including a vice president—while intoxicated, followed by intense next-day regret and anxiety. He describes repe...

How to Say No: Setting Boundaries and Building Equity in Your Yes Jason Wright discusses the difficulty of saying “no,” especially at work, citing Anne Lamott’s line that “No is a complete sentence” and describing fears of losing value or appearing insubordinate. He shares his own progress away from reflexively agreeing and recounts refusing a stressful favor requested by his wife on behalf of a f...

Tony Cooper on Intentional Fatherhood, Ownership, and the Traditions That Shape a Family Jason Wright interviews executive coach Tony Cooper, host of The Dad Manual podcast, about the joy and challenges of fatherhood and how dads can be more intentional. Tony shares becoming a father at 35 after two years of trying, then struggling emotionally when a second child arrived 18 months later, prompting...