The ThriveWell Journey | Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Life After Disruption

You can look strong on the outside and still be running on survival underneath. Russell Harvey joins The ThriveWell Journey for a grounded conversation about real resilience, leadership under pressure, and what it means to keep moving through change without losing yourself in the process. L. Michael Burt and Russell talk through the difference between surviving, coping, and thriving, and why resil...

Adam Olsen joins L. Michael Burt to discuss building a real estate business through follow-up systems, abundance, social media marketing, client service, market strategy, and sales discipline. This episode is for entrepreneurs and real estate professionals who need to move beyond ideas and build the structure that turns opportunities into results. KEY TOPICS The importance of relentless follow-up...

In this Friday Night Live episode, L. Michael Burt uses the meaning of Juneteenth as a powerful entry point into a deeper conversation about identity, freedom, and transformation after disruption. This episode answers the question: What does Juneteenth teach us about identity and freedom after disruption? Freedom is not fully lived just because it has been declared. Real transformation happens whe...

Business funding for founders is not just about getting access to money. It is about understanding timing, terms, structure, and whether the capital actually supports the business you are building. L. Michael Burt speaks with Cole Reifler, Founder and CEO of Zenith Group Advisors, about funding decisions, bootstrapping, private credit, alternative lending, and the pressure founders face when their...

Things are happening in the world right now and they are occurring as chaos. And in the middle of that, you are trying to build something. Hold a vision. Stay committed. But here is the question this conversation is asking. Are you committed or are you gripping? There is a difference between commitment and attachment. Commitment is the full yes to the vision, the work, and the people. Attachment i...

Buying property without emotion starts with having a real estate strategy before you make an offer. Hadley Nightingale, founder of New Zealand Property Buyers, joins L. Michael Burt to talk about property investing, first-home mistakes, buyer representation, wealth building, and why strategy matters more than speed. Hadley shares how rough early seasons in road trains, mining, and family court sha...

How do you build resilience under pressure without pretending stress is not real? Michael Ostrolenk joins L. Michael Burt for a practical and deeply grounded conversation on self-awareness, emotional regulation, discipline, internal governance, and what it means to train yourself for real life. Michael brings experience as a marriage and family therapist, master coach, resilience architect, martia...

Mental resilience is not about pretending pressure is not there. It is about learning to respond rather than react when life, leadership, business, or personal disruption puts you under stress. Joshua Lifrak joins The ThriveWell Journey to share mental performance lessons from his work with elite athletes, high-performing teams, and the Chicago Cubs during their historic rise from last place to Wo...

How do you know when it is time to pivot in life instead of staying committed to something that no longer fits? Jeff Seckendorf joins The ThriveWell Journey for a powerful conversation about pivoting, purpose, aging, reinvention, fun, accountability, and living fully after change. From film and scuba to coaching, endurance cycling, and world-record athletic achievement, Jeff shares what it looks l...

Most people are asking whether Bitcoin is risky. But the better question is this: do we understand the money we already trust every single day? On this episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast, L. Michael Burt sits down with Eric Runge, founder of Veritas Bitcoin Strategies, to talk about Bitcoin, inflation, fiat currency, the U.S. dollar, financial trust, and what people need to understand befor...

In this Friday Night Live episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast , L. Michael Burt brings back Reagan, Chris Gibson, and Marc Davis for an honest, unfiltered conversation about life, love, faith, friendship, marriage, identity, and the pressure people are carrying right now. This episode moves like real life. It starts with old friends catching up, but quickly opens into deeper questions: What...

In this Friday Night Live solo episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast , L. Michael Burt breaks down why your life often reflects the choices, beliefs, and tolerations you have been living from, even when the results are not what you want. This is not a conversation about blame. It is a conversation about radical responsibility, self-leadership, and what it means to stop living at the effect of...

A lot of people say “scale” when they really mean “grow.” In this conversation, Kurt Uhlir breaks down the difference in plain language and gives you a simple test that tells the truth fast: If your business got 10X customers tomorrow, would it survive or would it break you? We also get into the real-life side of leadership under pressure. How to hear “no” without turning it into rejection. Why do...

What if your business does not feel hard because you are doing too little, but because you are building in a way that does not fit who you are? In this episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast, L. Michael Burt sits down with Stefanie Carlstedt for a powerful conversation about human design for entrepreneurs, business alignment, burnout, and the invisible ways people leak energy by building from o...

A lot of people have mastered the art of looking fine while carrying far more than anyone can see. Dr. Jacqueline Campbell sits down with L. Michael Burt to unpack burnout, trauma, emotional accountability, and the nervous system patterns that keep high performers achieving while still feeling depleted underneath it all. This is not a surface-level talk about stress. It gets into what happens when...

In this episode, L. Michael Burt reflects on a 30-day transformational journey that speaks directly to entrepreneurs and leaders navigating life after disruption. Emphasizing entrepreneurial leadership and sustainable business success, he explores the internal shifts that follow periods of upheaval, offering practical questions and exercises to recognize growth, celebrate progress, and sustain ong...

Entrepreneurial leadership and sustainable business success often hinge on breaking through mental barriers that hold us back. In this insightful conversation, entrepreneur and achievement coach Shane Perry teams up with L. Michael Burt to explore how mindset, disruption, and comfort zones affect our ability to reach goals. Drawing from Shane's three decades of experience building sales organizati...

Entrepreneurial leadership after disruption. Prevention before tragedy. Early cancer detection. School safety technology. Bo Short. BMRT. Bo Short is a plane crash survivor and cancer survivor who now leads BMRT, developing molecular resonance detection technology with life-changing applications in early cancer detection, school safety, and public health. This conversation is about what entreprene...

In this episode of The ThriveWell Journey, we explore the nonlinear path of healing and its role in entrepreneurial leadership and creating sustainable business success after life disruption. Week 2 of Purpose After Disruption focuses on breaking the illusion that healing should be a straight line, emphasizing that the goal is not to "never feel it again" but to prevent temporary setbacks from dic...

Fear shows up fast, and in entrepreneurial leadership, it can quietly influence decisions if you do not have language for it. In this episode of The ThriveWell Journey, L. Michael Burt sits down with Patrick Sweeney, the “Fear Guru,” to break down the neuroscience of fear, how to build courage on purpose, and how that translates into sustainable business success. Patrick shares how fear works in t...

Entrepreneurial leadership gets heavy when you’ve always been the one carrying everybody. Adaku Mbagwu breaks down the Fixer Identity, overgiving, and how to build sustainable business success after life after disruption. L. Michael Burt sits down with Adaku Mbagwu, founder of Healed Hero, to talk about firstborn daughter patterns and why so many high achievers feel responsible for everyone’s emot...

Host L. Michael Burt dives deep into entrepreneurial leadership through the lens of alignment as a daily, practical leadership practice essential for sustainable business success and personal growth. Designed for entrepreneurs and leaders navigating life after disruption, this episode explores how heightened self-awareness reveals hidden misalignments and how internal friction serves as valuable d...

Discover why you'll spend 20 years of your life dreaming and how to unlock this untapped roadmap to your purpose with Caleb Matthews, international speaker and dream interpretation expert. Learn the DNA of design framework spirit, soul, and body as the triune being, and how "SEELINKS" (moments you miss daily) reveal your true calling. Explore the IYR principle for early years of entrepreneurship r...

What do you do when life breaks everything open? In this powerful episode of The ThriveWell Journey Podcast, we explore entrepreneurial leadership and sustainable business success through the inspiring story of Keisha Queeley, founder of Stocked Up Future. Keisha shares her journey through unimaginable disruption, from losing her husband to navigating financial uncertainty, raising six children, a...

Discover how to stop chasing the "how" and surrender to the intelligence that beats your heart in this profound conversation with Cortney McDermott, exploring quantum physics, the Dao teaching of non-doing, and aligning to your future self in 2026. Learn why relaxation and surrender are more powerful than forced action, how to navigate the back-and-forth between old identity and new nervous system...