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Join Adam Hill as he sits down with Matt Scoletti who takes us on an exhilarating ride from addiction to adventure. Learn how he transformed his life through ultra-marathons, American Ninja Warrior, and founding Savage Adventure Camps.

Discover the power of resilience and community in turning obstacles into opportunities. Whether you're battling your own demons or seeking inspiration, this episode offers a roadmap to transforming adversity into your greatest strength.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• Matt’s mirror moment as his catalyst for change

• How journaling paved the way to transformation

• Matt’s transition from bottle to barbell

• Honoring tragedy through endurance

• Challenges build champions

• The power of authenticity

Episode Highlights:

[08:20] Matt’s mirror moment became his catalyst for change.

At 27, Matt hit rock bottom, realizing his lifestyle of heavy drinking would lead to jail or death, sparking a transformative decision to change his life completely.

[21:24] How journaling paved the way to transformation

Matt's journey to sobriety began with journaling, which revealed a pattern of negative thoughts and hangovers, leading to a powerful moment of self-reflection.

[28:08] Matt’s transition from bottle to barbell

Matt's journey into bodybuilding began as part of his recovery from alcoholism, leading to success in physique competitions, which then paved the way for his appearance on American Ninja Warrior.

[36:28] Honoring tragedy through endurance

Inspired by a tragic synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Matt decided to run the Pittsburgh marathon wearing an 11-pound weight vest to honor the victims.

[41:26] Challenges build champions.

When facing difficulties, there's often more strength in reserve than we realize, as evidenced by Matt's experiences in extreme endurance events where he discovered hidden reserves of resilience and grit.

[45:03] The truth frees you.

Sharing your truth, even when it's uncomfortable or embarrassing, can be incredibly freeing and often inspires others by showing them they're not alone in their struggles.

Resources Mentioned:

www.mattscoletti.com

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Discover how neuroscience and positive psychology can transform your leadership style. In this episode, Adam Hill speaks with Jackie Insinger, a leading expert in neuroscience and positive psychology in business leadership.

Jackie shares her innovative approach to leadership, blending cutting-edge research with practical strategies. Learn how to create psychological safety, harness cognitive diversity, and manage workplace anxiety.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• The power of positive psychology in the workplace

• Creating psychological safety for your team

• Positivity unlocks your brain’s problem-solving potential

• The importance of cognitive diversity in decision-making

• Master anxiety through a scheduled “worry hour”

• The platinum leadership mindset

• Cognitive diversity as key to dynamic team performance

Episode Highlights:

[10:42] We have this universal desire to be seen and understood.

People use various ways to express their identity and seek recognition, even through seemingly trivial comparisons like breakfast foods or TV characters.

[21:32] Positivity unlocks your brain’s problem-solving potential.

Adopting a positive mindset activates brain regions responsible for creative problem-solving and opportunity recognition.

[29:53] Master anxiety through a schedule “worry hour”

Schedule a dedicated "worry hour" to fully focus on anxious thoughts to reduce constant presence throughout the day and allow for greater productivity and peace of mind during other times.

[33:41] The platinum leadership mindset

Jackie encourages shifting from the golden rule to the platinum rule - treating others as they wish to be treated. Leaders need to understand and cater to individual team members' unique needs, preferences, and motivations for more effective relationships and improved team performance.

[36:43] Creating psychological safety for your team

Jackie highlights a common leadership pitfall where leaders assume they've created psychological safety for their team based on their own definition, potentially overlooking the diverse needs and perceptions of individual team members.

[38:40] Cognitive diversity is key to dynamic team performance

Jackie warns against creating a homogeneous team culture that attracts only similar personalities. Instead, she emphasizes the importance of cognitive diversity - the variety in how people see the world, their perspectives, strengths, and skill sets.

[45:15] The importance of setting boundaries and self-care in leadership

Setting boundaries and practicing self-care are essential for effective leadership, helping leaders maintain their well-being and model healthy behaviors for their teams.

Resources Mentioned:

Spark Brilliance

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Discover the power of making business personal with Kiley Peters, a trailblazing entrepreneur and advocate for women in business. In this inspiring episode of Flow Over Fear, Kiley shares her journey from self-doubt to success, offering valuable insights for aspiring and established entrepreneurs alike.

Learn how to overcome fears, redefine success on your own terms, and build the life you've always wanted through entrepreneurship. This is a must-listen if you’re looking to take their business to the next level!

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• Overcoming societal pressures and self-doubt

• The importance of intentional living

• How to carve out intentional time for yourself

• Breakthrough is on the other side of break down

• Making business personal and creating meaningful connections

• Take the time to do the internal work

• The DNA of Success framework for business growth

Episode Highlights:

[03:37] Cultivating self-belief is key to overcoming societal pressures and self-doubt.

Overcoming societal pressures and self-doubt requires cultivating self-belief and surrounding yourself with supportive relationships to achieve success in entrepreneurship and personal growth.

[05:23] Self-belief and support in overcoming societal pressures

Women face significant societal pressures during childhood and adolescence. Therefore, self-belief and a strong support system are crucial for overcoming these challenges.

[08:59] Entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint.

It's okay to take breaks, reassess, and choose your path, whether continuing or changing course.

[19:19] Intentional living fuels creativity and personal growth

Kiley emphasizes intentional living, highlighting how dedicated time for self-reflection and personal activities fosters creativity and generates new ideas for business and life.

[25:28] Breakthroughs come after breakdowns.

Embracing difficult challenges leads to significant breakthroughs, while avoiding them hinders growth and progress.

[32:18] Make business personal and create meaningful connections.

Make business personal by creating authentic connections, valuing individual experiences, and aligning your practices with personal values to foster meaningful relationships and drive success.

[34:14] Level up your business from paycheck to purpose.

Kiley challenges entrepreneurs to elevate their goals beyond survival, creating a life and career aligned with personal values and aspirations.

[37:13] Take the time to do the internal work.

Create space to get clear on who you are, what you want, and how you define success.

Resources Mentioned:

www.kileypeters.com

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Want to get better at making important decisions and quiet the voices of fear and doubt? In this episode, Adam Hill sits down with sports executive and bestselling author Paul Epstein. Paul shares insights from breaking revenue records in the NFL and outlines his framework for making better decisions faster through gaining clarity, building confidence, and acting with conviction based on your core values.

Listen as Paul discusses his personal journey developing confidence and how he now helps others embed more confidence in their daily lives through intentional processes and systems. Walk away with practical tools to navigate difficult decisions, quiet the voices of fear and doubt, and take action aligned with your true self.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• Prioritize imperfect actions over outcome

• The 4 C’s of Better Decisions Faster

• Tackle your Most Valuable Decisions (MVDs)

• The head-heart-hands equation

• The practical power of values over purpose

Episode Highlights:

[04:19] Support others through shared experiences.

Drawing on past lessons, we can best support others facing similar challenges.

[08:10] Prioritize imperfect actions over outcome.

We are naturally afraid both of the unknown and of chances we didn't take. Prioritizing action over outcome through focusing on progress through imperfect steps rather than results.

[11:38] The 4 C’s of Better Decisions Faster

Paul outlines the 4 C's of decision making as Clarity, Confidence, Conviction. And Courage – and each C builds upon the previous one in a natural progression.

[14:29] Tackle your Most Valuable Decisions (MVDs)

Paul notes we make 35,000 daily decisions but should focus on the few "Most Valuable Decisions" or MVDs with greater impact.

[15:26] Evaluate you MVD with the head-heart-hands equation

Identify your Most Valuable Decision or MVD. Then check in with your head (mindset), heart (authenticity), and hands (action) regarding that decision using his equation.

[19:25] Confidence = Values x Action

Your level of confidence increases based on how frequently values are lived out through actions over time.

[29:34] The practical power of values over purpose

Paul asserts that while a "why" is important, values provide a more concrete way to guide daily decisions and actions.

[43:03] Stop drifting on default, and start living and operating by design.

Make choices in a deliberate, purposeful manner aligned with your true values and priorities.

Resources Mentioned:

www.paulepsteinspeaks.com

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Want to learn how to lead with love instead of fear? In his interview with Adam Hill, former Air Force officer and speaker Patrick Yanke shares how focusing on virtues like forgiveness, gratitude, and humility can help you overcome struggles and lead others effectively.

Patrick draws on his experience in the military and faith to discuss how we can all practice "sacrificial leadership" by putting others first - even in difficult times. Don't miss this insightful conversation on rising above challenges through a servant's heart.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• Where leadership begins and why we always have poor people

• How the question on authority brought him back to faith

• Why shame is a gift

• Understanding Christ-like leadership

• Our job is forgiveness.

• The servant leader CARES

Episode Highlights:

[08:53] Where leadership begins

Patrick quotes William Penn saying "No man is fit to command another who could not command himself." Where true leadership begins is being able to follow others doing things the right way.

[10:34] Why we will always have poor people

We will always have poor people so that we have opportunities to practice love. The poor give us a chance to choose to love others through helping and serving those in need.

[11:49] It was the question on authority that brought him back to faith.

Patrick nearly lost his faith during a family crisis but later found his way back to rebuilding his Catholic faith from the ground up, taking on the zealousness of a religious convert or "revert".

[17:46] Shame is a gift.

Patrick viewed the feeling of shame over sin as a gift because it helps one recognize their sin and turn back to God in repentance. When we turn around, there is no place where God is not with us.

[23:53] Our job is forgiveness.

Patrick discusses how anger turns bad as wrath, explaining God says vengeance is His, not ours to carry - our job is forgiveness.

[26:39] Love vs. fear: The heart of servant leadership

Patrick contrasts fear, which is selfish, and love, which is unselfish and about helping others complete the mission as a servant leader through ensuring the work gets done while also showing love to the people doing it.

[29:02] The servant leader CARES.

Patrick shares that his acronym for servant leadership is CARES, standing for Communication, Commitment, Responsibility, Evolution, and Service.

[33:00] Does love require sacrifice?

Yes, it does. Because in true love, you're giving up something of yourself for someone else.

[42:04] Without free will, there’s no love.

Patrick explains that without free will, there could be no love, because for there to be true love requires the ability to freely choose to love others.

[43:06] How to lead ourselves

Recognize emotions and associated virtues/vices. Discipline negative emotions through virtues. Pray daily prayers incorporating virtues. And humbly seek God's will over personal wants.

Resources Mentioned:

www.yankeacademy.com

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Did you know it's not possible to simply choose happiness after extreme trauma? In the latest Flow Over Fear podcast, Cheryl Hunter shares why recovery is actually a gradual climb, not a single leap.

After surviving a horrific kidnapping and rape, Cheryl found healing through small steps like tolerating difficult emotions for just moments longer each time. Discover her insights on the incremental process of overcoming the deepest darkness.

Cheryl also shares her harrowing yet hopeful story of abduction, recovery, and her mission to give voice to those overcoming adversity. Be inspired by her journey from victim to victor, made possible through embracing and sharing her experience.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• How she got abducted and tortured as a teenager

• The captivity of the mind and the dangerous downward spiral of "why me?”

• Simply choosing happy doesn’t work after trauma

• Healing from trauma requires baby steps, not a single leap

• Be the author of your experience

• The power of sharing your story

• Own your fears and share them beautifully

Episode Highlights:

[04:26] Cheryl's terrifying teenage abduction in France

As a teenager, Cheryl was abducted after arriving in France seeking to become a model, and was tortured by her kidnappers before managing to escape for her life.

[14:16] Overcoming Cheryl’s captivity of the mind

Cheryl describes how after escaping her physical captivity, she felt captive to her own thoughts of being "ruined" if anyone discovered what happened, as well as thoughts of revenge against her kidnappers.

[18:53] The dangerous downward spiral of "why me?"

Cheryl's mother had taught her that the question - "why me?" - leads down a slippery slope into an even darker mental space.

[20:00] Simply choosing happy doesn’t work after trauma

Cheryl explains that when in the depths of hell after extreme trauma, it's too dense a transition to just choose happiness. Instead, take incremental baby steps.

[25:32] Healing from trauma requires baby steps, not a single leap

Cheryl explains that overcoming trauma is an incremental process of climbing rungs of a ladder, not an impossible leap from hell to happiness.

[30:41] Be the author of your experience

Cheryl reflects that embracing adversity allows seeing potential gifts by authoring the experience as something chosen despite all, involving speculation on possible upsides.

[35:36] The power of sharing your story

Cheryl realized not sharing her own trauma story was partly why it took so long to get her overcoming adversity message out, and had to learn to share it in a way that left people feeling triumphant, not concerned.

[44:02] Own your fears and share them beautifully

Fear is just another hurdle we can own as part of ourselves and share about beautifully

Resources Mentioned:

Cheryl’s TEDx Talk: Wabi Sabi: The Magnificence of Imperfection

www.CherylHunter.com

www.MagnifyYourMessage.com

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Ready to get unstuck in life? In this episode, Adam Hill sits down with life coach Jen Bee who shares how she overcame adversity through small, consistent actions. Learn how changing your identity with habits can lead to lasting success.

Hear Jen's powerful story of taking the leap from corporate to coaching, and discover the Five Pillars of Growth framework for sustainable wellness in body, mind and spirit. Tune in now for practical tools to make positive changes in your life.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• Overcoming childhood struggles with identity and belonging

• It’s not about perfection, but about showing up

• Changing your identity through habits

• Starting with 1%

• Comparison is the thief of all joy

• The athlete mentality

• Jen’s five-pillar framework for sustainable progress

Episode Highlights:

[03:46] The impact of her father’s imprisonment on her life

Jen's journey began with her father incarcerated for 12 years in Cuba for opposing Fidel Castro, shaping her early life as the daughter of immigrants and a political prisoner with feelings of not fitting in.

[22:01] It’s not about perfection – but about showing up

Personal growth is not about perfection but rather about showing up through small, consistent actions over time.

[25:00] Start with 1%

Jen advocates starting with 1% to achieve growth, emphasizing small incremental steps can lead to big results over waiting for perfection.

[28:48] It starts with your why

Change starts internally with understanding your "why"and not by immediately taking external actions, as meaningful and sustainable change comes from within.

[33:58] Get unstuck from unsustainable cycles

People often get stuck in unsustainable cycles chasing after comparisons in areas like money, fame, social media likes or weight, rather than focusing on redefining success in a holistic, sustainable way.

[34:53] Adopt the athlete mentality

Taking on an "athlete mentality" can help you achieve wellness through habits matching who you want to be, focusing more on consistency than fleeting results.

[42:57] Jen’s five-pillar framework for sustainable progress

• Mental wellness: Focuses on being your own best friend through positive self-talk.

• Emotional wellness: Addressing baggage from past experiences through vulnerability and storytelling.

• Physical wellness: Prioritizing health and relationships over numbers, spending quality time with loved ones.

• Spiritual wellness: Cultivating inner peace and making room for quiet reflection.

• Financial wellness: Achieving financial health and stability as something everyone deserves.

Resources Mentioned:

www.growwithjenbee.com

Atomic Habits by James Clear

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Have you ever felt like life was throwing obstacles in your path just as your dreams were taking off? Tune in to this week's episode of the Flow Over Fear podcast to hear Olivia Atkin's incredible story of resilience.

Diagnosed with epilepsy at a young age, just as her swimming career was taking off, Olivia refused to let it define her. Through grit and determination, she pivoted to build a successful career in sports management and coaching while also achieving multiple degrees.

Now she empowers others through her company Achieving Success LLC. Join us to learn how Olivia rose above the challenges life threw at her to achieve her definition of success.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• Relinquish control and see obstacles as opportunities

• When epilepsy strikes without warning

• How swimming reflex saved her during her first seizure

• When resilience means doggy paddling through adversity

• There’s beauty in facing challenges head-on

• Empathy and accountability in sports management

• The line between empathy and accountability

• Redfining success and pivoting plans as you grow

Episode Highlights:

[06:19] Relinquish control and see obstacles as opportunities

Olivia discusses relinquishing control when faced with obstacles. Instead, use those as an opportunity to experience something new despite the unknowns presented.

[09:28] When epilepsy strikes without warning

Olivia shares how her first seizure as a child was triggered by an allergic reaction to Parmesan cheese, highlighting how unexpected the onset of epilepsy can be.

[11:54] How swimming reflex saved her during her first seizure

Olivia demonstrated early resilience at age 9 when she instinctively began treading water during her first epileptic seizure while swimming, keeping herself safely afloat until the seizure ended despite losing consciousness underwater.

[17:49] When resilience means doggy paddling through adversity without others knowing your battle

There can be things that we're trying to doggy paddle our way through, even if it's not showing on the outside.

[26:50] There’s beauty in facing challenges head-on

When facing challenges, take control of the narrative by making a decision rather than having one made for you – and who knows what unexpected beauty could come out of that.

[37:23] Recognize challenges others face without using them as a crutch to justify unacceptable actions

While empathy is important, making excuses allows bad behaviors to continue and does not hold people accountable.

[52:52] It’s okay to redefine success and pivot plans as you grow

It’s okay if your definition of success changes along with your journey. It’s okay to pivot since growth means openness to new routes.

Resources Mentioned:

www.achieving-success.com

Olivia Atkin’s Ted Talk: Defeating Your Biggest Enemy, You!

Book: Achieving Success and Career Development

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