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If you’ve done everything “right” yet still feel stuck, this reframes how your words drive behavior and culture by shifting attention to the present.

We often don’t realize how often our questions point backward. That moment when something goes wrong and the first words are, “Why is this happening?” You sift through past details, replay conversations in your head, and feel the pull of self-judgment. The rest of the day goes to rehashing.

Over time, the loop shows up as hesitation, slower calls, extra checking. Energy shifts to second-guessing. Decisions sit. Confidence drops.

On the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I sit with Blair Dunkley as he shares his trigger moments that cracked and remade his inner stance: his mother being refused a $200 budget to throw a tea party for her patients, his father’s 14‑year coma, and later his own health challenges. We examine how language patterns direct behavior, how acceptance can loosen the grip of pain, and how turning toward present choice shifts what becomes possible. It’s an inquiry into awareness and responsibility

He identifies the “why-hole” and what changed in his understanding of language and behavior to change thousands of lives following his mind models.. Blair has seen these patterns up close for years under pressure. He watches how words shape behavior until the structure is clear.

Here are the five key takeaways from this episode:

• Why true “why” questions are past-based and immobilizing
• The two questions that restore your own agency in minutes
• Behaviors lead belief: how to build confidence with evidence
• The Three E’s: Effective vs Ineffective, External vs Internal, Evaluation vs Judgment
• State shifts that work: acceptance, posture, and perspective

Join the conversation because when your pressure keeps stacking this loop burns time and attention. The way we speak to ourselves under stress drives how we lead. Are we staying in the past frame, or are we ready to face the present without more reasons?

Find out more about Blair on on blairdunkley.com and find his free resource: The Three E’s ebook + 80-minute masterclass.

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AI is everywhere. And there is real fear..

Fear of being replaced, fear of machines taking over, fear of losing entire job segments. and the fear of losing self, our ability to critically think and what our place in this world is now that something so super smart is taking over.

Because when something can speak like you… think like you… mirror your voice and your worldview… a very critical question emerges: Does AI have a soul?

This episode does not focus on productivity. Rather it is about this new identity. In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I sit down with Stephanie Sylvester of Avatar Buddy to explore digital twins, therapeutic AI, and why the future of business with AI isn’t just about optimizing—but about humanizing our processes with AI.

This episode is for you if you:

• Know you're here to build something bigger than yourself
• Believe AI can serve humanity—but only if it stays connected to the soul
• Are searching for a way to scale impact without losing your voice
• Want to design business systems that honor your values
• Feel called to bring spirituality into tech—and tech into service
• Have ever wondered how to turn your lived experience into a replicable solution

If you’ve been using AI like a tool, this conversation may change how you see it forever.

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A year after everything burned, the pain hasn’t softened.
It’s still back-breaking.
Still soul-stealing.
And there’s a piece of me that will never come back.

This episode is not about moving on.
It’s a one-year-later reflection on loss, identity, and what leadership looks like when nothing is restored—only revealed.

In this solo episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I share what the last year has asked of me—personally, professionally, and spiritually.

After losing my home, my office, and everything I owned in the Palisades Fire, I was forced to sit with questions I could no longer avoid. Not just about grief, but about identity. About what it really costs to build a life and a business inside systems that reward performance while quietly draining the person doing the work.

This episode explores what happens when external success continues to function, but internal alignment begins to fail. When burnout, health issues, and fractured relationships become the real price of “making it.”

I speak openly about surrender, identity shifts, and why spirituality isn’t separate from strategy—it shapes what survives. I share why redesigning your life is different from repeating the damage, and why alignment has to show up in practice, not just intention.

This episode is for you if you:

• Feel successful on the outside but disconnected on the inside
• Are questioning the cost of the life you’ve built
• Sense the old way of doing business no longer fits
• Are in a transition you didn’t choose—but can’t ignore
• Know something has to change, even if you don’t yet know what
  
  

If you’re standing in that in-between space—between who you were and who you’re becoming—this episode doesn’t offer answers. It offers honesty.

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What do you do when the life you built disappears overnight?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, Michele Novack shares the moment her career—and identity—came to a full stop.

After 30 years in the same industry, and now in her 50s, Michelle received the call no one is prepared for. The kind that ends a career in minutes and quietly dismantles the story you’ve been telling yourself about your value, your security, and your future.

Michelle didn’t have a backup plan.

What she had was fear, grief, and a question she could no longer avoid: Who am I without this?

This conversation explores what happens when your identity collapses and certainty is stripped away. Michelle’s story is not the pushed-harder-and-now -I-am-back story. Rather it’s the brutal honesty about surrender, confronting subconscious patterns, and choosing self-trust when there are no guarantees.

This episode is for anyone who is asking themselves - what now?

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SUICIDE WARNING - TRIGGER WARNING

What do you do when you’ve tried everything—and nothing worked?

A note for listeners: this episode includes an honest reflection on a period of deep emotional and spiritual distress, including a moment of asking God to take one’s life. Please take care while listening.

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, John Stewart Hill shares the moment his life came to a full stop. At 42, divorced three times, financially depleted, and convinced he had failed, John reached a place of complete surrender. He didn’t have a plan. He didn’t have answers. He only had a question that changed everything as he dealt with a massive heart attack:

Do you want to stay or do you want to go?

This conversation explores how purpose is often revealed after identity collapses—not through striving, but through letting go. John’s story is a powerful reminder that purpose isn’t tied to credentials, success, or certainty. It begins the moment you stop trying to become someone else and allow meaning to meet you where you are.

If you’re questioning your direction, your worth, or why you’re still here—this episode is for you.

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Can a mental health diagnosis make you a better leader? Todd Hagopian says yes.. After 15 years undiagnosed with bipolar disorder, Todd faced a terrifying tradeoff: sanity or success. When medication stabilized his life but muted the hypomanic edge that powered his output, he did what founders do, he built a system around it.

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, Todd explains how he first had to understand his own neurodivergent patterns—and then translate years of operating on edge into the HOT system he now uses to build seven- and eight-figure companies.

We also talk about how part of his system helps you to design “profit per minute,” and why “under-promise, over-deliver” can keep you stuck. My favorite quote from him deals with the messy middle, and his advice on how to get transformation teams aligned fast.

👉 Listen this empowering episode and hear how Todd turned neurodiversity into a strong and a replicable system for you.
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What happens when a mother of seven and a fearless serial entrepreneur—someone who has built 11 companies, and lived life in constant forward motion—suddenly finds herself on her own deathbed for 70 days?

In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, Holly Porter reveals the 70-day battle that dismantled her identity and rebuilt her purpose from the inside out. Intubated twice, stripped of all five senses, and suspended between life and whatever lies beyond it, Holly experienced near-death visions and spiritual directives that changed the course of her life and business.

She shares the moment her ancestors appeared urging her to fight, the unmistakable voice of her mother telling her it wasn’t her time, and the clarity that ultimately led her to create Retreat R&R and her nonprofit Adventure Bucket Wish.

Life may decide when you break. But only you decide what you become afterward. Hear what Holly brought back with her — and why it might change the way you navigate your own turning point.

If you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, or questioning the direction of your life or business, you want to check out Holly’s SHIFT framework to help you navigate your life changes.
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Most leaders don’t struggle with ideas.
They struggle with articulating them.

Because how can you be heard if you can’t find the right words?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I talk with Shelley Goldstein, founder of Remarkable Speaking, about why so many experts choke at the podium, get caught in a rabbit hole, or hide behind a fully written out script when it’s time to communicate from the heart what matters now.

Shelley breaks down the internal blocks that keep people from expressing their vision clearly and why audiences can immediately feel when you’re performing instead of speaking from the inner core of conviction.

Shelley breaks down her 4-minute drill — a fast, practical way to get clear on what you’re trying to say before the fear or self-editing takes over.

If your message feels stuck, scattered, or overly “polished,” this conversation will show you how to unlock your real voice and use it to lead.

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