What if the pressure you’re carrying was never fully yours to carry? In this powerful podcast episode, Steve McHale sits down with Josh Price, founder of The Pause Method, to talk about faith, fatherhood, leadership, trauma, emotional resilience, and how to stop reacting when life feels impossible.

Josh shares the story of his daughter Brighton, who was born with a rare mitochondrial disorder called Leigh syndrome, and how months in the hospital, life-or-death moments, and the weight of being a husband and father forced him to learn how to pause, breathe, write, listen, and take action. This conversation is for men, fathers, leaders, entrepreneurs, veterans, husbands, and anyone who feels burned out, overwhelmed, stuck in their head, or unsure how to move forward.

You’ll hear how Josh turned pain into purpose, how a single question changed his mindset, and how The Pause Method helps you build awareness, responsibility, authority, action, accountability, and real leadership. If you’ve been searching for personal growth, emotional control, men’s mindset coaching, faith-based self improvement, or a practical way to find peace under pressure, this episode gives you a simple but powerful framework.

You’ll learn:

→ How his daughter’s medical journey became the catalyst for The Pause Method and why pausing is not about doing nothing, but about creating space to hear what your soul is saying before you react.

→ How to move from “this is happening to me” into “why is this in my story?” so you can take ownership without blaming yourself or carrying responsibility that does not belong to you.

→ The seven steps of The Pause Method, including the authority breath, writing through your thoughts, identifying the voice of your opponent, listening for the still small voice, choosing the story you want, and taking one action within 24 hours.

→ More on leadership, masculinity, faith, business, money, burnout, accountability, manifestation, and why the next right step is often simple, but not easy.

Trauma and addiction can trap you in patterns that feel impossible to escape, but healing is possible when you learn how to take back control of your mind, your habits, and your life. In this powerful conversation, we talk about breaking the cycle of trauma, addiction recovery, emotional healing, mental resilience, and building a more intentional life.

This episode is for anyone struggling with self-destruction, shame, negative thought patterns, substance abuse, or the feeling that their past still controls their future. If you’ve ever wondered how to heal trauma, stop sabotaging yourself, overcome addiction, and create real personal transformation, this conversation will give you practical insight and real hope. We get into how childhood trauma shapes behavior, why empathy matters more than judgment, how destructive routines are formed, and what it actually takes to replace chaos with structure, peace, and purpose.

This is a raw and honest discussion about trauma recovery, mindset shifts, addiction healing, nervous system regulation, self-awareness, personal growth, and the daily habits that can help you rebuild your life one choice at a time.

You’ll learn:

→ How trauma can shape identity and behavior long after the painful events are over

→ Why addiction is often a response to deeper wounds instead of just a bad habit

→ How intentional routines like journaling, meditation, fitness, and reflection can help create stability

→ Why changing one habit at a time can completely transform the direction of your life

→ Powerful perspectives on empathy, redemption, mental reframing, emotional healing, self-discipline

→ How to stop letting your mind run your life on autopilot.

What happens when childhood trauma, addiction, grief, and rock bottom all collide — and you still find a way to heal? In this powerful addiction recovery story, Tim Holloway shares how growing up around heroin addiction, violence, prostitution, abandonment, and abuse shaped his early life and led him into meth addiction at a young age.

But this is not just a story about addiction. It is a story about healing from childhood trauma, facing inner darkness, forgiveness, faith, mentorship, and rebuilding a life from the inside out. Tim opens up about losing his grandmother, surviving addiction, finding support through recovery meetings, church, and mentors, and later facing a second wake-up call after success, money, and achievement failed to heal the pain underneath.

This episode is for anyone struggling with addiction, trauma, shame, father wounds, mother wounds, grief, or the feeling that their past is too broken to overcome. Tim’s story is a reminder that healing is possible, recovery is real, and your darkest pain can become part of your purpose.

What You’ll Learn :

Tim shares how childhood trauma and growing up in a chaotic drug environment led him into meth addiction at a young age, and why substances felt like survival before they became destruction.

You’ll hear how recovery meetings, church, mentorship, and one man opening his home helped Tim begin to rebuild his life and create stability after years of addiction and instability.

The conversation explores why external success, money, houses, trucks, and achievement could not heal unresolved childhood pain, and how losing everything forced Tim to finally look inward.

Tim also talks about forgiveness, inner child healing, shadow work, father wounds, mother wounds, and how helping troubled youth helped him understand and heal parts of himself.

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