In this episode of The Jake Giffin Podcast, Jake Giffin sits down with Ahmard Vital for a direct, wide-ranging conversation on discipline, leadership, masculinity, faith, and the cost of becoming competent in a world that rewards comfort and excuses. This is not a motivational hype session. It's a grounded, intellectually honest discussion about how men are actually formed, where modern culture breaks them, and what builds strength when fear, emotion, and failure are unavoidable.

Ahmard Vital is a motivational consultant, international speaker, author, and performance coach known for helping athletes, young men, and leaders develop mental discipline and personal responsibility. With a background as a collegiate football recruiting analyst and years spent studying elite performers, Amard blends athletic mindset training, personal development, and faith-based leadership into practical frameworks that translate beyond sports. He is the author of Awaken the Baller Within, I Am More Than Enough, and Now What: 5 Steps to Get Up and Create the Most of Life, works that have been used in athletic programs, schools, and leadership settings across the country.

Throughout the episode, Jake and Amard explore why competition matters, why accountability outperforms affirmation, and why leadership is not optional for men. They unpack sports as a metaphor for life, the difference between emotional awareness and emotional slavery, and how discipline must exist before motivation shows up. The conversation also addresses cultural confusion around masculinity, responsibility, and authority, arguing that strength, boundaries, and sacrifice are not toxic traits but necessary ones when properly ordered and aimed.

Faith is not treated as a compartmentalized idea but as something that must integrate with real-world responsibility. Ahmard shares how Scripture, spiritual formation, and personal discipline converge in leadership, parenting, coaching, and community building, while Jake connects these insights to modern psychology, neuroscience, and his own coaching frameworks. The result is a conversation that respects intelligence, challenges assumptions, and replaces vague self-help language with clarity and structure.

This episode is for listeners who are tired of emotional fog, hollow motivation, and surface-level advice, and who want frameworks they can actually apply in work, family, and leadership. Expect candor, conviction, and ideas that demand responsibility rather than applause.

Guest: Ahmard Vital. Website: https://ahmardvital.com. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahmardvital/. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmard-vital-6959464/. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ahmardvital/.

Host: Jake Giffin. Website: https://jakegiffin.com. Podcast: https://jakegiffin.com/podcast. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakegiffin/. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JakeGiffin. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakegiffin/

Most businesses still believe software has to be slow, expensive, and painful to build. That belief is outdated, and it's costing founders millions.

In this episode of The Jake Giffin Podcast, Jake sits down with Dan Hafner, founder of Dapper No-Code, to break down how software is actually being built in the age of AI. They unpack why traditional development models are collapsing, what no-code and "vibe coding" get right (and dangerously wrong), and why speed of execution has become the only real competitive advantage left.

This conversation goes beyond surface-level AI hype. You'll hear:

• Why most software projects burn cash before they ever reach market

• The truth about no-code tools and where they break under real complexity

• How AI is changing planning, design, and execution, not just coding

• Why ideas are cheap, execution is scarce, and perfection is a trap

• What the next generation of one-person, AI-powered companies will look like

If you're a founder, operator, or builder trying to understand where software, AI, and business are actually headed, this episode will recalibrate how you think about building anything in 2026 and beyond.

Dan Hafner
Founder – Dapper No-Code
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In a world of constant noise, speed, and distraction, many Christians read the Bible faithfully yet still feel disconnected from God. Why does Scripture feel informative but not transformative? Why do so many believers say, "I pray, but I don't hear God"?

In this episode of The Jake Giffin Podcast, Jake sits down with Chaz Becker, co-founder of Storied, to explore the ancient Christian practice of Lectio Divina and its relevance for modern discipleship. Together, they examine the tension between biblical meditation and mysticism, doctrine and experience, neuroscience and spiritual formation.

This conversation tackles hard questions Christians are already asking:

• Is Christian meditation biblical or dangerous?

• How do we discern God's voice without drifting into self-made revelation?

• Why speed, anxiety, and burnout are sabotaging spiritual depth

• How Scripture was meant to be encountered, not consumed

This is not a rejection of theology or Bible study. It's a challenge to recover stillness, attentiveness, and intimacy with God without compromising truth.

If you've ever felt spiritually dry, overwhelmed, or unsure whether you're actually hearing God, this episode is for you.

Chaz Becker
Co-Founder, Storied
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Jake Giffin
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Most people think the U.S. healthcare system is broken.
It isn't.

It's operating exactly as designed.

In this episode of The Jake Giffin Podcast, Jake sits down with Donovan Pyle, a former insurance insider turned whistleblower, to expose how employers, employees, and patients are quietly turned into inventory inside a massive sales funnel.

Donovan breaks down how hospitals built insurance companies, how brokers are incentivized to sell against your interests, why doctors only see a fraction of every healthcare dollar, and how "coverage" became an unlimited spending machine with no accountability. They unpack the medical loss ratio, vertical integration, pharmacy benefit managers, and why confusion is the most profitable feature in healthcare.

This is not a rant. It's a map.

If you're an employer, executive, or business owner paying for health benefits, this conversation explains why costs rise every year while care gets worse and what can actually be done about it without waiting on Washington.

Donovan Pyle
Healthcare Fiduciary Consultant & Author
Website: https://www.fixinghealthcarebook.com
Book: Fixing Healthcare (Available November 12)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donovanpyle

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Most people don't fail because they lack talent, strategy, or resources.
They fail because their identity is fractured — and everyone can feel it.

In this episode of The Jake Giffin Podcast, Jake sits down with Deevo Tindall, founder of The Brand Storyteller and host of The Branding Laboratory, for a deep, unfiltered conversation about identity, authenticity, and why branding collapses when it's built on performance instead of truth.

Deevo walked away from 15 years in corporate America to help founders, leaders, and creatives stop hiding behind logos, buzzwords, and marketing tactics — and start telling the truth about who they are. Together, Jake and Deevo unpack why personal identity always bleeds into business, how unresolved beliefs sabotage leadership, and why companies like Boston Market didn't just fail the market — they failed themselves.

This conversation goes far beyond branding. It touches psychology, leadership, culture, trauma, personal responsibility, and why "being authentic" isn't a strategy — it's a requirement.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why most branding problems are actually identity problems

• How faking it creates burnout, mistrust, and business decay

• Why culture is the real product every company sells

• How personal trauma and belief systems quietly shape leadership

• What happens when founders outgrow the identity they built their business on

• Why customers always sense misalignment — even if they can't explain it

If you're a founder, entrepreneur, leader, coach, or creator who feels stuck, exposed, or disconnected from your own work — this episode will hit close to home.

Because if something feels off… it probably is.

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This isn't a branding conversation.
It's a mirror.

Modern civilization isn't collapsing because of a single event.
It's collapsing because of ideas.

In this full-length episode of The Jake Giffin Podcast, host Jake Giffin sits down with Christian apologist and author Anil Kanda to examine the philosophical, psychological, and moral ideas quietly reshaping the modern world—and why so many of them are failing in real time.

This conversation is not a sermon and not a political rant. It's a deep, honest examination of worldview. We explore how concepts like moral relativism, Darwinian naturalism, secular humanism, and identity-as-accident have moved from academic theory into everyday life—and what happens when societies try to live as if those ideas are actually true.

For Christians, this episode offers language and clarity for things you already sense but may struggle to articulate:
Why faith is not blind.
Why morality needs an anchor.
Why identity collapses when God is removed.

For atheists and skeptics, this episode asks hard questions without caricature:
If morality is subjective, why are some things universally condemned?
If humans are accidental products of biology, where does dignity come from?
If truth is relative, why argue so passionately for justice?

Anil Kanda draws from Scripture, philosophy, psychology, and history—moving from the Book of Daniel and Genesis to modern cultural dysfunction—to show how worldviews shape behavior, institutions, and civilizations. Jake presses the implications further, connecting these ideas to modern identity crises, the breakdown of meaning, and why outrage has replaced wisdom.

This episode does not ask you to "believe harder."
It asks you to think more honestly about the ideas you live by.

Whether you are a committed Christian, a questioning skeptic, or someone who simply feels that something is deeply wrong with the world but can't quite name it, this conversation will challenge you to examine the foundations beneath your beliefs.

• The ideas shaping modern civilization

• Moral relativism vs objective truth

• Atheism, Darwinism, and moral consistency

• Why identity collapses without transcendence

• The Image of God and human dignity

• Why societies drift toward chaos without moral anchors

• Apologetics, love, and intellectual honesty

• Faith, reason, and the search for meaning

• Website: https://www.anilkanda.org

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnilKanda

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anilkanda

Anil Kanda is an author, speaker, and Christian apologist known for addressing doubt, worldview conflict, and the intellectual foundations of faith. He is the author of Rethinking God and host of Hope@Night.

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Jake Giffin is a coach, entrepreneur, and podcast host focused on biblical psychology, identity, leadership, and confronting cultural lies with clarity and conviction.

What do you do when your life collapses in slow motion?
When your career, your health, and even your spouse are taken from you… and God doesn't intervene?

In this brutally honest episode, Laura Silverman walks us through a journey most people would never survive. A Stanford Law graduate and federal prosecutor, Laura was on the fast track—driven, brilliant, purpose-filled. Then, at 30 years old, a rare and still-undiagnosed neurological disorder struck without warning.

The world began to spin.
Her body shut down.
Her independence vanished.
And for three years, she was fully bedridden.

Doctors threw out guesses but no answers.
Treatments made her worse.
Opinions shifted from "rare disease" to "maybe it's psychological," adding insult to devastation.

But the suffering didn't stop there.

In the middle of her illness, Laura met and married Matt, a man fighting his own battle with terminal intestinal cancer. Their love story is unreal—two people in the fire learning how to suffer together. Matt lived three years longer than doctors predicted, and his faith in the face of death shaped Laura in ways she's still uncovering.

This episode is not a sentimental Christian story.
It is a theological gut punch.

Laura speaks openly about:

• Losing her legal career at the height of success
• Fighting bitterness, anger, and spiritual confusion
• Wrestling with God on a bedpan while the world spun around her
• Watching her husband slowly die with joy on his face
• Learning that God sometimes says "no"
• The difference between prosperity thinking and biblical reality
• Why suffering deepens theology in ways books never can
• How her memoir, Singing Through Fire, became the redemption of her story
• What it means to trust God when He gives you the opposite of what you prayed for

This is the theology of pain—not the sanitized version, but the one forged in hospital rooms, sleepless nights, vertigo, grief, and unanswered prayers. If you've suffered, are suffering, or love someone who is, Laura's wisdom will feel like someone finally telling the truth.

Suffering didn't destroy her faith.
It refined it.
And it will refine yours too.

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