Your business can be working while you quietly wonder whether you're still doing the work you care about. Musician and entrepreneur David Muntner knows that feeling. After losing a major client and spending time protecting what he'd built, he found himself in what he calls sustaining mode: keeping things running, but playing not to lose. Meanwhile, AI was raising an uncomfortable question about the music he'd spent decades learning to make. If a machine could create it too, what was his contribution worth? In this conversation with Jason Lee, David talks about the birthday studio session that helped him want to create again, the competitive drive that can both move him forward and wear him down, and his emerging plan to give himself six months of fuller commitment. They explore what going all in could look like without treating exhaustion as proof of ambition, why recovery belongs inside the plan, and how family, love, and real limits shape what success can mean. For founders and leaders weighing their next chapter, this is a conversation about choosing what deserves your energy, even before you know how it will turn out.

• Chapter times are approximate, based on the transcript's minute markers.
• (00:00:00) When AI Challenges Your Creative Identity
• (00:03:00) Going All In: The Tins and the Battle of the Bands
• (00:10:00) AI, Creative Block, and Finding a Reason to Make Music Again
• (00:16:00) Fear of Failure and Following Your Bliss
• (00:22:00) Surviving, Sustaining, and Thriving After a Business Setback
• (00:26:00) Clear Intention, Full Commitment, and Letting Go of Expectations
• (00:30:00) High Performance Without Burnout: Discipline and Recovery
• (00:34:00) Leadership, Parenthood, and Working Within Real Limits
• (00:39:00) Love, Self Trust, and Alignment Between Your Inner and Outer Worlds
• (00:44:00) Choosing an Experiment and Connecting With David

• Website: https://globalhopesummit.com/team/
• David Muntner on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-muntner/

Hayden Lee lives by one question: at the end of my life, will I regret not trying this? In this conversation, Jason sits down with his first ever coach, an executive and leadership coach who has worked with leaders at companies like Google and Meta and has been named a top 20 LA coach eight times. Hayden explains why the most useful definition of faith for him is unshakable self belief, how years of rejection as a professional actor trained him to collect nos without flinching, and why he treats self belief as a skill you practice rather than a trait you are born with. He walks through the origin of his annual coaching retreat in France, the real cost of chasing it (time, not money), and the two filters he runs every big idea through: the no regrets test and a head, heart, and gut check that keeps a bias for action from turning into blind ambition. The conversation then slows down into presence, why Hayden resists the word surrender in favor of letting go, and what a quiet Saturday spent vacuuming dog hair out of his car taught him about rushing. Along the way, Jason and Hayden get honest about what deeper work actually costs: fewer external scoreboards, saying no to transactional clients, and a shorter list of people who want to have a real conversation. If you are a founder or leader weighing a decision that strategy alone cannot answer, this episode is a grounded look at how to choose a path you can actually live with.

• (00:00:00) Will I regret not trying? Meet leadership coach Hayden Lee
• (00:06:35) Faith as unshakable self belief and the professional rejectee
• (00:12:48) Enneagram 3s, the achievement drive, and doing the reps
• (00:19:36) Same purpose, different medium, and the real cost of the France retreat
• (00:25:48) The no regrets value, the full body hell yes, and the head, heart, gut filter
• (00:32:40) Thinking, feeling, and action: knowing how you are wired
• (00:39:35) Surrender vs letting go, and the car vacuuming moment
• (00:46:30) Nervous systems on overdrive: slow is smooth, smooth is fast
• (00:53:25) Redefining success: external wins and internal fulfillment
• (01:00:15) Saying no to transactional work, and trusting another wave will come

• Website: https://www.haydenlee.com/
• Hayden Lee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haydenleemcc/

When the life you built starts draining you, how do you know whether to push harder or finally let it change? Dr. Erin Burgoon joins Jason Lee to explore why slowing down can feel genuinely unsafe for founders, executives, and high achievers whose identity has been shaped by achievement. Erin shares how burnout forced her to question the coaching business she had built, what happened when she gave herself a time bound experiment in rest, and why the greatest cost was not lost income but the loss of a familiar professional identity. Together, Erin and Jason discuss nervous system regulation, Internal Family Systems, the difference between excitement and durable joy, and the courage required to stop performing certainty long enough to hear what is true. This conversation offers a grounded way to recognize when grit has become avoidance, redefine what it means to provide, and make choices rooted in joy, self trust, and a deeper sense of purpose.

• (00:00:00) Why slowing down can feel permanent
• (00:05:38) How to tell discipline from avoidance
• (00:11:06) The nervous system fear beneath constant action
• (00:16:24) Creating a time bound experiment with rest
• (00:22:32) The identity cost of stepping away from work
• (00:29:06) Redefining provision, care, and a meaningful day
• (00:35:42) Treating the body with love instead of criticism
• (00:42:36) Why joy begins with nervous system safety
• (00:49:18) Joy as a spiritual center and source of clarity
• (00:56:12) Small practices that make joy more accessible

• Website: https://drerinb.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drerinb/