Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future

Ep #206: Success Wasn’t Supposed To Hurt

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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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