The Habit Architect
Hosted by Michael Cupps, The Habit Architect is designed to help you intentionally build the habits that lead to success and break free from those that hold you back.
Each episode, Michael guides you through practical strategies for designing focused, productive days that align with your goals and vision. Whether you’re striving for personal growth or professional success, this show will help you create the daily routines and mindset shifts needed to unlock your full potential.
Tune in for expert insights, actionable steps, and real-life examples to transform your habits and build the life you desire—one intentional habit at a time.
Episodes
54 episodes
THA S02 EP#32 - Diagnose Before You Lead: What Makes a CEO Worth Following
Michael Cupps sits down with Chantelle Preston, healthcare entrepreneur, investor, growth strategist, and co-owner of a League One volleyball expansion team launching in San Francisco in 2027. Chantelle built Mentis Neurorehabilitation from the...
THA S02 EP#31 - Bold Plans Don't Build Themselves: The Execution Gap
Most leadership teams are pretty good at the big idea. They get in a room, whiteboard it, agree it's the right move, and then hand it off. What happens after that hand-off is where organizations quietly lose.Leslie Holman has spent 15 ye...
THA S02 EP#30 - Showing Up Where the Search Happened: Building for the New Search Reality
For more than 20 years, marketing teams built an entire discipline around getting found on Google. Keywords, backlinks, content calendars, ad spend strategies, all of it engineered around one outcome: rank on page one. That system did not disap...
THA S02 EP#29 - Stop Leading on Fumes: The Habit of Regenerative Leadership
Allie Stark has built two things at the same time: a boutique executive coaching practice focused on female founders, and Noria, a leadership and development platform that helps teams shift how they work, lead, and grow together. She just turne...
THA S02 EP#28 - Stop Guessing, Start Mapping: The Science of People Strategy
Most leaders think they know their people. Jason Taylor says the data tells a different story.Jason is the President of JET Coaching Co. and Managing Principal at Predictive Success Corporation. His work is built around one question: do ...
THA S02 EP#27 - The Habit of Resilience: Build It Before You Need It
Resilience does not usually get built when life is easy. It gets built in the moments that force us to slow down, rethink what matters, and decide whether we are going to stay stuck in what happened or grow into what comes next.In this e...
THA S02 EP#26 - Get Curious Instead of Furious: What hard conversations can build
Long-term relationships do not usually break down because one conversation goes badly. They break down when tension gets buried, resentment builds quietly, and people stop returning to the hard conversations that could have created more underst...
THA S02 EP#25 - The Habit Brain: Leading Through Doubt, Momentum, and Curiosity
Habits rarely fall apart because people do not care. More often, they break down in the space between intention and interruption where doubt gets louder, momentum fades, and progress starts feeling harder than it did at the beginning.In ...
THA S02 EP#24 - Revenue Habits: How Marketing Systems Work Like Personal Routines
Growth doesn’t usually stall because people stop caring. It stalls because teams are solving problems from different angles, leaders are chasing priorities without shared clarity, and progress gets buried under misalignment, mixed signals, and ...
THA S02 EP#23 - Building the Habit of Better Questions Through AI
Marketing doesn’t usually fail because people aren’t working hard. It fails because the questions are scattered, the data is fragmented, and decisions get delayed while someone downloads spreadsheets, cleans numbers, and tries to tell ...
THA S02 EP#18 - Your Way to the Top, Can You Say No
Most sales professionals don’t realize how quickly “a drink after work” turns into a default coping strategy. Not because they’re weak, but because the culture trains them: celebrate the win with a drink, survive the loss with a drink, travel f...
THA S02 EP#17 - The Unscalable Habits That Build the Best Communities
Most people think “community” is something you scale with software. But the best communities are built with habits you can’t automate. Showing up, remembering details, making thoughtful introductions, and creating spaces where people f...
THA S02 EP#22 - Why Great Creative Work Starts With Systems
Great creative work rarely fails because people aren’t talented, it fails because the system around the talent is chaotic. When files live in five places, naming conventions change by person, and teammates can’t find what they need, creativity ...
THA S02 EP#21 - Why Your Resolutions Fail and How to Change It
Quitting isn’t the problem, building habits on the wrong setup is. By mid-January, most resolutions collapse not because people are lazy, but because they picked habits that don’t fit their environment, schedule, or identity....
THA S02 EP#20 - The Medicine Opens Doors. Habits Build the Life Inside.
GLP-1 medications didn’t start as a cultural headline but they’ve become one because they’re changing real lives. The problem is: access hasn’t been equal, the market is still noisy, and most people don’t realize the medicine is only part of th...
THA S02 EP#19 - The Habit of Presence: How AI Restores What Healthcare Lost
Most healthcare AI conversations focus on automation. But the real opportunity is something more human: restoring presence.In this episode of The Habit Architect, host Michael Cupps sits down with Calvin Carter (CEO of Mad...
THA S02 EP#16 - Your Blueprint shouldn’t be a Task List
Most people confuse task management with life design. By mid-February, most New Year resolutions have failed. Not because people lack discipline, but because they built habits on the wrong foundation.In this solo episode, host Michael Cu...
THA S02 EP#15 - Culture Over Compliance: Building Sustainable Businesses
Sustainability is not an initiative you bolt on. It is the ultimate time management question: what you do today either builds a resilient business or kicks debt to the next quarter, the next leader, or the next generation.In this convers...
THA S02 EP#14 - Reboot Your Compass: Defining What Really Matters
How do you decide what matters most when everything feels urgent? In this episode, producer Florencia Llosas flips the script and interviews host Michael Cupps about the foundation of effective habit building: your personal hierarchy of values....
THA S02 EP#13 - Ghosts in the Code: AI’s Hidden Influence on Our Habits
For those of you who can't believe it's almost Christmas already, let's go back to the end of October with this episode. AI promises to make life easier, but what happens when these tools actually hijack our habits instead? In this conversation...
THA S02 EP#12 - Inclusive Leadership Starts with Curiosity, Not Compliance
Michael Cupps sits down with Rachel Shaw, CEO of Shaw HR, to explore creating inclusive workplaces for employees with disabilities. Rachel shares her journey from handling ADA compliance to building a career helping organizations move beyond ch...
THA S02 EP#11 - Forget Hustling, Build Habits To Make Yourself Rich
What happens when your values collide with real-life financial pressure? Brent Hines, founder of the Foundation for Financial Wellness, joins
THA S02 EP#10 - The Commitment Beneath the Sweat
What does it really take to stick with fitness? In this episode, Michael Cupps sits down with Coach Junior to talk about the mindset behind lasting fitness hab...
THA S02 EP#8 - Why AI Projects Fail: It’s Not the Tech, It’s the Team
Why do AI projects fail when the tech works? Michael Cupps and returning guest Tony Castelli, PhD (Rulesware; ex-Accenture, IBM, Pegasystems) explain how change management, trust, and team habits determine AI adoption. We cove...