PerfectWhelm with Eric Slivoskey: The Podcast That Helps Enhance Your Life
Welcome to PerfectWhelm—the podcast that helps you navigate the sweet spot between stagnation and burnout, so you can thrive without the overwhelm.
Hosted by Eric Slivoskey, PerfectWhelm is for change seekers—people who are ready to upgrade their personal and professional lives but feel stuck in cycles of stress, self-doubt, or uncertainty.
If you're looking for more clarity, confidence, and momentum in areas like physical and mental health, relationships, career, and spiritual growth, this podcast is for you.
Each episode is built around the 4 I’s:
Information – Insight into what’s holding you back and empowering ideas that ignite that spark for better self-awareness.
Instruction – Practical tools, strategies, and mindset shifts for real progress.
Inspiration – Shared real life experiences and personal stories of resilience, success, and transformation that show us what is possible.
Implementation – Actionable steps to help you apply what you’ve learned, including tips on how and where to get started.
We’ll dive deep into topics like core values, self-limiting beliefs, goal setting, resilience, and personal strengths, helping you build a life that’s both fulfilling and sustainable—right in that PerfectWhelm zone!
It’s time to stop feeling stuck and start making meaningful progress. Tune in and join us on this remarkable journey.
Connect with Eric and access all episodes here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2449323
Episodes
25 episodes
24. Forgiving But Never Forgetting: Part 2 of my Conversation with Holocaust Survivor Eva Schloss
In this episode, Eva offers more insights and details about the horrors of camp life at Auschwitz. She shares about some chance encounters she had with her father and also her luck in obtaining a job in “Canada”… the location where the stolen b...
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23. Surviving Auschwitz: A Conversation with Anne Frank's Stepsister, Eva Schloss, About the Horrors of the Holocaust
Join me in this episode as I take a walk back through one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century, Holocaust. I am joined by a very strong woman who I have called a friend for more than 5 years now. Eva Schloss is the stepsister...
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22. Grit, Goals, and Global Hoops in the Land of Fire and Ice: My Chat with Professional Basketball Player Abby Beeman
In today’s episode, I speak with professional basketball player Abby Beeman, who currently plays pro hoops in Iceland. Abby was a dual sport all state athlete during her high school days at Frankfort High School in Ridgeley, West Virginia...
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1:00:00
21. Telling It Like Micah: Storycraft & Effective Marketing At the Intersection of Connection, Community, Curiosity, and the Creative Arts
My guest for this episode is Micah Beachy Gilkeson. Micah is a storyteller, content creator, and marketing strategist passionate about authentic connection. She is the founder of M Creative Society, a boutique social media and co...
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49:50
20. Unshaken: Where Strength Meets Voice with Isabel Grueneich
In today’s episode I am joined by Isabel Grueneich, a social advocate and graduate student in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Field.Isabel and I discussed some of the larger social issues facing the world today and she shares her p...
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48:50
19. Community, Core Practices, Christianity, & Conflicting Theology: Part 2 of my Discussion with Amanda Oster
Amanda Oster is my first ever Podcast guest interview, and I want to thank her for being a part of the show and sharing her thoughts, experiences, and some great stories with us. This interview kicks off this 8 episode series that I’ve named “W...
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18. Community, Core Practices, Christianity, & Conflicting Theology: Part 1 of my Discussion with Amanda Oster
Amanda Oster is my first ever Podcast guest interview, and I want to thank her for being a part of the show and sharing her thoughts, experiences, and some great stories with us. This interview kicks off this 8 episode series that I’ve named “W...
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17. Ladies First: A Preview of Our First Series of Guest Interviews
Welcome to this truly exciting Preview Episode. In this chat, I will discuss my very first series of Guest Interviews.This kickoff to Guest Interviews will be centered on Women’s Perspectives, Voices, and Experiences In the World. ...
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16. Part Deux of Contrarian Concoctions & Don't Make Sense Philosophies
In this second part of my discussion on Contrarian Philosophies and Nonconventional Thinking, I delve into 3 more ideas associated with swimming upstream and challenging mainstream patterns.First, I dive into the principle that we should...
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15. The Way of the Contrarian: The Beauty of Embracing Unconventional Wisdom and Ideas that Support Living Your Best Nonconformist Life.
In this episode, I explore the first three of six principles that I will discuss on unconventional ideals and guidelines that don’t get neatly wrapped into mainstream thinking.The idea here is to consider some contrarian points of view.&...
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14. Living In The Now: How Prioritizing Being Present Can Enrich Our Daily Lives
In my shortest episode to date, I talk about the intentional decision we can make to be more present in our lives.One of the most impactful ways to enrich our daily lives is to choose to be present with our circumstances, our thoughts, a...
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9:00
13. No Gaines No Pain: You won't believe what Sergeant Gaines said about Pain
This is a story-form episode concerning the role that struggle and pain plays in personal growth.The setting is a classroom at the U.S. Army Academy of Health Sciences building on the grounds of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. It...
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15:35
12. How Do We Build Up Our Personal Resilience?: Tips, Tools, and Strategies That Make a Difference
In the third and final segment of this mini-series on Personal Resilience, I offer 6 specific tools and strategies for helping us when we face difficult times, challenging circumstances, and life altering traumatic events.The 6 strategie...
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18:32
11. When The Obstacle Becomes The Way: Cultivating and Building Resilience in the Presence of Tragedy
In this solo episode, I talk about 3 separate tragedies that showed up in my youth, significant events that all happened in the first ten years of my life. I share how these situations laid the groundwork and a sort of foundation fo...
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32:18
10. Rolling Into Resilience: Part One
In this episode, I begin by using visual imagery to define the word resilience. The dictionary definition of resilience is the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties, and the ability of a substance or object to spring bac...
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16:27
9. I Had an Episode of Anxiety Yesterday and This is What It Looked and Felt Like
Today I talk about an experience I had while filming one of my early guestepisodes this past week. I had what I would describe as a social anxietypanic attack. I experienced these reactions frequently in my teens andtwenties, and al...
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18:44
8. Troubled Times: How Thieves & Scam Artists Tried to Derail Our Business and What We Did To Fight Back
Building and growing a business can be tough when dealing with the challenges of hiring great staff, promoting your products, and managing costs. Being profitable when people are stealing from you on a daily basis or when curious customers turn...
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28:50
7. Profits and Pitfalls: What to Expect When Business Bombs and Side-Hustles Go Sideways
Building and maintaining a business and working a side hustle can often be difficult. There is sometimes lots of hours and very little yield or pay for the efforts and energy expended. Promotions don’t always work, marketing strategies often mi...
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32:20
6. The Way of the Entrepreneur: Why Working a Conventional Job Has Become None of My Business
What are some factors that lead someone down the path towards entrepreneurship? In this episode, I discuss the work culture in America and how it’s not set up to help us experience longevity, nor does it contribute to human flourishing. Many of...
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26:17
5. What is Holding You Back? Exploring the Impact of Self-Limiting Beliefs
What if you were to gain life altering clarity around the idea that overcoming your self-limiting beliefs is key factor in helping you to make significant progress towards your goals and become a better and more confident version of yourself?
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24:41
4. The MODEL I Wish I'd Learned in School
Models and Systems give us a structured way to create the results we seek. In this episode, I discuss what is perhaps the most logical and simplest Model that I’ve ever come across in the area of Personal Development. This framework is easy to ...
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40:03
3. What Sets Coaching Apart & How the GROW Model Can Be an Effective Tool for Coaches
Real growth starts when you stop overthinking and start taking action, and that’s exactly what coaching can help you do. In this episode, I discuss how coaching empowers people to break free from limiting beliefs and take action toward meaningf...
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35:06
2. How to Better Understand Your Values & Beliefs and The Impact They Have on Your Life
What if the only thing standing between you and success was your own beliefs? The way we see ourselves and the world around us shapes every decision we make, sometimes pushing us forward, sometimes holding us back. In this episode, we’re diving...
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18:25
1. Setting Sail Towards PerfectWhelm
Are you feeling stuck, either drowning in overwhelm or bored in underwhelm? In the very first episode of PerfectWhelm, I dive into the concept of finding your perfectwhelm…that sweet spot where real growth happens. This idea was first introduce...
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Welcome to PerfectWhelm: The Podcast That Helps Enhance Your Life
Welcome to the PerfectWhelm podcast! I’m Eric Slivoskey—an educator, former pro football coach, writer, stand-up comedian, military veteran, and personal development coach. After traveling to all 50 states and more than 50 countries, I’ve seen ...
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