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

12 episodes

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...

May 10, 2025 • 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...

May 07, 2025 • 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...

May 03, 2025 • 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...

April 30, 2025 • 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...

April 26, 2025 • 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...

April 23, 2025 • 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?

April 19, 2025 • 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 ...

April 16, 2025 • 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...

April 12, 2025 • 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...

April 12, 2025 • 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...

April 12, 2025 • 30:56

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 ...

February 13, 2025 • 2:52