Autonomy with Steve Metz
Bartender and collectibles dealer Steve Metz discusses navigating golden handcuffs, the mental tax of financial stress, and transforming passions into pathways toward independence and time ownership.
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Podcasts
Conversations with researchers, advisors, and thought leaders. Every episode includes a full text transcript.
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11 episodes
Recorded Episodes
Goal Setting with Peter Vidmar
Olympic gold medalist Peter Vidmar shares insights on hard work, goal setting, and the influence of family and coaches — exploring competition psychology, planning, perseverance, and self-improvement.
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Resilience with Dr. Alex Auerbach
Performance psychologist Dr. Alex Auerbach discusses resilience in personal and professional contexts — life transitions, mindfulness, and practical tools for building resilience. Includes a guided meditation.
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Community Connection with Zack Bartell
Zack Bartell discusses how meaningful connections enhance overall wellness — navigating life transitions, building resilience, and why cultivating supportive networks matters more than you think.
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Vitality with Dr. Erin Kinney
Dr. Erin Kinney, a naturopathic doctor, discusses her approach to vitality and holistic health — addressing root causes of illness, the body-mind-spirit connection, cortisol, and hormone replacement therapy.
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Upcoming Episodes
Scheduled conversations — transcripts will be published when each episode airs.
When Life Breaks the Plan: Identity, Caregiving, and the Art of the Pivot
The three-month wall, caregiving as invisible labor, the parenthood paradox, pivot readiness, the Third Act question, and why relational alignment is the hidden variable in every transition.
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Shadow Liabilities, the Third Act Index, and the Coming Entity Mode
The Shadow Liability Index as a missing risk metric, Third Act assessment beyond replacement ratio, the Sudden CFO crisis, AI displacement, the Relational Friction Coefficient, and the multi-agent future.
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From Bandwidth to Biological Gate: Building High-Velocity Client Architectures
Assessing bandwidth tax at intake, the Crowded Nest conversation, the Vitality Gate Rule in practice, and building the case for advisory fees as cognitive offloading.
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The Taxes Nobody Talks About: Bandwidth, Time Poverty, and Your Biological Engine
The hidden frictions draining your life — the double tax of bandwidth, the autonomy-community paradox, polyvagal states made personal, and hope as a practical framework you can use right now.
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Diagnosing What the Balance Sheet Doesn't Show: SER, COTI, and the Eudaimonic Ceiling
From the diagnostic gap in traditional planning to vehicle deployment thresholds — how to surface the Golden Stagnation pattern, use SER as a conversation tool, and position COTI erosion for clients.
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The Life You're Not Living: Richness, Resources, and the Velvet Rut
From recognizing stagnation to the squared-velocity insight — a conversation about psychological richness, social capital architecture, and why improving how you live produces geometrically larger returns.
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