Built for the Cold
by Joe Wanner
34 The Cold Standard #5: You Don't Have to Pretend It Was Fair
About this podcast
This is ICE COLD RESILIENCE. How to go through the D's (debt, despair, death, demoted, de-edified, amongst others) of life and not blame the G-O-D.
Joe Wanner invites you to join Generation Zero—where excuses, victimhood, and critics hold no power. This podcast brings you three 'cold' segments: Ice Cold Resilience for staying strong in life's storms, Melting Your Cold Audience for mastering cold calls and networking, and Ice Cold Peak Performance Health Systems for building unstoppable health habits. Transform your health, business, and mindset with the coolest strategies around!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 35 episodes
- 34 The Cold Standard #5: You Don't Have to Pretend It Was Fair · 36 min · Episode 34What if what happened to you really WAS unfair? What if they betrayed you? What if you got fired when you didn’t deserve it? What if someone broke your trust? What if you lost…
- 33 The Cold Standard #4: Achievement Can Be Anesthesia · 14 min · Episode 33What if the thing everyone praises you for is actually the place you’ve been hiding? High performers don’t always fall apart when life gets hard. Sometimes we do the opposite. We…
- 32 - The Cold Standard #3: I Thought I Needed More Discipline. I Needed Oxygen. · 24 min · Episode 32What if the reason you’re struggling isn’t because you lack discipline? What if you’re already pushing as hard as you can—but you’re fighting an opponent you can’t see? For…
- 31 - The Cold Standard #2: What If You Do Everything Right… and Still Lose? · 15 min · Episode 31What if you do everything they tell you to do? Wake up early. Put in the work. Stay consistent. Sacrifice. Grind when nobody’s watching. And it still doesn’t work out? That’s the…
- 30 - The Cold Standard #1: Intense Intentionality — Stop Trying to Fit It All In · 12 min · Episode 30Everybody has a plan when life is going right. But what happens when life hits you with something you never saw coming? That’s when you find out whether you actually built…
- 29 - The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me Built My Life with Chris Kiefer · 43 min · Episode 29What if the worst thing that ever happened to you ended up building the best parts of your life? At 21 years old, Chris Kiefer lost his father to pancreatic cancer. It could have…
- 28 - He Lost Everything... Then Built a $15M Insurance Empire | David Price · 1 h 1 min"Entrepreneurship is like running a race, but no one's telling you where the finish line is. Just run. We'll tell you when to stop." David grew up in New Jersey with teenage…
- 27 - Too Analytical to Sell — So He Proved Them Wrong: Milind Gupte · 27 min · Episode 27"I love being the underdog." – Milind Gupte The Underdog Advantage Milind was told he was too analytical to sell. He failed the sales assessment. They said he should be an…
- 26 - The Forward Formula · 15 min · Episode 26"Clarity doesn’t create movement. Execution does." – Joe Wanner Why Goals Alone Don’t Move You In this episode, Joe Wanner breaks down why goal setting without execution leads to…
- 25 - Built for the Cold: Moritz Lohr’s Journey from Pressure to Purpose · 35 min · Episode 25"I didn’t just survive the pressure. I found purpose in it." – Moritz Lohr Thrown Into Life Too Early At just 12 years old, Moritz had to grow up fast. There was no clear plan…
- 24 - True North - Separation Season Series · 8 min · Episode 24"Fear is the compass. Resistance is the map." – Joe Wanner The Thing You Resist Is the Thing You Need In this episode, I break down the two tools that will never lie to you…
- 23 - Building Momentum - Separation Season Series · 12 min · Episode 23"Momentum works both ways. The question is: which direction are you stacking?" – Joe Wanner Momentum Never Stays Neutral In this episode, I break down a truth most people ignore…
- 22 - Accessing Infinite Intelligence - Separation Season Series · 17 min · Episode 22"You don’t access infinite intelligence with logic — you access it through alignment." – Joe Wanner A Force Bigger Than Willpower In this episode, I walk you through a power most…
- 21 - The Power of Spiritual Alignment - Separation Season Series · 11 min · Episode 21"You can’t align with blessing while drifting in distraction." – Joe Wanner The Energy That Works With You — Or Against You In this episode, I share why spiritual alignment…
- 20 - Consistency systems - Separation Season Series · 20 min · Episode 20"Discipline gets the credit, but consistency builds the life." – Joe Wanner The Slow Work That Actually Works In this episode, I talk about the often-overlooked truth that real…
- 19 - FEAR's Greatest Myth - Separation Season Series · 14 min · Episode 19"Fear will lie to you — but your response to it will define you." – Joe Wanner The Fear That Poses as Logic In this episode, I break down how fear doesn’t always show up loud —…
- 18 - What We Accept-Separation Season Series · 12 min · Episode 18"Just because you don’t like where you are doesn’t mean you haven’t accepted it." – Joe Wanner What You Allow, You End Up Living In this episode, I break down one hard truth: if…
- 17 - Embracing Adversity - Separation Season Series · 12 min · Episode 17"You don’t get to choose whether life hits — but you do get to choose what you do next." – Joe Wanner The Reality We Don’t Talk About If you’ve been facing adversity, battling…
- 16 - What Clarice Barnett Had to Unlearn to Win · 30 min · Episode 16"Detachment isn’t about giving up — it’s about making space for something better." – Clarice Barnett The Shift That Changed Everything Clarice Barnett didn’t just leave a job —…
- 15 - Shawn Pollard Mindset Monster · 42 min · Episode 15"The fear I saw in that man's eyes—the one I almost executed—is the same fear I now see in people not living to their full potential." – Shawn Pollard When Survival Becomes the…







