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Daily Power Boost with Shawn Michael is a short, soul-level reset for founders, leaders, and creators who want to grow without abandoning themselves in the process.
This isn’t about hype, hustle, or pushing harder.
Each episode delivers a grounded shift in perspective that brings identity, psychology, leadership, and real life back into alignment, so growth feels clear, sustainable, and true instead of forced.
For people exhausted by burnout cycles, performance addiction, and chasing borrowed definitions of success, this is a daily space to reconnect with what already works within you.
Because real power isn’t something you force.
It’s something you stand in.
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- She Was Paid to Be Right, the Voice Inside Said She Wasn't Smart Enough · 1 h 11 minAngie Alexander spent more than 20 years as a professional engineer in Western Canadian oil and gas, a world where the answer works or it doesn't. She learned early what that…
- He Built a Pose to Survive the Wound — How Adam Roach Finally Let It Fall · 51 minAdam Roach built four companies and exited all four. A Beverly Hills tennis club. Three real estate brokerages. A software business. Every marker said arrived, and for a long…
- The Arrival That Felt Like Nothing · 8 minYou Were Still Loyal to the Self That Needed the Climb. The thing most people spend a decade chasing turns out to be the thing that undoes them once they get it. A leader built a…
- The Strategies Didn't Fail · 7 minYou Were Running Them From the Wrong Self Every strategy you've tried actually worked, from the productivity system to the coaching program. None of them were broken. The…
- I Knew. And I Still Didn't Move · 8 minThe technician's curse and what you can do about it. You know what you should be doing. You've known for weeks. Instead of doing it you've been filling every hour with work that…
- Every Trophy Took a Little More Away · 1 h 9 minEzra Vancil had the record deal at seventeen, the awards, and a six foot wall to hang them on. He describes that wall as a shrine, built to remind him he was doing it right. What…
- The Identity She Lost Was Never Hers (Beyond the Boost) · 59 minKaren Taylor spent 23 years in corporate being very good at a version of herself. The worker who earned her place. The fixer who found her worth in other people's problems. Worth…
- You'll Fight for Your Limitations Before You'll Surrender to Who You're Becoming (Beyond the Boost) · 42 minMost people think grief is something you survive once and move past. Tabatha DeBruyn thought the same. She'd spent a decade as her mother's caregiver. She was a transformational…
- The New Ground Is Yours Now · 6 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 20You've been on new ground longer than you've admitted. Not the dramatic moments, catching the old coping pattern, holding the boundary without guilt. The quieter evidence. The…
- You Already Know Who You Are · 5 minYou're not waiting on an answer. The clarity arrived months ago. What you're actually waiting on is permission to act like the answer is already true. Most people read this as…
- The Ground Doesn't Have to Feel Solid to Be Real · 7 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 18The biggest surprise after real identity work isn't the difficulty. It's the return of doubt. You've done the work. You can see the old identity running. And then one morning…
- Sustaining It Looks Nothing Like Earning It · 6 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 16You crossed the threshold. You did the relational work. You named the patterns, addressed the pulls, updated who you let in. The season's earlier work landed. And now you're…
- Pre-judgment Was the Baseline · 54 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 15Gary Thrapp has watched human beings come undone for 17 years. He watches this happen at a youth sports facility. The stakes only feel high. That feeling reaches back decades. It…
- The People Who Stay Are Enough · 6 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 15The room got quieter after the shift. Fewer people. And some part of you has been running an audit ever since, scanning for who's missing, counting what the new version of you…
- Your Team Knows Which Version Of You Showed Up Today · 6 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 14Your team isn't reading your strategy deck. They're reading you. Before the first agenda item, before you've said anything worth quoting, they've already clocked which version of…
- What It Looks Like To Be Fully Known · 7 minYou did the work. You crossed into a new version of yourself. And now you're standing in rooms where people still expect the old one. So you manage the reveal. You read the…
- The Relationship That Requires Your Old Self · 7 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 12Some relationships have terms you never negotiated. You just inherited them. And because the care is real, the warmth is genuine, you keep paying the price without naming it: you…
- Their Comfort With Your Growth Is Not Your Responsibility · 6 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 11You shifted. Something real happened. And then someone who knew the old version of you went quiet. Got uncomfortable. And something in you reached back for the shape you used to…
- Not Everyone Gets to Come with You · 7 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 10Some relationships weren't built for who you're becoming. They were built for who you had to be to continue being. That's a precise and uncomfortable truth. The grief it…
- They Liked You Better When You Were Smaller · 6 minThe people closest to you were calibrated for an older version of you. That's not a criticism of them. It's simply what happens when one person grows and the relational contract…
- You're Allowed to Be Good at This Now. · 6 minSomeone told you the work was good. Really good. And before the sentence finished, you were already explaining it away. The timeline that almost broke it. What version that…
- You Don't Have to Announce It · 6 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 7There's a move leaders make after a real identity shift that almost no one talks about. They start narrating it. They work their transformation into conversations like someone…
- The New Standard Doesn't Feel Like Arriving · 7 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 6Most people expect the moment. A clear before and after. Something that clicks and announces that the old version of them is behind them now, waving from a distance. That's not…
- The Relapse Isn't the Problem · 7 minYou defaulted back and within thirty seconds, you had a whole story about what that means. That's the part worth examining. The behavior lasted minutes. The story you built…
- You Were Never Broken (Beyond the Boost) · 1 h 13 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 4Some guests come on a show with a polished arc. Barbilee Hemmings came with the truth. This conversation doesn't follow a clean before-and-after. It follows something messier and…
- When Going Back Feels Like Rest · 9 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 4Most people call it backsliding. They frame it as a failure, a sign that maybe the new identity wasn't real after all. But that framing misses what's actually happening. You…
- The Old Identity Doesn't Leave · 8 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 3You did the work. You made the shift. And then a voice showed up. Not the loud, fearful voice you've learned to recognize and push back against. A quieter one. Measured. It…
- You're Still Waiting For Permission · 8 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 1The shift was real. Something cracked open. The belief changed. You felt it. But then you walked into a room with someone who knew the old version of you, and you dialed it back…
- The Shift Happened · 7 min · Temporada 8 Episodio 1Everyone talks about the shift. Nobody talks about what comes right after it. The quiet. The ordinary. How the room that doesn't quite look the way you spent so long imagining…
- This is What the Work Was For - Season Finale · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 38Most people spend years organized around an arrival point. The promotion. Or the version of themselves they're still waiting to become. They treat the work as the price of…
- Buried Not Broken (Beyond the Boost) · 53 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 37Mia Godfrey grew up under communism in Romania, youngest of ten children, standing in line at 5:00 AM for a six-inch piece of bread. That was survival. But nothing prepared her…
- The Unfinished Version of Yourself · 7 min · Episodio 37You've been performing completion. Showing up to the rooms that matter, the team meeting or hard conversation, the unfinished version of yourself with the version of yourself…
- The Agreements You Made As Someone Else · 7 min · Episodio 36How many of the agreements you're currently honoring did you actually make as the person you are today? Not the formal ones, the quiet ones. The ones made over a decade of…
- Who You're Becoming For The People Watching · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 35Most leaders think the teaching happens in the visible moments. In decisions or strategy. The way they handle the hard calls. And some of that is true, but it isn't the thing…
- The Work That Outlasts You · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 34You're still making sure they know it was you. It's worth looking at before it quietly shapes everything. Not overtly, you're not that obvious. But it's present in the language…
- What You're Really Afraid Of Isn't Failure · 6 minYou're not afraid of failing.You've failed before. Yet you kept going. That's not what's actually stopping you. What you're afraid of is working hard, sacrificing so much…
- Alignment Is Not a Feeling You Wait For · 6 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 32Alignment Is Not a Feeling You Wait For It's a condition that emerges from movement. And that distinction changes everything about how you build. You are still waiting for it…
- Permission to Move Forward · 6 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 31Who are you waiting for?Because most people who feel stuck aren't stuck for practical reasons. They're waiting. For someone to confirm that what they already know is true. Is…
- Identity Shift: Leaving What Built You · 6 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 30You built this.Years of it. Real effort, real costs. And now something has shifted. Not the effort or the commitment. The direction it was all pointed toward. The question…
- Identity Beyond the Filtered Self · 6 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 29You've learned to want the right things.The things that make sense or are defensible. The things that the people who matter to you would understand without needing them…
- Why the Heart Isn't a Liability in Leadership · 52 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 28You've been rewarded your entire career for emotional control. Keep it together, stay professional, don't let them see it. But what if that control has been quietly costing you…
- Why Smart People Stay in the Wrong Room · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 28You know you should leave.It's not bad exactly, but it stopped being yours a while ago. Yet here you are still in the room. Still performing competence in a context that no…
- The Difference Between Ambition and Calling · 6 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 27You keep arriving.And it keeps not being enough. The achievement was real and you absolutely earned it. What happens is the engine behind the achievement was never actually…
- Purpose Isn't Found. It's Recognized · 6 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 26You've been looking for it out there.Maybe in a new role.Looking for better opportunity.Seeking the next version of your life that finally makes everything click. For a while…
- The Life You're Building and the Person You've Become · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 25You are still chasing it.The thing you decided you wanted years ago. Before the work changed you and the inner work changed you even more. Somewhere along the way, the person…
- Who You Are When No One Is Watching · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 24Just you. And whatever standard you actually hold when it costs something and nobody will know either way. That version of you isn't a private detail. It's the foundation…
- Modeling Versus Managing · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 23Somewhere along the way, leadership got confused with oversight.Correction. Direction. Making sure everyone was doing things the right way. And the most important thing a leader…
- The Leader Who Doesn't Need To Prove Anything · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 22What would you do differently if you had nothing to prove?Not hypothetically. As a genuine question worth sitting with. Your answer reveals something most leadership development…
- How You Show Up Under Pressure is Who You Are · 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 21The version of you that shows up when everything is fine isn't the real test.Anyone can be generous when it costs nothing. That's not character. That's comfort. Pressure is the…
- Why Anger Isn't the Problem · 1 h 7 min · Temporada 7 Episodio 20You were taught that anger was the problem.Control or suppress it, make sure it never shows. But what if the anger was never the problem? What if it was the signal you were…
