What do you do when the life you built suddenly stops working the way it used to?

Maybe your body tells you to slow down. Maybe your career changes underneath you. Maybe the plan that worked for years does not work anymore.

For actor, director, producer and creator Ben Giroux, both happened at once.

In this episode of Conquer Stories, Ben joins Josh Yakes to talk about recovering from the most significant injury of his life while also navigating an entertainment industry that looks very different from the one he built his career in.

They talk about the things other people cannot see, learning when pushing harder is no longer the answer, building a life around what you can control, creating your own opportunities, and why sometimes the only way forward is to pivot.

Ben also opens up about work, relationships, the cost of always wanting to do more, learning to listen to his body, and why progress sometimes only becomes visible when you step back far enough to see how far you have actually come.

CHAPTERS
00:00 What Are You Conquering?
02:09 When Your Body Tells You to Slow Down
03:21 The Things People Cannot See
06:04 Rebuilding From the Basics
07:51 When You Realize Something Has to Change
08:50 When Your Career Changes Underneath You
11:09 What Are You Going to Do About It?
11:55 Learning to Pivot
13:23 Build Without Permission
15:21 The Cost of Always Doing More
18:42 What Did the Hard Part Teach You?
19:11 Listen When Your Body Says Stop
19:59 Learning to Adapt
22:22 Zoom Out and See Your Progress
25:39 What Josh and Ben Are Building Next

YOUR NEXT STEP
Where in your life are you being asked to adapt instead of forcing the old plan to keep working?

Name it. Then decide what you can control and take one step in that direction.

Share your story with us. Someone else may be fighting through the same thing and need to know they are not alone.

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CREDITS
Hosted by Joshua Yakes
Guest: Ben Giroux
Produced by Mike Axe
Edited by Derek Kedell

Dictate your own outcome. Conquer all things.

Who are you when the life that defined you suddenly changes?

After a heart attack, triple bypass, career loss, and the end of a 23-year relationship, Antonio Lopez had to face a question harder than survival: Who am I now?

If you are trying to find yourself again after loss, heartbreak, a health crisis, career change, or another major shift you never planned for, this conversation is for you.

Antonio joins Josh Yakes for an honest conversation about identity, self-worth, asking for help, letting go, trusting yourself, forgiveness, and discovering who you are when the roles that once defined you no longer do.

For years, Antonio was the dependable one. The friend. The partner. The employee. The person other people needed him to be.

Even when things were not okay, his answer was simple: "I'm fine."

Until life forced him to stop.

Because finding yourself again does not mean going backward. It can mean learning to trust yourself, letting go of what no longer belongs in your life, forgiving yourself for what you did not know then, and believing there is still more ahead of you.

WHAT ARE YOU CONQUERING?

If Antonio's story feels familiar, tell us: What are you enduring, overcoming, or conquering right now?

No one fights alone.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Before Everything Goes Dark
00:28 Meet Antonio Lopez
01:30 Naming the Fight: Identity
04:09 When the Life You Knew Is Gone
06:02 Heart Attack + Triple Bypass
09:30 When Purpose Becomes Identity
10:35 The "I'm Fine" Mask
15:07 Just Get Through the Day
18:47 Letting Go of What Defined You
24:24 What Antonio Wishes He Knew
26:17 Trust Yourself Before It Is Too Late
27:45 Learning to Forgive Yourself
30:15 What You Need to Hear
32:44 What It Means to Conquer

ABOUT CONQUER STORIES

Hosted by Conquer All Things founder Josh Yakes, Conquer Stories features honest one-on-one conversations with real people about the fights they have faced, the fights they are still facing, and what they are learning as they endure, overcome, and conquer.

Real people. Real fights. Real stories of what it means to keep moving forward.

CREDITS

Host: Josh Yakes
Guest: Antonio Lopez
Producer: Mike Axe
Editor: Derek Kedell
Theme Song: Mike Axe

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Have a story about something you are enduring, overcoming, or conquering? We want to hear it.

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