The Open Road: Reclaiming Your Non-Renewable Asset

When did you decide your real life would start later? When things finally calm down? When you have more money? after unfinished business? After the nightmare is over?

In Season 3, Episode 15 of Cracked Open, Glen Nunes delivers a hard, realistic tool on the single most expensive mistake a person can make: postponing their own existence. This isn't a pity party about an empty chair or waiting around for a silent phone line to ring—it is a network-level broadcast about reclaiming your time, your energy, your life, your meaning, what you really want and your crown.

Moving deep into scriptural steel, clinical psychology, and the raw reality of the pavement, this episode exposes the "Do Not Disturb" trap where we compromise our identity just to maintain a fake peace with low-value people.

You don’t get another August or September or yesterday. It’s gone. It is time to stop sitting at the 6:10 train station waiting for permission to live. Step out of the smoke, look through the windshield, establish your iron perimeter, and realize that the road has been open the whole damn time.

Music has always been part of the Cracked Open journey. I created a companion playlist for this episode, you can listen here:

🎧 PLAYLIST: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRVBizis12o&list=PLH_GNKwdPKg8 ]

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Cracked Open with Glen Nunes is about real life — the victories, mistakes, heartbreak, faith, healing, questions, second chances, growth, encouragements, hope, love and everything in between.

Real stories. Real struggles. Real Victories. Real life.

If something in this episode speaks to you, please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT and SHARE it with somebody who might need to hear it.

Sometimes one conversation is enough to start somebody on an Open Road.

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CRACKED OPEN — SEASON 3, EPISODE 13LOVE YOURSELF ENOUGHWhat does it really mean to love yourself enough?Does letting go mean giving up? It means moving forward and putting yourself on the list of who you take care of. You still hope, pray, and believe in restoration while refusing to lose yourself in the waiting.In this episode of Cracked Open, I talk honestly about attachment, self-worth, boundaries, faith, depression, letting go of control, and learning how to live your life even when part of your heart is still somewhere else.This isn’t about becoming cold.It isn’t about pretending somebody never mattered.And it isn’t about telling you to simply “get over it.”It’s about learning the difference between loving and losing yourself.We talk about what happens when you become consumed by someone else’s choices, why closure doesn’t always come the way we want it to, the difference between returning and truly repairing a relationship, and why moving forward doesn’t require you to kill hope.I also share a powerful story I discovered while researching this episode—one that looks back across more than a century of love, loss, grief, survival, regret, and starting over—and the lesson that stayed with me:Your story isn’t finished yet.We also talk about faith and surrender—about Peter sinking in the water and Jesus reaching for him, and about those moments when the only prayer you have left may simply be:“Jesus, help me.”I’m not recording this episode as somebody who has mastered any of this.I’m living some of it while I’m talking about it.There are still difficult days. There are still questions. There are still things I hope for and things I don’t understand.That’s what Cracked Open has always been about:One cracked-open person trying to help another cracked-open person.Maybe loving yourself enough doesn’t mean you only love somebody else.Maybe it means finally realizing:I mattered in that story too.My heart matters.My peace matters.My life matters.And whatever happens next…I still matter.If you’re dealing with loss, grief, separation, depression, unanswered prayers, or you’re simply trying to find yourself again, I hope something in this conversation helps you take one more step.You don’t have to know how the story ends.Just keep turning the page.Cracked Open with Glen NunesSeason 3 • Episode 13Love Yourself EnoughFaith. Heartbreak. Healing. Hope.Real stories. Real struggles. Real life.*Music Video Playlist link:[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQTnREEtuNk&list=PLT-qRpsbCyA4 ]*Link to Life Advice from a 103 Year Old You Should Know (Must See)[ https://youtu.be/So4QdjWyRGA?si=jkYSPaEfnpiJ7gn- ]*Second Video link of Life Advice from a wise soul.[ https://youtu.be/vqZEUsrJUGg?si=ODyno3taJM_wqgXo ]#CrackedOpen #LoveYourselfEnough #Healing #Heartbreak #Faith #SelfWorth #LettingGo #Hope #MentalHealth #Relationships #StartingOver #glennunes #GlenNunesMusic #CrackedOpenPodcast

Cracked Open — Season 3, Episode 14: The Big Turn-Around

What does it really mean to repent?

Is saying “I’m sorry” enough—or does genuine repentance require something

more?

Have you ever found yourself trapped on a hamster wheel of repeated mistakes, running yourself ragged, only to look down and realize you are still standing in the exact same spot?

In Season 3, Episode 14 of Cracked Open, Glen Nunes delivers a hard, flat-footed breakdown of what true repentance actually looks like when you strip away the courtroom shame. This isn't a lecture on guilt; it is a tactical blueprint for executing a radical, continuous daily adjustment in your behavior and your mindset.

Moving deep into clinical psychology, street intelligence, and scriptural steel, this episode breaks down the vital gap between a cheap verbal apology and an actual change of direction. When someone consistently normalizes emotional chaos and chooses a bottom-tier layout over a rescue boat, you cannot play the savior. True alignment only begins when you decide that your healing is more important than their explanation. It is time to step out of the smoke, establish an iron perimeter, and love yourself enough to let the past burn down so you can step into what is waiting ahead.

In this episode of Cracked Open, Glen Nunes explores the difference between regret, guilt and true repentance—and why repentance isn’t meant to be a sentence of shame, but an opportunity to change direction.

Through powerful stories, real-life situations, practical reflection and biblical examples including Peter, Zacchaeus and the Prodigal Son, we look at what happens after the apology.

How do you repair something you’ve broken?

Can trust be rebuilt?

What happens when somebody keeps repeating the same mistake?

How can you tell the difference between someone who has truly changed and someone who simply regrets the consequences?

And what happens when you’re waiting for somebody else’s turnaround?

This episode is about accountability, grace, forgiveness, boundaries, second chances and the difficult work of becoming different—not just promising to be different.

Because repentance isn’t about pretending yesterday didn’t happen.

It’s deciding yesterday doesn’t get to determine which direction you walk tomorrow.

Faith. Heartbreak. Healing. Hope.

Real stories. Real struggles. Real life.

Cracked Open with Glen Nunes

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